The real American Sniper was a hate-filled killer. Why are simplistic patriots treating him as a hero? I have to confess: I was suckered by the trailer for American Sniper.
Why America’s middle class is lost. In this new reality, a smaller share of Americans enjoy the fruits of an expanding economy.
Joséphine Baker. Josephine Baker el 10 de septiembre de 1969 en el Aeropuerto de Amsterdam, schiphol.
Josephine Baker en la Habana, Cuba en 1950 Josephine Baker en 1949. Etats-Unis : la Californie joue avec la vie des grévistes de la faim. En juillet, 30 000 prisonniers dénonçaient les conditions inhumaines © Rina Palta/KALW.
Animated Map Visualizes NYC's Raging Workaholism. A new animated map, Breathing City, beautifully visualizes the cliché of New York as the “city that never sleeps.”
The map displays a 24-hour cycle of Manhattan’s populations at work and home. The slightly lung-shaped island appears to breathe as it reflects hourly changes, flaring orange (people working) midday, and cooling into an electric blue (people at home) at night. These Insane Targets Are Actual Things That People Shoot Guns At For Practice. If you don’t hang out at gun clubs, you might picture shooting targets the way they usually show up on TV--a classic bullseye or a plain silhouette.
Reality is a little different. La terrible historia del reo más joven de EEUU: Cristian Fernández, de 13 años, se enfrenta a cadena perpetua por asesinato. La primera vez que Cristian Fernández apareció en los medios de comunicación tenía sólo dos años.
La policía se lo encontró, desnudo y sucio, caminando de madrugada por las calles de Miami. Five Stupid Things About Ron Paul. Mapping The Rise And Fall Of Hate And Extremism In America. Hate groups come in all varieties and screeds, from the Ku Klux Klan and Neo-Nazis to the radical anti-LGBT and Black Separatist movements. The Southern Poverty Law Center, a nonprofit dedicated to combating hate and extremism, defines a hate group as any group with beliefs or practices that “attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.” There’s a bit of good news in the organization’s annual census of hate groups in the U.S.: Hate is on the wane in the U.S., at least slightly, according to the latest data. Only 939 groups were active in 2013, a year when certain equality causes, especially the LGBT rights movement, made major legislative strides across the nation.
Law enforcement in the United States: Armed and dangerous. Princeton Study: U.S. No Longer An Actual Democracy. Asking "[w]ho really rules?
" researchers Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page argues that over the past few decades America's political system has slowly transformed from a democracy into an oligarchy, where wealthy elites wield most power. Is the US an Oligarchy? Not So Fast. There’s a new study out which, press outlets are telling me, shows that the United States is now an oligarchy, ruled by the rich and powerful, and perhaps that the US has been sliding in this direction for decades.
You can see coverage of it at The Telegraph, PolicyMic, the BBC, and other places. You can also read the actual paper online: Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens. The headlines about it are wrong. This study doesn’t demonstrate any such thing. The BBC’s lovely illustration of the story. Chomsky: The U.S. behaves nothing like a democracy. I’d like to comment on topics that I think should regularly be on the front pages but are not — and in many crucial cases are scarcely mentioned at all or are presented in ways that seem to me deceptive because they’re framed almost reflexively in terms of doctrines of the powerful.
In these comments I’ll focus primarily on the United States for several reasons: One, it’s the most important country in terms of its power and influence. Britain is up to its neck in US dirty wars and death squads. You might have thought the war on terror was finally being wound down, 12 years after the US launched it with such disastrous results. Miley Cyrus Points Out Something Wrong With America — And She's Absolutely Right.
Live In A Heavily Fracked Area? Watch Out For STDs. In 1850, near the beginning of the California Gold Rush, the female population was perilously low in Northern California. In mining counties, they made up less than 2% of overall inhabitants. According to Sierra Foothills Magazine, one man wrote at the time: "Got nearer to a woman this evening than I have been in six months. Came near fainting. " It wasn't long before women from all over the world began flocking to California in hopes of making some quick cash as sex workers. This was a situation ripe for STDs--men without long-term partners present having sex with all the same women. Congreso no aprueba el presupuesto en Estados Unidos., Mundo.
La Oficina de Presupuesto de la Casa Blanca notificó a las agencias federales que el gobierno cerrará el martes después de que el Congreso perdiera el plazo que tenía hasta la medianoche para evitar una parálisis parcial de la administración, la primera vez en 17 años. "Por desgracia, el Co. ¿Marihuana transgénica? Monsanto y Microsoft planean su marca y distribución legal. El millonario se ha convertido en el mayor impulsor mundial de la legalización de la droga a través de su fundación. El mismo ha aportado varios miles de dólares a organizaciones mundiales que pretenden legalizar la marihuana. An Art Project Gives Creative Voice To Prisoners On Death Row. This summer, 11 death row inmates at Tennessee's Riverbend Maximum Security Institution had the chance to experience the outside world through the eyes of local art students. The result is a series of paintings, photographs, drawings and collages that represent the inverse of incarceration: freedom, beauty, altruism, and family.
