Today's Headlines that caught my eye
(H/T TPM)
Vote by Mail, Go to Jail
Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott prosecutes Democrats who help seniors vote by mail while ignoring Republican ballot-box stuffing.
Steven Rosenfeld | April 18, 2008 | Features
...“It’s the equivalent of when a gang moves into a neighborhood and spray-paints their graffiti or their marker; it’s not to deface one building. It is to send a message,” Turner said. “You have agents of the attorney general walking through a neighborhood, walking past three crack houses, to go talk to a voter. Think about that. What does that say their priorities are? It’s about holding on to the levers of power.”...
Which led to learning for the firsme about this:
Weary of living with justice bias
BY LEONARD PITTS JR. • KNIGHT RIDDER NEWSPAPERS • May 17, 2008
A 2000 Justice Department study finds the justice system to be racially biased.
Live with it.
Scandal erupts when L.A. police plant evidence on black and Latino suspects.
Live with it.
Police in New York sodomize a black man named Abner Louima with a broom handle.
Live with it.
A racist cop in Tulia, Texas, lies three dozen people, most of them black, into prison.
Live with it.
An 18-year-old black kid in Atlanta gets 15 years for having sex with a white girl.
Live with it.
More than a dozen Philadelphia cops beat the stuffing out of three unresisting black men.
Live with it.
And the sad thing is, I don't even believe there was malice in those words. I believe this was advice honestly meant to be helpful.
Accept it. You can't change it. Live with it.
And then to this:
Grits for Breakfast
Welcome to Texas justice: You might beat the rap, but you won't beat the ride.
Monday, July 03, 2006
Dallas fake drug case shows why many distrust informants
It's easy to understand why police don't want "snitch" defined more narrowly than just a synonym for "witness" - often today's informant practices aren't a pretty sight viewed from up close. Take the immediate example of the Dallas fake drug scandal, fallout from which continues to envelope the Dallas Police Department. In that case a crooked cop, Mark Delapaz teamed up with lying infomants to frame dozens of innocent people with fake drugs ("Delapaz gets two 5-year terms in fake drug case," Dallas Morning News, June 30). Last week Delapaz was convicted of stealing money and falsifying documents. Reported the News:
Prosecutors charged that Mr. Delapaz, 37, was motivated to steal money because he had $60,000 in credit card debt and presented evidence that he forged paperwork and skimmed some of the more than $400,000 in police money that passed through his hands in 2001.
"This trial was especially important because we finally in an open courtroom got to have the evidence of theft and forgery," prosecutor Toby Shook said.
Witnesses testified that even after Mr. Delapaz received several warnings that some of his large drug seizures did not contain real drugs, he defied orders by two supervisors and continued using a discredited informant.
In the weeks before an investigation mounted and he was placed on desk duty, Mr. Delapaz's work became erratic, testimony indicated. In October and November 2001, Mr. Delapaz checked out more than $46,000 in police money to make drug deals, but never made any arrests and arranged to have the large quantities of drugs he purchased immediately destroyed, according to court testimony.
Mr. Shook told jurors in closing arguments that Mr. Delapaz ordered the evidence destroyed because he knew at that point that the drugs were fake but wanted to keep stealing money.
At the same time, Mr. Delapaz did not alert his superiors or prosecutors when he learned that lab tests had come back negative on one large seizure, causing an innocent man to stay in jail several months longer, Mr. Shook said.
Funny how Delapaz was sentenced in Dallas last week, but a Sunday article on "snitching" never mentioned how badly informants have been misused by Dallas police. That's emblematic of the problem with criticizing wholesale such "Stop Snitching" sentiments - it ignores the extent to which the system of informant use in the criminal justice system has become corrupt, problematic and crime-producing in its own right. Plus it minimizes legitimate values of loyalty, trustworthiness and reliability that many Americans think are important.
Monday, May 19, 2008
Sunday, May 18, 2008
Headlines That Caught My Eye
May 18 2008
Employment verification plan: Big Brother or big improvement?
