#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Eurozone's mistakes could destroy Cyprus, warns former president http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/22/cyprus-debt-crisis Widely respected ex-leader George Vassiliou says whole European system may suffer if corrective measures not taken When George Vassiliou is worried that is a worrying thing. Widely seen as Cyprus's most effective president in modern times, the 82-year-old is now viewed, even by his enemies, as the voice of common sense. Today, Vassiliou is so anxious about the state of the country he governed between 1988 and 1993 that he is worried saying anything at all will only make matters worse. It's not just the partitioned island's membership of the European Union, which Vasilliou deftly negotiated back in 2…http://www.twitpic.com/ceyb2d
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Health Care Costs: The Rip Off That Bankrupts America http://blog.ourfuture.org/20130327/health-care-costs-the-rip-off-that-bankrupts-america The International Federation of Health Plans has depicted our ridiculous health care system in 21 graphs. We don’t get more health care; we just pay more — much more. And this entirely accounts for the scary long-term deficit projections. If we paid what every other advanced industrial country pays, we would project surpluses as far as the eye can see and be able to begin investing in areas vital to our future — like educating our kids… Related: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/03/26/21-graphs-that-show-americas-health-care-prices-are-ludicrous/?tid=d_pulsehttp://www.twitpic.com/cex3b1
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Occupy Wall Street Moved Esposito into Forefront http://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2013/03/27/occupy-wall-street-moved-esposito-into-forefront/ Though he was the highest-ranking uniformed officer in the New York Police Department, outgoing chief of department Joseph Esposito toiled in relative anonymity. He was the stoic and unsmiling presence behind Commissioner Raymond Kelly at public events, while behind the scenes, he was the leader of rank and file officers who coordinated the department’s response to some of the city’s most dramatic and headline grabbing events. But in October 2011, the four-star chief’s public profile was raised considerably: during the infancy of the Occupy Wall Street movement, Esposito – with 43 years in the department – finally …http://www.twitpic.com/cewi52
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Unions Call For The Sack Of Health Minister Over Welfare http://www.channelstv.com/home/2013/03/25/unions-call-for-the-sack-of-health-minister-over-welfare/ A nationwide strike may be looming in Nigeria’s health sector as the joint health sector union has once again called on President Goodluck Jonathan to remove the Minister of Health, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu or risk industrial unrest in the sector. he members of the joint union which include the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria, the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives; the National Union of Pharmacists, Medical Scientists and Professions Allied to Medicine, have accused the minister of being behind the unnecessary discrimination among health professionals. They also maintain tha…http://www.twitpic.com/cewq8f
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty [VIDEO] A hoodie, ten bucks and a train ticket http://www.wbez.org/news/hoodie-ten-bucks-and-train-ticket-106259 Every year, 33,000 men and women leave Illinois prisons with few possessions but lots of baggage. Every day white vans pull into the parking lot of the Amtrak station in Effingham, in southern Illinois. From a distance they look like regular 15-passenger vans, but up close you realize that there’s a metal screen separating the driver from the passengers in the back, and the doors of the vans each have a small crest that says Illinois Department of Corrections. On the morning I was at the train station, four IDOC vans pulled into the parking lot: two from Vandalia prison, and two from another nearby prison, Robinson. …http://www.twitpic.com/cewkk6
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty BEST SUPREME COURT ARGUMENT SO FARhttp://www.twitpic.com/cewiwz
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Tribeca's Skylofts Penthouse Now Asking a Mere Million http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/03/26/tribecas_skylofts_penthouse_now_asking_a_mere_44_million.php The penthouse at 145 Hudson Street accomplished the hard work of boggling minds when it raised its price to million in 2012. It did not, however, accomplish the hard work of finding a buyer. Perhaps the PriceChopper could help with that! The apartment's new ask is million, just M below the price the Skylofts unit first sought in May 2011. The new price per square foot is ,872. The brokerbabble is epic and worth a read in itself, but we'll just do a quick recap: there's a 4,500-square-foot private terrace, a living room with 18-foot ceilings and a wood-burning fireplace, “museum-quality” polished…http://www.twitpic.com/cewaxz
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty One of the Mysterious One57 Buyers is Two Years Old http://ny.curbed.com/archives/2013/03/27/one_of_the_mysterious_one57_buyers_is_two_years_old.php One of the great real estate mysteries of the past year has been who the billionaire buyers are at Midtown mega-tower One57. Developer Gary Barnett isn't giving any hints (other than nationalities) and the buyers themselves are, for the most part, not talking to the press. But in the case of one lucky buyer, who just snapped up a .5 million pad, that probably has less to do with a desire for privacy and more do with the fact that she, uh, probably can't talk yet. That's right, One57's latest lucky buyer is a two-year-old Chinese toddler. Her mother, who took care of the paperwork and stuff, told the Sotheby's b…http://www.twitpic.com/cew8zi
Little off topic but Look at this security exercise from work today. #ironic #owshttp://www.twitpic.com/ceouut
#union #iww #occupy #ows #p2 #p21 #tlot #tcot #TeaParty Kaupthing’s top bosses indicted over rigging http://www.icenews.is/2013/03/21/kaupthings-top-bosses-indicted-over-rigging/ Kaupthing bank that collapsed during the great meltdown of 2008, is now in the news for other reasons. Nine senior executives, including former executive chairman Sigurður Einarsson, have been charged in Reykjavik, for allegedly manipulating markets by using the bank’s own funds to buy Kaupthing shares in the hope of propping up its price. The Guardian reports that in one of the largest fraud prosecutions out of Iceland in recent years, these shares were allegedly bought in the names of major clients with almost 42% of Kaupthing shares held by the bank as collateral. Einarsson, a Chelsea resident, was effectively barred…http://www.twitpic.com/cedhqj