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I'M HUNTING DOWN THE FAT FETISHIST WHO HAS MY STOLEN LAPTOP

http://www.vice.com/read/plumbergeddon?utm_source=vicetwitterus

There's nothing like the feeling that washes over you when you realize you've had something important stolen. It's an unsettling blend of confusion and sorrow that should really only be reserved for the sudden death of a relative or times you watch Gaspar Noé films after a night of weird, powdered psychedelics.

The worst thing about it is that, unless you're the Koch brothers and the stuff that's been pinched is the contents of your safe, it's unlikely that you're ever going to see your stolen belongings again. The police just don't have enough time to follow up every phone that goes missing at 4 AM.

Howe...

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[VIDEO] Occupy Our Homes Activists Arrested At Justice Department Headquarters

http://news.firedoglake.com/2013/05/21/occupy-our-homes-activists-arrested-at-justice-department-headquarters/

Members of one of Occupy Wall Street’s offshoots, Occupy Our Homes, were arrested Monday and Tuesday demonstrating outside the headquarters of the Department of Justice in Washington.

According to Washington police the protesters attempted to enter the building.

About 100 protesters with groups called the Home Defenders League and Occupy Our Homes marched on the building about 2 p.m. Some set up tents on the lawn and sidewalk while others ran up to the building’s Constitution Avenue entrance...

RELATED: https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDallas

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Union Plus Disaster Relief Grants Available for Union Tornado Survivors

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Community-Services/Union-Plus-Disaster-Relief-Grants-Available-for-Union-Tornado-Survivors

Oklahoma City-area union members who were impacted by tornadoes and who participate in Union Plus programs may be eligible for financial assistance.

Union Plus Disaster Relief Grants of $500 are available to help participants in the Union Plus Credit Card, Insurance or Mortgage programs who are facing financial hardship due to this devastating natural disaster. The money does not have to be repaid...

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U.S. Workers Protest International Labor Rights Abuses at Mondelēz

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Global-Action/U.S.-Workers-Protest-International-Labor-Rights-Abuses-at-Mondelez

At today’s Mondelēz International's shareholder meeting, the IUF, the international union body representing food workers worldwide, and unions representing the company’s North American employees raised concerns about human rights abuses in the company’s overseas operations. Many Mondelēz-branded cookies and crackers are produced by union members, including Oreo, Chips Ahoy, Ritz and Triscuit...

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Patriotic Yardsticks for Unpatriotic Giant Corporations

http://nader.org/2013/05/16/patriotic-yardsticks-for-unpatriotic-giant-corporations/

Why are big, global U.S. corporations so unpatriotic? After all, they were created in the U.S.A., rose to immense profit because of the toil of American workers, are bailed out by American taxpayers whenever they’re in trouble, and are safeguarded abroad by the U.S. military.

Yet these corporate goliaths work their tax lawyers overtime to escape U.S. taxes. Many pay less than you do in federal income taxes. Imagine corporations, like General Electric, have not paid federal income taxes on U.S. profits for years.

Mega corporations have abandoned U.S. workers by entrenching “pull-down” trade agreements that mak...

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Homeowners Get Arrested To Show Why Bankers Should Be Instead

http://blog.ourfuture.org/20130520/homeowners-get-arrested-to-show-why-bankers-should-be-instead

Police in Washington made numerous arrests today in connection with the ongoing mortgage foreclosure crisis, in which millions of homeowners lost billions of dollars due to the fraudulent actions of bank executives.

But the arrests were not of the criminals who caused the crisis; the people led away in handcuffs today were the victims of the crime...

RELATED: https://www.facebook.com/OccupyWallSt

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[VIDEO] Occupy Justice Department: Labor Leaders Hold Event To Support Arrested Protesters

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/21/occupy-justice-department_n_3315103.html

Labor leaders spoke out Tuesday afternoon in support of foreclosed homeowners protesting outside the Department of Justice, a day after many of the protesters were arrested.

