- Political
victories for gays and lesbians across the nation
Various
elections took place nationally Nov. 8—and the results were generally positive
for the LGBT community.
Read about
it here
- Extreme Poverty Is Now at Record Levels -- 19 Statistics About the Poor That Will Absolutely Astound You
“According to the U.S. Census
Bureau, the percentage of "very poor" rose in 300 out of the 360 largest metropolitan
areas during 2010.”
Read the
rest here
- Has Obama Just Kicked Off Another Oil War
-- This Time in
“The mainstream media,
at least those who have covered this new U.S. military adventure, have taken
the Obama administration at face value on its stated claim that JSOC troops are
necessary in Uganda and neighboring countries, for the purpose of murdering the
elusive and brutal war criminal-at-large, Joseph Kony. But is this the true
motive for sending JSOC troops into the region? A probe into the last several
years of geopolitical posturing in Africa by the United States
Read the rest here
- Taxing Christmas trees to … promote Christmas trees
President Obama’s
Agriculture Department today announced that it will impose a new 15-cent charge
on all fresh Christmas trees—the Christmas Tree Tax—to support a new Federal
program to improve the image and marketing of Christmas trees.
Read the rest here
- World headed for irreversible climate change in five years, IEA warns
The world is likely to build so many
fossil-fuelled power stations, energy-guzzling factories
and inefficient buildings in the next five years that it will become impossible
to hold global warming to safe levels, and the last chance of combating
dangerous climate change will be
"lost for ever", according to the most thorough analysis
yet of world energy infrastructure.
Read about it here
- Thomas Ferguson: How to Take Back Our Political System From the 1%
I’m a social scientist,
so I actually counted: about a third of all the signs that day had money and
politics as their themes. It was obvious that you here at Occupy Boston and
your colleagues in New York , Oakland ,
Chicago , and other cities have already grasped
the heart of the problem of money and politics in America
Read about it here
- Occupy the Republican Party
The left is upset with President Obama.
Occupy Wall Street protesters object to his economic policies. Anti-war voters
are upset by the intervention in Libya ,
the drones in Pakistan , and
the troops still in Afghanistan
Read it here
- How Far Will the Government Go in Collecting and Storing All Our Personal Data?
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer equated GPS
surveillance with the ultra-repressive government monitoring in George Orwell’s
1984 this week during the oral
argument in United States
Read the rest here
P.S. On Saturday November 12th, 2011
CBS will host a Presidential Primary debate starting at 8pm ET.
Email: J.Fisher2028@yahoo.com
Have a
wonderful and a safe weekend!
"Those that dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their mind, wake in the day to find that all was vanity, but the dreamers of the day, are dangerous men, for they may act out their dreams and make them real."
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