Out of the Greasy Gutter

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Fri, 09 Dec 2011 06:32:06 +0800

fuckyeahanarchopunk: passionate revolution of creative...

Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:40:05 +0800

passionate revolution of creative intelligence

An anti-Monsanto crop circle made by farmers and volunteers in...

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:25:05 +0800

An anti-Monsanto crop circle made by farmers and volunteers in the Philippines. By Melvyn Calderon/Greenpeace HO/A.P. Images.

Via tinytomato

"Henry Ford and the rest of the Industrial Age’s klavern of gray ghouls measured our flesh,..."

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:30:06 +0800

“Henry Ford and the rest of the Industrial Age’s klavern of gray ghouls measured our flesh, muscle and bone with a productivity-measuring stopwatch. Cunning practitioners of the dark art of convincing human beings they were mere cogs in a soulless machine, it was only a short trudge from that blood-bartering viewpoint of existence through history’s slaughterhouse to Adolf Eichmann’s cold, corpse-rendering, mathematical constructs.”

- Phil Rockstroh (2011)

The Fascinating History of How Corporations Became "People"

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:25:05 +0800

The Fascinating History of How Corporations Became "People"

Pharmaceutical Companies Infographic

Sun, 04 Dec 2011 07:02:05 +0800

Pharmaceutical Companies Infographic:

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Merck just got slugged almost a billion dollars for illegally...

Sat, 03 Dec 2011 06:58:06 +0800

Merck just got slugged almost a billion dollars for illegally marketing Vioxx (a painkiller).

The government says Merck’s sales representatives promoted the drug as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis, even though it hadn’t been approved for it. The company continued to do so even after it was warned by the Food and Drug Administration to stop. The government also says Merck lied to state Medicaid agencies about the safety of Vioxx.

Of course, Merck sold more that $11b of Vioxx over the 5 years up to September 2004. The company turns over almost $50b p.a..

Welcome to the club of GlaxoSmithKline, Pfizer and AstraZeneca.

TYT: Newt Gingrich Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae Hypocrite 2012...

Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:11:05 +0800

TYT: Newt Gingrich Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae Hypocrite

2012 Republican Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has criticized Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae publicly but a report shows he received big money from Freddie to help promote policies that benefit them. The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

The Hill: Gingrich running neck and neck with Obama

Huffington Post: Newt Gingrich Freddie Mac Fees: Former House Speaker Reportedly Received At Least $1.6 Million From Housing Giant

Bloomberg: Gingrich Said to Be Paid About $1.6 Million by Freddie Mac

Salon: Newt Gingrich: His baggage has baggage

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Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:16:05 +0800

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Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B

Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:30:05 +0800

Secret Fed Loans Gave Banks Undisclosed $13B :

soupsoup:

The Fed didn’t tell anyone which banks were in trouble so deep they required a combined $1.2 trillion on Dec. 5, 2008, their single neediest day. Bankers didn’t mention that they took tens of billions of dollars in emergency loans at the same time they were assuring investors their firms were healthy. And no one calculated until now that banks reaped an estimated $13 billion of income by taking advantage of the Fed’s below-market rates, Bloomberg Markets magazine reports in its January issue.

Saved by the bailout, bankers lobbied against government regulations, a job made easier by the Fed, which never disclosed the details of the rescue to lawmakers even as Congress doled out more money and debated new rules aimed at preventing the next collapse.

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Stripping Away 'Corporate Personhood'

Sat, 26 Nov 2011 07:20:05 +0800

From the Raw Story:

Democratic Florida Congressional Rep. Ted Deutch has proposed an amendment to the Constitution of the United States outlawing corporate money in politics and ending so-called “corporate personhood”… The amendment is called the “Outlawing Corporate Cash Undermining Public Interest in our Elections and Democracy”, or OCCUPIED.

