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Bag’s Take-Away:
With debt ceiling talks hanging ridiculously in the balance (did someone say: Shock Doctrine?), all eyes turn to Stock Exchange. Flag porn only confirms how much interests of America have been co-opted by Wall Street (enabled here by the visual media).(photo: Reuters caption: Pedestrians walk past the outside of the New York Stock Exchange in New York July 25, 2011. The Democratic-led Senate and Republican-led House of Representatives consider rival plans this week to reduce the deficit and raise the debt ceiling.)
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