Showing posts with label Wall Street. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wall Street. Show all posts

Sunday, July 14, 2013

PETITION TO CONGRESS: Pass Elizabeth Warren's Glass-Steagall Bill

This regulation never should have been cut and helped engender the recent financial crisis. If we don't want it to happen again, we must bring it back!


Elizabeth Warren introduced a new Glass-Steagall bill to stop Wall Street banks from gambling with the life savings of regular families. It will also help prevent future bailouts. For more, click the link below:

PETITION TO CONGRESS: Pass Elizabeth Warren's Glass-Steagall Bill


Friday, January 25, 2013

Selling Out Wisconsin


"The corporate influence and biased nature of the proceedings were evident throughout the day. According to Williams’ rules, the bill’s sponsors would be given 10 minutes to speak, and the Department of Natural Resources would be given 5. Everybody else was supposed to restrict their remarks to 2 minutes, with time allowed for committee members to ask a maximum of two questions.

But it was no surprise when the CEO, Chief Engineer and lobbyist for Gogebic Taconite – the company that is proposing to blast a 1,000 foot deep open pit mine 21 miles long and half a mile across at the headwaters of the Bad River near the shores of Lake Superior – took up nearly an hour of the committee’s time. GTac was also allowed to show pictures and graphs – something others were prohibited from doing."

The Million Dollar Bill

Monday, September 26, 2011

Friday, September 23, 2011

Change in the news for the September Equinox

Stars and planets are lining up for the change of seasons during the autumnal equinox this year - so many changes happening in the news too!  Wall Street protests, Palestine bid, and faster than the speed of light?

Autumnal Equinox 2011
news.nationalgeographic.com
The march of the seasons—winter, spring, summer, and fall—stems from the "clearly definable" position of the sun on the summer and winter solstices, according to Judith Young, a professor of astronomy at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.

Particles Moved Faster Than Speed of Light?
news.nationalgeographic.com
If confirmed, the astonishing claim would upend a cardinal rule of physics established by Albert Einstein nearly a century ago. "Most theorists believe that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light. So if this is true, it would rock the foundations of physics," said Stephen Parke, head of t...
 

Keith Olbermann, Michael Moore Criticize Media For Ignoring ...
Huffington Post
The Occupy Wall Street group has been camped out in a plaza a block from the ... Olbermann said that, for some reason, the protesters had been "Ignored by ...


Occupying Wall Street ...by Marc Adler
www.michaelmoore.com
For months, every time I passed the New York Stock Exchange, I wondered why people weren’t rioting in the streets. Do Americans not realize that Wall Street has completely hijacked our government and economy?

Abbas submits Palestine statehood bid, gets standing ovation at UN

RT 
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas got a standing ovation while addressing the UN General Assembly - shortly after submitting the bid for full statehood to ...