May 20, 2013
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If you work for 50 years and receive the typical long-term return of 7 percent on your 401(k) plan and your fees are 2 percent, almost two-thirds of your account will go to Wall Street. This was the bombshell dropped by Frontline’s Martin Smith in this Tuesday evening’s PBS program, The Retirement Gamble.

This is not so much a gamble as a certainty: under a 2 percent 401(k) fee structure, almost two-thirds of your working life will go toward paying obscene compensation to Wall Street; a little over one-third will benefit your family – and that’s before paying taxes on withdrawals to Uncle Sam

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— http://wallstreetonparade.com/2013/04/pbs-drops-another-bombshell-wall-street-is-gobbling-up-two-thirds-of-your-401k/

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Filed under: Capitalism United States of America Capitalist Society Socialism Occupy Communism Wall Street 
May 15, 2013
"I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves."

— Henry Kissnger

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Filed under: Kissnger Henry United States of America American USA Imperialism Latin South Chile Allende Pinochet 
May 14, 2013
"Privacy, not surveillance, is what must be justified now, though that was true before Boston. The elites either don’t see it or simply pretend not to, but the authoritarianism unleashed by 9/11 has become institutionalized, normalized, and ubiquitous. The surveillance state didn’t need Boston to implement its policies, though the bombing will certainly be used to accelerate them and further marginalize dissent."

— http://www.alternet.org/civil-liberties/authoritarianism-has-quietly-enveloped-every-part-american-life-we-must-fight-back?paging=off

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Filed under: Privacy CIvil Rights Liberties United States of America USA Boston Bombings September 11th 11 9/11 911 Restrictions Police State 
May 11, 2013
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That year, according to the city’s measure, about 46 percent of New Yorkers were making less than 150 percent of the poverty threshold, a benchmark used to describe people who are not officially poor but who still struggle to get by. That represents a rise of more than three percentage points since 2009, when the nation’s recession officially ended.

By the city’s definition, a family with two adults and two children could earn $46,416 a year and still fall within 150 percent of the city’ poverty level. Unlike the official but rigid federal poverty level, the city’s measure balances the added value of tax credits, food stamps, rent subsidies and other benefits against expenses like health and day care, housing and commuting that reflect New York’s higher living costs. The city says a two-adult, two-child family is poor if it earns less than $30,949 a year. The federal government sets the level at $22,811.

Though more New Yorkers were working in 2011 than the year before, larger shares of children and working adults were classified as poor in 2011, and the proportions of Asians, noncitizens and Queens residents — overlapping groups — each rose by more than four percentage points since 2008.

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City Report Shows More Were Near Poverty in 2011

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Filed under: New York City NYC Capitalism Progress United States of AMerica ANti Communism Socialism WOrkers Rights 
May 10, 2013

Let’s get off at this.  I’d advise pretty much anyone to read Powering the Dream if they think this is a utopian dream

thepeoplesrecord:

All spills in order of occurrence:

March 11 – 21: Gwagwalada Town, Nigera
A week-long leak of Kilometer 407.5 NNPC (Nigeria National Petroleum Corp) pipeline. No official number of barrels spilled released, however the spill saturated a hectare (10,000 sq metres) of marshy ground near a major water source.

Tuesday, March 19: Fort Simpson, Northwest Territories Canada
Enbridge Norman Wells Pipeline leaks 6,290 barrels of crude oil

Monday, March 25: Fort MacKay, Alberta Canada
Suncor tar sands tailings pond leaks 2,200 barrels of toxic waste fluid into the Athabasca River

Wednesday, March 27: Parker Prairie, Minnesota U.S.
CP Rail train derails and spills 952 barrels of tar sands crude oil

Friday, March 29: Mayflower, Arkansas U.S.
Exxon Mobil’s Pegasus Pipeline suffers a 22 foot-long rupture, spilling at least 12,000 barrels of diluted tar sands bitumen

Sunday, March 31: A power plant in Lansing, Michigan U.S.
16 barrels of an oil-based hydraulic fluid spills into the Grand River

Tuesday, April 2: Nembe, Nigeria
After suffering a reported theft of 60,000 barrels of oil per day from its Nembe Creek Trunkline pipeline, Shell Nigeria shuts off the pipe for nine days to repair damage

