Image by Getty Images via @daylifeUSGS Release: 3 to 4.3 Billion Barrels of Technically Recoverable Oil Assessed in North Dakota and M
www.usgs.govReston, VA - North Dakota and Montana have an estimated 3.0 to 4.3 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil in an area known as the Bakken Formation.
Maybe Think Twice before Buying Strawberries from California
Strawberries are one of the ‘dirty dozen‘ – the twelve foods most likely to expose people to pesticides.
Because of their seeded texture and thin skin, it is more likely that any pesticide that comes in contact with the outside will stick even after washing, or even seep through the skin into the fruit.
Methyl iodide is a fumigant* pesticide. The soil to be planted is covered with a giant tarp, and the pesticide is injected into the soil. The plants are planted after the soil has been fumigated.
Since it is not sprayed on directly food, this reduces the risk of directly ingesting the pesticide. However, indirectly it could be consumed through soil contamination and run-off into water supplies even if California is claiming that great care will be taken.
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Weekly Diaspora: What Homeland Security Looks Like After Bin Laden’s Death
new national security agency, blossoming into two bloody wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, institutionalizing the racial profiling and surveillance of Muslim Americans and even redefining unauthorized Latin American immigration as—of all things—a national security issue.
How Bad U.S.-Latin American Policy Fuels Unauthorized Immigration
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Live From the Middle East, It’s Mediocre U.S. Propaganda!
The broadcast team on Al-Hurra was plainly marked by either their names or their poor Arabic as Lebanese Christians, a group long suspected in the region as a fifth column for all things Western.
Comedian Jon Stewart once made a very insightful comment about George W. Bush. He said it was incorrect to call him stupid—he wasn’t stupid—he just talked to people like they were stupid. Poorly produced television programming like Al-Hurra, produced with explicit U.S. government connections, has not fooled potential viewers in the Middle East. Instead, it merely sends another message that the United States does not know or does not care about the people in region. At this point, a better public diplomacy move might be to shut down Al-Hurra altogether.
One Year After the BP Oil Spill, None the Wiser
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Testimonial of Dr. Susan Shaw, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, April 20, 2011: At 1:03 in You could see with your own eyes that the oil offshore
Bin Laden’s Free Pass
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When George W. Bush rejected a Taliban offer to have Osama bin Laden tried by a moderate group of Islamic states in mid-October 2001, he gave up the only opportunity the United States would have to end bin Laden's terrorist career for the next nine years. The al-Qaeda leader was able to escape into Pakistan a few weeks later, because the Bush administration had no military plan to capture him. The last Taliban foreign minister, Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil, offered at a secret meeting in Islamabad Oct. 15, 2001, to put Bin Laden in the custody of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), to be tried for the 9/11 terror attacks on the United States, Muttawakil told Inter Press Service in an interview in Kabul last year. The OIC is a moderate, Saudi-based organisation representing all Islamic countries. A trial of bin Laden by judges from OIC member countries might have dealt a more serious blow to al Qaeda's Islamic credentials than anything the United States would have done with bin Laden. Muttawakil also dropped a condition that the United States provide evidence of bin Laden's guilt in the 9/11 attacks, which had been raised in late September and…
All Changes Great and Small
Thursday, May 05, 2011 4:00 AM
I have a problem with history. Always have. I went to what was known as a "progressive" school, on a scholarship because my father taught the piano there. In the junior school I learned about the geography and history of Hampshire, the small southern English county we lived in. I can still draw its outline with my eyes shut. Later on, I learned about Sir George Villiers, father of the first Duke of Buckingham, who lived from 1550 to 1606 and was so dissolute and fathered so many children that it was statistically likely, we were told, that at least one of our class was descended from him. My history teacher, who later wrote a book called Uncommon People: A Study of England's Elite, was contemptuous of convention. He brought his bicycle into the classroom and wore his pajamas under his coat. He bears at least some responsibility for my difficulty with history and with change, since he eventually threw me out of his class for behaving like the Queen of Sheba. And that was that. I have had to peg out time with personal dates of my own ever since. 1860, for instance, was the year when Great Aunt…
The Ability to Kill Osama Bin Laden Does Not Make America Great
Wednesday, May 04, 2011 1:00 PM
