Oil industry attempts to co-opt ’99 Percent’ movement

A new radio ad campaign and website sponsored by the oil industry’s largest firms seeks to conflate union solidarity with the “Occupy” and “99 Percent” movements with the Keystone XL pipeline, which the White House delayed last week for approximately a year for greater study...  Read more:   The Raw Story

Credit Unions Gained 40,000 New Members on Bank Transfer Day

We’re starting to get hard numbers from Bank Transfer Day. The Credit Union National Association, the leading trade group for credit unions, reports 40,000 new accounts on November 5. This is 24 times the normal rate of membership increases for the industry in 2010, and two times the rate of membership since September 29... 
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