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Published: 2013-02-16 15:39:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 6141; Favourites: 0; Downloads: 0
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Here are some recent bits of news and articles I recommend checking out if you haven't already.
Matt Taibbi's new piece on HSBC getting away with...well, everything. www.rollingstone.com/politics/… 
Elizabeth Warren drills regulators over their incompetence to prosecute criminals. www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02… Whistleblowers expose Bank of America's destructive borrowing and foreclosure practices, and the coverup. www.alternet.org/economy/bank-… Austerity hawks (led by Cameron) claimed victory in the EU budget deal agreed on in Brussels which saw billions in cuts, marking the first EU budget to cut spending in its history. www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/… Speaking of austerity, EU children are becoming a lost generation, as more youth are plunged into poverty. www.reuters.com/article/2013/0… A recent report shows that wealth inequality is growing dramatically in the UK. www.guardian.co.uk/society/201… In the US, public schools are being gutted and closed at the recommendation of corporate special interests, while private charter schools eat up public money. www.alternet.org/education/cor… More austerity on the horizon in the US. truth-out.org/news/item/14498-… Human Rights Watch issued a 44 page report on an Arkansas law which jails tenants for being late on their rent payments. www.salon.com/2013/02/08/repor… Wall Street (Whine Street) is buying up homes to rent back to their former owners. www.alternet.org/occupy-wall-s… Paul Krugman on the party which “refuses to live in an evidence-based world.” www.nytimes.com/2013/02/11/opi… 48 activists were arrested at Keystone Pipeline protest. www.democracynow.org/2013/2/14… The CEO of a fracking company is being charged for illegally dumping nearly a quarter million gallons of fracking fluid into an Ohio sewer system. enenews.com/owner-charged-with… The Nation looks at a factory in Greece where Greek workers occupied and now democratically control their factory. www.thenation.com/blog/172960/… Costas Lapavitsas, Guardian columnist and professor of economics at the University of London, talks about the LIBOR scandal. truth-out.org/news/item/14582-… Facebook made over $1 billion last year and paid no taxes. thinkprogress.org/economy/2013… And of course, Republicans bitching about Obama's call to raise the minimum wage thinkprogress.org/economy/2013… (along with everything else that was said at the SOTU).There's probably much more I'm forgetting, it seems like I find several things a day I would like to share here, but that's probably good for now. Feel free to chime in and share any articles of your own (just no Fox News or Alex Jones please).
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Edit: ...And if someone knows how in the hell this group saw such a dramatic increase in page views starting Jan 26th, with the past three weeks accounting for 1/3 of total page views, I'd love to be in on it. It's weirding me out. But I guess congrats to us for hitting 10,000 page views...?
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I was on board until I saw the link from Paul Krugman . . .
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Well luckily I think I have a solution for that problem: you can just not read that link.
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Well..... I wanna hang myself now.. geezus... Good think I wasn't depressed before I came here lol...
Seriously tho, what the actual fuck is wrong with people, damn.
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Yeah, I have that effect on people 
Just watched a documentary, The Revisionaries, about the Texas State Board of Education and their influence on not just Texas school textbooks but national curriculum. If you want a serious WTF is wrong with people moment, I highly recommend it. Although it will raise your blood pressure many times what I imagine this page just did 
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omg.... I don't know if I can deal with that right now lol.
This is what I'm dealing with in my city right now [link]
fucking walmart... ugh
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I've got a few links of my own to contribute, in particular thanks to Reddit:
The Zapatistas have re-emerged as a force in Mexican politics to criticize the abuses of capitalism, particularly the elite on indigenous peoples: [link]
Billionaires secretly funded a vast climate denial network: [link]
A new documentary details the hoax of the Iraq War: [link]
The GOP appears to be marching to its own demise, thankfully: [link]
In further good news, the Czech Republic has legalized medical marijuana: [link]
The UK, France, and Germany have pledged to keep large companies from avoiding taxes by shifting their money around: [link]
At long last, the Saudi police of vice and virtue are being reigned in: [link]
That's all I have on me for now; I hope it's useful (and in some cases uplifting).
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Oh cool, thanks for those. That climate change one is something I especially find important. Al Jazeera's People and Power piece on the Koch brothers funding climate change denial blew the lid off of it, it got people talking and more aware at the least. It shouldn't be surprising, especially when you see the names behind it, but it's still so infuriating. And it's working, that's the worst part, climate change denial is huge and seems to be increasing (particularly in the US). I found Skeptic Magazine's tackling of climate change denial pretty thorough [link] and the site skepticalscience.com [link] is an incredibly in depth resource (and NCSE [link] , one of my personal favorite organizations). Hopefully showing the intentions behind these few funding bad science, and educating people on reality, will be enough to keep such ideas from continuing to grow and really cause harm to the environment.
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