WEEKEND READING (Nov. 8, 2014)

6 brilliant ways Sweden recycles its garbage (1 Million Women).

Glenn Greenwald and Snowden: 'Nobody should use Facebook' (Mediaite).

Playboy's top party schools (Playboy).

752 people have exercised their right to die in Oregon - why you've only heard about Brittany Maynard (QZ).

DOLLAR POLITICS
I think we should be looking at the dollar over a 20 year period, but what the heck ... "What the dollar's recent rise tells us about the global economy" (NY Times).

3 ways a strong dollar impacts the global economy (Barron's).

Sorry fracking enthusiasts, oil's price decline is wholly a dollar story (Forbes).

EXPLAINING THE GOP's ELECTORAL VICTORY
The South is essentially a solid, grim block of poverty (Huffington Post).

Paul Krugman divulges the real reason why the 'wrong about everything' party won (Alternet).

Working Class Voters In America: Why America's poor are willing to vote Republican (The Guardian).

2014 Exit polls (NY Times).


THE DEMOGRAPHICS BEHIND THE GOP's VICTORY
Chill out Liberals: The 2014 electorate was really old, and white (TPM / Slate).

How much difference did new voting restrictions make in yesterday's close races (Bill Moyers)?

Gerrymandering rigged the 2014 elections for the GOP advantage (Bill Moyers).


THE PEOPLE WHO WON
Meet your new craziest Republicans (Daily Kos).

Ted Cruz and Paul Ryan are so scared of Jon Stewart that they won't go on The Daily Show (Politics USA).


FINANCIALIZATION
Opinion: Controller John Chiang drops bombshell on California public pensions (Sacramento Bee).

The size of the derivative bubble hanging over the global economy hits a record high (Global Research).


MISCELLANEOUS
From the U.S. Senate ... an up to the minute count on the number of filibusters filed over time (U.S. Senate).

What Liberal media bias? Conservatives tip the scales to the right on Sunday talk shows (NY Times).

Mexico captures fugitive mayor, wife accused of ordering students' disappearance (Huffington Post).

Interesting numbers ... Thanks GOP, America's poor now worse off than citizens of Third World Nations (Addicting Info).

- Mark