The Eastern Sierra Speaks
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Covert Operations
Categories: National Politics, Economy, 10107 wordsSend feedback •The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama
by Jane Mayer
from: The New YorkerOn May 17th, a black-tie audience at the Metropolitan Opera House applauded as a tall, jovial-looking billionaire took the stage. It was the seventieth annual spring gala of American Ballet Theatre, and David H. Koch was being celebrated for his generosity as a member of the board of trustees; he had recently donated $2.5 million toward the company’s upcoming season, and had given many millions before that. Koch received an award while flanked by two of the gala’s co-chairs, Blaine Trump, in a peach-colored gown, and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, in emerald green. Kennedy’s mother, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, had been a patron of the ballet and, coincidentally, the previous owner of a Fifth Avenue apartment that Koch had bought, in 1995, and then sold, eleven years later, for thirty-two million dollars, having found it too small.
Response to "Egg Factory"
Categories: National Politics, Health Care, Environment, Afghanistan, 237 words1 feedback •Shocking, but true. It is getting so that I am thinking we are getting Fascism in a manner that evokes the metaphor of a frog in a pot of water on a Bunsen burner. We know these factory farms are evil, ugly and dangerous. But what can we do about it?
Egg Factory
Categories: Local Politics, National Politics, Civil Liberties, Health Care, Environment, 444 words1 feedback •By VERLYN KLINKENBORG
forwarded by Irwin HeitOn Friday, most of the country’s major newspapers, including The Times, featured reports from a small town called Clarion, Iowa. Just outside Clarion are the egg operations, owned by the DeCoster family, at the heart of the salmonella outbreak. The factory — no point calling it a farm — called Wright County Egg, is the source of 380 million of the more than 500 million recalled eggs.
Facing prison for filming US police
Categories: Civil Liberties, 1096 wordsSend feedback •By Chris Arsenault
When police arrested Anthony Graber for speeding on his motorbike, the 25-year-old probably did not see himself as an advocate for police accountability in the age of new media.
