January 2010
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The Default →
fringeelements:
When I was a little kid, I thought everything should be free. I told my mom about this idea, and she said it wouldn’t work because then nobody would make anything. First lesson in economics. One day when I was with my mom at the ATM, I saw her punch in some numbers and get some money. Then I asked her why she even bothered working if she could just take money out of the money...
Numbers →
newleft:
azspot:
GDP of Haiti: $8.5 billion.
Goldman Sachs bonus pool: $20 billion.
Approximate total funding for Haiti currently stands at $545 million.
United Nations: $10 million.
World Bank: $100 million.
Starbucks, Google, Microsoft and Bank of America: $1 million each.
Deutsche Bank AG: $4 million, and is matching employee’s contributions.
Gisele Bundchen: $1.5 million. (I...
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Haiti, "Classquakes," and American Empire →
newleft:
Earthquakes are natural developments, but vulnerability to them is richly anthropogenic (“man made”) and is not spread evenly across the fractured and intersecting global landscapes of race, class, and empire. As Mike Davis pointed out in his 2006 book Planet of Slums, a chilling expose of the atrocious living (and dying) conditions that US.-led neoliberal capitalism has imposed on the...
Jerks Win Nobel Prizes all the Time
willowphoto:
Al Gore’s house in Nashville uses over 12 times the amount of energy that a normal American house uses. “It’s OK!” you say. “It’s green energy!” But Gore didn’t make the switch to green energy until after he started getting criticized.
Then there’s the pesky little fact that he owns over a quarter million dollars worth of stock in Occidental Petroleum, a big and evil oil company...
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“A society where everyone, whatever his/her sex, race, economic position, sexual...”
– Chantal Mouffe (via newleft)
