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| Daily News Brief February 28, 2013 |
The shared liability approach [inherent to Price-Anderson], if taken without permission, would violate the anti-trust laws that prevent competitors from cooperating. Price-Anderson’s system rewards the industry for sharing detailed technical information that would normally be carefully protected trade secrets. The nuclear industry’s habit of widely sharing important information and lessons learned from experience is one of the foundations on which its excellent safety record is built.http://neutroneconomy.blogspot.com/2013/02/the-inherent-shallowness-of-market.html
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| Paris,
February 27, 2013 – A Gallup poll issued February 21 says that 99% of
the American public now has become convinced that Iran’s civilian
nuclear program will threaten “the vital interests of the United States
in the next ten years.” Eighty-three percent say this will be “a
critical threat.” Why? Because Iran in the next decade will rain down nuclear missiles on American cities from coast to coast? Or sacrifice its own survival by making a suicide attack on Israel, which possesses what may be the fourth largest nuclear arsenal in the world? Whatever the expectation, this fear of Iran in America is apparently now greater than the level of American fear of the Soviet Union – which actually could have devastated the U.S. with a nuclear attack – as reported by Gallup during the most dangerous of the Cold War years. |
read morehttp://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/02/27
To
help the recently incarcerated overcome hiring bias, programs such as
the Center for Employment Opportunities assemble them into work crews,
paid at fair rates. (Photo: Center for Employment Opportunities)
(Background image via New York Magazine)The President’s “sequester” offer slashes non-defense spending by $830 billion over the next ten years. That happens to be the precise amount we’re implicitly giving Wall Street’s biggest banks over the same time period.
