June 2012
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Reverse Robin Hood: Bank CEO Pay Grew By 12% Last... →
thepoliticalfreakshow:
According to an analysis by the pay research group Equilar, compensation for top bank CEOs grew by nearly 12 percent last year. The Financial Times noted that these increases occurred “despite widespread falls in profits and share prices“:
Top US and European bankers, including JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon and Citigroup’s Vikram Pandit, have enjoyed double-digit annual...
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Women are born free in the US but give birth in... →
paxamericana:
America is almost unique in the civilised world for forcing pregnant prisoners to undergo childbirth cuffed and shackled
In 2007, a 17-year-old girl called Cora Fletcher was charged with retail theft. Over a year later, after she missed a court date, she was sent to the Cook County jail, in Illinois. She was eight months pregnant at the time.
During a pre-natal check-up at...
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“You killed my son and now you are giving me a tree?”
– An Iraqi farmer to Peter Van Buren of the US State Department after his team tried to give away fruit tree seedlings to replant ruined orchards. (via ambitioussurvival)
The death perpetuated by these fucking wars is going to haunt the U.S. for generations - as it should. Anyone who doesn’t feel...
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In 2011, Congress cut $75 million in homeless... →
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“A new study shows that young black people are considerably less likely to use...”
– Ed Brayton, Dispatches from the Culture Wars (via owlsandorange) (via darkjez)
Welp…
(via fracturedrefuge)
~*post racial society*~
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Random Acts of Chaos: Catholic bishop who gave... →
abaldwin360:
When Timothy Dolan was elected president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in 2010, Frank Cocozzelli wrotethat this was an indication that “They are going to escalate the culture wars at the expense of economic justice.”
The Dolan-led Bishops and their allies on…
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Catholic teaching hospital sued after anti-gay... →
A gay HIV-positive man says in court that a hospital denied him treatment and visitors, as the doctor remarked, “This is what he gets for going against God’s will.”
Joao Simoes sued Trinitas Regional Medical Center in Union County Superior Court. He says that the hospital admitted him in August 2011, but that “requests for his lifesaving medication were not honored,” and his sister was...
