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Grand Theft Auto: How Stevie the Rat bankrupted GM
by Greg Palast
Screw the autoworkers.
They may be crying about General Motors' bankruptcy today. But dumping 40,000 of the last 60,000 union jobs into a mass grave won't spoil Jamie Dimon's day.
Dimon is the CEO of JP Morgan Chase bank. While GM workers are losing their retirement health benefits, their jobs, their life savings; while shareholders are getting zilch and many creditors getting hosed, a few privileged GM lenders - led by Morgan and Citibank - expect to get back 100% of their loans to GM, a stunning $6 billion.
For God's sake, Let them be Sad
Gilad Atzmon
As part of their racist campaign against the indigenous Palestinians, Israeli lawmakers are now insisting upon making the commemoration of the Nakba illegal. Recently a number of Israeli cabinet and Knesset Members proposed a "draft law" that would criminalize the remembrance of 1948 Palestinian holocaust (Nakba) by Palestinians holding Israeli citizenship. Interestingly enough, the Jewish state that sets its raison d'être around the remembrance of Jewish suffering is attempting to ban Palestinians from doing exactly the same with their own.
As we know, Israel had wiped out every possible remnant of Palestinian existence on the ground. Palestinian villages, towns, orchards, fields and cultural assets had been erased soon after 1948. Currently, the Israeli lawmakers are taking the war against the Palestinian heritage one step further. It is not just a physical expulsion and erasure of facts on the ground, it is not just racially motivated ethnic cleansing, starvation, land confiscation, house demolition, bombing schools or spreading white phosphorous over populated neighbourhoods, from now on, Israel wants to invade the Palestinian mind. Israeli Knesset members insist upon eradicating the Palestinian collective memory. At least formally, they are trying to ban the right to remember.
Fluoride Supplements: Another Ineffective Drug with Unwanted Side Effects
Paul Beeber
"There is weak and inconsistent evidence that the use of fluoride supplements prevents dental caries [cavities] in primary teeth," according to a systematic review of fluoride supplement research published in the November 2008 Journal of the American Dental Association.
The authors could find only one study, from China, showing any fluoride cavity-preventing benefit to primary teeth and that study was probably biased with a high withdrawal rate, the authors write.
Reaching Out to the College Community
Stephen Crockett
I believe that Democratic organizations, progressive groups and labor unions need to increase their outreach efforts aimed at American colleges and universities. Campuses provide a very large percentage of campaign volunteers. They are the source of nearly all future opinion-makers including journalists, book authors, officeholders, business leaders and policy experts!
ORGANIC FOODS - THE ULTIMATE PREVENTIVE MEDICINE
Allen L Roland
Organic foods will not only keep you healthy and help you live longer but will improve your skin, maintain your optimum weight, increase your energy and reverse your aging process as they most certainly have mine: Allen L Roland
In this time of growing economic hardship, good health becomes our paramount concern. We cannot afford to get sick ~ as health care costs continue to soar.
In that regard, my life partner, Keiko, has introduced me to the ultimate preventive medicine ~ the joy of raw organic foods and my health has improved dramatically but especially my skin to the extent that I look at least 15 years younger.
Keiko says ~ " Do we Eat to live? or Live to Eat? What we eat deeply and radically affects the way we think, feel, and behave. We are what we eat. Food affects every aspect of our being. Food is the physical foundation of our body. When you give your body healthy-vibrant food, it will function amazingly.
THE UNIFIED FIELD
Allen L Roland
Hubble photo of galaxy cluster
The basic underlying and uniting force of the universe is a psychic energy field of love and soul consciousness ( the Unified Field ) which lies not only beyond time and space but ALSO beneath our deepest fears ~ and whose principle property is the universal urge to unite:
If you google The Unified Field ~ you will note 2.8 million references and my Unified Field is number three behind Wikipedia and a scientific description of the Unified Field ~ describing the Unified Field as a unification of the four fundamental forces of nature which are Electromagnetic, Gravity, the Strong Force and the Weak force in the atom.
So who are the terrorists here?
Jason Miller
Julie Leyva recently submitted some questions to the North American Animal Liberation Press Office. Jason Miller wrote the reply.
What is your occupation and for how long?
Seizing Power and Property
Deanna Spingola
Governments, local, county, state or federal, are artificial entities created by the people. Governments, collective organizations, were created to protect the life, liberty and property of each and every person.
Frederic Bastiat said: “If every person has the right to defend even by force — his person, his liberty, and his property, then it follows that a group of men have the right to organize and support a common force to protect these rights constantly. Thus the principle of collective right — its reason for existing, its lawfulness — is based on individual right. And the common force that protects this collective right cannot logically have any other purpose or any other mission than that for which it acts as a substitute. Thus, since an individual cannot lawfully use force against the person, liberty, or property of another individual, then the common force — for the same reason — cannot lawfully be used to destroy the person, liberty, or property of individuals or groups.”[1]
Why the torture photos should be released
Mary Shaw
The Obama administration continues trying to block the release of some additional photos of detainee abuse. The excuse? They say exposing the photos could incite anti-American violence in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.
They seem to forget that we're already seeing anti-American violence in those countries. And they seem to forget why.
They seem to ignore how much this move is reminiscent of the Bush administration's culture of secrecy. If it's not openly acknowledged, then it doesn't exist. "We do not torture," Bush would tell us, as if saying the words would make it so. But the world knew better. The terrorists knew better. As they do now.
And that, not so ironically, has contributed to the ongoing anti-American violence in the world. Now, despite Obama's attempts at containing the photos, descriptions of what they depict are leaking into the media.
‘Mucking out’ British politics
Stuart Littlewood
Corruption runs far deeper than fiddling MPs’ expenses…
UK politicians are currently reeling from a public lashing for fiddling their expenses big-time. Such is their arrogance that many, when confronted with their crimes, don't see that they have done anything wrong.
The guilty ones who step down will be further enriched with a lavish re-settlement allowance and a big pension pot.
To appease voters’ anger Parliament and Government are now promising anti-sleaze reforms. They are calling on the impressive-sounding Committee on Standards in Public Life to investigate and make recommendations. Conservative leader David Cameron, who has expectations of becoming the next British prime minister, talks of purging his party of its cheats and racketeers.
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