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My article today is a bit of observation and more a question. WTF is this about? Odd: The Obama Veto of The Decision Samsung Won Against Apple
it hit me as odd, when I heard on the radio that overnight, Samsung stock value had dropped a billion dollars-- because of the decision by Obama, communicated by US Trade Representative Michael Froman, to overturn the court ruling that favored Samsung. It's the first time such a veto has been made in 25 years.
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In order to defend the NSA Stasi the Obama administration has now gone to the Bush-Cheney playbook and is playing the fear card. State propaganda arms go into overdrive pimping an imminent Al Qaeda attack abroad. Embassies closed as the usual suspects hit the airwaves. This is so 2004 but just more proof that Obama is a fascist just like his predecessor.
The Coalition For Change, Inc. (C4C) recently issued a comprehensive report addressing seven (7) major obstacles hindering equal opportunities for African Americans in the federal work force. The report, entitled Obstacle 1 : The Denial of a Reality, rebuts the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) African American Workgroup report findings issued March 2013.
We really can have peace, but not under capitalism.
get into the government and get rich
How have the US actually managed to turn Vladimir Putin into the good guy? By trying to suffocate the voice of whistleblowers, Washington has undermined its previous condemnation of Russian corruption.
it hit me as odd, when I heard on the radio that overnight, Samsung stock value had dropped a billion dollars-- because of the decision by Obama, communicated by US Trade Representative Michael Froman, to overturn the court ruling that favored Samsung. It's the first time such a veto has been made in 25 years.
We are sacrificing ourselves on the altar of enhanced shareholder value while our politicians serve their own interests. What is the cause and is there a solution?
Psychologists designed, implemented, supervised, and provided ethical cover for CIA and U.S. military "war on terror" abuses. As a result, the APA has faced repeated calls to take action to prevent future abuses by members of the profession. But APA leaders have responded with empty talk and feeble resolutions. Last week's vacuous exercise was the latest example.
Due to Sweden's innovative waste-to-energy program and highly efficient recycling habits, the Scandinavian nation faces an interesting dilemma. They have run out of trash.
What is the effect of GMO crops on humans who eat them? Will they cause organ damage? Infertility? Unforeseen side effects? Wouldn't it have been wise to answer these questions before rolling out GM crops across the world? GMOs are a dangerous global experiment using human beings as lab rats, and consumers should have the right to know what they're buying or eating.
Why ban esoteric information? Because it enables people to think for themselves!
Research Points to Increased Creativity at Messy Workspaces (Finally!)
Last week House Republicans voted for the 40th time to repeal Obamacare. Like the previous 39 votes, this action will have no effect whatsoever. But it was a stand-in for what Republicans really want to do: repeal reality, and the laws of arithmetic in particular. The sad truth is that the modern G.O.P. is lost in fantasy, unable to participate in actual governing.
Muhammad Abu Hashem, 17, was sleeping in a sleeveless undershirt when the Israeli soldiers stormed into his home here at 4 a.m. on the second Monday in July. As they led him away moments later, Muhammad's mother rushed after with a long-sleeved shirt: they both knew it would be cold in the interrogation room. It was Muhammad's fourth arrest in three years for throwing stones at Israeli soldiers and settlers.
Weeks ahead of its debut, Al Jazeera America is doing things the old-fashioned way.
Florida Christian puppeteer Ronald William Brown was convicted on charges of possession of child pornography. In addition, Homeland Security agents found pictures of children bound and gagged, as well as pictures of dead kids in his house.
Trauma is not just the result of major disasters. It does not happen to only some people. An undercurrent of trauma runs through ordinary life, shot through as it is with the poignancy of impermanence. I like to say that if we are not suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, we are suffering from pre-traumatic stress disorder. There is no way to be alive without being conscious of the potential for disaster. One way or another, death (and its cousins: old age, illness, accidents, separation and loss) hangs over all of us. Nobody is immune. Our world is unstable and unpredictable, and operates, to a great degree and despite incredible scientific advancement, outside our ability to control it.
The ultimate killer is religious hypocrisy--what can we do about it? Convince the hypocrites that they're violating their own human rights as well as ours.
The election in Zimbabwe: it matters far beyond Zimbabwe's borders.
A casualty of congressional budget dysfunction: overseas mine-removal operations
The inability of Congress to bridge the partisan divide on fiscal policy is literally a matter of life-and-death for some civilians in war-ravaged nations, where US-funded operations to remove un-exploded bombs and land mines are being canceled and curtailed for lack of money.
