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October 22, 2010 投稿者 Paul

The Covert Origins of the Af-Pak War - The Road to World War III

The bottom line is that we have entered a period of major wars over declining resources. The Af-Pak operations are only initial moves in an attempt to control the earth's remaining oil supply. -- Here's the latest excerpt from David DeGraw's new book, "The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III." [Read More]

Thursday: The Latest on Mortgage Fraud, the Latest On The Crisis

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Toxic powder sent to Arizona congressman White powder delivered in an swastika-covered envelope to the Tucson, Ariz., office of Rep. Raul Grijalva is a toxic substance, the Democratic congressman said the FBI told him. It was not confirmed exactly what substance was mailed to Grijalva's offices, located at the 800 block of East 22nd Street, NBC affiliate KVOA reported. A staff member called Tucson Police earlier Thursday after finding an envelope containing the suspicious white powder. The offices were locked down by Tucson Police, and the FBI arrived to assist in the inves...

Digging in for the Long Haul in Afghanistan: Base-Building Surge | TomDispatch U.S. and allied forward operating bases, also known as FOBs, are part of a base-building surge that has left the countryside of Afghanistan dotted with military posts, themselves expanding all the time. Of the hundreds of U.S. bases in the country, 77% house units of battalion size (approximately 500 to 1,000 troops) or smaller; 20% are occupied by units smaller than a Brigade Combat Team (about 3,000 troops); and 3% are huge bases, occupied by units larger than a Brigade Combat Team, that generally boast large-scale military command-...

Jobless benefits about to crash With no end in sight to the nation’s high unemployment, the government program to help the jobless is heading for a crash. There’s little prospect anytime soon for the sort of costly and complex rescue that’s necessary, according to one of the program’s champions. States, which have already raised employment taxes, will be forced to cut benefits even further next year without the kind of overhaul of unemployment insurance that has always seemed to slip off the congressional agenda, according to McDermott, who’s tried for years to mode...

6 Months Since BP Oil Spill, "Where Is Our Outrage?" | Democracy Now Six months ago, BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and triggering the worst oil spill disaster in US history. More than 200 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf, polluting coastlines in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. To mark the six-month anniversary, we speak to acclaimed writer and environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams, who spent two weeks traveling the Gulf Coast this summer. Tags: Oil pollution...

A Day in the Life of a Berkshare: How a Regional Currency Works | Bill McKibben Want to encourage the local economy? Try printing your own regional money. In Great Barrington, Massachusetts, I gave the nice man a W.E.B. Du Bois for my fudgesicle, and he gave me four Mohicans back in change. I walked over to the food co-op and broke a 50—the one with Norman Rockwell on the face—and my excellent sandwich came with four Robyn Van Ens in change. If I hadn't been so hungry, I could have spent my BerkShares on website design, some septic work, a game of billiards, snowplowing, or a horseback-riding lesson. Hell, if the...

Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda. Google’s income shifting -- involving strategies known to lawyers as the “Double Irish” and the “Dutch Sandwich” -- helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent, the lowest of the top five U.S. technology companies by market capitalization, according to regulatory filings in six countries. “It’s remarkable that Google’s effective rate is that low,” said Martin...

The Secret World of Extreme Militias | TIME Within a complex web of ideologies, most of today's armed radicals are linked by self-described Patriot beliefs, which emphasize resistance to tyranny by force of arms and reject the idea that elections can fix what ails the country. Among the most common convictions is that the Second Amendment—the right to keep and bear arms—is the Constitution's cornerstone, because only a well-armed populace can enforce its rights. Any form of gun regulation, therefore, is a sure sign of intent to crush other freedoms. The federal government is oft...

Nine Stories The Press Is Underreporting -- Fraud, Fraud And More Fraud What we are seeing all around us are the continued effects of a vast criminal enterprise that has never been brought to account, employing a process that, as economist James Galbraith explains, involved the equivalent of counterfeiting, laundering and fencing. So the person with the right expertise to lead us here is a criminologist -- in particular William K. Black, one of the few effective regulators in recent history (during the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s), a notorious knocker of heads and currently professor at the ...

