Abby Martin calls out the corporate press for their coverage of AP hacking scandal, pointing out how the US government routinely conducts this type of surveillance without the same type of media outcry.
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Due to the global unrest, currency wars and social outcry, many believe this could be the point of collapse. Although it’s not certain what will happen, dozens of economic forecasters and military insiders are saying America is headed for unrest. Was the lock down in MA a sign that it’s started to happen already? Jillian C. York Just a little more than two years ago, the world witnessed the overthrow of three North African dictators and ensuing protests across much of the Arab world on television and social media, the latter of which was much lauded as a catalyzing tool. But while 2011 was a time of hopefulness and increased openness throughout much of the region, 2012 brought about increased repression, both online [...] Michelle Obama has been making the rounds on talk shows and most notably during 85th Academy Awards when she presented Best Picture Michelle Obama has certainly made the rounds in the past week, from [...] Mac Slavo
Once a bastion of European success and center of tourism, the country of Greece has become the harbinger of things to come for the rest of the world’s developed nations. Not long ago Greeks were enjoying high paid salaries, early retirements, excess cash, and seemingly never ending economic growth. Today, just a short time after a financial collapse that rocked global financial markets, Europe’s darling has turned into a [...] by Brianna Panzica, Wealth Wire: U.S. banks were hit hard in the recession with the burst of the housing bubble and the foreclosure crisis. They’ve struggled with customer criticism and even bank failures, and their balance sheets were lagging. But a clearing of the recession fog and an uptick in housing prices have allowed them to begin to recover. Yet not all have. Bank of America’s $5 debit card fee proposed last year caused [...] Ron Paul
As the northeastern United States continues to recover from Hurricane Sandy, we hear the usual outcry against individuals and companies who dare to charge market prices for goods such as gasoline. The normal market response of rising prices in the wake of a natural disaster and resulting supply disruptions is redefined as “price gouging.” The government claims that price gouging is the charging of ruinous or exploitative prices for [...] The law requires that any financial institution (US or foreign) remitting any foreign payment to a bank in such a country withhold 30 percent of the amount of such payment and remit that percentage to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) as a tax. A withholdable payment is defined as any payment of interest, dividends, rents, salaries, wages, premiums, annuities, compensation, enumerations, emoluments, and other fixed or determinable annual or periodical gains, [...] by WashingtonsBlog BP Continues to Hide Potential Oil Leak from Seafloor In response to the outcry about new oil leaking from BP’s Gulf macondo field, BP sent a remotely operated vehicle (ROV) down to the seafloor to investigate the source of the new oil sheen. BP claims that it found and stopped the source of the oil: a leaking “stovepipe” and side area of the “cofferdam“:
We asked Dr. Ira Leifer – a University of California [...] Mac Slavo
In a country where showing your identification is required for everything from opening a gym membership and renting a movie to purchasing a six-pack of beer and placing a wager at a blackjack table, it’s nothing short of ridiculous that the same standards are not required to cast a vote for representatives who we empower to make decisions that include how much we’re taxed, how we’re regulated [...] France announced Wednesday it will close 20 embassies across the Muslim world on Friday after French weekly Charlie Hebdo published cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed naked, amid growing unrest over an anti-Islamic film that has left dozens dead. The French foreign ministry announced Wednesday that France will close 20 of its embassies in Muslim countries this Friday following the publication of controversial Prophet Mohammed cartoons by satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. Major [...] Anthony Gucciardi In another massive victory against Monsanto and the spread of genetically modified crops, French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayraul has announced that the nation will be maintaining a key ban on the only remaining GMO currently allowed in Europe. Known as Monsanto’s GMO maize crops, or MON810 maize, the original ban was brought forth back in March following the French court’s previous annulment on a November ban. Thanks to activism by [...] Would you pay to use Facebook to help investors recover their loss? In an August 29, 2012, article at Huffington Posts’s blog, readers are asked if they’d be willing to pay one dollar a year to use Facebook. In the grand scheme of things, one dollar doesn’t sound like much and most people wouldn’t even think twice about anteing up. But we’re talking about 900 million people here and that means [...] From SHTFplan: A report from Paul Joseph Watson at Infowars indicates that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has redacted their most recent purchase order for ammunition. With DHS having purchased over one billion rounds of ammunition in just the last year and an outcry across alternative media websites and blogs, it seems they are now looking to hide their activities, even though the only legal reasons for redacting government related documents [...] Paul Craig Roberts The Russian government has finally caught on that its political opposition is being financed by the US taxpayer-funded National Endowment for Democracy and other CIA/State Department fronts in an attempt to subvert the Russian government and install an American puppet state in the geographically largest country on earth, the one country with a nuclear arsenal sufficient to deter Washington’s aggression. Just as earlier this year Egypt expelled [...] Russia’s lower house of parliament has passed the bill in its third and final reading, despite criticism of censorship