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Two Million Public Sector Workers Strike Against Austerity in Britain | FDL News Desk
Seeded on Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:05 PM EST (Firedoglake)
As many as two million public sector workers are on strike in Britain today, a number which accounts for 1 out of every 30 citizens in the country (that would be the equivalent of 10 million people going on strike in America).
Banks May Have Illegally Foreclosed On Nearly 5,000 Military Members
Seeded on Tue Nov 29, 2011 5:27 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
Even those people putting their lives on the line for their country may not be safe from the American foreclosure crisis. Ten lenders are reviewing close to 5,000 foreclosures of homes belonging to active-duty service members in an attempt to discover if they were carried out …
Scott cuts money for vets, kids — but not lobbyist - Fred Grimm - MiamiHerald.com
Seeded on Tue Nov 29, 2011 9:08 AM EST (MiamiHerald.com)
Call it the allocation of the immaculate conception — an unrequested $1.5 million surreptitiously folded into legislation even while $3.8 billion was being ripped from the state budget with brutal cuts in education and infrastructure and state worker pensions and programs …
OpEdNews - Article: Goldman Sachs Has Taken Over
Seeded on Sun Nov 27, 2011 10:17 AM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)
On November 25, two days after a failed German government bond auction in which Germany was unable to sell 35% of its offerings of 10-year bonds, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble said that Germany might retreat from its demands that the private banks that hold th …
Companies Lay Off Workers While Spending Billions On Share Buybacks To Enrich Executives | ThinkProgress
Seeded on Sat Nov 26, 2011 10:56 AM EST (Think Progress)
Even as Republicans and CEOs of major companies complain that taxes are stifling job creation, corporations have been sitting on trillions of dollars in cash reserves, at some of the highest levels on record.
Game Over for Planet Earth: The Month's Biggest Story You Never Read | World | AlterNet
Seeded on Wed Nov 23, 2011 9:07 AM EST (AlterNet.org)
November 16, 2011 - What's the biggest story of the last several weeks? Rick Perry’s moment of silence, all 53 seconds' worth? The Penn State riots after revered coach JoePa went down in a child sex abuse scandal? The Kardashian wedding/divorce? The European debt crisi …
U.S.-Based Multinationals Added Jobs Abroad In 2000s, But Cut Jobs At Home
Seeded on Tue Nov 22, 2011 7:58 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
In the last decade, U.S.-based multinational companies have been on a hiring spree, adding over 2 million new jobs.
Central Bankers - Stop Dithering. Do Something. - NYTimes.com
Seeded on Mon Nov 21, 2011 6:38 PM EST (The New York Times)
BOTH the American economy and the global economy are facing a familiar foe: policy defeatism.
The One Percent Turns Class War Into Generational War | Op-Eds & Columns
Seeded on Mon Nov 21, 2011 2:10 PM EST ()
The public should realize that “generational warfare” is an agenda that was deliberately designed by the 1 percent to distract the rest of us from the class war that they have been successfully waging over the last three decades.
Kristin Wartman: Pizza is a Vegetable? Congress Defies Logic, Betrays Our Children
Seeded on Sun Nov 20, 2011 9:33 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
If there were any lingering doubts as to whom our elected representatives really work for, they were put to rest Tuesday when Congress announced that frozen pizza was a vegetable.
Its not about OWS, its about Financial Tyranny! Part 1
Seeded on Sun Nov 20, 2011 2:40 PM EST (nolanchart.com)
The Decentralized Demands The common denominator running through the “journalism” covering this entire Occupy movement is the snide derision and outright lies that seems a prerequisite for covering the story, all the while missing the point about the very real outr …
David Coates: Banker Power Trumping Democratic Power: The Crisis on Two Continents
Seeded on Sun Nov 20, 2011 12:09 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
We live in troubled and ironic times. The times are certainly troubled.
The face of police cruelty - Occupy Davis - Salon.com
Seeded on Sat Nov 19, 2011 4:48 PM EST (Salon.com)
I’ve seen so many shocking photos and videos of police brutality against Occupy Wall Street protesters and their far-flung supporters around the country.
This Is What Revolution Looks Like | Veterans Today
Seeded on Fri Nov 18, 2011 11:49 AM EST (veteranstoday.com)
Get back into your cages, they are telling us. Return to watching the lies, absurdities, trivia and celebrity gossip we feed you in 24-hour cycles on television. Invest your emotional energy in the vast system of popular entertainment. Run up your credit card debt.
Insight: The Wall Street disconnect | Reuters
Seeded on Fri Nov 18, 2011 9:19 AM EST (Reuters)
John Paulson, the hedge-fund trader who famously made billions betting on the collapse of the housing market, was threatened by the demonstrators with a march on his Upper East Side home in New York last month.
