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• in Politics
  Why the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street Movements Are Allies, Not Enemies
  The Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street protest movements must recognize their core similarities in order to move forward.
  by okjasmine / on Oct 16, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “plutocracy”

 

• Noam Chomsky at Left Forum 2013: Mobilizing for Ecological/Economic Transformation

  
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  Dandelion Salad with Noam Chomsky the open culture Jun 11, 2013 see Noam Chomsky: Latin America-There is an Alternative for Democracy and Freedom, Europe-On a Suicidal Course American Fascism: Ralph Nader Decries How Big Business Has Taken Control of the U.S. Government Noam Chomsky: Wrecking Nature For Short-Term ...
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• Democracy?

  
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  I have been maintaining for some time now that democracy is dead. We are all being fooled by elections being held regularly and think that we are democracies where as the truth of the matter is that all the so called democracies of the world are nothing but plutocracies. Replace America with any other democratic ...
  6 days ago

• Austerity Is Dead – So Can We Fix The Infrastructure NOW?

  
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  You might have heard that “ austerity is dead .” You’ll certainly be hearing it, and with good reason: the U.S. deficit is down more than 50 percent from what President Bush left behind, projections of the rise in medical costs that drove future deficits are way down, the “intellectual foundation” that ...
  1 week ago

• Block Fast Track To Fix Or Stop The Trans-Pacific Partnership Corporate Takeover

  
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  You know how big-company lobbyists get some states to pass laws that block cities and counties from doing something about problems like tobacco or guns? Well there is a “trade” treaty called the Trans-Pacific Partnership in the works that sets down international rules that would keep our Congress and our ...
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• The age of global plutocracy: Chrystia Freeland at TEDGlobal 2013

  
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  Photo: James Duncan Davidson The most important economic fact of our time, says Chrystia Freeland , author of Plutocrats , is that we are living in an age of surging income inequality, a global phenomenon that includes the US and UK, certainly, but also Communist China, India, and, she says, “we’re even seeing ...
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• An Uneducated Society Cant Succeed-- Or Even Survive

  
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  In less than a month, if Republicans keep obstructing any progress, certain student loan rates will double, making a college education even more out of reach for the children of working class parents. This isnt the problem itself; its a symptom of a much greater problem. The wealthy, greedy and far too entitled ...
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• An Uneducated Society Cant Succeed-- Or Even Survive

  
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  In less than a month, if Republicans keep obstructing any progress, certain student loan rates will double, making a college education even more out of reach for the children of working class parents. This isnt the problem itself; its a symptom of a much greater problem. The wealthy, greedy and far too entitled ...
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• Critique from the left

  
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  Chris Hedges is always provocative . Of liberalism, too often bought off by conservative corporations: Corporations write our legislation. They control our systems of information. They manage the political theater of electoral politics and impose our educational curriculum. They have turned the judiciary into ...
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• Rolled By Rawls

  
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    It’s a grave thing when your leaders are turncoats. And worse when you don’t even feel that this is the case. Has John Rawls led the philosophy, and, even worse, the economy, and financial system, of the world, dramatically astray in a subtle way? So that we will end down worse than where we started? Is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Statement From Emperor Abele On The Plutocracy Bill

  
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  The following is the statement from Emperor Chris Abele regarding the signing of the Plutocracy Bill, which gives Abele unprecedented power over Milwaukee County: He actually kept saying that for the next six hours straight.
  2 weeks ago

• Lena Taylor Does Two-Faced Two-Step On Usurpation Law

  
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  After the signing of the Plutocracy Law , giving Milwaukee County Executive Emperor Chris Walker Romney Abele unprecedented power, State Senator Lena Taylor (DINO-Milwaukee) tried to put some distance between her and herself.   From her press release : Senator Lena Taylor (D-Milwaukee) issued the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Abele Is Paying New Parks Director $140,000 To Spin Off, Privatize Parks

  
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  On Thursday, Milwaukee County Executive Emperor Chris Walker Romney Abele  announced that  he was hiring John Dargle to be the new Parks Director. At the time, I noted something that was conspicuous by its absence - no one was talking about how much Dargle was getting paid.  I felt it important to know, ...
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• Why Government Only Does Things For The Wealthy & Big Corporations

  
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  One reason is because everyone understands that there is a big check waiting for them later if they “play ball.” Example: Ex-Obama Aides Attended Oil Industry-Sponsored Azerbaijan Conference , Jim Messina, the former Obama 2012 campaign manager, Robert Gibbs, the former White House press secretary, and David ...
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• This Is What Plutocracy Looks Like

  
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  The Day of the Plutocrats has finally arrived .  On Friday, without much advance notice in a tightly controlled environment, Scott Walker signed over the rights of the voters and citizens of Milwaukee County and put them in the hands of his doppleganger, Chris Abele. Little Walker, er, Abele, was so celebrant of the ...
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• The World Economy Has Embraced Conservatism

  
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  Low Tide Driftwood wallpaper   The world’s economy is becoming conservative/libertarian, The World’s Richest 8% Earn Half of All Planetary Income Wealth-inequality is always far higher than income-inequality, and therefore a reasonable estimate of personal wealth throughout the world would probably be ...
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• The Haiku of Finance for 05/28/13

  
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  Plutocratic rule Global wave of the future Stable at the top
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• The Real Danger Is From Within

  
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  As always, the greatest danger to our democracy, rights, and freedoms doesnt come from other countries, or even foreign or homegrown terrorists. Those things can be dealt with. The far greater danger lies in our government being co-opted by corporate powers and Wall Street (the aristocracy of the United States). This ...
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• Enabling Greed Makes U.S. Sick

  
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  Enabling Greed Makes U.S. Sick (via Moyers & Company) At the end of a week that reminds us to be ever vigilant about the dangers of government overreaching its authority, whether by the long arm of the IRS or the Justice Department, we should pause to think about another threat — from too much private The post ...
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• A Visual Way To Understand Wealth Inequality

  
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• TPP: A Deregulation Treaty Not A Trade Treaty

  
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  The upcoming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is using a process that is rigged from the start. It is not being negotiated by governments for the benefit of their people, it is being negotiated by executives (or future executives/lobbyists currently in government) largely for the benefit of the giant ...
  3 weeks ago

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