Démoniak Serie X

Démoniak Serie X is a pubblication featuring french celebrities and politics involved into "insane cameos". There's also a blog about it called Les Actes de *Démoniak.

Corporate Profits Soar While American Workers Struggle

by Karl Rusnak on July 28, 2011 - 12:12pm

While millions of American workers struggle to find work, American corporations are operating on the opposite end of the spectrum. The fourth quarter of 2010 was the most profitable ever for U.S. owned corporations, and 2011 earnings for companies in the S&P 500-stock index are the highest in four years.

These corporations have achieved their unprecedented profits by getting rid of American jobs, hiring overseas, and squeezing as much productivity as possible out of their remaining workers in the United States. The increased productivity often means one individual taking on tasks that two or more would have been responsible for in the past, necessitating long hours, and loads of additional stress without additional compensation.

It is no wonder corporations can make huge profits under these conditions. With unemployment over 9 percent, those workers who are being asked to take on additional responsibilities have little recourse for fear of being replaced. They also face the all-too-real threat that their company will move their job overseas. According to the U.S. Commerce Department, in the 2000s U.S. multinational corporations cut their workforce in the U.S. by 2.9 million while increasing their overseas workforce by 2.4 million, and there is little reason to believe that trend will reverse anytime soon.

Read more HERE

The President Surrenders

An excerpt from Paul Krugman's op-ed piece in the NY Times Published: July 31, 2011

"In fact, Republicans will surely be emboldened by the way Mr. Obama keeps folding in the face of their threats. He surrendered last December, extending all the Bush tax cuts; he surrendered in the spring when they threatened to shut down the government; and he has now surrendered on a grand scale to raw extortion over the debt ceiling. Maybe it’s just me, but I see a pattern here."

Read the full op-ed piece HERE

Ghosts of WWII

quote [Russian photographer (and Photoshopper) Sergey Larenkov merges WWII-era photos with contemporary shots of identical locations in Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Leningrad, and other European cities, to haunting effect. Many entries filled with images in sets organized by city at his livejournal].
(via Boing Boing)

M.I.A: Born Free

quote [M.I.A. “Born Free” music video. Directed by Romain Gavras. Warning, somewhat NSFW and disturbing for violence].

The dog that hasn’t missed a single riot

LINK quote [There has been lots of riots and protests from both anarchists and workers in Athens, Greece specially the past few years. One interesting thing is that there is one dog that is spotted at these riots from 2008 till today].