Osama bin Laden, evil incarnate, has justified so, so much American violence in the 21st century. We have launched two wars and executed God knows how many covert military operations in the ethereal, never-ending fight he personifies. We have made racial profiling of Muslim Americans normative, turned an already broken immigration system into an arm of national defense, and reversed decades worth of hard-won civil liberties while pursuing him, dead or alive. We have abandoned even the conceit of respect for human rights in places stretching from Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo Bay in the course of hunting him down. Now, finally, the devil is dead. Upon the news of this victory, crowds gathered in front of the White House and at Ground Zero to chant “U.S.A.! U.S.A!” It was as if we’d just won an Olympic hockey game, rather than capped a decade worth of war and recession with a singular act of violence. “Today’s achievement is a testament to the greatness of our country and the determination of the American people,” the president declared. “We are once again reminded that America can do whatever we set our mind to,” he concluded, after insisting that the execution represents justice. “That…
After Bin Laden, Obama’s Opportunity Knocks
Wednesday, May 04, 2011 8:48 AM
Might the killing of Osama bin Laden create a once-in-a-presidency opportunity for Barack Obama: the chance to redefine himself by letting his progressive twin out of the closet and back into the political mainstream? Obama has famously disappointed many of the progressives who voted for him in 2008 thinking he represented a new turn in American politics. Instead, by keeping President George W. Bush's Federal Reserve chairman and his Secretary of Defense, and by escalating the Afghan war and backtracking on raising taxes for the wealthy, Obama abandoned his progressive roots and became, in the words of right-wing columnist David Brooks, "center-right" in his politics. Brooks issued his label a few days before Obama broke the news Sunday night about the killing of bin Laden. Instantly, Obama's presidency gained the potential for a second act. With the head of al-Qaeda dead, could not the United States draw down its forces in Afghanistan? The methods that resulted in Bin Laden's death--identifying, tracking and then killing an adversary with forces brought from a distance--underscores the folly of the "boots on the ground" approach so dangerously and expensively on display in Afghanistan. Having disastrously escalated the war in Afghanistan--now widely recognized as a…
The Other Labor Struggle
Wednesday, May 04, 2011 4:00 AM
Forty years ago, when Ina May Gaskin began working as a midwife, approximately 5 percent of all U.S. babies were delivered by Cesarean section. Today the rate is 32.3 percent. Since we can safely assume that the increase has nothing to do with anatomical changes, logic suggests that the explanation lies elsewhere. In Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta (Seven Stories Press, March), Gaskin identifies the culprit. "Women have been taught that they must sacrifice themselves in order to have a baby--that the greater good of the baby means that the mother must submit herself to greater risk, even if that means a C-section for which there is no medical reason," she writes. Ah, yes, doctors. Gaskin is aghast at the medicalization of childbirth and Birth Matters is an angry look at the ways medical consumers continue to be manipulated by medical professionals. While the book takes some unfair swipes at feminists--as if the excesses of some early '70s activists who likened childbearing to slavery were still the norm--it is an important look at the business of reproduction. Gaskin's interest in midwifery began shortly after she and her husband Stephen founded The Farm, an intentional community in Lewis County, Tennessee. Women…
The ‘Great Moderation’ and the International Assault on Labor
Monday, May 02, 2011 7:10 PM
In most of the world, May Day is an international workers' holiday, bound up with the bitter 19th-century struggle of American workers for an eight-hour day. The May Day just past leads to somber reflection. A decade ago, a useful word was coined in honor of May Day by radical Italian labor activists: "precarity." It referred at first to the increasingly precarious existence of working people "at the margins"--women, youth, migrants. Then it expanded to apply to the growing "precariat" of the core labor force, the "precarious proletariat" suffering from the programs of deunionization, flexibilization and deregulation that are part of the assault on labor throughout the world. By that time, even in Europe there was mounting concern about what labor historian Ronaldo Munck, citing Ulrich Beck, calls the "Brazilianization of the West--the spread of temporary and insecure employment, discontinuity and loose informality into Western societies that have hitherto been the bastions of full employment." The state-corporate war against unions has recently extended to the public sector, with legislation to ban collective bargaining and other elementary rights. Even in pro-labor Massachusetts, the House of Representatives voted right before May Day to sharply restrict the rights of police officers, teachers, and…
Chile’s One-Man Truth Commission
Monday, May 02, 2011 4:00 AM
Chile's self-appointed one-man Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Patricio Guzmán, has devoted the last four decades to chronicling the short-lived Allende administration and the Pinochet dark age that followed. No one has dedicated themselves to portraying their homeland as relentlessly as Guzmán, who as a comfortable middle-class Santiagoan was enchanted with Allende socialism--and then rocked by the 1973 Pinochet coup. Since then, his entire career has been committed to rendering onto film the exact dimension of that disastrous betrayal and its protracted fallout. In film after film, Guzmán yowls alone in the wilderness of a national culture still unwilling to face the Pinochet era's cost in corpses and vanishings. Guzmán's new film, Nostalgia for the Light, and a career retrospective surveying more than three decades of his work will both wend their way through U.S. theaters this spring and summer. The proper place to begin is where Guzmán began, with The Battle of Chile (1975-79), arguably the most vital piece of actual history ever put on film--if only because entire nations don't normally plunge into homicidal autocracy on film. The Battle's three parts total more than four hours and document the ascension of Allende and the subsequent CIA-fueled coup that bloodied…
Why the Fat Guy Should Lose His Privilege
Friday, April 29, 2011 4:00 AM
"Obesity is a national health crisis...If current trends continue, it will soon surpass smoking in the U.S. as the biggest single factor in early death, reduced quality of life and added health care costs...Obesity is responsible for more than 160,000 excess deaths a year...The average obese person costs society more than $7,000 a year in lost productivity and added medical treatment." --Scientific American, January 2011 Considering those troubling statistics, Advertising Age's headline this week is welcome news: "Weight Watchers Picks a New Target: Men." The story details how the nation's biggest diet company is using the NBA playoffs to launch its first male-focused advertising campaign. Sounds great--except for one thing: Why only now? This is a significant question in a country whose debilitating weight problem is more male than female -- and "more" means a heckuva lot more. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, almost 70 percent of men are overweight, as compared with 52 percent of women. Yet, somehow, 90 percent of the commercial-weight-loss industry's clients are female, and somehow, this industry hasn't seen males as a viable business. How can that be? Market researchers typically explain the situation away in trite "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From…
Twilight of the Social Critics
Thursday, April 28, 2011 10:09 AM
When America has had to stir itself out of calamity -- or even just navigate its way from one calamity to the next -- the cultural scene usually comes in for a bout of searing self-inspection. The psychic foundations of the Civil War were famously rooted, at least in terms of the Northern abolitionist sensibility, in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Victorian melodrama Uncle Tom's Cabin. Progressive reformers found a common refrain of national improvement in Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life -- a book that, for better and worse, has graced successive liberal generations with the magazine also launched under Croly's overexuberant directorship, The New Republic. And the very idea of the Gilded Age sprang out of a satirical novel of the same name by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley. Arguably, this tradition stretched back to the country's colonial past, when Puritan divines would deliver scorching jeremiads -- prophetic sermons, often coinciding with election days -- to bemoan the state of the collective soul and enumerate the ghastly sins of the social order, all with the aim of recalling the believing community to a renewed sense of purpose. It's hard to account, then, for the complete absence of anything resembling…
Give Americans Healthcare
Tuesday, April 26, 2011 4:00 AM
One year after the passage of the Obama administration's signature healthcare reform bill, the future of the legislation is in serious doubt. Opponents have organized vigorous assaults on several fronts. The law's most progressive features are in danger of being undermined by industry lobbyists, and two federal courts have found the law unconstitutional. Supporters of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), which Vice President Joe Biden declared to be "a big fucking deal," have been significantly less enthusiastic in their defense. At a press conference celebrating the ACA's one-year anniversary on March 23, House Democrats resorted to staged displays of support from a graduate student now on her parents' insurance plan and from a mother whose child has a pre-existing medical condition. This enthusiasm gap between supporters and opponents of the ACA is understandable. Advocates of true reform, such as a Medicare-for-all bill or the less radical public option, were shut out of the legislative process and are now being told to embrace a bad bill written by industry lobbyists that strengthens and institutionalizes the for-profit health insurance industry and offers only crumbs for the rest of us. One problem for ACA is that the attacks on its constitutionality are neither…
Resist Closed Borders
Monday, April 25, 2011 4:00 AM
The assaults on our basic civil and human rights are rooted in the U.S. public's apparent ( alleged and flogged ) "consensus" on the need to control the lives of migrants, particularly those crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. Immigrants are the canary in the civil rights coal mine--exposed to rights abuses before structural violence and oppression are extended to the rest of us. After encouraging immigrants, especially Mexicans, to come to work in the United States for the past 100 years, the U.S. government began a new militaristic enforcement strategy along the southern border in the mid-'90s. These "prevention through deterrence" policies combined with the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)--a treaty we now know has resulted in more than 6 million displaced Mexican agricultural workers migrating into the United States since 1994--have led to a human rights disaster. Operation Gatekeeper in California, Operations Hold-the-Line and Rio Grande in Texas, and Operation Safeguard in Arizona--military-like exercises covering the entire U. S.-Mexico border--were expressly implemented to "seal" the border. Consequently, migrants have been "funneled" through Arizona's devastatingly hostile and isolated Sonoran desert, resulting in the deaths of thousands of migrants over the last 17 years and setting the stage for draconian social control policies. This "surge" in…
