“The world is a rigged game”
Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone: “Word has leaked out that the London-based firm ICAP, the world’s largest broker of interest-rate swaps, is being investigated by American authorities for behavior that sounds eerily reminiscent of the Libor mess. Regulators are looking into whether or not a small group of brokers at ICAP may have worked with up to 15 of the world’s largest banks to manipulate ISDAfix, a benchmark number used around the world to calculate the prices of interest-rate swaps.”
On winning and values
So, right-wingers, you want a society where families are stable, where everybody looks like you and shares your Christian faith, and where the government pretty much stays out of your business? It’s not in some Randian fantasy, it’s right here in the USA.
“Greater education of our civic processes must be the fulcrum of any program to increase voter participation amongst young people. … When people stop participating in democracy then that is an institutional failure, not a failure of the citizens. Assuming otherwise leads us down a slippery slope to elitism and nothing could be more anathema to the American Republic.”
By blocking the stream of pepper spray, these protesters were clearly hindering police and, in a larger sense, defying authority, and in an even larger Fox News sense, hating America. When will Occupy hooligans learn that intercepting noxious chemicals with their faces, stopping tear gas canisters with their skulls, violating airspace with their loud voices, and beating up police batons with their bodies are all illegal provocations?
“This country is being run absolutely for the benefit of the richest one percent.” –Roger Waters
“After parents are deported, the researchers found that families remain separated for long periods, with child welfare agencies and juvenile courts often moving to terminate the parental rights of deported immigrants. Children who don’t have other immediate family are then put up for adoption.” – Ray Sanchez
“The state receives thousands of dollars from the federal government for every child it takes from a family, and in some cases the state gets even more money if the child is Native American. The result is that South Dakota is now removing children at a rate higher than the vast majority of other states in the country.” – Laura Sullivan and Amy Walters, NPR
“Egyptians are demanding that the military transfer power quickly to a representative civilian government, after the death by torture of 24-year-old political prisoner Essam Ali Atta. As some protesters noted, that is the same age as Scott Olsen, the US veteran injured at Occupy Oakland. They see both men as victims of state brutality.” – Xeni Jardin
