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In 2007, according to the labor economist Sylvia Allegretto, the six Walton family members on the Forbes 400 had a net worth equal to the bottom 30 percent of all Americans.And given that he quotes us here at Forbes on the point, he's almost certainly right.
The Waltons are now collectively worth about $93 billion, according to Forbes.
On Monday, a political operative who has been working on Palestine-Israel policy for the past 20 years sent The Huffington Post a picture of Gingrich, then the House minority whip, grasping the hand of longtime Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat immediately following the September 1993 Oslo peace accords.
The embrace, the source said, came after Arafat met with 20 to 25 House leaders over coffee. Jotting notes down in a yellow pad, Gingrich used the meeting to pitch Arafat on how best to actually construct a Palestinian state. "He said, 'Look, here is what I think you need -- an economic plan - and here is how it will work,' " the operative recalled. "It was a very positive contribution at the time and as they stood up, there were pictures." ....
Comment: "..the potential for government mandated location tracking is certainly very feasible."
Oh no my friend, it's on. We've been tracked for some time. Cell phones have been able to be tracked since they came into production after the days of Digital/Analog phones. Have you been holding out, wishing the United States wasn't a police state? Since it's not constantly in your face, it's easy to doubt the Police State fact. Thus giving it doubt has allowed it (fascism, police state) to come into being, while people who trumpet the truth about the move to fascism are put down as looney, conspiracy theorists. All the while the conspiracy is played out in front of our eyes.