
Updated: 8:42am pt 21 Thursday 2008
The connection between the bursting of the housing bubble and the fragility of the financial system has created huge dangers, for the US and the rest of the world. Ken Petersen, USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service:
"We don‘t know exactly where all the product went" but will "cast a wide net to make sure that we can find all the product that we can find"
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| WORLD NEWS • Powerful Indonesian Quake Kills 3 • Pakistan Election Brings Uncertainty • McCain May Keep Latinos From Leaving GOP BUSINESS from Luc Majno
’The Day She Died, She Knew She Couldn’t Talk To Police’, Mom Says
And where, you might ask, was the judge going that night dressed that way?
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. – Voltaire –
An Epidemic of Police Thuggery First Seen in US Occupied New Orleans MARKETS
TECH … could become as important a journalistic
tool
as the Freedom of Information Act. — Time Magazine ENVIRONMENT/SCIENCE
By 2050 solar power could end U.S. dependence on foreign oil and slash greenhouse gas
emissions HEALTH
People taking medication for depression typically see a lot of improvements in their symptoms during the first few months, but lagging behind other areas is a sense of hopefulness, according to new research from the University of Michigan Health from Luc Majno NATURE VIDEO/AUDIO This is a five minute video and it is very moving, about a little boy whose teacher got it, and encouraged him. It’s fictional, but it could be true, and for some it hits close to home… – Luc Majno OP–ED by Richard Backus
Debating torture and counterinsurgency – a century ago
Call Me a Snob, but Really, We’re a Nation of Dunces The Machine Gun Of Capitalism By Mark Morford http://www.countercurrents.org/morford190208.htm Dead soldiers, peak oil and mind-boggling profits; praise Jesus, the machine’s still working |