Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has rounded on closed enterprise bosses and local officials, demanding that wages be paid out by the end of Thursday. 63 million rubles ($2 million) has already been transferred to the town’s enterprises’ bank accounts, which includes money to pay outstanding wages, Ria Novosti news agency reports. Read more What a difference between the leadership in Russia and America. Here the workers would have been labeled terrorists and the National Guard would have been called out to crush them. Certainly the workers grievances would have been totally ignored and the corrupt corporate basturds would have kept the money they had stolen from the workers.

Is there NOTHING left on the Supermarket shelves, which we have to be constantly vigilant about?

from: William Hughes

On June 3, 2009, filmmakers Eric Nadler and Bob Coen held a congressional screening, in the Canon Office Building, with respect to their riveting documentary, “Anthrax War.” They are also the co-authors of “Dead Silence: Fear and Terror on the Anthrax Trail,” a companion book to the film. Trailers for the documentary, and more detailed information about the investigative project of Nadler and Coen, which was done on a global scale, can be found at: http://www.anthraxwar.com/ As a result of the deadly anthrax attacks in the days following 9/11, the Bush-Cheney Gang created a $57 billion “Bio-Terrorism Military Industrial Complex.” This huge entity, “a cash cow,” the authors underscored, has been mostly “privatized,” and is also operating “with little oversight.”

See Max Blumenthal's shocking footage of the reaction by some Israelis and American Jews in Jerusalem to Obama's speech to the Muslim world. Co-produced by Joseph Dana, aka Ibn Ezra: ibnezra.wordpress.com and Mondoweiss, a blog that covers the Israel-Palestine conflict and the Middle East from a progressive Jewish perspective.

from: William Hughes

Rose Ann DeMoro is the executive director of the California Nurses Association and a National V.P. of the AFL-CIO. On June 3, 2009, she spoke at a Capitol Hill press conference called by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), on the issue of a Single Payer Healthcare System. Ms. DeMoro said: “There is a conspiracy of silence” against Single Payer in the Congress. “We’re going to have to turn up the heat” if we want to get anything done. She added that Single Payer “has been kept off the agenda” and that there was a lack of “political will” in the Congress about doing the right thing with respect to the current crisis in health care. The press conference took place in the Dirksen Senate Office Building. The healthcare activists are supporting HR 676 and S 703, now pending before the Congress. For background and any updates on the cause of Single Payer, see:
http://www.healthcare-now.org and
http://singlepayeraction.org and http://md.pnhp.org and
http://www.prosperityagenda.us/ and http://freshaircleanpolitics.net and http://www.calnurses.org/ and
http://www.pdamerica.org/

Payday loan offices have been sprouting up in strip malls and on street corners across America for years before Wall Street collapsed. In these hard times, more people than ever are using payday loans to keep bill collectors at bay. Quick money (at interest rates of around 500% or more) for people with bad credit has been praised by some as a lifeline for the poor and condemned by others as a money trap exploiting families in crisis. Several states have passed laws limiting interest rates, but there is one marketplace that seems to recognize no borders -- the Internet. ANP videographer Lagan Sebert has been tracing the many ways Americans have been ringing up record debt. For this story, Sebert first staked out a conference on Capitol Hill where online payday lenders and lobbyists honed their arguments to Congress against reform; then he traveled to a small town near the Virginia-North Carolina border to learn about the experiences of a man who one day googled "bad credit loans" and soon found himself in more trouble than he bargained for. therealnews.com

As long as the criminal American injustice system consistantly finds the police innocent of brutality like this, the brutalizing of the people will continue at the behest of the so-called government. Pictured: the victim, 44-year-old home health worker Irma Marquez, and the unrepentant Yonkers cop Wayne Simoes.

from: William Hughes

Adam Kokesh is a former member of the U.S. Marines Corps (USMC) and a veteran of the Iraq War. He’s been one of the leaders in the “Iraq Veterans Against the War” organization. Check out IVAW.org Adam Kokesh has shown himself to be a warrior for Peace, a Patriot, a champion of the U.S. Constitution and a fierce opponent of the Federal Reserve System, ak/a “The Fed.” For more background on activist Kokesh, go to: http://kokesh.blogspot.com/2001/05/who-is-adam-kokesh.html and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kokesh and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e13szM5MuYE and
http://www.facebook.com/people/Adam-Kokesh/13303243 and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EAfPgX7gs0&feature=channel_page and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xkx-0wfZlFk&feature=channel_page

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Andrew Glikson

Does breathing really make global warming worse? Don't let Climate Deniers hand you this load of compostable organic matter. Do conservatives really think CO2 is safe because it doesn't cause cancer? All this and more in this weeks Climate Denial Crock of the Week.

The so-called recovery seen in the United States over the past two months may be nothing more than a blip on the economic radar. Stock markets plummeted more than fifty percent during the first year of the downturn. It was only after President Obama took office and began escalating the amount of government funding going into stocks that the sector started to turn around.