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What kind of capitalist is Romney? – CNN.com

Jayme Johnson — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 15:37:46 +0000

In the theory of “shareholder capitalism,” the corporation exists solely for the purpose of the investors, whom the managers serve as agents. In shareholder capitalism, short-term profits are the only goal, and if that means laying off workers instead of retraining them or reassigning them, breaking up the company and selling the assets to enrich private equity partners and shareholders, so be it.

via What kind of capitalist is Romney? – CNN.com.

No Arrests Inside Goldman Sachs, Though We Were Arrested Outside | Common Dreams

Jayme Johnson — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 16:42:44 +0000

Goldman Sachs hoards rice, wheat, corn, sugar and livestock and jacks up commodity prices around the globe so that poor families can no longer afford basic staples and literally starve. Goldman Sachs is able to carry out its malfeasance at home and in global markets because it has former officials filtered throughout the government and lavishly funds compliant politicians—including Barack Obama, who received $1 million from employees at Goldman Sachs in 2008 when he ran for president.

via No Arrests Inside Goldman Sachs, Though We Were Arrested Outside | Common Dreams.

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Jayme Johnson — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:26:30 +0000

Video: Police Arresting Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge – NYTimes.com

Jayme Johnson — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:29:28 +0000

After allowing marchers from the Occupy Wall Street protests to claim the Brooklyn-bound car lanes of the Brooklyn Bridge and get partway across, the police cut the marchers off and plunged into the crowd and began making arrests around 4:15 p.m. Saturday.

via Video: Police Arresting Protesters on Brooklyn Bridge – NYTimes.com.

Jayme Johnson — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:30:09 +0000

US students convicted for disrupting speech – Americas – Al Jazeera English

Jayme Johnson — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 14:22:38 +0000

But the Orange County district attorney’s office, which is prosecuting the case, has said the students – rather than exercising their own free-speech rights – were interfering with the right of Oren to be heard.

The total amount of time taken up by the students’ disruptions was approximately only one minute, an attorney for the group said.

via US students convicted for disrupting speech – Americas – Al Jazeera English.

CERN: Light Speed May Have Been Exceeded By Subatomic Particle

Jayme Johnson — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:36:54 +0000

Going faster than light is something that is just not supposed to happen according to Einstein’s 1905 special theory of relativity – the one made famous by the equation E equals mc2. But no one is rushing out to rewrite the science books just yet.

It is “a revolutionary discovery if confirmed,” said Indiana University theoretical physicist Alan Kostelecky, who has worked on this concept for a quarter of a century.

via CERN: Light Speed May Have Been Exceeded By Subatomic Particle.

Wall Street Protesters Plan to Occupy Lower Manhattan With Tents – BusinessWeek

Jayme Johnson — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 18:31:31 +0000

Wall Street firms will be the target of a nonviolent demonstration in which organizers say they want 20,000 people to participate with tents, kitchens and “peaceful barricades” in lower Manhattan.

via Wall Street Protesters Plan to Occupy Lower Manhattan With Tents – BusinessWeek.

Leon Panetta, Defense Secretary, Warns That Military Cuts Could Add 1 Percent To Jobless Rate

Jayme Johnson — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 16:11:38 +0000

Citing a new Pentagon analysis, Little said the defense industrial base provides 3.8 million private sector jobs. He said the 1 percentage point increase in the unemployment rate would include government, military and private sector jobs. He did not know how many jobs that entails or how many could be lost in the individual government and private sectors.

via Leon Panetta, Defense Secretary, Warns That Military Cuts Could Add 1 Percent To Jobless Rate.

China buys gold, challenges US dollar – Features – Al Jazeera English

Jayme Johnson — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 01:01:41 +0000

Buying gold and allowing the yuan to be traded freely would weaken the US dollars dominance as the international reserve currency. The move would have major implications, making it more expensive for the US government to borrow money and to run perpetual trade and budget deficits.

via China buys gold, challenges US dollar – Features – Al Jazeera English.

And Now The U.S. Postal Service Is About To Go Belly Up… | Daily Ticker – Yahoo! Finance

Jayme Johnson — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:38:20 +0000

The current situation of the organization is obviously a major problem, not just for the Postal Service, but for the country. The U.S. Postal Service employs 653,000 people, and with the national unemployment rate already running over 9%, the country can’t afford to lose more jobs. Thanks to the Postal Service’s generous benefits and pensions, moreover, these are “good” jobs–ones that pay employees far better than they might get from private organizations.

via And Now The U.S. Postal Service Is About To Go Belly Up… | Daily Ticker – Yahoo! Finance.

