Glenn Greenwald: "Watching self-proclaimed progressives attack and malign a courageous whistleblower, while defending the US military's patently abusive detention practices and steadfastly defending the government's extreme secrecy powers, is one of the most potent symbols of the Obama presidency."
The article title ("The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational") suggests that there are only one dozen cognitive biases, but there are many others. But these are 12 cognitive biases worth noting.
According to Naomi Wolf, the coordinated arrests and violence against protestors were not coincidentally timed.
It was more sophisticated than we had imagined: new documents show that the violent crackdown on Occupy last fall – so mystifying at the time – was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister missiles to the skulls of protesters, people held in handcuffs so tight they were injured, people held in bondage till they were forced to wet or soil themselves –was coordinated with the big banks themselves.
According to Public Citizen's Consumer Blog, Compared to 2012, the Just-Enacted Tax Bill Hikes Taxes for Nearly Every U.S. Worker.
A tax increase for middle-class working class families is exactly what the new tax legislation -- The American Taxpayer Relief Act (ATRA) -- effectively imposes, compared to what those families had been paying. And the President, the Democrats, and the Republicans knew this when they supported ATRA. Why are workers' taxes going up? Because ATRA allowed the 2011 and 2012 payroll tax "holiday" to expire, meaning that, as of January 1, 2013, payroll taxes on wage income increased from 4.2% to 6.2%. But not on all wage income. The payroll tax is doubly regressive: Everyone pays the same rate, regardless of income, and only the first $113,700 in wage income is taxed.
This is an image published by "God of the Week."
The more detailed version of the annotated Bible, a favorite site of mine, is the Skeptics Annotated Bible.