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Texas GOP Declares: "No More Teaching of 'Critical Thinking Skills' in Texas Public Schools"
Post Date: 2012-07-07 15:01:18 by tom007
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Texas GOP Declares: "No More Teaching of 'Critical Thinking Skills' in Texas Public Schools" Saturday, 07 July 2012 08:03 By Danny Weil, Truthout | News Analysis font size decrease font size increase font size Print Email Texas Textbooks.Textbooks, which are assigned and shared, in a classroom at Hutto High School in Hutto, Texas, April 5, 2012. (Photo: Ben Sklar / The New York Times)The Republican Party of Texas has issued their 2012 political platform and has come out and blatantly opposed critical thinking in public schools throughout the state. If you wonder what took them so long to actually state that publicly, it is really a matter of timing. With irrationality ...
Why is Nobody Freaking Out About the LIBOR Banking Scandal?
Post Date: 2012-07-05 09:23:37 by tom007
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Why is Nobody Freaking Out About the LIBOR Banking Scandal? POSTED: July 3, 9:04 AM ET Comment 162 Barclays bank Barclays bank Oli Scarff/Getty Images The LIBOR manipulation story has exploded into a major scandal overseas. The CEO of Barclays, Bob Diamond, has resigned in disgrace; his was the first of what will undoubtedly be many major banks to walk the regulatory plank for fixing the interbank exchange rate. The Labor party is demanding a sweeping criminal investigation. Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, responded the way a real public official should (i.e. not like Ben Bernanke), blasting the banks: It is time to do something about the banking system…Many people in ...
Why Isn't Wall Street In Jail?
Post Date: 2012-07-05 09:17:41 by tom007
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Why Isn't Wall Street In Jail? By Matt Taibbi Over drinks at a bar on a dreary, snowy night in Washington this past month, a former Senate investigator laughed as he polished off his beer. "Everything's fucked up, and nobody goes to jail," he said. "That's your whole story right there. Hell, you don't even have to write the rest of it. Just write that." I put down my notebook. "Just that?" "That's right," he said, signaling to the waitress for the check. "Everything's fucked up, and nobody goes to jail. You can end the piece right there." Nobody goes to jail. This is the mantra of the financial-crisis era, one ...
How to sell drugs to children (From the "Ethical " Drug Sellers)
Post Date: 2012-07-05 08:51:13 by tom007
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How to sell drugs to children Commentary: First, dazzle the doctors with shiny objects... 1 Comments Share new Portfolio Relevance LEARN MORE By Al Lewis DENVER (MarketWatch) — America’s children were depressed. They needed antidepressants. It was GlaxoSmithKline to the rescue. Paxil was never approved for use by anyone under 18, but GlaxoSmithKline GSK -0.67% had 1,900 sales reps visiting doctor’s offices, and pushing the drug for kids. The international pharmaceutical giant took top-prescribing psychiatrists to pricey resorts in Bermuda, Jamaica, Hawaii and other exotic locales where, in between spa services, they could hear speeches from fellow shrinks that the company ...
I’ve Been Totally Wrong About Uruguay
Post Date: 2012-07-04 02:54:49 by Tatarewicz
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Sitting beneath the canopy of a chic new restaurant overlooking the rambla, a jazzy cumba on the sound system softly keeping time with the ebb and flow of the waves beyond, I nurse a cold mojito and watch the sun slowly drop into the vast Atlantic Ocean. I have to admit that I’ve been totally wrong about Uruguay. I didn’t expect to like it as much as I do...I figured it would be just another South American country struggling to catch up to the First World. I could not have been more mistaken. In many ways, Uruguay is more developed, more civilized and more advanced than the countries to its north. Pride is apparent and a squeaky clean affluence is everywhere. For instance, just ...
Obama Must Start World War 3 (to win electioin in November)
Post Date: 2012-07-03 22:05:14 by Itistoolate
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Report From CO Springs
Post Date: 2012-07-03 20:52:32 by tom007
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Damage worse than thought in the Mountian Shadows area. This was one hot fire. And this afternoon we were going to the Outback, and freek, the entire COS north valley was choked with smoke, in the back areas the smoke appeared to me to be so dense that any air breather would have to get out of there, and the rest of them would be well advised to for air quality issues alone. And now the crazy winds have started up, re igniting the dormant hot spots.
Glaxo's 'Massive' Fines Just Cost of Doing Business
Post Date: 2012-07-03 09:59:25 by tom007
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Glaxo's 'Massive' Fines Just Cost of Doing Business By Marek Fuchs 07/03/12 - 08:31 AM EDT Add Comment Stock quotes in this article:GSK Tweet NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- What's $3 billion: a ruinous amount or simply a few bucks between friends, the mere cost of doing business? More on GSK GlaxoSmithKline PLC (GSK): Today's Featured Health Care Winner GMO's Cautious Founder Finds Some Stocks to buy Real Money Previews Another Screen for Safe, Cheap Stocks This simple stock screen turns up names that will please a deep value investor. Kass: A Brief Bounce Today's rapid rally most likely will be short-lived. Two Basic-Materials Stocks on Sale Fund managers are ...