Tony Blair is godfather to Murdoch’s daughter? Now it all makes sense | Henry Porter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Jayme Johnson — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:34:51 +0000

It is simply unacceptable for a modern democracy to allow a foreign media tycoon, whose interests are exclusively limited to his business, to act as the national puppeteer, and one hopes that the phone-hacking scandal will eventually result in a stake being driven through the heart of this particular corruption. But there is still, I suggest, some way to go.

via Tony Blair is godfather to Murdoch’s daughter? Now it all makes sense | Henry Porter | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk.

Files Note Close C.I.A. Ties to Qaddafi Spy Unit – NYTimes.com

Jayme Johnson — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:39:34 +0000

While some of the documents warned Libyan authorities to respect such detainees’ human rights, the C.I.A. nonetheless turned them over for interrogation to a Libyan service with a well-known history of brutality.

via Files Note Close C.I.A. Ties to Qaddafi Spy Unit – NYTimes.com.

Secrecy, leaks, and the real criminals – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com

Jayme Johnson — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 16:11:22 +0000

But as absurd as it is, this deceitful scheme — suppressing embarrassing information or evidence of illegality by claiming that even public information is “classified” — is standard government practice for punishing whistleblowers and other critics and shielding high-level lawbreakers.

via Secrecy, leaks, and the real criminals – Glenn Greenwald – Salon.com.

The Associated Press: Judge to hear arguments over Loughner’s medication

Jayme Johnson — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 12:07:39 +0000

Attorneys for the Tucson shooting rampage suspect are making another attempt to stop the forced medication of their client at the Missouri prison facility where mental health experts are trying to make him psychologically fit to stand trial.

via The Associated Press: Judge to hear arguments over Loughner’s medication.

*To what extent are religions forced on people?

The moral decay of our society is as bad at the top as the bottom – Telegraph Blogs

Jayme Johnson — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 12:23:18 +0000

Even more notoriously, he awarded a senior Downing Street job to the former News of the World editor Andy Coulson, even though he knew at the time that Coulson had resigned after criminal acts were committed under his editorship. The Prime Minister excused his wretched judgment by proclaiming that “everybody deserves a second chance”. It was very telling yesterday that he did not talk of second chances as he pledged exemplary punishment for the rioters and looters.

via The moral decay of our society is as bad at the top as the bottom – Telegraph Blogs.

Social media monitored more by law enforcement

Jayme Johnson — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 11:41:01 +0000

Prime Minister David Cameron added another layer of controversy by calling for a temporary ban on social networks in times of civil unrest to curtail criminal activity.

“Everyone watching these horrific actions will be struck by how they were organized via social media,” Cameron said. “Free flow of information can be used for good. But it can also be used for ill. And when people are using social media for violence we need to stop them.”

via Social media monitored more by law enforcement.

The Associated Press: Arabs, Orthodox Jews sit out Israel protests

Jayme Johnson — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 02:29:57 +0000

Some ultra-Orthodox worry that the protests will shine a light on the vast amounts of money they receive from the state.

Cultural differences are also keeping the ultra-Orthodox at bay, said Jonathan Rosenblum, an ultra-Orthodox commentator. The protesters’ main tent camps in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem are predominantly secular, with scantily clad young men and women trying to beat the summer heat and socializing in close quarters — something the ultra-Orthodox frown upon.

via The Associated Press: Arabs, Orthodox Jews sit out Israel protests.

Protesters Force Israel to Grapple With Wealth Gap – NYTimes.com

Jayme Johnson — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 19:59:58 +0000

Daniel Doron, who directs the Israel Center for Social and Economic Progress, a pro-market research organization, said he was convinced that the way in which failing state assets were privatized in the 1980s and ’90s led to dangerous consolidation, just as it did in the former Soviet Union and some Arab countries, like Egypt and Syria. Banks, construction and mining companies, all owned by agencies of the state and all in varying degrees of trouble, were sold to those who could afford to buy them.

via Protesters Force Israel to Grapple With Wealth Gap – NYTimes.com.