Senate Democrats abandon comprehensive climate bill
Perry Bacon, Jr. The Washington Post Conceding they can’t find enough votes for the measure, Senate Democrats on Thursday abandoned efforts to put together a…
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A Crisis in Confidence: Congress Approval Sinks to New Low
Activist Post The Gallup’s 2010 Confidence in Institutions poll was released today and there seems to be a severe crisis in confidence in nearly all…
VIDEO: Newark Budget Cuts — No More Toilet Paper
My Fox NY Things are getting so bad in Newark that the mayor has ordered the government to stop buying toilet paper. It’s part of…
When will the SEC prosecute for market rigging?
Michael Schmidt For thousands of years, gold has been a central monetary component of most civilizations. It is durable and has been able to retain…
Corporate Media Discover Private Spies. In Other News, No WMD in Iraq
Jeremy Scahill The Nation Stop the presses and call the government spokespeople back from Martha’s Vineyard. The corporate media have discovered that the United States…
US spy chief nominee warns of N Korea ‘direct attacks’
BBC North Korea’s sinking of a South Korean warship may herald a “dangerous new period”, the nominee to be US director of national intelligence has…
Ocean Energy Institute Founder Says New Hurricane Will Require Gulf Evacuation
Kurt Nimmo InfoWars The U.S. National Hurricane Center has warned that a weather system near Cuba, centered between islands of Acklins and Great Inagua, may…
Bank Bailout Reaches $3.7 Trillion
David Lawder Reuters WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) – Increased housing commitments swelled U.S. taxpayers’ total support for the financial system by $700 billion in the…
The Public School Nightmare
Why fix a system designed to destroy individual thought? John Taylor Gatto Lew Rockwell I want you to consider the frightening possibility that we are…
Will the jobs ever return?
Activist Post I’m sure everyone within an eyeshot of this article knows at least one person with a master’s degree who has been out of…
Rice farmer is awarded $500,000 in case over crop contamination
Robert Patrick Stl. Today A federal jury in St. Louis awarded $500,248 on Wednesday to a farmer who claimed that he and his family had…
Homeland Security for Whom?
Douglas Valentine Lew Rockwell The Washington Post has published a splashy exposé about the mammoth “homeland security” intelligence empire that now burdens the United States,…
Bernanke to Congress: The Economy Needs You to Keep Spending
Shahien Nasiripour Huffington Post Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reiterated Wednesday his belief that Congress should continue to prop up the sputtering economy, casting aside…
The Scariest Unemployment Chart I’ve Seen Yet
Derek Thompson The Atlantic The median duration of unemployment is higher today than any time in the last 50 years. That’s an understatement. It is…