French gov't undercuts Senate on retirement bill as protests rage Protesters blockaded Marseille's airport in Paris and rioting youths attacked police in Lyon on Thursday ahead of a tense Senate vote on raising the retirement age. A quarter of the nation's gas stations were out of fuel, despite President Nicolas Sarkozy's orders to force open depots barricaded by striking workers. Gasoline shortages and violence on the margins of student protests have heightened the standoff between the government and labor unions that see retirement at 60 as a hard-earned right. New violence broke out in Lyon, as ...

Efforts to Prosecute Blackwater Are Collapsing Nearly four years after the federal government began a string of investigations and criminal prosecutions against Blackwater Worldwide personnel accused of murder and other violent crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, the cases are beginning to fall apart, burdened by a legal obstacle of the government’s own making. In the most recent and closely watched case, the Justice Department on Monday said that it would not seek murder charges against Andrew J. Moonen, a Blackwater armorer accused of killing a guard assigned to an Iraqi vice preside...

Banks' mortgage troubles mount as everyone seeks payback Major U.S. banks are facing a double whammy from the subprime mortgage debacle: They're under siege over their mishandling of home loan foreclosures and confronting mounting investor demands that they repurchase billions of dollars in failed mortgage securities. Amid revelations of the banks' potentially massive legal problems, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said Wednesday that 11 federal agencies are examining aspects of the home foreclosure and financing messes that have stalled the U.S. economy. He said the i...

Dark money: Super PACs fueled by $97.5 million that can't be traced to donors Of the $189 million spent so far by Super PACs, non-profits and labor unions to influence the 2010 mid-term elections, $97.5 million has come from groups that do not disclose any donors, an analysis of Federal Election Commission contribution records shows. That is, about 52 percent of the money spent so far on everything from political ads to phone banks to fliers promoting or opposing federal candidates has come from groups that don't disclose the sources of their funds.* Of the 218 non-party committees that have spent money on i...

Banks' foreclosure hustle continues Garbage in, garbage out. Hey, it's only people's lives. The resumption of the high-speed foreclosure industry comes as a shot in the arm to those who feared that America had lost its knack for mass production or, in this case, mass destruction. We may not be turning out cars and tools like we used to, but the accounts of robo-processors signing hundreds of repossessions daily look increasingly like the chronicles of Henry Ford's assembly lines. Phew! Glad to see American business bouncing back. Tags: ...

Obama Hires a Hustler: Fannie Mae's Tom Donilon | Robert Scheer We are drowning in a bipartisan cesspool of corruption, and the sooner we grasp that fact the better. The more one learns about the political roots of our economic meltdown, the more the Democratic Party stands revealed as an equal partner with the Republicans at the center of corruption. Donilon has worked for most of the party’s top dogs, including Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Joe Biden. Surely the Republican ideologues who want to end all government consumer protections and are quite adroit at lining their own pock...

Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met With Koch, Chamber, Glenn Beck To Plot 2010 Election ThinkProgress has obtained a memo outlining the details of the last Koch gathering held in June of this year. The memo, along with an attendee list of about 210 people, shows the titans of industry — from health insurance companies, oil executives, Wall Street investors, and real estate tycoons — working together with conservative journalists and Republican operatives to plan the 2010 election, as well as ongoing conservative efforts through 2012. According to the memo, David Chavern, the number two at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and ...

China Halts Shipments to U.S. of Tech-Crucial Minerals A nasty trade dispute appears to have prompted Chinese customs officials to block shipments of rare earth minerals to the U.S. The move underscores a deepening U.S. vulnerability because of its dependence upon China for tech-crucial rare earth minerals. Small but significant amounts of the minerals go into creating everything from PCs and cellphones to wind turbines and hybrid cars, as well as U.S. military technologies such as missile guidance systems. This latest news came from three rare earth industry officials cited by the New Y...

Joe Miller's private "guards" were active-duty military | Glenn Greenwald The Army says that two of the guards who assisted in the arrest of the journalist and who tried to prevent two other reporters from filming the detention were active-duty soldiers moonlighting for Miller's security contractor, the Drop Zone, a Spenard surplus store and protection service. The soldiers, Spc. Tyler Ellingboe, 22, and Sgt. Alexander Valdez, 31, are assigned to the 3rd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade at Fort Richardson. Maj. Bill Coppernoll, the public affairs officer for the Army in Alaska, said the two soldiers did not hav...

