Top Cause Of Workplace Sickness Dubbed 'Black Death Of 21st Century' - Careers Articles

Top Cause Of Workplace Sickness Dubbed 'Black Death Of 21st Century' - Careers Articles: ""We're not sharing in these productivity gains," says John de Graaf, the national coordinator for Take Back Your Time, an advocacy group pushing for paid vacation time and other worker protections, and the author of the forthcoming book "What's the Economy for Anyway?."
And the extra work has taken a toll on America's health. A 2007 study by Emory University's school of public health found that Americans 50 years or older were more likely to suffer from cancer, diabetes and heart disease than Europeans at the same age. "We have more chronic diseases in old age," says de Graaf. "And those are very expensive diseases.""

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HLL: Keith Olbermann Reads the Statement Released By The Wall Street

HLL: Keith Olbermann Reads the Statement Released By The Wall Street: ""I believe that banking institutio­ns
are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
If the American people ever allow private banks
to control the issue of their currency,
first by inflation, then by deflation,
the banks and corporatio­ns that will grow up around the banks
will deprive the people of all property –
until their children wake-up homeless
on the continent their fathers conquered.­"

~ Thomas Jefferson 1802
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Joe Biden On Bank Of America: 'At A Minimum, They Are Incredibly Tone Deaf'

Joe Biden On Bank Of America: 'At A Minimum, They Are Incredibly Tone Deaf': "J.P. Morgan circa 1913: “Capital must protect itself in every way... Debts must be collected and loans and mortgages foreclosed as soon as possible. When through a process of law the common people have lost their homes, they will be more tractable and more easily governed by the strong arm of the law applied by the central power of leading financiers­. People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders.Th­is is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialis­m of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.”"

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Eric Cantor’s breathtaking hypocrisy on Occupy Wall Street - PostPartisan - The Washington Post

Eric Cantor’s breathtaking hypocrisy on Occupy Wall Street - PostPartisan - The Washington Post: "What Cantor refuses to see is that the people participating in Occupy Wall Street-style protests around the country also represent an awakening in America. Seeing the similarities in the grievances held by the Occupy Wall Streeters and the Tea Party movement, Mark from Ohio explained to me in a letter this week, “Both see corruption in high places — corporations and government — and those two areas are so closely aligned, that I don’t think there is really much of a difference between criticizing the tyranny of corrupt government and the tyranny of corrupt corporations.”"

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Miles Mogulescu: Progressive Activism Helps Prevent Wall Street Banks From Receiving a "Get Out of Jail Free" Card

Miles Mogulescu: Progressive Activism Helps Prevent Wall Street Banks From Receiving a "Get Out of Jail Free" Card: "Neither the New Deal nor the Great Society would have been enacted without BOTH powerful mass protest movements and politicians who were capable of being moved by those movements.

For example, soon after FDR was elected, his Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins (the most progressive member, and only woman, in FDR's cabinet) went to FDR and asked him to do more to protect the interests of America's workers. FDR's response was "Go out and make me". Among other things, Perkins organized a conference of labor leaders in the Secretary's suite, which developed a 10-point program to present to FDR, including abolition of child labor, higher wages for all workers, government recognition of the right to organize unions, and social security.

Much of this program was eventually enacted as part of the New Deal. But it wouldn't have happened without million of workers organizing, unionizing and demonstrating.

Likewise, while LBJ is credited with passing Medicare and the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts, it wouldn't have happened without millions of Americans sitting in marching, registering voters, committing civil disobedience, and even dying."

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Art Pope, Citizens United, and North Carolina Politics : The New Yorker

Art Pope, Citizens United, and North Carolina Politics : The New Yorker: "A REPORTER AT LARGESTATE FOR SALEA conservative multimillionaire has taken control in North Carolina, one of 2012’s top battlegrounds.
by Jane Mayer
OCTOBER 1"

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Occupy Wall Street protest: NYPD accused of heavy-handed tactics | World news | The Guardian

Occupy Wall Street protest: NYPD accused of heavy-handed tactics | World news | The Guardian: "Activists involved in the march, as well as commentators who are following the protest against inequality and corporate excess, claim the response of the city's police force to the peaceful event was vastly out of proportion.

The total number of people who have been arrested in the past two weeks stands at almost 1,000 – substantially more than the number of financiers who led the world into the 2008 economic meltdown.

As Salman Rushdie put it in a tweet: "The world's economy has been wrecked by these rapacious traders. Yet it is the protesters who are jailed.""

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