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Are banks too big to jail?

nebris wrote in the_recession Jan 24, 2013 08:45

From Salon.com
Wednesday, Jan 23, 2013 10:09 AM PST
PBS Frontline's stunning report shows how the Obama administration undermined the rule of law
By David Sirota

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"ALEC Rock"

nebris wrote in the_recession Aug 01, 2012 10:04

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Produced by Mark Fiore (http://www.markfiore.com) and the Center for Media and Democracy (http://www.prwatch.org), which is the creator of ALECexposed (http://www.alecexposed.org), ( Read more... )

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NATO: Death by a thousand little spending cuts?

nebris wrote in the_recession May 30, 2012 09:15

Note: This is relevant to this Comm because American military power effects American global economic power...which should be obvious.

( Can a debt-ridden U.S. still afford to pick up the cheque? )

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Quote of The Day

nebris wrote in the_recession May 23, 2012 03:25

"The European dynamic is different because there the states that make up the EU negotiate with each other directly rather through the opaque proxy of Washington. If New York and California had a choice as to whether to give Louisiana, Missouri and Arkansas an endless series of financial piggyback rides, they would tell them to go ask Jesus for a ( Read more... )

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What If A Collapse Happened And Nobody Noticed? [via The Hipcrime Vocab]

nebris wrote in the_recession Apr 30, 2012 06:14

Sunday April 29th, 2012

Every once and awhile I'll be listening to a podcast with one or the other writers specializing on the subject of Peak Oil or collapse and the subject of timetables will come up. When will the collapse finally be here, the callers ask insistently, almost pleadingly, so that they can finally justify their investments in freeze ( Read more... )

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"Selling out pays"-When a Congressman becomes a lobbyist, he gets an average 1,400% raise

nebris wrote in the_recession Mar 16, 2012 13:14

By Gaius Publius on 3/16/2012 09:15:00 AM

Lee Fang at Republic Report is on fire. The Jimmy Olsen Award for best incoming investigator is his for the asking.

We featured his work here (our "buying Buck McKeon" piece) and here (our "why you can't smoke nice things" piece).

Next up, what ThankYou Street is offering at the going rate. I'll give you ( Read more... )

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Krugman on whether the rich really need the rest of us

nebris wrote in the_recession Mar 11, 2012 14:30

By Gaius Publius on 3/11/2012 09:15:00 AM

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Paul Krugman has a nice column on Republican attitudes on education, contrasting "social conservative" Santorum's approach with "economic conservative" Romney's. I'll let you go read; it's excellent.

But I want to point out the following (my emphasis):
But what about ( Read more... )

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Thanks to Citizens United...

nebris wrote in the_recession Jan 20, 2012 02:37

...Multinational Mega Lobbyist Firm Salivates Over $4 Billion in Campaign CashBy Lee Fang, AlterNet ( Read more... )

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Seasonal flame bait

nebris wrote in the_recession Dec 18, 2011 11:55

By Charlie Stross ( Read more... )

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Good Luck Indeed....

nebris wrote in the_recession Nov 10, 2011 22:17

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