Union leaders lauded the actions of those arrested, and condemned the DOJ and the practices of the largest banks in the country during a press conference. The leaders were flanked by about 25 protesters and foreclosed homeowners, who stood in the same place where men and women were arrested Monday afternoon as they demonstrated against the DOJ...

RELATED: http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011/11/occupy-wall-street-7-weeks-in/100183/

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[VIDEO] Hundreds Protest 'Too Big to Jail' at Department of Justice; 27 Arrested, Several Tased

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Political-Action-Legislation/Hundreds-Protest-Too-Big-to-Jail-at-Department-of-Justice-27-Arrested-Several-Tased

Organizers from the Home Defenders League, Occupy Our Homes and allied organizations estimate that more than 500 people attended a rally at the Department of Justice on Monday, calling for Attorney General Eric Holder to begin arresting bankers accused of fraud and unscrupulous lending practices. As of Tuesday morning, at least 27 demonstrators had been arrested after an attempt to enter the Justice Department building was prevented by law enforcement.

Many at the rally said they were willing to risk arrest in order to raise awareness that the people who many blame for t...

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A Wiser America

http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/americans--healthy-response-to-the-boston-bombings-by-naomi-wolf

When America absorbed the bombings at the Boston Marathon, what was striking was what did not happen. Twelve years after the attacks of September 11, 2001, the country was saddened, but it was also better informed.

There was little of the rampant jingoism, get-them-at-all-costs bloodlust, constant speechifying, and flag-waving that followed the 2001 attacks. Perhaps most remarkable was the absence of reflexive Islamophobia and of the willingness to fight any war – even the wrong war in the wrong country for the wrong reasons – against the supposedly culpable “other.”

Instead, this time, Americans’ sadness was mingled with cynicism and suspicion. Th...

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[PETITION] Campaign for Fair Settlement launches "Week of Action" to pressure Justice Department to "prosecuting the bankers who destroyed our economy.

http://www.campaignforfairsettlement.org/week_of_action_petition?splash=1

End Too Big to Jail. Start prosecuting criminal bankers.

Sign on to support hundreds of homeowners, foreclosure victims and allies from the Home Defenders League in bringing "Justice to Justice" in DC the week of May 18-25th. They are going to take dramatic action at the Dept. of Justice, demanding that AG Holder and Pres. Obama: Hold Wall Street accountable by prosecuting the bankers who destroyed our economy....

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UK's House of Commons approves same-sex marriage

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/05/21/world/europe/uk-same-sex-marriage/index.html?hpt=ieu_c1

Legislation to allow same-sex marriage in England and Wales won passage Tuesday in the House of Commons.

The vote was 366 for, 161 against. The bill now goes to the House of Lords, where it will face further opposition.

A rebellion within Prime Minister David Cameron's Conservative Party threatened to derail the bill.

Tuesday brought the second day of discussions on the legislation. Members of Parliament voted Monday on a series of amendments to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill.

Cameron backs the bill but his commitment to it has put him at odds with many in his own party and its grassroots supporters. The Con...

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Open-Access Economics

http://www.social-europe.eu/2013/05/open-access-economics/

The brouhaha over Carmen Reinhart’s and Kenneth Rogoff’s article “Growth in a Time of Debt” may be the most conspicuous and incendiary scholarly controversy since 1974, when two earlier economists, Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, published a notorious book, Time on the Cross, defending the efficiency of American plantation slavery.

As with Time on the Cross, the Reinhart/Rogoff controversy, while ostensibly stemming from the authors’ statistical procedures, is actually rooted in the purposes to which others put their study.

Some of the results reported by Fogel and Engerman were used – not by the authors themselves, it should be noted – to...

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For the multi-taskers...

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In the shadows of the world, a human of will can be overrun by desire. And in their blind quest for pleasure, they will never see the shadows gather above them. They will never know they’re in complete darkness. They become a weak and desperate race of indoctrinated slaves. ~ Ikcir Poohs

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[VIDEO] Protesters in Washington urge US judiciary to halt bank foreclosures

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/05/21/304647/dc-protest-urge-action-on-foreclosures/

Hundreds of demonstrators marched outside the US Justice Department in Washington to protest the judiciary’s failure to prosecute major American financial institutions that have contributed to the nation’s growing housing crisis, Press TV reports.

