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Article by John on April 19th, 2009 at 5:45 pm April 11, 2009–A New Way Forward organized bailout protests around the country. Locals hit Portland's Pioneer Square to protest our tax dollars being given to greedy Banksters. Colleen Lindsay and Mike Ellison at Bank Bailout Protest Photos courtesy of Rich var wordpress_toolbar_urls = ["http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/519e4fbe-4dfe-4348-b48e-ccdc1a244345\/"];var wordpress_toolbar_url = “http://www.democracyforvancouver.org/wp-content/plugins/wordpress-toolbar/toolbar.php”;var wordpress_toolbar_oinw = “oinw”;var wordpress_toolbar_hash = “aHR0cDovL3d3dy5kZW1vY3JhY3lmb3J2YW5jb3V2ZXIub3JnL2Vjb25vbWljLWp1c3RpY2Uvc2Fjay1nb2xkLW1hbnMvPHdwdGI%2BU2FjayBHb2xkTWFuczx3cHRiPmh0dHA6Ly93d3cuZGVtb2NyYWN5Zm9ydmFuY291dmVyLm9yZzx3cHRiPkRlbW9jcmFjeSBmb3IgVmFuY291dmVy”;
Article by John on April 2nd, 2009 at 7:32 am Mt. Rushmore, Theodore Roosevelt closeup. Image via Wikipedia Since the 1980s (when I worked for Eastern Airlines, which no longer exists due to deregulation fever) we as a people have amnesia when it comes to the lessons that history teaches us. Regulations did not just magically appear one day. They were derived from the wisdom that came about from the mistakes of the past. Reagan [...]
Article by missy on March 19th, 2009 at 11:01 am Doubt. Doubt = weakness, and weakness = electoral failure. So it’s a minor miracle when a politician reaches the right conclusion and, despite his doubts, acts on it: SANTA FE — The Bill Richardson who announced a repeal of the death penalty in New Mexico on Wednesday was not the same Bill Richardson who usually shows up for face time with the news media. The Richardson who [...]
Article by missy on March 18th, 2009 at 9:20 am On Hank Paulson’s bald head. When AIG started to become unwound last fall, who better to know just how much Goldman Sach’s own rape & pillage squad was going to depend on its AIG bad bet insurance than the former CEO, Paulson himself – and who else but the Treasury Secretary would be better positioned to make sure that at least his alma mater – if [...]
Article by missy on March 16th, 2009 at 3:24 pm and clawing back those they’d already paid out? From October 22, 2008: NY AG says targeting exec pay at AIG, elsewhere NEW YORK (Reuters) – Troubled insurer American International Group Inc will freeze payments to a former CEO and officers of the unit that was the main source of its financial problems, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo said on Wednesday. “This is to confirm that AIG has [...]
Article by John on February 15th, 2009 at 8:37 pm This is the most succinct explanation I have come across of where we are at and of what to do with regard to the financial crisis affecting our country. I hope Obama and Congress are listening. From Bill Moyers Journal (you can watch the video here): February 13, 2009 BILL MOYERS: Welcome to the Journal. The battle is joined as they say — and here’s the [...]
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