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Living in a Delusional World
Post Date: 2011-11-18 19:12:39 by tom007
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Living in a Delusional World by PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS I have come to the conclusion that Big Brother’s subjects in George Orwell’s 1984 are better informed than Americans. Americans have no idea why they have been at war in the Middle East, Asia and Africa for a decade. They don’t realize that their liberties have been supplanted by a Gestapo Police State. Few understand that hard economic times are here to stay. On October 27, 2011, the US government announced some routine economic statistics, and the president of the European Council announced a new approach to the Greek sovereign debt crisis. The result of these funny numbers and mere words sent the Standard & ...
Budget crunch? Or, who in the defense establishment is paid $1.5 million?
Post Date: 2011-11-18 18:54:07 by tom007
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Budget crunch? Or, who in the defense establishment is paid $1.5 million? Posted By Thomas E. RicksFriday, November 18, 2011 - 10:35 AM Nope, not the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. But yes, the coach of the Navy football team gets that salary. The Air Force coach makes $889,000, USA Today reports. By comparison, the Army coach is practically on food stamps, getting just $610,000. (On the other hand, that still works out to more than $200,000 per Army win, so far this season.)
Prepare For Martial Law
Post Date: 2011-11-18 14:19:28 by Itistoolate
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15 Tea Party Caucus freshmen rake in $3.5 million in first 9 months in Washington
Post Date: 2011-11-18 12:34:20 by tom007
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15 Tea Party Caucus freshmen rake in $3.5 million in first 9 months in Washington Posted: 11/18/11 08:47 AM ET React Important Funny Typical Scary Outrageous Amazing Innovative Finally Follow Congress , Republicans , Tea Party , Fundraising , Iwatch News , Politics News . share this story 410 50 33 Get Politics Alerts Sign Up Submit this story By Aaron Mehta and Bob Biersack, iWatch News On her website, Rep. Diane Black asks constituents to join advisory panels in her Tennessee district. "I believe the best ideas to solve our nation's problems will come from people like you," Black writes, "not Washington bureaucrats and ...
Did U.S. troops bring democracy? Iraqis have doubts
Post Date: 2011-11-18 03:52:56 by Tatarewicz
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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Sitting in a barber shop in Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr City slum, three friends agreed after a long and hard argument that U.S. forces brought democracy to Iraq. But they found it difficult to utter the words without raging about the flip side of what they saw as the U.S. occupation of their country. "OK, we have democracy. We can talk freely with no fear. We can demonstrate and vote freely. All these are available, and all were not before 2003," said student Hussain Ali, 20, as he waited for his haircut. "But why don't you ask us about the other side of the story of the U.S. presence in Iraq? Why don't you ask about their crimes, ...
EDITORIAL: A lucky break for occupiers Police actions allow protesters to plan next moves
Post Date: 2011-11-16 07:14:06 by Ferret
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Mayors in Portland, New York City and Oakland have done the Occupy Wall Street movement a big favor by clearing protesters’ encampments from public property. The tent cities’ effectiveness in building support for the occupiers’ anti-corporate message was on the wane. A winter of hypothermia and squalor lay ahead. By sending police to shut down the encampments this week, the mayors have forced the movement to do what needed to be done: Take stock and devise new strategies for calling public attention to such problems as widening economic inequality. People involved in Occupy Eugene should do the same. In Portland, Mayor Sam Adams set a deadline of 12:01 a.m. Sunday for the ...
'The Largest And Most Expensive Police Action In Recent Memory' Is About To Go Down At Occupy Oakland
Post Date: 2011-11-14 10:57:57 by tom007
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'The Largest And Most Expensive Police Action In Recent Memory' Is About To Go Down At Occupy Oakland Robert Johnson and Linette Lopez|Nov. 14, 2011, 7:53 AM|2,811|44 AAA inShare.2 Image: Lucy Kafanov Oakland Police officer with no badge number See Also: Man Shot At Occupy Burlington, Possible Suicide Oakland Police Publicly Plead With Protesters To Give Up Their Camp Occupy Wall Street Had A Big Concert Yesterday, And It Proved That Things Have Changed It's 4:45 a.m. in Oakland and a flurry of Tweets from the ground are announcing an eminent confrontation with police. "I love the smell of vinegar in the morning," was the Tweet ...
