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Gas Stations Hit Skids

STONERS — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:41:02 EDT

Shuttered gas pumps in Blue Point, N.Y. New York state has lost 200 gas stations during the past year, and the closures stretch across the country.

Channel: Money Tags: Gas Stations Closures Across Country

Evil Reigns but None Dare Call it Treason

populist — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 16:39:36 EDT

Torture advocated, secret armies and prisons encouraged, ignoring habeas corpus for anyone pointed to and called "enemy combatant." Yet, non dare call it treason.

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: treason tyranny mass murder war torture antiwar populist party peace

The Food Crisis Hits Home

MyWayOnNow — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:54:10 EDT

The increase in food prices is wreaking havoc across the globe, but the food crisis is not confined to "over there" in Egypt, Bangladesh or Haiti. It's affecting many people in the Washington region.

Channel: Food Tags: washington

Tomatoes: After $500 million in losses, the FDA appears wrong

DiffeeOnline — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 15:01:32 EDT

With 1,700 samples collected and all shown to be negative for salmonella, they are now looking at jalapenos and other produce items commonly served with tomatoes as possible culprits.

Channel: Food Tags: salmonella disease health tomato fda

Former Sen. Jesse Helms Dies At 86

TechnologyExpert — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:35:50 EDT

Jesse Helms, the five-term Republican Senator from North Carolina, has died, CBS News has confirmed. He was 86.

Channel: News Tags: Jesse Helms Obituary

Only seven years left for global warming target

MyWayOnNow — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:28:01 EDT

The head of the UN's Nobel-winning panel of climate scientists on Friday said only seven years remained for stabilising emissions of global-warming gases at a level widely considered safe.

Channel: Science Tags: global warming global warming gases

Woman who died on hospital floor called 'beautiful person'

Alexia — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:44:56 EDT

To people around the world who have seen the video, Esmin Green is a symbol of a health-care system that seems to have failed horribly.

Channel: News Tags: healthcare health care health care reform

11 Problems with Public Education

monicachenoa — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 04:24:50 EDT

A brief list of some of the problems with our educational system, specifically in how it discriminates against racial minorities and disadvantaged groups.

Channel: Careers & Jobs Tags:

U.S. Pushes U.N. Sanctions on Zimbabwe and Mugabe

Artofid — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:14:41 EDT

eeking to force President Robert Mugabe into negotiations with the opposition, the United States on Thursday formally proposed United Nations Security Council sanctions on Zimbabwe.

Channel: News Tags: Zimbabwe U.S. Mugabe president Security

12-year old boy in Orissa pushed out of Train for Rs. 50 (US$1.2), loses limbs

bizexpert — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:19:31 EDT

In a bizarre incident that sent shock wave across India, a 12-year old boy in Orissa's Rourkela was pushed out of a moving train for not paying Rs. 50 ($1.2) to a Travelling Ticket Examiner (TTE). The victim Shankar Singh has been admitted to a hospital. He is in a critical condition and already lost his leg and hand.

Channel: News Tags: Weird News India Orissa Boy Train Money

Americans & Colombian hostage Betancourt freed

SunnyDays — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 20:22:15 EDT

French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other hostages held by rebels in Colombia have been rescued by government troops.

Channel: News Tags: Colombia Colombia hostage Betancourt freed Americas

Unfair and unbalanced: Fox News' coverage of Obama tops the bias scale

ybdogsct — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:51:21 EDT

Fox News, whose slogan is "Fair and Balanced," seems to have gone above and beyond in its anti-Obama rhetoric. Fox News seems to be the willing source of many of the smears and have displayed an unhealthy willingness to pass on as fact any unsourced or unfounded allegation that will put the Obamas in the worst light possible.

Channel: Television Tags: Fox News Barack Obama Michelle Obama

8 Signs the Economy Is Slumping

engineer — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 12:35:55 EDT

This post compiles eight signs which shows that the economy is going DOWN.

Channel: Money Tags: economy down recession slump signs

Bush's war on Iran has already started

Natureboy — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:12:00 EDT

The administration has greatly escalated "covert operations" against Iran in the past year, according to a revelatory New Yorker piece by Seymour Hersh.

Channel: News Tags: Bush war Iran Iraq Seymour Hersh

Arizona Anti Gay Marriage Amendment Heads to Voters Again

david_nwpa — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:44:42 EDT

Arizona voters will decide again in November whether to change the state's constitution to define marriage as a union between one man and one woman.

Channel: Gay & Lesbian Tags: Arizona Gay Marriage Amendment Marriage Equality

The Worst Day of Hillary's Life

Nixie — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 18:39:27 EDT

Hillary Clinton standing off to the side while Obama is at the podium up there in Unity, New Hampshire, and she's got her hands clasped, and she is just looking at him so admiringly, and I don't believe for a minute she is admiring or enjoying whatever is going on. This is all about $10 million being raised.

Channel: Politics Tags: Hillary Clinton Barack Obama Money Unity Bad Day

It's All About Obama

sinstun — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:54:59 EDT

Many candidates have measured the Oval Office drapes prematurely. But Barack Obama is the first to redesign the presidential seal before the election

Channel: Politics Tags: obama mc cain republican democrat

Gallup: Obama And McCain Both Tied At 45%

TimALoftis — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:29:45 EDT

The latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking update on the presidential election finds John McCain and Barack Obama exactly tied at 45% among registered voters nationwide.

