Ballsy “I’d like to thank all of you for coming,” the smartly-dressed woman smiled warmly at the several people seated around the board room table, each with a prospectus in front of them. Only one was a man. “As all of you know, my name is Mariette Chandler. Kristina Bolaenko, legal counsel, is at my …
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Aug 05 2026
from Bill Bryson’s A Walk in the Woods – delightful and pointy at the same time
“Nearly everyone I talked to had some gruesome story involving a guileless acquaintance who had gone off hiking the trail with high hopes and new boots and come stumbling back two days later with a bobcat attached to his head …” p3 “… he had been let go from jobs at Harvard and the National …
Aug 02 2026
from Earth for Sale: The fight to stop the last plunder of the planet, Maude Barlow
“The disruption to the commons that followed Christopher Columbus’ initial journey dled to the death of 56 million Indigenous people by 1600 …” p13 “The total compensation to Indigenous people amounted to pennies per acre for Native territories … The treaty procedure was propelled by threats of war, forced removal, and simply taking the land …
Aug 02 2026
some excerpts from Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine
“In every country where Chicago School policies [neo-liberalism] have been applied over the past three decades, what has emerged is a powerful ruling alliance between a few very large corporations and a class of mostly wealthy politicians—with hazy and ever-shifting lines between the two groups.” p17 “A more accurate term for a system that erases …
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