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Today’s Top 10
Sidney Crosby saves Canada from nervous breakdown
Canada's Sidney Crosby rejoices after scoring the winner in overtime as Canada beat the United ...
Olympic Drinking Games Why Canada Gets the GoldU.S. Scores with Seconds Remaining in Third Period to Tie, But Host Country Comes Out on Top, 3-2
Genocide in the Making in Canada. Who are the real criminals?
Stolen Sisters A Human Rights Response to Discrimination & Violence Against Indigenous Women
What’s Really Behind Turkey’s Coup Arrests?
U.S. House of Representative Alan Grayson led a Congressional delegation that just happened to be in Niger at the time of the recent military coup last Thursday that deposed the legitimate elected government of the Uranium-rich nation.
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The euro has become another "subprime" currency, afflicted by debts, funny bookkeeping, regulatory failure and widespread street protests in Greece and Spain. It's ironic that more violence-prone Americans didn't hit the streets, and throw rocks, when their living standards were sliced dramatically. Not yet anyway. |
Despite bailouts, Fannie & Freddie continue to lose billions
Close to 3,000 banks are currently classified as having a risky concentration of commercial real estate loans, according to a recent report by the Congressional Oversight Panel (COP). All of them are small to mid-sized banks, already weakened by the financial crisis.
FDIC Shuts Down Banks in Nevada & Washington
As you shall see below, there is no way in the world that Barack
Obama should have ever said that ‘a second depression is no longer a
possibility’. In fact, as the U.S. financial system continues to
crumble, it is likely that those words will be exploited by his
political adversaries again and again. If you are a politician and
you are going to issue a guarantee, you had better be able to deliver
the goods. In this case, Obama is making a promise that defies all of
the economic data. Prognosis 2012: Towards a New World Social Order ~ Historical background – the establishment of capitalist supremacy.
Survey: More Americans get news from Internet than newspapers or radio
David Cope’s software creates beautiful, original music. Why are people so angry about that?.
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L.A.’s New Scheme to Plunder Owens Valley Water, This Time with Solar Panels
L.A. has sold the idea of enriching the residents of the Owens river valley before, while ripping them off in the dark. Will the residents buy into it?
America's Permanent War Agenda
Every year in our history with no exceptions, America has been at war at home and/or abroad. ~ Stephen Lendman
Leonard Peltier ~ 1976 ~ by Luc Majno
Bachelet says Chile quake toll rises to 795-report
This article reframes "hope" and "faith" and urges us to move beyond the passivity of hoping that something external will make things better and encourages us to make friends with our despair as a catalyst to authentic change.~ By Carolyn Baker
Liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity linked to IQ
Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women. The findings will be published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.
Attack of the GMOs: GMO Alfalfa Will Make Organic Dairy Impossible
The USDA and Secretary Vilsack, in collaboration with Monsanto, are about to lift a court-ordered ban on Monsanto's genetically modified (GM) "Roundup Ready" alfalfa. This GMO would have disastrous effects on US and global agriculture. Genetically engineered alfalfa would be the first perennial GM crop, and would result in a huge increase of toxic RoundUp in the environment.
Orca attack raises question of captive animals
By Joel S. Hirschhorn WHAT PHYSICIANS KNOW
Warning: Herbicide chemicals in your drinking water could be dangerous to your health. Why pharmaceuticals might be called Weapons of Mass Prescription
Equality of opportunity? Not for a poor child’s brain.
Find out why I call them ‘Weapons of Mass Prescription’ in today’s feature article.
IQ scores of cigarette smokers tend to be lower than nonsmokers'.
Georgia vs Russia: Fanning the flames
The Chemist’s War
The little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol during Prohibition with deadly consequences.
submitted by Vince Guarisco
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