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In Rebuild the Dream, green economy pioneer Van Jones reflects on his journey from grassroots outsider to White House insider. For the first time, he shares intimate details of his time in government—and reveals why he chose to resign his post as a special advisor to the Obama White House. Jones puts his hard-won lessons to good use, proposing a powerful game plan to restore hope, fix our democracy and renew the American Dream. Jones is making this game plan a reality through the organization Rebuild the Dream—a platform for bottom-up, people-powered innovations to get the U.S. economy working for 100% of Americans, and not just the top 1%.
Rebuild the Dream - A Book by Van Jones | Rebuild the Dream
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We Pay Taxes on Food, Clothing and Shelter; Time for Big Finance to Pay a Tax on Casino Speculation Comments By Kevin Zeese on Financial Transactions Tax for Occupy G8 The global derivative market is seventy times larger than the entire economic … Time to End Casino Economics, Cheater Economics, and Futureless Economics Address by Dr. Brent Blackwelder, President Emeritus, Friends of the Earth at Occupy G8 in Frederick, Maryland May 18, 2012 Introduction Terrible economic times are facing billions of people worldwide.GBU-28
The Guided Bomb Unit 28 ( GBU-28 ) is a 5,000-pound (2,268 kg) laser-guided " bunker busting " bomb nicknamed "Deep Throat" produced originally by the Watervliet Arsenal , Watervliet, New York . It was designed, manufactured, and deployed in less than three weeks due to an urgent need during Operation Desert Storm to penetrate hardened Iraqi command centers located deep underground. Only two of the weapons were dropped in Desert Storm, both by F-111Fs . [ 1 ]
The Alien Tort Statute ( 28 U.S.C. § 1350 ; ATS , also called the Alien Tort Claims Act ( ATCA )) is a section of the United States Code that reads: "The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States ." This statute is notable for allowing U.S. courts to hear human-rights cases brought by foreign citizens for conduct committed outside the U.S. The district courts shall have original jurisdiction of any civil action by an alien for a tort only, committed in violation of the law of nations or a treaty of the United States. [ 1 ] [ edit ] History
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We do not expect any orders or opinions this week. On Friday the Court will convene for its April 13 Conference. Our “Petitions to watch” for that Conference will be available soon. The Court is scheduled to begin the April sitting next Monday, April 16.
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Residents of Colorado and Washington have an exciting chance to make history. Both states have an incredible opportunity to become the first states to legalize marijuana this November.
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A 0.2 percent dip in GDP at the end of 2011, which followed a drastic decline in the third quarter, has thrown Ireland back into recession, alongside Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal and Greece, and begs the question of whether austerity is the answer to Europe’s economic woes.
Since the beginning of recorded time, and probably since long before that, the human body has been highly politicized, particularly in the areas of sexuality and reproduction. With the emergence of biotechnology, genetic modification, and the further refinement of psychopharmacology, we can expect further political polarization around the ethical issues these new options will raise. For example: should we genetically enhance our offspring in accordance with our cultural values, thereby significantly shaping their future in unpredictable ways before they’re even born? In our time, many of the political battles over the body revolve around reproduction, and therefore the rights of women. Abortion and birth control, specifically, are epicenters of controversy in the United States, and the site of a fervent cultural clash between religious ideas about sex and reproduction and democratic ideals of personal liberty.
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WikiLeaks released audio recordings of Perupetro Vice President Alberto Quimper and Romulo León Alegría, a prominent member of Garcia’s ruling Aprista party, discussing under-the-table payments conditioned on Discover Petroleum obtaining oil exploration concessions. According to the recordings, Quimper, Leon and Ernesto Arias-Schreiber, the legal representative of Discover in Peru, were to receive $10,000 monthly in exchange for steering lucrative oil contracts to the Norwegian oil exploration firm. The scandal, dubbed “petrogate,” led the government to suspend five joint exploration and development contracts recently awarded to Discover Petroleum and state-owned oil company Petroperu. The minister of Energy and Mines, Juan Valdivia, immediately handed in his resignation and only days later, the whole cabinet and cabinet chief Jorge del Castillo resigned. WikilLeaks released over half a million US national text pager intercepts.Allowed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to authorize warrantless surveillance of Americans' international electronic communications. In 2005, the New York Times reported on the Bush administration's secret wiretapping of American citizens since 9/11. Civil liberties advocates were outraged, but it didn't stop Congress from passing this law in 2008 essentially legalizing certain aspects of the system.
Chart: How 9/11 Changed the Law | Mother Jones
Naomi Wolf: Fascist America, in 10 easy steps | World news | The Guardian
Last autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand. The leaders of the coup took a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list. In a sense, they did. Within a matter of days, democracy had been closed down: the coup leaders declared martial law, sent armed soldiers into residential areas, took over radio and TV stations, issued restrictions on the press, tightened some limits on travel, and took certain activists into custody. They were not figuring these things out as they went along. If you look at history, you can see that there is essentially a blueprint for turning an open society into a dictatorship.NYTimes Sues The Federal Government For Refusing To Reveal Its Secret Interpretation Of The PATRIOT Act | Techdirt
from the secret-laws-and-secret-interpretations dept We've been covering for a while now how Senators Ron Wyden and Mark Udall have been very concerned over the secret interpretation the feds have of one piece of the PATRIOT Act. They've been trying to pressure the government into publicly explaining how they interpret the law, because they believe that it directly contrasts how most of the public (and many elected officials) believe the feds are interpreting the law. While the two Senators continue to put pressure on the feds and to hint at the feds' interpretation, just the fact that the government won't even explain its own interpretation of the law seems ridiculous. Given all of this, reporter Charlie Savage of the NY Times filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out the federal government's interpretation of its own law... and had it refused . According to the federal government, its own interpretation of the law is classified .Librotraficante | Houston, TX 77254-0181
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