Being no fan of Bank (Robbers) of America, I am happy to post a video of National Peoples Action protests yesterday which shut down a branch of the so-called Bank of America. Great job, guys!Let’s keep on the banks’ sorry cases. In a fit of personal protest, I switched bank accounts from a big bank to a Credit Union bank two years ago (hint hint!)Meanwhile, you may wish to check out Make Wall
Tag: US economy
Rallies Across America: We Are All Wisconsin (2.26.11)
This pass-along arrived in a MoveOn Newsletter and it sounds like a great idea for American workers to rally this Saturday (Feb 26) in support of those in Wisconsin now on the front lines. Besides, the front lines are arriving soon to a pension or paycheck near you:50-State Mobilization to Save the American DreamCalling all students, teachers, union members, workers, patriots, public servants,
Rachel Maddow on Reagan’s ‘Riganomics’ (video)
Here in northeast Georgia we’re digging out of about one inch of one the fluffiest snowfalls I’ve seen in years (scintillatingly beautiful!) and this video of Rachel Maddow reporting on the trickle down-supply side Riganomics of Ronald Reagan and its ultimate effects may fill the bill for those who still wonder what happened to America’s middle class.Reagan’s TV speech shown here in "July 1981"
A Liberal caller makes Rush sputter over Reagan (audio)
So seldom does conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh find his oft-touted "Ronaldo Magnus" script successfully interrupted by facts that I simply had to add this audio of his show from February 4, 2011 so that I may easily access it at any time for a replay. A self-described liberal, Mike Stark, calls in and leaves El Rusho on the verge of speechlessness with a simple question though Limbaugh
Obama to Chamber of Commerce w Sun to natal ASC
President Obama Comes A-Courtin’ February 7, 2011by Jude CowellToday President Obama sprints across the street from the White House to the temple of the Chamber of Commerce to encourage them to open the gates of jobs creation.Scheduled to speak at 11:30 am est (Hour of the Sun), the Sun 18AQ33 conjoins Mr. Obama’s natal Ascendant (his nibs himself), a time for improving one’s self image. The
Ron Paul on the Lew Rockwell Show 2.2.11 (audio)
Rep. Ron Paul holds the first hearing of the Monetary Policy Subcommittee he’ll now be chairing on February 9, 2011 and here he speaks with Lew Rockwell on several topics such as the Fed (and how they’re appearing on lots of shows and writing defensive pieces of late, poor things!), changes that must come in US monetary policy, how you have to have cutbacks in empire, not just the welfare state,
Feeling Rich? Perception Matters
Jan 21/22, 2011: Public Radio’s MarketPlace has an interesting interview you may wish to read or listen to which concerns the fact that it isn’t level of income alone which makes a person admit that he or she is "rich." It’s just as much a matter of perception: the perception of what it means to be rich that affects our ideas about wealth and taxes, and our self-images of where we are on the
JP Morgan Profits Big from Food Stamps (video)
Giving ‘a finger in every pie’ new depth of meaning, JP Morgan is the largest processor of Food Stamps in America. What could possibly be wrong with this picture?Read more…~:~New Blog Feature in Sidebar: just under my Tweet feed, you’ll find ‘Freemason US Presidents and VPs’. If you’re unaware that some number of US presidents were followers of The Craft (or associated in some way with
The Fed’s ‘quantitative easing’ made simple (video)
The Fed’s wrong streak continues with even the high-stakes G-20 Summit nations agreeing that another round of ‘quantitative easing’ in the US is a bad economic idea – unless collapsing the global economy is your ultimate goal, Mr. Bernanke.Why, many people (like myself) see the Fed’s culpable clawprints on every financial bubble and collapse in history. Guess the Federal Reserve Bank’s natal Sun/