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2012-02-17 David DeGraw Economic Elite Vs. The People: 99% Movement Call to Action Two Year Anniversary Book Release - (Node) -

Cross-posted from AmpedStatus.org

Editor’s Note: History should record that the birth of the 99% Movement was on September 17, 2011.
2011-12-19 David DeGraw Occupy the Constitution: Get Money Out of Politics! - (Node) -

Cross-posted from OWSnews.org
One of the most popular 99% Movement and Occupy Wall Street issues is getting money out of politics.
2011-10-05 David DeGraw Welcome to the Revolution: Life @ OccupyWallStreet’s Liberty Park - (Node) -

Cross-posted from AmpedStatus.com
By David DeGraw
Note: I decided to take some quick notes of what it’s like to spend a few hours at Liberty Park for people who haven’t experienced it yet.
2011-09-30 David DeGraw Report from the Frontlines: The Long Road to #OccupyWallStreet and the Origins of the 99% Movement - (Node) -

Cross-posted from AmpedStatus.com
By David DeGraw
How Anonymous, AmpedStatus, the NYC General Assembly, US Day of Rage, Adbusters and Thousands of Individual Actions Led to the Occupation of Liberty P
2011-09-27 David DeGraw My Reporting on AmpedStatus.com - (Node) -

For those who haven’t already noticed, I’ve been reporting exclusively for AmpedStatus.com the past few weeks.
2011-09-16 David DeGraw Middle Class Death Watch: As Poverty Spreads, 28% of Americans Who Were Part of the Middle Class Have Fallen Out of It - (Node) -

Cross-posted from AmpedStatus.com
Editor’s Note: This is our first Middle Class Death Watch roundup.
2011-09-16 David DeGraw Over 56 Million Americans Live in Poverty – How Census Bureau Propaganda Ignores the Suffering of 10 Million Impoverished Americans - (Node) -

Cross-posted from AmpedStatus.com
Here we go again. The government and corporate media are pumping out more propaganda on vital economic statistics to mask the severity of our economic crisis.
2011-09-16 David DeGraw The Richest 0.1% Have Launched A War On Us – It’s Time To Fight Back And Hold These 400 Billionaires Personally Responsible For Our Economic Crisis - (Node) -

Cross-posted from AmpedStatus.com
Editor’s Note: The following post includes adapted excerpts from David DeGraw’s book, “The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III.” Re
2011-09-16 David DeGraw Full-Blown Civil War Erupts On Wall Street: As Reality Finally Hits The Financial Elite, They Start Turning On Each Other - (Node) -

Cross-posted from AmpedStatus.com
Finally, after trillions in fraudulent activity, trillions in bailouts, trillions in printed money, billions in political bribing and billions in bonuses, the crimina
2011-09-16 David DeGraw Extreme Weather Roundup: Severe Flooding To Hit Gulf Coast; Texas On Fire; Earthquakes Hit Alaska & Argentina; Vast Ice Island To Break Off; BP Deepwater Horizon Site Leaking Again - (Node) -

Cross-posted from AmpedStatus.com

Tropical storm Lee threatens severe flooding in Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi
Tropical Storm Lee now has winds approaching 60 miles per hour.
2011-09-03 David DeGraw BP Deepwater Horizon Site Leaking Again, Quickly Becoming A Massive Oil Slick - (Node) -

This is the section of the new AmpedStatus

2011-09-02 David DeGraw Ka-Boom! The Tweet That Launched A Thousand Ships: WikiLeaks Publicly Releases 250,000 Secret US Government Documents Without Any Redactions - (Node) -

Today is an extremely, wildly busy news day, but news that WikiLeaks has just released their entire cache of secret US government cables publicly and searchable without any redactions is H.U.G.E!
2011-09-02 David DeGraw Every Single Day $12 Million Tax Dollars Are Wasted On Private War Racket Contracts – Pentagon Propaganda Exposed - (Node) -

[Note: The $12 million per day number is a whitewash lowball number - staggering nonetheless.]
Quote of the day comes from Senator Claire McCaskill, in summing up the situation in Iraq:
“Contr
2011-09-01 David DeGraw Don’t Call It A Comeback: Economy Off The Cliff Again – Nouriel Roubini (Video) - (Node) -

Reality sings to the stock market:
“I’m gonna rock this land
I’m gonna take this itty-bitty world by storm
And I’m just getting warm…
Mama said knock you out
I’m go
2011-09-01 David DeGraw Sign of Things to Come: Riots in Milwaukee (Video) - (Node) -

Next week I will have a new report out on the riots that I believe will soon sweep across the US.
2011-08-31 David DeGraw Banana Republic USA: Meet the 25 CEOs Who Make More Than Their Companies Pay In Taxes - (Node) -

The Institute for Policy Studies has a revealing new report out today, “Executive Excess 2011: The Massive CEO Rewards for Tax Dodging.” Among key findings: at 25 companies “chief ex
2011-08-31 David DeGraw Time to ‘Pinochet’ Dick Cheney - (Node) -

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2011-08-31 David DeGraw How the Federal Reserve Robbed America (Video) - (Node) -

Great break down / rant by Cenk Uygur on how the Fed helped the big banks fleece America:
2011-08-30 David DeGraw Guest Post By Billy Bragg: Stop Paying Your Taxes & Music Needs To Get Political Again - (Node) -

Billy Bragg criticizes the banking bonus culture at Speakers’ Corner, and explains why he’s not paying income tax this year:

WHY MUSIC NEEDS TO GET POLITICAL AGAIN
By Billy Bragg
How iro
2011-08-29 David DeGraw Buffett Doubles Down On Another Taxpayer Funded Bailout: Warren Buffett’s Hypocrisy Exposed – Part 2 of 99 - (Node) -

Warren Buffett invested $5 billion in Goldman Sachs right before they were bailed out. He then cashed in on the taxpayer funded bailout that followed.
2011-08-29 David DeGraw Hurricane Irene Aftermath: Vermont Devastated By Severe Flooding; 36+ Deaths; Up to $45 Billion of Damage; 5 Million People Lost Power, Outages Could Last Weeks (Videos) - (Node) -

Thus far at least 36 people were killed by Hurricane Irene.
2011-08-29 David DeGraw New Record: 51% of Americans Age 16-24 Are Unemployed – Leading Indicator for Civil Unrest - (Node) -

Thanks Max K & Global Macro Monitor for calling attention to this latest news from the Bureau of Labor Statistics:
“In July, the employment-population ratio for youth—the proportion of the

2011-08-29 David DeGraw Secret Exemptions Allowed Wall Street Speculators to Distort Food and Energy Prices (Video) - (Node) -

Real News has an interesting new interview with Michael Greenberger, former Chief of Staff to Brooksley Born, on “secret deals” with the CFTC which “led to futures markets with 80% s
2011-08-29 David DeGraw Bye-Bye Irene – Electricity Back Up, Back to the Front, Daily Updates Continue - (Node) -

Hurricane Irene came and went without causing too much damage here on the North Shore of Long Island, NY.
2011-08-27 David DeGraw Hurricane Irene News Coverage, LiveStream Video Feed & Storm Tracker ~ Extreme Weather Roundup: Hurricanes, Earthquakes and Tornados, Oh My – Black Out in the Big City – Thank BP Oil and Fracking - (Node) -

NYC Hurricane Irene Live Stream

I’m here on the North Shore of Long Island, battening down the hatches, awaiting Hurricane Irene.