Occupy the Lulz

This is what a police state looks like.

“So much money has gone into armoring and arming local law-enforcement since 9/11 that the federal government could have rebuilt post-Katrina New Orleans five times over and had enough money left in the kitty to provide job training and housing for every one of the record 41,000-plus homeless people in New York City. It could have added in the growing population of 15,000 homeless in Philadelphia, my hometown, and still have had money to spare. Add disintegrating Detroit, Newark, and Camden to the list. Throw in some crumbling bridges and roads, too.” - Inside the Out-of-Control Weaponized Homeland Security State

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Mitt Romney: Defending Gaffes With Lies

liberalsarecool:

So Mitt’s “I like to fire people” was about health insurance and not his days of pillaging at Bain. Romney’s not being at all fair in the way he’s defended himself. He told reporters he was only talking about defending consumers from the supposed tyranny of the Affordable Care Act – and he lied about what it does.

“I don’t want to live in a world where we have Obamacare telling us which insurance we have to have, which doctor we can have, which hospital we go to.” - Mitt Romney

Romney has no credibility. Zero. Nada. Here’s the facts.

“Those of us who supported a more progressive healthcare reform bill, including a public option, know that the compromise brokered by the White House protected the private insurance system. Nothing in the law tells people which insurance they have to have or which doctor they can go to. As a matter of fact, insurance companies themselves restrict which doctors we go to – they also have death panels – but that’s another story.” - Joan Walsh

Mitt does not like his words being taken out of context, yet does it himself with Obama all the time. Well, “I like being able to fire people” is exactly the kind of thing Mitt Romney could have said during his career at Bain Capital. Payback is a bitch.

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Study Confirms: News Networks Owned By SOPA Supporters… Are Ignoring SOPA/PIPA

abaldwin360:

by Mike Masnick | Tech Dirt

from the but,-of-course dept

While the debates about SOPA/PIPA have been raging all over the internet, and appearing regularly in all sorts of mainstream newspapers, they still have been almost entirely absent from TV news. We’ve discussed this in the past, noting that the major TV news players are all owned by media conglomerates who have been major backers of SOPA/PIPA. There was some indication that cable news was starting to pay attention… but things have gone quiet since then (perhaps upper management sent out a memo…).

The folks over at Media Matters decided to check in on this and have confirmed that the big TV news players have almost entirely ignored it, despite the widespread controversy found elsewhere in the mainstream press:

[FULL STORY]

My reaction upon seeing the headline was, “Well, YEAH!” - but it’s nice to have it confirmed.

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“The president should propose treating capital gains as ordinary income. The preference given to capital gains—now taxed at a mere 15 percent even for those in the top income brackets—serves no economic purpose, and magnifies the inequity in the tax code. Why give any preference to income that results from the sale of an appreciated asset as opposed to income that is the product of work? There is no compelling answer to this question, and absolutely no credible evidence that investment will be hindered if the capital-gains preference is eliminated.”

Eliot Spitzer, from his article, “Two Bold Ideas Obama Should Embrace to Stand Apart from Mitt Romney”.

Idea #1: Capital gains reform. Idea #2: Education investment and student debt reform.

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abaldwin360:

occupyonline:

U.S. production is up, while wages remain stagnant. That means that while workers continue to work long, hard hours bringing more profit to corporations, rather than “trickling down” those profits into the wages of the workers, executives are keeping their profits in the hands of stockholders. Less wages mean less buying power in an economy where the price of products, education, food, medicine and housing accommodation grows. This pattern cannot continue without an eventual and painful crash for millions of hard working citizens.

It’s not whining or entitlement, it’s math and foresight.

Bingo! Perfectly said.

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epic4chan:

“The only call it class warfare when we fight back” (image source)

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Occupy Wall Street Protester Hands Obama a Note

Mr. President: Over 4000 peaceful protesters / have been arrested / While banksters continue / to destroy the American economy (with impunity) / You must stop the assault / on our 1st ammendment rights [sic]. / Your silence sends a message / that police brutality is ac(ceptable) / Banks got bailed out. / We got sold out.

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