Secretary of State John Kerry has recommended that Robert S. Ford serve as the next American ambassador to Egypt, American officials said Sunday, a critical role at a time of rising turmoil and anti-Americanism in the traditional Arab ally. Ford, a longtime Middle East hand and fluent Arabic speaker, is well known for taking an active role as ambassador to Syria in challenging President Bashar al-Assad's crackdown before American diplomats were pulled out of the country for their own safety.
Edward Snowden is not the story. The story is what he has revealed about the hidden wiring of our networked world. This insight seems to have escaped most of the world's mainstream media. It doesn't matter why the media lost the scent. What matters is that they did. Without him, we would not know how the National Security Agency (NSA) had been able to access the emails, Facebook accounts and videos of citizens across the world; or how it had secretly acquired the phone records of millions of Americans; or how, through a secret court, it has been able to bend nine US internet companies to its demands for access to their users' data.
The Israeli cabinet has voted to expand the list of illegal West Bank settlements eligible for government subsidies, just days after the resumption of talks with the Palestinian Authority in which settlements are a major issue. Ministers on Sunday approved a new "national priority map," a list of poor communities earmarked for housing subsidies and other benefits. Included on the list are 91 settlements in the occupied West Bank, up from 85 on the previous version. Many of them are in areas which would almost certainly be evacuated by Israel in a deal with the Palestinians.
The mother of Bradley Manning, the US army private who is this week expected to be handed a long jail sentence for his role in the WikiLeaks dump of US state secrets, has said she believes she may never see him again. Speaking before Wednesday's sentencing of the 25-year-old who was found guilty of espionage, theft and computer fraud, Susan Manning urged her son to "never give up hope." Susan Manning, who lives in Pembrokeshire in Wales, has health problems and has not seen her son since 2011.
The government is stumbling in its efforts to protects its secrets in the Internet age. LESS than 24 hours after Pfc. Bradley Manning was convicted last week of handing off 250,000 State Department cables and defense documents to WikiLeaks, The Guardian published on its Web site the latest classified material from the leaker of the moment, Edward J. Snowden. That installment included the National Security Agency's playbook for XKeyscore, a powerful surveillance program enabling the agency's analysts to monitor and trace Internet searches around the globe.
Disclosures made possible by digital media, government surveillance and unorthodox publishers have unsettled understandings of mass media's place in American democracy. The federal government is prosecuting leakers at a brisk clip and on novel theories. It is collecting information from and about journalists, calling one a criminal and threatening another with jail. In its failed effort to persuade Russia to return another leaker, Edward J. Snowden, it felt compelled to say that he would not be tortured or executed.
On State of the Union Sunday morning, host Candy Crowley asked South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham if he thought the terror alert that went out this weekend was less of a defense against terrorism and more of an acknowledgement of its power.
By Tom Engelhardt
Peter Van Buren, The Manning Trial Began on 9/11 Close your eyes for a moment, think about recent events, and you could easily believe yourself in a Seinfeldian Bizarro World. Now, open them and, for a second, everything looks almost familiar... and then you notice that a dissident is fleeing a harsh and draconian power, known for its global surveillance practices, use of torture, assassination campaigns, and secret prisons, and has found a haven in a heartless world in...
high unemployment keeps wages down. Workers who are worried about losing their jobs settle for whatever they can get -- which is why hourly earnings keep dropping. The median wage is now 4 percent lower than it was at the start of the recovery. Low wages help boost corporate profits, thereby keeping the regressives' corporate sponsors happy.
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The US will extend its embassy closures through August 10. The al-Qaeda threat that forced US and European embassies in the Middle East and North Africa to shut down is the most serious in years according to a US lawmaker. Although some US diplomatic posts are scheduled to reopen on Monday, including those in Kabul, Baghdad and Algiers, most of 22 US embassies that were shut down on Sunday will remain closed for another week.
When members of the Intelligence Committee learn of abuses by the NSA, they are barred by law from informing the public. Two Democratic Committee members in the Senate, Ron Wyden and Mark Udall, spent years warning Americans that they would be "stunned to learn" of the radical interpretations of secret law the Obama administration had adopted in the secret FISA court to vest themselves with extremist surveillance powers.
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The threats that led to the U.S. closing almost two dozen embassies abroad this weekend is based on intelligence that is reminiscent of the "chatter" preceding the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, said Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee. "This is the most serious threat that I've seen in the last several years," said Chambliss.
The world's croplands could feed 4 billion more people than they do now just by shifting from producing animal feed and biofuels to producing exclusively food for human consumption, according to new research. [Interesting, but as to why anyone would want to have such a goal leads me to the old Dave Brower question: "How dense can people get?"]
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