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NAFTA At 20: 1 Million Lost Jobs, 580% Increase In Trade Deficit

NAFTA was not just a "trade" agreement. Trade agreements focus on cutting tariffs and easing quotas and barriers to goods moving across borders. The report points out that NAFTA was much more, giving corporations special rights, incentivizing offshoring and limiting regulation.

Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch has issued a new report, NAFTA at 20: One Million U.S. Jobs Lost, Mass Displacement and Instability in Mexico, Record Income Inequality, Scores of Corporate Attacks on Environmental and Health Laws.

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NAFTA At 20: 1 Million Lost Jobs, 580% Increase In Trade Deficit

Afghanistan Gains Will Be Lost Quickly After Drawdown, U.S. Intelligence Estimate Warns

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A new American intelligence assessment on the Afghan war predicts that the gains the United States and its allies have made during the past three years are likely to have been significantly eroded by 2017, even if Washington leaves behind a few thousand troops and continues bankrolling the impoverished nation, according to officials familiar with the report.

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Afghanistan Gains Will Be Lost Quickly After Drawdown, U.S. Intelligence Estimate Warns

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The War On Terror Is Over. America Lost.

The War On Terror Is Over. America Lost.

2013 a Lost Year for Democrats?

For Congressional Democrats, the 2013 legislative year began with much promise.

Fresh off President Obama’s decisive re-election and Democratic Party gains in the House and Senate, including in some Republican “red” states, lawmakers averted the so-called fiscal cliff while fulfilling their campaign pledge to raise taxes on the well-off.

Long-elusive legislation on gun control and immigration reform appeared passable, having garnered public and political support after (in the former case) unimaginable tragedy. Obama spoke optimistically about altering the status quo on these issues during his February State of the Union Address. The president also outlined an ambitious second-term agenda that included action on education policy, climate change, job creation, infrastructure, tax reform, and raising the minimum wage.

But Congress ended the year without any of those initiatives signed into law. And given the caution and partisan positioning that typify midterm election years, the 2014 legislative calendar doesn’t hold much promise for liberal reformers. Moreover, the head of the Democratic Party ended the year with the lowest approval ratings of his presidency and mounting credibility questions.

The most significant victory of the session came last week with the passage of a budget –one of the most basic tasks of governing. It will avert a government shutdown for the next two years and ease some of the sequester cuts the president had described in that February speech as a bad way to achieve spending reductions and manage the nation’s business.

When asked at his end-of-the-year news conference Friday whether 2013 was “the worst year” of his presidency, the president demurred, albeit with a knowing smile. “If I look at this past year, there are areas where there have obviously been some frustrations, where I wish Congress had moved more aggressively,” he said. But he also implied that much was lost in 2013, adding that “2014 needs to be a year of action.”

That’s an ambitious — and probably unrealistic — goal, given that this Congress has been described as the least productive in history. It’s especially elusive for Capitol Hill Democrats, who won’t begin the next year the way they did the last: with a popular president and political capital to spend. While some lawmakers still hold out hope for immigration reform and other big-ticket items in 2014, legislation will typically be designed to draw contrasts between the two parties.

Ask Democrats in Congress whether 2013 was a lost year for them, and most answer the way the president does: The party controls the Senate, but has an unwilling partner in a House GOP often overcome by its pesky right flank. Failed negotiations between the president and House Speaker John Boehner have created some ill will between the two parties, and Democrats know anything with the president’s fingerprints is destined to fail in the lower chamber.

“I think we’ve had major accomplishments on things we can do here,” Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown, who won re-election in 2012 in a swing state, told RCP. Brown hopes items left on the table, such as extending long-term unemployment benefits and raising the minimum wage, will get done next year, and he also hopes the president will use his bully pulpit to help. “It’s discouraging we haven’t done those yet, but we’ve got no cooperation from the other side to do it,” he said.

A comprehensive immigration reform bill that included a pathway to citizenship for millions living here illegally passed the Senate with bipartisan support — and brought together members of the business community, evangelicals, and big labor. The Senate also passed the Employee Non-Discrimination Act with the help of some Republicans who had voted against the gay rights bill in the past. And Democrats also saw strides made on gun control, with some bipartisan support for an expanded background check measure, even if the bill didn’t pass the Senate and had no chance in the House. (It did, however, earn a key endorsement from West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin, who three years earlier literally turned his shotgun on the cap-and-trade energy bill.) But the House didn’t take up any of these.

Still, “there’s no way you can look back at this year and call it lost,” says Lanae Erickson Hatalsky of the center-left think tank Third Way “There were seeds of progress and we still need to see if we can carry them through.”

