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Small Wars Journal. Ted Rall Online. Stamp And Shout - Liberal Political T-Shirts, Bumper Stickers, Car Magnets and more. Economic Dreams - Economic Nightmares. I spent most of my working life in the US Forest Service, battling fundamentalism. Most of the battles dealt with economics. My first job was to coordinate use of a linear programming model (FORPLAN) in the development of forest plans. The model may (or may not) have been useful in projecting overall timber sales volumes from big-timber forests, but to have used it as an overall planning model was a mistake.

Forests are not factories. Multiple uses for timber, recreation, wildlife, minerals and oil and gas, livestock grazing (and so on) must be carefully balanced against preservation and conservation efforts in the dynamic self-organizing systems that we call Nature—forest and grasslands in particular. I remember one day in 1979, before I joined the Forest Service, having lunch with FORPLAN developer K.

The FORPLAN Fiasco During the early years of US Forest Service "forest planning" (1979-1985, generally) there was a big problem with what we then called "analytical determinism. " Judicial corruption Noam Chomsky on Corporate Personhood. TomDispatch.

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First Amendment Project. The Ethical Spectacle. Letter from Birmingham Jail. The Letter from Birmingham Jail (also known as "Letter from Birmingham City Jail" and "The Negro Is Your Brother") is an open letter written on April 16, 1963, by Martin Luther King, Jr. Background[edit] The Birmingham Campaign began on April 3, 1963, with coordinated marches and sit-ins against racism and racial segregation in Birmingham, Alabama. The non-violent campaign was coordinated by Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference. On April 10, Circuit Judge W. A. Jenkins issued a blanket injunction against "parading, demonstrating, boycotting, trespassing and picketing".

Leaders of the campaign announced they would disobey the ruling.[1] On April 12, King was roughly arrested with Ralph Abernathy, Fred Shuttlesworth and other marchers—while thousands of African Americans dressed for Good Friday looked on.[2] Summary and themes[edit] To this, King referred to his belief that all communities and states were interrelated. Media Matters.

Crooks and Liars. Democratic Underground. Wonkette: The D.C. Gossip. FactCheck.org. Change.org. It's the Inequality, Stupid. Want more charts like these? See our charts on the secrets of the jobless recovery, the richest 1 percent of Americans, and how the superwealthy beat the IRS.

How Rich Are the Superrich? A huge share of the nation's economic growth over the past 30 years has gone to the top one-hundredth of one percent, who now make an average of $27 million per household. The average income for the bottom 90 percent of us? $31,244. Note: The 2007 data (the most current) doesn't reflect the impact of the housing market crash. In 2007, the bottom 60% of Americans had 65% of their net worth tied up in their homes. Winners Take All The superrich have grabbed the bulk of the past three decades' gains. Download: PDF chart 1 (large) PDF chart 2 (large) | JPG chart 1 (smaller) JPG chart 2 (smaller) Out of Balance A Harvard business prof and a behavioral economist recently asked more than 5,000 Americans how they thought wealth is distributed in the United States.

Download: PDF (large) | JPG (smaller) Capitol Gain. Freakonomics - Opinion - New York Times Blog. Big Think - We Are What You Think. The Daily Beast. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart | Recent and Popular Videos| WikiLeaks. Big Think. Slate Magazine. Talking Points Memo | Breaking News and Analysis. Occupy Wall Street | NYC Protest for American Revolution. | Radio and TV News. Think Progress.

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