Most Interesting Thing You've Read This Past Week

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Howdy! Welcome to the our weekly open thread on interesting reads! This is where to post links to those great things that made you say "Ah!" when you read them, so the rest of us can read them too!

So what is the most interesting thing you've read in the past week?

It can be anything - a book, a news article, a blog post, a recipe, a cartoon, anything goes...

And please - if there's a link, link it; if it's a recipe post it. :D

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My sentiments and questions exactly

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Just more evidence the eurozone is designed to make the banker bondholder speculators whole using and gambling on sovereign debt crisis they help perpetuate(along with the US exporting housing bubbles to them) with no fiscal authority for EU members and a pathological central banks that doens't do what a central bank is supposed to do, as the doctrine.

The American media is full of corporate owned monopolies and oligopolies that profit from the lies and lack of info and misinfo.

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"The Party is Over," by Mike Lofgren

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The subtitle is, "How Republicans went CRAZY, the Democrats became USELESS, and the middle class got SHAFTED." Lofgren spent decades on Capitol Hill, first as an aide to Republican Congressman John Kasich, and later as a staffer for the House and then Senate Budget Committee. He went in as a conservative, Reagan Republican, and came out sounding very much like some sort of Social Democrat, if he's even that far to the right. 

It's a relatively short book, very well-written and an easy read. It only has 12 chapters, the first ten of which excoriate the various factions of the Republican Party and  pointing out who their special interests backers are, one spent blasting the Democrats as being just as bad because they serve the same interests, and one with his suggestions, which center around 100% publicly financed elections and destroying corporate personhood. 

Lofgren quotes Eisenhower and Lincoln, praises the New Deal, and draws lots of good parallels to the Gilded Age and the 1920's. You might be familar with him, for he writes for Truthout a lot. I think this is his first book. 

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A few interesting pieces

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From the Bankster Department:

David Dayen: Out of Control – New Report Exposes JPMorgan Chase as Mostly a Criminal Enterprise

7 Things You Need to Know About the Shocking Cyprus Bailout Crisis That Has Everyone Freaked Out

From the War Crimes Department:

Iraq: War's Legacy of Cancer

From the Technology Bites us in the Ass Department:

Google slips, accidentally unveils Evernote-like Google Keep service

Decoy ICS/SCADA Water Utility Networks Hit By Attacks

What 420,000 insecure devices reveal about Web security

Ring of Bitcoins: Why Your Digital Wallet Belongs On Your Finger

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