Monday, August 31, 2015

READING FOR THE WEEK (8-31-15)


Big oil takes a spill: Russia, Venezuela and the dawn of a new energy epoch (Salon).

The Google search that made the CIA spy on the U.S. Senate (NewsVice).

There is no reason why India should face hunger and farmers should commit suicide (Buzz Flash).

Obama calls out AIPAC: Stop warmongering and lying about the Iran peace deal (Occupy Democrats).


ANOTHER LOOK AT  ...
Gun violence in America, in 17 maps and charts (Vox).

Jimmy Carter and the happening of history (TruthOut).

Manuscript suggesting Jesus was married could be genuine - scientists (RT).


WHEN CONSERVATIVES GO WRONG
In the on-going war on the poor, Maine imposed drug testing for welfare recipients and had only one person flunk (Think Progress).

Michigan Tea Partier has an affair, responds with 1,900-word Bible-thumping excuse, which Facebook trolls trash (Raw Story).


RACE IN AMERICA
Analysis finds higher expulsion rates for black students (NY Times).

Top racists and neo-Nazis back Donald Trump (Buzz Feed News).

10 black women kicked off of train, met by police, after white woman complains they were laughing (Think Progress).

Wine train admits they were '100 percent wrong' for kicking off a group of black women for laughing (Think Progress).

The wine train thing happened to another group of passengers, this time Latino (Slate).


WHAT THE RECENT MARKET SCARE SHOWED US
If social security had been in private accounts the stock market drop could have been a disaster (Think Progress).

China's stock market crash: 11 things you need to know (Vox).


I AGREE WITH LYNDON La ROUCHE? ON THIS, I DO
LaRouche: Wall Street is hopelessly bankrupt, institute Glass-Steagall worldwide immediately (La Rouche PAC).

Restore Glass-Steagall (La Rouche PAC).


RICH MAN, POOR MAN
Billion-Dollar bloodlines: America's richest families (Forbes).

This one cartoon brilliantly summarizes working at Walmart (attn:)


MEDICAL MALPRACTICE, BY THE NUMBERS
Medical malpractices cost as little as $10 billion per year, which adds up to about one-third of 1% of the health care industry's $3 trillion economy (True Cost of Health-Care).

If we throw in defensive practices, Medical malpractice costs about $55 billion per year which adds up to about 2.4% of the nation's total healthcare expenditures (Forbes).

Medical malpractice reform won't do much to reduce health spending (NY Times).


MISCELLANEOUS
Unscrupulous lender that preyed on U.S. soldiers, and then sued them, closing its doors (TruthOut).

This is how students cheat on-line, or MOOC, courses (Chronicle of Higher Education).

The proof that Obamacare is working is getting really hard to ignore (Think Progress).

According to several reports, robots will cut at least 7% - and perhaps as much as 25% - of our jobs in 4 years, while transforming our workforce (RT).

Déjà Vu: Germany Tightens Its Economic Power Over Europe (TruthOut).

- Mark 

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