Protect the Right to Choose
Friday, April 22, 2011 4:00 AM
Ohio just might be the most ordinary state in America. It's neither Republican nor Democrat, and neither especially poor nor especially affluent. It is, in all respects, average. But, in recent months, it's been the battleground for a remarkably extreme and extraordinary fight. Ohio's "Heartbeat Bill" is part of a barrage of anti-choice legislation designed to circumvent the fact that abortion is legal by making it nearly impossible to obtain one. But, whereas other bills focus on cutting funding or creating obstacles to abortion, H.B. 125 takes a relatively new tactic: It aims to ban abortions outright if the fetus has a detectable heartbeat--which happens at around six weeks, before many women even realize they're pregnant. H.B. 125, which the House Health and Aging Committee narrowly passed on March 30, is backed by a gallery of stupendously theatrical activists. First, there is Janet Folger Porter, who helped to craft the bill's language. Her previous projects have included "curing" homosexuality and a prayer for God to restore control of the media to Christians. Speaking for the bill, we have Melissa Ohden, who says her mother attempted to abort her and has built a career on her fetal experiences, and the duo…
Defend Social Security
Friday, April 22, 2011 4:00 AM
In his 1989 book On Borrowed Time, Wall Street baron Peter G. Peterson wrote that "heroic medical interventions on behalf of the aged constitute an unaffordable and unjustifiable claim on society's resources," adding that "the elderly, after all, have already accomplished and enjoyed most, if not all, of what they can reasonably expect in life." In 1994, he famously said, "We will no longer be able to afford a system that equates the last third or more of one's adult life with a publicly subsidized vacation." In 2000, when the budget was in surplus, he told PBS that even trying to put more money into the Social Security system was futile because some future politician would just spend it. In 2005 the Bush administration's failed privatization scheme was a set-back. But Peterson didn't give up. By 2008, he had created a new organization devoted to sounding the alarm about Social Security solvency (again), and seeded it with $1 billion. Let's just say that Pete Peterson is as serious as a heart attack about ending the social safety net in America. But he is not alone. Plutocrats, Wall Street traders and conservative ideologues have been hostile to the programs since their…
Beware of Vampire Squids and Their Stadium Schemes
Friday, April 22, 2011 4:00 AM
When it comes to media voyeurism and the economic insights it can provide, the ads in Vanity Fair rival Charlie Rose's television program as the best peep show of all. Between rip-and-sniff Dolce & Gabbana pages and come-hither Gucci models, readers get to see not what the kings are selling the lowly serfs, but what the royal family is telling itself. This is why I read Vanity Fair--its ads provide a valuable glimpse into the palace. May's edition is no exception, thanks to Goldman Sachs--aka the investment bank at the center of Wall Street's 2008 meltdown. On page 123 of the glossy mag, this very same bank presents itself as the savior of one of those Middle-American cities whose averageness (and baseball bats) makes it synonymous with good ol' fashioned Americana: Louisville, Ky. As Goldman's ad tells it, Louisville's major problem was its desperate need for a new arena. That's when the bank swooped in with a "financing strategy" to build the stadium, which then supposedly led to "a vibrant downtown scene, where new businesses are opening, existing businesses are expanding and local restaurants are hiring more employees." The ad exposes the bailed-out bank's secret fears and goals. Tarnished by…
Condemn Censorship
Thursday, April 21, 2011 4:00 AM
Dumb and dumber: that's not only what all too many of our current politicians and right-wing pundits are, it's how they want the American public to be. The right wing in this country is on a concerted campaign to silence any voices that question its goals, tactics and assault on dialogue and civility. Hence, as part of the House of Representatives' attack on everything, we have H.R. 1076, the bill to bar all federal funding to National Public Radio (NPR). More recently, the Republican Party has been harassing William Cronon, one of our most eminent historians, who had the temerity to speak out against Gov. Scott Walker's efforts to destroy unions in Wisconsin. More to the point, in his recently established blog "Scholar as Citizen," he outed the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a national right-wing group dedicated to "limited government, free markets and federalism" as a major architect of "model bills" that legislators anywhere in the country can introduce to advance conservative goals. In response, the Wisconsin Republican Party has sought to gain access to Cronon's email account in the hope of demonstrating that he has been using his university account illegally for political purposes. Similarly, another right-wing group…
America's 'backyard' has never been so united and independent of U.S. influence.
