Month: September 2011

Tony Blair: Time to go?

AL JAZEERA:  …  Nabil Sha’ath, the Palestinian Authority’s first ever foreign minister, told me last year: “Forget Tony Blair. I think Mr Blair is at the wrong time at the wrong place and he’s just making it easier for Mr Netanyahu to deceive us, really, in more ways than one.” Despite their suspicion that Blair betrayed them […]

Strikes hamper Greek rescue effort

FINANCIAL TIMES:  Wildcat strikes in Greece have prevented the country’s bureaucrats from finalising next year’s vital budget figures, potentially holding up this month’s release of sorely needed fiscal aid and capping an ignominious quarter for global markets. Despite a tentative improvement in sentiment over the past week, mounting fears over a potential Greek default and […]

Poverty pervades the suburbs

CNN:  A record 15.4 million suburban residents lived below the poverty line last year, up 11.5% from the year before, according to a Brookings Institution analysis of Census data released Thursday. That’s one-third of the nation’s poor. And their ranks are swelling fast, as jobs disappear and incomes decline amid the continued weak economy. Since […]

Clarence Thomas Should Be Investigated For Nondisclosure, Democratic Lawmakers Say

HUFF POST:   Democratic lawmakers on Thursday called for a federal investigation into Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ failure to report hundreds of thousands of dollars on annual financial disclosure forms. Led by House Rules Committee ranking member Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.), 20 House Democrats sent a letter to the Judicial Conference of the United States […]

INTELLIGENCER NEW ERA

Editorial “Pa.’s leper colonies” opines: “Why does the state Legislature continue to treat Pennsylvania’s small cities like leper colonies?”…

“Roughly 30 percent of the properties in the city are tax exempt.”…

“Unlike Philadelphia or Pittsburgh, the city is not permitted to levy an additional 1 percent sales tax.”…

Morning Joe panders to sponsor Starbucks

It was with a sense of shock and disgust that the Watchdog watched a full fifteen-minute segment, uninterrupted by commercials, of an interview at 8:00 AM by MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” of Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, the program’s chief sponsor.

Although probably meaning well, Shultz spoke inanities having recently demanded a reduction in deficit spending and today endorsing stimulus and a broader social network. Which would he have?

OCCUPY WALL STREET

Editor’s note:  This article is dated July 13, 2011 and was the genesis for the current demonstration in the Wall Street area.  Amazing, isn’t it, what a posting on a blog can trigger in this age of the Internet! ADBUSTERS BLOG:  ….we demand that Barack Obama ordain a Presidential Commission tasked with ending the influence […]

Cain, Gingrich Make Surprise Jump in Polls as Perry Slides

NEWSMAX:  …A Fox poll released Wednesday illustrates the Perry slide after his contentious debate performance. Romney’s backing among Republican primary voters held steady at 23 percent. And Cain, buoyed by strong debate performances and media attention after he won a Florida Republican party straw poll, rose to third, just behind Perry at 17 percent, to […]

Part 1 of a five-part series on voter records

 – By Bev Harris, Black Box Voting  You can discuss this article here: http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/81758.html In June 2007, a steady voter in Memphis named Effie Washington was a Black woman.  But before the 2008 presidential election, Effie’s voting record was changed to read “gender: man; race: other”.  In June 2009 her voting record was changed, to […]

Revised US growth data bring relief

FINANCIAL TIMES:  The outlook for the US economy brightened a little on Thursday as revisions to data on growth and jobs suggested he country is further from a slide back into recession than previously feared. Gross domestic product growth in the second quarter was revised upwards from 1 per cent to 1.3 per cent, while […]