from The American Digest From The American Digest: Dubya and Me – Walt Harrington As [Bush] talked, I even thought about an old Saturday Night Live skit in which an amiable, bumbling President Ronald Reagan, played by Phil Hartman, goes behind closed doors to suddenly become a masterful oper[...]
Posts Tagged ‘99%’
NAOMI KLEIN speaks to the 99%
Naomi Klein to Occupy Wall Street: Get Organized By Nick Pinto – October 13th, 2011 Published in The Village Voice. Naomi Klein, the Canadian journalist famous for her anti-corporatist books No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, spoke to the protesters at Occupy Wall Street yesterday evening,[...]
October 15th, 2011 - 9:36 am § in Schools & Colleges
US Passes Mexico in Making University Education a Privilige of the Wealthy
From Seattle Education via Amy Hagopian: Noam Chomsky on Academic Freedom and the Corporatization of Universities A partial transcript from Noam Chomsky’s talk, taken from AlterNet: A couple of months ago, I went to Mexico to give talks at the National University in Mexico, UNAM. It’s q[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Should you shop at Home Depot?
There are signs that Romney’s campaign is in serious trouble. While he is raising money at a good pace, as the single moderate running for the GOP, Mitt Romney is getting very few small donations. Last quarter, Romney had 55,000 individual donors. By contrast Ron Paul has 100,000 [...]
October 15th, 2011 - 6:34 am § in China
SLIPPERY SLOPE: Middle class China turns to private health insurance
By Linda Pressly Reporter, BBC News 18 July 2011 excerpts Over half of all healthcare in China is paid for by the consumers themselves Healthcare – and how you pay for it – is one of life’s big worries. In China few people have private health insurance but the market is growing. Po[...]
October 14th, 2011 - 2:59 pm § in Misc.
BREAKING NEWS: Libyan version of the 99% rage
By Tim Gaynor SIRTE, Libya Oct 13 (Reuters) – When Libyan government fighters seized the vacant home of Muammar Gaddafi’s daughter, Aisha, the wealth and opulence they found sent some of them into a rage. One fighter walked through the door and sprayed the interior with bullets from his [...]