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A stunning video has emerged on Monday night which shows what appears to be a United States Apache Helicopter escorting a large convoy of ISIS terrorists across the border from Iraq into Syria.
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UK journalist Anna O'Leary suggests that the recent downing of the Russian plane in the Sinai may be the "false flag" excuse for Britain to enter yet another illegal war.
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A #Dolphin Baby Bust in the #Gulf of Mexico Worries Scientists
Researchers find that only 20 percent of bottlenose dolphins captured in an area contaminated by the #BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill were able to reproduce. So now the question begs.. is this permanent? Can we forever say goodbye?
A #Dolphin Baby Bust in the #Gulf of Mexico Worries Scientists
Researchers find that only 20 percent of bottlenose dolphins captured in an area contaminated by the #BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill were able to reproduce. So now the question begs.. is this permanent? Can we forever say goodbye?
Researchers find that only 20 percent of bottlenose dolphins captured in an area contaminated by the #BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill were able to reproduce. So now the question begs.. is this permanent? Can we forever say goodbye?
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Fifty thousand Orthodox Jews take over ten blocks of New York in protest against Israel.
Source: Daily Mail
#PalestinianLivesMatter #ICC4Israel #ResistenceIsNotTerrorism#ResistToExistPalestine #SpeakUpForPalestine #StandUpForPalestine#PalestineResists #PalestiniansAreHeroes #BoycottIsrael #OpBoycottIsrael#IsraeliTerrorism #StopNazis #StopOpression #StopIsrael #NoIsrael #EndTheSiege#LifeUnderOccupation #LifeUnderTerror #SettlersMurderers
Eileen Carr
on that one cannot possibly prepare for. The people are dealing with this daily horror with their children playing in dangerous rubble. The fact that these scenes are what greet people everyday may mean a certain amount of numbness, that hides the pain of trauma and sadness, when there is so much else to deal with but when we look from the "outside in" there are no words to describe the horror. Add that to no reconstruction unless it is approved by so many powers, the impending winter, the ongoing fear, infractions on every level, escalation of abuses in the West Bank and it is impossible to comprehend how the people are coping and how indeed recovery will happen. It is so so important that international supporters and voices do not disappear...that they do not rest till these crimes end, people are held accountable and freedom and equality are attained.
on that one cannot possibly prepare for. The people are dealing with this daily horror with their children playing in dangerous rubble. The fact that these scenes are what greet people everyday may mean a certain amount of numbness, that hides the pain of trauma and sadness, when there is so much else to deal with but when we look from the "outside in" there are no words to describe the horror. Add that to no reconstruction unless it is approved by so many powers, the impending winter, the ongoing fear, infractions on every level, escalation of abuses in the West Bank and it is impossible to comprehend how the people are coping and how indeed recovery will happen. It is so so important that international supporters and voices do not disappear...that they do not rest till these crimes end, people are held accountable and freedom and equality are attained.
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Jerry Avissato shared Veterans For Peace's photo.
Veterans For Peace with Kimberly Causey.
We are reclaiming the original intention of #VeteransDay by celebrating #ArmisticeDay – and a worldwide call for peace that was spurred by universal revulsion at the huge slaughter of World War I back in 1918. After World War II, the U.S. Congress decided to re-brand November 11 as Veterans Day. Who could speak against that? But honoring the warrior quickly morphed into honoring the military and glorifying war. Armistice Day was flipped from a day for peace into a day for displays of militarism. This November 11, it is as urgent as ever to ring the bells for peace. We must continue to press our government to end reckless military interventions that endanger the entire world. We must call for an end to war. #NoWar
Veterans For Peace with Kimberly Causey.
We are reclaiming the original intention of #VeteransDay by celebrating #ArmisticeDay – and a worldwide call for peace that was spurred by universal revulsion at the huge slaughter of World War I back in 1918. After World War II, the U.S. Congress decided to re-brand November 11 as Veterans Day. Who could speak against that? But honoring the warrior quickly morphed into honoring the military and glorifying war. Armistice Day was flipped from a day for peace into a day for displays of militarism. This November 11, it is as urgent as ever to ring the bells for peace. We must continue to press our government to end reckless military interventions that endanger the entire world. We must call for an end to war. #NoWar
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Robert Reich
The fourth major Republican debate began tonight with the GOP's three leading candidates saying they oppose efforts to raise the minimum wage.
Donald Trump: “There is nothing that we do now to win. We don’t win anymore. … Taxes too high. Wages too high. I hate to say it, but we have to leave [the minimum wage] the way it is.”
Truth: Too high? Germany is more competitive now than the United States, with a higher tax rate than in the United States, a higher median wage, and even its lowest-wage workers better paid. How can Germany do it? Because its average worker is better educated than the typical American worker (Germany invests like mad in education, including world-class technical education), its infrastructure is more up-to-date, and its workers have more of a direct say in their companies.
Ben Carson: “Every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobless people increases.”
