The Guardian: Al-Jazeera boss Wadah Khanfar steps down to be replaced by Qatari royal TV channel head quits after revolutionising Middle East broadcasting for past eight years, especially during Arab Spring Wadah Khanfar, director general of the al-Jazeera network Qatar‘s government has replac[...]
Posts Tagged ‘corporations’
How A Rational Man Can Offend the Irrational Repricans
Right Site says Howard Fineman Smears Climate Skeptics By: Scott Whitlock| September 08, 2011 | 18:02 Former Newsweek editor Howard Fineman appeared on Hardball, Thursday, to attack Rick Perry’s climate change skepticism as a “war of the worlds between science and faith.” Dismissin[...]
Courts Make Bad Ruling on Who Owns a Gene
Ruling Upholds Gene Patent in Cancer Test By ANDREW POLLACK Published: July 29, 2011 NY Times excerpted The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, which specializes in patent cases, said that Myriad Genetics was entitled to patents on two human genes used to predict if women have an increased r[...]
September 2nd, 2011 - 9:10 am § in America
Where are the tramps?
Claude Fischer, professor of sociology | 6/24/11 | Berkeley Blog One image of the Great Depression was of the tramps, the hobos drifting from town to town. Folk singer Woody Guthrie sang many a lyric on the theme, such as “the highway that’s our home / It’s a never-ending highway / For a dust [...]
August 31st, 2011 - 8:59 am § in America
U.S. Government Sues to Block AT&T T-Mobile Merger Lenin made a powerful argument against capitalism. The Russian predicted that corporate self interest would dictate a concewntration of the media … not justn intgo one monoploy but nto an oligopoly of shared interests that would snake de[...]
Who would you guess pays more in federal taxes: you or Boeing?
Danny Westneat, Seattle Times (excerpted) “It’s not even close,” says Bob McIntyre. “In the past three years, you have paid way more into the system than Boeing.” McIntyre is a tax wonk, the director of … Citizens for Tax Justice, released a study showing that 12 [...]
July 27th, 2011 - 12:17 am § in Uncategorized
How The Wealthy Mexican Merchants Stimulate The Economy
from Tumbolia: Trade in the Aztec empire was mostly barter, but I’m surprised to read that a few commodities were plentiful, portable, durable, interchangeable, and stable enough to serve as money. “Cacao seems to have been the most common form of money, and it did, indeed, grow on trees. It[...]
June 27th, 2011 - 9:09 pm § in America
America .. the World’s Tax Haven
Our Citizens and Corporations Pay Much Less Than They Once Did and Much Less Than in Most Other Countries Taxes for the wealthy, and superwealthy like Warren Buffett, have plunged in recent years. SOURCE: AP/Paul White from AP and Center for American Progress by Michael Linden, Seth Hanlon, Jordan E[...]
June 25th, 2011 - 2:19 pm § in America, Schools & Colleges
Texas Group Challenges Texas Governor’s Plans for Higher Education
from the Chronicle of Higher Ed: June 16, 2011, In a move aimed at Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and his controversial initiatives to remake higher education in the Lone Star State, a high-powered group of more than 200 former regents, chancellors, and presidents, along with Democratic and Republican p[...]
May 27th, 2011 - 7:17 am § in Misc.
Scientific Hype
from Elizabeth Armsstrong Moore at CNET Not long after creating a functioning rat lung in her lab, Yale University Professor of Anesthesiology and Biomedical Engineering Laura Nikalson is testing bioengineered human veins that could benefit some 500,000 patients a year who need to undergo vascular s[...]