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Twin Towers, Twin Myths The Great Science Debate: What Really Happened on 9/11 at the World Trade Center?

Posted by smeddum on September 17, 2009

Twin Towers, Twin Myths
The Great Science Debate: What Really Happened on 9/11 at the World Trade Center?

Thursday, September 17, 2009

by JAY LEVIN AND TOM MCKENZIE


Santa Babara independent

One of the crucial technical disputes in American history, perhaps second only to global warming, is underway. It pits hundreds of government technicians who say the World Trade Center buildings were brought down by airplane impact against hundreds of professional architects and building engineers who insist that the Twin Towers could never have collapsed solely due to the planes and are calling for a new independent investigation. It is a fight that is not going away and is likely to get louder as more building trade professionals sign on to one side or the other. Read the rest of this entry »

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It is the War in Afghanistan Obama Declared a “Necessity,” Not Health Care

Posted by smeddum on September 17, 2009

It is the War in Afghanistan Obama Declared a “Necessity,” Not Health Care

The Health Care Deceit

September 14, 2009

Counterpunch

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

The current health care “debate” shows how far gone representative government is in the United States. Members of Congress represent the powerful interest groups that fill their campaign coffers, not the people who vote for them.

The health care bill is not about health care. It is about protecting and increasing the profits of the insurance companies. The main feature of the health care bill is the “individual mandate,” which requires everyone in America to buy health insurance. Senate Finance Committee chairman Max Baucus (D-Mont), a recipient of millions in contributions over his career from the insurance industry, proposes to impose up to a $3,800 fine on Americans who fail to purchase health insurance. Read the rest of this entry »

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Cellphones and Brain Tumors: 15 Reasons for Concern, Science, Spin and the Truth Behind Interphone

Posted by smeddum on September 17, 2009

http://www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/15reasons.asp

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Obama shatters Bush security dreams?

Posted by smeddum on September 17, 2009

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Mary Travers tribute as she dies age 72. The Rising of the Moon

Posted by smeddum on September 17, 2009

Peter Paul and Mary, The Rising of the Moon

Come and tell me Sean O’Farrell tell me why you hurry so
Hush me boy, now hush and listen and his eyes were all aglow
I bear orders from the captain get you ready quick and soon
For the pikes must be together by the rising of the moon

Come now tell me Sean O’Farrell where the gath’rin is to be
At the old spot by the river right well known to you and me
One more word for signal token whistle out the marchin’ tune
With your pike upon your shoulder by the rising of the moon

There beside the singing river that dark mass of men was seen
For above their shining weapons hung their own immortal green
Death to every foe and traitor! Forward strike the marching tune
And hurrah, my boys, for freedom, ’tis the rising of the moon

How well they fought for poor old Ireland
And for bitter was their fate
Oh what glorious pride and sorrow fills the name of ’98
Yes thank god while hearts are beating, each man bears a burning loom
We will follow in their footsteps at the rising of the moon

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Ghost Towns May Haunt Ireland in Property Loan Gamble

Posted by smeddum on September 17, 2009

Ghost Towns May Haunt Ireland in Property Loan Gamble (Update2)

By Dara Doyle

Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) — The skeleton of an eight-story Dublin office block lays deserted on the north bank of the River Liffey, just next to the financial district that less than two years ago was the heart of Ireland’s economic boom. Read the rest of this entry »

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“You Have to Learn Lessons from History” by Cindy Sheehan

Posted by smeddum on September 16, 2009

Tuesday, September 15, 2009

“You Have to Learn Lessons from History” by Cindy Sheehan

Cindysheehan.soapbox
I was just watching a report on CNN and after the commentator said that support for Afghanistan is rapidly dwindling (58 percent now think it’s not worth fighting), an interview with Obama was shown.

The interviewer asked the president if he was afraid that because war-weary America is growing impatient with the wars, that failing to withdraw and, in fact, sending more troops would look like what Johnson did in Vietnam, and therefore make Obama a “One term president.” Read the rest of this entry »

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U.S. credit card defaults up, signal consumer stress

Posted by smeddum on September 16, 2009

Tues Sept 15

By Juan Lagorio

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Bank of America Corp and Citigroup Inc customers defaulted on their credit card debts in August at the highest rates since the onset of the recession, a sign that the banks’ consumer lending woes are far from over. Read the rest of this entry »

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Who are the undeserving “others” benefiting from expanded government actions

Posted by smeddum on September 15, 2009

Monday Sept. 14, 2009 09:15 EDT
Glenn Greenwald

The New York Times‘ Ross Douthat argues, uncontroversially, that the tea-party protests, townhall outbursts and related appendages aren’t about specific health care proposals but, instead, are motivated by a more generalized anger over what is happening in Washington:

At the same time, [the health care protests have] become the vessel for a year’s worth of anxieties about bailouts, deficits and Beltway incompetence.

This August’s town-hall fury wasn’t just about the details of health care. Neither were the anti-Obama protests that crowded Washington over the weekend. They were about the Wall Street bailout, the G.M. takeover, the A.I.G. bonuses, and countless smaller examples of middle-income Americans’ “playing by the rules,” as [GOP pollster Frank] Luntz puts it, “and having someone else benefit.” Read the rest of this entry »

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PhRMA’s Big Bribe Comes In

Posted by smeddum on September 15, 2009

Sep. 14 2009
Matt Taibbi
Matt Taibbi’s Blog at Trueslant

The drug industry’s trade group plans to roll out a series of television advertisements in coming weeks specifically to support Senator Max Baucus’s health care overhaul proposal, according to an industry official involved in the planning.

via Drug Makers to Back Baucus Plan With Ad Dollars – Prescriptions Blog – NYTimes.com.

I’ve been completely out of the loop with the health care story these last week and half or so, out of touch actually with the entire earth (I’ve been on a deadline on another story), but upon returning to work today I began getting calls about some alarming maneuverings in congress. We’re apparently finally seeing delivery of the Big Bribe that President Obama and Rahm Emanuel extracted from that pharmaceutical industry in exchange for dropping drug-pricing reform in the health care bill. Read the rest of this entry »

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BRIC to call the shots in post-crisis world

Posted by smeddum on September 15, 2009

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