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Webバージョン  |  アップデート設定  |  登録解除 いいね ツイート 転送 http://endofsecrets.blogspot.com Problems With the Math: Is 350's Carbon Divestment Campaign Complete? Posted by jon on 3 December, 2012 Christian Parenti I have much respect for Bill McKibben and 350.org, the organization he started. Future generations will hail the 350 activists of today as heroes. That said I am very worried about the pitfalls of 350's current "Do the Math" campaign, which seeks to pressure universities, churches and other institutions to divest their investment portfolios of all fossil fuel stocks. read more About Time: Obama Finally Gets Tough Posted by jon on 3 December, 2012 Robert Kuttner President Obama has belatedly grasped that holding firm on tax increases for the top 2 percent, and defending Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid against needless cuts, is good politics and good policy. As his Treasury Secretary, Tim Geithner put it on Fox News Sunday, "Why does it make sense for the country to force tax increases on all Americans, because a small group of Republicans want to extend tax rates for 2 percent of Americans, why does that make any sense? read more Debtpocalypse, Austerity and the Hollowing Out of America Posted by jon on 3 December, 2012 Steve Fraser “Debtpocalypse” looms.  Depending on who wins out in Washington, we’re told, we will either free fall over the fiscal cliff or take a terrifying slide to the pit at the bottom.&nb read more Progressive Media Claims They'll Be 'Tougher' on Obama Now Posted by jon on 3 December, 2012 Glenn Greenwald Last week, the Huffington Post's media reporter, Michael Calderone, wrote a long article on the widespread perception that MSNBC isn't so much a progressive network as it is "simply pro-Obama". read more The GOP's Big Budget Mumble Posted by jon on 3 December, 2012 Paul Krugman In the ongoing battle of the budget, President Obama has done something very cruel. Declaring that this time he won’t negotiate with himself, he has refused to lay out a proposal reflecting what he thinks Republicans want. Instead, he has demanded that Republicans themselves say, explicitly, what they want. read more Katrina, All Over Again Posted by jon on 3 December, 2012 Chris Hedges Avgi Tzenis, 76, is standing in the hall of her small brick row house on Bragg Street in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. She is dressed in a bathrobe and open-toed sandals. The hall is dark and cold. It has been dark and cold since Hurricane Sandy slammed into the East Coast a month ago. Three feet of water and raw sewage flooded and wrecked her home. read more Why UN Climate Agreements Fail Posted by jon on 3 December, 2012 Shamus Cooke History will undoubtedly deliver the harshest condemnations of  the UN climate talks currently underway in Doha, Qatar. read more Why It’s Hard to Replace the "Fiscal Cliff” Metaphor Posted by jon on 3 December, 2012 George Lakoff Writers on economics have been talking since the election about why the “fiscal cliff” metaphor is misleading. read more Five Facts About America's Pathological Wealth Distribution Posted by jon on 3 December, 2012 Paul Buchheit Most people associate inequality with the income gap. As distorted as the distribution of income may be, our wealth distribution is even more extreme. Americans are beginning to realize that years of preferential tax treatment for the rich, under the guise of "supply-side job creation" nonsense, have bloated the fortunes of the super-rich to a level that would make Rockefeller and Carnegie envious.(Photo by ItzaFineDay) read more 登録変更 | 登録解除

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