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By Devin Leonard and Romesh Ratnesar – At first glance, it is difficult to take the Occupy Wall Street protests seriously—in part because the participants seem to be having so much fun. The frivolity was deceiving. The Occupy Wall Street protests have proven more organized, disciplined, durable, and yes, businesslike, than critics—and even many supporters—might prefer to believe.
The conditions that gave rise to Occupy Wall Street aren’t going away. This is a major difference between the current protests and the antiglobalization movement of the late 1990s, which sought to rally public opinion against multinational corporations at a time when the U.S. was enjoying the longest run of prosperity in a generation. Now unemployment remains moored north of 9 percent. More than 23 percent of homeowners owe more on their loans than their homes are worth. And yet until recently, the country’s biggest financial institutions have reaped record profits. Median pay for CEOs across all industries increased 27 percent in 2010, compared with 2.1 percent for the average worker. more> http://twurl.nl/6g4j0e
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Fish & Bicycles - What a brilliant idea…and how very sad that the U.S. isn’t doing projects like this on a grand scale, all over the country, simply because we’re so paralyzed by political and governmental corruption and dysfunction.
By Manu Raju and Scott Wong – The Senate descended into procedural chaos Thursday night as Democrats forced a change in 
