I am just going to anser each one.
There is not much to add to the collapse of the edifice of unsubstantiated promises in Europe. The Greeks have no more blood to give.
Still no currency controls. They must be saving the default for next year.
- European stocks sank the most in five weeks, as Greece’s government called a referendum on its latest bailout package, spurring concern that the country may default.
- Mario Draghi’s first day as head of the European Central Bank was blighted by George Papandreou.
Europe News
- The yen advanced against 15 of its 16 major counterparts as renewed speculation Europe’s debt crisis is worsening boosted appetite for safer assets.
- A Greek referendum on its latest bailout package will hinder the next installment of aid funds by the International Monetary Fund and the European Union, Dutch Finance Minister Jan Kees de Jager said.
- European leaders racing to prevent their week-old debt crisis strategy from unravelling convene emergency talks today to tell Greece there is no alternative to the budget cuts imposed in the bailout plan.
Greek Revolt on Bailout Vote May Oust Prime Minister
By RACHEL DONADIO and NIKI KITSANTONIS
An emergency cabinet meeting called by Prime Minister George Papandreou ended with the cabinet supporting him and endorsing a referendum on the bailout.
Whispers of Return to Drachma Grow Louder in Crisis
By LANDON THOMAS Jr.
A vocal minority in Greece that has long called for a return to the drachma might find itself with a growing group of listeners.Occupy Oakland Regroups, Calling for a Strike
By MALIA WOLLAN
The protesters have rebuilt their City Hall encampment and are calling for a general strike on Wednesday. -
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Julian Fernandez
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Of Top Hats, Top Kills and Bottom Feeders
A point being hammered by supporters of OCS drilling is the crucial role this oil plays in the total U.S. supply. This is bogus. BP is a foreign-controlled, multi-national corporation. Not one drop of the oil taken from Deepwater Horizon necessarily enters the U.S. supply. It is taken to BP-owned refineries at Texas City and other locations and once refined, loaded and shipped to markets around the world. It is disingenuous to portray the oil taken by BP, or any of the multi-nationals, from the Gulf of Mexico as part of the U.S. domestic supply. The Niger delta has been turned into an environmental hell to satisfy the international market, without the finished product or the profits benefiting those paying the ultimate price. Now we're see the destruction of the Gulf of Mexico..., beaches, fisheries, spawning grounds of countless species... not to supply the U.S. with oil, but to supply BP with quarterly profits in the billions of dollars. This isn't GM in 1941, converting automobile production lines to produce tanks or Hughes Aircraft making fighters. BP (and Exxon and Conoco and Texaco and Halliburton and...) have no allegiance to any flag but their own.
And that flag is the Dollar, our dollar.We seem to have dodged the bullet, the blowout has done much less damage than a spill at the surface would have done.Effective regulation must come to these wells and I would like to see these very deep wells reserved for much more desperate times.We must exit from fossil carbon based energy as rapidly as possible.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/o/oil_spills/gulf_of_mexico_2010/index.html?scp=2&sq=deep%20water%20horizon&st=cse
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Dave Schein II
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Dick Grasso on Occupy Wall Street
These people thought it was about anger.
This is just smoke and mirrors to distract from the actual concerns this demonstration is bringing forward.
OWS is in the right but I feel no need to bleed with them.
http://www.truth-out.org/california-school-spending-among-lowest-nation/1320171915
California School Spending Among Lowest in Nationby: Joanna Lin, California Watch | Report
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China's Health Costs Outstrip G.D.P. Growth - Room for Debate
The seemingly universal health coverage in China actually disguises the still extremely low level of benefit that most people receive.
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Doubting, and Blaming, Victims - Room for Debate
Focusing on the"In addressing how eyewitness and victim testimony should be used in trials, I suggest caution because focusing on the "faulty memories of victims" will only further validate the current victim-blaming culture."Victims are not to blame.Disallow all eyewitness testimony at trial.The prosecutor must build the case without it.The police can use it to procure a warrant.
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Sooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Marie Burns
This is the constant weader. It is also your way to:
BorowitzReport
I have no use for Republicans.
"My object all sublime,
I shall achieve in time . . ."
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Doubting, and Blaming, Victims - Room for Debate
Focusing on theEyewitness testimony is not admissible at trial.The prosecutor must build the case without it.The police may use it to get a warrant. -
Critics’ Picks: ‘Detour’
Paul Simon - 50 Ways To Leave Your Lover
http://youtu.be/MG-0BWLybIQSooner is better. As soon as you can is best.
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Marie Burns...
Constant Comments
Anyone with a cheap computer can become a columnist or a pundit. -- Dennis Ryerson, Editor, Indianapolis Star
About Me: I have a cheap computer.
