Eagle: Facebook Actively Cheating 85% of Followers in Effort to Force Revenue from “Promote” Option

The New Facebook Buttons: Promote, Despise, Abandon Charles Hugh Smith Of Two Minds, November 1, 2012 How many people would click “despise FB” and “abandon FB” if those were offered alongside the new “promote for a fee” button? Just in case you haven’t noticed, your Facebook activity may not be reaching the FB audience you …

John Steiner: IMF Working Paper The Chicago Plan Revisited (Eliminate Debt to Banks, End Credit Leverage, Governments Control Money)

Abstract: At the height of the Great Depression a number of leading U.S. economists advanced a proposal for monetary reform that became known as the Chicago Plan. It envisaged the separation of the monetary and credit functions of the banking system, by requiring 100% reserve backing for deposits. Irving Fisher (1936) claimed the following advantages …

Worth A Look: BIll Moyers Interviews Neil Barofsky and David Stockman on Crony Capitalism and the Washington Version of Soften Your Stance, Get Gold; Keep Your Integrity, Get a Bullet

Bill Moyers and Neil Barofsky 26 October 2012 Neil Barofsky, Bailout: An Inside Account of How Washington Abandoned Main Street While Rescuing Wall Street (Free Press, 2012) Bill Moyers and David Stockman, 21 January 2012 Charles H. Ferguson, Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America (Crown Business, 2012)

Greg Palast: YouTube (30:37) 30 Minutes on Forthcoming US Election Theft 5.9 Million Votes Slated to “Vanish”

Phi Beta Iota:  Three months prior to the 2000 elections in the USA, Greg Palast broke the story on Florida disenfranchising tens of thousands of voters in predominantly Democratic precincts.  Now his new book and the underlying investigations have focused on Bain Capital buying and managing the voting machines in several state, and how the …

DefDog: The Gathering Storm – CIA Asks for More Drones, Most Clueless About Tribes, and Rest of World Routing Around the State

These three hang together. CIA claims it needs more drones The CIA has asked the White House to increase the number of drones it employs to transform it into a paramilitary force, despite recent statistics that show the majority of drone deaths are civilians. CIA Director David Petraeus submitted a proposal that could add as …

John Steiner: Daniel Elsberg “Defeat Romney Without Illusions About Obama”

Defeat Romney, Without Illusions About Obama By Daniel Ellsberg, Reader Supported News Reader Supported News (rsn), 18 October 12 t is urgently important to prevent a Republican administration under Romney/Ryan from taking office in January 2013. The election is now just weeks away, and I want to urge those whose values are generally in line …