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sybille commented on the blog post Can Unemployment Get to 8 Percent By Next November?
Statistics are like money: fungible, when needed. If you’ve got the power.
Just ask Jon Corzine.
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sybille commented on the diary post Occupy Movement Solidarity: Where are the Professors? by mattreichel.
Some other academics who have supported the movement: David Graeber (He’s one of the founding participants) http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/10/david-graeber-on-playing-by-the-rules-%E2%80%93-the-strange-success-of-occupy-wall-street.html Slavoj Zizek http://occupywallst.org/article/today-liberty-plaza-had-visit-slavoj-zizek/ Frances Fox Piven http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2011/10/4/frances_fox_piven_at_occupy_wall_street_we_desperately_need_a_popular_uprising_in_the_united_states New York (Columbia, CUNY, SUNY) faculty members joined students in a walkout protest on October 10 http://www.westerncourier.com/news/students-professors-join-occupy-wall-street/article_debaad0a-f356-11e0-a785-0019bb30f31a.html Over 300 Columbia and Barnard professors have signed a statement of support http://bwog.com/2011/10/07/200-columbia-faculty-members-support-occupy-wall-street/ The [...]
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sybille commented on the blog post Krugzilla Gets Shrill
A must-read on the NYPD public-private-partnership goon squad:
Financial Giants Put New York City Cops On Their Payroll by Pam Martens
http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/10/10/financial-giants-put-new-york-city-cops-on-their-payroll/print -
sybille commented on the blog post How thoroughly unsurprising
Have you seen this one?
Geraldo and Fox run away from Wall Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HxQHys4Tmf4#!It’s just great.
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sybille commented on the blog post FDL Book Salon Welcomes Gretchen Morgenson and Joshua Rosner, Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
I think that’s true for terms like “class warfare” and “Marxism,” too, along with “elite.” Public discourse seems to be loosening up a but in that respect.
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sybille commented on the diary post “Corporations are people,” through the ages. by dakine01.
FDR:
“I believe that in every country the corporations themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments.”http://quotes.dictionary.com/I_believe_that_in_every_country_the
I mean, that’s what he REALLY meant, isn’t it?
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sybille commented on the diary post Body Spray Dave: You’re Fired! — if you call Romney “weird.” by Teddy Partridge.
Or rather, Body spray Dave. Even catchier.
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sybille commented on the diary post Body Spray Dave: You’re Fired! — if you call Romney “weird.” by Teddy Partridge.
David Axelrod goes by the nickname “Axe.”
Axe body spray is a brand of grooming products for men:
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Axe_body_spray#ProductsThus, Dave Body Spray.
Catchy, no? :)
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sybille commented on the blog post Syrian Massacre Continues, as World Assesses Limited Range of Options
I’m sure all of that would work out just perfectly.
A cakewalk.
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sybille commented on the blog post The “Bin Laden Option” – US Wants Bases in Afghanistan
They want bases, and I’d guess especially bases equipped with black site prisons like the ones at the Bagram base.
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sybille commented on the blog post Hundreds of Prisoners Escape in Afghanistan
“This would only be more audacious if they dressed up someone as a giant nail file and had him walk into the prison untouched.”
LOL! Thanks for the hilarious image, dday.
The story, of course, is no laughing matter.
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sybille commented on the diary post Japan Nuclear Watch, April 23: Can You Rebuild a Cooling System Inside a No-Go Zone? by Scarecrow.
Thanks! Do you have any thoughts on Arnie Gundersen’s evaluation of the situation? In a recent video (5 days ago), he analyzes some information about pressure and temperature in the reactors and also takes issue with some of what TEPCO has said about on-going problems with reactor 4. http://vimeo.com/22586794 From that, it seems that there [...]
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sybille commented on the blog post Bravely Bold John McCain Rides Forth to Libya
“Bravely Bold John McCain”
Reminds me of the Brave Sir Robin:
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sybille commented on the blog post Majority Think Wealth Should Be More Evenly Distributed
I think polls like this test the success of disinformation.
How often have people been told that the kind of concentration of capital is necessary for a “healthy” economy? Where is the serious discussion of alternatives?
For the past 30 years, the experts on the TV machine have mostly been talking about Laffer curves and freedom = “free” markets, etc. Is is surprising that people believe it?
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sybille commented on the blog post Majority Think Wealth Should Be More Evenly Distributed
If anyone is interested in a good video treatment of the issues of wealth distribution and American politics, this is is worth your time:
Lifting the Veil: Barack Obama and the failure of capitalist ‘democracy’
The film is a sort of mashup of different commentators and quotations, with a variety of good music and a strong economic as well as political critique. You might have seen some parts of the different interviews but probably not everything and certainly not put together in this way.
The film also works to reclaim the hope that was such a strong part of the marketing propaganda of the last presidential campaign, by giving it a real meaning again. On the whole, it’s very well done.
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sybille commented on the diary post “The Dems Turn on Their Own the Moment They Don’t Get the Pony They Were Promised” by Maryscott O'Connor.
Have any of you seen this video? I don’t know if it’s been discussed here at FDL.
Lifting the Veil: Barack Obama and the failure of capitalist ‘democracy’
http://vimeo.com/20355767It’s definitely worth watching.
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sybille commented on the blog post Gbagbo Clinging to Power as Ouattara Forces Storm Residence
Oh, sorry, I missed that.
Honestly, though, there’s just too much corrupt manipulation. Schlock doctrine, Ivory Coast edition.
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sybille commented on the blog post Gbagbo Clinging to Power as Ouattara Forces Storm Residence
Ouattara is an economist who used to work for the IMF.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Alassane_OuattaraI’m sure he’ll do a lot of good for the people.
Of course, that doesn’t mean I’d support Gbagbo. But really, you’d think there would be another alternative, someone besides an IMF economist.
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sybille commented on the blog post Support for Arming Libyan Rebels Wanes, Rules of Engagement Unclear
Oh, I’m slow.
Well, they are text-based PDFs. If you use some kind of full-text indexer on your computer, they should get indexed, so that helps with searching the contents.
But it’s so true that PDF is a crappy format for data like this. I’m sure it’s all in spreadsheets at the Fed.
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sybille commented on the blog post Support for Arming Libyan Rebels Wanes, Rules of Engagement Unclear
The Fed documents were published this morning:
Bloomberg News reporters received two CD-ROMs, each containing an identical set of 894 PDF files, from Fed attorney Yvonne Mizusawa at about 9:45 a.m. in the lobby of the Martin Building in Washington.
I don’t know what’s up with the timimg.
A ZIP file with the PDFs inside is available from Bloomberg here (direct download, 129 MB):
http://cdn.gotraffic.net/downloads/30110331_fed_release_documents.zip
That link is on Bloomberg’s homepage.Bloomberg’s page of stories about what they’re finding is here:
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