Posted in Video, tagged break time, Freedom, HDNet, Honky Tonk Woman, Max, rock and roll, The Rolling Stones on January 31, 2011| Leave a Comment »
It was high time for a break from CNN and the media spin that has been generated all over the planet so… I gotta say, flipping the channel to OPB was a real, Oh Yeah, kind of moment…transported to a time of artistic expression and the freedom to do so.
it was the entire performance of the 1991 Rolling Stones “At the Max” concert. I feel better now.,,G:
Posted in Egypt, Egyptian Protests, tagged Ahmed Aboul Gheit, Egypt, Egypt New Government, Egypt News, Egypt Protests, Egypt's New Government, Hosni Mubarak, Hussein Tantawi, Mahmoud Wagdi, New Egypt Government, Omar Suleiman on January 31, 2011| 1 Comment »
The Huffington Post/AP MAGGIE MICHAEL and HAMZA HENDAWI First Posted: 01/31/11 07:57 AM Updated: 01/31/11 09:30 AM
CAIRO — Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak swore in a new Cabinet on Monday, replacing one dissolved as a concession to unprecedented anti-government protests.
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In the most significant change, the interior minister – who heads internal security forces – was replaced. A retired police general, Mahmoud Wagdi, was named to replace Habib el-Adly, who is widely despised by protesters for brutality shown by security forces.
Still, the new Cabinet is unlikely to satisfy the tens of thousands of protesters who have taken to the streets in cities across Egypt the past week demanding nothing short of the ouster of Mubarak and his entire regime. As news of the appointments broke, thousands massed in the protest’s epicenter, Cairo’s central Tahrir Square, broke into chants of “we want the fall of the regime.”
“We dont recognize any decisions Mubarak has taken since Jan. 25,” Mostafa el-Naggar, a supporter of prominent reform advocate Mohamed ElBaradei, referring to the first day of the protests. “This is a failed attempt – he is done with.”
Mubarak announced the dissolving of the previous government late Friday, naming his intelligence chief and close aide Omar Suleiman as vice president and former Air Force general Ahmed Shafiq as prime minister. But protesters immediately rejected the move as an attempt by Mubarak, Egypt’s authoritarian ruler of nearly 30 years, to cling to power.
The new line-up of Cabinet ministers announced on state television included stalwarts of Mubarak’s regime but purged several of the prominent businessmen who held economic posts and have engineered the country’s economic liberalization policies the past decades. Many Egyptians resented to influence of millionaire politician-moguls, who were close allies of Mubarak’s son, Gamal, long thought to be the heir apparent for the presidency.
In the new Cabinet, Mubarak retained his long-serving defense minister, Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi – and gave him an additional title of deputy prime minister – and also kept Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit.
But for some posts, Mubarak brought in new blood by naming figures who hold widespread respect in their fields. For example, Gaber Asfour, a prominent literary figure, was named culture minister. He replaced the longest-serving Cabinet member, Farouq Hosni, who had held the post for more than 25 years. Also, Egypt’s most famous archaeologist, Zahi Hawass, was named state minister for antiquities, a new post.
State newspapers on Monday published a sternly worded letter from Mubarak to his new prime minister, Shafiq, ordering him to move swiftly to introduce political, legislative and constitutional reforms.
He also appeared to distance himself from the economic policies directed by his son Gamal, widely blamed for causing a wide gap between the rich and poor, for whom economic hardships have deepened. In the letter, Mubarak urged “new economic policies that give maximum care to an economic performance which pays heed to the suffering of the citizens, and lightening their burden.”
Posted in Davos, Davos 2011, tagged 2011 Job Creation, Corporate Davos, Corporate Profits, Davos, Davos 2011, Davos 2011 Banks, Financial Sector Reform, Gdp, Jobs, Julius Genachowski, Too Big To Fail, World Economic Forum on January 29, 2011| Leave a Comment »
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Simon Johnson
MIT Professor and co-author of 13 Bankers
On the fringes of the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos this week, there was plenty of substantive discussion — including about the dangers posed by our “too big to fail”/”too big to save” banks, the consequences of widening inequality (reinforced by persistent unemployment in some countries), and why the jobs picture in the U.S. looks so bad.
But in the core keynote events and more generally around any kind of CEO-related interaction, such themes completely failed to resonate. There is, of course, variation in views across CEOs and the people work intellectual agendas on their behalf, but still the mood among this group was uniformly positive — it was hard to detect any note of serious concern.