Protesters marched through the streets of the US capital on Monday, urging the nation’s judiciary authorities to hold American bankers accountable for sweeping foreclosure practices that have forced many homeowners to lose their homes to banks that have financed them...

RELATED: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/20/occupy-justice-department_n_3309305.html

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[VIDEO] New Video Series: Unions Make the Middle Class

http://www.aflcio.org/Blog/Organizing-Bargaining/New-Video-Series-Unions-Make-the-Middle-Class

After 45 years of driving a cab in New York City, Beresford Simmons says the emergence of the National Taxi Workers Alliance in the past few years is helping his family and those of other drivers reach the middle class.

Simmons’ story is one of three illustrating that unions make the middle class strong, giving workers a voice in our economy, portrayed in a trio of new videos by the Center for American Progress Action Fund.

New York City freelance writers Jeremy Pikser and Susan Kim say that working under contracts negotiated by the Writers Guild of America, East (WGAE), has ensured fair pay for their work, an...

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Here's who is buying America's democracy

http://www.hightowerlowdown.org/node/3321#.UZxJe6L7JaY

The spark that ignited tea party wrath in 2008 was not such right-wing bugaboos as "Obamacare," the federal deficit, or states' rights, which were added on later by Koch-created front groups. Rather, the uprising sprang directly from the public's raw outrage over Washington's flagrant coddling of Wall Street banksters.

People were affronted by the most naked example in recent times of the power of corporate campaign cash to buy an obscene injustice. Here were America's most privileged elites in plain view, jetting into the capitol city to call in all of the favors they were owed for the political "donations" they had previou...

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Protesters arrested after attempt to storm Justice Department

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/protesters-arrested-after-attempt-to-storm-justice-department/2013/05/20/b298afb6-c18f-11e2-8bd8-2788030e6b44_story.html

District and federal law enforcement officials arrested 17 people Monday after protesters opposing foreclosures attempted to storm the entrances of the Justice Department.

About 100 protesters with groups called the Home Defenders League and Occupy Our Homes marched on the building about 2 p.m. Some set up tents on the lawn and sidewalk while others ran up to the building’s Constitution Avenue entrance.

According to D.C. police, 17 people were arrested. Ann C. Wilcox, an attorney who represents protesters, said several were tased during the scuffle. A D.C. police spokeswoman said D.C. police were not in...

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The Latest Lie: IRS Targeted Conservatives

http://blog.ourfuture.org/20130520/the-latest-lie-irs-targeted-conservatives

"The corporate media is blasting out the story that the IRS “targeted conservative groups.” Some in the media say there was “IRS harassment of conservative groups.” Some of the media are going so far as claiming that conservative groups were “audited.” This story that is being repeated and treated as “true” is just not what happened at all. It is one more right-wing victimization fable, repeated endlessly until the public has no choice except to believe it."

RELATED VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=aqK_WxvB_xE

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The Secret Donors Behind the Center for American Progress and Other Think Tanks

http://www.thenation.com/article/174437/secret-donors-behind-center-american-progress-and-other-think-tanks

Washington institutions esteemed for their independent scholarship don't disclose donations from corporations and foreign governments.

The Center for American Progress, Washington’s leading liberal think tank, has been a big backer of the Energy Department’s $25 billion loan guarantee program for renewable energy projects. CAP has specifically praised First Solar, a firm that received $3.73 billion under the program, and its Antelope Valley project in California.

Last year, when First Solar was taking a beating from congressional Republicans and in the press over job layoffs and allege...

That moment when you realize farts don't have lumps. #lol @bunnyranch #tlot #tcot

This is seriously effed up. How is this terrorist still collecting a paycheck? #PolitiGals #tcot #terrorism #FtHood