OccupyDameStreet - Street Protest In Dublin

I have discovered that if I do not have my camera with my I will, without fail, come across something interesting and end up regretting that fact that I did not have my camera. Of course I can always use my iPhone...

Wanted - Lloyd Blankfein

Lloyd Blankfein Wanted Poster created by Localtarian

Budget Amendment: Very Likely Contrary to the U.S. Constitution

Before getting down to serious business to craft some form of solution to the looming debt ceiling deadline of August 2, a number of bills will be brought to the floor for symbolic votes in the Republican Party...

Churches Across America Either Floored by Foreclosures or Mauled

Unfortunately the financial crisis has hit all sectors. Precisely, individual churches werethe most affected. The congregation numbers have fallen along with the signatures:"Family Christian...

MSNBC Playing Judge and Juror in Bailout Blame Game

I watched this video uploaded from MSNBC Dylan Ratigan's show www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/36233217#36233217  and was left with a puzzling feeling of an intense and deliberate session of...

Greece set to explode in wake of austerity measures

On Wednesday the Greek government announced its long awaited package of economic measures to deal with the financial crisis the country has been facing since the discovery that the previous conservative government...

Looking beyond the cliches - Modern Greece is not Ancient Athens

One effect of Greece's recent financial problems is that the country has been on the front pages of the world's newspapers and media sites for the last few weeks. It is not the kind of publicity that any country,...

Greece: The morning after

Much of the current media coverage over Greece's debt crisis is focused on how the country is going to raise the funds necessary to cover the $400 plus billion it owes creditors. Scenarios concerning the...

Greece's financial worries European roots

Today Greek prime minister, Giorgos Papandreou is in Russia, yet another stop on an itinerary which has seen him flit across the globe in a desperate bid to secure fresh funding for Greece's troubled economy. ...

Freeganism Vs Capitalism

(Note: All the images in this post are a selection of political illustrations I made in the past few months) Freeganism is an anti-consumerist lifestyle whereby people employ alternative living strategies based on...

Union Mad at a Boy Scout Project?

In what has to be the ultimate in entitlement think, a union official in Allentown, Pennsylvania is considering filing a lawsuit against the city for allowing a Boy Scout to do volunteer work on city...

No Economic Recovery in Sight

There is no economic recovery in sight. And more stimuli won't instigate consumers to spend more money.According to the headline in the Financial Times: “the International Monetary Fund says the recession is...

Financial Crisis Aftermath: How to Predict, Fix, and Stop Decline

The financial crisis was one of the worst economic disasters since the Great Depression. Now that the markets have bottomed out and recovery seems imminent, regulators now turn to the task of making sure it never...

Bear market trap

The terms bull market and bear market respectively describe upward and downward movements of a market over a prolonged period of time in which prices rise or fall faster than normal. The expressions "bullish" and...

Wall Street’s Crooks start all over again

Attached article from The Economist tells the facts. One may question himself do we ever get rid of those ugly crooks? With their manipulations they destroyed our society and brought millions of us to the brink of...

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