Occupy Wall Street Ignites Political Hackathon

We are the 99 percent.

We are the 99 percent.We are getting kicked out of our homes. We are forced to choose between groceries and rent. We are denied quality medical care. We are suffering from environmental pollution. We are working long hours for little pay and no rights, if we're working at all. We are getting nothing while the other 1 ( Read more... )

I've been saying for quite a long time that there's ~something~ in the American food chain... and it's not good.

Now here's yet MORE evidence.

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So what can one do when you KNOW most of the food you purchase has been poisoned in one way or another?

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Occupy Wall Street rediscovers the radical imagination

Everything we'd been told for the last decade turned out to be a lie. Markets did not run themselves; creators of financial instruments were not infallible geniuses; and debts did not really need to be repaid...

"We now live in an era defined by increasing Corporate influence and authority over the individual."

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history in the making, politics 2011, crash of I've yet to figure out how it's even possible that a story of this magnitude has been summarily ignored by most of the biggest media outlets. You know the ones, the raving, slavering beasts who latch onto stories (true or false) and will not let it go until the last ounce of blood is sucked dry and ( Read more... )

( Of the documentaries nominated for this year's Oscars, there are only two that I feel are in real contention for the price: )

A friend of mine made this very cognizant and poignant observation...

Why is a 3% tax increase on the richest considered "socialism" while a 14% pay cut on the middle class is "doing your part? Wait a second.... We're all supposed to be equal, right? At least that's what I was brought up to believe ( Read more... )