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The 2012 presidential elections are for sale

Submitted by Antagon-X on

President Calvin Coolidge in the 1920's said "The business of america is business".

Here is a summary that shows how your favorite banks helped candidates and ex-candidates, between January and September 2011. I suspect figures are "estimated":

Goldman Sachs:

Mitt Romney: $352,200
Barack Obama: $49,124
Tim Pawlenty: $25,000
Jon Huntsman: $6,750
Rick Perry: $5,500
Ron Paul: $2,500

Morgan Stanley:

Fighting Foreclosures: Compassion in Action

Submitted by Word. on

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Wednesday, January 4th was a long day for Rich, a ruddy-faced and Bronx-accented member of Occupy Los Angeles. There was an event planned that afternoon at the home of Faith Parker, a 78-year-old retired schoolteacher and mother facing foreclosure. The problem: Ms. Parker lived eleven miles away in South Central. Rich, 20 years homeless, rose early and began walking. “Sure, I could’ve bummed bus fare. But then you don’t get to see anything along the way,” he later told me.

知られざる戦争のコスト　THINGS YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE WAR

Submitted by olajp on

次の戦争が現実になりそうだ。
イランへの制裁と、メディア操作で、既に開戦したとする専門家もいる。
ここに、戦争経費にかかわる驚愕の数字を挙げる。

1）私たち国民は、この9年間、毎秒5,000ドルを戦争に費やしてきた。

2）私たち国民は、1人のアメリカ兵士が1年間イラクに配置されるたび、39万ドルを費やしてきた。

3）私たち国民は、戦争を維持するため、20万以上の民間業者を雇ってきた。

4）私たち国民は、2010年、90億ドルをイランに投入した。現在の残高はゼロ、使途不明の部分もある。

5)　アメリカ財務省が、対イラク戦争で直接に支出したのは1兆ドル。これには、退役軍人の年金や、負傷者への長期にわたるケアなど、いわゆるダウンストリームの経費は含まれない。

「1兆ドル」にピンとこなければ、同じ額でどれだけのことができたか見てみよう。

Hedgesians Vs. Graeberians: A Dis-eased Debate

Submitted by OccupyTheSocial on

The Hedges / Graeber debate is a tremendous distraction from the current reality of the occupy movement.  Hedges argued that black block is a ‘cancer’ in the occupy movement, while Graeber rebutted both in an open letter and on twitter.

Symbolic Anti-Party Formation, M-Occu-Lections: A Brief Explanation

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For eternity, people who were opposed to their governments or oppressors have united against them. In a democracy, we are theoretically allowed to peacefully throw off an unwanted government by voting them out. However, most of us of any experience or knowledge of our vertical political process in the U.S. know that in our country, the political process is rigged against the people.

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