The federal budget deficit for Fiscal Year 2011 increased ever so slightly over FY2010, moving to $1.299 trillion, up from $1.293 trillion. The final number was actually below expectations, $347 billion below the estimate in the President’s February 2011 budget projection. The reason had less to do with reduced spending than slightly better unemployment that forecast.

The AP has a story picked up all over the media that compiles what others have known for awhile. AP traces the raising of Cain as a years-long Koch Bros’ funding and grooming enterprise, pulled off by having Mr. Cain be for the Koch Bros. and AFP’s agenda what Ronald Reagan was for Big Tobacco, G.E. and the anti-socialist crusade.

The Rev. Dr. Giles Fraser is my kind of pastor. When police took to the steps of St. Paul’s cathedral in London, Fraser politely asked them to step down and back away, leaving anti-bank protesters to quietly camp out and maintain their protest. St. Paul’s place in England is like Arlington Cemetery, evoking Abraham Lincoln, FDR, and JFK, a dash of Frank Lloyd Wright, and then opened to OWS. That’s what these Brits have done.

This 39-year-old mother’s backstory: I’m a 39 year old Mother of Two INCREDIBLE Sons & I’m Partner to one AMAZING Man! I’m permanently disabled with Sjogren’s Disease, Lupus & Rheumatoid Arthritis. Sjogren’s Disease has shattered & destroyed all of my teeth & large sections of my upper & lower jawbone, causing severe, unrelenting agony 24 [...]

Wingnuts have been circulating this photo, claiming it’s from Occupy Wall Street. One woman who claims to work/have worked at the New York Stock Exchange posted it on her Facebook page and where it was shared over 1000 times wrote this as the caption: This is the NO-CLASS Wall Street occupiers. They are rutting in [...]

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While many of us occupied various places around the globe in the name of better government with less influence for people like the Koch Brothers, their chosen candidate spent the weekend making sure his skull was unoccupied.

Eric Clapton & Jeff Beck – Shake Your Money Maker

If you want to close your Bank of America account, you mustn’t come from an #Occupy protest carrying your protest signs and wearing your protest-y clothing. “You can’t be a customer and a protester” this manager of the Santa Cruz branch of Bank of America tells customers in good standing. These Bank of America customers came from their local #OccupySantaCruz march to close their BofA accounts. No signage, no protesting, no cameras — any of these make you a protester, not a customer.

The 2012 campaign trail is already littered with silver bullets and peppy slogans about boosting America out of its unemployment slump. But for the most part, the plans that politicians have trotted out–from Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 mantra to the GOP’s latest corporate welfare formulas, to Obama’s limp blend of free-trade policies and woefully inadequate stimulus–stick faithfully to the path of neoliberalism, paving the way for more outsized corporate profits.

So does anyone have a plan to steer industry toward the needs of communities?