HillBuzz. Political Cartoons, Editorial News. Political Cartoons, Editorial News. Politics. Politics. The Financial Crystal Ball: Washingtonian Magazine, 2002. In August 2002, The Washingtonian magazine ran a damning story about Fannie Mae that demonstrates the political reach of the mortgage giant ... and forecasts the potential risk to taxpayers should Fannie Mae stumble. When Rep. Christopher Shays (R-CT) discovered in 2002 that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were the "only Fortune 500 companies that didn't have to tell the public about their financial condition," he teamed up with Rep. Edward Markey (D-MA) to try to "apply the government's disclosure rules to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. " They didn't succeed. But the story surrounding that quest is worth the 15 minutes it will take you to read the republished article. You really need to read this story if you still believe that there were no warning signs, that this catastrophic mess the President talked about Wednesday night somehow came from out of the blue, or that the entire mess lies on the shoulders of only one political party.
By 2005, Business Week called Fannie Mae CEO Franklin D. Fannie Mae Before the Meltdown: The View from August 2002 - News. Six years ago, a Washingtonian story issued an early warning about Fannie Mae. This article is from the August 2002 issue of The Washingtonian. Balancing Act Fannie Mae Projects a Happy Image. But as Its Debt Grows Bigger and Its Executives Get Richer, Should Taxpayers Start to Worry? By Ross Guberman Congressman Christopher Shays was lying in bed one night last March and told his wife he was about to take on a new battle. The next morning, before he talked to anyone else, his office got a call from Duane Duncan, Fannie Mae's chief lobbyist.
Another lobbyist approached Shays and said, "You're making a lot of people unhappy with this. " Shays, a Republican from Connecticut, knew Fannie's antennae stretched all over town, but he never expected that a few stray remarks would trigger such a reaction. "The more I look," Shays says, "the more convinced I am that they're not eager to disclose what they do. Shays broke a political rule in Washington: Don't mess with Fannie Mae.
Iron law of oligarchy. History[edit] In 1911 Robert Michels argued that paradoxically the socialist parties of Europe, despite their democratic ideology and provisions for mass participation, seemed to be dominated by their leaders, just like traditional conservative parties. Michels' conclusion was that the problem lay in the very nature of organizations. The more liberal and democratic modern era allowed the formation of organizations with innovative and revolutionary goals, but as such organizations become more complex, they became less and less democratic and revolutionary.
Michels formulated the "Iron Law of Oligarchy": "Who says organization, says oligarchy At the time Michels formulated his Law, he was an anarcho-syndicalist.[3] He later became an important ideologue of Benito Mussolini's fascist regime in Italy, teaching economics at the University of Perugia.[4][5] Reasons[edit] Michels stressed several factors that underlie the Iron Law of Oligarchy.
Implications[edit] Examples and exceptions[edit] Jura federation. Anarchists in the Jura federation, like James Guillaume, would play a key role in Peter Kropotkin's conversion to anarchism. In Memoirs of a Revolutionist, Kropotkin writes that "the egalitarian relations which I found in the Jura Mountains, the independence of thought and expression which I saw developing in the workers, and their unlimited devotion to the cause appealed far more strongly to my feelings; and when I came away from the mountains, after a week's stay with the watchmakers, my views upon socialism were settled.
I was an anarchist. " Literature[edit] Marianne Enckell: La fédération jurassienne, Âge d'Homme, Lausanne, 1971 (reeditions: Canevas Editeur, Saint-Imier 1991, ISBN 2-88382-008-2; Entremonde, Genf, 2012, ISBN 978-2-940426-16-4). See also[edit] Is Obama Palin's press secretary? | No Silence Here | knoxnews.c. Why did he even respond? He just put the story on the nightly news networks. Oh, well. I guess they really do know how to fish in Alaska. Posted by MICHAEL SILENCE on April 9, 2010 at 5:12 PM | Comments you betcha! Posted by: Sarah at April 9, 2010 5:23 PM Only dead fish go with the flow.
Posted by: Fred at April 9, 2010 5:25 PM Only dead fish go WITH the flow. Posted by: Freddd at April 9, 2010 5:25 PM from the article... they call him "popular Democratic president. " srsly? The whole story would have been gone if he had simply said: "she's entitled to her opinion, just like any other... But no, he can never just. let. it. go. Posted by: D at April 9, 2010 5:43 PM So he waits until after he has selected the White House dog before he bothers to look at our nation's nuclear strategy, months after he has already moved into the White House? Posted by: TexasJew at April 9, 2010 5:48 PM Posted by: M. This is the marvelous intellectual that got elected to POTUS. Posted by: RebeccaH at April 9, 2010 5:59 PM.
