A serial accumulation of memory, incident, consideration, reconsideration, personal discovery and attempts at truth.
It is intended for my attention and that of other interested persons
If that changes, I will extensively re-edit.
Warning:
I attempt to use inductive logic.
By JONATHAN WEISMAN and JENNIFER STEINHAUER | Aug 28th 2014
An investigation of the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic compound
in Benghazi, Libya, will extend into next year, raising concerns among
Democrats that Republicans are trying to hurt Hillary Rodham Clinton’s
presidential prospects.
Benghazi Attack (2012); Diplomatic Service, Embassies and Consulates; United States Politics and Government
“I am not sure what the committee can productively do that hasn’t been
done already,” said Representative Adam B. Schiff, Democrat of
California, a member of the select committee and the House Intelligence
Committee. But, he added, “These committees tend to take on a life of
their own.”
By MATT APUZZO and EMMARIE HUETTEMAN | Aug 28th 2014
Twelve American jurors, expected to begin deliberating next week,
will have to decide whether the 2007 episode in Iraq was a massacre, a
firefight or a horrible accident of war.
Iraq War (2003-11); Mercenaries and Private Military Contractors
Fueled by a growing interest in urban living and a shortage of
rental housing, rents have risen sharply in cities like Milwaukee and
San Francisco and in states like Maine, Georgia and Kentucky.
Evictions; Renting and Leasing (Real Estate); Landlords; Real Estate and Housing (Residential)
Yes.
Minions are useful and for some psychologically necessary. In a small percentage of the population they are essential for life.
Urban poverty produces minions.
Poverty is not a number.
Poverty is insufficient resources to support long life.
Mr. Martinez, who was convicted in a federal corruption case, made
the agreement under a new policy of the United States attorney’s office
in Manhattan.
Corruption (Institutional); Pensions and Retirement Plans; United States Attorneys
I expect to owe some taxes.
There is no way to receive money and not owe taxes.
Has President François Hollande doomed the European project as the
disastrous consequences of austerity policies grow more obvious with
each passing month?
European Sovereign Debt Crisis (2010- ); Budgets and Budgeting; Credit and Debt; Economic Conditions and Trends
"In today’s column
I am not nice to Francois Hollande, who has shown about as much
strength in standing up to austerians as a wet Kleenex. But one does
have to admit that he’s not alone in his haplessness; where, indeed, are
the major political figures on the European left taking a stand against
disastrous policies? Britain’s Labour Party has been almost surreally
unwilling to challenge Cameron/Osborne’s core premises; is anyone doing
better?
You can complain — and
I have, often — about President Obama’s willingness to go along with
belt-tightening rhetoric, the years he wasted in pursuit of a Grand
Bargain, and so on; still, the Obama administration, while it won’t use
the word “stimulus”, favors the thing itself, and in general American
liberals have taken a much more forthright stand against hard-money,
balanced-budget orthodoxy than their counterparts in Europe. Economists,
in particular, have taken a much stronger stand. In Britain there are,
to be sure, some prominent anti-austerity voices — Martin Wolf, Jonathan
Portes, Simon Wren-Lewis, and I’m sure there are others I’m missing.
But they don’t seem to have anything like the weight in the debate that
Larry Summers, Alan Blinder, and many others have here.
Why the difference? I
don’t really know. I have a couple of hypotheses. One is that the US
intellectual ecology seems much more flexible: here, serious economists
with celebrated research can also be public intellectuals with large
followings, and even serve as public officials; and they can provide at
least some counterweight to the Very Serious People. Think Larry
Summers, but also Janet Yellen (and before her Ben Bernanke), and in a
somewhat different way yours truly. Such people aren’t totally absent in
Europe — Mervyn King was an academic central banker, and so in a way is
Mario Draghi. But there’s much more of that in the US.
Another hypothesis is
that American liberals have been toughened up by the craziness of our
right, and in particular by the experience of the Bush years. After
seeing the Very Serious People lionize W, a fundamentally ludicrous
figure, and cheer on a war that was obviously cooked up on false
pretenses, US liberals are more ready than European Social Democrats to
believe that the men in good suits have no idea what they’re talking
about. Oh, and America does have a network of progressive think tanks
that is vastly bigger and more effective than anything in Europe.
But I’m just making suggestions here. The haplessness of the European left is still something I don’t fully understand."
"Simon Wren-Lewis has two very good posts about the European situation, first laying out the problem, then taking on
those who don’t get it. I just want to add a bit to one of his key
points: the impossibility of a resolution unless Germany accepts higher
inflation.
In Germany, there’s a
strong tendency to moralize, with appeals to the country’s own recent
economic history. We pulled ourselves out of our late 90s doldrums, the
Germans say, so why can’t Southern Europe do the same?
But a key part of the
answer is that Southern Europe now faces a much less favorable
environment than Germany did then — and Germany is the reason why.
Look at core inflation
(excluding energy, food, alcohol, and tobacco). During the years when
Germany was gaining competitiveness, euro area inflation was running at
around 2 percent, and inflation in Southern Europe was running
considerably higher. So Germany could gain competitiveness simply by
having lowish inflation — no need to actually deflate. But these days
German inflation is only one percent, euro area inflation is lower, and
the only way for Southern Europe to gain ground is to have zero or
negative inflation:
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This makes the
adjustment problem incredibly difficult, both because wages are
downwardly sticky and because deflation worsens the debt burden. Add
onto this the fact that the eurozone as a whole remains depressed thanks
to fiscal austerity and inadequate monetary expansion, and Germany is
in effect demanding that Spain and others accomplish a task vastly
harder than the Germans themselves had to achieve.
