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Iran Council Certifies Ahmadinejad Victory
The unexpectedly rapid decision by the Guardian Council set off angry screaming in Tehran.
 
Alabama Gov. Bob Riley (left) and Sen. Richard Shelby in June on a river cruise in Paris, where U.S. politicians met with defense-industry executives.
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Alabama Gov. Bob Riley (left) and Sen. Richard Shelby in June on a river cruise in Paris, where U.S. politicians met with defense-industry executives.
Spending on Taxpayer–Funded Trips Rises Tenfold
 
Each year, the White House is required to report to Congress the names, titles & salaries of White House staff. Below is a list of those making over $100,000.
 

WORLD NEWS

My comment: This story is being relinked because in my opinion, it is crucial to understand how and why a country surrounded by global depression is thriving. Norway has significant quantities of offshore oil, some of which it is exporting, then using that money to put into the pension funds of its citizens to make them thrive– –and they are thriving. They are aware of Peak Oil and consciously preparing for it. Last night I watched a BBC story on Norway which interviewed a number of its citizens, all of whom emphasized that it is their duty and responsibility to provide for subsequent generations by assuring prosperity for them. What a different world it would be if even a few countries followed Norway’s example!

U.S. NEWS

In a letter from the Michigan governor to the California governor, she stated: ‘It would allow California to address some of its immediate needs for additional prison beds and prisoner preparation for release and would permit some of Michigan’s very talented correctional and program staff to continue working as they face the likelihood of layoff’, she added.
 
 

CANADA

There is a political alternative usually being kept off the table when the future of mankind is being discussed. It’s called  Primitivism,  and is about seeking our lost or rather displaced past,  our long neglected contact with nature,  with the very life we have denied during the prolonged disaster called civilization.
 

OP ED

 
 
 
Submitted by Luc Majno

HEALTH

New research suggests that casino workers face a higher risk of heart disease and lung cancer because they work in buildings filled with tobacco smoke.

TECH

 

BUSINESS

The reason is simple. It won’t address the problem. In fact, it might make the problem worse.
It sets targets that are too weak, especially in the short term, and sets about meeting those targets through Enron–style accounting methods, he continued. It gives new life to one of the primary sources of the problem that should be on its way out – coal – by giving it record subsidies.

FEATURES

 
 

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AMERICAS

 
 

MIDDLE EAST/ASIA

 
 
My comment: This is how badly Wall St. needs to prop up the markets with drug money and ward off a total market meltdown.

AFRICA

MARKETS

I’ve lost count of how many times Barack Obama has claimed he was going to change the way Washington does business, how he was going to cut off the role of the big corporate lobbyists, stop government use of secrecy to cover for illegal actions, make government more accountable and transparent, stop corruption, and end cronyism. The record indicates that all these are part of the Big Lie--a concerted effort to deceive his own followers and the nation. Only the establishment media is silent about this growing dichotomy. None of the White House press corps dares question him in public about his backtracking. The Republican opposition (who backed these same evil practices when they were in power) has taken notice, but not as much as principled liberals who feel betrayed by his promises of change.
 
 
 
 
This is the real context: a growing army of millions of unemployed, declining housing values and equity, a banking sector bloated with foreclosed/distressed houses which cannot be sold en masse and a Ministry of Propaganda in full–court press on reality.

SC/ENVIRONMENT

 
TRANSITION INITIATIVE: CHANGING THE SCALE OF CHANGE Part of the genius of the movement rests in its acute and kind psychology. It acknowledges the emotional effect of these issues, from that thirteen–year–old’s sense of fear and despair, to common feelings of anger, impotence, and denial, and it uses insights from the psychology of addiction to address some reasons why it is hard for people to detoxify themselves from an addiction to (or dependence on) oil. It acknowledges that healthy psychological functioning depends on a belief that one’s needs will be met in the future; for an entire generation, that belief is now corroded by anxiety over climate change.
 
 
 
 
 
 
How can those of us working to manage the transition to a post–carbon world prevent disaster capitalism and flip it on its head? Call it Disaster Transitionism, if you will.
 
 

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