Entries from October 2007

October 26, 2007

Counterpunch: Is anyone listening?

A Castro Behind Every Bush

People won’t get as many colds, is how White House spokesperson Dana Perino put it yesterday when asked about global warming and criticism that the Senate testimony of one of the nation’s top scientists, CDC Director Dr. Julie Gerberding, had been “eviscerated.”
While Perino was giving blondes a bad name, elsewhere [...]

October 25, 2007

Counterpunch: Disaster capitalism and the housing crash

The Way to Paradise?

In the meager section of this week’s Miami Herald real estate section, there is a multi-color, mini magazine pull-out called: Paradise Way.
It is “sponsored by “Homestead’s Premier Builders: Caribe Homes, Lennar Homes, Lowell Homes, and United Homes.” All are suffering through the worst crash in housing markets in a century-although you won’t [...]

October 17, 2007

Counterpunch: Weapons of mass financial destruction

The Credit Shock

The New York Times reports that Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will speak tomorrow about the intervention of the US government in crumbling credit markets. According to the Times, Mr. Paulson will say, “This is not about finger-pointing, it is about putting an aggressive plan together and moving forward.”
What was the first plan? An [...]

October 12, 2007

Counterpunch: The ghosts of the past

Gore Still Lost Florida

For his work to highlight global warming-ridiculed by George W. Bush leading up to the 2000 election-Al Gore just won the Nobel Peace Prize. Well done, citizen Gore.Candidate Gore still lost Florida.
It was an historic blunder of proportions one inadequately grasps for tools to measure. Still–notwithstanding the Nobel Peace Prize–it [...]

October 10, 2007

Counterpunch: Corruption and the law of intended consequence

The Crimes of Florida’s Shadow Government

Buried on page 3 of today’s Miami Herald business section is: “Ex-PBS&J exec pleads guilty.” If ever Florida’s largest county floated a crime that demonstrates the law of intended consequences as relates to the unsustainable growth, it is the underlying scenario of the guilty plea by a former chairman of [...]

October 9, 2007

Counterpunch: If you don’t know St. Joe, you don’t know Florida

The Fall of Florida’s Largest Land Developer

St. Joe Corporation is the state’s largest landowner, and until today one of the state’s most ambitious developer.

October 2, 2007

Counterpunch: Privatization, outsourcing and profits

Ripping Off Miami’s Poor
The outstanding investigative series by The Miami Herald discloses flagrant and rampant abuse of funding meant to benefit the poor–primarily African Americans–through the Miami-Dade Empowerment Trust, a nonprofit founded to help create jobs in Miami-Dade County’s poorest neighborhoods.