Christian Nold
Roemer on debates: ‘It’s a process that makes no sense’
Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer believes that this early in the process — a time when no state has held a primary or caucus and the general election is 15 months in the future — all candidates with some experience should be included in presidential debates. “They have some rules of engagement that include a national poll that has you at 4 percent or higher,” explained Roemer, who added that he has a different campaign approach by only accepting small donations, has only been actively campaigning for a month and only recently began appearing in national polls. “We’ve tried to get in every debate,” he added, but the way the policies governing the debates are decided is “purposefully vague” and it has been difficult to determine who sets the rules and who can change them. “It’s a process that makes no sense,” Roemer said of the debate qualifiers that seem to exclude certain candidates while favoring others. The presidential campaign of former New Mexico Gov.
30 Statistics That Show That The Middle Class Is Dying Right In Front Of Our Eyes As We Enter 2012
30 Statistics That Show That The Middle Class Is Dying Right In Front Of Our Eyes As We Enter 2012 Courtesy of Michael Snyder of Economic Collapse Once upon a time, the United States had the largest and most vibrant middle class that the world has ever seen. Unfortunately, that is rapidly changing. The statistics that you are about to read prove beyond a doubt that the U.S. middle class is dying right in front of our eyes as we enter 2012. The decline of the middle class is not something that has happened all of a sudden. As I have written about previously, America as a whole is getting poorer as a nation, and as this happens wealth is becoming increasingly concentrated at the very top of the income scale. Today I went over to Safeway and I was absolutely appalled at the prices. When the cost of the basic things that we need - housing, food, gas, electricity - go up faster than our incomes do, that means that we are getting poorer. -The number of good jobs continues to decrease.
The L-Curve: A Graph of the US Income Distribution
Cartographie sensible, émotions et imaginaire
Cet article a été mis-à-jour et republié le 15 mars 2015 sur le nouveau site de visions carto : Le quartier et les espaces de l’imaginaire Comment vivent les femmes issues des classes populaires dans le quartier de Sidi Yusf (1) à Marrakech, et comment utilisent-elles leur espace ? Sidi Yusf date de la fin de l’époque Almohade, au XIIe et XIIIe siècle, autour du tombeau du Saint Sidi Youssef Ben Ali, d’où le nom du quartier (2). Les femmes de ce douar spontané (3), qui s’est longtemps nourri de l’exode rural, font parties des couches les plus défavorisées de la population de la ville et subissent de nombreuses discriminations dans la vie publique comme dans la vie domestique, lesquelles ont un impact important sur leurs pratiques de l’espace et la vision qu’elles en ont. « Pour être franche, il n’y a aucun endroit, à part les jardins, où je pourrais aller. De la carte classique à la carte sensible La carte sensible, image de pensée
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CHARTS: Here's What The Wall Street Protesters Are So Angry About...
The "Occupy Wall Street" protests are gaining momentum, having spread from a small park in New York to marches to other cities across the country. So far, the protests seem fueled by a collective sense that things in our economy are not fair or right. But the protesters have not done a good job of focusing their complaints—and thus have been skewered as malcontents who don't know what they stand for or want. (An early list of "grievances" included some legitimate beefs, but was otherwise just a vague attack on "corporations." Given that these are the same corporations that employ more than 100 million Americans and make the products we all use every day, this broadside did not resonate with most Americans). So, what are the protesters so upset about, really? Do they have legitimate gripes? To answer the latter question first, yes, they have very legitimate gripes.
Les data en forme
Chaque semaine, les data-journalistes d'OWNI dressent un panorama du meilleur de la donnée sur le web : des cartes, des jolies couleurs, un florilège de signifiants dans ce monde brutal de bits. Tu n’es pas sans savoir, lecteur, que cette succession infinie de bits qu’on appelle un peu partout la “data” – qui vient du latin, pas de l’anglais, ne sois pas bougon – est une passion sans égale chez OWNI. Du coup, étant donné qu’il est assez vraisemblable que c’en soit une pour toi aussi, même naissante, nous nous permettons de te communiquer quelques éléments de veille sur le sujet ; à défaut de pouvoir être traitée de manière exhaustive sur le rythme hebdomadaire auquel nous voudrions t’habituer, cette veille suscitera chez toi, lecteur, tout l’émoi qu’elle mérite. Du moins l’espérons-nous. L’avenir est dans les cartes The World of Seven Billion est (donc) un très joli dossier propulsé par National Geographic pour célébrer le passage (virtuel) des sept milliards d’êtres humains sur Terre.
Ex-Bush Official Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: "I am Willing to Testify" If Dick Cheney is Put on Trial
This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: Today marks the official launch of one of most anticipated memoirs of any top Bush administration official. I’m talking about former Vice President Dick Cheney’s 576-page memoir, In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir. Cheney has begun a publicity blitz to promote his new book, with a string of TV appearances scheduled on Fox News Channel, as well as C-SPAN and the major networks. He appeared on The Today Show this morning. JAMIE GANGEL: In your view, we should still be using enhanced interrogation? DICK CHENEY: Yes. JAMIE GANGEL: Should we still be waterboarding terror suspects? DICK CHENEY: I would strongly support using it again if we had a high-value detainee and that was the only way we can get him to talk. JAMIE GANGEL: People call it torture. JAMIE GANGEL: Secret prisons? JAMIE GANGEL: Wiretapping? DICK CHENEY: Well, with the right approval. DICK CHENEY: It was controversial at the time. COL. COL. COL. COL.
The Scariest Chart in Europe Just Got Even Scarier - Derek Thompson
In March this year, for the first time on record, more than half of the young people in Spain and Greece were counted as unemployed by the OECD, which provided the chart above. Three months later, the situation is still getting worse. Official youth unemployment in Greece and Spain has crossed 51 percent. That's worse than twice the rate of the entire euro zone (22%) and more than three times worse than the already-quite-bad youth unemployment in the United States and Canada (16% and 14%, respectively). The mitigating factor is that the OECD's metrics for unemployment might overstate the severity of youth joblessness. These economies got into trouble in different ways.
