Income Gaps Between Very Rich and Everyone Else More Than Tripled In Last Three Decades

CBPP– The gaps in after-tax income between the richest 1 percent of Americans and the middle and poorest fifths of the country more than tripled between 1979 and 2007 (the period for which these data are available), according to data the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) issued last week. Taken together with prior research, the new data suggest greater income concentration at the top of the income scale than at any time since 1928.

While the recession that began in December 2007 likely reduced the income of the wealthiest Americans substantially and may thereby shrink the income gap between rich and poor households, a similar development that occurred around the bursting of the dot.com bubble and the 2001 recession turned out to be just a speed bump. Incomes at the top more than made up the lost ground from 2003 to 2005.

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Adoption 911

EXAMINER– Adoption 911 is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) animal rescue devoted to helping all animals in their time of need. It started when one Los Angeles woman found the need to save horses from slaughter and grew into a foundation dedicated to keeping all creatures from a life of despair, torture, starvation, solitude and slaughter.

It all started one Saturday afternoon late in January when Animal Communicator Candi Cane Cooper had just finished working at the Santa Anita Race Track.
 
“I knew that this day could quite possibly be the hardest day of my life,” Cooper says. “I had plans to go under cover for a documentary, visiting a feed lot where hundreds of horses were being held for slaughter.”
 
Cooper pulled up to the feed lot where a starved and pregnant Mare immediately starting calling out for help. Hundreds of horses were there, all kinds, just waiting for slaughter. But before Cooper could even comprehend the gravity of what she was witnessing, this Mare grabbed her attention.
 
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Photo by Candi Cooper

Manhattan UFOs Predicted by Ex-NORAD Officer

EPOCH TIMES– Manhattan UFO sightings that generated buzz in downtown New York City coincided with a prediction made by Stanley A. Fulham, a retired NORAD officer, in his recently published book, according to a press release dated September 13, 2010.

In “Challenges of Change (3rd ed),” Fulham says that a fleet of UFOs would hover over earth’s major cities on Oct. 13, and says this event is the first interaction that leads to mankind’s acceptance of aliens. That turns out to be the same day of the UFO sightings.

Fulham claims that he has had experiences with UFOs dating back to World War ll, and has received a plethora of historical data on NORAD’s experiences with UFOs that have never before been revealed.

Epoch Times reporter Stephen Summer was an eyewitness of the UFOs, and was present at a scene where New Yorkers gathered and pointed at the mysterious metallic objects in the sky.

Summer said he was walking near the corner of 28th Street and Sixth Avenue when he saw groups of people looking up. He said he looked up as well, and saw four small shiny objects in the sky.

Videos of the UFOs have gone viral on the Internet and clearly show shiny silver objects floating over Manhattan.

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Sabertooth Tiger – Argentina

In 2001, Argentina suffered a massive economic collapse as a direct result of IMF and World Bank neo-liberal policies. Hundreds of factories were shut down and a wave of unemployment followed. Thousands of workers were not only left unpaid, but were facing a bleak future without work and an ability to survive economically. But there was another option. People began to occupy the factories, organize worker collectives and seize the property for their own benefit. A movement began to develop known as the Movement of Recovered Companies.

With full support of the community, armed with only with slingshots and a vision, workers began to experience what a new world might look like, one that means a democratic workplace, and dignity in their work. This video by Sabertooth Tiger is the merging of their song ‘Argentina’ and a film by Noami Klein and Avi Lewis called ‘The Take’. It is directed by Michael Grodner

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