In this edition, an assortment of fails; Google, I don’t even know what to say; too-big-to-fail banks are shrinking, and you can help speed up the process; and poor people can just die for all the New Jersey governor cares. Also, a couple of updates on the Arab Spring.
- Google wipes its maps clean of Indian Reservations | Obsidian Wings • by Doctor Science
- Look at a specific example: Monument Valley, on the border between Arizona and Utah. It is located inside the Navajo Nation (Indian Reservation). [link and link]
- Big Banks Are Still Sassy, but Their Branch Offices are Running Scared | Move Your Money by Nicholas Carroll
- …as the big banks shrink in assets by their own choices, average Americans can help them shrink to a size where they’re no longer Too-Big-To-Fail.
…The power is yours to use. This is not a political election, where you wonder if your one vote was the vote that actually counted… each dollar is a vote that moves a huge pendulum. …
Important Note: Credit unions and small banks on the whole have not been reckless like big banks. However a few have been. An online search tool for sound smaller institutions is at http://moveyourmoneyproject.org/find-a-bank
- Top Struggles in the Arab Spring Today | Informed Comment • by Juan
- The Arab Spring began with peaceful protests in Tunis, Cairo, Alexandria, and elsewhere in the region, with masses of demonstrators … In Tunisia and Egypt, the military refused for the most part to fire on peaceful noncombatants, and so the dictator had to go. But in Libya, Syria, Yemen, and Bahrain, the regimes showed themselves willing to use brutal methods. …
Yemen is important to the West because of its commanding position at the mouth of the Red Sea … and because its government had been an ally in the fight against al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula…
Syria is important to the US as a major country abutting the Eastern Mediterranean, … central to the Palestinian-Israeli struggle …
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