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The elite’s war on the low-wage worker
Relegated to the background, America’s low-wage workers have been making considerable noise lately by deploying an unusual weapon — one-day strikes — to make their message heard: they’re sick and tired of earning just $8, $9, $10 an hour. http://mobile.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/sunday-review/fighting-back-against-wretched-wages.html?from=homepage Their anger has been stoked by what they see as a glaring disconnect: their wages […]
Fighting corruption with mass protests in Brasil
One politician was elected to Brazil’s Congress while under investigation for murder after having an adversary killed with a chain saw. Another is wanted by Interpol after being found guilty of diverting more than $10 million from a public road project to offshore bank accounts. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/28/world/americas/public-rage-catching-up-with-brazils-congress.html?hp&_r=0 a special ire has been reserved for Congress and […]
Guatamalan elite overturn genocide conviction
The decision by Guatemala’s Constitutional Court was a dramatic legal victory for General Ríos Montt, 86, and a blow to human rights advocates who had called his conviction a sign that Guatemala’s courts would no longer allow impunity for the country’s powerful. General Ríos Montt was found to be responsible as commander in chief for […]
Savile’s Friday Morning Pedophile Club
An inquiry uncovered evidence of what seemed a cozy and largely undocumented network of high-level contacts between Jimmy Savile and the police and other members of the elite at a regular social gathering known as the Friday Morning Club in his apartment. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/11/world/europe/british-police-deny-protecting-jimmy-savile.html?emc=eta1&_r=0 The police force in the hometown of the disgraced British television presenter […]
Austerity called a spade
Finally the correct word is being used for sequester: Austerity. Government and private forecasters expect austerity, in the form of the spending cuts and tax increases, to take a big bite: about 142,000 fewer jobs a month for the rest of the year than would otherwise be added. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/08/federal-austeritys-bite-on-job-growth/?hp That’s more than the 134,000 jobs […]
Banks that evict veterans violating federal law
The nation’s biggest banks wrongfully foreclosed on more than 700 military members during the housing crisis and seized homes from roughly two dozen other borrowers who were current on their mortgage payments. Bank of America, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo were the biggest offenders. http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/banks-find-more-wrongful-foreclosures-among-military-members/?hp The banks were ordered to identify military members and […]
Dirty Babylon 