By Rob Hotakainen | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Sunday, May 18, 2008
…”Trasvina said the plan's biggest winners would be unscrupulous employers. Employees would be less likely to complain about working conditions, and employers could more easily avoid payroll taxes and the costs of workers' compensation and unemployment insurance, he added.
"They will continue to employ unauthorized workers, knowing they are more susceptible than ever before to exploitation and intimidation," he said.”…
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For Wall Street Workers, Ax Falls Quietly
By Louise Story and Eric Dash
NY Times
May 16, 2008
..."Layoffs are always difficult, but some of the recent cutbacks have been messier than usual. Some JPMorgan employees learned that people from Bear Stearns would get their jobs before the bosses said anything. JPMorgan clients told them first."...
..."Some Lehman Brothers investment bankers found out their jobs were in peril when they saw cardboard boxes and dumpster bins in the hallways in March.
And when Bank of America dismissed some bankers recently, it told them that their annual bonuses had been almost wiped out and that their personal belongings would arrive in the mail. The bank announced many of the layoffs on Feb. 13, two days before many employees would be able to start cashing out stock options.
In January, when Ms. Kennedy was temporarily out of the office at JPMorgan because of surgery, her boss called to say her job had been eliminated. She did not return to her office and ended up asking the bank to send her the photos of her son that she kept on her desk.
“You don’t get to say goodbye to people,” Ms. Kennedy said. “It’s demoralizing.”
At some banks like Bank of America, many laid-off employees are not allowed to return to their desks, because the banks fear departing employees will try to take valuable colleagues or clients with them.
Officials at all of the Wall Street firms declined to comment."...
…“Euphemisms for layoffs are making the rounds too. Banks do not just fire people anymore. They engage in “head count reduction,” “reduction in force” and “redundancies.””…
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We are boiling with anger
Beneath the surface there is a mass of rage. But why, when we have never been better off?
Janice Turner
From The Times
May 17, 2008
..."When yet another young man dies, I scan the reports for words that will afford me some solace: gang slaying, feud, grudge, crack house, sink estate, 2am, drug-related, excessive alcohol . . . These words make me feel a little safer. They largely have nothing to do with my life. I can, I tell myself, protect my sons from these words. But when Jimmy’s mother, Margaret Mizen, said “it was anger that killed my son”, I know I am powerless. Because anger is unconfined: it lurks in the middle of the day, in public places; it erupts between total strangers. Anger turns a random encounter into deadly violence."....
...."Anger becomes such a reflexive response that you do not realise how much it has penetrated your soul until you travel. Even New York seems less brimming with outrage, a collision in a crowd more likely to spark a “pardon me” than a glower. Visiting Australia, I heard a news item in which an educational survey had found modern Oz children the most illiterate and stupid ever. In Britain such a report would have provoked weeks of self-flagellating fury: Australia shrugged and headed for the beach.
Last summer in Slovenia, Europe’s most easy-going state, I was walking with my son past a line of cars when one started to reverse right at us. My London self banged hard on the back of the vehicle and made a furious hand gesture. The passengers in the car slowly turned, their eyes wide, their mouths agape at the crazy lady. “Mum,” said my son. “That was way too angry.”...."
..."Anger is a buzz, an addiction. Clearly we were designed for more than our modern functions. We are healthier, stronger, better fed and educated than any humans yet born. And yet we are the most underchallenged. Here we are, creatures capable of building cathedrals, surviving trench warfare or traversing oceans, wandering dead-eyed around B&Q. “People need to find peace, not anger,” said Mrs Mizen."...
May 18 2008
Employment verification plan: Big Brother or big improvement?
By Rob Hotakainen | McClatchy Newspapers
Posted on Sunday, May 18, 2008
…”Trasvina said the plan's biggest winners would be unscrupulous employers. Employees would be less likely to complain about working conditions, and employers could more easily avoid payroll taxes and the costs of workers' compensation and unemployment insurance, he added.
"They will continue to employ unauthorized workers, knowing they are more susceptible than ever before to exploitation and intimidation," he said.”…
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For Wall Street Workers, Ax Falls Quietly
By Louise Story and Eric Dash
NY Times
May 16, 2008
..."Layoffs are always difficult, but some of the recent cutbacks have been messier than usual. Some JPMorgan employees learned that people from Bear Stearns would get their jobs before the bosses said anything. JPMorgan clients told them first."...
