The Retirement Gamble
CORRESPONDENTMartin Smith
PRODUCED BYMarcela Gaviria
WRITTEN BY
Marcela Gaviria and Martin Smith
NEWSCASTER: Increasingly, Americans in money trouble in this bad economy are borrowing from their 401(k)s.
NEWSCASTER: The number of workers borrowing from their accounts has reached a 10-year high.
NEWSCASTER: A record number of workers now raiding their 401(k)s—
But more than 20 leading newspaper editors from a dozen countries rallied to defend the Guardian's handling of the Snowden files. Many insisted that journalists were quite capable of deciding which information is too dangerous to publish – and which information the public has a right to knew. "Journalists have only one responsibility: to keep their readers informed and educated about whatever their government is doing on their behalf," said Aluf Benn, editor-in-chief of Israel's Haaretz.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/10/guardian-nsa-spies
CONCLUSIONS OF THE SENATE ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE impact of Private Security Contracting on U.S. Goals in Afghanistan[18]
Conclusion I: The proliferation of private security personnel in Afghanistan is inconsistent with the counterinsurgency strategy. In May 2010 the U.S. Central Command’s Armed Contractor Oversight Directorate reported that there were more than 26,000 private security contractor personnel operating in Afghanistan. Many of those private security personnel are associated with armed groups that operate outside government control.
Conclusion 2: Afghan warlords and strongmen operating as force providers to private security contractors have acted against U.S. and Afghan government interests. Warlords and strongmen associated with U.S.-funded security contractors have been linked to anti Coalition activities, murder, bribery, and kidnapping. The Committee’s examination of the U.S. funded security contract with ArmorGroup at Shindand Airbase in Afghanistan revealed that ArmorGroup relied on a series of warlords to provide armed men to act as security, guards at the Airbase.
Open-ended intergovernmental working group established by the HR Council
Because of their impact in the enjoyment of human rights the Working Group on mercenaries in its 2010 reports to the UN Human Rights Council and General Assembly has recommended a legally binding instrument regulating and monitoring their activities at the national and international level.
The motion to create an open ended intergovernmental working group has been the object of lengthy negotiations, in the Human Rights Council, led by South Africa in order to accommodate the concerns of the Western Group, but primarily those of the United States and the United Kingdom and of a lot a pressure exerted in the capitals of African countries supporting the draft resolution. The text of the resolution was weakened in order to pass the resolution by consensus. But even so the position of the Western States has been a “fin de non recevoir”.
The resolution was adopted by a majority of 32 in favour, 12 against and 3 abstentions. Among the supporters of this initiative are four out of the five members of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, China and South Africa) in addition to the African Group, the Organization of the Islamic Conference and the Arab Group.
[SIDEBAR: Homo sapiens are the least of the valuable in earth and this isn't the way nature intended. When humans' brains are 'rewired' so to speak, and those that do this are? Well, there is a problem in the wellness thinking stuff, clearly. Commodities get to be chosen via the choosers of world earth system called money trade and exchange. Commodities are traded and exchanged as natural resources and name a name not used to label the stupid behavior of mass murdering all that is living in an organic form freely vibrating in the universe.]
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