avril 2014 – Page 3 – nous les 99%

US drone pilots are stressed and demoralized – official report

Published on Russia Today RT, April 18, 2014.

The US Government Accountability Office (GAO) has produced a scathing report detailing the Air Force’s mismanagement of its active-duty drone pilots, who are responsible for the most demanding and deadly missions in the entire US military.

US senators asked the GAO to investigate how the Air Force treated its pilots back in 2012, following previous reports of pilot issues, and in view of the massive expansion of America’s secretive drone pilot army. Since President Barack Obama was elected in 2008, the number of drone pilots has tripled, and now stands at over 1,300. Continuer la lecture de « US drone pilots are stressed and demoralized – official report »

Class Based Economics

Published on Real-World Economics Review Blog, by Peter Radford, April 16, 2014.

Buried somewhere in the pile of stuff I have accumulated as I think about inequality are these statistics:

Of all the income generated between 2009 and 2011 in the US 121% went to the top 1% of income earners
The top 1% owns just over half of all investment assets including 64.4% of all bonds
And, the bottom 90% incurs 72.5% of all debt

Think through the consequences of these numbers. Continuer la lecture de « Class Based Economics »

Karunesh

Nirvana Café, The Conversation, 5.18 min, uploaded by xEgale999999x, July 13, 2008;
Hearing You Now, 6.51 min, uploaded by Aamit Wraj, March 25, 2012;
Goa sunset, 5.39 min, uploaded by Luiiviia, Dec 17, 2012;
Desert Flower, 15.14 min, uploaded by EDNAYTEL, Jan 6, 2013;
Heaven & Earth, 8.07 min, uploaded by PasqualeMeleSA, Jan 21, 2011;
Solitude, 7.14 min, uploaded by albert hustoff, March 4, 2012;
Dervish Dream, 5.52 min, uploaded by starguest paky, March 11, 2013.

G. William Domhoff

Videos:

Who Rules America Today? The Triumph of the Corporate Rich, 43.14 min, uploaded on YouTube by G. William Domhoff, April 7, 2014; (also on Zvideo, April 15, 2014);
Millichamp lecture Jan 23 William Domhoff, uploaded by Mellichamp UCSB, Feb 13, 2014: part 1, 30.16 min; part 2, 28.26 min;
Why Does Big Business Love Big Government? (Domhoff, Rothbard, and Evers), 51.47 min, uploaded by Libertarianism.org, Nov 20, 2013: G. William Domhoff is a research professor in psychology and sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Who Rules America? (1967), Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats: A Study in Ruling-Class Cohesiveness (1974), and other books; Continuer la lecture de « G. William Domhoff »

Three Expensive Milliseconds

Published on NYTimes, by Paul Krugman, April 13, 2014.

Four years ago Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, abruptly canceled America’s biggest and arguably most important infrastructure project, a desperately needed new rail tunnel under the Hudson River. Count me among those who blame his presidential ambitions, and believe that he was trying to curry favor with the government- and public-transit-hating Republican base. Continuer la lecture de « Three Expensive Milliseconds »