I suspect this may be old news for those of you with cable, but I just happened across this recent episode of the Daily Show dealing with the media’s evolving (and hypocritical) coverage of the Occupy Wall Street movement, and thought that I’d share it. The Daily Show with Jon StewartGet More: Daily Show Full […]
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The Occupy Wall Street movement, why it’s not being treated like the Tea Party in the media, and why it has a better chance of success than the anti-globalization campaign
Posted in Corporate Crime, Media, Uncategorized Also tagged anti-globalization, Daily Show, Federal Elections Commission, G8, IMF, International Monetary Fund, Jon Stewart, Naomi Klein, Occupy Wall Street, Plutocracy, police brutality, protests, Sarah Palin, Seattle, tea party, Wall Street, World Trade Organization, WTO 17 Comments
The unrepentant sons-of-bitches who are fighting banking reform
It’s been one year since the investment bank Lehman Brothers went belly up, putting into motion a chain of events that would culminate in some $600 billion in American taxpayer money being given away to corporations like AIG, Bank of America and Goldman Sachs. To commemorate the day, and breath new life into his stalled […]
Posted in Economics, Other, Politics, Uncategorized Also tagged AIG, Andrew Cuomo, bailout, Bank of America, banking reform, Capitalism: A Love Story, Corporate Crime, credit, derivitives, financial reform, gambling, Glass-Steagall Act, Goldman Sachs, investment banking, Lehman Brothers, lending, loans, lobbyists, Michael Moore, Obama, other people's money, reckless behavior, Robert Reich, the short attention spans of Americans, unrepentant sons of bitches, Wall Street 9 Comments