The amendment proposes to:

… expressly exclude for-profit corporations from the rights given to natural persons by the Constitution of the United States, prohibit corporate spending in all elections, and affirm the authority of Congress and the States to regulate corporations and to regulate and set limits on all election contributions and expenditures.

Right on. Read the full amendment here.

crosscrowdedrooms: It’s proved impossible for me to get this...

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 07:25:06 +0800

crosscrowdedrooms:

It’s proved impossible for me to get this shot of former Philadelphia Police Cpt. Ray Lewis being arrested, published anywhere. I was adamantly rebuffed by the Philadelphia Inquirer, NYT, local NY papers, and Newsweek, before even looking at the photograph. One of the only published photos of this paradoxical and intense event is located here at the NYC Observer:

http://www.observer.com/2011/11/former-philadelphia-police-captain-ray-lewis-arrested-ows/

The Proudest Moment of a Police Captain's Life

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:31:00 +0800

Retired Philadelphia police captain Ray Lewis, who was arrested last week alongside others in the Occupy movement, calls the ordeal “the proudest moment of my life.”

“I saw all of you sleeping out here,” Lewis recalled to a videographer in New York City’s Zuccotti Park. “The cause, you were for justice. It’s not like you guys were putting up with this so you could get jobs on Wall Street. You were doing this for justice. All over the world, in fact. And that inspired me. I had to come down here an join you.”

“That day, I had no intention of being arrested. None whatsoever. But when I saw a lot of you sitting down and being dragged off, I’m saying, they’re losing their freedom for justice, for other people. And that inspired me again to be arrested.”

Lewis added: “I’m going to tell you a very important thing here. I’ve had a lot of proud moments in my life, a lot of proud moments in my career. But when I had those handcuffs on and was being marched over there with the other protesters in solidarity, that was the proudest moment of my life.”

Full article here, including some videos.

Discussion on paramilitary policing of Occupy Wall Street, via...

Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:36:06 +0800

Discussion on paramilitary policing of Occupy Wall Street, via Democracy Now. Includes some really interesting commentary on recent events from the Police Chief in charge during the riots in Seattle back in 1999. He’s respectful, but scathing.

United States of Hypocrisy, via soulabstracts

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 07:26:05 +0800

United States of Hypocrisy, via soulabstracts

carton-rouge: 84-year-old Occupy Seattle participant Dorli...

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:20:05 +0800

carton-rouge:

84-year-old Occupy Seattle participant Dorli Rainey, pictured above after being pepper sprayed by Seattle Police on November 15th.

She later wrote about the incident:

“Something funny happened on my way to a transportation meeting in Northgate. As I got off the bus at 3rd and Pine I heard helicopters above. Knowing that the problems of New York would certainly precipitate action by Occupy Seattle, I thought I better check it out. Especially since only yesterday the City Government made a grandiose gesture to protect free speech. Well free speech does have its limits as I found out as the cops shoved their bicycles into the crowd and simultaneously pepper sprayed the so captured protesters. If it had not been for my Hero (Iraq Vet Caleb) I would have been down on the ground and trampled. This is what democracy looks like. It certainly left an impression on the people who rode the No. 1 bus home with me. In the women’s movement there were signs which said: “Screw us and we multiply.’”

UC Davis police officer pepper sprays sitting students because,...

Sun, 20 Nov 2011 07:06:06 +0800

UC Davis police officer pepper sprays sitting students because, well, just because.

Think that’s %$#ing horrible? The video’s worse.

Via John Aravosis at AmericaBlog:

I’m sorry, this has gone too far. This has happened in police department after police department, and it has gone too far. Our police look like the goons in Russia and China. Please watch this video and send it to everyone you know. This has gone too far.

(motherjones via cuntymint)

Captain Ray Lewis (Ret.) of the Philadelphia police has joined...

Sat, 19 Nov 2011 07:02:05 +0800

Captain Ray Lewis (Ret.) of the Philadelphia police has joined Occupy Wall Street.

(via hippiescientist)