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Members of the Polish parliament wear Guy Fawkes masks to show their opposition to ACTA.

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NY TIMES: "Mitt Romney and his wife, Ann, made $27 million in 2010. They held millions of dollars in a Swiss bank account and millions more in partnerships in the Cayman Islands. His family’s trusts sold thousands of shares in Goldman Sachs that were offered to favored clients when the storied investment house first went public. The couple’s effective federal tax rate for the year worked out to 13.9 percent, a rate typical of households earning about $80,000 a year. Yet the hundreds of pages of tax documents released by Mr. Romney’s campaign on Tuesday morning did not readily reveal any elaborate financial legerdemain or exotic tax shelters. What Mr. Romney’s returns illustrated, instead, was the array of perfectly ordinary ways in which the United States tax code confers advantages on the rich, allowing Mr. Romney to amass wealth under rules very different from those faced by most Americans who take home a paycheck."

(Source: inothernews)

Seriously now. He needs an intervention.

Seriously now. He needs an intervention.

“I think people making five million dollars to 10 million dollars definitely don’t think they are making enough money,” she told me. “Wouldn’t it be nice to fly private? There are so many things you can aspire to, even making five million dollars a year. For the lower rung of this crowd, these people set up lives for themselves they can’t afford. They are broke and maxed out on their credit cards in December, just like middle-class couples living on one hundred thousand dollars. I don’t think the feel that rich. They are trying to play with the high-rollers, and there are things they can’t do, and they feel deprived, which is completely sick and absurd, but that’s the truth of the matter.”

- “The 1 percent war”, Reuters Magazine

My heart bleeds for these ‘deprived’ millionaires.

(Source: reuters.com)

“Yes, they would finance anything to do with poverty alleviation, but inequality was an altogether different matter. Why? Because ‘my’ concern with the poverty of some people actually projects me in a very nice, warm glow: I am ready to use my money to help them… But inequality is different. Every mention of it raises in fact the issue of the appropriateness or legitimacy of my income.”

- “The 1 percent war”, Reuters Magazine

pinoytumblr: misteravid: With all the shitty tarps & billboards that politicians & advertisers clutter our city with, I am extremely grateful to the people behind this great art initiative to decorate Edsa with murals using paint that absorbs pollution : ) Learn more about the awesome project here : ) More of this please! Awesome project.

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misteravid: With all the shitty tarps & billboards that politicians & advertisers clutter our city with, I am extremely grateful to the people behind this great art initiative to decorate Edsa with murals using paint that absorbs pollution : )

Learn more about the awesome project here : )

More of this please!

Awesome project.

reuters: A change in policy: Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East. “Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of the world,” the Twitter blog said. Read more: Twitter to restrict user content in some countries After what happened with Occupy and the Arab Spring you’re gonna play us like this, Twitter? The fuck? I thought we had a good thing going here.

reuters:

A change in policy: Twitter announced Thursday that it would begin restricting Tweets in certain countries, marking a policy shift for the social media platform that helped propel the popular uprisings recently sweeping across the Middle East.

“Starting today, we give ourselves the ability to reactively withhold content from users in a specific country while keeping it available in the rest of the world,” the Twitter blog said.

Read more: Twitter to restrict user content in some countries

After what happened with Occupy and the Arab Spring you’re gonna play us like this, Twitter?

The fuck? I thought we had a good thing going here.

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