Roberto Abraham Scaruffi

Monday 29 July 2013

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  • The Business of Mass Incarceration
  • Cost Curve: Hospitals Are Raising the National Healthcare Bill
  • Corporate Psychopaths and Bullies, Transcript of Interview with Clive Boddy, Author, part 2
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The failure on the part of the white liberal class to decry the exploding mass incarceration of the poor, and especially of African-Americans, means that as our empire deteriorates more and more whites will end up in prison alongside those we have condemned because of our indifference. And the mounting abuse of the poor is fueling an inchoate rage that will eventually lead to civil unrest.

Hospitals account for about one-third of US health expenditures, but their bottom lines are being squeezed, and they are raising prices for services to make up for the shortfall. Doctors and hospitals hold the keys healthcare cost-control, but recent news reports suggest they may not be using them any time soon.

the second half of the transcript of my one hour interview with Clive Boddy, author of the book, Corporate Psychopaths. We talk about sociopaths, psychopaths, bullies, etc, and the massive costs and damages they inflict upon businesses.

"The Government has pushed this case beyond the bounds of legal propriety. If the Government meant "information', it should have charged information," explains defense attorney David Coombs in legal filings last week.

Following Snowden's revelations on NSA surveillance, President Barack Obama assured US citizens in June that "nobody is listening to [their] telephone calls." He added that America is "going to have to make some choices" between privacy and security, warning that the highly publicized programs will make it harder to target terrorists.

Barack Obama has given the strongest indication to date that he holds reservations about the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline, saying the project would not create many jobs and could raise gasoline prices. In an interview with the New York Times, the president disputed a main justification for the pipeline -- its economic benefits -- and reaffirmed he would reject the project if it expanded carbon pollution. The comments were seen by campaigners as evidence that Obama, in the wake of last month's landmark climate change speech, was leaning towards rejecting the project.

By Dennis Bernstein
Chilling the First Amendment
President Obama has overseen an unprecedented legal campaign against leaks of classified information with New York Times journalist James Risen now facing possible jail for refusing to testify in the trial of ex-CIA officer Jeffrey Sterling for a leak published in Risen's book, State of War, a topic that First Amendment attorney James Goodale discusses with Dennis J Bernstein.

By Richard Clark
Stunning letter to Obama from Snowden's father
Thoreau's moral philosophy found expression during the Nuremburg trials in which "following orders" was rejected as a defense. Indeed, military law requires disobedience to clearly illegal orders. A dark chapter in America's World War II history would not have been written if the then United States Attorney General had resigned rather than participate in racist concentration camps imprisoning 120,000 Japanese American citizens
The Obama administration continues to compound the diplomatic mess around former NSA contractor Edward Snowden. The latest blunder was announcing that the U.S. wouldn't torture or execute Snowden, a reminder to the world how far Official Washington has strayed from civilized behavior.

By Salvatore Babones
Need a Job? Join the New Army (Navy) of Servants
Need a job? Join the new servant economy.
In what has now become an annual occurrence, the North Pole's ice has melted, turning the Earth's most northern point into a lake. Call it Lake North Pole. The water surrounding the pole is not seawater seeping up from the ocean but melted icewater resting on top of a thinning layer of ice below the surface. "It's a shallow lake. It's a cold lake.

Supporters of the overthrown Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi have pledged to maintain their weeks-old sit-in in east Cairo, despite the massacre of scores of their comrades by state officials on Saturday. At least 65 pro-Morsi protesters were shot dead during an eight-hour attack by police officers and armed men dressed in civilian clothes. An ambulance official said the death toll was 72; the Muslim Brotherhood said 66 had died and a further 61 were braindead in hospital. "No one's going anywhere," said Abdel-Rahman Daour, one of several spokespeople at the sit-in outside the Rabaa al-Adawiya mosque. "We either have freedom or we die. We're not going to live in a country without freedom."

Occupy Wall Street exploded across America. A plot was hatched to kill Occupy Houston leaders with suppressed sniper fire. The FBI knew.

The wheels of Anthony Weiner's increasingly shaky campaign for the New York mayoralty wobbled further Sunday, as a key aide quit following a week of lurid revelations about the candidate. The resignation of campaign manager Danny Kedem will come as a further blow to the embattled Democratic politician, who is facing increased calls to pull out of the race for the city's top job.

What's the matter with Atlanta? A new study suggests that the city may just be too spread out, so that job opportunities are literally out of reach for people stranded in the wrong neighborhoods. In Atlanta poor and rich neighborhoods are far apart because, basically, everything is far apart; Atlanta is the Sultan of Sprawl, even more spread out than other major Sun Belt cities.

"The NSA has trillions of telephone calls and emails in their databases that they've collected over the last several years," Greenwald told ABC News' George Stephanopoulos. "And what these programs are, are very simple screens, like the ones that supermarket clerks or shipping and receiving clerks use, where all an analyst has to do is enter an email address or an IP address, and it does two things. It searches that database and lets them listen to the calls or read the emails of everything that the NSA has stored, or look at the browsing histories or Google search terms that you've entered, and it also alerts them to any further activity that people connected to that email address or that IP address do in the future."

President Abbas has, no doubt, given John Kerry his wish list for any future peace accord. The easiest wish Netanyahu could grant is a grudging release of Palestinian prisoners. Netanyahu will play with the prisoners like they are poker chips. He will hold them until he decides to release some "in stages" throughout the negotiations.

Syrian government forces backed by Lebanese Hezbollah forces have been consolidating their control over a key rebel district of Syria's third city Homs, a watchdog and state media said. The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said troops as of Sunday controlled most of Khaldiyeh, an embattled northern neighbourhood in Homs. The military moves came a day after they expelled rebels from a 13th century landmark mosque in Khaldiyeh they controlled for more than a year.

Sanders Details Tax Plan, Declines Secrecy Offer

Zimmerman had benefits, privileges & choices of race- presumed "Americanism" Trayvon Martin could never have. Zimmerman "passed" as white for the benefits that provides in America's injustice system. The family dropped the identification with being part African-Peruvian. This strategy to uphold white gun- toting self-defense, along with the law allowing white fear to justify killing Black, let Zimmerman kill with impunity

BDS is only at the beginning of its trek. Its fast start and ongoing achievements should bring hope and pride to those involved in the movement. They should also raise some serious second thoughts in the minds of those Israelis who think Netanyahu and his government of ideologues can prevent their country's increasing isolation.

Why is Canada's most powerful Zionist organization CIJA inviting Natives to Israel and acting as their mouthpiece to expose their past abuse by the government?

By Kurt F. Stone
Where is the Outrage?
Every time Kobe Bryant sinks a free throw he earns more than $14K. Every time the 113th Congress enacts a law, it costs we, the taxpayers more than $141 MILLION. So where is the outrage?



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Peter Buffett: The Charitable-Industrial Complex
It’s time for a new operating system.Not a 2.0 or a 3.0, something built from the ground up.What we have is a crisis of imagination.Albert Einstein said you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it.Foundation dollars should be the best “risk capital” out there.There are people working hard at showing other ways to live in a functioning society that truly creates greater prosperity for all(and I don’t mean more people getting to have more stuff).Money should be spent trying out concepts that shatter current structures and systems that have turned much of the world into one vast market.Is progress really Wi-Fi on every street corner?No.It’s when no 13yearold girl on the planet gets sold for sex.But as long as most folks are patting themselves on the back for charitable acts,we’ve got a perpetual poverty machine.It’s an old story;we need a really new one.