..."Some Lehman Brothers investment bankers found out their jobs were in peril when they saw cardboard boxes and dumpster bins in the hallways in March.
And when Bank of America dismissed some bankers recently, it told them that their annual bonuses had been almost wiped out and that their personal belongings would arrive in the mail. The bank announced many of the layoffs on Feb. 13, two days before many employees would be able to start cashing out stock options.
In January, when Ms. Kennedy was temporarily out of the office at JPMorgan because of surgery, her boss called to say her job had been eliminated. She did not return to her office and ended up asking the bank to send her the photos of her son that she kept on her desk.
“You don’t get to say goodbye to people,” Ms. Kennedy said. “It’s demoralizing.”
At some banks like Bank of America, many laid-off employees are not allowed to return to their desks, because the banks fear departing employees will try to take valuable colleagues or clients with them.
Officials at all of the Wall Street firms declined to comment."...
…“Euphemisms for layoffs are making the rounds too. Banks do not just fire people anymore. They engage in “head count reduction,” “reduction in force” and “redundancies.””…
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We are boiling with anger
Beneath the surface there is a mass of rage. But why, when we have never been better off?
Janice Turner
From The Times
May 17, 2008
..."When yet another young man dies, I scan the reports for words that will afford me some solace: gang slaying, feud, grudge, crack house, sink estate, 2am, drug-related, excessive alcohol . . . These words make me feel a little safer. They largely have nothing to do with my life. I can, I tell myself, protect my sons from these words. But when Jimmy’s mother, Margaret Mizen, said “it was anger that killed my son”, I know I am powerless. Because anger is unconfined: it lurks in the middle of the day, in public places; it erupts between total strangers. Anger turns a random encounter into deadly violence."....
...."Anger becomes such a reflexive response that you do not realise how much it has penetrated your soul until you travel. Even New York seems less brimming with outrage, a collision in a crowd more likely to spark a “pardon me” than a glower. Visiting Australia, I heard a news item in which an educational survey had found modern Oz children the most illiterate and stupid ever. In Britain such a report would have provoked weeks of self-flagellating fury: Australia shrugged and headed for the beach.
Last summer in Slovenia, Europe’s most easy-going state, I was walking with my son past a line of cars when one started to reverse right at us. My London self banged hard on the back of the vehicle and made a furious hand gesture. The passengers in the car slowly turned, their eyes wide, their mouths agape at the crazy lady. “Mum,” said my son. “That was way too angry.”...."
..."Anger is a buzz, an addiction. Clearly we were designed for more than our modern functions. We are healthier, stronger, better fed and educated than any humans yet born. And yet we are the most underchallenged. Here we are, creatures capable of building cathedrals, surviving trench warfare or traversing oceans, wandering dead-eyed around B&Q. “People need to find peace, not anger,” said Mrs Mizen."...
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Today's Headlines:
Iraqis allege sex abuse at the British Embassy
From The Times
May 8, 2008
..."Mr Bird described KBR’s investigation as “thorough and professional”.
He said that it was his understanding that the Iraqi claimants had testified to KBR. However, the three told The Times that they were never contacted by the company. Their claims are backed up by staff at the ASI consultancy, which examined KBR’s findings.
A memo, sent by a senior ASI consultant to Mr Lodge and seen by The Times, criticised KBR’s investigation, saying that as well as failing to interview the Iraqis the company had also omitted to talk to other senior embassy officials who had interviewed the cleaner when she first made her claim.
KBR’s report stated that “we have found no evidence to support the claims of serious sexual harassment”, according to ASI."...
The FiOS ads say, ‘This is big!’ Well, maybe it is, and maybe it isn’t
COMMENTARY | May 09, 2008
Bruce Kushnick scoffs at the new FiOS ads in New York and wants to know where all the billions earmarked for broadband have gone.
