Urge President Obama to Take Action for Children’s Rights
Reposted: Feb 13, 2010: Today First Nations chiefs are planning a 29-hour hunger strike leading up to the Olympic hockey game between Canada and Norway Tuesday, to protest Norwegian-owned fish farms. Members of the Union of B.C. Indian Chiefs are fasting to support the Musgamagw Tsawataineuk Tribal Council’s opposition to…
Frederick C. Weyand, Vietnam Commander, Dies at 93 Frederick C. Weyand, who served as the commander of American forces in Vietnam in the final year of the war, a duty he carried out despite having become convinced as early as 1967 that the war was a hopeless venture, died on Wednesday at his home in Honolulu.
CLUELESS President Barack Obama said he doesn’t “begrudge” the $17 million bonus awarded to JPMorgan Chase & Co. Chief Executive Officer Jamie Dimon or the $9 million issued to Goldman Sachs Group Inc. CEO Lloyd Blankfein,…
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Save Winter - Stop Tar Sands, the Dirtiest Form of Oil Nice try, Canada. But you’re fired
Bode, sequins, Bob Costas’s amazing hair and the one thing the host country really shouldn’t get wrong
By Steve Almond
New Cold War: Russia vs. Canada
Their hockey rivalry is decades old, but the rise of Alex Ovechkin lends it a new fury
By Ethan Sherwood Strauss
The damage done to Israel’s image by allegations of Gaza war crimes in a UN report has ignited a war between the right and left in the Jewish state
Patrick Cockburn: Where war goes, propaganda follows: The largely mythical US success in Iraq is now to be replicated in Afghan towns like Marjah and skirmishes there will be heavily reported.
Expert Says Greek Debt Challenges Logic of EU
"The Greek debt crisis has exposed the underlying contradictions of Europe's economic monetary union-- a single currency and market absent a single government--at a time when the EU is beset by growing conflicts among the member states".
US Debt Clock
Until and unless excess debts are liquidated, the disease cannot be subdued. It will merely return at a different time, in a different
form. Next to feel the pain: Sovereign nations!
Should Have, Would Have, Could Have… Research Reveals the Power of Counterfactual Reflection on Life’s Pivotal Moments
UC Berkeley business management professors find counterfactual thinkers are more analytical in organizational settings.
The Front Organizations for U.S. Oligarchs Have Been Established in Abu Dhabi
The Safest & Most Dangerous Cell Phones
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By Joel S. Hirschhorn Real, Uglier American Unemployment
Can you trust national averages? As bad as the jobless data you hear are, you have not been told the whole truth. If you think the terrible impact of Americ’s Great Recession is shown by an official unemployment rate of about 10 percent, think again.
What Happened When a Professor Got His Students to Participate in His ‘Veil for a Day’ Project
Anyone who thinks we’re a post–racial society should get a load of the reactions. Spokesman: Unruly passenger took a swing at RomneyFormer presidential candidate reportedly did not retaliate
Cheney Admits to War Crimes, Media Yawns, Obama Turns the Other Cheek
On Sunday, in an exclusive interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News’ "This Week," Cheney proclaimed his love of torture, derided the Obama administration for outlawing the practice, and admitted that the Bush administration ordered Justice Department attorneys to …
‘Slow doesn’t just happen anymore. You have to make the effort’, says Honeybloom. ‘I truly believe that slowing down your life is a radical choice’
We live in a time of steadily rising unemployment, and,
consequently, much emphasis is being placed on stimulating job creation. To this
end, the federal government has already spent a lot of economic
stimulus money on a variety of infrastructure projects. An obvious
question to ask is whether any of these projects have directly
benefited the unemployed, beyond creating a few temporary jobs. It is
a no-brainer that the jobs to create first are the ones in industries
with the highest growth potential, where job creation can quickly
become self-sustaining. As a matter of public policy, it would make
perfect sense to provide seed money for what is bound to become a new
high-growth industry segment: serving the needs of the permanently
unemployed.
In order to counteract the rise in prices in the capitalist market,
Chavez encouraged communes to create new systems of distribution and
consumption. He gave the example of the Socialist Arepa shop in
Caracas that sells the popular Venezuelan food at about half of the
normal price, and makes the arepas from corn meal that was precooked
in socialist centres , and purchased at a non-profit price.
The great thing about Corporate America is that competition is always fierce for the national title of greediest.
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Last year PhRMA was employing 165 lobbyists, 137 of which were former employees of either the … |
Attacking Cancer Cells with Hydrogel Nanoparticles
Researchers at Georgia Tech are using hydrogel nanoparticles to kill cancer.
Other scientists believe that even moderate levels of exercise are
responsible for slowing down the aging process and even reversing it.
Many studies have shown that engaging in regular physical activity
helps to prevent the onset of chronic disease and can help to lower
cholesterol and reduce blood pressure. By slowing down the aging
process, other diseases like cancer, stroke, and diabetes can also be
prevented.
Eating a balanced diet and preparing your food in the correct way may be your best defense against developing cancer, according to top cancer
researchers Professor Attilio Giacosa and Professor Jaak Janssens. In two interviews published on the LWWPartnerships website ( www.lwwpartnerships.com) this month, Prof Giacosa explains how a preventative diet boosts the body's natural defenses, while Prof Janssens discusses the latest developments in breast cancer prevention.
The Richest 1% Have Captured America's Wealth -- What's It Going to Take to Get It Back?
The United States already had the highest inequality of wealth in the industrialized world prior to the financial crisis -- and it's gotten even worse since. READ MORE
David DeGraw / Amped Status
The ‘contagion’ of Greece has already spread and it’s only a matter
of months before the Iberian peninsula goes under too. Did I leave
out the UK's financial troubles (acknowledging that they are not
within the Euro currency system)?
Maybe the internet isn’t the panacea it’s made out to be – – Hedges argues it has been hijacked by corporate interests and it’s destroying our society. READ MOREChris Hedges / Truthdig
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