Glenn Greenwald: Journalists have become servants to power
Post Date: 2011-11-10 13:39:02 by tom007
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Salon.com’s Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional rights attorney, said the media’s reaction to the “Occupy Wall Street” movement highlighted how mainstream media journalists had become part of the elite class. “If you look at, say, a host on MSNBC, what you’re actually seeing is a very high ranking employee of what was General Electric and now is Comcast, who makes many millions of dollars a year and has a make-up artist sitting in front of their face for an hour applying all sorts of make-up and another person working on their hair.” He said that journalists had traditionally been people outside of power who acted as watchdogs to aid the powerless, ...
The Retrosexual Code
Post Date: 2011-11-07 21:41:56 by Flintlock
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A Retrosexual, no matter what the women insists, PAYS FOR THE DATE. A Retrosexual opens doors for a lady. Even for the ones that fit that term only because they are female. A Retrosexual DEALS with IT, be it a flat tire, break-in into your home, or a natural disaster, you DEAL WITH IT. A Retrosexual not only eats red meat, he often kills it himself. A Retrosexual doesn't worry about living to be 90. It's not how long you live, but how well. If you're 90 years old and still smoking cigars and drinking, I salute you. A Retrosexual does not use more hair or skin products than a woman. Women have several supermarket aisles of stuff. Retrosexuals need an endcap (possibly 2 ...
Editorial: Bay Delta plan on a perilous path
Post Date: 2011-11-07 00:41:21 by farmfriend
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Editorial: Bay Delta plan on a perilous path Published: Saturday, Nov. 5, 2011 - 11:00 pm | Page 6E California desperately needs to make progress on its beleaguered Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Conflicts over imperiled fish have disrupted water deliveries. The ecosystem is in rapid decline. If left unaddressed, the threat of earthquakes and the long-term impacts of climate change could cause even more conflict and harm to everyone who has a stake in the Delta – water users, farmers, fishing interests, environmentalists and others. Sadly, the linchpin of any sort of deal to bring peace to his estuary – the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, or BDCP – has been heading in the ...
I am MAD WeAre Not Citizens Anymore (Do You Own A Lobbyist?) nothing Follows
Post Date: 2011-11-06 22:04:32 by tom007
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I said Nothing Follows. Post away/
Japan Times: It is now a “grave situation” at Fukushima — “Plutonium fission” mentioned for first time — “Criticality is very likely to have occurred”
Post Date: 2011-11-06 21:16:13 by tom007
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Japan Times: It is now a “grave situation” at Fukushima — “Plutonium fission” mentioned for first time — “Criticality is very likely to have occurred” Nov. 3, 8:30 pm ET (Emphasis Added) — A report published at 8:30 pm ET by the Japan Times calls on Tepco and the Japan gov’t to “find out true reactor conditions” at Fukushima. Tepco announced Wednesday that, according to the Times, “There is the possibility that criticality, a sustained nuclear chain reaction, had occurred ‘temporarily’ and ‘locally’ in the No. 2 reactor.” During it’s testing, Tepco has detected xenon-133 and -135, ...
Doctor finds Uranium and Zirconium in Tokyo resident’s fingernails — “We are becoming nuclear fuel rods”
Post Date: 2011-11-06 21:12:53 by tom007
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Doctor finds Uranium and Zirconium in Tokyo resident’s fingernails — “We are becoming nuclear fuel rods” TOKYO, Oct. 18 — Dr. Naoki Tsuji is testing the fingernails of Tokyo citizens checking for radioactive material, reports Mochizuki. The doctor published data that shows the detection of Uranium and Zirconium, which make up nuclear fuel rods. Cesium and Strontium were also measured. “He once tried the same test for Fukushima people but the result was terrifying,” Mochizuki writes, “Some of the materials went over the limit of the measurement, he said.” “Only tiny a part comes out to nail or urine,” he concludes, “We are ...
Recommended #OWS Demand: Let ALL Citizens 18 and Older Vote, On Paper Ballots, Count Them in Public
Post Date: 2011-11-05 10:34:14 by tom007
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Recommended #OWS Demand: Let ALL Citizens 18 and Older Vote, On Paper Ballots, Count Them in Public The great patriots comprising Occupy Wall Street demonstrations across the nation hardly need my input on the "demands" they continue to try and narrow down and achieve consensus on. I'm quite sure they've got more than enough folks out there making their case for all manner of "demands" given the past 30 years (or more) of utter neglect, corruption and abuse the good citizens of this nation have otherwise been forced --- up until now --- to accept as "politics as usual." Nonetheless, I've been meaning to ring in on this (and did so recently in a ...