By Bruce Kushnick
bruce@newnetworks.com
..."New Yorkers have paid about $2,400 per household since 1995 and counting for a service we may never get or want. Under earlier plans, the city was to be rewired with high speed fiber optics starting in 1995. Verizon has been collecting money ever since in the form of billions in higher rates and tax perks.
Here's what Verizon, then known as NYNEX, said in 1995:
"New York is the most information-intensive economy in the world, and telecommunications networks – which transport this information – will spur economic development in the state... With an advanced telecommunications infrastructure, a number of industries can, and should, flourish in New York: health care, financial services, information technology, research and development, educational services, entertainment and real estate."
Sound familiar? Economic growth, advanced telecommunications networks, education and entertainment would flourish."...
..."Local New York City phone prices have increased 472 percent since 1980 because the phone companies have been able to keep excess profits in an environment where competition has been mostly eliminated. Cable prices, which should have dropped with the introduction of Verizon TV, have instead increased by about $3.5 billion, or $500 a household.
This same scam is occurring throughout the U.S. According to earlier promises, AT&T and Verizon should have rewired 98 million homes by now. Since the early 1990s they have collected $240 billion – and counting – for such rewiring. In my first Nieman article, I outlined much of this, working largely from the companies’ annual reports. "...
Source: http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=00247
The Future We Almost Know
By: Ian Welsh Saturday May 10, 2008 4:00 pm
..."I miss the past’s future. I want my spaceships and jetpacks and flying cars. I want my cybertech and biotech and anti-aging treatments.. But you can’t have futures like that if you won’t pay for them, if you let public policy be run by people who are slaves to superstition, or if you ignore basic political economic problems."...
Iraqis allege sex abuse at the British Embassy
From The Times
May 8, 2008
..."Mr Bird described KBR’s investigation as “thorough and professional”.
He said that it was his understanding that the Iraqi claimants had testified to KBR. However, the three told The Times that they were never contacted by the company. Their claims are backed up by staff at the ASI consultancy, which examined KBR’s findings.
A memo, sent by a senior ASI consultant to Mr Lodge and seen by The Times, criticised KBR’s investigation, saying that as well as failing to interview the Iraqis the company had also omitted to talk to other senior embassy officials who had interviewed the cleaner when she first made her claim.
KBR’s report stated that “we have found no evidence to support the claims of serious sexual harassment”, according to ASI."...
The FiOS ads say, ‘This is big!’ Well, maybe it is, and maybe it isn’t
COMMENTARY | May 09, 2008
Bruce Kushnick scoffs at the new FiOS ads in New York and wants to know where all the billions earmarked for broadband have gone.
By Bruce Kushnick
bruce@newnetworks.com
..."New Yorkers have paid about $2,400 per household since 1995 and counting for a service we may never get or want. Under earlier plans, the city was to be rewired with high speed fiber optics starting in 1995. Verizon has been collecting money ever since in the form of billions in higher rates and tax perks.
Here's what Verizon, then known as NYNEX, said in 1995:
"New York is the most information-intensive economy in the world, and telecommunications networks – which transport this information – will spur economic development in the state... With an advanced telecommunications infrastructure, a number of industries can, and should, flourish in New York: health care, financial services, information technology, research and development, educational services, entertainment and real estate."
Sound familiar? Economic growth, advanced telecommunications networks, education and entertainment would flourish."...
..."Local New York City phone prices have increased 472 percent since 1980 because the phone companies have been able to keep excess profits in an environment where competition has been mostly eliminated. Cable prices, which should have dropped with the introduction of Verizon TV, have instead increased by about $3.5 billion, or $500 a household.
This same scam is occurring throughout the U.S. According to earlier promises, AT&T and Verizon should have rewired 98 million homes by now. Since the early 1990s they have collected $240 billion – and counting – for such rewiring. In my first Nieman article, I outlined much of this, working largely from the companies’ annual reports. "...
Source: http://www.niemanwatchdog.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=background.view&backgroundid=00247
The Future We Almost Know
By: Ian Welsh Saturday May 10, 2008 4:00 pm
..."I miss the past’s future. I want my spaceships and jetpacks and flying cars. I want my cybertech and biotech and anti-aging treatments.. But you can’t have futures like that if you won’t pay for them, if you let public policy be run by people who are slaves to superstition, or if you ignore basic political economic problems."...
