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Olympics Won’t Bring the Gold to Vancouver’s Economy
Temple University sport management professor Emily Sparvero says three major challenges – a struggling economy, decreased interest in the Olympics and disputes among social welfare groups – could hinder the Canadian host city from recouping its investment.
It is time for Asia to use its stronger voice to take a more prominent role in this new world order. The progression from the Western-dominated G8 to a more inclusive G20, with meaningful positions for leading Asian economies, rightly reflects the shift to a new equilibrium in which Asia has much greater weight.
Attempts to extend Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's chairmanship of the African Union cause a diplomatic spat.
Central Africa's diamond miners lose their sparkle
Government Financial Support of News Media Continues Steep Decline
Government financial support that has bolstered this country's commercial news business since its colonial days is in sharp decline and is likely to fall further, according to a report released today by the University of Southern California’s Center on Communication Leadership & Policy. Because these cutbacks are occurring at the height of the digital revolution, they will have an especially powerful impact on a weakened news industry.
Asia hit hardest by global move from risk
Worries about the impact of monetary tightening in China on a fragile global economy has been a central theme for investors from New York to Tokyo, and Asian markets finished the last trading day of January in miserable form
US Debt Clock
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) said First Regional Bank in Los Angeles, Florida Community Bank, First National Bank of Georgia, American Marine Bank in Washington, Marshall Bank in Minnesota and Community Bank and Trust in Georgia had failed -- pushing the tally to 15 banks that have failed this year.
My comment: If you were having trouble determining where government ends and corporations begin and vice-versa, this ruling by the
supremes means that it will be impossible to make that distinction
ever again.
Over-Training Counterproductive Says Butler University Fitness Director.
Challenging yourself in fitness training is good. But overdoing training is counterproductive to realizing your fitness goals, says Butler University’s Adrian Shepard, assistant director of fitness overseeing recreation. Over-training, also called over-exercising, he said, happens when yo’re ’not allowing your body the opportunity to adjust, adapt and recuperate in response to the training regimen you’re taking part in’.
Study Says Lead May Be the Culprit in ADHD
ADHD, or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, is among the costliest of behavioral disorders. New research suggests that the culprit may be an old villain—lead—and what’s more it explains the causal pathway from exposure to disability.
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Obama Ignores Key Afghan Warning
Incarceration Nation - Prisons: America's growth industry
Inside the borders of the United States resides a separate nation of 2.3 million people. I speak, of course, of America's prison population. Incarceration may be the only U.S. industry that enjoys unlimited growth potential. We lead the world, by a wide margin, in the number of citizens in prison. The per capita rate is six times higher than Canada, eight times that of France, and even surpasses China and Russia. According to Georgetown law professor David Cole, a new prison opens every week somewhere in America, a truly insane statistic that …
More than 60,000 jobs disappear in a single day
Caterpillar Inc., Pfizer Inc., Sprint Nextel Corp. and Home Depot Inc. led companies announcing plans yesterday to cut more than 60,000 jobs as sales withered and construction slowed amid the global economic decline. The biggest layoffs were at Peoria, Ill.-based Caterpillar. The world's largest maker of construction equipment said it is cutting 20,000 jobs after its fourth-quarter profit fell by almost one-third. Most of those cuts already have been made. They include 5,000 new layoffs of white-collar workers, which will occur globally by th…
Haiti Untold: Nonviolence and Humanization at the Grassroots
A number of commentators have questioned the accepted logic that disasters bring out the worst in people, directly challenging the pervasive "looters run amok" imagery often perpetuated by the media and held out by lawmakers as a rationale for military occupation. Having done relief work following Hurricanes Andrew and Katrina, I have found that people are more likely to work together - even if only out of necessity - when severe hardship strikes. In fact, it is precisely the isolation and individualism of ordinary daily life that tap into our…
Obama’s War for Oil in Colombia
As for the extra-judicial killings by the Colombian military, these were carried out as part of the “false positive” scandal – a controversy involving the military murdering civilians and then dressing them up to look like guerillas in order to increase their body count numbers, thereby guaranteeing further U.S. aid
Water Heist: Corporations Are Targeting Cash-Strapped Cities for Control of Their Public Water
Big business is looking to cash in on public water systems and they've got a new tactic: They're using desperate economic times to convince city officials that they should place a corporation between families and their ability to eat, drink, and clean. Recent decades have been an active period for water corporations. In the 1990s the corporate push to privatize was buffeted by a tax law change under the Clinton administration that encouraged multinationals to enter the U.S. market. However, when privatization of water systems in large cities p…
Howard Zinn: A Radical Treasure
He was an unbelievably decent man who felt obliged to challenge injustice and unfairness wherever he found it. What was so radical about believing that workers should get a fair shake on the job, that corporations have too much power over our lives and much too much influence with the government, that wars are so murderously destructive that alternatives to warfare should be found, that blacks and other racial and ethnic minorities should have the same rights as whites, that the interests of powerful political leaders and corporate elites are …
From the Archive: In a new book, Israeli scholar Shlomo Sand argues that the Roman-era Diaspora was a historical myth. By Morgan Strong.
Carolyn Baker:
My comment: Peter Goodchild is an astute researcher of Peak Oil, but I could not disagree more with his assessment regarding Transition.
In this article ‘The Depletion of Key Resources’, he states …
University of Iowa Graduate Subpoenaed to A.L.F. Grand Jury
By Peter Young
A University of Iowa graduate has been named as the latest person subpoenaed to testify to a grand jury seeking those responsible for the 2004 Animal Liberation Front raid of the University of Iowa.
Leana Stormont, a barred attorney and graduate of the University of Iowa law school, was involved with animal rights activism on campus at the time of the 2004 A.L.F. raid. The action saw the rescue of 401 animals from the Spence psychology labs in an overnight raid by the A.L.F.
A visible animal rights activist on campus, Leana Stormont appears to have been on the FBI’s radar since the Animal Liberation Front break-in. After experiencing harassment in the post-raid FBI investigation, she published an article in the American Chronicle titled “Caring About Animals is Not a Crime” on being surveilled by the FBI and the government’s practice of spying on activists…..
Submitted by Carolyn Baker
New EU Law Targets Facebook
Small Businesses Need to Consider Social Media
Social media is not just for the school-age set or lost-lost classmates. Small businesses can tap into a variety of options, according to Jennifer Regina, an adjunct professor of marketing at Rowan University, Glassboro, N.J. |
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