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“OUR GOAL WAS TO SHUT DOWN A PORTION OF AMERICA FOR A WHOLE DAY.”
Producer of a new TV series, “House of Cards,” says this with a “laugh,” but it is no laughing matter to TV producers who are catering to a new kind of “binge-watching” among fans of particular TV programs. Rather than having to wait until next week for yet another episode of “West Wing” or innumerable new such series, Netflix and other outlets are offering a “live streaming” form of 13 or so episodes so that the fan can “shut down” his or her life for 13 hours while indulging a craving for a new or old show.
(New York Times)
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WANT A JOB IN THIS COMPANY? NOT IF YOU ARE UNEMPLOYED.
The practice of corporations of hiring only already-employed people is but one of the forms of “institutional discrimination” that help produce the severely retarded economic levels of black Americans. While such hiring practices may not be overtly racially discriminatory, they have the de fact consequence of denying jobs to blacks, since relatively more of them are unemployed.
(Black Agenda Report)
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GOOD AND BAD NEWS ABOUT HEALTH INSURANCE UNDER THE “INDIVIDUAL MANDATE.”
This provision of “Obamacare” specifies that those who don’t carry medical insurance will have to pay a “penalty” for not so doing. Good news is that because of complex and convoluted regulations still being revised, most of those who don’t obey the mandate will be given some kind of other of “exemption” from such payment. Bad news is that the mandate allows shifting of responsibility for insurance coverage from employers, and leaves 30 million Americans without any insurance, mandated or not, at all.
(World Socialist)
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THEY ARE MAKING IDEA SOUP IN CINCINNATI.
An inventors’ co-op, under that name, is operating in Greater Cincinnati to promote creative solutions to long-range problems of various sorts. One member suggests that, if a reporter wants a “photo-shoot” to support his/her article about the group, it get them in a circle and, with a camera suspended overhead, depict these “Renaissance” characters as ingredients in a pot.
(Cincinnati Enquirer)
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“FLORIDA: COME SQUAT WITH US.”
Writer for Palm Beach Post, noting the successful “adverse possession” of a squatter in Boca Raton in occupying an empty mansion owned by Bank of America, satirically suggests this as a slogan for those attempting to attract more people to Florida. The state is awash in such “possession-without-occupancy homes as mortgage payments falter as do legal processes of completing foreclosures.
(Palm Beach Post)
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Quote of the day…
“The magnitude of violations relating to Israel’s policies of dispossessions, evictions, demolitions and displacements from land shows the widespread nature of these breaches of human rights.
Unity Dow of Botswana, member of Fact Finding Mission of UN’s Human Rights Council.
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