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POPSSupport striking Verizon workers You only have to look at a few numbers to know why: --$258 million: the compensation for Verizon’s top five executives over the past four years. --$6 billion: Verizon’s annualized profits for 2011. --$6,800: the increase in health care costs each worker could face if Verizon gets its way.
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POPSThe Technological Catalyst Behind Frequent Financial Market Capitulation ...In a knowledge economy where people aren’t performing back-breaking work at the volumes that they used to, and the labor of ten knowledge workers of the 1980s can be performed by one project manager using 30 years of benchmarked data with soft/hardware help, it’s difficult to spread the wealth that we once did. When the markets sell off equities into cash, they are saying that the economy is inflated and weak. There are no buyers for the products being produced, because there are no jobs. There are no jobs, because of all of the error-proofing that proceeded them; and finally, it is exceedingly difficult to quantify what people’s knowledge, experience, existence is worth in the old paradigm...
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POPSMainstream Economist (NOT Marxist) Says Marx Was Right!! Follow Link to the Interview video: Karl Marx had it right. At some point, Capitalism can destroy itself. You cannot keep on shifting income from labor to Capital without having an excess capacity and a lack of aggregate demand. That's what has happened. We thought that markets worked. They're not working. The individual can be rational. The firm, to survive and thrive, can push labor costs more and more down, but labor costs are someone else's income and consumption. That's why it's a self-destructive process.
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POPSThe Rich Are Different - Not in a Good Way, Studies Suggest In other words, rich people are more likely to think about themselves. “They think that economic success and political outcomes, and personal outcomes, have to do with individual behavior, a good work ethic,” said Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Because the rich gloss over the ways family connections, money and education helped, they come to denigrate the role of government and vigorously oppose taxes to fund it.
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POPSThe Daily Activity Every Middle Aged Woman Should Beware of These chronic exposures could have profound and life-long effects on the intellectual, social, sexual and overall physical development of children. Numerous studies have found a relationship between relatively low to moderate levels of fluoride exposure and reduced IQ in children6 . Even fluoride levels of less than 1.0 mg/L have been associated with reduced IQ and increased frequency of hypothyroidism in children experiencing iodine deficiency7
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POPSChase/JP Morgan screws servicemen Chase JP Morgan overcharged mortgage payers. In some cases, they illegally foreclosed, taking people's homes based on fraudulent accounting. They even did it to servicemen and women who were overseas and supposedly protected from foreclosure while on active duty. The courts are doing nothing about it. Obama, the great war leader, is doing nothing. The Pentagon, which has money for every stupid idea in the world, is doing nothing. Support the troops...yeah, right.
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POPSAvoiding Aspartame Aspartame is a RAT POISON but sweet, so it is used as an artificial sweetener, not only for adults but for children too!! This is unbelievable, you give vitamins to kids and they contain poison!!
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POPSAre You Eating Genetically Modified Foods? EUROPEANS WILL SOON KNOW WHAT IS IN THEIR FOOD BUT THE USA...... One of the panel’s key findings is that very few animal or human studies are available in the scientific literature, and the few that are demonstrate ample cause for concern. A 1994 study submitted to the FDA, for example, showed that rats fed GM tomatoes developed erosions on the lining of the stomach similar to those seen in humans taking aspirin or similar medication. In another study, reported in Science magazine in 1999, researchers found that rats fed GM potatoes showed stunted growth and suppressed immune systems.
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POPSHelp End Big Oil Handouts These subsidies go to the same industry that is pushing legislation which would expedite offshore development without new safety requirements. The oil industry fights safety inspections, complains about environmental safeguards critical to protecting community water supplies and wildlife refuges, pressures Congress to gut environmental laws and blocks attempts to ensure that the taxpaying public gets fair value through royalties when they exploit the lands that belong to all Americans. In a budget environment where severe cuts to environmental protection programs, education and programs like Medicare are being threatened, there's no place for the oil industry giveaways that cost taxpayers $40 billion each decade.
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