Various matters

(1)If you can find 25 minutes or so this weekend, I can't recommend highly enough this segment from this week's Bill Moyers program, with Yves Smith and Matt Taibbi, discussing the increasingly corrupt banking industry and the multiple ways the U.S. Government continues to prop it up:

(2) One of the hallmarks of the establishment media is how it reverses its ostensible function: it is servile and reverent when reporting on or questioning the nation's most powerful actors, yet becomes aggressiv...