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2014/01/112014/01/11

Ezra Klein: Dylan Matthew’s Five Reforms Framed for Left & Right — Spotlight on How to Sell Anything to the Two-Party Mob

The depressing psychological theory that explains Washington Dylan Matthews’s “Five conservative reforms millennials should be fighting for” isn’t just an admirably intricate piece of trolling. It’s a perfect illustration of why you can’t take Washington’s policy debates at face value. You can’t understand what’s happened to Congress in recent years if you don’t understand what …

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2014/01/10

Paul Craig Roberts — No Jobs — Just Lies

No Jobs For Americans — Just Lies About the Unemployment Rate The alleged recovery took a direct hit from Friday’s payroll jobs report. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the economy created 74,000 net new jobs in December. Wholesale and retail trade accounted for 70,700 of these jobs or 95.5%. It is likely that …

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2014/01/10

4th Media: Noam Chomsky: AMERICAN Politics Has Descended into MADness, Pure Savagery

Noam Chomsky: AMERICAN Politics Has Descended into MADness, Pure Savagery Author and activist Noam Chomsky said that the congressional controversy over extending unemployment benefits is evidence that American politics has descended into madness. “The refusal to provide very minimal living standards to people who are caught in this monstrosity — that’s just pure savagery,” …

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2014/01/072014/01/07

Lanier: Silicon Valley Killing Middle Class

Lanier: Silicon Valley Making the “Stupid Choice” This piece by NYT columnist Joe Nocera on his read of Jaron Lanier’s book Who Owns the Future is thought-provoking and worth serious consideration by policy makers in the government especially, if only because colossal Silicon Valley greed blinds technology companies to the economic destruction their technology is …

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2014/01/052014/01/05

Review: Occupy: Reflections on Class War, Rebellion and Solidarity

Noam Chomsky 5.0 out of 5 stars Explosive Opening, Less Satisfying Conclusion, January 5, 2014 The book explodes on page one: no bankers arrested — none, zip, nada, rein — 7,762 Occupiers arrested from the first 80 in NYC on 24 September 2001 to the two arrested in SF on 15 June 2013. Talk about …

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2014/01/032014/01/03

Paul Craig Roberts: Case of the Missing Recovery

Case of the Missing Recovery Have you seen the economic recovery? I haven’t either. But it is bound to be around here somewhere, because the National Bureau of Economic Research spotted it in June 2009, four and one-half years ago. It is a shy and reclusive recovery, like the “New Economy” and all those promised …

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2014/01/02

Eagle: 750,000 Young People in UK Feel They Have Nothing to Live For…

Young people ‘feel they have nothing to live for’ Katherine Sellgren BBC, 1 January 2014 As many as three quarters of a million young people in the UK may feel that they have nothing to live for, a study for the Prince’s Trust charity claims. The trust says almost a third of long-term unemployed young …

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