So much going on lately, and I want to put something out there, gauge opinion... but other than aggregating existing commentary, haven't time or relative expertise to add a lot, at least not a concise bit of writing to the standard this forum deserves. I hope the SLG family can bring more to the table... if I've missed anything, please add whatever fits? On a better day, I aim to be condensing these headlines as references in one blog... am simply not well enough read-up on world matters of late, to be qualified to opine beyond replies to the occasional post by someone else - trust my high standards... it is better I don't comment than waste bandwidth. Otherwise, hope it is of use to someone, putting all this together in one post. Sources are varied, but I lean left and read from there, generally. I assume we all know the importance of reading widely etc... to take just Al Jazeera's word for events in Pakistan, or The Economist on Russia's political situation, would be quite ignorant... this is merely a springboard to throw ideas around so we can all be better informed.
'Occupy' and 'Corporate Personhood' ... thanks Lori
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So what’s this issue that's uniting occupiers and the city they’re occupying? Corporate personhood is the legal concept that underpins rulings like the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v the Federal Election Commission; it means that corporations are considered people under the law, with the constitutional right of free speech. Since the courts have also defined money as constitutionally protected speech, the upshot is that corporations are empowered to spend unlimited amounts of money trying to influence the political process.