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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 An Invented Crisis Threatens the Forgotten Millions Posted by jon on 7 December, 2012 Paul Krugman Let’s get one thing straight: America is not facing a fiscal crisis. It is, however, still very much experiencing a job crisis. It’s easy to get confused about the fiscal thing, since everyone’s talking about the “fiscal cliff.” Indeed, one recent poll suggests that a large plurality of the public believes that the budget deficit will go up if we go off that cliff. read more Today’s Job Numbers Show Why Job-Creation Must Take Precedence Over Deficit Reduction Posted by jon on 7 December, 2012 Robert Reich Today’s jobs report shows an economy that’s still moving in the right direction but way too slowly, which is why Washington’s continuing obsession with the federal budget deficit is insane. Jobs and growth must come first. read more Cliffs Notes: On the Edge and Over a Barrel Posted by jon on 7 December, 2012 Randall Amster Hopefully you’re enjoying the onset of the holiday season, especially the latest prefabricated crisis coming out of Washington for your yuletide amusement. It seems that we can never underestimate the capacity of the government to focus on the wrong issues, to view issues in unwarranted isolation, or to misdirect people’s energies toward false issues rather than those that really matter. read more Older, Eager, and Unemployed: When Even Santa Can’t Get a Job Posted by jon on 7 December, 2012 Greg Kaufmann In May 2012, Richard Crowe was laid off when the steel mill where he had worked for thirty-four years was shut down. He’d worked there since graduating from high school. New ownership filed for bankruptcy.(Image source: tumblr.com) “The judge threw the workers’ contract out, the owners walked away with $20 million, and we got nothing,” says Crowe, who is 54, and lives in eastern Ohio. read more Corporate Push for GMO Food Puts Independent Science in Jeopardy Posted by jon on 7 December, 2012 Vandana Shiva Science is considered science when it is independent, when it has integrity and when it speaks the truth about its search. It was the integrity, independence and sovereignty of science that drew me and propelled me to study physics.(Photo: rodale.com) Today, independent science is threatened with extinction. While this is true in every field, it is the field of food and agriculture that I am most concerned about. read more Having 'Skin in the Game' Posted by jon on 7 December, 2012 Ralph Nader Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s new tour de force book Antifragile: Things that Gain From Disorder is a frame-of-reference altering work that a Wall Street Journal reviewer confessed he would have to read “again and again” presumably to figure out its “somersaults of the mind,” to borrow a phrase from Yoko Ono. read more A Sign That Obama Will Repeat Economic Mistakes Posted by jon on 7 December, 2012 Robert Scheer Please don’t tell me that these reports in the business press touting Sallie Krawcheck as a front-runner for chairman of the SEC or even a possible candidate to be the next Treasury secretary are true. Who is she? Oh, just another former Citigroup CFO, and therefore a prime participant in the great banking hustle that has savaged the world’s economy. read more Corporate Media Gives Up on Factchecking Posted by jon on 7 December, 2012 Peter Hart In October, the inevitable was announced: Struggling Newsweek magazine would be finished as a print publication as of the end of the year. But the last mass newsweekly left, Time, also made an announcement of sorts: It was out of the factchecking business. read more Propaganda Deja Vu? Media Uncritically Echoes Unnamed US Officials on Syria’s Chemical Weapons Posted by jon on 7 December, 2012 Rania Khalek “All governments lie.” — I.F. Stone read more Presidential Inauguration by Bank of America Posted by jon on 7 December, 2012 Robert Weissman The 2013 Presidential Inauguration, brought to you by Bank of America.Protesters outside a Bank of America annual shareholders’ meeting in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photograph: Jason Miczek/Reuters) No, we're not going to see that banner next month, when President Obama takes the oath of the office. read more 登録変更 | 登録解除

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