April 2009
19 posts
Communities print their own currency to keep cash...
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AFP: UN sounds warning after Antarctica ice shelf...
PARIS (AFP) — The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said the breakway of a Jamaica-sized ice shelf from the Antarctic peninsula could accelerate global warming in this already vulnerable region. Satellite pictures show a 40-kilometre (25-mile) ice bridge that was the Wilkins Ice Shelf’s last link to the coast had now shattered at its narrowest point, about 500 metres (yards) wide, UNEP said....
Report Foreshadows Deeper Job Losses
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Celente on the G20 Riots: This is Just the...
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Former US governor faces 300yr jail term | World...
FORMER Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has been indicted for corruption while in office, including trying to sell the US Senate seat that was held by President Barack Obama. A federal grand jury indicted the 52-year-old Democrat on 16 felony counts, including racketeering conspiracy, wire fraud, extortion conspiracy, attempted extortion and making false statements to federal...
Mexico's Drug War: Key drug cartel leader arrested...
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World Bank President Admits Agenda For Global...
World Bank President and Bilderberg elitist Robert Zoellick openly admitted the plan to eliminate national sovereignty and impose a global government during a speech on the eve of the G20 summit. Speaking about the agenda to increase not just funding but power for international organizations on the back of the financial crisis, Zoellick stated, “If leaders are serious about creating new...
Agent Provocateur Riots Commence in London at G20
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Hannity, Morris Agree with Conspiracy People About...
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Police in riot gear hold back protesters in London
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G20 summit: New world order?
What we have is a summit without an agenda, on a crisis without an agreed cause, in a country without a functioning government. The US – whose outgoing President agreed to hold the meeting under French pressure, and whose President-elect, keen to stress that the US has “only one president at a time”, won’t even be there – has already bristled at European talk of a creating new...
Taliban calls U.S. offer ‘lunatic idea'
KABUL — Taliban insurgents today rejected a U.S. offer of “honourable reconciliation” as a “lunatic idea” and said the withdrawal of foreign troops was the only way to end the war in Afghanistan. With the Afghan conflict now in its eighth year, NATO-led forces and the Taliban are locked in a bloody stalemate with violence set to rise further this year as more U.S. troops arrive and seek to...
Thousands of Protesters in London for G20 Summit...
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G20 protesters smash windows, clash with police
By William Maclean and Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - Demonstrators clashed with riot police and smashed bank windows in Britain’s financial center on Wednesday in protest against a system they said had robbed the poor to benefit the rich. Hundreds of protesters converged on a branch of the Royal Bank of Scotland, shattering windows. Rescued by the government in October, RBS has...
Biggest U.S. tax hike on tobacco takes effect
Smokers are gasping at higher cigarette and cigar prices as the largest federal tobacco tax increase in history takes effect. “Oh my gosh,” Bernardo Torres said Tuesday when a clerk at a CVS Pharmacy in Falls Church, Va., told him the new price, which went up in anticipation of the tax increase the next day. Torres wanted to buy his aunt two cartons of cigarette-size cigars, but he...
Jobless gather for Unemployment Olympics in NYC
NEW YORK (AP) — Who hasn’t secretly wished he could pin the blame on his boss? Or slam office equipment against the pavement? Dozens of unemployed people got the chance to do exactly that during the tongue-in-cheek Unemployment Olympics on Tuesday. In a twist on the classic game Pin the Tail on the Donkey, participants pulled a hat over their eyes and spun around before using a pushpin...
World Bank Sees Global Contraction In 2009
“The assumption is that just mechanically pouring money and credits into poor countries makes them have higher growth,” he said. “We have 60 years of evidence against this proposition — lots of money pouring in without discernible growth effects.” In a separate report released yesterday, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which includes...
Don't fret about Conficker: Here's what to do
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - The Conficker worm, a nasty computer infection that has poisoned millions of PCs, will start ramping up its efforts Wednesday to use those machines for cybercrimes. It’s unclear whether everyday PC users will even notice, but this is as good an excuse as any to make sure your computer is clean. There are some easy ways to figure out whether a computer has the...