Many of the people who control the world’s largest corporations are quite comfortable with the status quo post-financial crisis. This makes sense for them — and poses a major problem for the rest of us.The thinking here is fairly obvious. The CEOs who provide the bedrock of financial support for Davos have mostly done well in the past few years. For the nonfinancial sector, there was a major scare in 2008-09; the disruption of credit was a big shock and dire consequences were feared. And for leaders of the financial sector this was more than an awkward moment — they stood accused, including by fellow CEOs at Davos in previous years, of incompetence, greed, and excessively capturing the state.
But all of this, from a CEO perspective, is now behind them. Profits are good — this is the best bounce back on average in the post-war period; given that so many small companies are struggling, it is reasonable to infer that the big companies have done disproportionately well (perhaps because their smaller would-be competitors are still having more trouble accessing credit). Executive compensation at the largest firms will no doubt reflect this in the months and years ahead.
In terms of public policy, the big players in the financial sector have prevailed — no responsible European, for example, can imagine a major bank being allowed to fail (in the sense of defaulting on any debt). And this government support for banks has translated into easier credit conditions for the major global corporations represented at Davos.
Posted in Sarah Palin, tagged Alaska, book review, China, God, Goin Gogue, Going Rogue, Going Rouge, Harper Collins, lynn Vincent, rupert murdoch, Sarah Palin, senior on January 28, 2011| 4 Comments »
Well, My signifigant other bought me a copy of Going Rogue,so I guess I’d better do a critique.
She found it in the Goodwill bins for a buck. I checked on Abebooks, and there were some on there for a buck, but it was three bucks to ship. I noticed that Goodwill was listing quite a few on Abe’s also.
Anyways, on with the review, and we’ll start with the cover so we can see what she is talking about, er, I should mention Lynn Vincent here because she was the actual writer of the book. Yep, a ghost writer of sorts, kinda like George Duhbya Bush did on his book, A Charge to Keep. I guess Sarah is not much smarter than Duhbya, maybe not even as smart. Duhbya fired Mickey Herkowitz for telling too much truth and hired Karen Hugh’s, who later joined his cabinet.
The book, was co-published by HarperCollins imprint Harper and HarperCollins-owned Zondervan. It doesn’t actually mention the authors name on the cover pages, but does mention that it is copyrighted by Sarah Palin and that it is “An imprint of Harper Collins Publisher”. It is also marked as a first edition. Also, not mentioned, is that the book was printed in China . I’m not sure, but I would guess that Caribou Barbie could probably see China from her doorstep.
In 1991, there are changes in the shareholding of the company – the family sells their interest to Rupert Murdoch. In 1989, the company is acquired by News International, bringing together Collins, Harper & Row, Gower Publishing, Times Books, Bartholomew and Angus & Robertson.
Anyways, back to the review, I’ll go to the end of the book. I usually read the end first to see if it looks like an interesting read.
Hmm, that does it for me. I’ve been through a few sessions with the Jehova Witnesses, and that is what this looks like.
You know, where the Lion lays down with the lamb and all that…sheesh
I feel that I know there is a God too, but She, he, or whatever; is the God of the universe, not the God of Alaska.
maybe I will continue on another day…G%
Posted in Cairo, Egypt, Egyptian Protests, Mubarak, tagged Cairo, Cairo Protests, Day Of Rage, Egypt, Egypt Day Of Rage, Egypt Facebook, Egypt Live, Egypt Press, Egypt Protest, Egypt Protestors, Egypt Protests, Egypt Protests Photos, Egypt Twitter, Egyptian Protest, Egyptian Protests, Egyptian Protests Facebook, Facebook Egypt, Hosni Mubarak, Mubarak Opposition, Mubarak Protests, Muslim Brotherhood, Muslim Brotherhood Arrests, Muslim Brotherhood Egypt, Muslim Brotherhood Protests, Tunisia Protests, Tunisia Revolution on January 28, 2011| 2 Comments »
AP/The Huffington Post First Posted: 01/28/11 08:13 AM Updated: 01/28/11 04:50 PM
CAIRO (AP) – The Egyptian capital Cairo was the scene of violent chaos Friday, when tens of thousands of anti-government protesters stoned and confronted police, who fired back with rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannons. It was a major escalation in what was already the biggest challenge to authoritarian President Hosni Mubarak’s 30 year-rule.
Internet and cell-phone services were disrupted across Egypt starting overnight and throughout the day as authorities used extreme measures to hamper protesters from organizing the mass rallies called after Friday prayers.
Police also fired water cannons at one of the country’s leading pro-democracy advocates, Mohamed ElBaradei, and his supporters as they joined the latest wave of protests after noon prayers. Police used batons to beat some of ElBaradei’s supporters, who surrounded him to protect him.
