The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Jack Abramoff critiques OWS, Republicans’ media exposure in Yahoo News interview By Rachel Rose Hartman The Ticket, 4 January 2012 EXTRACT: Abramoff says that since his release, he’s been in touch with some of Occupy’s “sensible” leaders, as he calls them, via Twitter and other channels of communication. But Abramoff, once a major conservative Republican …
Douthat apparently has not read that book, A Fine Madness, Paul or a better grounded iconoclast may be exactly what the country needs. Pariahs and Prophets Ross Douthat New York Times, 31 December 2011 IN 1984, after serving three terms in the House of Representatives, Ron Paul was defeated by Phil Gramm in Texas’s Republican …
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Presidential campaign needs to get real on salvaging middle class With the coming U.S. presidential election, 2012 offers voters, business leaders and politicians an opportunity for a joint debate over the fundamentals of capitalism in America. By Michael HiltzikLos Angeles Times, December 31, 2011 Occupy Wall Street and its coast-to-coast spinoffs captured the headlines in …
Bart DePalma Brilliant on the problems, missing the reality of the two-party tyranny,December 30, 2011 I received this book as a gift, along with Capitalism 101. Of the two I prefer this one. On the positive side, both books represent a growing body of citizens who understand that big government is very much alike to …
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Leon A. Weinstein A Personal Story,December 30, 2011 I received this book as a gift, along with Never Allow A Crisis To Go To Waste: Barack Obama and the Evolution of American Socialism, and I have mixed feelings about both of them. On the positive side, both books represent a growing body of citizens who …
Exploring OWS’s collective thinking process – and Michael Moore’s Below are four documents that provide interesting insight into the kinds of energies and proposals that get born through Occupy Wall Street’s collective thinking process of working groups and General Assembly deliberations. The first document is a “Statement of Autonomy” passed by consensus at the OWS …
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Flurry of local #OccupyWallStreet actions and successes show strength and staying power of movement Excerpted via Rose Aguilar: ” the movement is far from dead. Here in California, the movement is exploding. In a recent study called “Diffusion of the Occupy Movement in California,” UC Riverside researchers surveyed 482 incorporated towns and cities in California …
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