The Loss of Trust and the Great Unraveling To Come The bitter truth is that the nation's Financial Power Elites are not constrained by rule of law, and as a result of this revelation Americans' trust in their government and political class has been shattered. Despite raising their voices 600 to 1 against the TARP and related bailouts of the nation's Financial Power Elites (who stripmined the nation's wealth from their investment banking and mortgage banking fortresses) in 2008, the government shoved trillions of dollars of bailouts and guarantees into private hands with pathetically li...

Chris Hedges on ‘The Death of the Liberal Class’ [video] Chris Hedges talks about his new book, how he came to write it, and what we can expect from the collapse of the liberal establishment.

Whistleblower Speaks On Fraudclosure - The truth behind the crisis | zero hedge Zero Hedge has been approached by an individual who participated directly in the various aspects of what is now broadly known as Fraudclosure. The below narrative recounts his experience in the due diligence process of selecting loans for the MBS pipeline. And far more than just legalese "technicalities" or a broad abrogation of property rights, as he points out there is a far more palpable issue for all those who hold Mortgage Backed Securities or other pool aggregations of mortgage loans: "we have no idea what is in those packages." ...

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The Covert Origins of the Af-Pak War - The Road to World War III

The bottom line is that we have entered a period of major wars over declining resources. The Af-Pak operations are only initial moves in an attempt to control the earth's remaining oil supply. -- Here's the latest excerpt from David DeGraw's new book, "The Road Through 2012: Revolution or World War III." [Read More]

Thursday: The Latest on Mortgage Fraud, the Latest On The Crisis

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Toxic powder sent to Arizona congressman White powder delivered in an swastika-covered envelope to the Tucson, Ariz., office of Rep. Raul Grijalva is a toxic substance, the Democratic congressman said the FBI told him. It was not confirmed exactly what substance was mailed to Grijalva's offices, located at the 800 block of East 22nd Street, NBC affiliate KVOA reported. A staff member called Tucson Police earlier Thursday after finding an envelope containing the suspicious white powder. The offices were locked down by Tucson Police, and the FBI arrived to assist in the inves...

Digging in for the Long Haul in Afghanistan: Base-Building Surge | TomDispatch U.S. and allied forward operating bases, also known as FOBs, are part of a base-building surge that has left the countryside of Afghanistan dotted with military posts, themselves expanding all the time. Of the hundreds of U.S. bases in the country, 77% house units of battalion size (approximately 500 to 1,000 troops) or smaller; 20% are occupied by units smaller than a Brigade Combat Team (about 3,000 troops); and 3% are huge bases, occupied by units larger than a Brigade Combat Team, that generally boast large-scale military command-...

Jobless benefits about to crash With no end in sight to the nation’s high unemployment, the government program to help the jobless is heading for a crash. There’s little prospect anytime soon for the sort of costly and complex rescue that’s necessary, according to one of the program’s champions. States, which have already raised employment taxes, will be forced to cut benefits even further next year without the kind of overhaul of unemployment insurance that has always seemed to slip off the congressional agenda, according to McDermott, who’s tried for years to mode...

6 Months Since BP Oil Spill, "Where Is Our Outrage?" | Democracy Now Six months ago, BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig blew up in the Gulf of Mexico, killing eleven workers and triggering the worst oil spill disaster in US history. More than 200 million gallons of oil spilled into the Gulf, polluting coastlines in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. To mark the six-month anniversary, we speak to acclaimed writer and environmentalist Terry Tempest Williams, who spent two weeks traveling the Gulf Coast this summer. Tags: Oil pollution...

A Day in the Life of a Berkshare: How a Regional Currency Works | Bill McKibben Want to encourage the local economy? Try printing your own regional money. In Great Barrington, Massachusetts, I gave the nice man a W.E.B. Du Bois for my fudgesicle, and he gave me four Mohicans back in change. I walked over to the food co-op and broke a 50—the one with Norman Rockwell on the face—and my excellent sandwich came with four Robyn Van Ens in change. If I hadn't been so hungry, I could have spent my BerkShares on website design, some septic work, a game of billiards, snowplowing, or a horseback-riding lesson. Hell, if the...

Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its foreign profits through Ireland and the Netherlands to Bermuda. Google’s income shifting -- involving strategies known to lawyers as the “Double Irish” and the “Dutch Sandwich” -- helped reduce its overseas tax rate to 2.4 percent, the lowest of the top five U.S. technology companies by market capitalization, according to regulatory filings in six countries. “It’s remarkable that Google’s effective rate is that low,” said Martin...

The Secret World of Extreme Militias | TIME Within a complex web of ideologies, most of today's armed radicals are linked by self-described Patriot beliefs, which emphasize resistance to tyranny by force of arms and reject the idea that elections can fix what ails the country. Among the most common convictions is that the Second Amendment—the right to keep and bear arms—is the Constitution's cornerstone, because only a well-armed populace can enforce its rights. Any form of gun regulation, therefore, is a sure sign of intent to crush other freedoms. The federal government is oft...

Nine Stories The Press Is Underreporting -- Fraud, Fraud And More Fraud What we are seeing all around us are the continued effects of a vast criminal enterprise that has never been brought to account, employing a process that, as economist James Galbraith explains, involved the equivalent of counterfeiting, laundering and fencing. So the person with the right expertise to lead us here is a criminologist -- in particular William K. Black, one of the few effective regulators in recent history (during the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s), a notorious knocker of heads and currently professor at the ...

French gov't undercuts Senate on retirement bill as protests rage Protesters blockaded Marseille's airport in Paris and rioting youths attacked police in Lyon on Thursday ahead of a tense Senate vote on raising the retirement age. A quarter of the nation's gas stations were out of fuel, despite President Nicolas Sarkozy's orders to force open depots barricaded by striking workers. Gasoline shortages and violence on the margins of student protests have heightened the standoff between the government and labor unions that see retirement at 60 as a hard-earned right. New violence broke out in Lyon, as ...

Efforts to Prosecute Blackwater Are Collapsing Nearly four years after the federal government began a string of investigations and criminal prosecutions against Blackwater Worldwide personnel accused of murder and other violent crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan, the cases are beginning to fall apart, burdened by a legal obstacle of the government’s own making. In the most recent and closely watched case, the Justice Department on Monday said that it would not seek murder charges against Andrew J. Moonen, a Blackwater armorer accused of killing a guard assigned to an Iraqi vice preside...

Banks' mortgage troubles mount as everyone seeks payback Major U.S. banks are facing a double whammy from the subprime mortgage debacle: They're under siege over their mishandling of home loan foreclosures and confronting mounting investor demands that they repurchase billions of dollars in failed mortgage securities. Amid revelations of the banks' potentially massive legal problems, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan said Wednesday that 11 federal agencies are examining aspects of the home foreclosure and financing messes that have stalled the U.S. economy. He said the i...

Dark money: Super PACs fueled by $97.5 million that can't be traced to donors Of the $189 million spent so far by Super PACs, non-profits and labor unions to influence the 2010 mid-term elections, $97.5 million has come from groups that do not disclose any donors, an analysis of Federal Election Commission contribution records shows. That is, about 52 percent of the money spent so far on everything from political ads to phone banks to fliers promoting or opposing federal candidates has come from groups that don't disclose the sources of their funds.* Of the 218 non-party committees that have spent money on i...

Banks' foreclosure hustle continues Garbage in, garbage out. Hey, it's only people's lives. The resumption of the high-speed foreclosure industry comes as a shot in the arm to those who feared that America had lost its knack for mass production or, in this case, mass destruction. We may not be turning out cars and tools like we used to, but the accounts of robo-processors signing hundreds of repossessions daily look increasingly like the chronicles of Henry Ford's assembly lines. Phew! Glad to see American business bouncing back. Tags: ...

Obama Hires a Hustler: Fannie Mae's Tom Donilon | Robert Scheer We are drowning in a bipartisan cesspool of corruption, and the sooner we grasp that fact the better. The more one learns about the political roots of our economic meltdown, the more the Democratic Party stands revealed as an equal partner with the Republicans at the center of corruption. Donilon has worked for most of the party’s top dogs, including Walter Mondale, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Joe Biden. Surely the Republican ideologues who want to end all government consumer protections and are quite adroit at lining their own pock...

Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met With Koch, Chamber, Glenn Beck To Plot 2010 Election ThinkProgress has obtained a memo outlining the details of the last Koch gathering held in June of this year. The memo, along with an attendee list of about 210 people, shows the titans of industry — from health insurance companies, oil executives, Wall Street investors, and real estate tycoons — working together with conservative journalists and Republican operatives to plan the 2010 election, as well as ongoing conservative efforts through 2012. According to the memo, David Chavern, the number two at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and ...

China Halts Shipments to U.S. of Tech-Crucial Minerals A nasty trade dispute appears to have prompted Chinese customs officials to block shipments of rare earth minerals to the U.S. The move underscores a deepening U.S. vulnerability because of its dependence upon China for tech-crucial rare earth minerals. Small but significant amounts of the minerals go into creating everything from PCs and cellphones to wind turbines and hybrid cars, as well as U.S. military technologies such as missile guidance systems. This latest news came from three rare earth industry officials cited by the New Y...

Joe Miller's private "guards" were active-duty military | Glenn Greenwald The Army says that two of the guards who assisted in the arrest of the journalist and who tried to prevent two other reporters from filming the detention were active-duty soldiers moonlighting for Miller's security contractor, the Drop Zone, a Spenard surplus store and protection service. The soldiers, Spc. Tyler Ellingboe, 22, and Sgt. Alexander Valdez, 31, are assigned to the 3rd Maneuver Enhancement Brigade at Fort Richardson. Maj. Bill Coppernoll, the public affairs officer for the Army in Alaska, said the two soldiers did not hav...

The Loss of Trust and the Great Unraveling To Come The bitter truth is that the nation's Financial Power Elites are not constrained by rule of law, and as a result of this revelation Americans' trust in their government and political class has been shattered. Despite raising their voices 600 to 1 against the TARP and related bailouts of the nation's Financial Power Elites (who stripmined the nation's wealth from their investment banking and mortgage banking fortresses) in 2008, the government shoved trillions of dollars of bailouts and guarantees into private hands with pathetically li...

Chris Hedges on ‘The Death of the Liberal Class’ [video] Chris Hedges talks about his new book, how he came to write it, and what we can expect from the collapse of the liberal establishment.

Whistleblower Speaks On Fraudclosure - The truth behind the crisis | zero hedge Zero Hedge has been approached by an individual who participated directly in the various aspects of what is now broadly known as Fraudclosure. The below narrative recounts his experience in the due diligence process of selecting loans for the MBS pipeline. And far more than just legalese "technicalities" or a broad abrogation of property rights, as he points out there is a far more palpable issue for all those who hold Mortgage Backed Securities or other pool aggregations of mortgage loans: "we have no idea what is in those packages." ...

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Jobless benefits about to crash

New Paper Finds IMF Policies are Increasing Risks to Economic Recovery

Willem Buiter: The US Must Prepare For Savage Austerity | zero hedge

John Taylor Parallels Current Situation To World War 2, Predicts Global Debt Structure Could Collapse | zero hedge

Roundup: Developments in the Mortgage, Mortgage Backed Securities and Foreclosure Crises

Iran secretly trying to establish banks in Muslim nations

A Day in the Life of a Berkshare: How a Regional Currency Works | Bill McKibben

Banks Clueless on Foreclosure Mess Severity | Jonathan Weil

Google 2.4% Rate Shows How $60 Billion Lost to Tax Loopholes

Will the Federal Reserve's Ben Bernanke Cause a Civil War?

Nine Stories The Press Is Underreporting -- Fraud, Fraud And More Fraud

Banks' mortgage troubles mount as everyone seeks payback

iDepression 2.0 | The Burning Platform

Bank of America Accused of Racketeering in Foreclosure Lawsuit

Was Abacus the Business Model for the Entire Mortgage Industry?

