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posted by martyb on Tuesday December 08 2015, @02:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the new-normal dept.

Paul Buchheit reports via AlterNet

While Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning and John Kiriakou are vilified for revealing vital information about spying and bombing and torture, a man who conspired with Goldman Sachs to make billions of dollars on the planned failure of subprime mortgages was honored by New York University for his "Outstanding Contributions to Society".

This is one example of the distorted thinking leading to the demise of a once-vibrant American society. There are other signs of decay:

  • A House Bill Would View Corporate Crimes as "Honest Mistakes"
  • Almost 2/3 of American Families Couldn't Afford a Single Pill of a Life-Saving Drug
  • Violent Crime Down; Prison Population Doubles
  • One in Four Americans Suffer Mental Illness; Mental Health Facilities Cut by 90 Percent
  • The Unpaid Taxes of 500 Companies Could Pay for a Job for Every Unemployed American ...for two years ...at the nation's median salary of $36,000 ...for all 8 million unemployed.

Citizens for Tax Justice reports that Fortune 500 companies are holding over $2 trillion in profits offshore to avoid taxes that would amount to over $600 billion. Our society desperately needs infrastructure repair, but 8 million potential jobs are being held hostage beyond our borders.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Tuesday December 08 2015, @03:58PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Tuesday December 08 2015, @03:58PM (#273434) Homepage
    The invention of the we've-given-them-labels-and-therefore-by-definition-they're-diseases list, more succinctly known as the DSM, was touched on in part 1 or 2 of the documentary /The Trap/. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_%28television_documentary_series%29 . And the history isn't *just* big-pharma greed, it's more cynically policically motivated. Alas I'm no longer seeding the torrent I referenced last time I mentioned it, and seeders are quite rare.
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  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday December 08 2015, @04:27PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Tuesday December 08 2015, @04:27PM (#273456) Journal

    I got the torrent. Oh - I thought I was still seeding it, but not . . . Oh, I got stupid and moved it to a DVD instead of copying it.
    But, yeah, that documentary is enlightening!