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Posts Tagged ‘Corporatism’
Teachers are trippin(g), but pay Kam right? Smh
Kam Chancellor signed a four year deal worth $28 million dollars. Chancellor was given a $5 million dollar signing bonus, and he is guaranteed to receive nearly $8 million dollars of his deal. In 2015, Chancellor will earn $4.5 million dollars, and his $100 thousand incentive check is nearly $20[...]
August 15th, 2015 - 3:35 pm § in Uncategorized
Why aren’t the bankers in jail?
The U.S. Department of Justice is prosecuting soccer officials based in Switzerland for corruption and fraud. But even though banks have paid $190 billion in fines* for criminal misdeeds that crashed the U.S. economy and brought suffering to hundreds of millions of people, only 1 banker** has been j[...]
July 8th, 2015 - 10:38 am § in Uncategorized
What free-market capitalism looks like
Some people will do literally anything for a buck. This plastic cellphone case is being marketed to young people as “trendy, cool, stylish.” Do you want your teen walking around like this? Should government regulators keep such products off the market, or is that unduly interfering with [...]
Putin adds heat to the hot water of the South China Sea
Add the Russian Bear to the volatile soup. While the American media and the Republicans focus on ISIS and Ukraine, the South China Sea, with .China’s aggressive claims to the entire sea, is the place most likely to shed the spark for WWIII. That spark is now being fanned by Putin. China&#[...]
BREAKING NEWS: Obama Plays Chess, Wins!
(HUFF POST) WASHINGTON — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) waved the white flag on Wednesday, telling her caucus she would support passage of a key measure tethered to President Barack Obama’s broader trade agenda. Her support all but guarantees that the measure will succeed,[...]
June 21st, 2015 - 3:09 pm § in Uncategorized
The dishonesty of corporate hucksters
Plenty of people have gotten rich by selling unhealthy products. For years, tobacco companies denied smoking caused lung cancer, despite overwhelming medical and scientific evidence, and fought tooth-and-claw against government efforts to educate the public about the health risks of smoking. Remembe[...]
June 21st, 2015 - 10:14 am § in Politics
Supreme Court: Agent or enemy of social change?
Answer: It’s ambiguous. Sometimes the Supreme Court goes one way, sometimes the other way. Its justices often “comfort the comfortable and afflict the afflicted,” writes Ian Millhiser, a think-tank scholar. Which isn’t surprising, considering that until recently all of the Co[...]
June 8th, 2015 - 2:36 pm § in Uncategorized
Airline travel is about to get even more uncomfortable
Boeing (NYSE:BA) recently announced it was looking to increase the seating capacity of its 777 300ER commercial aircraft by reducing the size of the lavatories, saying it could add up to 14 extra seats in the aircraft and give airlines room to improve their unit passenger margins. Boeing also is try[...]
Davey L. Whitney (1930-2015)
Davey “The Wiz”Whitney, an influential American Basketball coach, was born January 15, 1930, in Lexington, Kentucky, to parents Albert Whitney Sr. and Elizabeth Whitney. Mr. Whitney coached Alcorn St. to the first NCAA tournament win ever by an historically black university with a 70-62 vict[...]