October 2011
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Middle class hanging by thread as rich get richer,... →
THIS COULD BE YOU.
This could be you sitting in the living room of a house that you’d never notice otherwise, a low brick suburban thing, the inside walls painted with care by the people who’ve made it their home, with a dog resting on the floor and a pair of cats trolling for attention.
This could be you telling your story, about a husband and wife who tumbled off their middle-class...
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Join Bank Transfer Day →
FOR MORE INFO: http://facebook.com/nov.fifth Together we can ensure that these banking institutions will ALWAYS remember the 5th of November!! If the 99% removes our funds from the major banking institutions to non-profit credit unions on or by this date, we will send a clear message to the 1% that conscious consumers won’t support companies with unethical business practices. • Research your...
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Former Chief Global Strategist for Morgan Stanley... →
With half of Europe already committed to some degree of budgetary belt tightening and our own so-called ”Super Committee” mulling ways to slice a trillion dollars out of the federal budget, you’d think the argument for austerity would be a slamdunk, but nothing could be further from the truth.
“In general, I think austerity is a big mistake,” says Barton Biggs,...
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An easy way to get ahead in America →
We condone actions such as these by letting the wealthy rape us economically, physically, and mentally. What do we get back for the years of life we give to working for these trillion dollar companies? Nothing but enough scraps of bread to live on and the faint promise of a wealthy life.
Truth is if you want to be rich and wealthy you do not get it through hard honest work you get wealth by...
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New numbers: Income for top 1 percent skyrocketed... →
So you already know that the gap between rich and poor has been widening lately. But some new numbers from the Congressional Budget Office put the issue into stark relief.
As the chart at right shows, between 1979 and 2007, the share of after-tax income going to each of the bottom four income quintiles—the bottom 80 percent—has dropped. The only quintile that has increased its share...
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Wuuuuuut?
For many years I have felt alone. Yet, each day that I hear the stories from #OWS and #wearethe99percent I see that I am, that we all are, part of a problem that is slowly engulfing our entire world. We all are becoming statistics.
I am not a number in an excel box. My life is unique and important to the history of the world. I know this to be true not just for me but for every person I see...
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Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
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The Shocking, Graphic Data That Shows Exactly What... →
What are the Occupy Wall Street protesters angry about? The same things we’re all angry about. The only difference is the protestors turned their anger into public action. Occupy Wall Street lit the embers and the sparks are flying. Whether it turns into a genuine populist prairie fire depends on all of us.
Now is not the time for wonky policy solutions, as the media meatheads are calling...
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GAO Finds Serious Conflicts at the Fed →
A new audit of the Federal Reserve released today detailed widespread conflicts of interest involving directors of its regional banks.
“The most powerful entity in the United States is riddled with conflicts of interest,” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) said after reviewing the Government Accountability Office report. The study required by a Sanders Amendment to last year’s Wall...
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Bank Transfer Day: A Protest With Your Money →
The social uprising — called “Bank Transfer Day” — encourages bank customers to take their cash out of big banks and put it in smaller banks and credit unions instead.
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WatchTaken to Task: Occupy Wall Street’s Nattering Nabobs of Negativity
Taken to Task: Occupy Wall Street’s Nattering Nabobs of Negativity
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The Top 5 Facts About America’s Richest 1%
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Think Occupy Wall St. is a phase? You don't get it →
Like the spokesmen for Arab dictators feigning bewilderment over protesters’ demands, mainstream television news reporters finally training their attention on the growing Occupy Wall Street protest movement seem determined to cast it as the random, silly blather of an ungrateful and lazy generation of weirdos. They couldn’t be more wrong and, as time will tell, may eventually be...
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WatchLIVE STREAM FROM OCCUPY WALL STREET
WatchOccupy Wall Street
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WatchOne Man’s Message to the US Govt.
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Charlie Kaufman: Why I Wrote Being John Malkovich →
vimeo:
“…I like the idea that the story changes over time even though nothing has changed on the outside. What’s changed is all in my head and has to do with a realisation on my character’s part. And the story can only be told in a particular form. It can’t be told in a painting. The point is: it’s very important that what you do is specific to the medium in which you’re doing it, and that you...
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