August 2012
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US Drone Pilot: 'I Feel No Emotional Attachment' →
In a profile piece in the New York Times on Monday, interviews with military operators of US drones operating in the skies over Afghanistan and Pakistan reveal a class of pilots who remotely control the targeted killings of human beings thousands of miles away.
“I see mothers with children, I see fathers with children, I see fathers with mothers, I see kids playing soccer,” says Colonel...
July 2012
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Americans are working approximately 11 more hours... →
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Americans are literally working themselves to death. America is the most overworked nation in the developed world and Americans have become hostage to their jobs that has made their work-life balance unattainable.
President Franklin Roosevelt in 1937 signed into law the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) as part of his New Deal agenda, establishing the five-day, 40-hour maximum...
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Most likely to attack Iran | Glenn Greenwald →
theamericanbear:
This is sad. And true.
When it comes to praising President Obama’s foreign policy skill and Toughness (in the neocon sense of that term: i.e., a willingness to risk other people’s lives with the use of military force against foreigners), The Atlantic‘s Jeffrey Goldberg has been one of the most reliable and vocal voices. Considered by Obama aides “as the ‘official therapist’ of...
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The Nauseating Grief of Diseased America →
I do wonder about the national paroxysm of grief, the generalized scream of pain offered by every politician and public official from president to trash collector, the public lamentation and wailing, the sickening enthusiasm shown by political tribalists from every point in the spectrum for scoring disgustingly cheap points off the blood-spattered corpses of the victims. Yet that isn’t honest of...
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Being Poor →
Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs.
Being poor is getting angry at your kids for asking for all the crap they see on TV.
Being poor is having to keep buying $800 cars because they’re what you can afford, and then having the cars break down on you, because there’s not an $800 car in America that’s worth a damn.
Being poor is hoping the toothache goes away.
Being poor is...
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Libor Scandal Could Turn 'Ugly' As US Cities Begin... →
socialuprooting:
The news on Wednesday that cities and states are suing some of the world’s largest banks over Libor manipulation shows how this scandal could blow up into one of history’s biggest bank frauds.
That’s because interest-rate manipulation might well have kept your town or state from hiring firefighters or teachers, from paving roads or paying for indigent care or after-school...
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The Green Party Youth Caucus: Forward for a... →
moratoriumfornow:
The United States Green Party has reached a unifying point with the ascendance of physicist and activist Dr. Jill Stein as our party leader running for the presidential election of 2012. Not only has she received a wide majority of delegates from the party, as well as offered a bold and revitalizing Green New Deal, Jill Stein has also received the endorsement of Dr. Noam...
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Time For Members of Congress to Pledge to Uphold... →
anonymissexpress:
July 2, 2012 | By Trevor Timm
Today, EFF joins an broad, international coalition of civil society groups calling on elected officials to sign the new Declaration of Internet Freedom and uphold basic rights in the digital world. The Declaration is simple; it offers five core principles that should guide any policy relating to the Internet: stand up for online free expression,...
The Sharp, Sudden Decline of America's Middle... →
americawakiewakie:
Janis Adkins lives in her van at the Goleta Community Covenant Church in Santa Barbara.
(Photo Credit: Mark Seliger)
Every night around nine, Janis Adkins falls asleep in the back of her Toyota Sienna van in a church parking lot at the edge of Santa Barbara, California. On the van’s roof is a black Yakima SpaceBooster, full of previous-life belongings like a snorkel and...
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Big Banks Continue to Suck at the Government Teat... →
anonymissexpress:
Open-Ended Bailouts Are Continuing
We’ve previously documented the fact that bailouts of the big banks are continued in stealth mode up to the present day.
True, the banks claim they’ve repaid the Tarp bailout funds … but nearly half of the banks “repaid” such bailout funds by borrowing from other government bailout funds (and the rest could only repay money by fudging their...