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Foreclosure Crisis... and Opportunity
Months after the 'robo-signing' scandal, states are negotiating with banks—and activists are keeping the pressure on.By Jeremy Gantz
America's Blue Chip Tax Cheats
The country's largest corporations avoid their fair share. US Uncut is on the case.By Christopher Moraff
Dear Ideologist: America's New War and Americans' Selective Outrage
Dear ITT Ideologist, I see we're at war again, this time in Libya. From Vietnam days, I've worried about… moreBy Pete Karman
The Truth About the 'Dirty Lie'
Anti-coal activists are adopting more radical tactics to get their message across to public officials.By Peter Downs
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Inner Space Next Frontier- Eden Part III Make the Call!
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Now is the lifetime for Soul to be set free from the tyranny of negative energy patterns, and EVOLve with form [Body Mind] as never before! This requires mind to willingly purify our energy field, and the reason for a 3... more
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The Note Project - I Appreciate You!
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Yes, making our world a million times better is as simple as taking a moment to send a note of appreciation to someone who made a positive difference in my life. On some level, each of us desires to Love and be Loved unconditionally.... more
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On a Universal Level, this world and reality as we have known it are maturing. Whatever you dislike in this moment whether its body weight, relation-shifts, career, finances, the only way to restore inner peace and harmony... more
Inner Space Next Frontier Eden Part II Make the Call!
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In alchemy, transformation requires an ignition point! Listen to our show and call forth the Violet Breath of Creator, the 3-Fold Flame of Divine Wisdom, Love and Power to resurrect the cells, organs, systems and functions of your body, into... more
Awakened Wisdom - Reclaim Your Brilliance!
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How do I transform fear, worry and messages of concern that diminish my brilliance, into freedom from false constraints? To change myself, I must first know my Self! What is the link between my humanness and spirit? Tune in for... more
Inner Space Next Frontier. Eden Part I Make The Call!
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This show stopped recording unexpectedly. Consequently a 3 Part Series was created, for divine new humans willing to purify 'inner space' [subconscious, unconscious minds] to make room for your next step to find you.... more
Buddha's Brain. Neuroscience of Happiness Love Wisdom
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The person you have the greatest control over is your future self, influenced by present moment awareness and every choice you make. Turbulent times are lighting up our brains like Christmas trees! Learn why the human brain evolved... more
Start Where You Stand!
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If you or someone you know is depressed listen to Sallie’s practical healing tips, based on 36 years of first-hand experience with depression. Discover the Power of getting ‘clear’ to help you move through uncertain times with... more
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Join us in conversation with Patricia Varley who embodies the role of ‘Edgewalker’, someone who walks between worlds and builds bridges between different world views. Like ancient tribes who relied on shamans to visit the... more
For Those Who Want To Know - Rare Cosmic Awakening
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This show is where Light and perceived absence of Light or 'darkness' is One. Light is shining on incoherence during a rare Cosmic awakening of our species, because only coherence enters a new world. What does this mean? Listen with... more
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Excellent documentary presentation by Naomi Wolf based on her best-selling book of the same name, on the extent of the erosion of our U.S. Constitutional fre...
