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The
failure on the part of the white liberal class to decry the exploding
mass incarceration of the poor, and especially of African-Americans,
means that as our empire deteriorates more and more whites will end up
in prison alongside those we have condemned because of our indifference.
And the mounting abuse of the poor is fueling an inchoate rage that
will eventually lead to civil unrest.
Hospitals
account for about one-third of US health expenditures, but their bottom
lines are being squeezed, and they are raising prices for services to
make up for the shortfall. Doctors and hospitals hold the keys
healthcare cost-control, but recent news reports suggest they may not be
using them any time soon.
By Rob Kall
Corporate Psychopaths and Bullies, Transcript of Interview with Clive Boddy, Author, part 2 
the
second half of the transcript of my one hour interview with Clive
Boddy, author of the book, Corporate Psychopaths. We talk about
sociopaths, psychopaths, bullies, etc, and the massive costs and damages
they inflict upon businesses.
"The
Government has pushed this case beyond the bounds of legal propriety.
If the Government meant "information', it should have charged
information," explains defense attorney David Coombs in legal filings
last week.
Following
Snowden's revelations on NSA surveillance, President Barack Obama
assured US citizens in June that "nobody is listening to [their]
telephone calls." He added that America is "going to have to make some
choices" between privacy and security, warning that the highly
publicized programs will make it harder to target terrorists.
Barack
Obama has given the strongest indication to date that he holds
reservations about the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, saying the
project would not create many jobs and could raise gasoline prices. In
an interview with the New York Times, the president disputed a main
justification for the pipeline -- its economic benefits -- and
reaffirmed he would reject the project if it expanded carbon pollution.
The comments were seen by campaigners as evidence that Obama, in the
wake of last month's landmark climate change speech, was leaning towards
rejecting the project.
President
Obama has overseen an unprecedented legal campaign against leaks of
classified information with New York Times journalist James Risen now
facing possible jail for refusing to testify in the trial of ex-CIA
officer Jeffrey Sterling for a leak published in Risen's book, State of
War, a topic that First Amendment attorney James Goodale discusses with
Dennis J Bernstein.
By Richard Clark
Stunning letter to Obama from Snowden's father Thoreau's moral philosophy found expression during the Nuremburg trials in which "following orders" was rejected as a defense. Indeed, military law requires disobedience to clearly illegal orders. A dark chapter in America's World War II history would not have been written if the then United States Attorney General had resigned rather than participate in racist concentration camps imprisoning 120,000 Japanese American citizens
The
Obama administration continues to compound the diplomatic mess around
former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The latest blunder was announcing
that the U.S. wouldn't torture or execute Snowden, a reminder to the
world how far Official Washington has strayed from civilized behavior.
By Salvatore Babones
Need a Job? Join the New Army (Navy) of Servants Need a job? Join the new servant economy.
In
what has now become an annual occurrence, the North Pole's ice has
melted, turning the Earth's most northern point into a lake. Call it
Lake North Pole. The water surrounding the pole is not seawater seeping
up from the ocean but melted icewater resting on top of a thinning layer
of ice below the surface. "It's a shallow lake. It's a cold lake.
Supporters
of the overthrown Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi have pledged to
maintain their weeks-old sit-in in east Cairo, despite the massacre of
scores of their comrades by state officials on Saturday. At least 65
pro-Morsi protesters were shot dead during an eight-hour attack by
police officers and armed men dressed in civilian clothes. An ambulance
official said the death toll was 72; the Muslim Brotherhood said 66 had
died and a further 61 were braindead in hospital. "No one's going
anywhere," said Abdel-Rahman Daour, one of several spokespeople at the
sit-in outside the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque. "We either have freedom or
we die. We're not going to live in a country without freedom."
Occupy
Wall Street exploded across America. A plot was hatched to kill Occupy
Houston leaders with suppressed sniper fire. The FBI knew.
The
wheels of Anthony Weiner's increasingly shaky campaign for the New York
mayoralty wobbled further Sunday, as a key aide quit following a week
of lurid revelations about the candidate. The resignation of campaign
manager Danny Kedem will come as a further blow to the embattled
Democratic politician, who is facing increased calls to pull out of the
race for the city's top job.