A soaking wet ElBaradei was trapped inside a mosque while hundreds of riot police laid siege to it, firing tear gas in the streets around so no one could leave. The tear gas canisters set several cars ablaze outside the mosque and several people fainted and suffered burns.
Large groups of protesters, in the thousands, were gathered at at least six venues in Cairo, a city of about 18 million people, and many of them were on the move marching toward major squares and across Nile bridges.
They are demanding Mubarak’s ouster and venting their rage at years of government neglect of rampant poverty, unemployment and rising food prices.
Posted in Gun Laws, Gun Rights, Guns, NRA, tagged Gun Control, Gun Rights, guns, NRA, Obama Administration on January 28, 2011| Leave a Comment »
TPM Muckraker
After ignoring the issue of gun control for his entire presidency to date, aides to President Barack Obama said Wednesday he’d take up the issue within the next few weeks. Even former Vice President Dick Cheney has said he’d be okay with banning high-capacity clips in the wake of the mass shooting that nearly killed Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) and left six others dead.
But there’s a whole other lot of Second Amendment supporters who, instead of discussing middle-of-the-road measures to curb gun violence, are advocating to rescind or roll back even current restrictions.
In state legislatures around the country, conservatives lawmakers are introducing some of the most enthusiastic right-to-bear-arms bills to date. Here’s TPM’s round up.
Florida
Physicians often ask patients about risky behaviors, like drinking, smoking and even if they dutifully wear a seat belt. But asking about gun ownership? That topic should be off-limits, says freshman state Rep. Jason Brodeur (R) who wants to make it a felony for physicians to ask patients or their families if they own or store guns at home.
Brodeur says he’s worried that doctors might report gun ownership information to a patient’s insurance company. “What we don’t want to do is have law-abiding firearm owners worried that the information is going to be recorded and then sent to their insurance company,” Brodeur said, as reported by the News-Press. “If the overreaching federal government actually takes over health care, they’re worried that Washington, D.C., is going to know whether or not they own a gun and so this is really just a privacy protection.”
Doctors who fail to obey the proposed law could face up to $5 million in fines — or prison time.
Michigan
State Sen. Mike Green (R-Mayville) doesn’t believe there should be anywhere in Michigan where you can’t carry your gun. On Tuesday, he introduced legislation to repeal the state’s no-carry zones — places where concealed weapons are banned. Under the new proposal, which has been sent to the state Senate’s judiciary committee, it would be legal to carry concealed weapons into day care centers, stadiums, schools, churches, bars and hospitals.
Green told The Detroit News he introduced the bill to prove “there are no places that should be gun-free.”
According to his website, Green was one of the authors of Michigan’s 2000 “shall issue” concealed pistol license law, which drastically changed the state’s gun regulation. State and local authorities in states with “shall issue” laws must issue gun licenses to people as long as they meet specific criteria set by the state. This differs from “may-issue” states, where individuals need to show a compelling need to carry a concealed weapon and the ultimate decision is left up to the granting authority.
Posted in 100 Women Bloggers, 100 Women Bloggers 2011, Women Bloggers to Watch for 2011, tagged 100 Women Bloggers, 100 Women Bloggers 2011, Axl Rose, Eddie Money, Eddie Money- Shakin', Guns N' Roses, Guns N' Roses-Sweet Child O'Mine, Rock N' Roll, Slash, Slash - Wild Horses, Video, Videos, Women Bloggers to Watch for 2011 on January 26, 2011| 2 Comments »
Happy Wednesday Justice Bloggers!
I am thrilled to tell you that this Blog has been listed in the “101 Women Bloggers to Watch for 2011″. I am not sure how we made the list of 100 Women Bloggers but I am forever grateful. They listed us as Politics and Rock N’ Roll. So, I guess I had better add a rock n’ roll video… 🙂
Suzie-Q
WE Magazine for Women is so excited to bring you our 2011 List of Women Bloggers to Watch. WE searched high and low, posted on social networks and asked our readers to submit their favorite women bloggers for possible inclusion. Thanks to our friends on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn and a very special thanks to Denise Wakeman of The BlogSquad fame for inviting women to post their blogs. WE found so many wonderful women bloggers to share in this 100 Bloggers to Watch for 2011! And to all the women who commented on the 2010 list of Women bloggers with their own blog suggestions, thank you!
WE are sure you will enjoy reading about these women and checking out their blogs as much as WE had putting this list of Women Bloggers to Watch.
