Last Chance for Justice: Hold People Accountable For Wall Street Crimes
https://ourfuture.org/20160202/last-chance-for-justice-hold-people-accountable-for-wall-street-crimes
Morgan Stanley to pay $63M to settle claims over sale of toxic mortgage-backed securities
http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2016/02/morgan-stanley-to-pay-63m-to-settle-claims-over-sale-of-toxic-mortgage-backed-securities.html
Did Financial Giant Goldman Sachs Just Admit the System is Rigged? (text and video) 
http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=15588
Finish this Sentence: Inequality Is…
http://www.chn.org/2016/02/03/finish-this-sentence-inequality-is/#.VrTAJvkrIdU
Balancing paychecks and public assistance
http://www.epi.org/publication/wages-and-transfers/?utm_source=Economic+Policy+Institute&utm_campaign=a92282bb81-EPI_News_02_05_162_5_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e7c5826c50-a92282bb81-58013205
How Judicial Vacancies Threaten Access to Justice for Low-Income People
Tunisia. Protests expanded across the country this week in reminiscence of the Arab Spring. Unemployment is high, and citizens are unhappy with the pace and direction of reform.
https://www.popularresistance.org/the-second-tunisian-revolution/
Ellen Sits Down with Bernie Sanders (video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EovzA6hejtM
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Justice – Oh please oh please oh please. I didn't see a place to sign on to the letter or I would have.
Morgan Stanley – Chump change.
Goldman Sachs – I wouldn't be surprised. They are getting that overconfident. Matt Taibbi just published http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-vampire-squid-tells-us-how-to-vote-20160205 Barf bag alert.
Inequality is – …original sin. That's what Jim Wallis says and I expect there's a lot of truth in it.
What current policy DOESN'T threaten access to justice for low income people?
It was nice to hear what Angelides is up to these days, too–hadn't heard anything much since he lost his bid for statewide office here in CA (some said he was too progressive at that time).
His loss was about the time Norquist got the GOP here to sign the pledges and have no new taxes as about their only policy.
Last Chance for justice: "If DOJ moves swiftly in accordance with its new policies, the American people could finally get what they deserve – a full, fair and thorough investigation and a last chance for justice." That is a very big IF, though. The DOJ has failed miserably before new policies were adopted and even now appear not to be in great haste to make amends, leaving me with the impression Wall Street (still) pulls the strings in that department.
Morgan Stanley settlement: Just another example of what the first article alluded to: banks settle and avoid investigation and at no time are people named or investigated, let alone brought to trial for the crimes they have committed.
The system is rigged: Goldman Sacks now blatantly admits that the system is rigged in their (1%) favor, but still has the gall to call Bernie Sanders a danger. And they are right, of course, because Bernie shows the whole world how rigged the system is and that Wall Street's Capitalism doesn't work for the the 99%, but is actually detrimental to them. If Bernie doesn't get nominated, perhaps the pitchforks have to come out immediately to show Hillary that the 99% means business with Bernie's ideas.
Inequality is: The father of Fascism and the mother of war.
Balancing paychecks: If the 50% or something would all earn a livable wage, paid for by taxing the 1% and their corporations fairly, the world would be a different place.
Judicial Vacancies: First of all, example Martha (a black woman) will almost never get appointed in a red state, which makes this appointment system another example of a rigged system, first rigged by politics (Democratic Martha won't even get nominated in a Republican state) and in the end by Wall Street who tugs at the strings of Republicans. This way they're guaranteed that lower income people don't get anything. no income, no help, no justice…
Tunesia: Although its government was far more inclined to bring about change than for instance Egypt's, Tunesia is sadly another country where the Arab Spring didn't survive the heavy frost that followed it.
Good collection! A cell is tyhe most natural habitat for a Bankster!
If Holder had done his job and prosecuted the banksters who caused this problem a lot of our problems would have been solved. They are still doing the same things, and the fines they pay are a pittance compared to the money they make.
If wages were adjusted to the rate of inflation, no one would be working full time and living in poverty. Our government has let this happen. Inequality continues to grow because the same people have been in charge for too long. We need term limits for all of Congress. There should be no lobbying allowed.
I will vote for HIllary if she gets the nomination because I don't want a Republican in the White HOuse, but I believe she is an old time politician who will do what it takes to get elected.
CA has term limits which limited understanding of existing law and relationships so they used agency expertise to craft things that could actually be done…thus also transferred more power to the executive branch. I think the money of campaigns and quid pro quo is more to blame for the inequality than length of time in office per se.