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Michael Haltman

Gallup daily tracking for BP oil spill: Obama, federal government and BP all get failin... - 1 views

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    The time for presidential rhetoric is over. It is time for some action. This performance makes Katrina look like a home run!
Michael Haltman

Gaza flotilla, Hamas and the Hamas Charter - 1 views

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    The world condemns Israel for stopping weapons from coming in to the Gaza Strip for Hamas, when the one goal of Hamas is the obliteration of Israel.
Michael Haltman

How do you know when a president is lying? - 1 views

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    Jobs were offered by the White House Chief and Deputy Chief of Staff to clear the field in primary elections, yet President Obama did not know about it? Sounds a little far fetched to me.
Michael Haltman

Watch live oil company executives getting crucified - 1 views

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    Watch the oil company executives get crucified by the Congress live on C-SPAN3 concerning the BP oil spill and the future of offshore drilling in the United States.
Michael Haltman

Nursing, healthcare and the medical war on terror - A personal story - National Homelan... - 1 views

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    U.S. healthcare in action - A personal story
Michael Haltman

Nike and the cave-in to political correctness continuing a disturbing trend - National ... - 1 views

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    Nike: Just don't do it!
Arabica Robusta

Transnational Institute | Putting profit before society - 1 views

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    According to the steel ministry, some concessions or exemptions should be given to state-owned companies like Steel Authority of India and National Mineral Development Corporation. They deserve special consideration because of the "historical role" they played in accepting "social obligations" in different, especially extremely backward, parts of India. According to people's movements and non-governmental organisations who speak for the communities and vulnerable groups affected or liable to be affected by mining, the answer is sharply different. They emphasise the high human and social costs of displacement caused by "development" projects, which have uprooted 45 million people since Independence without resettling, leave alone rehabilitating, a large majority of them. Mining, like dams, industries and highways, is responsible for a large chunk of this damage.
Michael Haltman

The Political Commentator: Elections done, now is the time for the heavy lifting - 1 views

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    Little time to enjoy the GOP takeover of control of the House. It is time to try and reverse healthcare and put the country back on track. It is also time to find out about the quantitative easing by the Fed.
Michael Haltman

The United States, China and 15 days to global economic collapse - 1 views

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    What happens if you rely on the neighborhood bully to give YOU your lunch money every day? The same thing that could happen to the U.S. by relying on China for our deficit spending and the funding of those same deficits!
Arabica Robusta

Keane Bhatt, "Noam Chomsky on Hopes and Prospects for Activism: 'We Can Achieve a Lot'" - 1 views

  • I think he would take it for granted that elites are basically Marxist -- they believe in class analysis, they believe in class struggle, and in a really business-run society like the United States, the business elites are deeply committed to class struggle and are engaged in it all the time.  And they understand.  They're instinctive Marxists; they don't have to read it.
  • In fact, Malaysia also came out of the Asian crisis.  It was imposing capital controls.  Now the economists were all saying it's a disaster.  But they did quite well.  Same with Argentina, the former poster child for the IMF, leading to a serious crisis.  It then disregarded all the warnings and doctrines and the economy did very well, contrary to predictions.
  • using the multidimensional poverty index, there were 645 million poor, or 55 percent of India's population -- more than in the poorest 26 African countries combined. 
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  • there is sometimes dramatic conflict between the developmentalists, like left president Correa, and the indigenous communities affected by mining and dams.  Also, Evo Morales, despite being hugely popular, recently had to deal with a very big general strike in Potosí.  What do you make of these dynamics?  What are the hopes and prospects in Latin America regarding raising living standards, the paths of industrialization, environmental considerations, the role of social movements, and avoiding state coercion?
  • I don't know of any simple general answer to your question of how this will all turn out.  The problems are often not simple.  A great deal is at stake, not just for the people of the countries.  Resource extraction impacts a global environment that is increasingly at severe risk.
  • You said, "It's quite striking that we and other western countries can't reach, can't even approach, can't even dream about the level of democracy they had in Haiti.  That's pretty shocking.  Here's one of the poorest countries in the world.  The population that organized to win that election is among the most repressed and impoverished in the world; they managed to organize enough to enter the electoral arena without any resources and elect their own candidate."  Praising Bolivia at the same time, you asked, "Is it believable that we can't do the same? . . . We can take lessons from them.  Anything they've done we can do a thousand times more easily."
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    The founding fathers were very concerned about the danger of democracy and spoke quite openly about the need to construct the democratic institutions so that threat would be contained.  That's why the Senate has so much more power than the House, to mention just one example.
rich hilts

Internet Freedom - Exit Stage LEFT - 1 views

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    Internet freedom going bye bye? The left believes in free speech for their side but not thee? Interesting information from FCC Commissioner speech - very good to read - powerful speech against Net Neutrality
rich hilts

Nightmare On 1st Street - The DREAM That Died - 1 views

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    Read the truth before you believe the spin. Facts, numbers and statistics may not be as glorified as running around like you have your hair on fire, but the facts prove we are the most generous country in the world with immigration, and this bill was just another attempt to buy votes. Check out the proof of the Reid Conspiracy.
rich hilts

New Omnibus Sneak Attack - 1 views

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    That's right! Dirty Harry and his spendariffic crowd are back again with another bill to spend money where it is, in many cases not needed. But you won't know because the bill is too damn large to read..... again.
Michael Haltman

Hef does it again! - 1 views

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    Hugh Hefner engaged to 24-year old Crystal Harris.
rich hilts

Kwanzaa Means What, Mr. President? - 1 views

shared by rich hilts on 02 Jan 11 - No Cached
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    Article on what the President's Kwanzaa message really revealed - from his own lips!
rich hilts

Democrats - Go Ahead - Screw With The Filibuster! - 1 views

shared by rich hilts on 03 Jan 11 - No Cached
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    Boy oh boy, Chuckie and Harry and the boys from the left are about to make a big mistake - one wonders? Should we cheer them on?
rich hilts

Going On The Offensive? - 1 views

shared by rich hilts on 03 Jan 11 - No Cached
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    Illegals are offended by us calling them illegal and this person is "campaigning" to get us to be less offensive by calling them undocumented. Unreal.
rich hilts

Want To Do Something To Save This Country? You Can, You Know - 1 views

shared by rich hilts on 06 Jan 11 - No Cached
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    Head this thing off at the pass. Give the GOP cover to at least try - because we know the other side just hit the accelerator!
rich hilts

Leftist Concerted Attack Begins Already - 1 views

shared by rich hilts on 08 Jan 11 - No Cached
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    New article - just one example of Left Media attacks - and it was only 2 days into the new Congress. Learn how we on the right have a "secret code language"
rich hilts

Gabrielle Giffords, Congresswoman, Shot At Event, Dead - 1 views

shared by rich hilts on 08 Jan 11 - No Cached
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    New article - Gabrielle Giffords, shot dead at a local Arizona event - up to six more have passed as well. Please, join us in a moment of prayer, silence or mourning - whichever you're comfortable with.
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    This has been updated several times - I had gotten my information from several sources, which as time went along, obviously retracted their "fatally shot" messages. I do apologize for the bad information.
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