Archive for January, 2012
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
In Knight, we also have someone who pays college coaches a fortune so “student-athletes” can wear and by extension advertise their products. We have someone who ploughs millions to the University of Oregon football program funding state-of-the-art equipment and facilities, while the school endures terrible cuts. We have someone who ...
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
This to me is the key section from George Lakey's piece in the Indypendent's blog:
The Depression hit bottom in 1931. More people were jobless there than in any other Nordic country. Unlike in the U.S., the Norwegian union movement kept the people thrown out of work as members, even though ...
Posted in Income and poverty, International Affairs, Labour issues | No Comments »
Saturday, January 28th, 2012
The Irish Times reports on a forthcoming government report on alcohol, and the numerous suggestions made in it, including more stringent rules around advertising (none on TV before 9pm, no outdoor advertising, no sports sponsorship), minimum price floors (and bans on discounts for bulk purchases) and more aggressive health monitoring.
I ...
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Disturbing news out of Libya, where Medicins Sans Frontiers/Doctors without Borders are claiming that prisoners are being tortured:
"Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres has halted its work in detention centres in a Libyan city because it said its medical staff were being asked to patch up detainees mid-way through torture sessions ...
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Saturday, January 28th, 2012
Wondering how Mitt Romney manages to pay under 14% of his income in tax? Confused by all this talk of 'carried interest'? Eileen Appelbaum lays it all out very clearly in this piece, carried by US News, which also lays out the case for why this income should not qualify ...
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Friday, January 27th, 2012
Odd image of the day: A billboard, off I-690 (which runs through the middle of Syracuse) with an 'In Memorium' message for Joe Paterno.
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