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Stuart Bramhall on why the left fails to attract the working class. After posing this question to working class clients and friends for 30+ years, I have come up with the following answers: Liberals and progressives rarely address the nitty gritty financial issues (i.e. paying the rent or mortgage and food and doctor bills) [...] Talkin’ World Awakening – New-Topical-Song for Greece, Freedom and all people sacked by banka-gangstas from Michel Montecrossa on Vimeo. Excerpt “The world wakes up with the urban poor, the uprooted, forsaken armies of the doomed. The people know the people and demand peaceful change. The bankas are killin’ entire nations and cut off workin’ [...] Three wonderful foster cats need a home. Will transport. Contact Bob for details or leave a comment here. Sweet Sadie loves to lounge. Very companionable. Her former person cried buckets when she surrendered her to Cat Connection — her home had been foreclosed and she went to live in a no-pets apartment. We are [...] Democratic lawmakers are very sad that the bad ole Controller is making them follow the Constitution [California] Controller John Chiang announced today he has blocked pay for lawmakers, rejecting his own party’s spending plan as insufficient to satisfy a voter-approved law on timely budgets. Good. Maybe the reality of no pay will force California [...] Surely I'll be able find a job armed with new shiny new degree. And I'm only $60,000 in debt! From Bill Gross, Managing Director of Pimco, in another of his wondrous monthly rants. American citizens and its universities have experienced an ivy-laden ivory tower for the past half century. Students, however, can no longer [...] How Modern Industrial Agriculture Destroyed Our Most Alluring Fruit The tomato on the cover of Tomatoland, written by Barry Estabrook, tells the whole story. It is lusciously red, spherical, and almost certainly tasteless. The book focuses on Florida, where tomatoes are grown for the northern market, especially in winter. The “soil” in Florida, if [...] Treasury ministers have admitted that the Government is drawing up contingency plans for a Greek bankruptcy after being warned by a former foreign secretary that the euro “cannot last”. Events are moving much faster than previously imagined. “Turn around, go back down, back the way you came, Can’t you see that flash [...] Continuous Chest Compression CPR, a hands-only CPR method, doubles a person’s chance of surviving cardiac arrest. It’s easy and does not require mouth-to-mouth contact, making it more likely bystanders will try to help, and it was developed at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Watch the video, you might save a life. You [...] “I put up an all-cuts budget. Then the Democrats change [the all-cuts budget] and put in gimmicks. Then I veto it. Then everybody sits there until we run out of money. It’s not going to be a pretty sight. It’s like one-two: No tax, all cuts, gimmicky budget, veto, paralysis.” This is what Gov. [...] [A Greece default] would have potentially catastrophic consequences for holders not only of 340bn euros (£300bn) of Greek sovereign debt, but also for holders of hundreds of billions of euros of Greek commercial debt and tens of billions of euros of derivative contracts linked to Greek debts. The contagion would then spread to Spain and [...] |  | ||||
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