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The Woman Who Knew Too Much | Politics | Vanity Fair
Millions of Americans hoped President Obama would nominate Elizabeth Warren to head the consumer financial watchdog agency she had created. Instead, she was pushed aside. As Warren kicks off her run for Scott Brown’s Senate seat in Massachusetts, Suzanna Andrews charts the Harvard professor’s emergence as a champion of the beleaguered middle class, and her fight against a powerful alliance of bankers, lobbyists, and politicians.
Warren  US  politics  Vanity_Fair  CFPB  Obama  from instapaper
october 2011 by chrisdymond
Cruel America | The Nation
umairh: You know how I keep talking about a descent into barbarism? I guess someone was paying attention. http://t.co/z2kjEcVa
US  politics  GOP  fundamentalism  death_penalty  from instapaper
october 2011 by chrisdymond
Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult | Truthout
"Undermining Americans' belief in their own institutions of self-government remains a prime GOP electoral strategy." http://t.co/TsN0N6N
politics  US  Lofgren  Republicans  GOP  whistleblower 
october 2011 by chrisdymond
Cable Reveals Extent Of Lapdoggery From Swedish Govt On Copyright Monopoly - Falkvinge on Infopolicy
RT @swardley: Oh my, this is horrendously embarrassing for Swedish Gov - http://t.co/x5MZ4ri. Please don't tell me UK gov has been such ...
wikileaks  geo_politics  Sweden  US  info_policy 
october 2011 by chrisdymond
Michael S. Lofgren (Mike) - Congressional Staffer Salary Data
@alexprince76 He was a career civil servant, knows the ropes and knows his political theory. (Salary data here btw: http://t.co/SmGvygV)
Lofgren  salary  politics  US 
october 2011 by chrisdymond
If It Feels Right - NYTimes.com
: RT The youth... have no moral compass: " < or: US marginalises non-religious moral framewx..
morality  youth  US  survey  nyt  from twitter
september 2011 by chrisdymond
Union Workers Replaced With Prison Labor Under Scott Walker’s Collective Bargaining Law
: So awesome on so many levels it's painful. < regime-capture. Get the revolution predictor out...
labour  politics  US  prison  zombieconomy  from twitter
september 2011 by chrisdymond

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