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Today’s Top 10
Medalist leaves Olympics after racy pics hit Web
Fortress Said to Need $150 Million to Keep Olympic Resort From Lenders
Police accused of sending agents provocateurs to Olympic protests in Vancouver
DECLARATION OF A POLITICAL EMERGENCY
Canada’s North ~ the prostitution continues
By Andrew Nikiforuk. Submitted by Luc Majno
US AIRSTRIKE FACES SCRUTINY FROM COALITION…
American death toll in Afghanistan hits 1,000…
US Air Strike Kills at Least 25 Civilians in Afghanistan
IMF restores Zimbabwe’s voting rights after 7 years
The Doomsday Cycle Over the last 30 years, the US financial system has grown to proportions threatening the global economic order. This column suggests a ‘doomsday cycle’ has infiltrated the economic system and could lead to disaster after the next financial crisis. It says the best route to creating a safer system is to have very large and robust capital requirements, which are legislated and difficult to circumvent or revise. An Easily Understandable Explanation of Derivative Markets From 1944
EXCELLENT: WATCH FULL DOCUMENTARY ONLINE OF ‘MONEY AS DEBT
II’ Bailouts, stimulus packages, debt piled upon debt & Where will it all end?
How did we get into a situation where there has never been more
material wealth & productivity and yet everyone is in debt to
bankers?
And now, all of a sudden, the bankers have no money and we the
taxpayers, have to rescue them by going even further into debt!
Money as debt II explores the baffling, fraudulent and destructive
arithmetic of the money system that holds us hostage to a forever
growing DEBT & and how we might evolve beyond it into a new era
THE POWER OF LOCAL But in more than a hundred communities across North America,
independent community–based businesses had a more positive story to
tell. A nationwide survey of more than 1,800 independent businesses
by the Institute for Local Self–Reliance
(ILSR) found them outperforming chain competitors. Most notably, the
survey found independent retailers in communities with active ‘Buy
Independent or Buy Local’ campaigns reported an increase in holiday
sales three times stronger (up three percent) than those in cities
without such campaigns (up one percent).
RELINKED: COMMON SECURITY
CLUBS Common Security Clubs are groups of people who have come together to support each other in hard times by offering mutual aid, taking social action, and learning about the economic forces that impact their lives. |
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Haiti Kids With Baptists Weren’t Orphans
Venezuela Creates Peasant Militias, Enacts Federal Government Council
‘War is excluded from horizon’, says Argentina.
But tensions rise as Buenos Ares recruits allies and promises to use all legal means to stop British oil drilling’
THE DEATH OF U.S. CAPITALISM: THE FINAL 10 SCENESBy Paul Farrell, submitted by Carolyn Baker
Newsweek staff who play fast and loose with the facts are imperiling not just their profession but the planet.
How should scientists respond to the "he said, he said, he said, she said" media world we live in now that science journalism has died?
History in the Remaking
A temple complex in Turkey that predates even the pyramids is rewriting the story of human evolution.
CHAOS AS AN EVERYDAY THING
You know you’re living in a chaotic situation when (1) the mainstream
media are constantly surprised by what is happening; (2) short–term
predictions by various pundits go in radically different directions
and are stated with many reserves; (3) the Establishment dares to say
things or use words that were previously taboo; (4) ordinary people
are frightened and angry but very unsure what to do. This is a good
description of the past two years throughout the world, or at least
in most parts of the world.
IS THERE ENOUGH FOOD OUT THERE FOR 9
BILLION PEOPLE? A threefold challenge now faces the world: Match the rapidly
changing demand for food from a larger and more affluent population to its
supply; do so in ways that are environmentally and socially
sustainable; and ensure that the world’s poorest people are no longer
hungry. This challenge requires changes in the way food is produced,
stored, processed, distributed, and accessed that are as radical as
those that occurred during the 18th– and 19th–century Industrial and
Agricultural Revolutions and the 20th–century Green Revolution.
Increases in production will have an important part to play, but they
will be constrained as never before by the finite resources provided
by Earth’s lands, oceans, and atmosphere.
10 Reasons to Rethink ‘Overpopulation’
CHILDREN AT THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE HAVE KNOWN IT Children are our future. Our attitudes toward them, relationships with them, and physical, emotional, and spiritual concerns for them all deserve consideration and careful planning.
My comment: My book, Sacred Demise, contains a crucial chapter entitled ‘Raising The Next Generation As The World Ends’. ~ Carolyn Baker
Unprepared & Unplugged:
Joe Stack and Likely Coming Attractions
WHAT IS COLLAPSE ANYWAY?
By Sharon Astyk How Long Before You Wake Up, Politicos? If you believe that we have "escaped" from the mess that gripped this nation in 2008 and 2009, or that said mess "suddenly appeared" and "nobody saw it coming", stop reading now and have your Thorazine dosage checked. It's way off.
The Bankruptcy Boys by Paul Krugman ~ O.K., the beast is starving. Now what? That’s the question confronting Republicans. But they’re refusing to answer, or even to engage in any serious discussion about what to do. STRATFOR’S TOP PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEXT DECADE: China Collapse, Global Labor Shortages, New American Dominance.
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