What's
the matter with Atlanta? A new study suggests that the city may just be
too spread out, so that job opportunities are literally out of reach
for people stranded in the wrong neighborhoods. In Atlanta poor and rich
neighborhoods are far apart because, basically, everything is far
apart; Atlanta is the Sultan of Sprawl, even more spread out than other
major Sun Belt cities.
"The
NSA has trillions of telephone calls and emails in their databases that
they've collected over the last several years," Greenwald told ABC
News' George Stephanopoulos. "And what these programs are, are very
simple screens, like the ones that supermarket clerks or shipping and
receiving clerks use, where all an analyst has to do is enter an email
address or an IP address, and it does two things. It searches that
database and lets them listen to the calls or read the emails of
everything that the NSA has stored, or look at the browsing histories or
Google search terms that you've entered, and it also alerts them to any
further activity that people connected to that email address or that IP
address do in the future."
President
Abbas has, no doubt, given John Kerry his wish list for any future
peace accord. The easiest wish Netanyahu could grant is a grudging
release of Palestinian prisoners. Netanyahu will play with the prisoners
like they are poker chips. He will hold them until he decides to
release some "in stages" throughout the negotiations.
Syrian
government forces backed by Lebanese Hezbollah forces have been
consolidating their control over a key rebel district of Syria's third
city Homs, a watchdog and state media said. The London-based Syrian
Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said troops as of Sunday controlled
most of Khaldiyeh, an embattled northern neighbourhood in Homs. The
military moves came a day after they expelled rebels from a 13th century
landmark mosque in Khaldiyeh they controlled for more than a year.
By Bernie Sanders
Sanders Details Tax Plan, Declines Secrecy Offer - Newsroom: Bernie Sanders - U.S. Senator for Vermont 
Sanders Details Tax Plan, Declines Secrecy Offer
Zimmerman
had benefits, privileges & choices of race- presumed "Americanism"
Trayvon Martin could never have. Zimmerman "passed" as white for the
benefits that provides in America's injustice system. The family dropped
the identification with being part African-Peruvian. This strategy to
uphold white gun- toting self-defense, along with the law allowing white
fear to justify killing Black, let Zimmerman kill with impunity
BDS
is only at the beginning of its trek. Its fast start and ongoing
achievements should bring hope and pride to those involved in the
movement. They should also raise some serious second thoughts in the
minds of those Israelis who think Netanyahu and his government of
ideologues can prevent their country's increasing isolation.
Why
is Canada's most powerful Zionist organization CIJA inviting Natives to
Israel and acting as their mouthpiece to expose their past abuse by the
government?
Every
time Kobe Bryant sinks a free throw he earns more than $14K. Every time
the 113th Congress enacts a law, it costs we, the taxpayers more than
$141 MILLION. So where is the outrage?
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The
Amash-Conyers amendment set out to end the NSA's "blanket" and
"indiscriminate" collection of Americans' telephone records and limit
collection of such information to the subjects of authorized national
security investigations. It was the first legislation to directly
challenge the NSA's bulk surveillance of American phone records since
former NSA contractor Edward Snowden turned over a trove of secret
documents about the program to the media less than two months ago.
(Video)
'India's Supreme Court has ruled that the sale of acid needs to be
regulated in an attempt to reduce attacks on women. Laxmi, who was
attacked with acid after refusing a marriage proposal, has turned into a
full-time campaigner for acid attack victims. She continues to fight
for more victims' rights, including free medical care. Al Jazeera's Anu
Anand reports from New Delhi. *This report contains pictures that some
viewers might find disturbing.*'
Peter Buffett: The Charitable-Industrial Complex
It’s time for a new operating system.Not a 2.0 or a 3.0, something built from the ground up.What we have is a crisis of imagination.Albert Einstein said you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.Foundation dollars should be the best “risk capital” out there.There are people working hard at showing other ways to live in a functioning society that truly creates greater prosperity for all(and I don’t mean more people getting to have more stuff).Money should be spent trying out concepts that shatter current structures and systems that have turned much of the world into one vast market.Is progress really Wi-Fi on every street corner?No.It’s when no 13yearold girl on the planet gets sold for sex.But as long as most folks are patting themselves on the back for charitable acts,we’ve got a perpetual poverty machine.It’s an old story;we need a really new one. |
