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September 19, 2005
WB: Looters
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I guess the Tyco guy wasn’t well enough connected politically, being just a truck driver, or some such when he got a Hot New Idea, so he was expendable.
I trust the concept of looters is broad enough to include the whole damn Kleptocracy, whether indicted or otherwise, and it’s effects.
There were all so many ridiculous cutsy stories circulating around the Hate Big Brother blogosphere re the UN last wk, that the Real Story got buried. This site has some noteworthy info. in post “3rd World is Only a Few Blocks Away”
Parts of the United States are as poor as the Third World, according to a shocking United Nations report on global inequality…
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But the 370-page document is critical of American policies towards poverty abroad as well as at home. And, in unusually outspoken language, it accuses the US of having “an overdeveloped military strategy and an under-developed strategy for human security.”
“There is an urgent need to develop a collective security framework that goes beyond military responses to terrorism,” it continues. ” Poverty and social breakdown are core components of the global security threat.”
The report launched yesterday is a clear challenge to Washington. The Bush administration wants to replace multilateral solutions to international problems with a world order in which the US does as it likes on a bilateral basis.
“This is the UN coming out all guns firing,” said one UN insider. “It means that, even if we have a lame duck secretary general after the Volcker report (on the oil-for-food scandal), the rest of the organisation is not going to accept the US bilateralist agenda.”
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For half a century the US has seen a sustained decline in the number of children who die before their fifth birthday. But since 2000 this trend has been reversed….
A baby boy from one of the top 5 per cent richest families in America will live 25 per cent longer than a boy born in the bottom 5 per cent and the infant mortality rate in the US is the same as Malaysia, which has a quarter of America’s income.
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Child poverty is a particularly sensitive indicator for income poverty in rich countries. It is defined as living in a family with an income below 50 per cent of the national average.
The US – with Mexico – has the dubious distinction of seeing its child poverty rates increase to more than 20 per cent.
Posted by: jj | Sep 19 2005 20:01 utc | 1
Ken Lay had not one but three multi-$M vacation mansions in Vail.
Multi-$M birthdays and weddings are the *norm* in rarified elites.
Paul Allen, Sun Myung Moon, the rico list is seemingly endless.
And closer towards Saudi, the more those parties include slaves.
Posted by: Wake Up | Sep 19 2005 20:04 utc | 2
So that`s Tyco, but where is Enron? Has Lay been killed by Zarquawi?
& it would be a happy day if the kenneth lays & their kind were hanging from bridges all over the americas in a cleansing hurricane of hate
Posted by: remembereringgiap | Sep 19 2005 23:42 utc | 6
r’giap……you say what i think….you brazen bastard!;-)
Posted by: lenin’s ghost | Sep 20 2005 1:04 utc | 7
& i say it my friend, lenin’s ghost – because vehind their financial crimes lies a hatred of the people that has very real & concrete costs in human flesh
& the end, the sordid end of mussolini was the only justice that fitted the crime
the day to day horror, very real terror that is visited upon multitudes is directly linked to the crimes of these people
& as in the case of those mercenaries in fallujah – they learnt that you cannot keep hurting people with impunity without reachiong down for their heart, without touching their soul
Posted by: remembereringgiap | Sep 20 2005 1:12 utc | 8
jj wrote: A baby boy from one of the top 5 per cent richest families in America will live 25 per cent longer than a boy born in the bottom 5 per cent and the infant mortality rate in the US is the same as Malaysia, which has a quarter of America’s income.
Perhaps, this has something to do w/it too…Mengele capitalism
GlaxoSmithKline embroiled in scandal in which babies and children were allegedly used as ‘laboratory animals’
before people say “that is those darn brits”: EPA Pesticide Study Endangers
Children’s Health
Farmingdale, NY- Environmentalists are calling for the immediate halt to an EPA study that raises serious environmental justice and racism concerns by enticing low-income families to expose infants and toddlers to harmful pesticides.
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Sep 20 2005 1:22 utc | 9
All this leftie whining is due to ignorance of our evolutionary meritocracy. Y’all probably complain about the success of pigs that pig-out more effectively, slime molds that are slimier, skunks that are more aromatic, or tape-worms that fill out more intestinal tract. Dennis and Kenneth and Karl and Ahmed Chalibi are just _better_ than the rest of us in combining those and other evolutionary tools together while less well adapted members of the species fall further and further behind. Remember nature rewards naked mole rats, fire ants, and tsetse flies, not blue whales and bonobos.
Posted by: citizen k | Sep 20 2005 4:22 utc | 10
Do we have permission to eat these evildoers, CK, or are they perhaps on the endangered species list?
Feeding frenzies are rough and tumble and rules of engagement, definition of chum, etc., are essential.
I, personally, will pass on the tapeworm.
Posted by: Citizen Piranha | Sep 20 2005 4:38 utc | 11
Don’t worry Citizen Piranha, Dear Leaders – beginning in California – are preparing to gut the Endangered Species Act, so you’ll be free to indulge.
The Center for Biological Diversity said the measure would not only be prohibitively expensive, but “would set a precedent to require the government to pay industry for any profits lost to environmental protections, and it would reward developers who plan the maximum and most potentially profitable projects for the most ecologically important habitat. In short, it begs developers to plan projects that allow them to extort payment from the government.”
Plenty more, here: link
Unca, did you see these New EPA Guidelines, released last wk.?
Exceptions in New EPA Rules Would Allow Testing Pesticides on Children
In unveiling the new rules last week, the EPA promised full protection for those most at risk of unethical testing.
“We regard as unethical and would never conduct, support, require or approve any study involving intentional exposure of pregnant women, infants or children to a pesticide,” the rule states.
But within the 30 pages of rules are clear-cut exceptions that permit:
Testing of “abused or neglected” children without permission from parents or guardians.
“Ethically deficient” human research if it is considered crucial to “protect public health.”
More than minimal health risk to a subject if there is a “direct benefit” to the child being tested, and the parents or guardians agree.
EPA acceptance of overseas industry studies, which are often performed in countries that have minimal or no ethical standards for testing, as long as the tests are not done directly for the EPA.
link
In short, business as usual…they’ve always done it this way & have no plans to change anything, thank you very much!!
Posted by: jj | Sep 20 2005 5:02 utc | 12
“permission” is so pre-911. You know, as Karl R. put it, after 9-11, the liberals wanted to define rules of engagement, they conservatives wanted to gorge themselves on chum, scattering bloodsoaked offal and implanting large steel hooks heedlessly into their death’s head jaws – or at least they wanted to get all sweaty looking at videos of the same. As a part time nutritionist, I advise drinking plenty of kool-aid with such a meal.
Posted by: citizen k | Sep 20 2005 5:08 utc | 13