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Late Night: You Aught-ta Know…
Firedoglake —
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So, as this year draws to a close — talk about going out with a bang! — and we enter the 21st century’s even more obnoxious “Tweens” (yeah, yeah, argue amongst yerselves when the new decade really starts), I thought it might be a good time to reminisce. I do love a good list, so I have decided to create ...1 day ago -
U.S. Chamber of Commerce: Scrooge of the Year!
Firedoglake —
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U.S. Chamber of Commerce | Photo via SEIU/William Melton on Flickr This shouldn’t surprise anyone, but the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has been voted the 2009 Scrooge of the Year . From Jobs with Justice: The Chamber’s narrow, radical agenda advocating for anti-worker, profit-focused solutions to the broken ...1 day ago -
The Financial Times Man of the Year - Lloyd Blankfein
Jesse's Caf Amricain —
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How fitting, to mark the high tide of the will to power of the Anglo-American banking cartel. No better symbol of hubris, of the overreach driven by obdurate insensitivity and sociopathic greed, of the cult of ego and the darker impulses of the human heart, that creates nothing. Honoring the man as the epitome of ...1 day ago -
Your Story Ep 47 : Cliff. Food Allergies and Cancer Treatment from a Life in Science
Your Story : How We Play the Game of Life —
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Welcome To Episode 47 of Your Story. Cliff Hawkins story is of someone who in helping his own family with food allergies discovers that he has found a mechanism to help the greater community with some of the most damaging and deadly autoimmune diseases and cancers. Only then to be financially destroyed by the ...2 days ago -
Santa Got Mugged
NO QUARTER —
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What is dampening the Christmas spirit for many is anger at the financial sector and the huge bonuses their executives got for screwing the rest of us over—twice. But like the kids in my not-meant-to-be-funny cartoon, I feel intense disappointment in those American citizens who carried tremendous fiduciary duties ...2 days ago -
Chamber the Bah-Humbuggiest in JwJ’s Scrooge of the Year
AFL-CIO NOW BLOG —
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Do you hear chains rattling? That’s the ghost of Christmas Past tracking down the U.S. Chamber of Commerce . The Chamber is the 2009 winner of the annual contest by Jobs with Justice ( JwJ ) to spotlight the greediest, most cold-hearted organization or person that personifies the spirit of Ebenezer Scrooge. ...3 days ago -
L.A. Drivers: Carwash Workers May Live on Tips
AFL-CIO NOW BLOG —
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Drivers in Los Angeles are getting the message: Carwash workers often are being exploited by their employers. As KCET-TV reported in recent days: “The next time you visit a carwash, think twice about how much you tip the person who wipes down your vehicle. That may be the only pay he receives. Correspondent ...3 days ago -
10 Greediest People of 2009
Progressive News Daily —
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By Sam Pizzigati, Too Much: A Commentary on Excess and Inequality Has picking a year’s greediest “top ten” ever been easier? We don’t think so. We could, this year, fill an entire top ten just with bankers from Goldman Sachs — or JPMorgan Chase or any of a number of other Wall Street giants. All sport ...3 days ago -
Oh, the morality ...
YayaCanada —
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(1) Fibber cops Olympics will move Vancouver closer to police state Activist Chris Shaw explains being pulled over by the VPD who claimed to be doing a routine identity check ... And thats illegal. Usually if they want to break that law the police find some flaw in your vehicle and pull you over to warn you ...4 days ago -
Bottled Water Tax: "The People Deserve To Get Something In Return"
STONE SOUP MUSINGS —
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LG John Cherry has an op-ed in the Detroit News today that talks about his plan to restore the Michigan Promise Scholarship with a water bottle tax. Go read it, but heres the best part (emphasis mine): Right now, bottlers across the state remove water from our wells essentially for free , and we lack the ...4 days ago -
Working More, Getting Paid Less
AFL-CIO NOW BLOG —
Authority: 634
Productivity rose 8.1 percent in the third quarter, the largest gain since 2003, as employers pile more on their staff. Meanwhile, pay is stagnating and worker stress increasing because of the larger workloads and the constant fear of being thrown out of a job to join the more than 15 million workers ...4 days ago -
The economy scam
AmeriNZ —
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At least once a week, the media carries a story about how “badly” New Zealand is doing relative to other countries, especially Australia. Yesterday, The New Zealand Herald carried an article by Andrea Milner, which began, “As Australias economic recovery strides ahead of ours, Kiwis wanting career ...5 days ago -
Target Ruins Christmas. Wal-Mart executives high-five each other.
Superficial Gallery —
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Target has skated by for a long time with their red interiors and ‘We’re not Wal-Mart and we didn’t make your mom do meth like Wal-Mart did” attitude. But it seems like at least one Target has shown its true colors. And those colors are: fuck face.David Lawrinowicz of Lancaster had worked at Target for ...5 days ago -
Triumph of the Money Party
Old Uncle Dave —
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Health Care Reform DOA. Why the Surprise? They Did what they Always Do [ image lifted from capitt.com ]1 week ago -
Want to overpay for your Wii? Shop at QVC
The Inquisitr Entertainment —
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A reader at The Consumerist spotted an hilariously bad deal for a Nintendo Wii on shopping channel behemoth QVC. For $362.97, you can treat yourself to the following: - Nintendo Wii console (with Wii Sports ) - Go Play Circus Star Games - Handgun Accessory - Golf Accessory - Tennis Accessory - Baseball Accessory ...1 week ago -
Cast Your Vote for ‘Scrooge of the Year’
AFL-CIO NOW BLOG —
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It’s the holiday season and time once again to say “bah humbug” to the most cold-hearted and greedy CEOs, corporations and politicians who exemplify the spirit of Ebenezer Scrooge. This is the 10th year that Jobs with Justice ( JwJ ) has “honored” the person or group that has done the most to ...1 week ago -
Financial Regulation Isn’t Partisan
Firedoglake —
Authority: 729
The title is a near quote from Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee on Nashville public radio last week. It is the kind of statement we Tennesseans learned to expect based on his background in business and state government: he was the finance commissioner under the last Republican governor, and was realistic and ...1 week ago -
FPL Executives are F***ing Stupid
Man or Maniac? —
Authority: 409
The Miami Herald story makes it pretty clear; the greedy sleazebags that run FPL are too stupid to realize that we actually fully understand why theyre seeking a rate hike: its because they want to make more money than theyve made with their record profits to date. Theyve been raking in the dough while a large ...1 week ago -
The Future of Food
Theory to Practice —
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“ Monsanto should not have to vouchsafe the safety of biotech food. Our interest is in selling as much of it as possible. Assuring its safety is the F.D.A.’s job ” - Philip Angell , Monsanto’s director of corporate communications. “Playing God in the Garden” New York Times Magazine, October 25, 1998. ...1 week ago -
Two Sentences By Matt Taibbi
Firedoglake —
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In his latest Rolling Stone piece (which you may or may not want to take with a grain of salt), Matt Taibbi distills everything wrong with the Obama administration into two pithy sentences: The point is that an economic team made up exclusively of callous millionaire-assholes has absolutely zero interest in ...2 weeks ago
