The 1% essentially owns many city governments in America. They have mayors and police forces as their army to defend their interests. This is "who" America really is. We've discovered that the friend we always thought was a nice guy has a very dangerous side.
Married to someone with a childhood so terrible, he blocked it out for years.
This morning, the #OccupyOakland encampment is being shut down.
Oakland police have arrested about 25 protesters at the sprawling Occupy Oakland encampment outside City Hall...
The long-term implications of shattered young lives, lost jobs, and lost opportunities for so many people cannot be measured. As we find out more details of the story, the circle of victims grows wider.
There is such a sad feeling in this country now that our government seems to have completely failed us. The Occupy Movement is the 99 Percenters Response to that failure.
A late update from the 2011 Irish Presidential Elections.
An interview with author, Linda Weber on her book exploring the spiritual essence of abortion, the historical context for it, and how it leads people to live with more awareness.
A parody of The Edgar Allen Poe's, The Raven...a terrifying Halloween horror for the top 1%!!!
if patriotism is supporting your government's policies without question, supporting all the wealth going to the top 1%, then we are on our way to a totalitarian state of government.
One way or another, America as we know it will end in 2012. We will be living in an America where a wealthy class is cemented into power and economic dominance over the majority or it will be an America where the majority rallies to retake their nation and democracy back.