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    Now We Just Get Dumbed Down Talking Points

    Love this professor:



    Rob Kall's Spring Cleaning

    As Rob says, “Think Big”. You can read the whole article with detailed explanations here:

    Put all unemployed workers and their families on medicare. End Unemployment. Give ten million unemployed people jobs. Military Re-do End drug laws that involve victimless crimes. End the marijuana laws Throw out the USA’s participation in the WTO, the WB, NAFTA, CAFTA Throw out Corporate Personhood Open up or [...]



    I Want My Next Kid To Be A Corporation

    So I can claim IT as a dependent but not have to support IT.

    The Pinocchio Project Watching as the Supreme Court turns a corporation into a real live boy. By Dahlia Lithwick



    Return to the Gilded Age

    Bail out the rich.  Fail to regulate corporations.  Allow unconstrained corporate compensation agreements.  Do not facilitate unionization of workers.  Allow big corporations to control the media.  Make free trade more important than our manufacturing industries.  Ignore environmental priorities.  Keep taxes low.  Deficit spend on the military.  Constrain health care and infrastructure expenditures.

    And expect things to get better.

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    a day for pitchforks

    It’s the best of times for Goldman Sachs, and the worst of times for the rest of us.

    Ironic that this news would break on Bastille Day:

    Goldman Sachs’ profits for the second quarter smashed Wall Street estimates and are likely to trigger a windfall for bankers.

    The bank, long considered the most prestigious and profitable on Wall Street, recorded [...]



    unfuckingbelievable

    I tried to post on this yesterday, but Li’l Kim clogged my intertoobz:

    July 8 (Bloomberg) — Morgan Stanley plans to repackage a downgraded collateralized debt obligation backed by leveraged loans into new securities with AAA ratings in the first transaction of its kind, said two people familiar with the sale.

    Morgan Stanley is selling $87.1 million of securities that it expects to receive [...]



    More Bush III – More Change We are Not Getting

    Obama Blocks Dick Cheney FBI Notes Release

    Transparency?

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