- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 15 minutes ago
Very sobering piece from Chris Hedges (author of American Fascists, among other things) about what happens when empires go sclerotic. Resources are exploited ever more recklessly. Class warfare becomes mor... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 17 minutes ago
Japanese stocks tumbled 6% early Tuesday, the second straight session of huge declines, as the nation continues to cope with the aftermath of last week's earthquake. The Nikkei 225 index, the most promine... - posted by TXsharon at Bluedaze: DRILLING REFORM FOR TEXAS - 38 minutes agoYou know how the Big Gas Mafia tells us the pipelines--even the ones built with that defective pipe--won't blow up? Well, the Big Nuclear Mafia tells the same kinds of lies?Guess what, Dear Readers! Accordin...
- posted by Gail at Wit's End - 41 minutes agoTonight I was listening to On Point, a program on NPR. The topic was the horrific situation in Japan. The first part, a discussion with Coco Masters on location, her voice trembling with controlled emoti...
- posted by Truth Excavator at The Excavator - 1 hour agoInside America's 'Adjustment Bureau' By Robert Parry Consortium News March 14, 2011 Today's American political crisis has many facets, but a key one is narrative -- how the history and ideals of the Uni...
- posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
The CPI-U (consumer price index) is the broadest measure of consumer price inflation for goods and services published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). While the headline number usually is the se... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment Rate reflects current unemployment reporting methodology adjusted for SGS-estimated long-term discouraged workers, who were defined out of official exist... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
Michigan lawmakers are on the verge of approving a bill that would enable the governor to appoint "emergency managers" -- officials with unilateral power to make sweeping changes to cities facing financial... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
*The nuclear disaster in Fukushima makes it hard to ignore the vulnurabilities of the technology. It could spell the end of nuclear power, German commentators argue on Monday. The government in Berlin may ... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
"This is a precautionary measure for us," a Lufthansa spokesman told news agency AFP. Aircraft that flew to Lufthansa hubs in Frankfurt and Munich were checked by airport fire services but no radioactivit... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 2 hours ago
The Wisconsin State Capitol had taken on an eerie quiet by late Friday. Gone were the throngs of protesters who had occupied its marble floors like it were a summer campground. The midnight honking of cars... - Did Peggy Noonan REALLY expect her pal Rummy to come clean on his screw-ups in Afghanistan and Iraq?posted by KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago
*No doubt about it, Old Rummy's got plenty to answer for, and our Peggy has done a swell job of nailing him to the wall for failing to begin to do so. She's just got a dangerously and delusionally screwy i... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 3 hours agoA new explosion rocked the earthquake-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan early Tuesday from a reactor that workers had struggled to keep under control since a blast at a ...
- posted by Orwell's Bastard at Orwell's Bastard - 4 hours agoLinks from the Galloping Beaver and the Dawg.
- posted by Debra at Housewife Eclectic - 4 hours ago
Somewhere along the line, I got my days and nights screwed up. I am currently in the mode to stay up all night and then sleep for a few hours in the morning. In so many ways it is bad, but I am discovering... - posted by Elephant Buddy01 at Our Manmade Disasters - 4 hours ago
- by BK Lim (14 March 2011) By now it is very clear Thad Daly is not who he claims to be. He had claimed to be a mechanical engineer, fluid engineer and a drilling engineer at different times. Yet... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
A tide of bodies washed up along Japan's coastline Monday, overwhelming crematoriums, exhausting supplies of body bags and adding to the spiraling humanitarian, economic and nuclear crisis after the massiv... - posted by Mr. Harley at The Coming Crisis - 5 hours ago
Tokyo Electric Power Co. started rationing electricity in areas near Tokyo on Monday to avoid massive blackouts in its service area in the wake of Friday's powerful earthquake, but region-wide energy-savin...
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