GOOD TIMES ROLL ON WITH THE U.S. ASIA-PACIFIC “PIVOT.”
The 2011 decision to increase sales of arms to U.S. allies in the region to counter growing Chinese influence in the area is providing a bonanza of opportunities for the military-industrial complex. As a Reuters report puts it, “Fears resulting from China’s growing military spending should lead to enough US sales in South and East Asia to more than offset a slowdown in European arms-buying.” Market diversification 101.
(Antiwar.com)
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NOW THAT PALESTINE IS A “NON-MEMBER” AFFILIATE OF THE UN, THE PLO IS “CONSIDERING” TAKING ISRAEL TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT FOR ALLEGED WAR CRIMES.
Well “go go Palestine” says Stuart Littlewood, noting the notorious history of the PLO of “mulling” actions that it never quite takes, suggesting that it is actually party to a “conspiracy” with British government and other pro-Israel entities in preventing the very action that it is supposedly advocating.
(Dissident Voice)
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SOME BIG CORPORATIONS AND INDUSTRIES MADE OUT LIKE BANDITS IN THE “FISCAL CLIFF BILL.”
Matt Stoller of Roosevelt Institute puts a close eye on some of the little-known provisions of the legislation that “saved” the country from insolvency. From tax breaks to mine owners who provide safety equipment and training to their employees to allowing “recovery” tax subsidies to construction of new NASCAR race tracks: this bill has enough goodies to warm the hearts of the likes of Goldman Sachs and Bank of America.
(Naked Capitalism)
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“FIRST IN THE NATION” MARIJUANA CLUB OPENS IN DEL NORTE CO.: AND CLOSES A DAY LATER.
Colorado begins implementation of new law to allow “recreational” marijuana-using clubs to operate. It closes down a day later in a landlord dispute and leaves another opened in Denver as the “first” such club that is still operating.
(Arizona Republic)
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IS FLORIDA “WAREHOUSING” ITS DISABLED CHILDREN?
The state employs as a private agency to determine what state services to families with disabled children are “medically necessary.” The U.S. Justice Department and state pediatricians agree that medical care for them is being rationed, denying many families a level of support they need to care for them at home and forcing children into nursing homes where they tend to live in a vegetative state.
(Miami Herald)
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Quote of the day…
You can hear it, you can smell it, and you are always breathing it. It’s just like being behind a car exhaust. All your senses change.
Debbie Leverett, during a tour organized by the Society of Environmental Journalists of numerous locations in Texas where “fracking” operations are underway.
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