Cuba crea cuatro vacunas contra el cáncer: una lección a las farmacéuticas que no será noticia. El modelo de industria pública médico-farmacéutica de un país socialista del Sur, frente a un modelo de mera rentabilidad económica de las multinacionales de la producción de medicamentos en el Norte: los medios miran para otro lado. Este mismo video en You Tube Cuba crea cuatro vacunas contra el cáncer: una lección a las farmacéuticas que no será noticia. Armed EPA raid in Alaska sheds light on 70 fed agencies with armed divisions. FILE: 2010: An EPA worker monitoring a beach in Pensacola, Florida.REUTERS The recent uproar over armed EPA agents descending on a tiny Alaska mining town is shedding light on the fact that 40 federal agencies – including nearly a dozen typically not associated with law enforcement -- have armed divisions. The agencies employ about 120,000 full-time officers authorized to carry guns and make arrests, according to a June 2012 Justice Department report.
Though most Americans know agents within the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Federal Bureau of Prisons carry guns, agencies such as the Library of Congress and Federal Reserve Board employing armed officers might come as a surprise. The incident that sparked the renewed interest and concern occurred in late August when a team of armed federal and state officials descended on the tiny Alaska gold mining town of Chicken, Alaska. The other federal agencies participating in the operation were the U.S. But Alaska Gov. Cops hold kids at gunpoint for climbing on school roof, rough them up and arrest them. Three middle schoolers climbed onto their own school roof after classes one day. They never expected that police officers with assault rifles would arrive screaming at them and telling them to submit. When police arrived they began screaming at the boys to get down. One officer pointed a shotgun at them and another retrieved his M16 and targeted the children.
When the families of the boys arrived, they were threatened with arrest as well for trying to calm the situation down. ATF gunwalking scandal. Weapons recovered by Mexican military in Naco, Sonora, Mexico on November 20, 2009. They include weapons bought two weeks earlier by Operation Fast and Furious suspect Uriel Patino, who would buy 723 guns during the operation.[1] "Gunwalking", or "letting guns walk", was a tactic of the Arizona Field Office of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which ran a series of sting operations[2][3] between 2006[4] and 2011[2][5] in the Tucson and Phoenix area where the ATF "purposely allowed licensed firearms dealers to sell weapons to illegal straw buyers, hoping to track the guns to Mexican drug cartel leaders and arrest them.
Background[edit] —Report by the Office of the Inspector General on the Review of ATF's Operation Fast and Furious and Related Matters, September 2012[1] 2013 IRS scandal. In 2013, the United States Internal Revenue Service (IRS) revealed that it had selected political groups applying for tax-exempt status for closer scrutiny based on their names or political themes. This led to wide condemnation of the agency and triggered several investigations, including a Federal Bureau of Investigation criminal probe ordered by United States Attorney General Eric Holder.[1][2] Initial reports described the selections as nearly exclusively of conservative groups with terms such as "Tea Party" in their names.
Further investigation revealed that liberal-leaning groups and the Occupy movement had also triggered additional scrutiny.[3][4][5][6][7] The only denial of tax-exempt status by the IRS was to a progressive group.[8] The use of target lists continued through May 2013.[9] E. F. Schumacher. Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was an internationally influential economic thinker, statistician and economist in Britain, serving as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal Board for two decades.[1] His ideas became popularized in much of the English-speaking world during the 1970s.
Corporation. Information. Thomas Sowell. Thomas Sowell (1930) es un pensador y economista liberal estadounidense. Tras el fallecimiento de Jean-François Revel, ha quedado como uno de los máximos representantes de la oposición al modelo de pensamiento de lo "políticamente correcto". Report: DEA Has Been Secretly Snooping on More Americans’ Phone Calls Than Even the NSA.
The New York Times last night published an article that should put to rest the debate over whether we live in a free country. Were The Syrian Electronic Army's Leaders Exposed By Sloppy Registration Data? Are the leaders of the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) a bunch of twentysomething kids in Syria with regime ties, rather than Internet mercenaries hired by the country's government? Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s. Striking Syria: Hold on. Hobo culture: Riding the rails. Hobo. 错误：您所请求的网址（URL）无法获取. Anonymous Plans Global Government Hacking Day For Fifth Of November. Visualizing Our Enormous Wealth Inequality, And What You Can Do About It. Institutionalizing Ignorance - Walter Block. David Horowitz. Daily chart: Taxing for some. An atrocity in London: Return to old-style terror. Salon.com. Gun Control: What Happened to Common Sense? Oklahoma bans independent militias.
Punk Rock Libertarians. Taxing Future Generations. Infographic: The Many Epic Smackdowns Of Donald Trump. Christopher Dorner is first drone target on U.S. soil. The Future Of War Has Fewer Guns, But It's Just As Dangerous.
Obama Waives Child Soldier Ban in Yemen and Congo. Caso Zimmerman permiso para matar, Mundo.