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Financial affairs

for more great cartoons dealing with the financial system, see these, from the Michael Journal, a Canadian Catholic magazine dedicated to social justice: http://www.michaeljournal.org/gallery.htm

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The Big Obscenity: A Trillion Dollars a Year to the Richest 1% (That’s seven times more than the budget deficits of all 50 states combined)January 20, 2011 “Commondreams ” – -If you make less than $114,000 a year (90% of us), you’ve been financially damaged by the flow of income to the richest 1% of [...]

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  How Can the Richest 1 Percent Be Winning This Brutal Class War Against 99% of Us?Who are we? All the rest. By Larry Beinhart January 21, 2011 “AlterNet   Which poses an interesting question. ” — Who are they? The richest 1 percent. And maybe the next 9 percent.   How has a tiny [...]

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Moving right along, from back to front. on the Central Verein:

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Today, when we Americans are seeing the complete demolition of the social safety net, labor laws, banking laws and the top 1 percent of Americans are sucking out all the wealth of the country, here is a timely reminder, from the Catholic monthly Jubilee, July 1955:

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We all watched this the other day, a great documentary, Nanook of the North: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwFse6OUZ-Q

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This is too funny!

The whole comic cannot fit here, so follow the link Tom the Dancing Bug: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Corrected to reflect modern sensibilities) Ruben Bolling at 7:28 AM Wednesday, Jan 12, 2011     TomTheDancingBug, Wide • Tags: comics

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Buffalo’s German-led IndustryBuffalo’s German population in 1901 included a number of very influential, often wealthy businessmen, many of whom attained prominance through the business dominated by Buffalo’s German population throughout the 19th century–brewing. In the 1840′s small plants had first been established by such Buffalo brewing pioneers Jacob Roos, J. F. Schanzlin and Hoffman, and [...]

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