HANDCUFFING KIDS FOR NO REASON. This is the allegation of two whistle-blowing police officers against the practices of the New York Police Department in a class action suit against the city charging racial profiling. They claim that their supervisors maintained quotas of the number of arrests and summonses they were expected to execute in [...]
ARE ELDERLY AMERICANS THE “PICTURE OF AFFLUENCE?” Thatfflu is the picture drawn in a new Pew Research study of the “net worth” of American households. The average net worth of seniors of $170,500 seems “affluent” only by contrast with the almost non-existent amount of $ 3,700 for those under 35. With many older people now [...]
“A LACK OF EMPATHY, CONSCIENCE, THE INCAPACITY TO FEEL GUILT, AS WELL AS A CALLOUS DISREGARD FOR SAFETY OF OTHERS.” This is part of the DSM-IV manual of illnesses in describing a psychopathic personality. It is, as well, a good working definition of the “personality” of international corporations which, once they were (in 1896) [...]
THE IMMIGRATION PUSH: “AT THIS MOMENT, IT LOOKS LIKE THERE’S A GENUINE DESIRE TO GET THIS DONE SOON.“ Following the lead of a bipartisan group of senators that introduced legislation earlier in the day, President Obama on Tuesday delivered a public endorsement of the effort to achieve “comprehensive” immigration reform. The president spoke of [...]
IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN LOOKS AT THE GLOBE AND FINDS TURMOIL AND THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT IN THE “MIDDLE RUN” FUTURE. While predictions for a given year are a “fool’s mission” and those for centuries in the future only too easy to make, those for the “middle run” of a decade or so hence are subject to [...]
(Principled Progressive returns on Wednesday. Have a safe and happy 2013!) SIBEL EDMONDS’ PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR: SAME OLD, SAME OLD, MORE “WAR ON …WHATEVER.” A noted whistleblower posts her year-end assessment as the old year splutters out and and the new year rings in. Piece of cake, she says. When one puts [...]
MERRY CHRISTMAS! WHILE YOU WERE UNWRAPPING GIFTS, CONGRESS GAVE THE GREEN LIGHT TO WARRANTLESS EMAIL SNOOPING. Federal agencies will be allowed to continue spying on the private emails of Americans after the Senate mysteriously dropped a key amendment to legislation that had been advertised as a way to protect the rights and privacy of [...]
GARDENER ON THE ROOF: SINGAPORE’S “SKY GREEN” AGRI-BUSINESS SHOWS THE WAY TO FOOD SELF-SUBSISTENCE FOR A CROWDED CITY. Being that Singapore is a country of essentially one city of 5 million people, it has depended heavily on food imports from neighboring countries. Sky Green is project hoping to eliminate that situation, with a technology [...]
SOMETHING IS EATING AWAY AT THE SEA SHELLS IN THE SOUTHERN OCEAN. British oceanographic report publicizes the fact that Antarctic waters are showing ominous indications that acidification of oceans resulting from CO-2 contamination is destroying the shells which are the basis of the marine and bird food chain. (Common Dreams) ` FIFTEEN ASIAN NATIONS [...]
DON’T WORRY. THOSE PESKY AGGRIEVED WALMART EMPLOYEES WON’T HAMPER YOUR BLACK FRIDAY SHOPPING SPREE… ` The mega-retailer faces its largest labor protest to date as union groups and frustrated current employees vow to organize a nationwide walkout at Walmart stores on the day after Thanksgiving. So-called “Black Friday” is the most important day of [...]
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