-- Constant Weader
... for breaking news. I update several times a day & tweet only the big deals.
This is the constant weader.
... Digby links to this very helpful October 2008 McClatchy News report (by David Goldstein & Kevin Hall) of Fannie & Freddie's limited participation in the subprime lending mess
Bloomberg is either ignorant of the facts of the mortgage meltdown or so eager to rid his city of Occupiers that he'll discard the truth. The Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 did not cause the meltdown of 2007, in no small part because that law didn't apply to the private lenders who dominated the subprime market. The fraudulent practices of those lenders and the financial derivatives the private investment houses used to turn the subprime market into an elaborate game of hot potato were left unregulated by the federal government — but that's not even the basis for Bloomberg's criticism of Washington. He claims Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac 'made a bunch of loans' even though they (1) do not make loans, and (2) were backing out of insuring subprime loans as private, unregulated firms rushed into the derivatives casino. -- Alan Pyke, Political Correction
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China's Health Costs Outstrip G.D.P. Growth - Room for Debate
The seemingly universal health coverage in China actually disguises the still extremely low level of benefit that most people receive.True.He is playing fast and loose with the numbers.His causal chain is very unclear. -
Dick Grasso on Occupy Wall Street
A distraction of
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Will Amazon Kill Off Book Publishers? - Room for Debate
What happens when more writers have the option of a one-stop shop: agent, publisher and bookseller.It just joins the ranks with a new press. -
William Choi
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BorowitzReport
http://www.realitychex.com/"... Adam Nagourney of the New York Times: "From Los Angeles to Wall Street, from Denver to Boston, homeless men and women have joined the protesters in large numbers, or at least have settled in beside them for the night. While the economic deprivation they suffer might symbolize the grievance at the heart of this protest, they have come less for the cause than for what they almost invariably describe as an easier existence.... But their presence is posing a mounting quandary for protesters and the authorities, and divisions have arisen among protesters across the country about how much, if at all, to embrace the interlopers. The rising number of homeless, many of them suffering from mental disorders, has made it easier for Occupy’s opponents to belittle the movement as vagrant and lawless and has raised the pressure on municipal authorities to crack down." ... "
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mr.roy
- Marie Burns is following a user:Feb 2, 2011http://www.realitychex.com/" New York Times: "European markets slid dramatically on Tuesday after Prime Minister George A. Papandreou stunned other European leaders with a surprise announcement late Monday that his government would hold a referendum on a new aid package for Greece. The proposed ballot will put Greek austerity measures — and potentially membership in the euro zone — to a popular vote for the first time....""
BorowitzReport
http://www.borowitzreport.com/"CONCORD, NEW HAMPSHIRE (The Borowitz Report) – Rick Perry waded into the brouhaha over the sexual harassment charges against Republican presidential rival Herman Cain, telling reporters, “If it turns out he’s innocent, then he should be executed.”
Noting that the case against Mr. Cain was far from airtight, Gov. Perry said, “In Texas we’ve fried men for less than that.”"
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Alistair Kwun
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Doubting, and Blaming, Victims - Room for Debate
Focusing on theMake it soEyewitness testimony is not admissible at trial.The prosecutor must build the case without it.The police may use it to get a warrant.
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Julemry
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Of Top Hats, Top Kills and Bottom Feeders
A point being hammered by supporters of OCS drilling is the crucial role this oil plays in the total U.S. supply. This is bogus. BP is a foreign-controlled, multi-national corporation. Not one drop of the oil taken from Deepwater Horizon necessarily enters the U.S. supply. It is taken to BP-owned refineries at Texas City and other locations and once refined, loaded and shipped to markets around the world. It is disingenuous to portray the oil taken by BP, or any of the multi-nationals, from the Gulf of Mexico as part of the U.S. domestic supply. The Niger delta has been turned into an environmental hell to satisfy the international market, without the finished product or the profits benefiting those paying the ultimate price. Now we're see the destruction of the Gulf of Mexico..., beaches, fisheries, spawning grounds of countless species... not to supply the U.S. with oil, but to supply BP with quarterly profits in the billions of dollars. This isn't GM in 1941, converting automobile production lines to produce tanks or Hughes Aircraft making fighters. BP (and Exxon and Conoco and Texaco and Halliburton and...) have no allegiance to any flag but their own.
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/o/oil_spills/gulf_of_mexico_2010/index.html?scp=2&sq=deep%20water%20horizon&st=cse
There seem to be no developments.
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Catching a Wave, and Measuring It
By QUENTIN HARDY
A California company is working to network a fleet of oceangoing robots to measure the data of the sea. Above, a Wave Glider off Monterey Bay.
Dropbox Will Simplify Your Life
I think I understand your binding.
I really do not have an acceptable fix.
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