U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes determined the city meets the criteria for bankruptcy, ruling the city is financially insolvent and that the filing was properly authorized. He dismissed challenges to Michigan’s emergency manager law and ruled that pensions are not protected by the state Constitution. Detroit News:

The other day I referred to those who "evince zero interest in the substance of the revelations about NSA and GCHQ spying which we're reporting on around the world", but "are instead obsessed with spending their time personally attacking the journalists, whistleblowers and other messengers who enable the world to know about what is being done." There are dozens of examples, one of whom is the author of a post this week at Pando.com which accuses me and Laura Poitras of having "promptly sold [the Snowden] secrets to a billionaire", Pierre Omidyar, and claims we made "a decision to privatise the NSA cache" by joining Omidyar's new media organization and vesting it with a "monopoly" over those documents.Glen Greenwalt

Who “owns” the NSA secrets leaked by Edward Snowden to reporters Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras?Given that eBay founder Pierre Omidyar just invested a quarter of a billion dollars to personally hire Greenwald and Poitras for his new for-profit media venture, it’s a question worth asking.

It’s especially worth asking since it became clear that Greenwald and Poitras are now the only two people with full access to the complete cache of NSA files, which are said to number anywhere from 50,000 to as many as 200,000 files.Later, from his hideout in Russia, Snowden released a statement claiming he had left all the NSA files behind in Hong Kong for Greenwald and Poitras to take.A Greenwald-Omidyar partnership is as hard to swallow as if Chomsky proudly announced a new major venture with Sheldon Adelson, on grounds that it’s a “once-in-a-career dream academic opportunity.”Pando.com

http://pando.com/2013/11/27/keeping-secrets/

http://utdocuments.blogspot.com.br/

Morning quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

 

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and more

The past week's political events that help shape the American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

Walmart employs approximately 1 percent of the U.S. population and offers an average annual salary of $15,576, well below the federal poverty level set at $22,050. In recent months, a nationwide movement has gained momentum to pressure Walmart into changing the practices that condemn a large number of Americans to poverty.According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, if Walmart raised the average yearly pay to $25,000, 700,000 Americans would immediately rise out of poverty. This additional income, once injected into the national economy, would account for the creation of 100,000 new jobs.

"The scale of support and nationwide activity being planned for Black Friday is unlike anything we've seen in recent history. Black Friday is destined to become a Labor Day, not of picnics but of action for workers," said Peter Dreier.

Jim von Maur, the fourth generation to run the Iowa-based Von Maur Department Store, said its “family-oriented focus” of staying closed Thanksgiving and Christmas “is never going to change.”“Some things are sacred,” Von Maur said, “including spending time with family and loved ones on Thanksgiving and other holidays.

We joint Jerry Pippin for his Thanksgiving message and Dr Maya Angelou Forgiveness Is the Answer from interview.

Happy Turkey Day !

Jerry Pippin and i discuss an article by Jennnefer Rubin of the Washington Post ,liberbalisn vs Obama

and Obamacare's Threat to Liberalism by FRANKLIN FOER

A Morning quarterback is a person who passes judgement on and criticizes something after the event (the Oxford Dictionary).

 

We take a look at the Sunday talk shows and more

The past week's political events that help shape the American  politics.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.