{"id":19695,"date":"2016-02-08T19:02:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-09T03:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=19695"},"modified":"2016-02-08T19:02:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-09T03:02:19","slug":"terse-tuesday-tidbits-february-9-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/08\/terse-tuesday-tidbits-february-9-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Terse Tuesday Tidbits February 9, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:16px\">Last Chance for Justice: Hold People Accountable For Wall Street Crimes<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/ourfuture.org\/20160202\/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<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Morgan Stanley to pay $63M to settle claims over sale of toxic mortgage-backed securities<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/pubcit.typepad.com\/clpblog\/2016\/02\/morgan-stanley-to-pay-63m-to-settle-claims-over-sale-of-toxic-mortgage-backed-securities.html\">http:\/\/pubcit.typepad.com\/clpblog\/2016\/02\/morgan-stanley-to-pay-63m-to-settle-claims-over-sale-of-toxic-mortgage-backed-securities.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Did Financial Giant Goldman Sachs Just Admit the System is Rigged? (text and video)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/money.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18971\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"money\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18971\" height=\"136\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/money-300x136.jpg\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/money-300x136.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/money.jpg 308w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=31&amp;Itemid=74&amp;jumival=15588\">http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=31&amp;Itemid=74&amp;jumival=15588<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Finish this Sentence: Inequality Is&hellip;<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chn.org\/2016\/02\/03\/finish-this-sentence-inequality-is\/#.VrTAJvkrIdU\">http:\/\/www.chn.org\/2016\/02\/03\/finish-this-sentence-inequality-is\/#.VrTAJvkrIdU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Balancing paychecks and public assistance<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/wages-and-transfers\/?utm_source=Economic+Policy+Institute&amp;utm_campaign=a92282bb81-EPI_News_02_05_162_5_2016&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_e7c5826c50-a92282bb81-58013205\">http:\/\/www.epi.org\/publication\/wages-and-transfers\/?utm_source=Economic+Policy+Institute&amp;utm_campaign=a92282bb81-EPI_News_02_05_162_5_2016&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_e7c5826c50-a92282bb81-58013205<\/a><\/p>\n<h1><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>How Judicial Vacancies Threaten Access to Justice for Low-Income People<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkpoverty.org\/2016\/02\/04\/judicial-vacancies-threaten-access-to-justice-low-income-people\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=talkpovertyweekly_20160205\">http:\/\/talkpoverty.org\/2016\/02\/04\/judicial-vacancies-threaten-access-to-justice-low-income-people\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=talkpovertyweekly_20160205<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>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.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularresistance.org\/the-second-tunisian-revolution\/\">https:\/\/www.popularresistance.org\/the-second-tunisian-revolution\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>Ellen Sits Down with Bernie Sanders (video)<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EovzA6hejtM\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EovzA6hejtM<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &nbsp; Did Financial Giant Goldman Sachs Just Admit the System is Rigged? (text and video)&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=31&amp;Itemid=74&amp;jumival=15588 &nbsp; Finish this Sentence: Inequality Is&hellip; http:\/\/www.chn.org\/2016\/02\/03\/finish-this-sentence-inequality-is\/#.VrTAJvkrIdU &nbsp; Balancing paychecks and public <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/02\/08\/terse-tuesday-tidbits-february-9-2016\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19695","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19695\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}