“We view 2013 as a huge foundational year for a progressive legislative strategy even if it wasn’t the best year for the presidents’ legislative agenda,” adds Adam Green of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee, which helped elect lawmakers such as Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (who led the charge to derail Obama’s first choice for Federal Reserve chair, Larry Summers). “We’re thinking beyond President Obama, and trying to lay the foundation for big global populist ideas.” Progressives would also count as a positive the fact that lawmakers made no cuts to entitlement benefits through the budgeting process.

Another factor in the stalling of Democratic legislative ambitions was periodic interruptions from developments beyond their control. Lawmakers came back early from a summer recess with calls from the president to approve a military strike on Syria after evidence showed the Assad regime used chemical weapons on its own people. The issue divided Democrats — especially Congressional Black Caucus members otherwise supportive of the president.

The strike was put on hold when Syria accepted a Russian-brokered plan to destroy its chemical weapons, and the politics subsided when the debate shifted once again to funding the government and raising the debt ceiling. In October, the government shut down for the first time in 20 years after Republicans insisted on defunding or delaying the health care law. The GOP took a major hit in the polls as a result, and Democrats had seemingly found their top midterm line of attack.

But political opportunity quickly shifted with the bungled rollout of Obamacare. In the wake of Americans getting pushed off their health insurance plans after being told that wouldn’t happen, even loyal defenders of the law called for the president to make adjustments that, to some extent, would undermine it. While sign-up glitches have diminished and enrollment numbers are increasing, the issue remains a difficult one for Democrats.

Republicans were also united by what they viewed as heavy-handed tactics by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Though the year ended with a budget deal that produced a glimmer of hope for productivity next year, the last weeks of the legislative session were marked by turbulence in the upper chamber. Shortly before the Thanksgiving recess, Reid engineered a change in filibuster rules to require only a simple majority to confirm executive nominees. (The confirmation of dozens of appointees had been stalled for many months.) That action, however, fired up Republicans, who led the chamber into other late-night stalling sessions in the final weeks of the year.

“I hope that one of the majority leader’s New Year’s resolutions is going to be to operate the Senate in a quite different manner,” said Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, who is running for re-election next year with challenges on both his right and left. “It’s going to be hard to get the Senate back to normal.”

Reid, who was hospitalized briefly last week for what doctors determined was exhaustion, said he will begin the year with efforts to extend the unemployment benefits, though there is little appetite for that issue among Republicans. Democrats are also working on minimum wage legislation, which he said will be a top priority.

“I hope what we do is get back to doing legislation bill by bill,” Reid said. “That’s what we’ve done in the past. We haven’t done it in the last few years because there’s been too much obstruction. Otherwise . . . if the Republicans continue this, we’re just shoveling to the executive branch ever more power.” 

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The War On Terror Is Over. America Lost.

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Boston Bombing Victim Who Lost His Legs Comes Forward with Story

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That Time a New York Times Columnist Found Courtney Love"s Lost iPhone in a Cab

That Time a New York Times Columnist Found Courtney Love"s Lost iPhone in a Cab
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It started, as so many things do these days, with a lost phone. A nice young lady named Courtney was traveling in a New York City cab. Upon leaving the cab, however, she left—as so many people do these days—her iPhone behind. 

Usually, young Courtney’s story would have a sad ending: the phone found, its precious contents wiped clean, its skeletal hardware sold on the black market to the highest bidder. 

But this story is not sad. This story is awesome. Because after Courtney left the cab, and her phone along with it, it was hailed by a guy named Frank. Frank found Courtney’s phone. He examined it, trying to determine who its owner might be. And after some investigation—phones, after all, containing much our personal data—he came to an awesome conclusion: The phone in question belonged to Courtney Love. Yes. 

Oh, and the Frank in question? That would be Frank Bruni, op-ed columnist for The New York Times. Because New York. 

So, say you’re Frank Bruni, in possession of Courtney Love’s iPhone. What do you do then? How do you, you high-profile Good Samaritan, make sure that Courtney Love’s lost iPhone is returned to her? You tweet, obviously.

Weird: the iPhone left in my yellow cab last night clearly belongs to @courtney (Courtney Love). Trying to return. Anyone? Courtney?

— Frank Bruni (@FrankBruni) November 21, 2013

You also get your researcher to help you figure out the phone’s provenance.

@samdolnick My ace researcher @IsabellaMoschen deduced from texts coming in beneath the locked home screen that it was/is Courtney’s.

— Frank Bruni (@FrankBruni) November 21, 2013

You also get in touch with Courtney’s manager.

@JPeters1221 I’m wholly serious but have just heard from her manager, so all is well.

— Frank Bruni (@FrankBruni) November 21, 2013

You also get in touch with Courtney (@courtney) herself.

@Courtney Hi there. Just spoke with your manager, someone’s en route to get your phone. Will DMS this to you as well.

