| Stephen Lendman: Rulers and Ruled in the Empire – Book Review
He stratifies it into three sub-groups from top to bottom in importance: big private equity bankers and hedge fund managers, Wall street executives, and senior officials of private and Wall Street public equity funds as well as major figures in top law and accounting firms. Political leaders are drawn from their ranks with Wall Street in the lead and one firm in particular standing out - Goldman Sachs. Today, its former CEO Henry Paulson is the de facto US economic czar in charge of proving doomsayers wrong about the US economy with Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's money creation power partnered with him. Both of them must also navigate around the powerful Israeli Lobby and its pro-war agenda that could lead to catastrophic consequences if the US and/or Israel attack Iran and the Middle East explodes and disrupts oil flows.
Cleaning: Heed 'non-toxic avenger'
Instead of cleaning with lots of cleansers, Sandbeck relies on a small arsenal of more natural products.She recommends a dual spray system, using a spray bottle of vinegar and a separate bottle of hydrogen peroxide. She says this is a safer, more effective way of killing bacteria. It's also a lot less expensive than buying cleansers.Connie Dretske, 46, of Winona, Minn. has been using Sandbeck's book of cleaning tips for the past year. Her husband, Ray, and 11-year-old son Calvin and 8-year-old daughter Carina now are pitching in.The family has found ways to conserve, too. Instead of using napkins, they use dish rags with homemade holders constructed from cardboard paper towel holders. When the rags are dirty, they throw them in the wash so they can be reused."It's kind of fun to figure out how you can make change," Dretske said.Dretske says she's trying to gradually incorporate Sandbeck's ideas."If you try to make drastic changes to everything in your house, you won't stick with it," Dretske said.Sandbeck encourages a gradual, long-term approach to making homes happier and healthier."Organic means growing," Sandbeck said.
Like it or not, Jose Canseco has got more to say
Back in July 2006, when Jose Canseco was called to meet with the lead investigator in Sen. George Mitchell's inquisition into the steroids scandal in Major League Baseball, Canseco did what Canseco has become almost infamous for doing. He talked. A lot. For more than 2 hours, he talked. In that interview in Fullerton, Calif., Canseco offered up several names of players connected with steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs. He told dark tales of players injecting each other with all sorts of illicit substances. He let loose with some conjecture. He explained his place in it all. So when the wildly trumpeted Mitchell Report was finally released last month, and it contained more information from Canseco's searing tell-a-lot book, Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits and How Baseball Got Big, than it did his talk with Charles Scheeler, Mitchell's top investigator, Canseco's next move seemed painfully simple to all those around him.
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