Friday, May 09, 2008
Today WTF Headlines:
Iraqi military orders Sadr City residents to evacuate
The military's call could indicate the possibility of stepped-up military operations. Five hundred tents are to be set up on two soccer fields to accommodate the evacuees. Sadr City has been the scene of intense combat for 40 days. » read more
Source:http://www.mcclatchydc.com/
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Product Recalls: lawn mowers, Digitek heart drug
By The Associated Press – Apr 25, 2008
The following recalls have been announced:
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Iraqi military orders Sadr City residents to evacuate
The military's call could indicate the possibility of stepped-up military operations. Five hundred tents are to be set up on two soccer fields to accommodate the evacuees. Sadr City has been the scene of intense combat for 40 days. » read more
Source:http://www.mcclatchydc.com/
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Product Recalls: lawn mowers, Digitek heart drug
By The Associated Press – Apr 25, 2008
The following recalls have been announced:
read more:
source:
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Copyright © 2008 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Today's Headlines
Iraqis forced to abandon farming
By Ahmed Janabi
"Iraq has started to import vegetables for the first time in its modern history despite ample water, fertile land and a rich farming heritage stretching back to 6,000 years.
The war, lack of resources and new market realities in post-Saddam Iraq are to be blamed for this break from tradition.
A post-war free market system is pushing Iraqi farmers out of competition. Cheaper goods, such as Syrian vegetables, have flooded local markets.
Hasan al-Shammari, a farmer from al-Latifiya, 40km south-west of Baghdad, said: "Traders looking for larger profit have destroyed our business, because they make more money when they import vegetables and the government is doing nothing to protect the Iraqi farmer."
Officials at the Iraqi ministry of agriculture were unavailable for comment."...
..."Iraqis are known to be finicky about their food and the imported farm products have left many an Iraqi housewife frustrated.
'Loss of taste'
Shaima, who refused to disclose her last name when contacted over phone, said using imported vegeteables had not only strained the family budget but also affected their taste buds.
"Everybody here misses our local fresh vegetables. I think it is about soil and quality of water, the vegetables we are getting from outside Iraq do not taste the same. My cooking is not like before because of that."
Suad, 52, a retired teacher who again did not want to disclose her last name, bemoans the loss of a way of life: "Apart from their taste which is not anything like our local vegetables, imported vegetables are expensive."
"We buy them in boxes, and most of the times their bottoms are damaged. What was good about our local vegetables was that we got to pick each piece by our own hands; and it used to be direct from farm to the local vendor."
Source: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F9923461-3DF7-4256-82DD-C402F8FE01E0.htm
UPDATED ON:
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2008
14:27 MECCA TIME, 11:27 GMT
Urban Farmers’ Crops Go From Vacant Lot to Market
"In the shadows of the elevated tracks toward the end of the No. 3 line in East New York, Brooklyn, with an April chill still in the air, Denniston and Marlene Wilks gently pulled clusters of slender green shoots from the earth, revealing a blush of tiny red shallots at the base."...
..."The Wilkses now cultivate plots at four sites in East New York, paying as little as $2 a bed (usually 4 feet by 8 feet) in addition to modest membership fees. Last year the couple sold $3,116 in produce at a market run by the community group East New York Farms, more than any of their neighbors.
Florence Russell is looking forward to this year’s offerings. On a recent Saturday she watched from the end of Alabama Avenue as gardeners worked compost into beds at Hands and Hearts Garden, one of the sites where the Wilkses keep beds, along with 24 other growers. Fresh greens, she said, would be a welcome alternative to tough collards from the local grocery.
“This is something good happening here,” Ms. Russell said.
The city’s cultivators are a varied lot. The high school students at the Added Value community farm in Red Hook, Brooklyn, last year supplied Italian arugula, Asian greens and heirloom tomatoes to three restaurants, a community-supported agriculture buying club and two farmers’ markets."...