And the worst of it is
that there’s no sign that Berlin understands, or is willing to
understand, this reality. And if the euro fails, that refusal to think
clearly will be the fundamental cause."
By MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT and ERIC SCHMITT | Aug 28th 2014
Nearly a dozen Americans are known to have traveled to Syria to
fight for ISIS, the militant group that the Obama administration says
poses the greatest threat to the United States since Al Qaeda before the
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
Surveillance of Citizens by Government; Terrorism; Espionage and
Intelligence Services; Shariah (Islamic Law); Draft and Recruitment
(Military); Muslims and Islam
Mind control (also known as brainwashing, coercive persuasion, thought control, or thought reform)
is a theoretical indoctrination process which results in "an impairment
of autonomy, an inability to think independently, and a disruption of
beliefs and affiliations. In this context, brainwashing refers to the
involuntary reeducation of basic beliefs and values"[1] The term has been applied to any tactic, psychological or otherwise, which can be seen as subverting an individual's sense of control over their own thinking, behavior, emotions or decision making.
Theories of brainwashing and of mind control were originally developed to explain how totalitarian regimes appeared to succeed systematically in indoctrinating prisoners of war through propaganda and torture techniques. These theories were later expanded and modified by psychologists including Jean-Marie Abgrall and Margaret Singer to explain a wider range of phenomena, especially conversions to new religious movements (NRMs). A third-generation theory proposed by Ben Zablocki
focused on the use of mind control to retain members of NRMs and cults.
The suggestion that NRMs use mind control techniques has resulted in scientific and legal controversy.[2]"
Limiting work-related messaging during off-hours is both humane and efficient.
E-Mail; Working Hours; Labor and Jobs; Productivity; Workplace Environment
"In contrast, when employees are actually empowered, they make more
judgment calls on their own. They also start using phone calls and
face-to-face chats to resolve issues quickly, so they don’t metastasize
into email threads the length of “War and Peace.”"
Three days after Minnesota dealt Kevin Love to Cleveland, the team
introduced the players acquired in the three-team trade at the
Minnesota State Fair.
Basketball; Trades (Sports); State and County Fairs
There is no contact. As a consequence there is no bonding.
Researching a Canadian company that mines in China resulted in a
Chinese-born Canadian citizen being arrested, terrorized and prohibited
from leaving China.
Metals and Minerals; Sentences (Criminal); Securities and Commodities Violations
It has been concluded that "Killing the messenger" is not productive.
For 30 years, Charlie Birnbaum’s parents called the house at 311
Oriental Avenue home — and he refuses to surrender it to a redevelopment
project at any price.
Casinos; Eminent Domain
Such people are difficult to manipulate.
I will let my younger brother operate the memorial here if he wishes.
Pennsylvania will become the 27th state to expand Medicaid under
the Affordable Care Act, using federal funds to buy private health
insurance for some 500,000 low-income residents starting next year.
Medicaid; Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (2010); Health
Insurance and Managed Care; Federal Aid (US); States (US)
I have no real objection to Pennsylvania.
I worry about others gaseous dreams.
They will inflate the price of realestate.
The anthracite country should be free of those dreams.
The Mainline from Philadelphia did penetrate the area. I would avoid suburban developments.
A nail polish designed to help fight date rape changes color when
dipped in drugged drinks. Critics say products like it perpetuate victim
blaming and distract from the root causes of sexual assault.
Assaults; Colleges and Universities; Crime and Criminals; Gender;
Law and Legislation; Sex Crimes; Sexual Harassment; Women and Girls
The figure modestly increases the Congressional Budget Office’s
April projection that spending would exceed revenue by $492 billion. The
change was attributed to lower-than-expected corporate income tax
receipts.
Investors and those following the movement of
interest rates look at the movement of Treasury yields as an indicator
of things to come. Their rates are considered an important benchmark:
Because Treasury securities are backed by the full faith and credit of
the U.S. Treasury, they represent the rate at which investment is
considered risk-free.
Click on the links below to find a fuller explanation of the term.
Since investors in riskier investments command a higher return
as compensation, the yields on many bonds and money market instruments
are priced at a spread over the corresponding risk-free Treasury rate.
Yields on money markets and certificates of deposit are often priced
relative to yields on Treasuries of a similar length. Adjustable rate
mortgages can be indexed to the one-year Treasury. Fixed mortgage rates
are closely linked to movements in long-term Treasury yields, as
mortgages are often packaged together and sold as mortgage-backed bonds.
Yields on short-term Treasuries can behave differently from yields on
longer-term Treasuries. Read more: http://www.bankrate.com/rates/interest-rates/treasury.aspx#ixzz3BouIaDK2 Follow us:"
They look different, but the difference in nutritional value between the different-colored eggs is negligible.
Eggs; Diet and Nutrition; Color; Chickens
"Genes determine shell color, Dr. Bui said. White-feathered chickens with white earlobes
lay white eggs; red or brown ones with red earlobes lay brown eggs; and
the Ameraucana breed, also known as the Easter egg chicken, lays eggs
with blue shells."
By MICHAEL D. SHEAR and JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS | Aug 27th 2014
President Obama is believed to be preparing to take executive
action on immigration, and Republicans are considering removing funding
to effectively block the order, possibly prompting a spending stalemate
just before November elections.
Immigration and Emigration; Federal Budget (US); United States
Politics and Government; Law and Legislation; Midterm Elections (2014);
Shutdowns (Institutional)
More than 150 years after standing his ground against Pickett’s
Charge at the Battle of Gettysburg, Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing will be
posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor by President Obama.
Civil War (US) (1861-65); Medal of Honor (US); United States Defense and Military Forces
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