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UC Davis Brutality; Greenway Letter; etc.
(1) Police Brutality at UC Davis Watch the video for yourself. Watch to the end–there’s a happy ending! Find another video of the same scene here. Good coverage at the Davis Enterprise. A useful primer on the legalities of pepper spray and excessive force. Here’s the money quote (this is from Vineyard v. Wilson and ...Read more.
Troika to PIIGS: Shut Up and Take Your Medicine
Troika to PIIGS: Shut Up and Take Your Medicine Economists to Shepherd Greece and Italy Mike Epitropoulos | November 11, 2011 The mainstream press around the world is jubilantly covering the change in leadership in both Greece and Italy, as the people in those countries and the other “PIIGS” continue to have harsh austerity measures ...Read more.
Seniors, Students, and Who “Creates Jobs”
(1) Seniors: Hat-tip to regular blog reader TM for alerting us to an op-ed by WashPo economics blah-blah-er Robert Samuelson (no relation to Nobel prize winning economist Paul Samuelson), who seems to have it in for Social Security. Samuelson tells us that The Elderly Are Better Off Than Advertised. See, I knew that someone besides ...Read more.
AP and USA Today Fall for GE Tax Repayment Hoax
Another hoax perpetrated by the Yes Men is going on right now in real time. Here’s the fake press release announcing that GE would repay its $3.2bn tax refund. Here’s the AP story falling for the hoax. Here’s the USAToday story falling for the hoax. (I’m not sure how long these will stay posted.) And ...Read more.
Vegan Protest Fuel in Madison, and more
(1) Vegan Protest Fuel: Today’s syllogism: “All Wisconsinites may be cheeseheads, but not all Wisconsinites eat cheese,” therefore, vegan demonstrators need an alternative to the pizzas from Ian’s Pizza that so many people have thoughtfully donated to the efforts in Madison. Our friend Hillary Rettig is one of the people behind the Vegan Protest Fuel ...Read more.
More on Egypt; Reagan; Unemployment
(1) More Links on Egypt: I promised more links; here they are: —The latest from Middle East Report online, Into Egypt’s Uncharted Territory. —On the economic basis of the uprising, by the excellent Nomi Prins, at Alternet: The Egyptian Uprising Is a Direct Response to Ruthless Global Capitalism. —From the excellent Bill Fletcher, at ZSpace, ...Read more.
Tax Deal Endangers Social Security, etc.
(1) Tax Deal Endangers Social Security: From Heidi Hartmann, president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, an interesting analysis of the payroll-tax-holiday provision of the White House’s compromise on taxes–one of the things they got in exchange for caving in to Republicans on the Bush-era tax-cuts [<--I'm starting to dislike this phrase, as it ...Read more.
Balance on Assange Charges
Our fantastic cartoonist Barry Deutsch texted me to ask for more balance on the question of the sexual assault charges against Julian Assange. In my post yesterday, I linked to the Guardian article that details the charges against Assange, and to a defense of Assange by his former lawyer. I didn’t weigh in myself on ...Read more.
Foreclosures, Temps, Freelancers, etc.
(1) The House that Set off the National Furor over Faulty Foreclosures: That’s how a great article in last Thursday’s New York Times describes the house in the photo above, owned by Nicolle Bradbury. Everyone should read this article in full. As I have mentioned in an earlier post, the national media can’t seem to ...Read more.
More on Rich People; Islamophobia at Harvard
(1) Follow-up on yesterday’s post: If you didn’t get your fill of the controversy about the whiny U. of Chicago law professor, check out two more good posts today from Brad DeLong, here and here. The second one has a bunch of links to other commentary on the affair. The New Rule for the Internets ...Read more.
