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… to restrict their activities? David Cay Johnston doesn’t say that, but on reading his essay, I was thinking that. The corporations that occupy Congress won’t tell you anything you weren’t already thinking about how the government serves corporations, but it is a well framed and well written and reasonably detailed update that you should [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Occupy Wall Street’
If there were lobbyists in the 18th century, would there be a provision in the US Constitution …
December 22nd, 2011 
Greg Laden #Occupy Time Magazine: Person of the Year Announced
December 14th, 2011 Greg Laden Sometimes Time really annoys me with its person of the year. Sometimes it amuses me. This time, I think they did exactly the right thing. What do you think?
Forbes’ Gene Marks Needs To Check His Priv
December 13th, 2011 Greg Laden Gene Marks, you wrote an essay for Forbes that has gotten a lot of people rather upset. People are upset because you display insensitive unchecked privilege and, essentially, you blame an entire class of people as the victims of what is mostly not their fault but rather, your fault and the fault of the modal [...]
Posted in Education, Protest, Race and racism 
Tags: Occupy Wall Street, race and racism 
58 Comments »#Occupy Common Sense
December 12th, 2011 Greg Laden LA Occupy Protesters (and observers) will be forced to attend a political re-education program in which they will be forced to learn about their First Amendment rights. I am not making this up.
Librul Holywood Teams Up with Evile Muppets to Ruin Children!
December 5th, 2011 Greg Laden Fox News’ latest attempt at … ell, making us all throw up a little in our mouths, actually:
Top GOP Strategist: “Occupy Matters”
December 1st, 2011 Greg Laden The Republican Governor’s Association met in Florida this week and featured pollster Frank Luntz, who … told attendees that he’s “scared of this anti-Wall Street effort. I’m frightened to death.” The pollster warned that the movement is “having an impact on what the American people think of capitalism.” Apparently, there are some interesting changes going [...]
The Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street
November 30th, 2011 Greg Laden Based on Richard A. Epstein’s new Broadside, this video outlines the differences between the classical liberalism of the Tea Parties and the progressive agenda advanced by the OWS movement, and reveals that the painful performance of the American economy in the past decade is not a function of bad luck, but the product of flawed [...]
Lost in (economic) history ….
November 25th, 2011 Greg Laden …These days, when I drive out Route 55, also known as the Olsen Highway, most of the buildings I see were built since I stayed in that run down little motel, which by the way was long ago torn down and replaced with new development. Nothing about that drive is familiar now, except for the [...]
The Cop Who Gassed the UC Davis Students? Got His Number!
November 21st, 2011 Greg Laden I can’t vouch for the accuracy of this, but I figured I’d post it and crowd source that. Anyone know?
UC Davis Student Gassing: Sign the petition
November 21st, 2011 Greg Laden Here’s a new video: Here’s the petition
Sunday Connect The Dots
November 20th, 2011 Greg Laden … … And now a musical interlude …
Posted in Protest Tags: Activism, Bad Cops, denialism, Dunning-Kruger, Election 2012, GLBTA, global warming, Occupy Wall Street, Republicans, Sunday Funnies, Tea Party, Voting 5 Comments »The dirty secret everyone knows about the Police and Corporate America. And other stuff.
November 19th, 2011 Greg Laden Very interesting …
Non violent protesters rounded up and gassed by police at UC Davis
November 19th, 2011 Greg Laden Why would you do this????
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