Roseanne and the State Rep - YouTube

Roseanne and the State Rep - YouTube: ""

CONFIDENCE - 1933 Cartoon, with Oswald the Rabbit and President Franklin Roosevelt - YouTube

CONFIDENCE - 1933 Cartoon, with Oswald the Rabbit and President Franklin Roosevelt - YouTube: ""

Direct action, Occupy Wallstreet, and the future of housing justice: an interview with Noam Chomsky | libcom.org

Direct action, Occupy Wallstreet, and the future of housing justice: an interview with Noam Chomsky | libcom.org:

"There are straightforward ways to deal with the foreclosure. First, a number of people could be granted the right to rent their old houses and pay rents that are not that high until they reconstruct their finances and are able buy them back. That could be done. There are other simple means that could be applied. So I think for the anti-foreclosure movement should have a very strong appeal to the general public if the issues are formulated clearly and properly.

And there’s just the straight human side. Why should people be thrown out of their houses because the banks are crooks? Then they get bailed out, of course."
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Thinking Utopian: How about a universal basic income?

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Thinking Utopian: How about a universal basic income?:

 "the debate about whether it should be a policy goal for the United States to adopt a universal basic income (UBI). These poverty-level targeted incomes are universal and unconditional, so everyone would get them regardless of their income, status or work participation. "

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Labor union decline, not computerization, main cause of rising corporate profits

Labor union decline, not computerization, main cause of rising corporate profits:

 ""In short, my study shows that capitalists have rarely had it as good as they did from 1979 through 2007," said Kristal. "The empirical analysis of this study ends at 2007, but updated data reveal that although the great economic recession reduced corporate profits as a share of national income, it was only a short-run effect (of about 2 years) and the golden age of corporate profits has continued well into 2010 and beyond.""

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Ex-Microsoft exec plans national marijuana brand | The Biz Beat | www.ajc.com

Ex-Microsoft exec plans national marijuana brand | The Biz Beat | www.ajc.com:

 "Shively, a former Microsoft corporate strategy manager, acquired two medical marijuana franchises in Colorado and Washington and sees the acquisitions as springboards for a national distribution – if and when other states approve recreational use of weed.
He is looking for investors to help raise the $10 million in start-up money he says he needs, and envisions getting his marijuana from Mexico.  Former Mexican President Vicente Fox, a supporter of legalizing marijuana, accompanied Shively at the news conference Thursday in Seattle. Shively didn't mention the thousands of acres already growing in th West."

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