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Posts Tagged ‘Hypocrisy’
October 18th, 2014 - 5:04 pm § in China
CHINA: The HK Struggle Continues
Hong Kong Protesters Retake Mong Kok Streets From Police [...]
Do you think Larry Ellison might be able to pay a tax on his unproductive wealth?
I have written many times about the wealth tax. A wealth tax designed to tax wealth selectively based on productivity has the extra advantage of increasing the use of capital to stimulate jobs. Put another way … money invested in gold coins, yachts, art, real estate, government bonds or ca[...]
October 16th, 2014 - 12:45 am § in Schools & Colleges
BERKELEY BLOG: What Government Means When it Requires Med. Students to Take Ethics Classes
The breaking of bodies and minds: Task force report confirms complicity of U.S. medical personnel in torture and cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment Alexa Koenig, executive director, Human Rights Center, Berkeley Law | 11/4/13 | 3 comments A report released this morning — Ethics Abandoned: Me[...]
Someone Ought to Tell Netanyahu That Obama Isn’t a Nigger
White House fumes at PM’s ‘American values’ statement that echoes malicious rhetoric of birthers and other crazy Obama-haters. :”Just try to imagine the mortified mayhem that would break out if Obama had retorted that construction in East Jerusalem that could kill off the moribun[...]
October 14th, 2014 - 7:39 am § in Politics
Why Turkey Is Not Boots on The Ground Against DAISH*
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The AP reports that Turkey is using its air force against Kurdish rebels inside Turkey. Turkey is a prosperous NATO ally that has nevertheless so far sat back and watched DAISH* advance in the Syrian town of Kobane, The reason is that the extremists are doing the dirty wo[...]
October 12th, 2014 - 10:51 pm § in Misc.
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: The price of life.
An Australian couple refused to support their baby born by a surrogate Read the full story The couple’s baby was one of a pair of twins, a healthy sister and this baby with Down’s and heart condition. The couple paid She was paid $15,000to the surrogate who bore their twins. T[...]
Letter to the President of the University of Washington
Dear President Young, My name is Anthony Washington. I am a former student-athlete at the University of Washington. I played under Lorenzo Romar from 2002-2004, before leaving after my sophomore year with 96 credits. A few days ago a friend of mine sent me a link to a story on ESPN by Adam Ritte[...]
Keeping America safe from foreign poets
Washington Post: “Poetry can be dangerous,” Rumi said, and U.S. Homeland Security isn’t taking any chances. The Jordanian-British poet Amjad Nasser had been invited to speak at New York University this fall, but on Sept. 27, he was questioned for two hours at London’s Heathrow airport and t[...]
Mars Hill Church’s Driscoll Resigns
Seattle’s Own Megachurch Is Failing News sources report that Mark Driscoll, controversial founder of Seattle-based Mars Hill Church, has resigned his pastor position. He took a leave of absence several weeks ago to think over his future, after public controversy erupted over his authoritaria[...]