Cults in politics | NAN publications | NAN. The book 'On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left' by Dennis Tourish and Tim Wohlforth, August 2000, ISBN: 0-7656-0639-9, 256pp with bibliographic references, index. This is the first book to document the extent of political cults on both the right and left and explain their significance for mainstream political organisations. The authors outline the defining characteristics of cults in general, and analyse the degree to which a variety of well-known movements fall within the spectrum of cultic organizations.
The book covers such individuals and groups as Lyndon LaRouche, Fred Newman, Ted Grant, Marlene Dixon, the Christian Identity movement, Posse Commitatus, Aryan Nation, militias, and the Freemen. It explores the ideological underpinnings that predispose cult followers to cultic practices, along with the measures cults use to suppress dissent, achieve intense conformity, and extract extraordinary levels of commitment.
Politics cults. What if the SA is coming from your spouse? - Christian Recovery. I need some help. I've been married for 9 years and have 2 children. My husband within the last 2 years has become increasingly controlling and verbally and emotionally abusive. He is an ordained minister, although we do not have a church. The control and EA/ SA became heightened about 1.5 years ago when I started my own business. There was a women's conference that I had registered for and my husband said that if I went, I would be out of God's will b/c he (hubby) did not want me to go.
When I got back, the house was tense and the SA escalated to where my husband took my laptop and cracked it on our kitchen counter and broke it to pieces b/c I was not listening to him. (in front of our children). If there is anyone who can help me, I would really appreciate it. Thanks. Depression - How and When to Leave an Emotionally Abusive Relati. Emotional Abuse. You may not know much about this issue. A Google news search turned up one article, in the independent Charleston Gazette.
I am meaningfully aware that people self-injure only through a friend’s yearly blog post to mark self-injury awareness day: “We are male and female. We are artists, athletes, students, and business owners. We have depression, DID, PTSD, eating disorders, borderline personalities, bipolar disorder, or maybe no formal diagnosis at all. Some of us were abused, some were not. We are straight, bi, and gay. The American Self-Harm Information Clearinghouse wrote (when last updated in 2002) that about “1% of the United States population uses physical self-injury as a way of dealing with overwhelming feelings or situations,” but the Mayo Clinic estimates “about 3 percent to 5 percent of Americans have deliberately hurt themselves at some point in their lives.”
I started out blogging on IdeaLab asking What is News? I haven’t cut in almost 2 1/2 months. And media must listen. Emotional Abuse. You may not know much about this issue. A Google news search turned up one article, in the independent Charleston Gazette. I am meaningfully aware that people self-injure only through a friend’s yearly blog post to mark self-injury awareness day: “We are male and female.
We are artists, athletes, students, and business owners. We have depression, DID, PTSD, eating disorders, borderline personalities, bipolar disorder, or maybe no formal diagnosis at all. The American Self-Harm Information Clearinghouse wrote (when last updated in 2002) that about “1% of the United States population uses physical self-injury as a way of dealing with overwhelming feelings or situations,” but the Mayo Clinic estimates “about 3 percent to 5 percent of Americans have deliberately hurt themselves at some point in their lives.”
This is a health and mental health issue affecting a significant number of people, yet the media reflection of ourselves hides it. I started out blogging on IdeaLab asking What is News? Abusive Environments. EQI.org Home | Abuse | Society | Teen Prison Abusive Environments, Gypsies and Education Written by S. Hein in 2008 while living in Romania One way to know if a person is living in an abusive environment is to ask whether that person can leave when the environment becomes painful. Another question is whether the person can change the environment to make it less painful. Consider a slave. Also, can the slave change the environment by requesting that the master stop causing him pain? So the two basic issues are freedom and control. To survive, people who live in abusive environments and a) are not free to leave or b)do not have control over them must adapt to the abusive environment.
When I think of abusive environments, adapting (coping) and society from this perspective, a lot of things start to make sense. Being in Romania, learning about Gypsy families and the Orthodox church has helped me to more clearly see what an abusive environment is. The slaves did not receive any wages. 1. S. People who sleep on their stomachs have lower night time blood p. Yasuharu Tabara of Ehime University School of Medicine in Ehime, Japan, noted that high blood pressure during the night can increase the risk of a night time heart attack, reports Patient Health International. In the research, more than 270 healthy men ages 19 to 64 who were not taking blood pressure medication wore automatic blood pressure cuffs. They were first asked to lie down face up and later were told to turn over on their stomachs. In almost all the men, their overall blood pressure dropped significantly when they were face down.
