January 31, 2014
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Goldman Sachs Sued for Selling Libya Billions in Worthless Options By Richard Smallteacher
Goldman Sachs, the Wall Street investment bank, is being sued in London for selling Libya “worthless” derivatives trades in 2008 that the country’s financial managers did not understand. Libya says it lost approximately $1.2 billion on the deals, while Goldman made $350 million. Continue reading
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Outsourcing Haiti: How Disaster Relief Became a Disaster of its Own By Jake Johnston
Outsourcing the construction drove the price up, since international companies had to fly in, rent hotels and cars, and spend USAID allowances for food and cost-of-living expenses. To incentivize working in Haiti, the U.S. government also gave contractors and employees “danger pay” and “hardship pay,” increasing their salaries by over 50 percent. With all these… Continue reading
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Spy Agencies Work On Psychologically Profiling Everyone
Newly-released documents from Edward Snowden show that the NSA and other spy agencies are tracking people’s psychological and lifestyle traits such as sexual preference, extroversion-versus-introversion, and whether people are leaders or followers. Continue reading
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Will transatlantic trade treaty really boost wages and growth, asks TUC By Owen Tudor
As Davos trade negotiators announced they would ‘consult’ over one part of the controversial deal, the TUC met them to ask if the deal would really benefit ordinary people – or just offer up our public services to multinational investors. Continue reading
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‘Doing more with less’, the low paid and the unpaid By Shibley Rahman
Re-engineering the health system has become a hobby of thinktankers, in the best spirit of the blind watchmaker. But policy wonks are still unable to escape from the fact that the NHS is not a widget factory. The management school of Frederick Taylor is unfit for purpose in considering outcomes rather than outputs. It can… Continue reading
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New chief executive calls for “opening up” of Britain’s National Health Service By Ben Trent
Incoming National Health Service chief executive Simon Stevens has called for the “opening up” of healthcare and “reshaping our care system”. Continue reading
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US attorney general seeks death penalty for Boston Marathon bombing suspect By Nick Barrickman
In seeking the death penalty, US authorities are creating the best conditions for extracting a plea deal that would prevent unwanted testimony from ever being heard in an open court. Continue reading
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VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel: News and Articles 30 January 2014: The Israel-Palestine ’peace process’ as a capitalist metaphor
30 January 2014 — VTJP Peace, Love and Occupation? Tell Ben & Jerry’s to Stop its Complicity with the Israeli Occupation! News International Middle East Media CenterIsraeli Forces Demolish Entire Village In Jordan ValleyIMEMC – [Thursday Evening, January 30, 2014] The Israeli army demolished, on Thursday, at least 50 structures, including residences, displacing 13 families in Continue reading
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