Taibbi Talks Bank of America on Current TV | Julian Brookes | Politics News | Rolling Stone

Taibbi Talks Bank of America on Current TV | Julian Brookes | Politics News | Rolling Stone

The Shadow Bailout: How Big Banks Bilk US Towns and Taxpayers | Common Dreams

The “toxic culture of greed” on Wall Street was highlighted again last week, when Greg Smith went public with his resignation from Goldman Sachs in a scathing oped published in the New York Times. In other recent eyebrow-raisers, LIBOR rates—the benchmark interest rates involved in interest rate swaps—were shown to be manipulated by the banks that would have to pay up; and the objectivity of the ISDA (International Swaps and Derivatives Association) was called into question, when a 50% haircut for creditors was not declared a “default” requiring counterparties to pay on credit default swaps on Greek sovereign debt.


The Shadow Bailout: How Big Banks Bilk US Towns and Taxpayers | Common Dreams

Paranoia Strikes Deeper - NYTimes.com Gas Prices

And it’s a lie wrapped in an absurdity, because the president of the United States doesn’t control gasoline prices, or even have much influence over those prices. Oil prices are set in a world market, and America, which accounts for only about a tenth of world production, can’t move those prices much. Indeed, the recent rise in gas prices has taken place despite rising U.S. oil production and falling imports.       

Paranoia Strikes Deeper - NYTimes.com

Watch live: “The Road We’ve Traveled” — Blog — Barack Obama

Watch live: “The Road We’ve Traveled” — Blog — Barack Obama

"A Woman's Voice" - OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO - YouTube

Uploaded by BarbaraBoxer on Mar 13, 2012
I thank three Oscar-winning song writers -- Marvin Hamlisch and Alan & Marilyn Bergman -- for allowing me to play their moving song, "A Woman's Voice," with iconic images that speak to my heart and I hope to yours. It is so crucial to elect more women who will stand up for our rights and for the respect we deserve. Help us make history by electing the most women to the U.S. Senate ever: Get involved at http://www.WinWithWomen2012.com

(Make sure to look for the special guest cameo from Rush Limbaugh in this video!)

"A Woman's Voice" - OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO - YouTube

Rush Limbaugh Should Be Off American Forces Radio. Sign petition @VoteVets.org

Rush Limbaugh Should Be Off American Forces Radio. Sign petition @VoteVets.org: Rush Limbaugh Should Be Off American Forces Radio. Sign petition @VoteVets.org

FLASHBACK: Fox News On Gas Prices In 2008

Following GOP strategy, Fox News is again blaming the Obama administration for rising gasoline prices -- a claim that has been repeatedly debunked by energy analysts. But back in the summer of 2008, when the average U.S. gasoline price hit a record high of $4.11, Fox said that "no President has the power to increase or to lower gas prices."
In 2008, Fox's coverage occasionally even mirrored the facts: expanding domestic oil drilling willnotsignificantlylowerprices, and the only way to reduce our vulnerability to gas price spikes is to use less oil. Perhaps there was more room for reality-based coverage at Fox when there wasn't an incumbent president to defeat?



FLASHBACK: Fox News On Gas Prices In 2008

Dear Patricia Heaton, Your tweets to Miss Sandra Fluke - SusanThur - Open Salon

Attacking a young woman that is not a public figure but a private person concerned about Health Insurance Companies covering basic women’s healthcare is unacceptable. And that is the lesson learned in the Rush Limbaugh incident.





If private Americans are attacked, expressing their concerns to congress, we are on our way to lose much in our society and our Democracy. These unacceptable actions from a few put us all in danger.







Dear Patricia Heaton, Your tweets to Miss Sandra Fluke - SusanThur - Open Salon

A Civil Right to Unionize - NYTimes.com

FROM the 1940s to the 1970s, organized labor helped build a middle-class democracy in the United States. The postwar period was as successful as it was because of unions, which helped enact progressive social legislation from the Civil Rights Act to Medicare. Since then, union representation of American workers has fallen, in tandem with the percentage of income going to the middle class. Broadly shared prosperity has been replaced by winner-take-all plutocracy.


A Civil Right to Unionize - NYTimes.com