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Source: TIME
2012 is coming. Thanks to OWS, thanks to the complete failure of the right to offer any solutions, the left now has a voice. Not a day too soon.
The .1% versus the rest of us. 15% of the median of $27k a year. Or a 278% of several million. Yup that is “hard work pays off” for you, right there. Them job creators pay too many taxes and need a break, for sure!
Source: MSN
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When authorities fail to prosecute those who attack people for exercising their rights or exposing abuses, they subvert justice and undermine the people’s confidence in their governments
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Hillary Clinton, criticizing how Russian authorities have reacted to protesters.
How very appropriate, Mrs. Clinton. How about you redirect your words to the administration you serve?
A wild hypocrite appears!
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Source: mufb
Source: pleated-jeans.com
The Yes Men - Jacques Servin & Igor Vamos (pictured at an Occupy Wall Street march in October via the World Bulletin)
The Yes Men are two activists who use fake websites and corporate impersonations to make widespread statements about social issues. Previous hoaxes include Servin appearing on BBC World as a Dow Chemical spokesman saying the company would pay damages to those affected by the Bhopal gas leak. On another occasion, Servin played the role of a representative from the Department of Housing and Urban Development saying HUD would reopen public housing after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Although they have been criticized for giving people false hope, the Yes Men maintain that sometimes “it takes a lie to expose the truth.”
The two have been active in the Occupy Movement, especially with the creation of the Yes Lab, an activist collective to help organize more hoaxes to bring media attention to social issues, including OWS. Although some believe the Yes Men to threaten Occupy’s legitimacy, ultimately bringing more attention to the movement & exposing the exploitation of the 99% outweighs the possible negatives.
For more information or to see their hoaxes in action, watch “The Yes Men Fix the World” (it’s on Netflix Watch Instantly!).
“It’s keeping the ideas alive that things can be different, and that there’s something dramatically wrong with the world. So that when change is possible, those ideas are there. And now is a time when change is really possible.” - Jacques Servin
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Like a game of scientific whack-a-mole, some arguments against climate change just keep bouncing back - no matter how many times researchers disprove them. One is the long-standing claim that “global warming stopped in 1998”, and that since then the Earth has stayed at the same temperature, or even cooled.
