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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 On Climate Change, We’re Heading Into the Rapids All Wrong Posted by lauren on 9 January, 2013 Lately, as I ponder our societal response, or lack of it, to the challenging times ahead – the droughts and floods and heat waves and crop failures, which we’ve tasted only as appetizers A kayaker on the Payette River in Idaho. (Photo: Flickr/creative commons/Rick Hobson)so far – I find myself recalling one of the scariest moments of my life. read more Hank Greenberg Should Be Shot into Space For Suing the Government over the AIG Bailout Posted by jon on 9 January, 2013 Matt Taibbi A lot of people are wondering what to think about the news that the board of AIG is considering joining the lawsuit filed by former AIG head Maurice "Hank" Greenberg against the Fed and the U.S. read more Will Chuck Hagel's Appointment Actually Help the Anti-War Left? Posted by jon on 9 January, 2013 Phyllis Bennis Chuck Hagel isn’t anyone I’d pick to be in a position of power. He’s a conservative Republican, a military guy who volunteered to fight in Vietnam. According to Forbes magazine, during Hagel’s tenure in the Senate “he favored school prayer, missile defense and drilling in Alaska, while opposing abortion, same-sex marriage and limits on assault guns. He voted in favor of every defense authorization bill that came up during the dozen years he served, while opposing extension of Medicare benefits to prescription drugs. read more Excusing Torture, Again Posted by jon on 9 January, 2013 Ray McGovern Would-be tough guys like former CIA torturer-in-chief José A. Rodriguez Jr. brag that “enhanced interrogation” of terrorists – or doing what the rest of us would call “torturing” – has made Americans safer by eliciting tidbits of information that advanced the search for al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.Jose Rodriguez, former director of operations for the Central Intelligence Agency. read more Social Issues Are Economic Issues (Exhibit 1,463) Posted by Beth on 9 January, 2013 Bryce Covert We’re barely more than a week into 2013, but Michigan has been very busy lately. As a pre-holiday gift to workers, Governor Rick Snyder signed a “right-to-work” bill into law after the Republican-controlled state house passed it 58-51, making the payment of union dues voluntary for most unions and thus severely weakening their power. read more In the Wake of Newtown: Still Clinging to Guns, Religion, and Abortion in Kansas Posted by lauren on 9 January, 2013 The quote deemed disastrous during President Obama’s 2008 campaign about small town people “clinging to their guns and religion” rings true in Kansas. You cannot throw a rock in the Kansas legislature without hitting a pro-gun, anti-choice politician. read more AIG Investors Break the World Record for Arrogance Posted by Beth on 9 January, 2013 William Greider Wall Street’s ingratitude is not exactly a secret. After Washington came to the rescue four years ago with the $800 billion bank bailout and ignored flagrant criminal behavior in high places, the nation’s biggest banks returned the favor with malice—an army of lobbyists to gut reform legislation, a tidal wave of political cash to defeat the Democratic president and elect banker-friendly Republicans. read more All of Earth Now a Mercury Hotspot Posted by jon on 9 January, 2013 Derrick Z. Jackson Nearly a year ago, I interviewed David Evers, the executive director of Maine’s Biodiversity Research Institute, on the revelation that insect-eating inland songbirds can accumulate mercury at dangerous levels every bit as much as fish-eating river and coastal birds. He called the findings a “game-changing paradigm shift” for understanding mercury’s pernicious presence. read more US Banks Win Mortgage Fraud Settlement, Borrowers Lose Posted by jon on 9 January, 2013 Pratap Chatterjee Ten major U.S. banks settled charges of illegally kicking people out of their homes for pennies on the dollar, under two agreements with the government announced this week. read more Human Rights Watch: Time to Stand with Human Rights Defenders Posted by jon on 9 January, 2013 Phyllis Bennis When the UN Human Rights Council sends its independent investigators, known as Special Rapporteurs, around the globe to investigate the denial of various human rights, it's not unusual for governments accused of violating those rights to go pretty far to keep them out.  read more 登録変更 | 登録解除

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