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/dining/07urban.html?ref=nyregion%26pagewanted=all
By TRACIE McMILLAN
Published: May 7, 2008
Iraqis forced to abandon farming
By Ahmed Janabi
"Iraq has started to import vegetables for the first time in its modern history despite ample water, fertile land and a rich farming heritage stretching back to 6,000 years.
The war, lack of resources and new market realities in post-Saddam Iraq are to be blamed for this break from tradition.
A post-war free market system is pushing Iraqi farmers out of competition. Cheaper goods, such as Syrian vegetables, have flooded local markets.
Hasan al-Shammari, a farmer from al-Latifiya, 40km south-west of Baghdad, said: "Traders looking for larger profit have destroyed our business, because they make more money when they import vegetables and the government is doing nothing to protect the Iraqi farmer."
Officials at the Iraqi ministry of agriculture were unavailable for comment."...
..."Iraqis are known to be finicky about their food and the imported farm products have left many an Iraqi housewife frustrated.
'Loss of taste'
Shaima, who refused to disclose her last name when contacted over phone, said using imported vegeteables had not only strained the family budget but also affected their taste buds.
"Everybody here misses our local fresh vegetables. I think it is about soil and quality of water, the vegetables we are getting from outside Iraq do not taste the same. My cooking is not like before because of that."
Suad, 52, a retired teacher who again did not want to disclose her last name, bemoans the loss of a way of life: "Apart from their taste which is not anything like our local vegetables, imported vegetables are expensive."
"We buy them in boxes, and most of the times their bottoms are damaged. What was good about our local vegetables was that we got to pick each piece by our own hands; and it used to be direct from farm to the local vendor."
Source: http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exeres/F9923461-3DF7-4256-82DD-C402F8FE01E0.htm
UPDATED ON:
TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 2008
14:27 MECCA TIME, 11:27 GMT
Urban Farmers’ Crops Go From Vacant Lot to Market
"In the shadows of the elevated tracks toward the end of the No. 3 line in East New York, Brooklyn, with an April chill still in the air, Denniston and Marlene Wilks gently pulled clusters of slender green shoots from the earth, revealing a blush of tiny red shallots at the base."...
..."The Wilkses now cultivate plots at four sites in East New York, paying as little as $2 a bed (usually 4 feet by 8 feet) in addition to modest membership fees. Last year the couple sold $3,116 in produce at a market run by the community group East New York Farms, more than any of their neighbors.
Florence Russell is looking forward to this year’s offerings. On a recent Saturday she watched from the end of Alabama Avenue as gardeners worked compost into beds at Hands and Hearts Garden, one of the sites where the Wilkses keep beds, along with 24 other growers. Fresh greens, she said, would be a welcome alternative to tough collards from the local grocery.
“This is something good happening here,” Ms. Russell said.
The city’s cultivators are a varied lot. The high school students at the Added Value community farm in Red Hook, Brooklyn, last year supplied Italian arugula, Asian greens and heirloom tomatoes to three restaurants, a community-supported agriculture buying club and two farmers’ markets."...
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/dining/07urban.html?ref=nyregion%26pagewanted=all
By TRACIE McMILLAN
Published: May 7, 2008
Sunday, May 04, 2008
Today's Headlines:
Small-town residents living on deadly ground
(h/t firedoglake.com)
"For more than three years, neither the plant's owner nor Florida state regulators who had learned of the leak bothered to tell them."...
..."Ward was the first Tallevast resident to learn of the toxic chemicals beneath the community. Her first clue came when she happened to look out her window one day in 2003 to see a giant rig drilling monitoring wells on her property."...
........"Lockheed Martin said state laws in effect at the time did not require the company or state to inform residents of what was happening.
...''This is not anything Lockheed Martin was trying to keep secret,'' said spokeswoman Gail Rymer. ``We were following the guidelines. And we found that, in hindsight, we wished we would have engaged them earlier.''...
Source: Miami Herald
Posted on Sat, May. 03, 2008
BY RONNIE GREENE
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Small-town residents living on deadly ground
(h/t firedoglake.com)
"For more than three years, neither the plant's owner nor Florida state regulators who had learned of the leak bothered to tell them."...
