10/20: David Cay Johnston and his look at US pay data, "It's awful."
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10/14: Follow Josh Harkinson tweeting live updates from OWS
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10/14: Live video feed about the occupation
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10/14: Occupy Wall Street Main Site
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4/23: As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.
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1/19: Once we allow companies to become this powerful, the FCC does not regulate them," says Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders. "They regulate the FCC," says the senator.
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1/17: Interesting trailer for a documentary, THE ECONOMICS OF HAPPINESS
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1/16: Good read from an older article on the beef industry.
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1/15: His instructions said: "You should simply 'act' like a regular customer when making these purchases. THERE MUST BE NO MENTION OF THIS BEING A RECALL OF THIS PRODUCT! "
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1/15: When you really think about it, it's simply inconceivable that the U.S. Government gets away with doing this. Seizing someone's laptop, digging through it, recording it all, storing the data somewhere, and then distributing it to various agencies is about the most invasive, privacy-destroying measure imaginable.
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1/9: A brief history of the promotion of violence and disillusionment in our current political system.
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12/31: Howard Zinn died on Wednesday... A tribute on Democracy Now. (1922-2010)
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11/24: Down the slippery path from banks too big to fail to execs too rich and important to be prosecuted.
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11/24: Amazingly, while some in Congress believe $5 billion per month for unemployment benefits costs too much, they insist on borrowing $700 billion over the next decade to give more tax cuts to the richest 2 percent of Americans.
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9/7: Remember, if all 6 billion Earth inhabitants used resources and generated as much waste as America today, we'd already need six Earths. With a 2050 population of 9 billion, it's "game over."
(Interesting article, although the solution at the end is simply laughable.)
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8/30: Artist MIA's new music video directed by Romain Gavras conjures up memories of Punishment Park!
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(Punishment Park reference)
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8/27: The Afghan war from the perspective of the Taliban.
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8/26: Judge: "1984 may have come a bit later than predicted, but it's here at last," he lamented in his dissent. And invoking Orwell's totalitarian dystopia where privacy is essentially nonexistent, he warned: "Some day, soon, we may wake up and find we're living in Oceania."
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8/24: The final piece from END:CIV is both a reality check and a call to arms.
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8/16: Good article on the growing conservative religious intolerance in America.
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8/10: End CIV: A film that examines our cultures addiction to systematic violence and environmental exploitation..
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6/18: Tar Baby - Excellent examination of the oil driven calamity in America
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5/23: Oil Paintings and Water Colors
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5/4: Deepwater oil spill told in pictures
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4/30: Can you vanish in the UK? Probably not
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4/16: Warring Culture Part 1
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4/15: Rio: caught between heaven and hell
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4/14: Netflix Instant Watcher
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4/12: Collateral Murder
If only the newspapers would run headlines like that so the actual expense of the endless wars could be explained in simple terms to the republican voters, idiots and tea party folks.
Sorry, I guess that was overly redundant.
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At least it seems odd to someone else that the cost of this war is a “non-issue” in our political system right now. It’s almost as if the cost of these wars is a given, something that does not deserve discussion. Pitiful.
Very nice selection/use of pictures.