December 2011
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Occupy Congress January 17th, 2012
Over 1 million people will descend on Washington DC for the largest “Occupy” protest ever! OCCUPY CONGRESS January 17th, 2012
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http://www.facebook.com/pages/Occupy-Congress-January-17th-2012/203536356392018?sk=wall
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Rick Perry the Populist
Via Carrie Dann @ NBC
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“You don’t have to sit back & take it any more,” “reach beyond the confines of the Beltway.” Big push against “insiders” (read: Mitt/Newt)
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More Perry: “Americans were snookered” by “Wall Street highrollers” who were “betting...
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The Declaration of Occupy D.C.
Consented to by General Assembly November 30th, 2011 | PDF
We have been captives of corrupt economic and political systems for far too long. The concentration of wealth and the purchase of political power stifle the voices of the increasingly disenfranchised 99 percent. Corporate dominance subverts democracy, intentionally sows division, destroys the...
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The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy
The violent police assaults across the US are no coincidence. Occupy has touched the third rail of our political class’s venality.
by Naomi Wolf
US citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a coordinated crackdown against peaceful OWS protesters in cities across the...
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WatchRichard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
TED
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Nov. 22: Be It Resolved North America Faces a Japan-style Era of High Unemployment and Slow Growth.
Arguing for the resolution are:
Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winner and one of the pre-eminent economists of our time, and
David Rosenberg, Chief Economist and Strategist at Gluskin Sheff + Associates.
Arguing against the resolution are:
Lawrence Summers, one of America’s most...
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podcast: keynes vs. hayek
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Krugman: We are the 99.9%
nytimes.com
“We are the 99 percent” is a great slogan. It correctly defines the issue as being the middle class versus the elite (as opposed to the middle class versus the poor). And it also gets past the common but wrong establishment notion that rising inequality is mainly about the well educated doing better than the less educated; the big winners in this new Gilded Age have been a...
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John Sadleir and the Oil of Bitter Almonds
…Real-life coroner’s juries also tended to deal harshly with the greedy, especially with shady financiers and embezzlers as was the case with John Sadleir in 1856. Sadleir, a member of Parliament and Junior Lord of the Treasury, fraudulently oversold 150,000 pounds of shares in the Royal Swedish Railway, overdrew more than 230,000 pounds from a Tipperary bank, which he managed,...
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WatchRat Heads in Coke Bottles: 60 Minutes Segment on Grover Norquist
(CBS News - 60 Minutes) “As head of Americans for Tax Reform since 1986, Grover Norquist has transformed a single issue - preventing tax hikes - into one of the key platforms of the Republican Party. As Steve Kroft reports in the video above, his biggest coup was getting more than 270 members of Congress, and nearly all of...
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Fannie Mae taps $7.8 billion from Treasury, loss...
(Reuters) - Fannie Mae, the biggest source of money for U.S. home loans, on Tuesday said it needed a further $7.8 billion in federal aid to stay afloat as a shaky housing market widened its third-quarter loss to $5.1 billion.
The government-controlled firm also attributed the deeper cash drain to losses on derivatives used to hedge its exposure to interest-rate swings and on expenses...
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Guess How Many Venture Capitalists Are Black or...
The National Venture Capital Association has completed its 2011 census. Now we all know the business of doling out money to tech startups is a pasty one—right? we’re all clear on this, yes?—but the association this year trumpets “signs of increasing ethnic diversity.” So, take a wild guess at the combined percentage of blacks and Latinos among venture capitalists.
Did you...
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Bibliocide
…So far, the People’s Library has received 1,099 books back from the Dept. of Sanitation after last week’s raid (some of which were not library books to begin with), and out of these, about 800 are still usable. About 2,900 books are still unaccounted for, and less than one-fifth of the original collection is still usable. These numbers may change slightly when the People’s Library...
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The Giant Pool of Money
from npr’s planet money and this american life, possibly the clearest and most entertaining account of exactly how the housing crisis unfolded.
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Open Letter to that 53% Guy
by Max Udargo
Hello,
I briefly visited the “We are the 53%” website, but I first saw your face on a liberal blog. Your picture is quite popular on liberal blogs. I think it’s because of the expression on your face. I don’t know if you meant to look pugnacious or if we’re just projecting that on you, but I think that’s what gets our attention.
In the picture, you’re holding up a sheet...
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New York media organizations demand meeting with...
In a letter co-signed by executives from a variety of media outlets and press advocacy groups, New York Times Company vice president and assistant general counsel George Freeman has requested an immediate meeting with Police Commissioner Ray Kelly and Paul Browne, the deputy commissioner of public information, over a series of incidents between Nov. 15 and 17 which, Freeman writes,...
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pre-occupied
pretty good article from the new yorker on the origins, intentions and key players of the initial #OWS movement.
Below, a video of Marisa Holmes, who is mentioned several times in the article, getting arrested:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9byOpunXWBw
complete GAO Report to Congress on The Fed's... →