from the country’s most popular websites. The original proposal, which has been under review in the Duma since last week, implied that only “harmful information” would be censored. However, that phrase was amended on Tuesday night, and the list of reasons for which the government will be allowed to shut down a site is now [...] Jonathan Benson (NaturalNews) A small Pennsylvania town that was in the process of ending its water fluoridation program appears to be reversing course, all because of a few local, and very vocal, residents that literally begged township supervisors to keep poisoning their water with toxic fluoride. According to the York Daily Record, a 4-1 vote by West Manheim Township supervisors to end water fluoridation has now been reversed, which [...] (CNN) – German sports apparel maker Adidas withdrew its plans to sell a controversial sneaker featuring affixed rubber shackles after the company generated significant criticism when advertising the shoe on it’s Facebook page. The high-top sneakers, dubbed the JS Roundhouse Mids, were expected to release in August, according to the Adidas Originals Facebook page. “Got a sneaker game so hot you lock your kicks to your ankles?” a caption below a photo [...] Syrian activists claim victims are army defectors killed by Assad’s forces The bodies of 13 people have been discovered bound and shot in eastern Syria – days after a massacre of 108 civilians ignited a world outcry. Syrian activists [...] Martha Payne began adding daily photos of school lunches to own blog site Jamie Oliver is a fan and wrote to her encouraging her to ‘keep it up’ A schoolgirl who sparked an outcry over nutrition by posting pictures of her school food online has been inundated with pictures of school dinners from around the world – and has chalked [...] It’s an effort to curb under-the-counter payments in a country where dentists, masons and plumbers often offer discounts for bills settled in cash. Tax evasion in Italy is worth an estimated €120 billion euro a year. Italian banks are launching cheap current accounts for low-income households and pensioners as a government crackdown on tax evasion limits the amount of payments that can be made in cash. An estimated 850,000 pensioners in Italy do not [...] WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Florida’s governor is rejecting any suggestions charges were filed in the killing of the unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin because of public pressure. Republican Gov. Rick Scott said Monday he doesn’t believe special prosecutor Angela Corey is influenced by anything but the facts of the case. Read more: AP Raise it? Don’t raise it? The state of the minimum wage has long been a hot-button political issue, but in a struggling economy, an election year, and with many states proposing changes, it’s only getting hotter. PHOTO GALLERY: Minimum Wage and What It Buys You: 1950s to Now This month, the New Jersey General Assembly’s Labor Committee approved legislation that would set a minimum wage of $5 an hour by June 2013 for tipped employees (the [...] Market pressure drove researchers to abandon biotech pig ‘contending’ to be first approved GM meat on consumer plates. Aaron Dykes In a victory against biotech, Canada’s Ontario Pork has announced its decision to cut funding and stop research for the enviropig, genetically-engineered to produce less phosphorous in manure, in effort to reduce the environmental impact of raising pigs. “[Enviro-pig] certainly does not have the public’s support,” Lucy Sharatt, Coordinator of the Canadian [...] Mike Adams No matter what you think about the Trayvon Martin shooting case, the degree of emotional and cultural outpouring in this case is impressive. But it seems to be taking place in a highly selective way. A shooting like what happened with Trayvon is tragic but rare, whereas at least a hundred African-Americans are killed by drug companies, vaccine pushers and cancer clinics every single day! And most [...] Girl, 18, incredibly survives ordeal after being left for dead The shocking case of a young woman allegedly gang-raped, dumped in a ditch and set on fire by two sons of ex-government [...] Lew: Obama’s latest stance on birth-control mandate final, puts issue to rest By Mike Lillis – 02/12/12 10:38 AM ET
President Obama’s new birth-control stance should put to rest the controversy over employer-sponsored contraception coverage, a top administration official said Sunday.
White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew said Obama’s new plan, unveiled Friday, effectively addresses “the core issue” of simultaneously ensuring religious freedom and women’s access to healthcare.
“It does not force an [...] We Need Copyright Reform, Not ACTA! Marietje Schaake: As a Member of the European Parliament, I very much welcome the increased attention the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has received in the past weeks. It has taken a while for massive outcry to emerge, but we are seeing protest voices getting louder and louder. The internet is a great tool to alert politicians to all the dangers of this treaty, just as the internet [...] Poland’s prime minister said Friday that Warsaw would put on ice plans to ratify a controversial international online anti-piracy accord after massive off-and-online protests in his country. “I consider that the arguments for a halt to the ratification process are justified,”Donald Tusk told reporters. “The issue of signing of the ACTA accord did not involve sufficient consultation with everyone who is part of the process,” Tusk said, adding that he would hold broad talks on what [...] |
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Executive coach: ‘Finance is an amoral world, bordering on the immoral’
A psychologist compares the ‘twisted minds’ of some executives to those of paedophiles he has tried to treat in the past
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/joris-luyendijk-banking-blog/2012/jun/18/executive-coach-finance-amoral-world
“Mid-30s is also when people are just before their mid-life crisis. They have more or less found out who they are, they can sort of see the limit of their potential, and it leads to disenchantment, disillusionment. ‘I will not become the next Richard Branson’, they realise. “At the same [...]