'The last three decades have witnessed a carefully calculated heist worthy of Robert Redford and Paul Newman in “The Sting” — but on a massive scale,' says Bill Moyers and Michael Winship from Truthout. 'It was an inside job, politically engineered by Wall Street and Washington, working hand-in-hand, sticky fingers with sticky fingers, to turn the legend of Robin Hood on its head — giving to the rich and taking from everybody else.'The party people of Wall Street
Posted On Tuesday, 31 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Finance Tags: Alan Greenberg, bailouts, bankers, Bill Moyers, billionaire bankers, Citigroup, Gilded Age, James Lebenthal, Kappa Beta Phi, Michael Winship, Occupy Wall Street, OWS, robber barons, Robert Benmosche, Vikram Pandit, Wall Street, Wilbur Ross
'The last three decades have witnessed a carefully calculated heist worthy of Robert Redford and Paul Newman in “The Sting” — but on a massive scale,' says Bill Moyers and Michael Winship from Truthout. 'It was an inside job, politically engineered by Wall Street and Washington, working hand-in-hand, sticky fingers with sticky fingers, to turn the legend of Robin Hood on its head — giving to the rich and taking from everybody else.'Australian racism is alive and flourishing
Posted On Tuesday, 31 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Discrimination, Indigenous Australia, New Australians Tags: Australian racism, Charlie Teo, Colonialism, convicts, Cronulla riots, David Donovan, Edmund Burke, Immigrants, Indigenous dispossession, intolerance, Julia Gillard, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott
The reaction to the Tent Embassy incident shows that Australian racism and intolerance is alive and well; managing editor David Donovan says it’s time for Australians to grow up.Tess Lawrence versus McKean Park Lawyers and the NAB
Posted On Monday, 30 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Finance, Law Tags: bankruptcy, David List, Daylesford, Federal Court, finance, foreclosure, insolvency, justice, Matt Norman, McKean Park, Michael Crewdson, NAB, PILCH, repossession, Tess Lawrence
Contributing editor-at-large Tess Lawrence fronts the Federal Court in Melbourne tomorrow in her appeal against the bankruptcy order made against her on November 11 last year. As she reports, much has happened to her since that hearing — very little of it good or just.A house divided
Posted On Monday, 30 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Australian history, Australian identity, Discrimination, Indigenous Australia, Politics Tags: Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Australia Day, Australian identity, exclusionary nationalism, Henry Pill, Indigenous, John Howard, leadership, Martin Flanagan, nationalism, racial divisions, racism
“Exclusionary nationalism is a sickness caused by the divisive and opportunistic leadership of Howard,” says Henry Pill. “It will remain strong, and racial tensions will remain high, and debates over the meaning of Australia day will rage ever longer, without leadership which rejects the ever-dangerous spoils of racial politics.”Why there is a good chance your boss is a psychopath
Posted On Monday, 30 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Business, Employment, Life Tags: bosses are psychopaths, Broadmoor, CEOs, corporate culture, corporations, David Donovan, George Monbiot, mental illness
A study shows that senior managers and CEOs are four times more likely to be psychopaths than typical members of the general public. Managing editor David Donovan reports.GFC caused by bank bought financial deregulation
Posted On Sunday, 29 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Economics, Finance, International Tags: bank lobbying, Bank lobbyists, Barack Obama, Congress, finance, financial deregulation, IMF, Larry Summers, Ron Paul, Simon Johnson, Wall Street
New studies show that the US financial sector lobbied long and hard for deregulation, and spent a great deal of time and money persuading politicians that it constituted the safe and modern approach to banking — but instead causing the global financial crisis. Simon Johnson from Project Syndicate comments.Tony Abbott and the Tent Embassy
Posted On Saturday, 28 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Indigenous Australia, Politics Tags: Abbott comments about Tent Embassy, Aboriginal Tent Embassy, Indigenous, John Turnbull, Julia Gillard, protests, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott
Why did Tony Abbott retract his comments about it being time for the Aboriginal Tent Embassy to move on? John Turnbull comments.The Uglies faction and our anti Commo history
Posted On Saturday, 28 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Discrimination, New Australians, Politics Tags: 2nd AIF, anti-Communism, ANZUS, ASIO, ASIO links with Nazis, Bert Evatt, Communism, immigration, John Ward, Korean War, Liberal Party links with fascists, Nazis, persecution of Communists, post WW2 migration, Robert Menzies, Secret war in Indonesia, The Uglies, Tony Abbott, Uglies Faction, UNHCR, WW2
Australia's post-WWII migration record has been characterised by the persecution of Communists and the promotion of fascists, says John Ward.Confirmation Gillard and Abbott were never threatened by Indigenous activists
Posted On Friday, 27 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Indigenous Australia, Media, Politics Tags: Aboriginal, bodyguards, David Donovan, demonstrations, Indigenous, ISP, John Passant, Julia Gillard, mainstream media, protective services, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott, Wil Wallace
More eyewitness accounts confirm Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott were never under attack by Aboriginal protestors, but rather the victims of over-excited bodyguards. Managing editor David Donovan reports.Gillard and Abbott were never really threatened by Aboriginal protestors
Posted On Thursday, 26 Jan 2012 By admin. Under Discrimination, Indigenous Australia, Politics Tags: Canberra, demonstration, Gillard jostled, Indigenous, John Passant, Julia Gillard, Land rights, Porkbarrel Café, protests, Tent Embassy, Tony Abbott, Treaty
The official account portrays Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Opposition Leader Tony Abbott as being attacked by violent Aboriginal demonstrators today in Canberra. Present at the demonstrations was John Passant — who paints a rather different picture of events.
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