March 2009
44 posts
Change and Hope on Drug Policy?
Last week, Attorney General Eric Holder announced that the Obama Justice Department would end federal raids on medical marijuana dispensaries. That’s a welcome change from the Bush administration’s policy, which violated constitutional principle and common decency. Bush claimed to respect federalism, but his Justice Department repeatedly brought the heavy hand of the law down on...
The New York Times: Percentage of Degrees in the...
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The Last Professors: The Corporate University and...
“How is it that the number of students attending American universities has surged in recent decades, but the number of professors—especially humanities professors—has dwindled? The perplexing institutional dynamics of the modern university come in for penetrating scrutiny here. Donoghue, an Ohio State English professor, sees a troubling new conception of higher education emerging among...
Truthdig - Reports - America Is in Need of a Moral...
Posted on Mar 23, 2009 AP photo / M. Spencer GreenTraders at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.By Chris Hedges In decaying societies, politics become theater. The elite, who have hollowed out the democratic system to serve the corporate state, rule through image and presentation. They express indignation at AIG bonuses and empathy with a working class they have...
Facebook For Refugees | Mother Jones
Facebook For Refugees — By Bruce Falconer | Mon March 23, 2009 10:50 AM PST Facebook helped you reconnect with your ex, check up on your favorite band, and join Chesley Sullenberger’s fan club, and sure, those things are fun. But what about helping the global diaspora of displaced persons figure out where their former neighbors are and what’s become of...
Geithner: Home Alone? | Mother Jones
Geithner: Home Alone? — By David Corn | Tue March 24, 2009 9:27 AM PST On Monday, after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner finished briefing reporters on the administration’s new toxic assets plan, journalists filed out of the Treasury building—which conveniently and symbolically sits next to the White House on Pennsylvania Avenue—and spotted something...
Truthdig -Those Hit Hardest Get No Bailout
Obama has surrounded himself with financial advisers who are too cozy with Wall Street, like Summers and Geithner. It’s time to direct the stimulus to the people who need it, to those whose tax dollars are funding it.via truthdig.com Posted via web from INTENSE News | Comment »
Plans to Kill Plants Along US/Mexico Border...
by Dane Schiller
The U.S. Border Patrol plans to poison the plant life along a 1.1-mile stretch of the Rio Grande riverbank as soon as Wednesday to get rid of the hiding places used by smugglers, robbers and illegal immigrants.
Mexican soldiers patrol along the bank of the Bravo river near Los Guerra, on Mexico’s northeastern border with the U.S., Wednesday, March 18, 2009. (AP...
BBC NEWS | Business | World's cheapest car is...
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New prison photo of Charles Manson released -...
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Madoff pleads guilty to all 11 charges in federal...
One of Wall Street’s biggest swindles ends in guilty plea on 11 charges. ‘I always knew this day would come.’ “I thought it would end quickly, but it proved impossible,” said Madoff, who stole from more than 4,000 victims through his investment firm. “I am ashamed for these criminal acts. I always knew this day would come.” As Madoff wrung his hands...
33 dead in suicide attack on Iraq tribal leaders
via news.yahoo.com BAGHDAD – A suicide bomber struck Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders touring a market after a reconciliation meeting west of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing 33 people in the second major attack in the capital area in two days. Despite the ongoing violence, the top U.S. commander in Iraq said he does not believe the Iraqi government will ask Americans to remain in the country...
NKorea warns of war danger
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - North Korea put its troops on alert and cut the last hot line to Seoul on Monday as the American and South Korean militaries began joint maneuvers. The communist regime warned that even the slightest provocation could trigger war. The North stressed that provocation would include any attempt to interfere with its impending launch of a satellite into orbit. U.S. and...
China says U.S. navy ship was breaking law: HK...
BEIJING (Reuters) - China said a U.S. naval vessel was conducting illegal surveying off its southern island of Hainan, a Hong Kong television website reported on Tuesday, after the Pentagon said Chinese ships had harassed the vessel in international waters. Global oil prices rose 3 percent on Monday, partly driven by market concerns over tensions between the world’s top oil consumers....
