December 2011
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Obama and Geithner: Government, Enron-Style →
It’s Starting to Get Good
The notion that what Wall Street firms did was merely unethical and not illegal is not just mistaken but preposterous: most everyone who works in the financial services industry understands that fraud right now is not just pervasive but epidemic, with many of the biggest banks committing entire departments to the routine commission of fraud and perjury –...
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A Christmas Message From America's Rich →
It seems America’s bankers are tired of all the abuse. They’ve decided to speak out.
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/a-christmas-message-from-americas-rich-20111222#ixzz1hzyNPBgv
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How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the OWS... →
Awesome Article! He Just lays it out. Love Matt Taibbi
What both sides missed is that OWS is tired of all of this. They don’t care what we think they’re about, or should be about. They just want something different.
We’re all born wanting the freedom to imagine a better and more beautiful future. But modern America has become a place so drearily confining and predictable...
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The Big Lie Marches On We must have an honest... →
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Boehner’s office cuts off C-SPAN cameras as GOP... →
A strange thing happened Wednesday morning on Capitol Hill.
As Rep. Stenny Hoyer (D-MD) attempted to call for a vote to extend a payroll tax cut to middle class and working Americans, his Republican colleagues adjourned the House and walked out of the chamber. And if that weren’t odd enough, it got even stranger: As Hoyer railed against them for failing to help working Americans, footage from...
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'Impartial' Supreme Court Justices Raise Money for... →
Suppose you were party to a lawsuit and you learned that the judge handling your case was hobnobbing with lawyers on the other side and helping to raise money for a group dedicated to defeating you in court? You’d be pretty uneasy about your prospects for an impartial hearing, wouldn’t you?
Well, as Common Cause details in a news release today, three members of our Supreme Court...
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Ron Paul quits CNN interview after being asked... →
Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul ended an interview with CNN after he was questioned about a hate-filled newsletter that was published under his name.
The newsletters were published about 20 years ago and contained a number of incendiary comments about African-Americans, such as referring to Martin Luther King Jr. Day as “Hate Whitey Day.” All of the newsletters...
Justice who cast vote for Wisconsin union-busting... →
Back in June, the Wisconsin State Supreme Court decided in a narrow, 4-3 ruling that Gov. Scott Walker’s administration was allowed to start implementing its union-busting law. Now, it turns out that the law firm which the Walker administration hired to argue its case gave tens of thousands of dollars in free legal services to one of the four justices that ruled in the...
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Anonymous Retaliates: Massive Information dump... →
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Occupy's new tactic has a powerful past →
Occupy Wall Street protesters re-occupy a foreclosed home in Oakland, California, on Dec. 6.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Katyal and Peñalver: Occupy Wall Street is shifting its focus to foreclosed homes
This will help the movement build stronger ties with working class, the writers say
Katyal and Peñalver: Occupy connects to social movements with similar tactics
Occupy is forging tighter link...
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GOP Leaders Still Holding Middle-Class Tax Cut... →
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Study: Cocaine, marijuana can be detected in... →
Topics: atmosphere ♦ marijuana
A study released this week by the Institute of Atmospheric Pollution Research claims that marijuana and cocaine, much like cigarettes, have second-hand effects that can be detected in the atmosphere around communities where usage is high.
Researchers also found that the amount of the drug detected in the atmosphere was directly tied to the amount of drugs...
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30 Major U.S. Corporations Paid More to Lobby... →
By employing a plethora of tax-dodging techniques, 30 multi-million dollar American corporations expended more money lobbying Congress than they paid in federal income taxes between 2008 and 2010, ultimately spending approximately $400,000 every day — including weekends — during that three-year period to lobby lawmakers and influence political elections, according to a new report...
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American public to Congress: Get out. All of you. →
The American electorate is primed to throw out record numbers of incumbents in the 2012 election, according to new polling from the Pew Research Center.
The U.S. Capitol building stands in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, July 29, 2011. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/BloombergEverywhere you look in the numbers, which were released this morning, you see political land mines for incumbents.
Sixty...
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United Wisconsin: More than half-a-million... →
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Frustration with Congress Could Hurt Republican... →
Nearly three months after protests began in New York and later expanded to cities around the country, 44% support the Occupy Wall Street movement and 35% oppose it. Americans are much more likely to agree with the concerns raised by the movement than to approve of its tactics. By 48% to 30%, more Americans agree than disagree with the concerns the protests have highlighted. However, by a...
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Tens Of Thousands March On Koch Industries For... →
This past Saturday, tens of thousands of civil rights activists marched on the New York offices of Koch Industries to protest the Koch brothers’ support of restrictive voting laws that disenfranchise millions. In dozens of states, Republican politicians have pushed laws that disproportionately keep Democratic voters, including blacks, Latinos, students, and the poor, from the polls. U.S. Rep....
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Occupy Wall Street protesters demand proof they... →
Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street protesters are in court this week to face charges stemming from an October rally at the Brooklyn Bridge that resulted in more than 700 arrests.
Despite being offered plea deals to have the charges dismissed if they stay out of trouble for six months, more than 40% of the protesters that faced a judge Wednesday rejected the offer, pleading not guilty and...
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Obama: A disaster for civil liberties - Just As... →
In time, the election of Barack Obama may stand as one of the single most devastating events in our history for civil liberties. Now the president has begun campaigning for a second term. He will again be selling himself more than his policies, but he is likely to find many civil libertarians who simply are not buying.
“Man robbing bank with gun gets life. Man robbing world with bank gets bonus”
~Some guy on the internet
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Obama will not veto National Defense Authorization... →
Topics: national defense authorization act ♦ President Barack Obama ♦ white house
The White House on Wednesday said it would not veto the controversial National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
President Barack Obama’s spokesman Jay Carney said lawmakers who crafted a compromise version from rival Senate and House versions of the legislation had addressed his worries about proposed tough...
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Finally, A Rich American Destroys The Fiction That... →
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Rolling Stone: Matt Taibbi Occupy Wall Street: The... →
Occupy Wall Street protesters carry a giant puppet squid during a march to the offices of Goldman Sachs in New York.
REUTERS /ANDREW BURTON /LANDOV
I almost shed tears of pride this morning when I read this hilarious passage in the Daily News:
Earlier Monday, about 300 protesters in squid costumes surged outside the offices of Goldman Sachs investment bank shouting, “We fry...
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This is what corruption looks like →
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Gingrich Paid for Anal Bleachings with Government... →
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The Pentagon is Offering Free Military Hardware to... →
This is Crazy- Coinciding with the new Militarization Law passed Monday
The U.S. military has some of the most advanced killing equipment in the world that allows it to invade almost wherever it likes at will.
We produce so much military equipment that inventories of military robots, M-16 assault rifles, helicopters, armored vehicles, and grenade launchers eventually start to pile up...
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H&M Puts Real Model Heads On Fake Bodies →
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Romney staff spent nearly $100,000 to hide records →
(Reuters) - Mitt Romney spent nearly $100,000 in state funds to replace computers in his office at the end of his term as governor of Massachusetts in 2007 as part of an unprecedented effort to keep his records secret, Reuters has learned.
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