Truth: A higher minimum wage puts more money in the pockets of people who will spend it, thereby creating more jobs. The last time the U.S. raised the minimum wage, more jobs were created than were lost. After I led the successful fight to raise the minimum wage in 1996, a record-shattering 22 million net new jobs were added to the U.S. economy.
Marco Rubio: “If you raise the minimum wage, you’re going to make people more expensive than a machine.”
Truth: Machines have already supplanted most good-paying manufacturing jobs -- pushing millions of Americans into the personal service sector (retail, restaurant, hotel, hospital, childcare, eldercare, physical therapy, etc) where human attention and touch are are so critical that machines can’t replace human beings. But most of these jobs pay very little. Which is why the minimum wage must be raised. Today’s minimum is already 24 percent below what it was the minimum was in 1968, adjusted for inflation.
What do you think?
The fourth major Republican debate began tonight with the GOP's three leading candidates saying they oppose efforts to raise the minimum wage.
Donald Trump: “There is nothing that we do now to win. We don’t win anymore. … Taxes too high. Wages too high. I hate to say it, but we have to leave [the minimum wage] the way it is.”
Truth: Too high? Germany is more competitive now than the United States, with a higher tax rate than in the United States, a higher median wage, and even its lowest-wage workers better paid. How can Germany do it? Because its average worker is better educated than the typical American worker (Germany invests like mad in education, including world-class technical education), its infrastructure is more up-to-date, and its workers have more of a direct say in their companies.
Ben Carson: “Every time we raise the minimum wage, the number of jobless people increases.”
Truth: A higher minimum wage puts more money in the pockets of people who will spend it, thereby creating more jobs. The last time the U.S. raised the minimum wage, more jobs were created than were lost. After I led the successful fight to raise the minimum wage in 1996, a record-shattering 22 million net new jobs were added to the U.S. economy.
Marco Rubio: “If you raise the minimum wage, you’re going to make people more expensive than a machine.”
Truth: Machines have already supplanted most good-paying manufacturing jobs -- pushing millions of Americans into the personal service sector (retail, restaurant, hotel, hospital, childcare, eldercare, physical therapy, etc) where human attention and touch are are so critical that machines can’t replace human beings. But most of these jobs pay very little. Which is why the minimum wage must be raised. Today’s minimum is already 24 percent below what it was the minimum was in 1968, adjusted for inflation.
What do you think?
Robert Reich
Corporations based in the U.S. are supposed to pay a 35 percent corporate income tax on whatever profits they earn around the globe. But those taxes are reduced by any tax payments they make to foreign governments. And they don’t have to pay any U.S. tax until they bring their profits home.
Nonetheless, Pfizer’s CEO, Ian Read (below) recently complained that the firm was at a “tremendous disadvantage” because some its foreign competitors pay only a 15% tax rate, and he reported to investors that it paid 25 percent of last year’s profits in taxes. But according to today’s Wall Street Journal, the actual rate of U.S. tax Pfizer paid last year was 7.5 percent. It would have paid 25 percent if it brought all its profits back to the U.S. but it stockpiles its profits overseas. In fact, Pfizer is now considering merging with Allergan – thereby moving its headquarters to Ireland, and no longer even being American.
In other words, Pfizer’s complaint is bogus. Moreover, it should be paying a 25% tax rate because as a U.S. based pharmaceutical company it enjoys special advantages such as access to basic research from the National Institutes of Health, and U.S. representation in global trade talks (such as the Trans Pacific Partnership, which is giving pharmaceutical companies extra intellectual property protection abroad). These benefits should end if it leaves the U.S.
What do you think?
Corporations based in the U.S. are supposed to pay a 35 percent corporate income tax on whatever profits they earn around the globe. But those taxes are reduced by any tax payments they make to foreign governments. And they don’t have to pay any U.S. tax until they bring their profits home.
Nonetheless, Pfizer’s CEO, Ian Read (below) recently complained that the firm was at a “tremendous disadvantage” because some its foreign competitors pay only a 15% tax rate, and he reported to investors that it paid 25 percent of last year’s profits in taxes. But according to today’s Wall Street Journal, the actual rate of U.S. tax Pfizer paid last year was 7.5 percent. It would have paid 25 percent if it brought all its profits back to the U.S. but it stockpiles its profits overseas. In fact, Pfizer is now considering merging with Allergan – thereby moving its headquarters to Ireland, and no longer even being American.
In other words, Pfizer’s complaint is bogus. Moreover, it should be paying a 25% tax rate because as a U.S. based pharmaceutical company it enjoys special advantages such as access to basic research from the National Institutes of Health, and U.S. representation in global trade talks (such as the Trans Pacific Partnership, which is giving pharmaceutical companies extra intellectual property protection abroad). These benefits should end if it leaves the U.S.
What do you think?
[1]http://uk.reuters.com/.../uk-trade-tpp-japan-canada...
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