Josh Kilbourn: Employment Actually Down 2.9 Million In Past Two Months

TrimTabs Explains Why Today’s “Very, Very Suspicious” NFP Number Is Really Down 2.9 Million In Past 2 Months Tyler Durden ZeroHedge, 02/03/2012 We have examined the nuance of the euphoric jobs data this morning from every angle and by now there should be plenty of ‘information’ for investors to make their own minds up on …

Josh Kilbourn: Oakland Police Carry Out Mass Arrest

Journalists—Myself Included—Swept Up in Mass Arrest at Occupy Oakland On Saturday, Occupy Oakland re-entered the national spotlight during a day-long effort to take over an empty building and transform it into a social center. Oakland police thwarted the efforts, arresting more than 400 people in the process, primarily during a mass nighttime arrest outside a …

Michel Bauwens: Occupy as a Culture Change Movement

Discussing OWS (3): #OccupyWallStreet as a Culture Change Movement Excerpted from William Gamson: “The single most important thing to understand about the Occupy movement[deleted plural ending] is that it is primarily a movement about cultural change, not institutional and policy change. Cultural change means changing the nature of political discourse and the various spheres in …

Eagle: Obama Pushes Hard to Protect Big Banks from Fraud Prosecutions

Obama Pushes Hard to Protect Big Banks from Fraud Prosecutions As we’ve noted for years, the entire strategy of Washington towards the economy is to cover up the fraud which caused the financial crisis … even though prosecuting fraud and re-establishing the rule of law is the only way to get out of this depression. One major front in Washington’s …

Michel Bauwens: Occupations as a Political Tactic

A short story of occupations as a political tactic (#OccupyWallStreet update) Excerpted from Shareable, By Willie Osterweil: “There have been many resistance movements throughout history which have made use of the occupation tactic. In the United States, the unemployed Coxey’s Army, which marched across the country decrying injustice and unemployment in 1894, camped out throughout …