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Monthly Archives: November 2011
Gov. Scott Walker Gets Checked, Mic Checked!
The beauty of this is the witnessing of the involuntary transfer of authority by the right-wing reactionaries, and the priceless look on their faces upon realization that their authority had just been stripped from them. That was pure poetry in motion!
Richard D. Wolff: What Obama’s Basic Economic Policy Should Be
Jesse Ventura Berates Facist America Over Court Ruling 2011
Ventura made his comments outside the federal courthouse in St. Paul, where in January he sued to challenge the Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) airport security procedures. The suit was thrown out because Congress set up the law so that all such challenges must be brought directly in Circuit Courts of Appeals, wrote U.S. District Judge Susan Richard Nelson.
Occupy Wall Street — “We Are What Democracy Looks Like!”
It’s called Occupy Wall Street for a reason: it’s about the MONEY, stupid! The money that has put profits before people and left human values to be measured by price alone. The money that (with the complicity of the Supreme Court) has replaced votes (one for each of us) with dollars (one for the 99 and 99 for the one!) turning democracy into plutocracy. . . Look at the process, which is a bold attempt to embody a “horizontal” paradigm of participatory engagement as an alternative to “vertical” big league moneyball democracy.
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Wall Street Traders Have Profited More Under Obama Than In Eight Years Under Bush
Wall Street banks experienced years of unprecedented growth under President Bush, at least until the crisis of 2008. But in the two-and-a-half years since President Obama took office, the largest Wall Street banks have grown even larger, and profits at banks and trading firms have risen even faster than they did under Bush, the Washington Post’s Zachary Goldfarb reports:
Wall Street firms — independent companies and the securities-trading arms of banks — are doing even better. They earned more in the first 2 1/2 years of the Obama administration than they did during the eight years of the George W. Bush administration, industry data show. […]
Top 1% Average Income vs. Bottom 90%
Eight Quick Ways to Differentiate between the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street
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A politician is defined as a person who receives votes from the poor and money from the rich on the promise of protecting each from the other.
Always Question Authority 