The Separation Corp and State, Occupy Wall Street, Plutocracy, Tea party and the 53%, International

Separating Corp and State

• Conservatives and Liberals Agree: End the Malignant, Symbiotic Relationship Between Big Government and Big Corporations
• House Democrats push legislation to overturn Citizens United ruling
• The Big Picture: A 40-Year Scan of the Right-Wing Corporate Takeover of America

Occupy Wall Street

• Bloomberg cancels "cleaning" of Zuccotti Park, avoiding showdown with Occupation Wall Street NYT
• Mark Cuban: My Soapbox Advice to the OWS Movement and then some
• Citibank CEO Says Occupy Wall Street Protesters Are Right--"Citibank CEO Vikram Pandit appeared at a corporate breakfast yesterday organized by Fortune magazine and attempted to make nice with the Occupy Wall Street movement. So nice, in fact, that he issued an open invitation for protesters to 'come up' to his office for a chat anytime."
• Bank of Canada head calls Occupy protests 'entirely constructive'
• Ben & Jerry’s Becomes First High-Profile Company to Support Occupy Wall Street
• 12 Most Absurd Laws Used to Stifle the Occupy Wall St. Movement Around the Country
• HIV Positive Protester Says Cop Who Punched Him Should Get Tested

Plutocracy

• Panic of the Plutocrats--"So who’s really being un-American here? Not the protesters, who are simply trying to get their voices heard. No, the real extremists here are America’s oligarchs, who want to suppress any criticism of the sources of their wealth." NYT
• Why the Elites Are in Trouble
• This is Why They Hate You and Want You to Die--"You pay fired executives more in severance than the average American worker will earn in a lifetime."
• The Welfare of the 99% not the wealth of the 1%
• What do the “1 percent” actually do? Salon

Tea party and the 53%

• Tea Party, Meet Occupy Wall Street. OWS, Tea Party
• Spooked By Occupy Wall Street, WSJ's Peggy Noonan Rewrites Tea Party Past
• Judith Miller Admits the 'Tea Party' Has Been Co-opted by Koch Brothers and Others
• 53 Percenters: Conservative campaign against Americans who don't pay federal income taxes
• The 'We are the 53%' Tumblr is Heartbreaking

International

• 'Occupy Wall Street' protests go global
• Occupy Wall Street-style protests spreading to Britain--"People are not stakeholders in democracy, in the workings of the nation anymore."
• Occupy Wall Street protests have now spread to Ireland
• Australians Gather to 'Occupy Sydney'
• Protesters Go Through Taiwan's 101 As 'Occupy Wall Street' Spreads