Thomas Dye, a political scientist, and his students have been studying the upper echelons of leadership in America since 1972. These "top positions" encompassed the posts with the authority to run programs and activities of major political, economic, legal, educational, cultural, scientific, and civic institutions. The occupants of these offices, Dye's investigators found, control half of the nation's industrial, communications, transportation, and banking assets, and two-thirds of all… Continue
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In a city of desperate poverty -- without jobs, without electricity, without security, without drinkable water, without medical facilities, with little food and less hope -- several hundred well-armed soldiers in armored vehicles laid siege, blocking escape routes, and opened fire. Indiscriminate bullets found the bodies of men, women, children, infants and the elderly.
This was not Fallujah. It was not Ramadi, Baghdad or some obscure community in the Anbar province of Iraq. It was… Continue
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The unemployment rate may in double digits and foreclosures may be on the rise, but over at JPMorgan Chase life is good.
To hear Jamie Dimon, chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, tell it, his bank could have done better last year, and he remains cautious about the coming year. And that after JPMorgan finished off 2009 with $11.7 billion in profits.
After borrowing $25 billion from the federal government in October 2008 to avoid fiscal calamity, the… Continue
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This has to be the most despicable act by Bush and Clinton in the 21st Century.
The political mandates and legislation pushed forward by these two miscreants resulted directly in the impoverishment and misery of the Haitian… Continue
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I have gone to other sites as there was not enough room to post all that I wished to share and it is no reflection of this site that I choose the avenues I am using to maximize exposure of the material I have. This is indeed the end days and the issue of helping all know what one must do to protect oneself as well as ones family. May you all be blessed in this new year as I will pray for every one's protection as well as right guidance in all things. We are coming up to a point in history we… Continue
This isn't about Gaza but I want to start there. It's about all of us.
The people of Gaza are vulnerable to disease, ill-health, and malnutrition after years of siege, with its infrastructure rotted, its water and food contaminated by heavy metals from aerial bombardment, it's agricultural land which once supported a thriving export market decimated by tank treads and border no-man's lands.
The normal growth of children is stunted by years of malnutrition. Adults are… Continue
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Walls were prevalent in pre-industrial society but express much about our 21st century advanced, supposedly, civilization.
Egypt is building a thick 60 to 90 foot deep steel wall along 14 miles of its Gaza border. Israel is doing the same. They already have 30 foot high cement walls surrounding most of Gaza.
Walls in early civilizations were built for protection against marauding bands of criminals and functional opposing armies. Walls today are built to keep people in.… Continue
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The U.S. government is encouraging farmers to spread a chalky waste from coal-fired power plants on their fields to loosen and fertilize soil.
The material is produced by power plant "scrubbers" that remove acid-rain-causing sulfur dioxide from plant emissions. The substance is a synthetic form of the mineral gypsum, and it also contains mercury, arsenic, lead and other heavy metals.
The Environmental Protection Agency says those… Continue
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The handwringing about the would-be Christmas Day airplane bomber and the politicians' tiresome declarations that it will never happen again miss the point: As long as the U.S. government pursues its imperial program of invasion, regime change, occupation, and sponsorship of corrupt governments in the Muslim world, Americans will be targets for avengers. This does not excuse the killing of innocents -- it merely points out an inevitable chain of events.
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Americans like lists. Most often, we get "Top Ten" lists, but this book is a top dozen list, a list of the most damaging Supreme Court decisions during and since the New Deal era. The authors, two lawyers with strong libertarian philosophies, set out to show which decisions have had the most detrimental impact by expanding the realm of government coercion and depriving people of their liberty. This, they correctly observe, is a target-rich environment. The Supreme Court has been blundering… Continue
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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A U.S. peace envoy's suggestion that Washington could penalize Israel financially to force it to make concessions to the Palestinians drew Israeli ire on Sunday
Under American law, the United States can withhold support on loan guarantees to Israel," George Mitchell said on U.S. television on Wednesday after being asked about the kind of pressure that could be brought to bear on Israel.
Over the past two decades, Israel has received U.S. guarantees… Continue
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PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Angry Haitians set up roadblocks with corpses in Port-au-Prince to protest at the delay in emergency aid reaching them after a devastating earthquake, an eyewitness said,
World | Natural Disasters
Shaul Schwarz, a photographer for TIME magazine, said he saw at least two downtown roadblocks formed with bodies of earthquake victims and rocks.
"They are starting to block the roads with bodies, it's… Continue
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Imagine the following scenario: The chief executive of a foreign country decides to conduct terrorist operations inside U.S. territory, and signs a “presidential finding” to that effect. Furthermore, that “finding” authorizes the foreign government’s agents to engage in “defensive lethal action,” i.e. assassinations. And what if, shortly after this information has been leaked to the public, prominent US government officials and even a nuclear scientist or two are… Continue
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WE THE UNDERSIGNED petition you to speak out against the death penalty for Mumia Abu-Jamal, and all the men, women and children facing execution around the world. This ultimate form of punishment is unacceptable in a civilized society and undermines human dignity. (U.N. General Assembly, Moratorium on the Use of the Death Penalty, Resolution 62/149, Dec. 18,… Continue
Added by Jeff on January 15, 2010 at 2:04pm —
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Colombia: Soldiers Accused of Extrajudicial Killings Freed
by Helda Martínez
SOACHA, Colombia, Jan 13, 2010 (IPS) - Over the last two weeks, 31 Colombian soldiers accused of the forced disappearance and murder of 11 young men from the poor Bogotá suburb of Soacha have been released from prison on the grounds that they were not formally indicted within 90 days of their arrest, as established by Colombian law.
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