Federal Prosecution Of Financial Fraud Falls To 20-Year Low, New Report Shows
Seeded on Tue Nov 15, 2011 10:08 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
Public mistrust for banks may be at an all-time high, but federal prosecution for certain financial crimes is down to a 20-year low. The federal government is on track to file just 1,365 prosecutions for financial institution fraud in fiscal year 2011, according to a new repor …
Romney Spit-Balls His Way To Privatizing Veteran's Benefits | TPM 2012
Seeded on Mon Nov 14, 2011 4:36 AM EST (Talking Points Memo)
Talking with the veterans about the challenge of navigating the Veterans Affairs bureaucracy to get their health care benefits after they leave active duty, Romney suggested a way to improve the system would be to privatize it. “Sometimes you wonder, would there be somew …
Republicans Show Stunning Ignorance of China in South Carolina Debate - The Daily Beast
Seeded on Mon Nov 14, 2011 4:14 AM EST (The Daily Beast)
At 9:30 last night, when the CBS/National Journal debate about foreign policy came to an end, Rick Perry must have been deeply relieved.
OpEdNews - Article: Financial Tyranny Rules Eurozone
Seeded on Mon Nov 14, 2011 1:57 AM EST (OpEdNews.Com Progressive)
Unelected leaders to rule Greece and Italy. From inception, Eurozone planning was flawed.
Whose side is our SEC on? | AlterNet
Seeded on Sat Nov 12, 2011 8:17 PM EST (AlterNet.org)
Over the last decade, Citi has repeatedly been caught committing a variety of offenses, and time after time the bank has been dragged into court and slapped with injunctions demanding that they refrain from ever engaging the same practices ever again.
Bank Of America Dumps $75 Trillion In Derivatives On U.S. Taxpayers With Federal Approval - Seeking Alpha
Seeded on Thu Nov 10, 2011 6:41 PM EST (Energy Sector and Stocks Analysis from Seeking Alpha)
The FDIC opposed the move, but there is nothing the FDIC can do, except file a petition for a writ of mandamus in court, against the Federal Reserve, seeking a declaration that the approval was illegal.
How the GOP Became the Party of the Rich | Politics News | Rolling Stone
Seeded on Wed Nov 9, 2011 12:58 PM EST (Rolling Stone)
The nation is still recovering from a crushing recession that sent unemployment hovering above nine percent for two straight years. The president, mindful of soaring deficits, is pushing bold action to shore up the nation's balance sheet.
Climate Change's Health Costs Projected To Be Enormous
Seeded on Tue Nov 8, 2011 8:44 AM EST (The Huffington Post)
A tally of lost lives and health care expenditures arising from just six recent weather-related or epidemiological events suggests that the economic toll of future climate change is likely to be even more staggering than previously thought, according to a study published Monday …
Richard (RJ) Eskow: Vetoing Democracy: In Athens or Washington, Elites Still Call the Shots
Seeded on Sun Nov 6, 2011 1:19 PM EST (The Huffington Post)
The public's widespread dissatisfaction is understandable, and this stifling of democracy should raise even more fears for Greece's future stability than the referendum did.
We May Be Witnessing the First Large Global Conflict Where People Are Aligned by Consciousness and Not Nation State or Religion | Activism & Vision | AlterNet
Seeded on Fri Nov 4, 2011 9:40 PM EDT (AlterNet.org)
My own recent arrest, while obeying the terms of a permit and standing peacefully on a street in lower Manhattan, brought the reality of this crackdown close to home.
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Progressivism Is About Saving Capitalism From ItselfIt has often been said that President Franklin Delano Roosevelt saved capitalism from itself.
- Scott cuts money for vets, kids — but not lobbyist - Fred Grimm - MiamiHerald.com
Call it the allocation of the immaculate conception — an unrequested $1.5 million surreptitiously folded into legislation even while $3.8 billion was being ripped from the state budget with brutal cuts in education and infrastructure and state worker pensions and programs …
- OpEdNews - Article: Goldman Sachs Has Taken Over
On November 25, two days after a failed German government bond auction in which Germany was unable to sell 35% of its offerings of 10-year bonds, the German finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble said that Germany might retreat from its demands that the private banks that hold th …
- U.S.-Based Multinationals Added Jobs Abroad In 2000s, But Cut Jobs At Home
In the last decade, U.S.-based multinational companies have been on a hiring spree, adding over 2 million new jobs.
- Kristin Wartman: Pizza is a Vegetable? Congress Defies Logic, Betrays Our Children
If there were any lingering doubts as to whom our elected representatives really work for, they were put to rest Tuesday when Congress announced that frozen pizza was a vegetable.
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