..."Ward was the first Tallevast resident to learn of the toxic chemicals beneath the community. Her first clue came when she happened to look out her window one day in 2003 to see a giant rig drilling monitoring wells on her property."...
........"Lockheed Martin said state laws in effect at the time did not require the company or state to inform residents of what was happening.
...''This is not anything Lockheed Martin was trying to keep secret,'' said spokeswoman Gail Rymer. ``We were following the guidelines. And we found that, in hindsight, we wished we would have engaged them earlier.''...
Source: Miami Herald
Posted on Sat, May. 03, 2008
BY RONNIE GREENE
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Saturday, May 03, 2008
TODAY'S FAVORITE HEADLINES
“The idea that ‘I will sacrifice to save my job’ is dying,” said Ralf Berchthold, a spokesman with Ver.di, the largest services union in Germany. “People are ready to fight now.”
Source: For Europe’s Middle-Class, Stagnant Wages Stunt Lifestyle
By CARTER DOUGHERTY and KATRIN BENNHOLD
Published: May 1, 2008
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"People are cleaning out their houses of gold, silver, whatever, to get money just to fill their cars with gas," said Nat Leonard, 51, whose grandfather opened Society Hill in 1929. "People are pawning out like crazy."
Business is up maybe 20 percent over last year
Economy great - for pawnshops
Posted on Fri, May. 2, 2008
By Alfred Lubrano
Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer
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"You lose money, you jump out the window, too bad. It's your problem," said Vincent Chan, head of China research for Credit Suisse. "For any market to grow, this is something the government should realize: At the end of the day it's the investors who bear the responsibility of the investment, not other people."
China Leaves Small Investors Behind on Road To Capitalism
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, May 3, 2008; A01
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"The real genius to Ameya Preserve is that it foresees that global warming might take the fun out of being rich. What if they wouldn't let you jet to two vacation homes per week? But at Ameya, some of the wealthiest people in the world would get to feel that, with no noticeable change in their habits or behavior, they could still be part of the solution. In this way, what Dokken offers most closely resembles the medieval sale of Indulgences; instead of examining or changing behavior, well-heeled sinners simply paid the fine, went right on sinning. After all, they could afford it."
Source: Luxury community of "conscience" - When the locals cried green-wash, the elite developer cried class envy. Welcome to Paradise Valley.
By Fred Haefele
salon.com
“The idea that ‘I will sacrifice to save my job’ is dying,” said Ralf Berchthold, a spokesman with Ver.di, the largest services union in Germany. “People are ready to fight now.”
Source: For Europe’s Middle-Class, Stagnant Wages Stunt Lifestyle
By CARTER DOUGHERTY and KATRIN BENNHOLD
Published: May 1, 2008
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"People are cleaning out their houses of gold, silver, whatever, to get money just to fill their cars with gas," said Nat Leonard, 51, whose grandfather opened Society Hill in 1929. "People are pawning out like crazy."
Business is up maybe 20 percent over last year
Economy great - for pawnshops
Posted on Fri, May. 2, 2008
By Alfred Lubrano
Philadelphia Inquirer Staff Writer
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"You lose money, you jump out the window, too bad. It's your problem," said Vincent Chan, head of China research for Credit Suisse. "For any market to grow, this is something the government should realize: At the end of the day it's the investors who bear the responsibility of the investment, not other people."
China Leaves Small Investors Behind on Road To Capitalism
By Ariana Eunjung Cha
Washington Post Foreign Service
Saturday, May 3, 2008; A01
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"The real genius to Ameya Preserve is that it foresees that global warming might take the fun out of being rich. What if they wouldn't let you jet to two vacation homes per week? But at Ameya, some of the wealthiest people in the world would get to feel that, with no noticeable change in their habits or behavior, they could still be part of the solution. In this way, what Dokken offers most closely resembles the medieval sale of Indulgences; instead of examining or changing behavior, well-heeled sinners simply paid the fine, went right on sinning. After all, they could afford it."
Source: Luxury community of "conscience" - When the locals cried green-wash, the elite developer cried class envy. Welcome to Paradise Valley.
By Fred Haefele
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