When you do stop by their blogs, please let them know you heard about them at WE Magazine for Women. Our Mission is to Showcase Women, their talents, treasures and expertise focusing on Busy Women on the Move.
Feel free to leave a comment below and let us know of other fabulous women bloggers (including your blogs!) If you have not made one of our LISTS in the past, we are delighted to review it for inclusion in an upcoming Women Bloggers to Watch.
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Eddie Money- Shakin’
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Slash – Wild Horses
Posted in Obama, President Obama, SOTU 2011, State of the Union, State Of The Union 2011, tagged Barack Obama, Obama 2011 State Of The Union Speech, Obama State Of The Union Address, Obama State Of The Union Address 2011, Obama State Of The Union Speech, Obama State Of The Union Speech 2011, State of the Union, State Of The Union 2011, State Of The Union Address, State Of The Union Address 2011, State Of The Union Address 2011 Time, State Of The Union Address Time, State Of The Union Time, State Of Union Address 2011, What Time Is The State Of The Union, When Is The State Of The Union Address 2011 on January 25, 2011| 2 Comments »
AP/The Huffington Post Posted: 01/25/11 10:32 AM
Standing before a nation clamoring for jobs, President Barack Obama will call for targeted spending to boost the economy but also for budget cutting in Tuesday night’s State of the Union address, his first in a new era of divided political power.
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To a television audience in the tens of millions, Obama will home in on jobs, the issue of most importance to the public and to his hopes for a second term. Though war and other concerns bid for attention, the president has chosen to lean heavily on the economy, with far less emphasis on Afghanistan and Iraq, terrorism and foreign affairs.
Specifically, Obama will focus on improving the education, innovation and infrastructure of the United States as the way to provide a sounder economic base. He will pair that with calls to reduce the government’s debt – now topping a staggering $14 trillion – and reforming government. Those five areas will frame the speech, with sprinklings of fresh proposals.
Yet no matter how ambitious Obama’s rhetorical reach, his speech at the halfway point of his term will be viewed in the context of his new political reality.
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The National Journal has posted the FULL TEXT of a draft of Obama’s speech.
Tonight I want to begin by congratulating the men and women of the 112th Congress, as well as your new Speaker, John Boehner. And as we mark this occasion, we are also mindful of the empty chair in this Chamber, and pray for the health of our colleague – and our friend – Gabby Giffords.It’s no secret that those of us here tonight have had our differences over the last two years. The debates have been contentious; we have fought fiercely for our beliefs. And that’s a good thing. That’s what a robust democracy demands. That’s what helps set us apart as a nation.
But there’s a reason the tragedy in Tucson gave us pause. Amid all the noise and passions and rancor of our public debate, Tucson reminded us that no matter who we are or where we come from, each of us is a part of something greater – something more consequential than party or political preference.
We are part of the American family. We believe that in a country where every race and faith and point of view can be found, we are still bound together as one people; that we share common hopes and a common creed; that the dreams of a little girl in Tucson are not so different than those of our own children, and that they all deserve the chance to be fulfilled.
That, too, is what sets us apart as a nation.
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Posted in SOTU 2011, State Of The Union 2011, tagged Obama SOTU, Obama State Of The Union, Obama State Of The Union Address, Sotu, Sotu 2011, State of the Union, State Of The Union 2011, State Of The Union Address, State Of The Union Address 2011 on January 23, 2011| 1 Comment »
SOTU Preview: Obama To Focus Speech On Jobs, Innovation, CooperationVia: Huffington Post
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JULIE PACE 01/22/11 11:55 PM
WASHINGTON — Under pressure to energize the economy, President Barack Obama said Saturday he will use his State of the Union address to outline an agenda to create jobs now and boost American competitiveness over the long term.
Heading quickly into re-election mode, Obama is expected to use Tuesday’s prime-time speech to promote spending on innovation while also promising to reduce the national debt and cooperate with emboldened Republicans.
“I’m focused on making sure the economy is working for everybody, for the entire American family,” Obama said Saturday in an uncommon preview of his speech, offered up in an online video to his supporters late Saturday afternoon. The president announced that the economy would be the main topic of his speech, a nod to how important that issue is to the country’s standing and his own as well.
At the halfway point of his term, Obama said the economy is on firmer footing than it was two years ago: it is growing again, albeit slowly, while the stock market is rising, and corporate profits are climbing. But with the unemployment rate stubbornly stuck above 9 percent, Obama will signal a shift Tuesday from short-term stabilization policies toward ones focused on job creation and longer-term growth.
Obama offered no details on specific proposals he will call for in his address, though he has offered hints in recent weeks.
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