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class war
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August 19, 2012
Route Opened for Donations to Wikileaks
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Per WL Central , After almost two years of fighting an unlawful banking blockade by U.S financial giants VISA and MasterCard, WikiLeaks has ...
July 21, 2012
Elites Hiding at Least $20 TRILLION. Seriously.
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Per the Guardian , James Henry, former chief economist at consultancy McKinsey and an expert on tax havens, has compiled the most detailed e...
July 15, 2012
Re- the Stalled Recovery,
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From Nation of Change : While the [National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB), an organization that often acts as a front for larg...
July 13, 2012
The LIBOR Scandal Explained
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Or, yet another way in which the rich have been looting you – legible version at Dangerous Minds . From a comment at Naked Capitalism : ...
July 9, 2012
Helpful Image (Restore Glass-Steagall)
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(Click on the image for a more legible version.) UPDATE: From the MetroWest Daily News , quoting but without linking to The Nation : Why do ...
June 30, 2012
Updates on Assange & Manning
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This is not just an infowar; it's a p.r. war. And most of the p.r. machinery is owned by t.p.t.b. Neither Assange nor Wikileaks has been...
June 23, 2012
The Results of Austerity
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How states that have expanded spending have done as compared to states that have cut back. More at The Atlantic .
The Results of "Trickle Down"
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" 1) Corporate profit margins just hit an all-time high. Companies are making more per dollar of sales than they ever have before. . ....
June 22, 2012
Retirement, Ha Ha!
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I have a 401(k) with a major investment company whose name starts with F, which I'll call "F Co." I just got an email from th...
June 20, 2012
For immediate action (re- Wikileaks/Assange):
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Go here to send a message such as the following: [To:] President Rafael Correa Ecuador Embassy of Ecuador 1050 30th Street NW Washington, D...
June 14, 2012
Assange's Appeal Rejected by UK Supreme Court
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More on the court's case at Raw Story . As succinctly summarized at WL Central , Assange, who has already been detained for some 500 day...
June 12, 2012
Why the Rich Oppose Unions
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May 23, 2012
News You Can Use
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Per the WSJ 's Market Watch , After adjusting for inflation, spending under Obama is falling at a 1.4% annual pace — the first decline i...
May 13, 2012
How JPMorgan Chase Has Proved We Need to Break Up Big Banks & Bring Back Glass-Steagall
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From Robert Reich at Nation of Change : The bets were “poorly executed” and “poorly monitored,” said [Jamie] Dimon [current CEO of JPMorgan ...
May 9, 2012
Occupy the Regulatory / Investigatory System
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From the Washington Post : Occupy Wall Street has moved. Its new address: 60 Wall Street. There, inside a soaring public atrium, dreadlocked...
April 16, 2012
May 1st: General Strike
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More info here . And just in time: if you missed the 99% non-violent action training , you can take it online here .
April 8, 2012
Occupiers & Others Preparing for General Strike May 1; Noam Chomsky Endorses 99% Spring
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Back in the 70's, experts believed that the improvements possible through technology would increase worker productivity to the point tha...
March 13, 2012
NYC Art Fairs 2012, and "It's the Political Economy, Stupid"
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Pulse may have decided, wisely, that the field's gotten too crowded; they've moved to May. Within four days (Mar. 3 - 11), viewers ...
February 24, 2012
Punk Economics
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Here's a good explanation of the European debt crisis that's also applicable in the US: A few points that might warrant further expl...
February 20, 2012
Update Re- "Derivatives for Dummies" (What Every Legislator Should Know About How to Fix Our Economy, but Doesn't)
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Remember my posts in May, 2009 ( here and here ) on "Derivatives for Dummies"? Well, they're still relevant, because we still...
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