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Osama is just a figure head. he is just a person. Well known to the bush family.. and an actor. There is No terror from outside.. The terror is our own gover...
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The ForeclosureGate scandal poses a threat to Wall Street, the big banks, and the political establishment. If the public ever gets a complete picture of the personal, financial, and legal assault on citizens at their most vulnerable, the outrage will be endless.' Michael Collins, Daily Censored
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But dropping Bin Laden's corpse in the sea does not end the terrorist threat, nor does it remove the ideological motivation of Al Qaeda's supporters.' Richard Clarke, The New York Times
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Paul Krugman: At the beginning of April, the commentariat was in raptures over the Serious, Courageous, Game-Changing Paul Ryan budget plan. But now that the plan has been exposed as the cruel nonsense it is, what we’re hearing a lot about is the need for more civility in the discourse.
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WYATT, Mo. -- The dramatic, late-night demolition of a huge earthen levee sent chocolate-colored floodwaters pouring onto thousands of acres of Missouri farmland Tuesday, easing the threat to a tiny Illinois town being menaced by the Mississippi River.
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Maj. General Michael Walsh, President of the Mississippi River Commission, says he has decided to operate the floodway project at Birds Point - New Madrid Floodway.
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Kenneth Rogoff: At the United States Federal Reserve’s recent and first-ever public press conference, Chairman Ben Bernanke gave a spirited defense of the Fed’s much-criticized policy of mass purchases of US government bonds, also known as “quantitative easing.” But was his justification persuasive?
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As with most fabricated terror stories, the 'Bin Laden is dead' tale is full of contradictions, half-truths and outright lies. The fact that the story was fabricated from whole cloth is seen in the fact that the story is now changing from the details ...
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There is something fundamentally crazy-making about the fact that Osama bin Laden, damned murderer of thousands, met his demise on the anniversary of the day George W. Bush, damned murderer of thousands, pulled his infamous "Mission Accomplished" stunt on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln.
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In most of the world, May Day is an international workers' holiday, bound up with the bitter 19th-century struggle of American workers for an eight-hour day. The May Day just past leads to somber reflection.
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Jim Hightower: So Exxon is soaking us at the gas pump and sacking our public treasury to gain record profits for itself, while bestowing a royal fortune on its CEO. It wins, we lose. With a record like that, you wouldn't think the oil league would need more handouts from government -- but then, you...
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America's appetite for beef is jeopardising the world's water supply, the Prince of Wales said during a visit to the US.
John Barry, Sandy Rosenthal and Harry Shearer photographed on Feb 10, 2010. Photo/Jill CraftEver since the metro New Orleans levees broke, we have held the most respect toward the Wall Street Journal among other news sources...
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At least 14 workers at Foxconn factories in China have killed themselves in the last 16 months as a result of horrendous working conditions.
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GAZA/RAMALLAH, May 5, 2011 (WAFA)- Following more than four years of inner Palestinian division, the reconciliation agreement signed between the political parties this week provided media crews in Gaza with a new space, free of censorship, boycott, and broadcast blockage.
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Rik Clay walks us through some amazing facts that revolves around 1111 and 11 numerology. 11 and 1111 keep popping up throughout history with amazing undenia...
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WELFARE dependent teenage mothers will be forced back to school in a crackdown on inter-generational poverty.
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EVERY word uttered in a cab could soon be recorded and stored under proposed State Government changes to the operation of taxi security cameras.
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You would think that Osama bin Laden catching a bullet in the head, shot by a Navy Seal, would bring Americans of all stripes together in a non-partisan showing of orgiastic euphoria and across-the-board worship of the righteous kill. That America no longer exists.
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Remarking on monetary policy in the United States, the Russian prime minister said earlier this month, according to The Wall Street Journal: “Look at their trade balance, their debt, and budget. They turn on the printing press and flood the entire dollar zone — in other words, the whole world — with
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As nationwide budget protests continue this week, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is prepared to unveil the Obama administration’s plan to lower the top corporate tax rate from the current 35 percent to less than 30 percent, and as low as 26 percent.
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At the Nexus Conference in July 2010, physicist Nassim Haramein presented new concepts explaining how we are all interconnected and can access infinite knowl...
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