Channel: Politics Tags: 2008 election barack obama john mccain poll

Walking Away From Your Mortgage

Beeboppin71 — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 15:06:23 EDT

Nearly 9% of all U.S. mortgages--or 4.8 million loans--are past due or in some stage of foreclosure. So when a company claims to offer distressed homeowners both relief from their mortgages and revenge against the bankers who saddled them with too much debt, there are plenty of people eager to hear more.

Channel: Money Tags:

Vietnam Blues

populist — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:43:14 EDT

Into this heady and well populated milieu steps Joe Allen's recently published Vietnam: The (Last) War the US Lost. This book is a comprehensive history of the US movement against the war in Vietnam, the revolutionary upsurge that sprang up in the wake of that movement's growth and Washington's refusal to end the war, and the eventual end of the w

Channel: Books Tags: vietnam war resistance antiwar

President Bush: Democrats keep blocking energy plans

AlphaGnosis — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 11:27:32 EDT

President Bush is accusing Democrats in Congress of blocking his energy proposals, saying they are partly to blame for high gasoline costs pinching Americans' budgets.

Channel: Politics Tags: President Bush Democrats keep blocking energy plans high gas prices

McClellan under oath: I Dunno

pc25 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 01:16:48 EDT

Well, I'm sure Congress feels like they accomplished something today with their interrogation of former White House press secretary Scott McClellan. After making a series of inflated allegations in his memoirs, What Happened, he told Congress that he really doesn't know what happened

Channel: Politics Tags: congressional testimony valerie plame george bush scott mcclellan

Drill! McCain touts energy conservation and oil exploration

AlphaGnosis — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:01:24 EDT

Republican presidential candidate John McCain will call on Tuesday for energy conservation and the lifting of a ban on oil and natural gas exploration as two ways to help address the nation's "dangerous" dependence on foreign oil.

Channel: Politics Tags: energy conservation touts McCain Drill oil exploration

Michelle Obama's critics caught in a web of truth

gamahuche — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:07:24 EDT

"And I feel privileged to be a part of even witnessing this, traveling around states all over this country and being reminded that there is more that unites us than divides us, that the struggles of a farmer in Iowa are no different than what's happening on the South Side of Chicago; that people are feeling the same pain and wanting the same t

Channel: Politics Tags: Spin Truth Michelle Obama Pride Hope

Detainees May Be Denied Evidence for Defense

berkeley — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:40:57 EDT

The Office of Military Commissions said last week that defendants representing themselves might not get access to information about their interrogators and that secret information might have to be redacted in order to be shared with them.

Channel: Politics Tags: guantanamo law bush war crimes 1984

W. Regrets Almost Nothing

berkeley — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 15:19:08 EDT

In Old Europe, they've moved on, assuming that the American president has done all the damage that he can do. The blazing hostility toward W. has faded to indifference and a sort of fatigued perplexity about how les imbeciles de regime cowboy got into office, and how America could have put the world through all this craziness.

Channel: Politics Tags: bush old europe

Congresswoman being sued for using her influence

realestateinvestor — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 11:16:33 EDT

Rep. Laura Richardson and her bank is being sued for using her influence to suspend the foreclosure auction of her home in Sacramento.

Channel: Real Estate Tags: foreclosure Congresswomen sued congresswomen Laura Richardson

McCain, Obama fail to agree on town halls

libsRfunny — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:21:53 EDT

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama on Friday rejected Republican rival John McCain's proposal for 10 joint town-hall appearances, offering instead to have just one on the July 4 holiday.

Channel: Politics Tags: Obama McCain 2008 election debates

US foreclosure filings surge 48 percent in May

MyWayOnNow — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:12:03 EDT

The number of U.S. homeowners swept up in the housing crisis rose further last month, with foreclosure filings up nearly 50 percent compared with a year earlier, a foreclosure listing company said Friday.

Channel: Real Estate Tags: foreclosure housing

Silence of the Media

jovial — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:01:07 EDT

"All of us, including all the Iraqis, are witnessing a terrible secrecy and silence of the media of what is happening in Iraq now." The Iraqi blogger is back....

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: blog silence media violence Iraq

McCain Admits He Doesn't Know How To Use A Computer

Aidenag — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:43:16 EDT

This video appears to be from at least six weeks ago, but no one has really commented on it. Do we want a commander in chief who can't use a computer without assistance?

Channel: Politics Tags: John McCain Computers Politics 2008 election pc mac mrs mccain illiterate newb

Alaska drilling needs to happen

AlphaGnosis — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 10:24:57 EDT

$4-a-gallon gas highlights need to tap into domestic oil reserves.

Channel: Politics Tags: Alaska drilling needs to happen four dollar gas

Kucinich presents Bush impeachment articles

idyll — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:30:14 EDT

An Ohio Democratic lawmaker and former presidential candidate has presented articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush to Congress.

Channel: News Tags: kucinich impeachment

Threatening Iran: The High Cost of a Single War-Like Remark

populist — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:20:01 EDT

Most analysts say an actual attack on Iran would send oil almost immediately to past $300 per barrel - a level that would strangle economies worldwide and send the world into an economic collapse not since the Smoot-Hawley Tariffs kicked off the Great Depression. The repercussions of that would be staggering.

Channel: Do No Evil Tags: threats war iran attack israel oil prices economy collapse antiwar populist party peace