Retiring CFTC Judge: We Covered Up Market Manipulation

Stiglitz: Foreclosure Moratorium, Government Stimulus Needed to Revive US Economy

Banks' foreclosure hustle continues

When Banks Are the Robbers | Amy Goodman

China Day Ahead: Lending, Deposit Rates Raised; Rare Earth Export Embargo

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Radical Al-Qaeda cleric lunched at Pentagon

Chavez and Ahmadinejad say united to change world order

Digging in for the Long Haul in Afghanistan: Base-Building Surge | TomDispatch

Gun Battles Erupt Along U.S.-Mexican Border

The Secret World of Extreme Militias | TIME

Why the U.S. Is Not Winning “Hearts and Minds” in Pakistan - 1.4 million internally displaced flood victims

Nato surge on Taliban stronghold drives civilians into the line of fire

Pentagon seeks tight ties with cyber contractors

Efforts to Prosecute Blackwater Are Collapsing

CIA says Al-Qaeda in Pakistan hit hard in US attacks: report

The "Cyberwar" Is Over and the National Security Agency Has Won

Iran to prosecute US hikers for espionage on Nov 6

Taliban Elite, Aided by NATO, Join Talks for Afghan Peace

U.S. announces $60 bln arms sale for Saudi Arabia

Obama Administration files to keep gay military ban in place

Afghan Election Fraud - Sign the Petition [video]

China Halts Shipments to U.S. of Tech-Crucial Minerals

Pakistan intelligence services 'aided Mumbai terror attacks'

Shots hit Pentagon; temporary lockdown

Fearing Increased Wikileaks 'Credibility', Pentagon Asks Media Not to Use Leaked War Files

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Environment

6 Months Since BP Oil Spill, "Where Is Our Outrage?" | Democracy Now

Food in Uncertain Times: How to Grow and Store the 5 Crops You Need to Survive

Utilities, investors face risks from growing water scarcity

Astronomers Say They've Found Oldest Galaxy So Far

Drought Could Overtake Much of World by 2030, Rise to Unprecedented Levels by 2100

'Ten years' to solve nature crisis, UN meeting hears

Philippines counts cost as China prepares for powerful typhoon

From Crude Awakening to Climate Camp, direct action needs a new story [video]

UN Conference Confronts Dramatic Loss Of Biodiversity

Super typhoon slams Philippines at 155 mph

Big Oil Goes to College: BP, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell Fund & Influence Research at Major Universities

The Race to Buy Up the World's Water

Crumbling America has a $2.2 trillion repair bill

Climate Talks Tank, Global South Sinks Further

Environmental Movement: We are Facing the Greatest Threat to Humanity - Only Fundamental Change Can Save Us

When Will Our Water Be Clean? | Media Consortium

Rev. Billy & Savitri D Spread The Anti-Corporate Gospel: Earth-a-lujah! [video]

Environmental Groups Confront Oil Industry-Backed Attempt to Repeal California's Landmark Emissions Law in Prop 23

Rainforest Action Network at 25, Keeps After the Banks

BP to Shutter the Safety Watchdog, Despite Rise in Employee Concerns

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Health

No Time For Downtime? 8 Tips for Improving Cognitive Function

Chief Executive of Pharmaceutical Research Company Bankrolls Scores of Last-Minute Attacks on Democrats

Despite Once-Secret Deals with Obama, Hospital Association Turns Against Democrats

Major cuts throughout Britain’s National Health Service

Payments to Doctors by Most Pharma Companies Still Remain Secret | ProPublica

Docs on Pharma Payroll Have Blemished Records, Limited Credentials | ProPublica

"The Raw Milk Revolution": Criminalizing Nature’s Most Perfect Food: FDA’s war on private food contracts

Major Legal Victory in the Fight for Hormone-Free Milk

Food Addiction: Could It Explain Why 70 Percent of Americans Are Fat?

Sleeping Free of Healthcare Stress & Fear

Judge lets U.S. states' healthcare suit go forward

Insurers Denied Health Coverage to 1 in 7 People, Citing Pre-Existing Conditions

Obama Admin to Let Insurers Raise Fees for Policies on Sick Children

Child-only health-insurance policies: Federal officials ask for states' help in making child-only health-insurance policies available

Baby Born From 20-Year-Old Frozen Embryo

First Human Treated With Stem Cells

Collapsing empire watch: US life expectancy plummets| Glenn Greenwald

Malnourished Children Swell Ranks of World's Hungry

Is There a Cure for Autoimmune Disease?

