elites trust government more. nobody else does.

An interesting rebuttal of the release of this year’s Edelman Trust Barometer on the PRSA blog by Elliott Schreiber:

These data may be factual for the elite, but they may be the continuing “fuel on the fire” for those who feel they are on the bottom looking up. On the other side of the political spectrum, the Democrats continue focusing on social inequities, and have made many corporations and CEOs their “poster children” for greed. This doesn’t occur without strong support from the electorate.
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via PRSA.org

icy overpass in houston

From our office window. Post on CNN here.

non-violent democratic change

Shouldn’t the president of the United States be out in front, supporting non-violent democratic change across the world’s most volatile region? – Al Jazeera on the US President

the opposition has come together, he says

“It is significant” that the opposition has come together, he says. “But the people are ahead. What brought the opposition leaders together? The fact that the people in the streets were together.”

- CS Monitor on Egypt

egypt today

I had the facebook

“I had the Facebook for one purpose — to keep in contact with my family,”

and

“I’m not doing this for money. I’m doing this for justice. I believe there should be some, somewhere,”

- Fteja