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Bag’s Take-Away:
Two weddings, two wedding pictures taken at inopportune moments (depending on how you look at it).
I have more hope for the couple in front of the tornado.
Top photo via Time Newsfeed
Bottom photo via NBC Today Show
(Top photo credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images caption: Newly married couple Tim and Beth Alberts get caught-up in a protest in downtown Chicago on the eve of the NATO summit on May 19, 2012 in Chicago, Illinois. Bottom photo credit: Cate Eighmey Photography caption: Kansas couple catches tornado in wedding photo. When Candra and Caleb walked down the aisle for the first time together as husband and wife, the bride, a Nebraska native, also saw her very first tornado, and the photographer snapped her first wedding twister.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Whenever I find myself coming close to bringing down the world economy, the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
(credit: Jin Lee/Bloomberg News caption: Days after disclosing a $2 billion trading loss at JPMorgan Chase, the bank’s chief executive, Jamie Dimon, said that “we made a terrible, egregious mistake.” “There’s almost no excuse for it,” Mr. Dimon said about the loss, which stemmed from a soured bet on credit derivatives made by the bank’s chief investment office in London.)
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Pikachu is very disappointed in you. A child’s backpack surveys the scene of his owner’s detention at NATO summit demonstrations in Chicago.
(credit: Andrees Latif/Reuters caption: A protester lies detained after clashing with police during the start of the NATO Summit in Chicago May 20, 2012. Baton-swinging police officers clashed with anti-war protesters at the start of the NATO summit on Sunday, beating some and dragging others away.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
This photo of a foreclosed home occupied by squatters in LA really makes you shake your head. Rather than helping homeowners with their mortgages, banks leave vacant foreclosed homes to the mercy of vandals. Then they sell the property at a fire sale price. Kick out the owners, fail to maintain it, get rid of it cheap. No wonder the economy sucks.
(credit: Jonathan Alcorn/Reuters caption: A bedroom at a foreclosed home where squatters have been living is seen during a blight tour that activists say highlight how big banks are hurting local communities by failing to maintain their foreclosed properties in Los Angeles, California, May 17, 2012. Activists are calling on city leaders to enforce LA’s blight ordinance that allows the city to collect $1,000 a day from banks that do not maintain their foreclosed homes, which activists say should be used to rebuild the neighborhoods.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
The New York Times Magazine asks a Bain Capital executive for his rationale on the validity of the 1%. The outcome is predictable. So is the clever visual assertion, via the faceless workers (that’s you and me, bub), that we owe our jobs to the creative powers of our financial betters.
And, frankly, where would we be without a shoe to shine?
via Coverjunkie
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Occupy teams with AIDS activists in a New York protest. We’ve all been looking for what the Occupy movement will come up with for warmer weather and perhaps, judging by this photo and its caption, Occupy will occupy all other social justice causes. it will certainly boost their membership and reception.
(credit: Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters caption: The police arrested a protester Wednesday near the New York Stock Exchange during a rally by AIDS activists and members of the Occupy Wall Street movement.)
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A mighty mix of metaphors: Occupy Wall Street theater intermission prior to the official start of the Spring Season.
(credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images caption: NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 17: Dressed in “Tax Dodgers” uniforms, people associated with Occupied Wall Street participate in a series of actions outside of companies they claim are tax dodgers on tax day April 17, 2012 in New York City. Companies which were targeted by the group included Bank of America, Wells Fargo, GE, Bain Capital, and JP Morgan Chase. The actions, which were partly organized by United Way, are part of a reemergence of Occupied Wall Street following a quiet period over the winter months.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
I saw this in yesterday’s Lens Blog “Pictures of the Day.” New York Times photographer Marcus Yam captures a sleeping Occupy protester shortly before a police confrontation over sidewalk space.
Viewing it in my news reader, I had to click through just to confirm that the photo, and the Occupy action, came from yesterday instead of last Fall. Not sure if there’s any message here about dormancy.
via The New York Times Lens Blog
(credit: Marcus Yam/The New York Times caption: Police officers and Occupy Wall Street protesters who have been camped out near the New York Stock Exchange faced off. Before the confrontation, some of the protestors slept on the sidewalk at the intersection of Nassau Street and Wall Street.)
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Pepper Spray Cop makes it to Israel.
(credit: Ammar Awad/Reuters caption: Israeli border police officers use pepper spray as they detain an injured Palestinian protester during clashes on Land Day after Friday prayers outside Damascus Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City March 30, 2012.)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Funny how the photo frames Santorum in the middle of Occupy and Reagan when he’s so far to the right of both.
(photo credit: Scott Olsen/Getty Images caption: Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks during a campaign rally on March 19, 2012 in Dixon, Illinois. Illinois residents will go to the polls on March 20 to vote their choice for the Republican presidential nominee.)
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