Too much TV psychologically harms children: study

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Government

Toxic powder sent to Arizona congressman

Obama Admin: Look Forward! Even in the Face of Obvious Corporate Fraud!

SarahPAC Candidate "Should Be in Jail" | Greg Palast

Dark money: Super PACs fueled by $97.5 million that can't be traced to donors

Obama Hires a Hustler: Fannie Mae's Tom Donilon | Robert Scheer

Joe Miller's private "guards" were active-duty military | Glenn Greenwald

TV Political Ads Ditching Democracy 30 Seconds at a Time | The Public Record

Veterans Group Files FEC Complaint Against The Chamber: Foreign Funds Pose 'Clear And Present Danger' To U.S. Democracy

More Tea Party Hilarity | Matt Taibbi

Officials Push to Bolster Law on Telecom Wiretapping

New York's craziest show -- the governor's race

In Nevada, voters hold noses for both Senate candidates

Palin warns of third party if GOP doesn’t get in line with Tea Party

The Perfect Storm - Death of American Democracy | Robert Reich

Foreign-connected PACs Increase Giving During 2010 Cycle

Poll: Those craving for change now look to the GOP, Obama voters jumping ship

Return of the Secret Watergate-Style Donors, Except It's Legal Now

Watchdog Finds Treasury’s Reliance on Contractors Shielded Bailout Work from Scrutiny

Foreclosure Fiasco’s Trail Leads to Washington | Jonathan Weil

Court rulings change elections, independent spending dwarfs party spending in midterm

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Activism

Take Action: Stop Frankenfish

Chicago Parents Occupy Elementary School Building to Prevent Demolition [video]

How riot police broke the occupation of the Marseille oil depots

10 20th-Century Progressives the Nation Left Off Its List | Don Hazen

Food in Uncertain Times: How to Grow and Store the 5 Crops You Need to Survive

A Day in the Life of a Berkshare: How a Regional Currency Works | Bill McKibben

The Secret World of Extreme Militias | TIME

French gov't undercuts Senate on retirement bill as protests rage

Millions march in France against pension cuts

Spain on Strike

A Tea Party of populist posers

Movement Building and Deep Change: A Call to Mobilize Strong and Weak Ties

Don’t Let CEOs Steal Our Shareholder Votes - Take Action

GRITtv: Fight for Your Right to Vote for CEO Pay [video]

Health Insurance, Banking, Oil Industries Met With Koch, Chamber, Glenn Beck To Plot 2010 Election

Hoaxers target new Chevron advertising campaign

Afghan Election Fraud - Sign the Petition [video]

Citizen's Arrest of Condi Rice for War Crimes in San Francisco [video]

Chris Hedges on ‘The Death of the Liberal Class’ [video]

Anger builds in Boston over school closures

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Drugs

Mexican army destroys 134 tons of marijuana

Do Intelligent People Drink More Alcohol?

Drug war non-issue in US elections: experts

The feds say no way to legal marijuana

Hemp Is the Far Bigger Economic Issue Hiding Behind Legal Marijuana

15 Million Americans Have Been Arrested Because Pot Is Illegal

'Acid Christ': Ken Kesey, Psychedlics And The King Of Counter Culture

The Wars on Drugs and Terror: mirror images | Glenn Greenwald

Backing Prop 19, California NAACP Calls Marijuana Legalization a Civil Rights Issue

Rand Study: Marijuana Legalization Would Markedly Cut Mexican Drug Cartel Profits

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Media & Technology

More privacy headaches for Facebook: gay users outed to advertisers

Eight Epic Failures of Regulating Cryptography | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Pentagon seeks tight ties with cyber contractors

Not net neutral: News Corp. blocked website access for Cablevision subscribers

Frightening Fake News - advertising embedded in news | Save the News

Verizon to sell Samsung's iPad rival for $600

Apple Launches New MacBook Air, Lion OS X, Mac App Store, iLife 11

The "Cyberwar" Is Over and the National Security Agency Has Won

10 Ways Hackers Have Punked Corporations and Oppressive Governments

Comcast Campaign Giving Jumps by Half as U.S. Considers NBC Universal Deal

Network Neutrality 101 -- Why The Government Must Act To Preserve The Free And Open Internet

