Occupy Movement, Supercommittee, Public-Private Conspirators, Class War, Jobs

Occupy Movement

• Occupy Wall Street Puts the Coverage in the Spotlight NYT
• Lobbying Firm's Memo Spells Out Plan to Undermine Occupy Wall Street
• The naked truth: Using art and strip poker to enlighten New York
• Glenn Greenwald: Here's what attempted co-option of OWS looks like Salon
• Nicholas Kristof: Occupy the Agenda NYT
• Shepard Fairey Designs 'Occupy Hope' Poster, Replaces Obama's Face With 'V for Vendetta' Mask
• Lost? Not so much.

Supercommittee

• The Supercommittee Fails—and That's Good for Obama
• Obama threatens to veto changes to $1.2T in cuts
• For Deficit Panel, Failure Cuts Two Ways NYT
• Greg Sargent: No, 'both sides' aren’t equally to blame for supercommittee failure
• Why the Super Committee is Super Illegitimate--"Members of Congress can't serve big money donors and the general public at the same time."

Public-Private Conspirators

• Billionaires Use Tax Loophole To Lower Their Tax Rates To 1 Percent
• The GOP brain explained: Why Cliff Stearns wants to subsidize successful companies
• Cost, need questioned in $433-million smallpox drug deal--"A company controlled by a longtime political donor gets a no-bid contract to supply an experimental remedy for a threat that may n ot exist."
• Bell Helicopter Wants Tax Breaks but Can Afford to Pay Wall Street
• The Privatization of Copyright Lawmaking

Class War

• The Economics Of Plutonomy
• The rich are getting richer, U.S. study says
• GOP sen.: Feds send checks to millionaires for not working
• Mississippi Woman Receives Three Year Prison Sentence For Feeding Her Family
• Congress Supports Homes for the Wealthy Over the Poor--"Somehow the government is managing to do exactly the opposite of what it should be doing: it's subsidizing home ownership for the rich while cutting funding for affordable housing for the poor."

Jobs

• Work for free – or not at all: the bitter choice for young graduates
• Young jobseekers told to work without pay or lose unemployment benefits--"People taking up work experience places – providing up to 30 hours a week of unpaid labour – face losing benefits if they quit."
• Nearly 70% Of Super Rich Kids Take A Job At Daddy's Firm