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  • The Unspeakable Seperation of Wealth
    15 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    There are 44 New Billionaires in the US, bringing the total to 374 Americans with a Billion Dollars or more. There are 37 Million Americans living "below the poverty level".
    The official Poverty rate in the US has increased for the last for Consecutive Years as has the number of Billionaires. Almost 400 Billionaires, while there are still 750,000 homeless in the US, 250,000 of them Veterans... why won’t the politicians address this glaring atrocity?
    Forbes on the rising inequality: (…)

  • When Propaganda Controls America’s Thinking
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    “An Arab company is going to take over the port! More at 11...” - (A highly agitated news reader on a local TV station.)
    Baltimore, MD - It was painful to listen to the disinformation about the deal which would have allowed the Dubai Ports World company of the United Arab Emirates to handle the stevedoring operations in six U.S., ports, including Baltimore’s. The voices coming from the TV screen, usually dripping with hysteria, would screech: “An Arab company is going to take over the (…)

  • The wave of bipartisan protest over a Dubai company managing U.S. ports is a tempest in an election
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Going overboard
    The wave of bipartisan protest over a Dubai company managing U.S. ports is a tempest in an election year.
    DID YOU HEAR the one about Dick Cheney, a priest and a rabbi walking into an Arab-run port?
    No? Too bad, because the brouhaha that has replaced Cheney-mania is a lot less entertaining. This week brought a strange bipartisan convergence over, of all things, the commercial management of U.S. ports.
    Bipartisan consensus is often a troubling sign, particularly when (…)

  • The Boy Who Cried Wolf
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Greider
    David Brooks, the high-minded conservative pundit, dismissed the Dubai Ports controversy as an instance of political hysteria that will soon pass. He was commenting on PBS, and I thought I heard a little quaver in his voice when he said this was no big deal. Brooks consulted "the experts," and they assured him there’s no national security risk in a foreign company owned by Middle East Muslims—actually, by an Arab government—managing six major American ports. Cool down, (…)

  • Sweat Shop Workers Tour US Colleges That Sell Their Products
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    "It would take half our salary to buy one of the sweat shirts we produce," Josefina Hernandez Ponce told students at the University of Virginia on Wednesday night. The classroom was packed to capacity with students in every seat and squeezed in on the floor.
    A flyer passed around showed where the $39.99 paid for a UVA sweatshirt goes ($2.40 in royalties to the university, $0.20 in pay to the workers who made it).
    But that familiar story wasn’t all that Hernandez Ponce (…)

  • Kucinich Introduces Resolution of Inquiry to Demand Documents on Port Deal
    11 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Kucinich: Port Deal Not Dead; Introduces A Resolution To Obtain Documents And Force Congressional Oversight Congress Must Act To Prevent Similar Deals In The Future
    WASHINGTON - March 10 - Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), Ranking Member of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on National Security, Emerging Threats and International Relations, today, introduced a rarely used Congressional procedure called a Resolution of Inquiry to demand documents from the Administration about (…)

  • Hillary Clinton ’unaware’ of Bill’s Dubai ties
    5 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Hillary Clinton ’unaware’ of Bill’s Dubai ties
    By Stephanie Kirchgaessner
    Updated:3 : 12a.m. ET March4 ,2006
    Hillary Clinton, a leading opponent of DP World’s takeover of some US port operations, was this week forced to admit that she did not know her husband had advised Dubai leaders on how to handle the growing dispute.
    But former President Bill Clinton’s ties to Dubai and the United Arab Emirates should not have come as a surprise to his New York senator wife.
    Mrs Clinton’s own (…)

  • Groundhog Sticks Its Neck Out
    5 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Georgia-based ’Merchant Lynx’ credit card processor tries to quiet OfficialWire
    WHITE PLAINS, NY — (OfficialWire) — 03/04/06 — Groundhog Enterprises, Inc., a Georgia-based company with satellite offices in Annapolis Maryland and White Plains New York is trying to stop OfficialWire from writing about the company.
    In a lawsuit filed in New York on February 21, 2006, Groundhog Enterprises, Inc. is trying to prevent Baou, Inc., publisher of OfficialWire, from reporting on the company’s (…)

  • ANY PORT IN A STORM?
    3 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ANY PORT IN A STORM
    By Peter Fredson
    March 3, 2006
    The Bush cronies and sycophants have falsified the ports problem. For Bush this is part of his world domination strategy, in which globalization presents magnificent profits for billionaires and leave bread crumbs for everyone else.
    Bush never hesitates to outsource the genius, talent, energy, industry, and resources of his America, ( which was presented to him lock, stock, and barrel by hanging chads and a partisan Supreme Court) (…)

  • FSA Enforcement Lawyer Faces Law Society Investigation
    3 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    ’Complinet’ article merely grazes fraudulent IEQ lawyers
    LONDON, ENGLAND — (OfficialWire) — 03/03/06 — In an article written by Caroline Atkinson and published by Complinet—a solutions provider to the international financial services industry—an unnamed ’spokesperson’ representing London law firm Marriott Harrison said: "This is the latest in a series of complaints against Adrian Murtagh and others involved in the lawsuit against IEQ, none of which have been upheld."
    Greg Lloyd (…)