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How the Right's Lame Attack on Occupy Wall St. Shows the Poverty of Conservative Ideology
A new NBC/ poll finds that among those with an opinion, twice as many Americans support the Occupy Wall Street Movement than oppose it. The movement -- with its defining message of standing with the 99 percent of Americans who don't have lobbyists working for them – appears to have tapped into a deep vein of discontent among working people whose economic security has been savaged by decades of upward redistribution of the nation's wealth. The right, in keeping with its habitual knee-jerk defense of the privileged, has tried, with little success so far, to push back on that message. Their answer – or one of them – is a Tumblr account called We Are the 53% , an unimaginitive take-off of Occupy Wall Street's We Are the 99% . The site is the brain-child of Erick Erickson, a toxic right-wing idiot hired by CNN in a futile attempt to deflect conservative charges of “liberal bias.” The lie Erickson offers is simple. Many hard-working Americans pay no federal income taxes.
Nielsen Reports Print Book Sales in Decline
By Andrew Wilkins Print book sales continued to decline in 2010 across several major book markets and macroeconomic conditions would get worse before they got better, according to Nielsen Book sales data presented at Tools of Change Frankfurt on Tuesday. The Republic of Ireland showed the largest single year drop at 8.7%, followed by the UK (6.1%), the US (5.7%), Spain (2.3%) and Denmark (0.5%). Only Italy showed modest growth at plus 0.6%, perhaps, suggested Nielsen Book’s Jonathan Nowell, because e-books had yet to catch on there. For those looking to head to the bar and drown their sorrows, Nowell had at least some positive thoughts: no downturn lasts forever, “value” was going to be an increased priority for consumers, and the rapidly aging population should present publishers with opportunities to sell to “those book-loving baby boomers who finally have the time to read.”
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Occupy Sydney protesters hold firm, vow to stay
PROTESTERS inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement are vowing to stay put in the heart of Sydney's financial district, despite arrests and losing their camping gear. About 200 of them set up camp outside the Reserve Bank of Australia in Martin Place on Saturday, launching a day of "global revolution" against corporate excess. But as night fell, police moved among them, removing tents, mattresses and other gear. "We'll still stay but we'll be more uncomfortable," campaign organiser Josh Lees told AAP this morning. "A bunch of stuff was just taken. "Police moved in without any notice, no discussion ... and just started grabbing stuff and throwing it into a truck which they then drove off." Despite the setback they intend staying indefinitely. They met this mornign to thrash out the "next phase" of the protest. Numbers at the site are expected to swell around midday (AEDT) when a separate mining protest is staged. The behaviour of the Occupy Sydney protesters has been praised by police.
My Soapbox Advice to the OWS Movement and then some
I may not know much, but I know a lot of it. So I decided to share my opinions and thoughts on what I would do if the OWS movement either elected me Grand Poobah or asked for my advice: 1. Every CEO tells the same great white lie. Great CEO White Lie = “We are acting in the best interests of shareholders.” When a CEO utters this lie, everyone automatically forgives whatever they do. The problem is that unless the company is losing money and it is the only way to keep the company alive, in this era of 9.1pct unemployment it NEVER is in the BEST INTEREST OF SHAREHOLDERS. Shareholders , whether they own shares directly or through mutual funds or pensions do not live in a corporate vacuum. If OWS really wants to change corporate structure and impact the economy, talk to shareholders. You might even consider buying a share of stock. 2. We should make all investment banks become reporting partnerships (meaning they still have the same reporting requirements they have today ). 3. Crazy ? 4.
Nonprofit Employers Don’t Meet Workers’ Needs for Job Satisfaction, Surveys Find
By Peter Bolton Two reports released Monday show a disconnect between what nonprofits provide to their workers and what employees say is essential to their job satisfaction. Seventy percent of workers in two surveys said their jobs were either disappointing or only somewhat fulfilling. That might be a reason 25 percent of workers said they were considering looking for a job outside the nonprofit world. The surveys gathered data from about 3,500 nonprofit workers in the New York and Washington metropolitan areas and were conducted by the staffing firm Professionals for NonProfits. Among the other findings: Four out of 10 workers in both cities said that the factors they ranked as most essential are not on display at their nonprofits:—“respect, trust, and support by management” as well as a sense that their organization has “a compelling mission.” “The cost of employee disengagement and poor performance is very high, as is the cost of turnover,” she says. Non-Essential Perks
Building a better brain: Strengthening your mental muscle
According to the newest theory of aging and memory , you can build your brain power through a process called "scaffolding." As we get older, some of our neural circuits don't work as well they used to. You probably know that painful little brain blip when you're trying to remember the name that goes with a person you haven't seen for a while or when you walk into a room and forgot why you went there. It feels like something just isn't clicking the way it should. It turns out that successful brain agers do have these experiences but they find clever ways to overcome them by switching on new circuits when old ones fail. For many years, proponents of the "plasticity" model of brain aging have been at war with the "neural fallout" advocates. We also know that aging spares the vital function known as "procedural memory," which is your ability to remember how to perform many of the actions that make up your daily activities. But it's not only your mental muscle that you need to exercise.
Unions back Occupy Wall Street movement
Union leaders say they feel vindicated by the Occupy Wall Street protests and are doing all they can to keep the movement going. Years before the rallies began, union leaders frequently blamed the banking giants for the country’s economic woes. Labor officials have criticized CEOs’ large compensation packages; pushed for a financial transactions tax; and called for Wall Street bailout funds to be used for small business loans. Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), told The Hill that she found the protesters to be an “incredible inspiration” that have highlighted issues like pay inequality and social injustice. “We have been talking about the increasing inequality in this county for a long time. Unions have been quick to lend a hand to the protests that have been springing up across the country. On Friday, SEIU members and other unions participated in a march in Minneapolis to call on banks to end foreclosures.