For Greater Glory: Great freedom anti-gov film now playing
Post Date: 2012-07-03 02:00:00 by Artisan
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What price would you pay for freedom? In the exhilarating action epic FOR GREATER GLORY an impassioned group of men and women each make the decision to risk it all for family, faith and the very future of their country, as the film's adventure unfolds against the long-hidden, true story of the 1920s Cristero War the daring people¹s revolt that rocked 20th Century North America. Poster Comment:I saw this film yesterday and damn it was great. Right up my ally. Andy Garcia, Eva Longoria, Peter O'Toole. What is interesting is that Catholic churches are promoting this movie which is in essence a very radical statement against the government when said government pushes too ...
Clinton is a lobbyist, not a diplomat
Post Date: 2012-07-02 18:34:25 by tom007
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Clinton is a lobbyist, not a diplomat 02.07.2012 Clinton is a lobbyist, not a diplomat. 47452.jpeg Hillary Rodham Clinton is a lobbyist who panders to the whims of the business community surrounding Washington, dictating its policy after financing the campaigns of the Presidential candidates. She is not a diplomat. So who the hell is Hillary Clinton to say whether President Assad should go? Was she elected by the people of Syria? The answer to the question is no, she was not. As a matter of fact she wasn't even elected by the people of the United States of America. Conducting foreign policy these days is very much providing a diplomatic arm for companies to do business overseas. ...
The Real Winners
Post Date: 2012-06-30 20:28:58 by tom007
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The Real Winners By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: June 28, 2012 653 Comments So the Supreme Court — defying many expectations — upheld the Affordable Care Act, a k a Obamacare. There will, no doubt, be many headlines declaring this a big victory for President Obama, which it is. But the real winners are ordinary Americans — people like you. Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Paul Krugman How many people are we talking about? You might say 30 million, the number of additional people the Congressional Budget Office says will have health insurance thanks to Obamacare. But that vastly understates the true number of winners because millions of other Americans — including many who ...
Farrakhan: Obama Selected to Be First Jewish President
Post Date: 2012-06-29 01:54:08 by Itistoolate
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Farrakhan: Obama Selected to Be First Jewish PresidentDefends Gaddafi & dictatorship. "Arrogant America filled with beasts."
Tom007 is a Fire Refugee and so is his Wifey
Post Date: 2012-06-28 01:21:15 by tom007
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Monster Fire in our hood.
House not burned, but know of folks whose house's have been destroyed. Totally.
Panic load up of esstinals tax records etc,
Last we looked, didn't seem too bad, only ten or so hot spots on Ramparts/ AFA range.
The whole experience has been truly surreal.
We arer sleeping on the sales floor of our store - we have given the basement to some needy friends.
Prisons, Privatization, Patronage
Post Date: 2012-06-25 10:30:31 by tom007
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Prisons, Privatization, Patronage By PAUL KRUGMAN Published: June 21, 2012 702 Comments Facebook Twitter Google+ Email Share Print Reprints Over the past few days, The New York Times has published several terrifying reports about New Jersey’s system of halfway houses — privately run adjuncts to the regular system of prisons. The series is a model of investigative reporting, which everyone should read. But it should also be seen in context. The horrors described are part of a broader pattern in which essential functions of government are being both privatized and degraded. Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Paul Krugman Go to Columnist Page » Blog: The Conscience of a ...
John F. Kennedy - Last Speech - Exposing Freemasonry
Post Date: 2012-06-19 20:57:52 by Itistoolate
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Raise Hell (Live/Austin City Limits)
Post Date: 2012-06-17 18:26:31 by abraxas
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Water Science Time - Flash plug in needed)
Post Date: 2012-06-15 20:01:24 by tom007
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US acknowledges Russian helicopters going to Syria are refurbished, not new, but still deadly
Post Date: 2012-06-14 18:45:38 by tom007
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US acknowledges Russian helicopters going to Syria are refurbished, not new, but still deadly Manuel Balce Ceneta, File/Associated Press - FILE - In this June 13, 2012 file photo, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at the State Department in Washington. Clinton’s accusation that Russia “dramatically” escalated the crisis in Syria lost steam Thursday when the State Department acknowledged that the helicopters she accused Moscow of sending were actually refurbished ones already owned by the Assad regime. Smaller Text Larger Text Text Size Print E-mail Reprints By Associated Press, Updated: Thursday, June 14, 2:49 PM WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Hillary ...
