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Occupy protests move to foreclosed homes

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(Don Ryan | The Associated Press) Homeowners and demonstrators gather in front of a home where the owner has been given an eviction notice in Portland, Ore., Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2011. Following tactics by Occupy Wall Street demonstrators in Seattle, … Continue reading

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Former head of Medicare, Medicaid deplores waste

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Congress has spent huge amounts of time and effort working in rather spectacularly unsuccessful fashion to find agreement on ways to cut deficit spending. Congress and the supercommittee failed, which triggered $1.2 Trillion in automatic reductions over the next 10 … Continue reading

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6 Shocking Revelations About Wall Street’s “Secret Government”

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I first learned about the secret Federal Reserve loans in early November, 2011 and posted an article about it here. There was actually more than $16 Trillion in secret loans given out by the Fed. This news should be on … Continue reading

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Federal Reserve bailing out the Euro

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It’s coming down to the wire for Europe and the eurozone currency. The privately owned and run corporation that is the U.S. Federal Reserve is, once again, offering outrageously huge amounts of almost free money to central banks all over … Continue reading

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Police arrest hundreds of Occupy LA Protesters

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Officers enter encampment after protesters ignore mayor’s midnight deadline to leave park near City Hall.  Protesters have been camped for eight weeks outside City hall in Los Angeles [Reuters] Police in riot gear have raided ‘Occupy Wall Street’ camps in Los Angeles, arresting … Continue reading

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Central banks ease liquidity. Did they avert meltdown?

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The ongoing struggle by Europe to keeps it’s eurozone currency and the entire Eurozone experiment relevant is heating up. Liquidity is a major issue and Europe is definitely having a hard time selling it’s sovereign bonds to keep things floating. … Continue reading

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Judge’s Bombshell Banking Ruling Could Be Game-Changer

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Judge’s Bombshell Banking Ruling Could Be Game-Changer By Loren Berlin First Posted: 11/29/11 05:06 PM ET Updated: 11/29/11 06:22 PM ET http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/29/citigroup-settlement-sec-judge-jed-rakoff_n_1119029.html When federal judge Jed Rakoff tossed out a proposed settlement between the Securities and Exchange Commission and banking giant … Continue reading

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The 1% are Indifferent to Their Indebtedness

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  Leo W. Gerard, International President, United Steelworkers, Huffington Post,  11/28/11 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leo-w-gerard/the-1-indifferent-to-thei_b_1115073.html Most Americans, the 99 percent, feel the pressure of indebtedness. When they owe a friend a buck, their conscience bothers them until they’re square. They pay their bills, … Continue reading

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The OWS message: The 1% have too much control over the 99%

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It’s been a common theme among mainstream media to report, among other things, that the Occupy movement “has no message”, which is simply not true. While various OWS groups have expressed different specific messages throughout the movement’s short history, I … Continue reading

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Occupy Los Angeles Vows to Stay Despite Mayor’s Deadline

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NEW YORK | Sunday, November 27th, 2011 8:48am EDT By Katerina Sazonova http://www.theblogismine.com/2011/11/27/occupy-los-angeles-vows-to-stay-despite-mayors-deadline/ Despite a fast-approaching deadline set by the mayor and police chief, very few of the anti-Wall Street protesters from Occupy Los Angeles had begun breaking down their … Continue reading

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