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What’s Really in Your Expensive Steak? You’d Be Surprised

By   /  June 6, 2012  /  Health, World  /  No Comments

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Jim Hightower Alternet Do you prefer it with a nice Bernaise sauce, a side of garlicky spinach — or maybe some transglutaminase? Yes, “meat glue” — it’s what’s for dinner! Forget organic, locavore, omega3, umami, artisanal and all the other signposts of the healthy, ethical and refined “good food” movement, there are important advances in [...]

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America In Decline: The Soul Crushing Despair Of Lowered Expectations

By   /  June 6, 2012  /  Economy, World  /  1 Comment

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The Economic Collapse All over America tonight there are people that believe that their lives are over.  When you do everything that you know how to do to get a job and you still can’t get one it can be absolutely soul crushing.  If you have ever been unemployed for an extended period of time [...]

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Women and children murdered on the orders of President Obama

By   /  June 6, 2012  /  Conflict, World  /  No Comments

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Barack Obama has personally ordered mass murder in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and beyond, in his policy of illegal and immoral assassination which far outstrips that of the George W Bush administration, and which has slaughtered hundreds of innocent civilians, including many women and children. Journalist Jeremy Scahill says it is creating a new generation of [...]

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Chomsky: America’s Rank Hypocrisy — Why Is it Only an “Atrocity” When Other Countries Do It?

By   /  June 6, 2012  /  In Other News, World  /  No Comments

War-Crimes

Noam Chomsky Alternet How America’s worst crimes are ignored, while we lecture others on human rights. In his penetrating study “Ideal Illusions: How the U.S. Government Co-Opted Human Rights,” international affairs scholar James Peck observes, “In the history of human rights, the worst atrocities are always committed by somebody else, never us” – whoever “us” [...]

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647,762,000,000,000 Reasons to Worry: The Derivatives Time Bomb

By   /  June 6, 2012  /  Economy, World  /  No Comments

Derivatives Time Bomb

John Galt Shenandoah The hits just keep coming and with $647 trillion reasons to worry, aka, the total notional derivatives now outstanding as of Q4 in 2011 per the Bank of International Settlements just released this afternoon and published officially on Monday (click here for the PDF of the full report). The really, really good [...]

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Cindy McCain says she doesn’t care about dead US sailors

By   /  June 6, 2012  /  Conflict, In Other News, World  /  1 Comment

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Ray Hanania rayhanania.wordpress Cindy McCain, the wife of Arizona Senator John McCain, probably didn’t know what she was getting into when she set up a “Fan Page” for herself on Facebook. McCain suddenly noticed that several people who visited her page complained that her husband’s father had been involved in the cover up of the [...]

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Darkness Reigns In Hollywood: Fake Story About Osama’s Late Death Comes To The Big Screen

By   /  June 6, 2012  /  World  /  No Comments

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Saman Mohammadi The Excavator Dark clouds are gathering worldwide, especially over cinemas.  “We are living through times where evil has manifested itself with an almost revelation-like obtrusiveness and power. We have learned to understand the medieval legends about monks who, being vouchsafed a glimpse into hell, would never smile or speak again. The apocalyptic beast [...]

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London 2012 security operation investigating 500,000 people

By   /  June 6, 2012  /  Police State, World  /  1 Comment

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The Guardian Home Office refuses 100 applications for accreditation in biggest vetting process since second world war The backgrounds of up to 500,000 people are being scrutinised in an unprecedented security screening designed to stop the Olympic Games being disrupted by criminals or terrorists, the Guardian has learned. In what is understood to be the [...]

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UK mainstream media snub public over jubilee coverage

By   /  June 6, 2012  /  World  /  No Comments

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PressTV Britain’s mainstream media coverage of the Queen’s diamond jubilee celebrations focused on the picturesque extravaganza of the event, while there were other aspects to that. First comes the huge costs the event imposed on the public purse, which the government estimates showed that the cost to the taxpayer would be as much as £3 [...]

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Republicans blast Obama for using cyber warfare for political gain

By   /  June 6, 2012  /  Politics, World  /  No Comments

obama ordered cyberattacks

Haaretz A New York Times report which revealed that the Stuxnet worm was part of a joint U.S.-Israel effort to sabotage computers which control Iran’s nuclear enrichment facilities led to bitter exchange between GOP lawmakers and the White House on Wednesday. The FBI has already launched a criminal investigation into the leaks, and California Senator [...]

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China’s Wen says Russia ties ‘crucial’ for global peace

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AsianAge China’s Premier Wen Jiabao said Wednesday closer ties with Russia were of ‘crucial importance’ for global peace, as the two nations seek to resist international action on Syria and Iran. Wen made the comments during a meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Beijing on the sidelines of a meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation [...]

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Google’s new warning tool flags ‘state-sponsored’ attacks

By   /  June 6, 2012  /  Science & Technology, World  /  No Comments

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RT Google has a new trick up its sleeve. The internet company introduced a new warning system to let users know about “suspected state-sponsored” attacks. “We are constantly on the lookout for malicious activity on our systems, in particular attempts by third parties to log into users’ accounts unauthorized” said Eric Grosse, Google VP of security [...]

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