Google-Verizon Pact for Tiered Internet: It Gets Worse
Aaron Craig Huffington Post So Google and Verizon went public today with their “policy framework” — better known as the pact to end the Internet…
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The Price of Oil is Going Up
Mad Hedge Fund Trader Oil Price I received another scratchy, crackling cell phone call from my drilling buddy in the Texas natural gas fields today….
Afghanistan to Expel U.S. Security Firms
Press TV Afghan President Hamid Karzai is set to call on Washington and its allies to shut down their private security companies in the violence-stricken…
Exclusive: Caught in America’s legal black hole
Guantanamo still holds 176 detainees, and one of them is about to stand trial – in a test of Barack Obama’s resolve to embrace the…
It Isn’t About Islam and Muslims
Jacob Hornberger Campaign for Liberty Statists who oppose the building of that mosque near the World Trade Center site are missing the point, and the…
Thousands May Lose Rental Vouchers
Cara Buckley The New York Times Because of a $45 million budget gap, the New York City Housing Authority may have to revoke rental-assistance vouchers from more…
Nuclear Carriers on the Move
An Open Letter to President Barack Obama Arno J. Mayer Information Clearing House Dear Mr. President: August 09, 2010 “Counterpunch” — As Commander-in-Chief you have ordered…
Matt Simmons apparently drowned at his house Sunday night
NBC – Bangor,ME NORTH HAVEN, Maine – The Knox County Sheriff’s Department says Matthew Simmons, the founder of the Ocean Energy Institute, drowned at his…
The Coming Class War Over Public Pensions
Ron Lieber NY Times There’s a class war coming to the world of government pensions. The haves are retirees who were once state or municipal…
U.S. electricity blackouts skyrocketing
Thom Patterson CNN New York’s Staten Island was broiling under a life-threatening heat wave and borough President James Molinaro was seriously concerned about the area’s…
Stephen Hawking: Abandon the Earth
Fox News Theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has some advice for the people of Earth – it’s time to get off. “I believe that the long-term…
GMO Corn and How a Little-Known Supreme Court Case Could Kill Our Grandchildren
All247News Big business controls American food on nearly every level. In most cases, the effects on our health are merely questionable, but one specific set…
Recession Causing a Banking Awakening in Tough-Hit Midwest
Will establishing citizen-owned state banks be the first step to ending the private Federal Reserve? Eric Blair Activist Post A mass banking awakening seems to…
Economists Herald New Great Depression
Steve Watson Prison Planet The world is currently experiencing the modern day equivalent of the Great Depression, according to a prominent economist who has added…