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Jason Read On Successful Parasites In A Capitalist Economy

Jason Read provides an illuminating quote on the true parasites in a capitalist economy:

People who dismiss the unemployed and dependent as “parasites” fail to understand economics and parasitism. A successful parasite is one that is not recognized by it’s host, one that can make it’s host work for it without appearing as a burden. Such is the ruling class in a capitalist society.

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Corporations Don’t Bleed

Corporations are people? Didn’t know they could bleed.

Incredibly Moving World Press Photo Winner

Via Mother Nature Network: A portrait of a veiled woman cradling a wounded relative in her arms, taken in Yemen by Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda for The New York Times, won the top World Press Photo prize on Friday.

The photograph captured a moment in the conflict in Yemen, when demonstrators against outgoing president Ali Abdullah Saleh used a mosque in Sanaa as a field hospital to treat the wounded. But judges said it also spoke more broadly for the Arab Spring.

“The winning photo shows a poignant, compassionate moment, the human consequence of an enormous event, an event that is still going on,” Aidan Sullivan, chair of the jury, said of Aranda’s photograph, which won World Press Photo of the Year 2011.

“We might never know who this woman is, cradling an injured relative, but together they become a living image of the courage of ordinary people that helped create an important chapter in the history of the Middle East.”

Reuters photographer Damir Sagolj won first prize in the Daily Life Singles category with his photograph of North Korea’s founder, Kim Il-Sung on a wall in Pyongyang.

The Truth About Romney’s Time At Bain Capital

The facts and numbers behind Mitt Romney’s time at Bain Capital. Unsurprisingly, Romney’s talk doesn’t match his record.