Listen here: Full Frontal Liberty 5 – Scams! Your elderly mother calls you and asks to borrow $50,000 and needs it tonight. What do you do? That happened to my guest whose mother ended up losing nearly $200,000 to a Jamaican lottery scam. Keep listening after the podcast for a bonus feature: some actual voicemail … Continue reading
Your elderly mother calls you and asks to borrow $50,000 and needs it tonight. What do you do? That happened to my guest whose mother ended up losing nearly $200,000 to a Jamaican lottery scam. Listen here: Download: FFL5scams.mp3 Keep listening after the podcast for a bonus feature: some actual voicemail messages from the scam … Continue reading
A few things help me deal patiently with my 2 year old when he is in (not so) rare form. Understanding Toddler PsychologyThey want what they want when they want it. They are not yet able to fully communicate what they want, but they want it BAD. They have no impulse control yet. They … Continue reading
Full Frontal Liberty 4 Rachel calls in some favors and gets the big interview with Obama! Be warned though: the president has a bit of a potty mouth. Also, more on prison labor, Lockheed Martin and Wal-Mart. And Rachel Reads the News Links: On Wal-Mart and Martori Farm Lockheed Martin and Unicor Prison Labor Book: … Continue reading
Intertwining issues in today’s podcast (CLICK HERE TO LISTEN) are Sinead O’Connor’s discussion of her experience in the Magdalene Laundries, which used slave labor for the Catholic Church in Ireland and the laundries that exist in American prisons today. http://www.correctionenterprises.com/services/laundry.php Not only that but the modern plantations that the state operates with inmate labor http://www.doc.state.nc.us/dop/prisons/Caledoni.htm One … Continue reading
On the Dehumanization of Military and Law Enforcement Click here Law Enforcement Targets, Inc and their controversial “No More Hesitation” series of cardboard targets features pregnant women, children and the elderly to help cops learn how to shoot at them without pesky compassion or horror at what they are doing getting in the way. http://reason.com/blog/2013/02/19/is-your-local-police-department-using-pi … Continue reading
Dirty Wars Interview on Youtube Premiering this week at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, the new documentary “Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield” follows investigative reporter Jeremy Scahill to Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen as he chases down the hidden truths behind America’s expanding covert wars. We’re joined by Scahill and the film’s director, Rick … Continue reading
Drivers behind the minimum wage hike? I can’t believe I yammered on all that time on the podcast without mentioning the great big huge elephant in the workplace – UNIONS. Very often union wages are tied to minimum wage, by multipliers or percentages above the min wage, so anytime there is an increase, these workers … Continue reading
