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Webバージョン  |  アップデート設定  |  登録解除 いいね ツイート 転送 http://endofsecrets.blogspot.com That Bad Ceiling Feeling: Unlike the Fiscal Cliff the Debt Ceiling Is the Real Deal Posted by jon on 8 January, 2013 Mary Bottari Missing the fiscal cliff? Don't know what to talk about at the dinner table? Get ready, the Bipartisan Policy Center has predicted that on February 15, 2013, the U.S. Treasury will take in an estimated $9 billion in revenue, but is committed to pay out $52 billion. read more New Director John Brennan Must Kill the CIA's Drone Assassination Policy Posted by jon on 8 January, 2013 Naureen Shah Monday, President Obama nominated John Brennan – the architect of his secretive, deadly drone program – to head the CIA. read more When Do Low-Income Americans Get Their White House Meeting? Posted by jon on 8 January, 2013 Greg Kaufmann Throughout these budget talks, the Obama Administration has projected an image that it is open to good ideas from anyone, and interested in the prosperity of everyone.The nation's most powerful, like JPMorgan's Jamie Dimon and Goldman Sach's Lloyd Blankfein, find frequent audience at the White House, but not so for the working poor and other vulnerable citizens. (Photo: AP) read more 'Love at Long Distance': A Man in Prison for Protesting US Drones Posted by jon on 8 January, 2013 Rev. John Dear This week, the president nominated the head of the U.S. drones program, responsible for killing hundreds, perhaps thousands, of innocent women and children in Afghanistan and Pakistan, to be his new head of the CIA That is appropriate, because the CIA runs the U.S. torture, rendition, assassination and mass murder program in conjunction with the Pentagon. Of course, all of this pure evil goes contrary to everything the nonviolent Jesus taught. What do we do? We protest the ongoing killings by these evil U.S. read more 'Kill Anything That Moves': The American System of Suffering, 1965-2014 Posted by jon on 8 January, 2013 Nick Turse Pham To looked great for 78 years old.  (At least, that’s about how old he thought he was.)  His hair was thin, gray, and receding at the temples, but his eyes were lively and his physique robust -- all the more remarkable given what he had lived through.  I listened intently, as I had so many times before to so many similar stories, but it was still beyond my ability to comprehend.  It’s probably beyond yours, too.< read more Despite Billions in Aid, Homelessness Persists in Post-Earthquake Haiti Posted by jon on 8 January, 2013 Bill Quigley Amber Ramanauskas Despite billions in aid which were supposed to go to the Haitian people, hundreds of thousands are still homeless, living in shanty tent camps as the effects from the earthquake of January 12, 2010 remain. An IDP camp in Place Jérémie, south Port-au-Prince, following the forced eviction of several dozen displaced families, December 2011. (Photo: Oxfam) read more An Open Letter to Obama: Take Lead on Climate Change Posted by jon on 8 January, 2013 Dear Mr. President, Congratulations on your reelection.This sign, which hung at the global climate summit in Copenhagen in 2009, still rings true for those hoping that Obama can be the transformative president the crisis demands. read more Avoiding a Climate-Change Apocalypse Posted by jon on 8 January, 2013 Katrina vanden Heuvel As you may have noticed, the end of the year was all about the end of the world. Mayan doomsday prophesies. Rogue planets on a collision course with Earth. Fear-mongering about an artificial “fiscal cliff.” House Republicans doing, well, what they usually do. read more Obama Appoints Dr. Drone to Head CIA Posted by jon on 8 January, 2013 Matthew Rothschild Pres. Obama just made a hideous appointment.White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan (r.) listens as President Obama announces his nomination as the new CIA director at the White House in Washington Monday. (Photo: Reuters/Jason Reed) He replaced the disgraced David Petraeus at the CIA with John Brennan, Dr. Drone. This is a hideous appointment. read more Secrets and Lies of the Wall Street Bailout Posted by jon on 8 January, 2013 Matt Taibbi It has been four long winters since the federal government, in the hulking, shaven-skulled, Alien Nation-esque form of then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, committed $700 billion in taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street from its own chicanery and greed. To listen to the bankers and their allies in Washington tell it, you'd think the bailout was the best thing to hit the American economy since the invention of the assembly line. Not only did it prevent another Great Depression, we've been told, but the money has all been paid back, and the government even made a profit. read more 登録変更 | 登録解除

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