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Monday, October 24, 2011

What Wall Street doesn’t want us to know about oil prices - Newsroom: Bernie Sanders - U.S. Senator for Vermont

What Wall Street doesn’t want us to know about oil prices - Newsroom: Bernie Sanders - U.S. Senator for Vermont

"I am a person! Citibank is not a person!...

How many lives is a job worth?



Sadly, I suppose it depends on whose life we are talking about.

Interesting food for thought

Your Brain on Politics: The Cognitive Neuroscience of Liberals and Conservatives

AWESOME Occupy Pittsburgh video!

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Propaganda 2.0 and the Rise of ‘Narrative Networks’

Propaganda 2.0 and the Rise of ‘Narrative Networks’

George Dvorsky
Sentient Developments

Posted: Oct 19, 2011

DARPA, the Pentagon’s advanced concepts think-tank, is looking to take propaganda to the next level, and they’re hoping to do so by controlling the very way their targets perceive and interpret the flow of incoming information.

Thursday, October 13, 2011

Alleged Iranian Assassination Plot

 
Top News
Officials concede gaps in U.S. knowledge of Iran plot
Wed, Oct 12 19:52 PM EDT
By Mark Hosenball and Tabassum Zakaria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran's supreme leader and the shadowy Quds Force covert operations unit were likely aware of an alleged plot to kill Saudi Arabia's ambassador to the United States, but hard evidence of that is scant, U.S. officials said on Wednesday.
The United States does not have solid information about "exactly how high it goes," one official said.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Chicago Traders Respond To Protesters With Signs Reading ‘We Are The 1%’

Chicago Traders Respond To Protesters With Signs Reading ‘We Are The 1%’: pThe Occupy Wall Street movement spread to Chicago this week, where protesters have gathered outside the Chicago Board of Trade, the world’s oldest options and futures trading center. Like the protesters in New York and other cities around the country, the group gathered to protest our nation’s growing income inequality, as the top 1 percent [...]/p

Why abolish the death penalty?

Donna Dineley (@dldine) has shared a Tweet with you: "democracynow: Texas Prisoner Freed After Nearly 25 Years By DNA Evidence Obtained By Innocence Project http://t.co/Hnk3fBrG @innocenceblog" --http://twitter.com/democracynow/status/121640828107104256