PhotOH! Money that speaks for the 99% PhotOH! Money that speaks for the 99% · Monday, October 17th, 2011 at 12:35 pm You can see more money that speaks for the 99% here, at Occupy George. Brilliant: H/t: @katewarren Speaking of Political Carnival, it's fundrasing time again: If we are one thing here at TPC, it's being up front. 2012 will be a hugely busy (election) year, and we intend to dedicate all of our time to bringing you the latest breaking news (and humor, snarkitude, videos, commentary)... which means not having to worry about basic things like heat and food, what with Mr. You can donate at any time by using the PayPal donate button in the sidebar, or if you need a snail mail addy, feel free to email thepolicalcarnival@gmail.com. In addition, if anyone wants to sponsor us for three months with an ad in the sidebar, please email Paddy. Without donations, we have no Political Carnival. Please, though, never forget that we truly appreciate you guys with or without the donations.
A Brief History of Income Taxes - TurboTax& Tax Tips & Videos Updated for Tax Year: 2010 Did you know President Abraham Lincoln, one of America's most beloved leaders, also instituted one of its least liked obligations - the income tax? In this brief history of taxes, see the historical events which shaped income taxes in the United States today. Click on the infographic below to open it in a new window. Created by Infographic World Want to use this infographic on your site? <iframe title="TurboTax A Brief History of US Income Taxes Infographic" width="657" height="6170" src=" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><a href=" Done Right</a> with TurboTax The 8 Most Ridiculously Badass Protesters Ever Photographed Image found by the awesome Strigoi Another protester in the anti-Mubarak riots, Flaming Scarf Guy looks like he walked straight out of an anime (that he just firebombed). The context is unclear even in the original Al Jazeera photo, so we can't say if he caused that explosion, or if he just sort of appears out of the ether whenever there is an explosion. We're going to assume a terrifying combination of the two, like a napalm-based variant of the Bloody Mary legend. Plenty of people see this picture and make jokes about that old action hero cliche: Cool guys don't look at explosions, they just turn and walk away. You can fight the riot cops. This is yet a third Egyptian protester, and this image completes the most epic trilogy since Lord of the Rings. This dairy farmer was protesting the EU headquarters in Brussels over rapidly falling milk prices. You knew he was coming. You knew because he's an internet staple by now.
Desperate LightSquared claims 5th Amendment violation, demands new spectrum An increasingly desperate LightSquared today accused the Federal Communications Commission of violating its constitutional property rights by rejecting its application to build a 4G network on spectrum adjacent to that used by GPS devices, and demanded that the FCC either reverse its decision or give LightSquared a new chunk of spectrum. The bold claims follow the FCC's decision last month to withdraw LightSquared's conditional approval to use spectrum allocated for satellite transmissions for cell towers instead. In a long response to the FCC that was made public late Friday, LightSquared claimed the FCC's action constitutes a "taking of LightSquared’s property without just compensation in violation of the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution." The argument seems unlikely to sway the FCC. The agency has authority over how spectrum is allocated. With LightSquared's cellular prospects looking increasingly dim, the company recently bolstered its legal staff by hiring Bush v.
10 Best Photos From This Summer's Most Scantily Clad Movement An unwitting officer in Toronto “helpfully” advised women that, to not be raped, they should “avoid dressing like sluts.” His stupid comment inspired people in Toronto, Boston, Chicago, Sydney, and many more cities to organize SlutWalks, a series of marches based on the idea that sluts don’t cause rape, rapists do. Here are some of the best photos so far: Photo found on Moxiebird.com. April 3, 2011, Toronto, ON. Photo by Michael Courier. Photo by Daniel. Photo by Stephanie Vaughn. Photo by Anton Bielousov. Photo by Gracie Hagen. Photo by Laura Kehoe. Photo by Garry Knight. Photo by Rachel Freundt. Attend your local SlutWalk and tell the world we won’t let victims take the blame anymore. Found on Flickr accounts and blogs of fearless activists everywhere.
Public Rebuke of Culture at Goldman Opens Debate Daniel Acker/Bloomberg NewsLloyd C. Blankfein, front, chief executive of Goldman Sachs, and Gary D. Cohn, its president. Until early Wednesday morning, Greg Smith was a largely anonymous 33-year-old midlevel executive at Goldman Sachs in London. Now everyone at the firm — and on Wall Street — knows his name. Mr. What the e-mail didn’t say was that about 15 minutes later, an Op-Ed article he had written detailing his criticisms was to be published in The New York Times. The Op-Ed landed “like a bomb,” inside Goldman, said one executive who spoke on the condition of anonymity. The article reignited a debate on the Internet and on cable television over whether Wall Street was corrupted by greed and excess. Greg Smith, an executive at Goldman Sachs, resigned on March 14 and criticized the company’s culture. Goldman disagreed with the assertions in the Op-Ed article, saying that they did not reflect how the firm treated its clients. Friends of Mr. The reaction on Wall Street to Mr. Mr. But Mr.
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Wall Street Sees Big Profits In Renting Out Foreclosed Homes * Hedge funds, private equity firms eye single-family homes * Fannie's 2,500 pilot offering drawing out bidders * Skeptics worry about transfer of wealth from poor to rich By Matthew Goldstein and Jennifer Ablan NEW YORK, March 20 (Reuters) - Dan Magder recently gave up a top job with private equity firm Lone Star Funds to strike out on his own and become a landlord. He's joining a growing list of big and small investors who see fat profits to be made in renting out foreclosed homes, especially now the U.S. government is moving ahead with a trial project to sell big pools of single-family homes that Fannie Mae currently owns in some of the hardest-hit housing markets. Investors seeking higher yields are drawn to foreclosures because the rental market is red hot. Even proponents of buying foreclosed homes are advising caution about the kind of returns that investors can expect to reap and the potential negative headlines that can come with being a landlord. Also on HuffPost: