Unequal distribution of wealth led to the Great Depression. Her class is about 75 minutes. Weve spent the last few weeks considering how americans adapted to abundance between the 1890s and 1920s. Despite the efforts of producers, advertisers, of retailers and of others, the supply of goods continue to outstrip demand. This wasnt because all everyone, all 106 million americans, had everything they needed. It was because they didnt have adequate purchasing power. They didnt have adequate wages or income to buy all of that stuff. And it wasnt just americans who were in this situation, but so too were our trading partners around the world. They didnt have enough income to buy all of the commodities we were producing in our fields and all of the wonderful things that we are our factories were making. So by the end of the 1920s, the American Economy went bust. You guys all know this. You all know that the stock get crashed in 1929. The World Economy went bust as well. A worldwide economic d
Not a huge move. Big enough. 57. Also up towards santa clara, still kind other ever a popular number there. Overall, the fog that is there is not going to do much. It will burn off. The high kicks in for a couple of days. If you say oh my gosh, i need cooler weather, dont you worry. It is on its way sunday into monday. The next few days are sunnyside up and warmer. 70s, 80s, and mid 90s. Still walnut creek. We are still looking at that. We also have some problems on the commute, on the pass. Ill kind of wrap all that in. First of all, lets begin at walnut creek where southbound 608, they were clearing a crash. It hasnt caused a big backup. There were some injuries and the medics were on the scene. We dont have a big backup just yet. Also looking at 24680, the commute looks good. 24 is in good shape to the tunnel. Grant line road has traffic blocked in the left lane. Now it is causing a backup on 580 and 205, put just slower than usual. Once you get to dublin it looks pretty good to hay
With iraq, the u. S. Had just invaded afghanistan, and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11, and we started laughing about the color code alerts. Remember the george w. Bush alerts, yellow, orange, red, and said it was to keep people in a state of fear, and that we needed another color coded alert to say, theres a different way of dealing with this. We go after whoever attacked us, not wholesale invasion of countries, thats when we came up with the idea of codepink. We originally wanted to by code code hot pink but the url was already taken so we payment code pink. Host how do you pick your issues. Guest we started out not wanting to be an ongoing organization. We just wanted to join the masses and mobilize to stop the invasion of iraq. And so we dead that. We got involved. We had tremendous support around the country. Without really trying we found we had hundreds of thousands of people that signed up t
Coming up next from earlier today code pink founder was on the indepth program to discuss her writing and answer viewer questions. Among her books bridging the global gap how to stop the next war now into and at the most recent, drone warfare. Host Medea Benjamin how and when was code pink found it . Guest we were a group of women environmentalists sitting together in a retreat right after 9 11 talking about how he we could deal with the Climate Crisis and during the lunch break we started talking about the 9 11 attack and we were talking about how horrible it was that the u. S. Was about to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9 11 and we started laughing about the colorcoded alerts. Remember that yellow, orange, red and seeing how it was to keep people in the state of fear and that we needed another colorcoded alerts to say theres a different way of dealing with this. We go after whoever attacked us and not a wholesale nation of countries and thats when we came up with the id
Shocking the District Attorney says five years after Jerry Sandusky was a rested his adopted son is being led away in handcuffs accused of soliciting sexual acts from two teenaged girls. Court documents say last spring, the 41yearold allegedly repeatedly tech add then 16yearold girl to take naked pictures and send them to him. She refused saying, i dont know how many times i need to tell you no. When the girls father learned of the texts he went to police and it was then discovered sandusky had also allegedly texted his other daughter in 2013. She was 15 years old at the ti time. And sandusky accused of asking for oral sex. The girl told him no. And now at age 19 when she recently confronted sandusky, he reportedly responded by saying, i can even say anything except im sorry. The District Attorney via face time says the girls did the right thing. The girls had the wherewithal to resist the solicitation. The minor evidenced and captured in text message we were able to locate and have as