Wednesday, April 3: 350KM southeast of Newfoundland, Canada
A drilling platform leaks 0.25 barrels of crude oil

Wednesday, April 4: Chalmette, Louisiana U.S.
0.24 barrels (100 lbs) of hydrogen sulfide and 0.04 barrels (10 lbs of benzene) leak at an Exxon refinery

Monday, April 8: Esmeraldas, Ecuador
The OPEC-managed OCP pipeline leaks 5,500 barrels of heavy crude oil, contaminating the Winchele estuary

Tuesday, April 9: 29KM NE of Nuiqsut, Alaska U.S.
Human error during maintenance spills 157 barrels of crude oil at a Repsol E&P USA Inc pipeline pump station

Visit EcoWatch’s ENERGY page for more related news on this topic.

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Filed under: Power Energy Sustainability United States of America Progress Change Resistance Environment Green 
May 7, 2013
Deported While Unconscious: American Hospitals Quietly Deport Hundreds Of Undocumented Patients

stfuconservatives:

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Days after they were badly hurt in a car accident, Jacinto Cruz and Jose Rodriguez-Saldana lay unconscious in an Iowa hospital while the American health care system weighed what to do with the two immigrants…

I remember hearing about this happening in Chicago a couple years ago. I didn’t realize it was so widespread. Horrifying. Can you imagine waking up after a car accident and realizing you’re in a totally different country?

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Filed under: Immigrant Human Rights United States of America Abuse Racism 
May 5, 2013
My life goals, reborn thisiswhoiam0ahuman: Saudi Arabia deports 3 UAE men for being ‘irresistible’ to women Three men visiting a Saudi cultural festival were sent back to the United Arab Emirates on the grounds they are too handsome and officials feared ‘female visitors could fall for them.’ Three UAE men visiting Saudi Arabia for the Jenadrivah Heritage and Culture Festival were expelled for being “too handsome” and thus a threat to women in attendance like those above. Too hot to handle? Three men visiting a Saudi Arabian cultural festival were deported back to the United Arab Emirates because they were “irresistible” to women. A female artist had unexpectedly turned up and officials feared their presence could break strict Saudi rules preventing contact between men and unmarried women. Elaph’s article, as reported by Arabian Business, stated: “A festival official said the three Emiratis were taken out on the grounds they are too handsome and the Commission (for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices) members feared female visitors could fall for them.

My life goals, reborn

thisiswhoiam0ahuman:

Saudi Arabia deports 3 UAE men for being ‘irresistible’ to women

Three men visiting a Saudi cultural festival were sent back to the United Arab Emirates on the grounds they are too handsome and officials feared ‘female visitors could fall for them.’

Three UAE men visiting Saudi Arabia for the Jenadrivah Heritage and Culture Festival were expelled for being “too handsome” and thus a threat to women in attendance like those above.

Too hot to handle?

Three men visiting a Saudi Arabian cultural festival were deported back to the United Arab Emirates because they were “irresistible” to women.

A female artist had unexpectedly turned up and officials feared their presence could break strict Saudi rules preventing contact between men and unmarried women.

Elaph’s article, as reported by Arabian Business, stated: “A festival official said the three Emiratis were taken out on the grounds they are too handsome and the Commission (for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vices) members feared female visitors could fall for them.

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Filed under: MIddle East Saudi ARabia United Arab Emirates UAE Hot Guys 
May 4, 2013
winningprogressive: The Political Pragmatic reminds us that the real welfare queens are banks, the oil industry, and much of the rest of corporate America. View Post

winningprogressive:

The Political Pragmatic reminds us that the real welfare queens are banks, the oil industry, and much of the rest of corporate America.

View Post

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Filed under: Capitalism Imperialism United States of America USA Communism SOcialism ANti 
May 3, 2013

(Source: politicianlove, via verbalresistance)

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Filed under: Obama United States of America USA Terrorism Boston Marathon Bombings Human RIghts hypocrisy 
May 1, 2013
Obama: Guantánamo prison 'not in the best interests of the American people'

Let’s see how this goes in terms of follow through…..

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Filed under: USA Obama united states of America Guantanamo Empiralism Human Rights Abuse 
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