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Friends, what amuses me most about the debate over Occupy Wall Street is how many people have come out to attack the movement because they mistakenly feel that they are in the top 1%.
There are two problems with this. The first is that the top 1% of American money-makers are far more wealthy than most realise.
The second is that the real problem isn’t the top 1%, it’s the top one hundredth of 1%, and they have more money than god.
Ah, Captain Obvious, once again your country needs you!
Basically ISAF (which just means NATO forces in Afghanistan, primarily US troops) have arrested Rahmatullah Naikzad, a photographer and cameraman who worked for, among others, Al Jazeera and The Associated Press.
The charges are hilarious.
Naikzad has been accused of being a “propagandist” and “distributing images of violence”.
Hello friends. I recently finished listening to the audiobook version of Paul Krugman’s ‘The Conscience of a Liberal”. Firstly, I would like to say that audiobooks are the way forward. You can listen to them at the gym, while driving, or even while losing badly at Starcraft 2.
Anyway, the book contains many valuable insights into global economic theory and American politics, and I urge you all to snag a copy.
Of course I don’t have the time, space or inclination to explain everything Krugman covers in the book but the thing that he said that really stuck with me was this: the Republican Party is going to start falling apart, because it makes no sense.
