37 days ago

Coke Talk: I sometimes wonder if the dude who runs corrections at the New York Times is actually a CIA asset trying to communicate with sleeper agents. NYT Corrections, December 30: An article on Monday about Jack Robison and Kirsten Lindsmith, two college students with Asperger syndrome who are nav ...

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37 days ago by Susan

The beginning for me was back in the late 60s when I was a student at UC Berkeley. The array of opportunities before me was staggering, all of them out of the classroom. I could become an activist, a protester, an anti-war demonstrator; I could become proactive in the political system and work towar ...

Art is Life is Art: Susan ... - susanreep.com/blog · 10 references

38 days ago by T. Lau

Welcome to 2012 and Happy New Year! One business executive who almost certainly did not have a Happy New Year is former HP CEO Mark Hurd. Right before the New Year, a federal judge in Delaware released the contents of a letter from attorney Gloria Allred, who represents Jodie Fisher, an event hostes ...

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38 days ago by Thurman

(SOURCE: Socialist Worker) Imagine, for a moment, that you’re a corporate CEO, and you want to get rid of your union contract. Maybe you signed it at the height of the boom, and now it’s beginning to pinch. While you’re at it, maybe you’d like to stop the payments you agreed to make to that employee ...

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38 days ago by Spookypunkos

At the core of disaster capitalism is the use of cataclysmic events to advance radical privatization combined with the privatization of the disaster response itself. Klein argues that by capitalizing on crises, created by nature or war, the disaster capitalism complex now exists as a booming new eco ...

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38 days ago by Spookypunkos

This week Max Keiser and co-host, Stacy Herbert, present an Eastern European special looking at Swiss franc mortgages in Hungary, bank runs in Latvia and the wisdom of austerity. In the second half of the show, Max talks to economist, Professor Constantin Gurdgiev, about the outlook for the Russian ...

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38 days ago by Mr. Evan

The TV’s in some of the subway lines in Beijing are now playing an epic, 10-minute long Spring Festival 春节 (Chinese New Year)-themed Pepsi commercial. The commercial, which features a star-studded cast of Chinese celebrities and is directed by the award-winning director Zhang Guoli 张国立, tells the st ...

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38 days ago by Cody McKibben

Read this full article on Thrilling Heroics here: How You and I Are Going to Shape the Next Century Together (PLUS Scholarship Winners!) A few weeks ago, my old blogging buddy Ron Davison sent me a copy of his new book The Fourth Economy: Inventing Western Civilization, which examines the pattern of ...

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38 days ago by Belle

Six Myths Explained About Taxing The Wealthy On Saturday, the Obama administration unveiled the "Buffett Rule [1]," a proposed tax on millionaires and billionaires named after celebrity investor Warren Buffett, who has long argued that the federal government should demand more of the wealthy. The mi ...

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38 days ago by Russ Baker

As I noted the other day, Obama is increasingly isolated—and increasingly making some very bad choices of company. His current best friend is the US chief of UBS, one of the most offensive banks imaginable. So while he’s on the stump saying how he relates to Occupy Wall Street, he’s got this Wall St ...

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