Tag Archives: politics

FLASH MOBS, FLASH ARRESTS: SMARTPHONE JUSTICE

Posted on April 3, 2013 by James Carlini | 1 comment

By James Carlini

Last weekend, Chicago’s Magnificent Mile experienced teen-age flash mobs (organized looting) creating disturbances and mayhem among people there who were trying to enjoy the downtown shopping district.

This has been going on for several years, but the Chicago media has filtered it out of their stories until Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Commercial, Education, Government, Law, Social Media, Social Media, Technology

Tagged business, cell tower, cellphone, central office, Chicago, Chicago Police, children, City of Chicago, DAS, data base, DHS, flash mob, FOP, Homeland Security, Huffington Post, James Carlini, John Hancock Center, leadership, LTE, Magnificent Mile, mayhem, mob action, North Michigan Avenue, politically accurate, politically correct, politics, Rahm Emanuel, retail, riots, Smartphones, social media, tourism, twitter, Water Tower Place, WBC, WiFi, wildings, wireless

CURBING DISCOURSE IS NOT AMERICAN

Posted on March 7, 2013 by James Carlini | 3 comments

By James Carlini

“I may not agree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.” Patrick Henry said this just before he said his more famous line, “Give me liberty or give me death.”

It is sometimes misattributed to Voltaire, but the reason I bring it up is because we are experiencing too many curbs to discourse in both the new media of blogs as well as our traditional TV and print media.

The average American wants to hear Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Commercial, Education, Law, Social Media, US Veteran

Tagged abc, Benghazi, bias, cbs, Chicago, Chicago Tribune, CNN, CPD, FOX, FOX News, government, James Carlini, journalism, journalists, LA Times, leadership, lies, media, media bias, MSNBC, NBC, NY Times, PC, political accuracy, political correctness, politics, Press, slanted news, TMZ, WGN, WSJ