Oligarchy, American Style
Post Date: 2011-11-04 13:18:08 by tom007
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Oligarchy, American Style By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: November 3, 2011 Recommend Twitter Linkedin comments (51) Sign In to E-Mail Print Reprints Share Inequality is back in the news, largely thanks to Occupy Wall Street, but with an assist from the Congressional Budget Office. And you know what that means: It’s time to roll out the obfuscators! Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Paul Krugman Go to Columnist Page » Blog: The Conscience of a Liberal Readers’ Comments Readers shared their thoughts on this article. Read All Comments (51) » Anyone who has tracked this issue over time knows what I mean. Whenever growing income disparities threaten to come into focus, a ...
Chris Hedges Arrested in Front of Goldman Sachs
Post Date: 2011-11-04 11:36:15 by tom007
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Chris Hedges Arrested in Front of Goldman Sachs Email this item Email Print this item Print Share this item... Share Share Posted on Nov 3, 2011 David Shankbone (CC-BY) Chris Hedges made this statement in New York City’s Zuccotti Park on Thursday morning during the People’s Hearing on Goldman Sachs, which he chaired with Dr. Cornel West. The activist and Truthdig columnist then joined a march of several hundred protesters to the nearby corporate headquarters of Goldman Sachs, where he was arrested with 16 others. Goldman Sachs, which received more subsidies and bailout-related funds than any other investment bank because the Federal Reserve permitted it to become a bank ...
Everybody Hates Capitalism
Post Date: 2011-11-04 08:55:09 by Tatarewicz
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We begin another look at Zombieland with this editorial from Martin Wolf in The Financial Times: Why did it take so long? It is over four years since the financial crisis began. Yet only now are anti-capitalist protests emerging, including at St Paul’s Cathedral. So is this the beginning of a resurgent leftwing politics? I doubt it. Are the protesters raising some big questions? Yes, they are. Socialism failed as a way of running economies. It did, however, succeed in establishing welfare states. Socialism is a conservative force, dedicated to defending entitlements built up over a century. Meanwhile, organised labour is only strongly entrenched in the public sector. This gives it ...
Another Weapon for OWS: Pull Your Money Out of BofA
Post Date: 2011-11-04 08:11:39 by tom007
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Another Weapon for OWS: Pull Your Money Out of BofA POSTED: October 28, 11:15 AM ET Comment 77 bank of america Bank of America Corp. signage is displayed above the entrance to a branch in New York. Jin Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images My good friend Nomi Prins has a great new piece out that I just caught on Zero Hedge, chronicling 10 reasons why depositors should pull out of Bank of America. Obviously Goldman, Sachs has become the great symbol of investment banking corruption, and other companies like AIG and Countrywide have become poster children for problems with businesses like insurance and mortgage-lending. But when it comes to commercial banking, Bank of America is as bad as it ...
A Letter from Goldman Sachs: Concerning Occupy Wall Street
Post Date: 2011-11-04 07:56:44 by tom007
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A Letter from Goldman Sachs: Concerning Occupy Wall Street NEW YORK (The Borowitz Report) Satire – The following is a letter released today by Lloyd Blankfein, the chairman of banking giant Goldman Sachs: Dear Investor: Up until now, Goldman Sachs has been silent on the subject of the protest movement known as Occupy Wall Street. That does not mean, however, that it has not been very much on our minds. As thousands have gathered in Lower Manhattan, passionately expressing their deep discontent with the status quo, we have taken note of these protests. And we have asked ourselves this question: How can we make money off them? Read more »
Chase Bank Manager Tries to Rebrand Bank Transfer Day as “Chase Pride Day” (Ya Can't Make It Up File)
Post Date: 2011-11-04 07:37:13 by tom007
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Chase Bank Manager Tries to Rebrand Bank Transfer Day as “Chase Pride Day” By: David Dayen Thursday November 3, 2011 3:04 pm TweetTweet38 digg stumbleupon That video is from MoveOn, who has jumped on the Move Your Money movement with their own parallel Move Your Money pledge for November 5. On the same day, activists using Facebook have planned Bank Transfer Day, and they have now received a whopping 75,000 RSVPs for the event from around the country. McClatchy writes it up: Created by an art gallery owner in California, the movement has recruited nearly 75,000 people who have RSVP’d to the group’s event on Facebook. Charlotte Metro Federal Credit Union has been ...
