Lynette Fromme is handcuffed and surrounded by Secret Service agents and Sacramento police on Sept. 5, 1975, after pointing a gun at President Gerald Ford in Capitol Park.
Thursday, August 6, 2009
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Sunday, August 2, 2009
The Raw Story � Is America building a purely military economy? Industrial production down 20%.
Durable-goods shipments - a basic measure of industrial production - fell by more than 20 % during this recession, and would have declined further were it not for increased production of weapons."
In the past nine years, non-industrial production in the US has declined by some 19 %.
It took about four years for manufacturing to return to levels seen before the 2001 recession -- and all those gains were wiped out in the current recession
Military manufacturing is now 123 % greater than it was in 2000
The military now takes about 8 % of all durable goods, up from 3 percent in 2000.
The military budget for 2009, not including the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, is $651 billion, up 11 percent from the $583 billion spent on the military in 2008
The Iraq and Afghanistan wars are estimated, separately, to cost $150 billion per year.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/business/economy/01charts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/07/31/business/20090801_CHARTS_GRAPHIC.html
Friday, July 31, 2009
Bank Of America Workers Organize Against Closures As Execs Get Big Bonuses
Bank Of America Workers Organize Against Closures As Execs Get Big Bonuses:
"Even though taxpayers are backing Bank of America with $199.2 billion overall", CEO Ken Lewis made $6,019 an hour.
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Unemployment in California - Interactive Graphics - sacbee.com
Unemployment in California - Interactive Graphics - sacbee.com
11.8 % officially, 20 % real rate of people outside of work.
Officially, so called initial claims are counted, but if people later stop looking actively for a job, being disouraged from lack of available positions, they are dropped from the count.
The real rate is being estimated at "up to 100% more than initial claims.
Friday, July 24, 2009
Help Me Fight for a Public Option
It is very important to pass a real reform of long term crisis stricken current health delivery scheme.
Universal single payer public-private national heath care system is the only solution. Cost - $0.
1. Stop employer based payments.
2. Redirect to single payer.
3. Extend Medicare to all. That's all.
This way, runaway fraud private prices, insurance and medical companies will be controlled.
Huge and unnecessary medical medical bureaucracy, devouring 20 cents of each healthcare dollar, will be eliminated.
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Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Universal single payer public-private national heath care system is the only solution. Cost - $0.
1. Stop employer based payments.
2. Redirect to single payer.
3. Extend Medicare to all. That's all.
This way, runaway fraud private prices, insurance and medical companies will be controlled.
Huge and unnecessary medical medical bureaucracy, devouring 20 cents of each healthcare dollar, will be eliminated.
http://friendfeed.com/news3
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost
Friday, June 19, 2009
GM led the way, spent a lot of money to "buy up and destroy (electrical)mass transit".
As recently as the 1920s, many American cities and towns were connected by a network of electric railroads and interurban trolleys. Within cities, electric street railways, trolleys, and elevated trains, moved large numbers of people easily and cheaply, with minimal congestion and pollution. But steel-wheeled electric/rail mass transit systems did not serve the needs of the automobile manufacturers and their allies in the steel, rubber, glass, concrete, and oil industries.
Cities where GM managed to eliminate electric/rail systems, and replace them with buses and private cars, included New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, St. Louis, Oakland, Salt Lake City, and Los Angeles
Between 1920 and 1955, General Motors bought up more than 100 electric mass transit systems in 45 cities, allowed them to deteriorate, and then replaced them with rubber-tired, diesel-powered buses
Los Angeles was served by the largest electric/rail mass transit system in the nation. The Pacific Electric Railway ran more than 1000 trains per day over 760 miles of rail lines to such outlying stations as Redlands, Corona, Santa Monica, Redondo Beach and Balboa, carrying light freight as well as passengers. Its last line, to Long Beach, was abandoned in 1961 --the same year the ingredients of smog were first identified in L.A.'s toxic air.
During this same period 1920-1955, GM worked to convert electric-powered commuter railroads to diesel-powered locomotives
Lyon, France
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