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article commentary global  corporate dominance | technology  Why
should you be angry?  Or maybe the question should be, why
*aren't* you angry? I know it takes a lot of energy to be angry.
It doesn't feel good, either. But I've heard that the daughters
of Hope are Anger and Courage. Anger is a catalyst that brings
about change. REAL change, not Obama's fakey "Change we can
believe in" (like the tooth fairy!)  This from Scott Creighton
(hat tip to Gypsy Scholar who commented [
 http://lesvisible.blogspot.com/2011/07/sunglasses-of-
serendipity.html ] on Visible Oragami):   "Without the
destruction of the protections of the Glass-Steagall Act, or the
Banking Act of 1933 none of this would have happened. Part of
the Roosevelt's New Deal program, this Glass-Steagall separated
commercial and investment banking institutions. This kept Wall
Street firms from becoming 'Too Big Too Fail' and from betting
on the demise of the liar loans they created. Glass-S