Romney’s Estate Tax Cut Would Save The Koch Brothers Up To $8.7 Billion Each
Post Date: 2011-11-04 07:08:23 by tom007
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Romney’s Estate Tax Cut Would Save The Koch Brothers Up To $8.7 Billion Each By Pat Garofalo posted from ThinkProgress Economy on Nov 3, 2011 at 8:15 pm Mitt Romney speaking at a Koch summit in previous years; David Koch speaking at his own gala Tomorrow, 2012 GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney is slated to give a “major spending policy speech” at Americans For Prosperity’s Defending the American Dream Summit. Both the conference and AFP itself are funded by money from the billionaire Koch Brothers. Romney has, of late, been trying to claim the economic plan he put forth is meant to aid the middle-class, not those in the Koch brothers’ tax bracket. “I ...
ank Of America Common Dilution Coming: To Issue 400 Million New Shares
Post Date: 2011-11-03 19:41:52 by tom007
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Bank Of America Common Dilution Coming: To Issue 400 Million New Shares Tyler Durden's picture Submitted by Tyler Durden on 11/03/2011 16:41 -0400 Bank of America Bank of America Volatility Warren Buffett And to think it was less than two months ago that Warren Buffett took a bath to provide the bank with capital it had "absolutely no need for" but was happy to take it anyway. Well, it turns out the firm is preparing to raise just a "little" more capital. From the just released 10Q: "During the third quarter, global economic uncertainty and volatility continued as described more fully in the Executive Summary – Third Quarter 2011 Economic and Business ...
650,000 Americans Joined Credit Unions Last Month — More Than In All Of 2010 Combined
Post Date: 2011-11-03 18:23:20 by tom007
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650,000 Americans Joined Credit Unions Last Month — More Than In All Of 2010 Combined By Zaid Jilani posted from ThinkProgress Special Topic on Nov 3, 2011 at 4:50 pm One of the tactics the 99 Percenters are using to take back the country from the 1 percent is to move their money from big banks to credit unions, community banks, and other smaller financial unions that aren’t gambling with our nation’s future. Now, the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) reports that a whopping 650,000 Americans have joined credit unions since Sept. 29 — the date that Bank of America announced it would start charging a $5 monthly debit fee, a move it backed down on this week. To ...
Fascism Now: Occupy Wall Street's Call for Transaction Tax Taken Up by Congress
Post Date: 2011-11-03 17:29:03 by christine
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Two U.S. lawmakers will introduce measures to impose a transaction tax on financial firms that resembles a proposal released by the European Union. Senator Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, and Representative Peter DeFazio, an Oregon Democrat, will introduce the bills tomorrow in their respective chambers. The bills will give the United States an increased role in the international debate over a transaction tax, which is likely to be discussed at the Group of 20 summit this week in Cannes, France. – Yahoo Dominant Social Theme: There is a limit! These greedy thugs on Wall Street need to be taxed to an inch of their lives. And if we get taxed the same way, well, darn it, it'll be worth ...
Jack Abramoff: I had 100 lawmakers in my pocket
Post Date: 2011-11-03 13:59:58 by tom007
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Jack Abramoff: I had 100 lawmakers in my pocket 20 Email Print Former Washington lobbyist Jack Abramoff arrives at the Miami Courthouse in Miami January 4, 2006. | Reuts Abramoff said he promised high-paying jobs to lawmakers' top staffers to gain influence. | Reuters Close By MJ LEE | 11/3/11 8:56 AM EDT Jack Abramoff, the infamous K Street ex-lobbyist, says in an upcoming “60 Minutes” interview that he had 100 congressmen in his pocket and reveals his best weapon for gaining influence was to promise a high-paying job to the lawmakers’ top staffers. “Now, the moment I said that to them or any of our staff said that to them, that was it. We owned them [the ...
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