US military occupation forces in Iraq and Afganistan and attacking forces in Libya under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 88 combat casualties in the week ending October 19, as the official casualty total rose to 110,356 The total includes 79,279 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 31,077… Continue reading October 19, 2011
October 12, 2011
US military occupation forces in Iraq and Afganistan and attacking forces in Libya under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 128 combat casualties in the 8 days ending October 12, as the official casualty total rose to 110,265 The total includes 79,265 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and… Continue reading October 12, 2011
The movement, Rowe said, “stands for everything I believe in. I’m exhausted. I got rained on. I was cold, but I can’t seem to pull myself away.”
–Patrick Rowe, 48, a carpenter from New Jersey who joined the movement after stumbling across the activists while in the city on a job 11 days ago.
How do you break through the inertia, fear of embarrassment, isolation and aversion to doing anything different that surrounds most middle-class Americans like a moat?
–Gary Kamiya on the needed ad campaign to swell the ranks of Occupy Wall Street, and why the Situationists are the people for the job
We also expect the regulators to do absolutely nothing to prevent this blatant abuse of fiduciary duty which has no other purpose than to hide the true sad state of America’s banking system
-Zero Hedge, describing the way TBTF banks dress up their quarterly reports of Tier 1 capital, in what is known as a Repo 105.
The neohipster is a grotesque perversion of the original. If he fetishizes and hybridizes the cultural costumes of old hip—borrowing from the Beat poet, the jazzman, the rapper, the skater, the punk—it is only as a mockery of authentic anti-authoritarian countercultures. The neohipster is a creature of the advertisers: affluent and status-anxious, which means that he is consumerist and, in the manner of all conspicuous consumers, conforming to the demands of narcissistic chic.
-Christopher Ketcham, in The Reign of the One Percenters: Income inequality and the death of culture in New York City
October 4, 2011
US military occupation forces in Iraq and Afganistan and attacking forces in Libya under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 116 combat casualties in the week ending October 4, as the official casualty total rose to 110,135. The total includes 79,265 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 30,870… Continue reading October 4, 2011
Fundamental reform requires more than rearranging the seats on the government lifeboat; it requires weakening the economic and political power of the oligarchs and creating a healthier, more competitive economic system.
-Simon Johnson, MIT Professor, former chief economist of the IMF, in his book, 13 Bankers
“I’ll never forget one of the most powerful things [Obama] said to me in my home, second Saturday in April 2008. He said, ‘You know what your problem is?’ I said, ‘What is that?’ He said, ‘You have to tell the truth.'”
-The Rev. Jeremiah Wright remembers the Obama he used to know
August 23, 2011
US military occupation forces in Iraq and Afganistan and attacking forces in Libya under Commander-in-Chief Obama suffered 136 combat casualties in the week ending August 23, as the official casualty total rose to 108,261. The total includes 78,883 casualties since the US invaded Iraq in March, 2003 (Operations “Iraqi Freedom” and “New Dawn”), and 29,378… Continue reading August 23, 2011