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Supreme Court Legalizes Corporate Buggery
The one thing I fail to understand is how Corporations which will certainly embrace this invitation to 'inadvertently 'skin their customers' ( 10 bucks here, 20 bucks there, times a couple million customers — easy peasy and fail safe scamming), are going to avoid screwing the Republican voters whose sense of self preservation is apparently nil? Supreme Court Nukes Consumers’ Rights In Most Pro-Corporate Decision Since Citizens United Imagine that your cell phone company cheated you out of just $30. Would you sue? Bear in mind that filing a lawsuit will require you to spend hour upon hour filing out forms and drafting complaints and dealing with legal codes that you probably know little about. Of course you can always hire a lawyer, but your … [Read More...]
Harvard Grooming 21st Century’s Ethnically Diverse Kleptocrats
I may be wrong, but Harvard is the preeminent Ivy League incubator of future autocrats... Anyway, that's how I read it. Harvard admits record numbers of African-American and Latino students As Oxford attracts criticism for intake, its Ivy League counterpart reaps rewards of outreach work with ethnic minorities Jeevan Vasagar, The Guardian, Tuesday 12 April 2011 21.00 BST While Oxford draws criticism for the racial profile of its intake, Harvard's latest admissions figures show that 11.8% of its new students for this autumn will be African-American and 12.1% Latino – thought to be record proportions of the two minority groups. Among the 2009 intake, 10.8% of students at Harvard were African-American, compared with 8.2% at Princeton, and … [Read More...]
George Carlin To Numb-Nuts Of All Stripes
Still buying into all that Bull Shit? Wonder how that conversation might have transpired today, because Obama surely represents the distinction made that it is not black vs. white - but on the fringes fanned by sociopathic politicians; nor gay v. straight, war or anti-war, or any other propaganda manufactured (thanks Freud for Edward Bernays :/s) horizontal socio-cultural schisms. It's upstairs versus downstairs, basement and sheer hell for much of the global populations. Americans rode that MIC, IMF, World Bank, WTO, NED, FED and an arms lenth of 8pt alphabet soup of acronyms crime wave to their short lived middle class status. This ride is over now. The fancy blood, sweat and oil fueled bourgeois barge has run aground. 48mil on food stamps, 50mil without health … [Read More...]
Wall Street On Crack-This Thing Will Blow
Four time bombs that will blow up Wall Street By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Put Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein in jail for six months, and all this will stop, all over Wall Street and America, a former congressional aide tells Matt Taibbi in his latest Rolling Stone attack, “Why Isn’t Wall Street in Jail? Financial crooks brought down the world’s economy — but the feds are doing more to protect them than to prosecute them.” Taibbi’s right, everyone knows Wall Street’s run by a bunch of dictators who are doing more damage to democracy and capitalism than North Africa’s dictators. But jail the CEOs of Goldman, Citi, B. of A. or my old firm Morgan … [Read More...]
Shove Your Shared Sacrifice, Obama Democrats
Corporate Profits Soaring Thanks to Record Unemployment "In a January 2009 ABC interview with George Stephanopoulos, then President-elect Barack Obama said fixing the economy required shared sacrifice, "Everybody’s going to have to give. Everybody’s going to have to have some skin in the game." (1) For the past two years, American workers submitted to the President’s appeal—taking steep pay cuts despite hectic productivity growth. By contrast, corporate executives have extracted record profits by sabotaging the recovery on every front—eliminating employees, repressing wages, withholding investment, and shirking federal taxes. The global recession increased unemployment in every country, but the American experience is unparalleled. … [Read More...]