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• In Search of Italy by Gaither Stewart

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 519
  by Gaither StewartFeatured WriterDandelion Salad30 November 2009The dream and the reality are far apart and the chasm is growing bigger with each passing day, affirms our correspondentItaly—at once anarchic, stubbornly individualistic and communitarian—is no longer everyone’s second motherland. Her warmth, her ...
  19 hours ago

• "A renewable energy lobby seeks power in Brussels"

  
  Mark Wadsworth — Authority: 441
  Via Global Post , heres a nice little insight into how things works at the EU: ... the hard-headed lobbyists representing the renewable energy industry in Europe these days has come a long way from that image of tree-hugging dreamers. “The European renewable energy industry has an annual turnover of about 45 ...
  1 day ago

• Seeing the Pattern Before Copenhagen: Scientists Threatened

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 529
  Scientists (and thus science) are threatened in four central areas of human existence – agriculture, health, environment and peace. The threat comes from multinational corporations seeking absolute control over world resources and political power through national laws and international treaties based on false or ...
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• Corporate Scrooge has change of heart

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 529
  Hey, guess what? Activism works. This is a story about 1,200 workers in Honduras who were fired by their American corporate factory owner because they unionized. Then, something remarkable happened. They got their jobs back. The Scrooge in this modern-day "A Christmas Carol" is Russell Athletic, a leading ...
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• Fed Chairman Urges Secrecy

  
  Photon Torpedo Tube's Blog — Authority: 426
  Since 2008, the Federal Reserve has obligated 1/2 Trillion Dollars of taxpayer funds in making currency swaps with foreign central banks and central governments. These transactions are made in complete secrecy and without any oversight by our elected representatives. The Fed itself is made up of unelected bankers. ...
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• Change In The Weather

  
  Boztopia.com — Authority: 107
  I was not planning to write anything about “Climategate” (or the “Swifthack,” as Josh Nelson calls it) initially. I’m no scientist, and definitely not a climatologist, geologist, or anything even remotely qualified to discuss the science involved. I’m just a moderately intelligent guy who is privileged to ...
  2 days ago

• I Find Myself Oddly Optimistic

  
  Success Warrior: Alan B. Rowley II - Fitness Coach, Beachbody.com, P90X, Insanity — Authority: 423
  Not about me or my life.  Im always personally optimistic.  Thats just the way I am.  No, this morning, I find myself optimistic for the human race.  I believe that we can transform ourselves and dare I say it, even in my lifetime.  That might be too optimistic but if youre going to be optimistic, you might ...
  2 days ago

• Bargains Galore! But Who Pays the Price?

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 529
  This holiday season not every child will be free to play with new toys; an estimated 211 million child laborers exist worldwide, with no access to education and no option but grueling work. Traffickers lure many millions of the young away from their families, while millions more are born into debt bondage and forced ...
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• U.S. Will Push Mortgage Firms to Reduce More Loan Payments

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 529
  Under the Treasury program, borrowers who receive loan modifications must make their new payments on a trial basis and then submit new paperwork validating their income to make their modifications permanent. But borrowers and their lawyers report that much of the required paperwork is being lost in a haze of ...
  2 days ago

• Thank You for Unbound Souls and Modern Day Demons

  
  LEA KELLEY SAYING THANK YOU FOR... — Authority: 421
  Historically, the Devil has played a big part in barter, trade, and retail folklore. Mephistopheles, the old retail master, has come a long way since that Faust legend of trading a soul for a wife. These days we seem to be making all manner of deals with the Devil. But the Devil doesn’t just want your ...
  3 days ago

• Brazil Bank Funds Destructive Projects, Say Activists

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 529
  The National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES) promotes "a deadly kind of progress," complained indigenous leader Toninho Guaraní, describing what he regards as the abuses of the pulp and paper industry, which has fomented monoculture of eucalyptus trees in the eastern state of Espirito Santo. In South ...
  3 days ago

• Accident casts fresh doubt on nuclear safety

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 529
  Reuters reported Nov. 3 that British, Finnish and French nuclear safety bodies jointly issued a criticism and demanded changes in the security systems in the new European pressurized reactor designed by AREVA and used by EDF in its new plants. These concerns are over "insufficient independence between day-to-day ...
  3 days ago

• The WaPos "Nuclear Power Regains Support" is a Big Lie

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 529
  The story completely skips the DC-based Nuclear Information & Resource Service, which sponsored a statement signed by more than 850 other environmental groups opposing new reactor construction as a proposed means of addressing the climate crisis. Like this vast core of green groups, Moodys, Standard & Poor, ...
  3 days ago

• End the Fed News

  
  Photon Torpedo Tube's Blog — Authority: 426
  The House Financial Services Committee voted affirmatively to include the language from the Audit the Fed bill (HR1207) as an amendment to HR 3996, Financial Stability Improvement Act of 2009 (FSIA). As it stands now, if HR 3996 passes without changes to the amendment, the GAO would finally have authority to conduct ...
  4 days ago

• Book Review – Makers

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 138
  Cory Doctorow ’s Makers has a lot in common with the previous books I have read from him and the themes developed throughout the stories are also familiar to many regular Doctorow readers. As in previous novels, Doctorow locates his story in a futuristic United States / Western hemisphere where capitalism as we ...
  4 days ago

• The Reason Oversight of Federal Reserve is Necessary

  
  Photon Torpedo Tube's Blog — Authority: 426
  Here is Representative Alan Grayson (D. FL) discussing the 2008 currency swaps by the Fed of over 1/2 a Trillion Dollars with zero oversight by Congress or anyone else.
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• You don’t need an extended warranty

  
  Jason Gooljar: The Working Families Party Man -- Kill the Corporation — Authority: 130
  In general, we have found extended warranties to be a bad deal for the customer and have long advised against them. The most cautious consumers might want to consider an extended warranty for a repair-prone brand, provided that the warranty is both inexpensive and comprehensive and the cost of repairs tends to be ...
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• Grassroots vs. Astroturf: The Climate Spin Machine Goes Into Overdrive

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 529
  Hoggan cites the example of the recent Bonner and Associates/American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) scandal involving forged letters claiming to be from community groups unhappy with climate legislation and sent to members of Congress: "Ive seen (Bonner and Associates) contracts where theyre ...
  6 days ago

• Democrat Prosecutors Refuse to File Charges Against SEUI Thugs Caught on Video Beating Protestors.

  
  The IUSB Vision Weblog — Authority: 138
  Via BigGovernment.com:It has been more than three months since Kenneth Gladney was viciously attacked by SEIU employees. The assault wasn’t an accident, but a deliberate attempt to intimidate and silence tea party activists and town hall protesters. The morning of the Gladney assault, the White House presented to ...
  6 days ago

• What if you would like to give thanks for capitalism? (Reconsidering Thanksgiving part 1)

  
  Professor, What If...? — Authority: 113
  In the run up to turkey day, I am reposting my three-part piece on Thanksgiving. Here is part one: If you are looking for a reason to give thanks this Thanksgiving, how about this: give thanks for capitalism! I came across this nifty idea when searching around the internet for “alternative ways to spend ...
  1 week ago

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