Congress Has More Questions for Facebook on Privacy

What PBS Thinks You Need to Know - Replacement for Now & Moyers fails to fill their shoes

Taking the Public Out of Public TV - PBS fare differs little from commercial TV

Officials Push to Bolster Law on Telecom Wiretapping

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CC Sabathia controls Rangers as Yankees send ALCS back to Texas

18 Countries Where Women Have It Way Better Than In America

World's most expensive Barbie sold at auction

LeBron James retweets racist messages he's received

Mark Teixeira removed from New York Yankees roster

League cracking down on head-to-head contact to protect players' safety

Cliff Lee continues postseason mastery as Texas takes ALCS lead over Yankees

Chandra Levy Trial Begins 9 Years after Condit's Fall

See the Kanye West Album Cover Banned From Wal-Mart

Rutgers defensive tackle Eric LeGrand paralyzed from neck down

Oswalt strikes out 9, Jimmy Rollins drives in 4 as Phillies even NLCS

Eagles DeSean Jackson Takes Brutal Hit, Knocked Out Of Game [video]

'Acid Christ': Ken Kesey, Psychedlics And The King Of Counter Culture

Dick Cheney Still Hasn't Apologized for Shooting His Hunting Partner

Roger Waters’ The Wall Live tour review

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Comedy

Elliot Spitzer (Harvard Club non grata) -- Here's To You Elliot! | zero hedge

Christine O'Donnell Questions Separation Of Church & State [video]

Stephen Colbert Walks Off 'The View' [video]

10 Reasons Not to Tax the Rich. And Why They're All Bad

Obama Didn't Robo-Sign [Cartoon]

Christine O’Donnell, Auto-Tuned [video]

Don't Drink & Tweet! The Funniest Drunk Tweets By Comedians

Colbert: Transitive Property of Christine O'Donnell [video]

Colbert: Tax Shelter Skelter [video]

"End Of The Recession" Fail Visualized Through Google Trends

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Sex

'Glee' Girls Strip for GQ [photos]

Glee Star Sorry for 'Pedophile' GQ Photos

Adriana Lima Insists that Victoria's Secret's $2 Million Bra is "Comfortable" [photos]

Facebook stops showing you photos of your ex

L.A. prosecutors charge 1968 Playboy playmate of the year with attempted murder

UN Report Sheds Light on Rape as Weapon of War

Obama Administration files to keep gay military ban in place

Ex-Spy Anna Chapman Bares All For Russian Maxim Magazine

Yale fraternity pledges chant about rape

Pentagon halts enforcement of gay ban amid legal challenge

In Mexico, Sex Trafficking Accelerates as Drug War Rages

Why Is The MPAA So Concerned About Male Nudity?

US judge rejects gay military ban

Minka Kelly: Esquire's Sexiest Woman Alive [videos, photos]

Kim Kardashian: Queen of Reality TV Goes Naked for W Magazine [photos]

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Video

6 Months Later Oil Victims Feel Abandoned: BP and government promises ring hollow

Ratigan: Tea Party Hijacked

Keiser Report: Currency War & Schiff

Afghan Election Fraud Caught On Video

Matt Taibi - Magic Money Printing Machine

French Riots & Passive Americans

Keiser Report: Currency Wars, Fraud & Ellen Brown

Hedges: "Death of the Liberal Class"

The Wall Street Tax Vultures

Will Black: Foreclosuregate & Control Fraud

US Media and Afghan War Surge

Colbert: Palin & O'Donnell, So Informed!

Colbert: Class Warfare, Tax Shelter Skelter

Keiser Report: Post-Catastrophe Economy

Food Prices Rising - A New Crisis?

Afghanistan: 10th Year, Vets Speak Out

Daily Show: Secretly Buying Elections

Keiser & DeGraw: Global Banking Cartel

Keiser Report: Barry Ritholtz on Class Warfare in USA

New Smoking Gun: How Wall Street Shafted Main Street

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