And 25 of the men experienced an even more dramatic decrease of more than 15 points when they just turned over onto their stomachs. In addition, systolic blood pressure, which is the force blood exerts on the artery walls when the heart beats, fell by as much as 15 mmHg in response to moving into the prone position, compared with the supine position, reports Patient Health International.
Sitting up straight not good for you ? What does your sleeping position say about you as a p[erson ? Professor Chris Idzikowski, director of the UK Sleep Assessment and Advisory Service analysed six common sleeping positions - and found that each is linked to a particular personality type. What your sleeping position says about you ... Foetus Those who curl up in the foetus position are described as tough on the outside but sensitive at heart.
They may be shy when they first meet somebody, but soon relax. This is the most common sleeping position, adopted by 41% of the 1,000 people who took part in the survey. Log Lying on your side with both arms down by your side. Yearner People who sleep on their side with both arms out in front are said to have an open nature, but can be suspicious, cynical. Soldier Lying on your back with both arms pinned to your sides. Freefall Lying on your front with your hands around the pillow, and your head turned to one side. Starfish Lying on your back with both arms up around the pillow. SELF-Therapy: Who's Healthy? Codependency. Codependency For well over four years we have advertised at this site for someone willing to help write an article on codependency.
We got around a dozen responses, but that was it: just an initial response and then nothing. Symptoms of Codependency include overextending oneself and difficulty in following a project through. So, it soon became apparent that while we were going to get responses, we weren't really going to find anyone to help write this. We would have to do it alone. So, here goes: Codependency is a terrible term. Codependency is habitual behaviors that are ultimately self-destructive. Codependent behaviors can be stopped. The following are a list of symptoms. Symptoms Care taking: the codependent individual feels responsible for other people.
Low Self Worth: codependents tend to come from troubled, dysfunctional families, and will deny this to the very end. Repression: most codependents repress their own needs, their own desires. From Bad to Worse Summary Origins. Kindle vs Nook vs Sony e-Reader. Sony, in its latest attempt to compete head-on with Amazon's Kindle's and Barnes & Noble's Nook success is attempting to open a storefront online of its own. In spite of a previous failure at a similar venture back in 2005, is Sony ready for a comeback? And if not, does Amazon's Kindle or Barnes & Noble's Nook win in this year's Holiday Sweepstakes? * * *UPDATE- January 6, 2010 : Sony's Daily Readers are now available at Amazon. After the holidays, I posted the following updates- "Kindle, Sony, Nook vs Apple, Google, Microsoft - One Trick Ponies vs Multimedia Devices" and "Kindle, Nook and Sony - E-book Reader Comparison Reports". UPDATE- February 9, 2010: This posting talks about how the 'tablet' devices might overtake the e-Readers "Tablet Wars: iPad vs HP Slate vs JooJoo vs Dell Mini 5 vs Archos7 vs Notion Ink Adam" UPDATE- May 2, 2010: Kindle adds new differentiators to compete with iPads and Sony Readers.
UPDATE - June 22, 2010: E-Reader Wars are heating up with price-slashing! Obama's Enemies List - Stealth Fusion - World Breaking News. Beat Them Lightly. This from Asra Q. Nomani, a former colleague of the slain Daniel Pearl. Washington Post, via RCP: When dealing with a "disobedient wife," a Muslim man has a number of options. First, he should remind her of "the importance of following the instructions of the husband in Islam. " If that doesn't work, he can "leave the wife's bed. " Finally, he may "beat" her, though it must be without "hurting, breaking a bone, leaving blue or black marks on the body and avoiding hitting the face, at any cost. " Such appalling recommendations, drawn from the book "Woman in the Shade of Islam" by Saudi scholar Abdul Rahman al-Sheha, are inspired by as authoritative a source as any Muslim could hope to find: a literal reading of the 34th verse of the fourth chapter of the Koran, An-Nisa , or Women.
This fall the Islamic Society of North America held their annual conference in Chicago--there was a seminar listed on beating your wife lightly. Iran: No Information About Detained Women's Rights Activist. International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Political Exec. Obama responses stun Cuban blogger Yoani Sánchez - Blog - Commit. International Organizations and Movement - Non-Governmental Orga. Using ‘Kristallnacht’ to expand war increase discrimination « Ru. Obama’s Lobbyist Advisers: Big Oil, Insurance Companies, Pharmac. 1943 Kennedy Drive, McLean VA. Four Winds at Oakton Apartments For Rent in Oakton, Virginia - A. 3031 Ellenwood Drive, Fairfax VA. 9828 Sweet Mint Drive, Vienna VA. Regents Park Apartments in Vienna, Fairfax County, VA - Apartmen. Floorplans - Regents Park Apartments in Vienna, Fairfax County, Availability - Tysons Glen Apartments & Townhomes.