A melodious, larger-than-usual contingent of Wisconsin’s Solidarity Singers gathered as usual in the Capitol Rotunda Friday in defiance of the first day of Scott Walker‘s excessive new access rules declaring that more than four people have to get a permit. The singers, who have been performing labor and civil rights songs every day for ten months, have added [...]
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The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein is fast becoming the locus classicus as far as how the US in particular and Capital in general controls its conquests. Of course Noam Chomsky has written about this state of affairs with a different emphasis for over half a century and would have to be this and the last [...]
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25,000 Big Macs: burger a day keeps the doctor away (since 1972) McDonald’s restaurant in Wisconsin unfurls banner to mark loyal customer Don Gorske‘s 25,000th burger Share230 Comments (41) Matthew Taylor guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 18 May 2011 19.48 BST Article history Savouring his Big Mac: Don Gorske bites into his 25,000th burger. Photograph: Patrick Flood/AP [...]
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