Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsMilitary Suicide Rate Highest In Decadesclipped by: BartendingBearclippers remarks: So sad. Suicides among U.S. soldiers rose last year to the highest level in decades, the Army announced Thursday. At least 128 soldiers killed themselves in 2008. But the final count is likely to be considerably higher because 15 more suspicious deaths are still being investigated and could also turn out to be self-inflicted, the Army said. The new suicide figure compares with 115 in 2007 and 102 in 2006 and is the highest since record keeping began in 1980. Officials calculate the deaths at a rate of roughly 20.2 per 100,000 soldiers ? which is higher than the adjusted civilian rate for the first time since the Vietnam War, officials told a Pentagon news conference. But the new pace of 20.2 per 100,000 was the first time the rate surpassed the civilian number, when adjusted to reflect the Army?s younger and male-heavy demographics. Big Bailouts, Bigger Bucksclipped by: merrieclippers remarks: Whenever I discussed the current bailout situation with people, I find they have a hard time comprehending the actual numbers involved. That became a problem while doing the research for the Bailout Nation book. I needed some way to put this into proper historical perspective. The only single American event in history that even comes close to matching the cost of the credit crisis is World War II: Original Cost: $288 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $3.6 trillion The $4.6165 trillion dollars committed so far is about a trillion dollars ($979 billion dollars) greater than the entire cost of World War II borne by the United States: $3.6 trillion, adjusted for inflation (original cost was $288 billion). Go figure: WWII was a relative bargain. I estimate that by the time we get through 2010, the final bill may scale up to as much as $10 trillion dollars? By Barry Ritholtz - November 25th, 2008, 7:19AM If we add in the Citi bailout, the total cost now exceeds $4.6165 trillion dollars. Jim Bianco of Bianco Research crunched the inflation adjusted numbers. The bailout has cost more than all of these big budget government expenditures ? combined: ? Marshall Plan: Cost: $12.7 billion, Inflation Adjusted Cost: $115.3 billion TOTAL: $3.92 trillion  Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2009/01/31
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2009/01/30
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Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsThe A-Team film directed by Ridley Scott to hit cinemas in 2010clipped by: ratilfarclippers remarks: The wheel, she needs to be reinvented...again!  Dwight Schultz as Howling Mad Murdock, George Peppard as John Hannibal Smith and Mr T as B A Baracus in the original The A-Team The production will be a "fast-paced action movie" that avoids the campy tone of the original and replaces Vietnam with the Middle East as the place the do-gooder soldiers of fortune served before escaping to the ?Los Angeles underground?, Hollywood newspaper Variety has reported. Sir Ridley is lined up to produce the 20th Century Fox project alongside his brother, Tony Scott, while Joe Carnahan, who wrote and directed 2006?s Smokin? Aces, will direct. The film is due out in June 2010. Co-creator of the original series Stephen J Cannell is also on board as a producer. Why Losing Vietnam Angers the Conservativesclipped by: baydawgclippers remarks: unrealistic and immoral expectations In other words, the treatment of the ?Good Wars? as struggles between fundamentally good and evil causes, rather than more basically as contests for political power (as we are forced to treat most of our other wars), invests victory in those wars with moral significance that we then use to cover over morally dubious means used to achieve victory. Vietnam did not fit the story in which our side is always supposed to prevail. The inability to imitate the model of the ?Good Wars? causes enormous frustration, but most wars do not end in that way. The experience of total victory is the exception in human history, whereas we have made it into the standard by which and the lens through which we judge all other conflicts. Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2009/01/29
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Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsInside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generaclipped by: nuttyriv3rInside The LC: The Strange but Mostly True Story of Laurel Canyon and the Birth of the Hippie Generation Part I May 8, 2008 Join me now, if you have the time, as we take a stroll down memory lane to a time nearly four-and-a-half decades ago ? a time when America last had uniformed ground troops fighting a sustained and bloody battle to impose, uhmm, ?democracy? on a sovereign nation. It is the first week of August, 1964, and Call Vietnam|Calling Vietnam|Calls Vietnamclipped by: saillizzclippers remarks: call Vietnam cheap with a all in one instant messaging software that combine IM, VoIP, internet fax, and web conferencing.
 Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
2009/01/27
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Clipmarks | Vietnam ClipsWelcoming the Oxclipped by: JohnWatermanclippers remarks: Another great photo set from The Big Picture at the Boston Globe. Today is the first day of the Chinese Lunar New Year, met with celebrations and observations by ethnic Chinese and others around the world. This year, we welcome the Year of the Ox, the sign representing solemn hard work and prosperity - an animal that appears aptly symbolic for these difficult times. Millions of people traveled long distances to be with family during this Spring Festival, choking transit systems in China especially.   Liverpool, north west England  stalls cooking food during a fair celebrating Chinese New Year in Beijing  mass migration home   Jakarta, Indonesia  Beijing   Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia  Singapore       Hanoi, Vietnam   Taipei      Chuanxi Prison         Hong Kong   South Koreans, who fled to from North to South Korea during the Korean War, kneel behind a wire border fence and bow in front of delicacies offered to their parents and relatives in North Korea   Für die Inhalte dieses Feeds ist alleine der jeweilige Autor/Anbieter verantwortlich. Die Inhalte stellen nicht die Meinung von EasyRSS dar. Dies ist eine automatisch generierte E-Mail. Bitte antworten Sie nicht auf diese E-Mail. Wenn Sie Feedback an EasyRSS senden wollen, nutzen Sie bitte das Feedback Forumlar. Wenn Sie sich von EasyRSS abmelden wollen, gehen Sie bitte auf den Menüpunkt "Meine Daten". Ihr EasyRSS Team http://www.easyrss.de |
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