The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Sources of the Occupy Movement – Part 4 – Socioeconomic conditions This post looks at the social and economic conditions that fostered the emergence of the Occupy movement, as well as a timeline of events, books, and commentary that, in retrospect, offer significant precedents or stimulants to the form and energy of Occupy. Coheartedly, Tom …
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The 1 Percent, Revealed The superrich have drawn a clear line in the sand between themselves and everybody else. How did we get here? — By Barbara Ehrenreich and John Ehrenreich Mother Jones, Thu Dec. 15, 2011 EXTRACT: And here was another thing many in the middle class were discovering: The downward plunge into poverty …
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Here’s a scenario from William Buiter (the chief economist at Citi) on what could happen if the EU collapses: Disorderly sovereign defaults and eurozone exits by all five periphery states would drag down not just the European banking system but also the north Atlantic financial system and the internationally exposed parts of the rest of …
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Technology Shifts and Economic Depression Joseph Stiglitz (the Nobel prize winning economist) has a great new article: “The Book of Jobs“(behind Vanity Fair’s paywall, sorry). In it, he makes a convincing case that the first global depression was caused by a process similar to what we are seeing today (I’m very happy somebody in the social …
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Over 46 Million Americans On Foodstamps For The First Time Ever Tyler Durden Zerohedge.com, 12/05/2011 While the capital markets may be cheering that in the past month 120,000 people supposedly found jobs, even if these were largely temporary or part-time just in time for the year end shopping sprees, we wonder how they will react …
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Worth a close reading. The revealed conflicts of interest and probably high crimes and misdemeanors and nothing less than expected, but astonishing all the same. The Veil of Secrecy at the Fed Has Been Lifted, Now It’s Time for Change By Sen. Bernie Sanders Huffington Post, November 4, 2011 As a result of the greed, …
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“Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.” -Thomas Jefferson The 99% Declaration WHEREAS THE FIRST AMENDMENT TO THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION PROVIDES THAT: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging …
