Citigroup's CEO's Monster Pay Package While Cutting Jobs. America's New Capitalism

Pandit may be in trouble with the rich, and for that he might have to pay the consequenc­es:

Citigroup Deal Haunts Pandit as Saudis Claim $383 Million

December 06, 2011, 8:49 AM EST

http://www­.businessw­eek.com/ne­ws/2011-12­-06/citigr­oup-deal-h­aunts-pand­it-as-saud­is-claim-3­83-million­.html
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Court Yard Hounds - It Didn't Make A Sound

My favorite song on this CD is "Well Behaved" but I still can't find a decent sounding video on YouTube.

Indefinite Detention Bill No Longer Faces Veto Threat From White House (UPDATE)

"...Oppone­nts of the indefinite detention provisions have argued that, although it is true Americans have been held, the Supreme Court has not ruled on the validity of those detentions­..."

This Supreme Court will avoid that like the plague, as it has nothing to do with the freedom of THEIR base to make money.
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The Twelve Republican Days of Christmas

Karl Frisch December 14, 2011 (they're pretty funny)

Break it down, Jon and Lawrence

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And here be de proof, although I do like my senators, my house rep is a tool.

  Cloture on the Nomination of Richard Cordray, of Ohio, to be Director, Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection

Motion to Proceed to S. 1944; A bill to create jobs by providing payroll tax relief for middle class families and businesses, and for other purpose

To amend chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, to provide that major rules of the executive branch shall have no force or effect unless a joint resolution of approval is enacted into law

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Sorry about the spiders, Maine

Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011

"BATH, Maine (AP) - A Navy shipbuilder in Maine says it had to fumigate a warehouse and part of a warship because a shipment of parts from the West Coast contained about two-dozen venomous black widow spiders...."

  We have brown widows also.

News Networks Regularly Promote Anti-Gay Family Research Council On Air

December 13, 2011 3:20 pm ET — Media Matters

grrrr

Russia Protests: Thousands Rally Against Vote Fraud, Putin

"Putin in turn criticized Clinton and the United States for allegedly instigatin­g protests and trying to undermine Russia."



How does that work when approximat­ely 4.9% of Russians speak English?
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Saving Our Democracy

I love Senator Bernie Sanders!
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Chilean Glacier Recedes Half-Mile in Just One Year

Stephen Messenger
Science / Climate Change
  Treehugger December 8, 2011

"While the powerful impacts of global warming can be seen in various forms throughout the world, few places have experienced observable changes as dramatic as in Chile's Southern Patagonian Ice Field..." timelapse video

Karzai good for pipelines

Karzai Afghan "President for Life?" Bad for Democracy, Good or Pipelines John Daly Thursday Dec 8, 2011

Jon Huntsman: Climate Change Science 'Not Enough' For US Action

Awww, come on, nobody looked at his family's business interests and saw this coming?
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Tomgram: William deBuys, The Parching of the West

Posted by William deBuys at 6:02pm, December 4, 2011.
TomDispatch
"...While that Arizona-California relationship guarantees full employment for battalions of water lawyers, a far bigger problem looms: climate change. Models for the Southwest have been predicting a 4ºC (7.2ºF) increase in mean temperature by century’s end, and events seem to be outpacing the predictions..."

Feds Uncover 32 Tons of Pot in CA Tunnel

By Cynthia Hsu on December 1, 2011 11:19 AM
Findlaw Blotter

Federal authorities discovered a cross-border tunnel loaded with 32 tons of marijuana this week in San Diego, California. Several arrests were made in connection to the drug tunnel, in what is likely one of the biggest marijuana busts in U.S. history....

Could a Late Jon Huntsman Surge Spell the End of Mitt Romney?

Romney and others are indebted to Vulture banksters --

http://www­.gregpalas­t.com/romn­ey-advisor­-threatens­bbc-invest­igative-re­porter/

Huntsman is the GOP Trojan Horse- Mr. De-regulat­ion for business and a school voucher advocate - http://en.­wikipedia.­org/wiki/J­on_Huntsma­n,_Jr.
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I always thought Adam Carolla was a d*ck

Adam Carolla Rails Against Occupy ‘Ass Douches’ In Rant: ‘F**king Self-Entitled Monsters’
AUDIO (Dude's voice seriously grates on my nerves)
by Jon Bershad | 12:05 pm, December 1st, 2011

He sounds like he's talking about the top 1%, except he's using the right wing AssDOUCHE meme of the top pays all the taxes for the bottom earners. I would love to meet a dude raised in LA that didn't make me want to leave the room immediately. Some people try to lump San Diego in with LA, but believe me, that 2 hour drive opens up a completely different world.

These kinds of headlines just crack my ass up

'Sheriff of the Year' Busted in Meth-Sex Ring
By Stephanie Rabiner on December 1, 2011 5:58 AM | No TrackBacks

Pregnancy discrimination

Pregnancy Discrimination Still a Problem
By Stephanie Rabiner on November 23, 2011 3:02 PM

When my boss and co-worker found out I was pregnant all of the sudden I was helpless. It was amusing to me. I did physical work and one day I could do it and the next they felt the need to help me. I'm not quite sure how to add this, so I'll just throw it in there. One of my co-workers will always have a special place in my heart because he helped me lose my irrational fear of black men. He was the cook and a kind and gentle soul who would ask me "What are we feeding the baby this morning?" and fix me whatever I wanted for breakfast. I'll always be grateful for that sweet, shy man who was kind to me and my baby.

Soon I was not getting any assignments and had to look for something else, and the next company didn't have any problem with me hauling my ass up a ladder to bring down boxes as large as I was. Until I started to show, that is, then it was unemployment again, which was fine actually because I was sick of trying to hide my pregnancy, and disability paid a little bit.

The child's father started pushing me to go back to work 2 weeks after the child was born and I had to tell him that the doctors all said that 6 weeks was necessary to to heal enough to be up and on my feet all day. He had agreed to pay the rent, but he never could on time even though he cleared three times the rent and he was paid monthly, which I learned years later. My job was to cover everything else except 1/2 the childcare, which he also never paid on time, so I did. I knew that I couldn't stay with that narcissistic asshole when he complained that his meal was too small. I shot back that if he paid his half of the childcare that his meals would be bigger. I cleared $150 a week and the childcare was $95 a week. I left him when the kid was 4 months old and never even considered living with his selfish ass again.

The kid is just finishing up the last few classes for a bachelor's degree. You would think that some things had changed in all that time.

Hmmmm.

The Global Occupy Movement Challenges the Transnational Corporate Class Propaganda Machine

Daily Censored Nov 19, 2011

Clarence Thomas, Elena Kagan Asked To Sit Out Supreme Court Health Care Case

I can't believe the nerve, the gall, the chutzpah of "conservat­ives" in service to business and banking interests in this country.



They better have really good securtity because I know I'm not the only only one who has had it with this CRAP.
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The Stream - Thanksgiving Day or "ThanksTaking" Day?

I watched "Black Robe" again yesterday. My mother was showing me old family photos years ago and I asked her who the indian woman was? She told me to watch that movie. Then she said something about my great grandfather getting in trouble with his wife for spending too much time trying to help the local indians on their reservation. Who the hell knows?

Shootings, pepper-spray attack mar Wal-Mart Black Friday sales

November 25, 2011 | 6:39 am

Wow. Just wow.

And some good news:

AT&T braces for T-Mobile deal collapse

Why haven't other Amish communities confronted Mullet?

Hate Crime: Feds Charge Amish Beard-Cutting Suspects With Civil Rights Violations

Bergholz Amish Bishop Arrested by FBI

The revolution will not be won by soothing women with honeyed voices.

And that includes these two

Arianna Huffington
Pepper-Spraying Occupy: An Assault on Our Democracy
Posted: 11/21/11 08:23 PM ET

Linda P.B. Katehi

I think they should both go back to their patriarchal train wreck and do what they do best; soothe, but fight? Negotiate? Don't make me laugh.

Greek Uprising Shaped California Educator in Pepper-Spray Storm
November 22, 2011, 12:16 PM EST Bloomberg Businessweek.

Guess what's missing from the above article?
Greek military junta of 1967–1974 oy hint, hint


Amazon Warrior Women

Occupy protests will change the dialogue. The 1% cannot hide their use of thugs any more

AlterNet / By Joshua Holland
Caught on Camera: 10 Shockingly Violent Police Assaults on Occupy Protesters
Probably 97 percent of police act professionally toward protesters. But the other 3 percent are armed and dangerous, and know that they're unlikely to be held accountable.

A Children’s Treasury of American Cops Brutally Attacking Citizens
By KEN LAYNE (Wonkette)
1:38 PM NOVEMBER 19, 2011
How did America’s heavily militarized security guards for the 1% spend the work week?


This Is What Revolution Looks Like

Posted on Nov 15, 2011

AP / Seth Wenig
Occupy Wall Street protesters rally in a small park on Canal Street in New York on Tuesday.
By Chris Hedges

Police pepper spraying and arresting students at UC Davis

The Villain Occupy Wall Street Has Been Waiting For

"...You would think that a former partner at the investment bank Solomon Brothers, which originated mortgage-b­acked securities­, a man who then partnered with Merrill Lynch in the high-speed computeriz­ed trading that has led to so much financial manipulati­on, would have some sense of his own culpabilit­y...."



Umm, no I woudn't think that. Certainly not after finding out that many wealthy and powerful people are friggin sociopaths­!

http://pre­view.tinyu­rl.com/7up­vla4
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Europe in the grip of drug-resistant superbugs

By Reuters
Thursday, November 17, 2011

"...K. pneumoniae is a common cause of pneumonia, urinary tract, and bloodstream infections in hospital patients. The superbug form is resistant even to a class of medicines called carbapenems, the most powerful known antibiotics, which are usually reserved by doctors as a last line of defense...."

Shit. Didn't smallpox from Europeans friggin wipe out a huge portion of Native Americans a few hundred years ago?

Wall Street is Just an Address

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by Greg Palast and the Palast investigations team at Zuccotti Park Wall Street, Occupy Portland, Occupy Oakland, and Kinshasa, Congo

exclusive for OpedNews.com

Justices Scalia, Thomas Dine With Firm Arguing Against Health Care Law In Supreme Court Case

Wow, Scalia and Thomas are corrupt. Surprise surprise.N­OT
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