Famed pastor predicts imminent catastrophe
A respected pastor, best-selling author and founder of a major ministry to teens predicts an imminent “earth-shattering calamity” centered in New York City that will spread to major urban areas across the country and around the world – part of what he sees as a judgment from God.
David Wilkerson, author of “The Cross and the Switchblade,” a book about his ministry to...
Legitimacy of Global Court Questioned Over Sudan |...
The ongoing political crisis in Sudan is expected to worsen in the face of a rash of threats and warnings following the indictment last week of President Omar Hassan al-Bashir by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague. The beleaguered Sudanese president has threatened to expel diplomats from Khartoum and throw out more humanitarian organisations - in addition to the 13 that...
Younger and Hungrier in America
The revised and upgraded unemployment figures released on Friday were nothing short of staggering: almost two million jobs lost in the past three months as the official unemployment rate rose to a quarter-century high of 8.1%. Nearly three million Americans are now officially unemployed for six months or more, while another 8.6 million are “working part time because they cannot find...
CODEPINK : Women Say No To War
This year, on Sunday, March 8, 2009, women and men worldwide have commemorated the day by highlighting the plight of the women of Gaza. CODEPINK’s historic 60-person International Women’s Day delegation, carrying the 2,000+ gift baskets you so generously donated to the women of Gazais now inside Gaza City. United Nations Gender Division has invited us to hand-deliver ...
Prince Charles: we have 100 months to save the...
The Prince of Wales is to issue a stark warning that nations have “less than 100 months to act” to save the planet from irreversible damage due to climate change. By Andrew Alderson, Chief Reporter Last Updated: 1:27PM GMT 09 Mar 2009 via telegraph.co.uk Posted via web from INTENSE News | Comment »
Buffett says economy fell off cliff | Reuters
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Warren Buffett said on Monday the U.S. economy had “fallen off a cliff” but would eventually recover, although a rebound could kindle inflation worse than that experienced in the late 1970s.
Speaking on CNBC television, the 78-year-old billionaire said the country is experiencing a “close to the worst-case” scenario of...
Al Jazeera English - Africa - 'Women at risk' amid...
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What are signs that economy bottoms out? - Economy...
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Michelle Obama's Oprah Magazine Cover: Winfrey's...
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The End of Recycling? - Environment and Energy in...
In a bad economy, it’s often the good environmental practices—using energy-efficient light bulbs, insulating homes, driving less, eating less meat—that end up prevailing, in part because they save people money. But that’s actually not true of recycling, which, for better or worse, is intimately tied to the health of international markets—and the willingness of countries like China...
Making Sense of Darfur. How Can Bashir be...
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Single-payer advocates win seats at White House...
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Statement Of Senator Patrick Leahy: Hearing On...
Testimony: March 4, 2009 Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee. People with first-hand knowledge would be invited to come forward and share their experiences and insight, not for purposes of constructing criminal indictments, but to assemble the facts. If needed, such a process could involve subpoena powers, and even authority to obtain immunity to secure information, in order to get to the whole...
Robin Williams in South Florida hospital
We know the reason Robin Williams postponed all four performances of his one-man show in Florida: Sources say he’s currently at a Miami hospital with heart issues and could be laid up for a while.
Williams, 57, has been on his ”Weapons of Self Destruction” tour since September.
Source: Miami Herald
Defendant shot dead after attacking trial judge
The defendant in a murder trial in Stockton, California, was shot dead Wednesday after attacking the judge during a courtroom recess, authorities said. Paramedics wheel Judge Cinda Fox out on a stretcher after she was attacked during court in Stockton, California. Paramedics wheel Judge Cinda Fox out on a stretcher after she was attacked during court in Stockton, California. David...
10 Things We Didn’t Know About Food
by George Miller and Katharine Reeve
A surprise consequence of writing a book about food was that we lost our appetite. A month in, we realised we had underestimated just how devastating the effects of our industrial food systems are on our health, animal welfare, climate change and the earth’s resources.
Thankfully, a few trips to some farmers markets with their good news story of ...