The Chinese Kleptocracy Is Like Nothing Ever Seen In Human History, And This Is How It Works
Post Date: 2012-06-11 10:09:06 by tom007
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The Chinese Kleptocracy Is Like Nothing Ever Seen In Human History, And This Is How It Works John Hempton, Bronte Capital | Jun. 10, 2012, 8:45 AM | 29,394 | 88 A A A china tiananmen square Saad.Akhtar, Flickr John Hempton URL John Hempton is a money manager in Australia and the editor of the blog Bronte Capital Recent Posts Facebook: For Once, The Investment Bank Was Behaving Ethically Santander Preferred Stock: Are North American Grandmothers Insane... The Question I Wanted To Ask At The Berkshire Hathaway Annual... RSS Feed The Macroeconomics of Chinese kleptocracy SEFE, balloons and other spark attracting bubbles How business decisions are made in a boom: Fortescue Metals ...
Paul Krugman: If You Don’t Know Someone Suffering Financially, You Must Be A Romney
Post Date: 2012-06-09 20:06:34 by tom007
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Paul Krugman: If You Don’t Know Someone Suffering Financially, You Must Be A Romney Paul KrugmanPaul Krugman share David Taintor June 9, 2012, 11:43 AM 7794 PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Economist and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on Saturday morning called the current state of the U.S. economy “incredibly awful.” “If you don’t know multiple people who are suffering, then you must be living in a very rarefied environment,” he said in a brief address to the Netroots Nation conference. “You must be maybe a member of the Romney clan, or something.” Krugman is out with a new book, “End This Depression Now!”, and he told the progressive ...
Republicans Accuse Anti-Coal Activist of "Child Pornography" for Showing Kid Bathing in Polluted Water
Post Date: 2012-06-09 13:29:29 by tom007
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Republicans Accuse Anti-Coal Activist of "Child Pornography" for Showing Kid Bathing in Polluted Water Sigh. See if you can see this one coming: On Friday, [anti-coal activist Maria Gunnoe] testified before the House Committee on Natural Resources in a hearing on the Obama administration's contentious relationship with the coal mining industry. She had prepared a slideshow presentation that included a photograph by the photojournalist Katie Falkenberg depicting a nude young girl sitting in a bathtub filled with murky brown water. The photo was meant as a salient statement to legislators on the impact of coal mining on society's most vulnerable. "We are forced to ...
ROBERT REICH: Defense Contractors Have Taken Over Capitol Hill
Post Date: 2012-06-09 13:12:52 by tom007
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ROBERT REICH: Defense Contractors Have Taken Over Capitol Hill Robert Reich, Contributor | May 27, 2012, 9:05 AM | 2,852 | 31 A A A Robert Reich, Contributor URL Robert Reich, Contributor , one of the nation’s leading experts on work and the economy, is Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley. He has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. Recent Posts Why the Public's Growing Disdain for the Supreme Court May Help... WHY WE HAVE TO RAISE TAXES ON THE RICH AND END THE BUSH TAX CUTS... The Big-Lie Coup d'Etat RSS Feed ...
Cast off from America
Post Date: 2012-06-08 20:14:05 by tom007
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Cast off from America Brian Cloughley Friday, June 08, 2012 From Print Edition [Cast off from America] Pakistan is in a parlous state. Internal security is a major problem and the Karachi shambles seems to be beyond the power of government to deal with. Balochistan is in chaos, the level of sectarian violence increases weekly and the war in the tribal areas is costing the country a fortune. Hundreds of thousands of people have fled the fighting between militants and the army in the border region with Afghanistan. Pakistan is still host to two million Afghan refugees who can’t return to their country because it remains in ungovernable anarchy. And all this has happened ...
Mandatory Economic Article
Post Date: 2012-06-07 15:52:36 by tom007
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http://www.businessinsider.com/dear-america-you-should-be-mad-as-hell-about-this-charts-2012-6?op=1
Mitt Romney Does Not Like It When His Neighbors Smoke Pot On The Beach
Post Date: 2012-06-07 14:49:46 by tom007
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Mitt Romney Does Not Like It When His Neighbors Smoke Pot On The Beach Grace Wyler | Jun. 7, 2012, 1:40 PM | 671 | 4 inShare11 A A A mitt romney beach mansionMitt Romney is not very popular with his oceanside neighbors, according to a story in today's New York Times investigating how the Republican presidential hopeful fits in with his fellow La Jolla residents. Between the Secret Service detail and the massive renovation on Romney's $12 million beach house, it's not hard to see why the candidate is having a hard time making friends. To make matters worse, Romney reportedly has a habit of demanding that his neighbors quit smoking pot on the beach. Times reporter Michael ...
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