— Frank Bruni (@FrankBruni) November 21, 2013

And you are rewarded for your Internet-aided heroics.

@FrankBruni frank you’re a gem, what a small world can we exchange dms?

— Courtney Love Cobain (@Courtney) November 21, 2013

@FrankBruni wow you really do have my phone at the @nytimes yikes please don’t read it Bwahaa this is hilarious xc

— Courtney Love Cobain (@Courtney) November 21, 2013

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Lost World Of The Pacific - History Documentary

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How America Was Lost

Cruz: GOP lost because they didn’t accuse Dems of holding children ‘hostage’

By David Edwards
Sunday, October 20, 2013 10:57 EDT

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) says that Republicans could have won the fight to derail President Barack Obama’s health care law by shutting down the government if they had just accused the Democrats holding children with cancer “hostage.”




In an interview that aired on Sunday, CNN’s Dana Bash asked Cruz if he was bothered on a “human level” that so many colleagues in his own party were angry at him for instigating the shutdown.




“Not remotely,” Cruz insisted. “I work for 26 million Texans, that’s my job to fight for them. I don’t work for the party bosses in Washington… The reason people are frustrated all over the country is that far too many people get elected and they think they’re there to be part of the club.”




The Texas senator observed that things could have turned out differently if Senate Republicans had “marched into battle side by side” with House Republicans to defund Obamacare.




But Bash noted that Democrats had the successful strategy in the end.




Cruz, however, reminded Bash of an exchange she had with Senate Majority Harry Reid (D-NV) about a Republican plan to fund the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and other selective parts of the government during the shutdown.




A controversy had erupted at the time when Bash asked Reid if it would be worth it if he could help “one child” with cancer.




During the interview that aired on Sunday, Cruz said that Reid showed Democrats were “vulnerable” and that Republicans should have used children with cancer as a pressure point to win the fight against health care reform.




“President Obama and the Democrats’ position throughout this is, ‘We will not negotiate, we will not compromise, shut it all down.’ That’s not a reasonable position,” he explained. “If Senate Republicans had united and supported House Republicans, if we had 46 Senate Republicans on television every day, in the media every day making the point, ‘Why won’t they fund the VA, why are they holding our veterans hostage? Why won’t they fund the NIH, why are they holding kids with illnesses hostage?’”




“That’s a fight we could win because their position was unreasonable.”




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Apple Has Lost Its Touch, Says the Man Who Helped Steve Jobs Design the Mac

Frog design founder Hartmut Esslinger says the Apple of today isn’t the Apple he experienced during his close collaboration with Steve Jobs. (AP)

Hartmut Esslinger knows a thing or two about industrial design and what it’s done for Apple. He worked directly with Steve Jobs to establish a “design language” that was used on the Macintosh line of computers for over a decade. Esslinger’s iconoclastic firm had already designed over 100 products for Sony when he signed an exclusive, $ 1-million-a-year contract with Apple in 1982.

But that Apple is mostly gone, says Esslinger in an interview with Quartz. The Apple of today resembles Sony of the 1980′s, says Esslinger, who witnessed the succession process at Sony first-hand: The visionary founder has been replaced by leaders who aren’t thinking beyond refinement and increasing profit.

“Steve Jobs was a man who didn’t care for any rational argument why something should not be tried,” says Esslinger. “He said a lot of ‘no,’ but he also said a lot of ‘yes’ to things and he stubbornly insisted on trying new things.”

One reason Esslinger is willing to recount his time with Jobs is that on October 9, at the Frankfurt book fair, he will release a design and management memoir recounting his time with Jobs, called Keep it Simple.

The origins of a design-led culture at Apple
By Esslinger’s own account, when he started working with Jobs in 1982, Apple was a fractious company in which designers reported to engineers and many in Apple’s corporate structure were openly hostile to the founder’s influence. (By 1985, Jobs had been forced out; he returned in 1996.) At the start of his work with Esslinger, Jobs knew that design could help define Apple’s brand in a way that no amount of marketing could accomplish, and from the introduction of the Macintosh SE, Esslinger’s “Snow White” design language defined the appearance of the Macintosh, visually integrating its outer plastic shell with the software it contained.

Apple’s “book-like” computer couldn’t be realized with the technology of 1982, but it would later succeed as Apple’s touch-based devices.Hartmut Esslinger

As early as 1982, Jobs had already conceived of a “book-like computer,” though the project was not discussed outside the company. That vision eventually led to the Apple Newton, a tablet that failed, and the iPhone and iPad, which made history. That kind of vision is now lacking at Apple, Esslinger says.

“As soon as you can copy something [like the iPhone,] it’s not smart enough anymore,” he says. “I think Apple has reached in a certain way a saturation—the curve [of innovation] was really steep seven to eight years ago […] but now my iPhone is so full I am deleting apps because I want to keep it simple.”

