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Posted by Spfldnet 3 weeks 5 days ago.
Currently I'm reading Edward Bernays "Propaganda" via my iPad. I came across a paragraph I found interesting. Bernays wrote in 1928: "...many large corporations were employing public relations counsel under one title or another, for they had come to ...
Posted by Spfldnet 1 month ago.
The state of Illinois is sinking fast. The dynasty that runs the state is not unlike Greece in its current condition. The candidates that get the most exposure during campaigns always win because they can afford the advertising. Most candidates for Govern...
Posted by Spfldnet 2 months ago.
I'm stuck in Springfield, Illinois. I was born here and lived here until I reached high school age, then moved away. I graduated from high school elsewhere and came back for a couple of years to attend Lincoln Land Community College which ended in failure...
Posted by Spfldnet 4 months ago.
Passive resistance and protests are instigated or aggravated by wrongdoers for entertainment rather than for redress of grievances. Do you know any non-violent demonstrations that yielded positive results over the last thirty yearsA Fool's salary li...
Posted by Spfldnet 4 months ago.
Illinois is pretty much finished as a state. Chicago runs the state like a feudal city-state with the peasants living south of the 80-90 Toll Road. The rest of the state should rebel from the Chicago machine by simply following the political winners of ea...
Posted by Spfldnet 5 months ago.
We can't figure out who this is. I don't know if you can hear it or not. This is test to see if audio can be emailed to Blogger via Blackberry.Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T
Posted by Spfldnet 7 months ago.
Not too many of us go out much anymore, I sure don't. Maybe it's just my age, or that I work nights and sleep during the day so my free time is during the dark hours of Springfield when nothing but Denny's, Walmart or the grocery stores are open. It might...
Posted by Spfldnet 8 months ago.
I've been sitting on www.buylocalspringfield.com for quite a while now. It was inspired by the film Food, Inc., but also the fact that money was literally being siphoned permanently away from local circulation. Every dollar not spent on local payroll is l...
Posted by Spfldnet 8 months ago.
Today I posted to some of my blogs. I have at least 15, but I can't get to them all in the few days I have available.I'm reading Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. I wish I had that book in the early COM classes at UIS, it would make a perfect a...
Posted by Spfldnet 10 months ago.
De-industrialized and with a large income disparity, Springfield, Illinois has some people who have enough money and enough time on their hands to get involved in politics.The rest are too busy living paycheck to paycheck saving nothing, living on borrowe...
Posted by Spfldnet 10 months ago.
Once upon a time there was a GPS navigator that gave directions to drivers very efficiently, saving the drivers time and fuel.One day an executive at the GPS company had a brilliant marketing plan. He called up his contact over at the big oil company and ...
Posted by Spfldnet 10 months ago.
Springfield requires an overall gentrification along the main roads coming into the downtown area, just to make a nice facade for tourists. What's gentrificationGentrification and urban gentrification are terms referring to the socio-cultural displacemen...
Posted by Spfldnet 10 months ago.
For well over a decade, the Amazon Associates Program has worked with thousands of Illinois residents. Unfortunately, a new state tax law signed by Governor Quinn compels us to terminate this program for Illinois-based participants. It specifically impose...
Posted by Spfldnet 10 months ago.
March 8 (Bloomberg) -- A jump in crude oil costs in excess of 20 percent in the past two weeks is escalating the danger of inflation in Asia, where central banks are already grappling with consumer price pressures fueled by job and spending gains. The B...
Posted by Spfldnet 11 months ago.
I created a discussion topic at the new forum now available at www.spfld.net focusing specifically on the question of how much actual dollars are lost forever from the city's economic cycle, by employees who work for the city, but live and spend their mon...
Posted by Spfldnet 11 months ago.
To a business, labor is a pure expense rather than an investment in the quality of the community from which the future workforce is produced. On the surface this does not make sense, until one considers that there are tax benefits for depreciation, and t...
Posted by Spfldnet 11 months ago.
It looks like all the state workers have turned out in droves to prevent the governor from dismantling non-safety related unions.The state of Wisconsin has come within a couple of million dollars of going into the red, and unlike Illinois which plans to c...
Posted by Spfldnet 11 months ago.
Posted by Spfldnet 1 year ago.
When the news media reports a drop in the unemployment rate, it doesn't always mean the unemployed found work.First, those who collect the unemployment statistics must know exactly who the unemployed are so they can be counted. The laziest way to figure t...
Posted by Spfldnet 1 year ago.
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