Author Archives: Arlen Grossman

Permanent Get Out of Jail Card

Posted on March 11, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

BPR Quote of the Day: Senator Warren is referring to the bank officials at HSBC who helped launder hundreds of millions of dollars to Mexican drug cartels and terrorist groups.

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What Are We Saving?

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

Daylight Savings Time 2013: Little Actual Savings By Andrea Ayres/ Policymic/ March 9, 2013 Daylight Savings Time (DST) begins this Sunday, March 10 at 2 a.m. That means that most of us will lose an hour of sleep as we … Continue reading →

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Is the Game Over?

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

By Arlen Grossman/ The Big Picture Report “All resistance must recognize that the corporate d’etat is complete.” — Chris Hedges Is Hedges correct? Have we as a nation and a world gone so far overboard into global corporate capitalism that … Continue reading →

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“The Devil Came Here Yesterday”

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

Hugo Chavez’s famous 2006 U.N. speech when he called President Bush “the devil.”

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Opinions = Facts

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

BPR Quote of the Day: “Print-based culture, in which fact and assertion could be traced and distinguished, has ceded to a culture of emotionally driven narratives where facts and opinions are interchangeable. This is a decline and a degeneration that … Continue reading →

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Wall Street Giants

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

Eric Holder Admits Some Banks Are Just Too Big To Prosecute  By Mark Gongloff/ Huffington Post/ March 6, 2013 When the Attorney General of the United States admits some banks are simply too big to prosecute, it might be time … Continue reading →

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…And We Are Screwed

Posted on March 6, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

We Are Bradley Manning By Chris Hedges/ Truthdig/ March 3, 2012 I was in a military courtroom at Fort Meade in Maryland on Thursday as Pfc. Bradley Manning admitted giving classified government documents to WikiLeaks. The hundreds of thousands of … Continue reading →

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WEALTH INEQUALITY: IT’S WORSE THAN YOU THINK

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Arlen Grossman
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What’s the Problem?

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Arlen Grossman
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Ultimate Proof That Corporations Aren’t People

Posted on March 1, 2013 by Arlen Grossman

Here’s a second story by Matt Taibbi that should boggle everyone’s mind. If you were caught working with Mexican drug cartels and organizations linked to al-Qaeda, Iran, North Korea, etc, in the “largest drug-and terrorism money-laundering case ever,” you would … Continue reading →

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