What the next Apple might come up with
So if a disruptive new company—the Apple of today—were to emerge, what kinds of products might it make? Esslinger, who retired from Frog design, the company he founded, in 2006, now teaches all over the world and especially in China, and he says that his students are primarily focused on three-dimensional interfaces as the “next big thing.” Their inspiration? Video games.

“Our students in China and in Germany, they come from the video game culture, and the video games are 3D,” says Esslinger. “I did a workshop a couple of years ago in Switzerland, and even MBAs said enterprise software should be like a video game.”

Just as important to the future of human-computer interaction, says Esslinger, will be a re-thinking of the integration of hardware and software. One example he gave was concept designs Frog did in collaboration with MIT, for flexible computers that responded to squeezing and other types of unconventional touch input.

“I think flat screens have reached a level of saturation,” says Esslinger. “Screens don’t have to be all right angles—the cheapest way is not always the best way. […] Not every country on earth likes square shapes, The cache and the memory makes it easier to have a rectangular screen, but it doesn’t have to be like that. There is much more freedom than we think we have.” (1)

Asia, young upstarts in the wings
Some of that radical thinking could come out of China, where Esslinger currently teaches. “What’s happening in China right now is a paradigm shift where they realize they have to innovate, and can’t just make cheap products,” says Esslinger. “The first generation of entrepreneurs just wanted to make money, but now you have a guy like Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei, announcing in public, ‘I want to beat Apple and Samsung.’”

Wherever the next big thing comes from, it’s likely to be from entrepreneurs and designers who are not steeped in existing ways of thinking in Silicon Valley, in part because they’re young—Steve Jobs was 28 when he began working with Esslinger. ”At Frog, our best ideas came from our youngest designers, fresh out of school,” says Esslinger. In part, he says, this is because of a willingness to fail—something that is, at least, still part of American culture. “In Europe you learn not to fail, and in America you fail to learn. You need failure.”

Footnote
(1) Esslinger speaks from experience: When developing the design language for early Macintoshes, he had to convince Jobs to adopt a more expensive manufacturing process in order to get the sides of the cases for Apple computers to be perfectly straight. (Injection molding processes demanded a 1 degree angle to otherwise boxy cases, so that molds could pull away from the cases easily.)

Subtle touches like that are now an Apple trademark, but refinement can only take a company so far, and the conservatism inherent in how design groups within companies must answer to their bosses means that companies tend not to innovate, says Esslinger.

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Archaeologists Discover 20,000 ‘Lost Souls of Bedlam’ Under London Streets

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By April Halloway
Ancient Origins
August 9, 2013

Established in 1247, the notorious Bethlem (“Bedlam”) Royal Hospital was the first dedicated psychiatric institution in Europe and possibly the most famous specialist facility for care and control of the insane, so much so that the word ‘bedlam’ has long been synonymous with madness and chaos.

Now, in a spectacular discovery, archaeologists have uncovered the asylum’s ancient graveyard right in the heart of London, revealing as many as 20,000 skeletons.

The 500-year-old graveyard was found during excavations to create a 13-mile high speed tunnel under Central London.  Modern-day residents and visitors going about their busy daily lives have been oblivious to the fact that below them, under what is now Liverpool Street Station, the remains of thousands of Londoners including many patients from the Bedlam asylum were laid to rest.

“Everyone’s been running around in Liverpool Street for years and not thinking that they’ve been walking around on bodies from one of the densest burial grounds in London,” said Nick Elsden, a Museum of London archaeologist.

The 16^th-century burial ground was built on the original site of the Bethlem Hospital and as well as serving the hospital itself, it was also used to relieve the pressure from overcrowded cemeteries throughout London.  It was particularly associated with religious non-conformists, as it was not attached to a church. One of the more famous individuals thought to be buried there is Robert Lockyer, a member of the radical Leveller movement, who was executed by firing squad at St Paul’s Cathedral after leading an army mutiny in 1649. Archaeologists are hoping to find his remains amongst the 20,000 other individuals buried there.

The remains of around 4,000 people will have to be disinterred, and will be studied for clues about their lifestyle before being reburied elsewhere.

But thousands of bodies are not the only items to have been recovered from the dig. Incredibly, archaeologists have found everything from reindeer and mammoth bones dating back 68,000 years to a Mesolithic tool-making facility, numerous 2,000-year-old horseshoes, an entire stretch of Roman road, the remains of a Tudor manor house, medieval ice skates, an 800-year-old piece of a ship, and rare Roman coins.

‘This site is a rare, perhaps unprecedented opportunity,’ Mr Elsden said. ‘This is a major roadway outside one of London’s busiest railway stations. You don’t get to dig that up normally.’

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