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Dutch Bankers’ Bonuses Axed with Twitter Threat of Run on Bank
According to the Guardian a growing Dutch political storm could end with a blanket ban on bonuses to financiers who work for institutions bailed out by the taxpayer. Compared with the packages awarded to bankers in the US and UK, the Dutch bonuses were small potatoes. But ING customers mobilised on Twitter and other social networks […]
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Japanese Businesses Agree to Cut Tax Increases to Help Recovery
Japan’s top business lobby gave the government the green light to scrap a planned cut in the corporate tax rate as the nation grapples with its worst crisis since World War Two. [Read entire article in Yahoo!News] Japan only has 5% unemployment rate, the lowest income inequality, healthcare for all its people and is one of […]
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Video: Prepared to Die For Democracy
Matthew Schauenburg is propped against a pillar inside the Capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin with a sign alerting passersby that he is conducting a hunger strike for democracy. He is on a hunger strike to draw attention to the harmful aspects of Governor Scott Walker’s “budget repair” bill and proposed budget. According to Wisconsin Radio Network: […]
Video: How to Topple a Government
The conservative politicians in Canada claimed the government was out of money and tried to fool the people into believing that they cared about the deficit and that they wanted to be fiscally conservative. Meanwhile they did exactly the opposite and instituted huge revenue give-aways – including cuts in corporate taxes – and increases in military spending, that would absolutely decimate […]
NYTimes KRUGMAN: The Forgotten Unemployed
In yesterday’s New York Times, Paul Krugman talked about The Forgotten Millions. More than three years after the US entered the worst economic slump since the 1930s, Washington has lost interest in the unemployed. The concern is that no jobs bills have been introduced in Congress, no job-creation plans have been advanced by the White House and […]
Should 99ers Vote 3rd-Party in 2012?
I am sick and tired of our two major parties. I no longer feel an allegiance to either one or the slightest bit compelled to vote for any of our current public servants. Both Democrats and Republicans have shown themselves to be bought and paid for by corporations and are clearly no longer willing to […]
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March 28, 2011
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