When Wars Come Home. Police officers at a checkpoint during the manhunt Christopher Dorner, an ex-Los Angeles cop accused of three killings, on State Route 38 in Angelus Oaks, Calif., Feb. 12, 2013.
The Problem Isn't Growth; the Problem Is Inequality. (Image: Hoarding wealth via Shutterstock)The cumulative inflation-adjusted growth in the US economy since Barack Obama took office has been just 3.2%.
Not per year. Total. Over the past four years the US economy has grown by less than one percent per year. Beyond Savage Politics and Dystopian Nightmares. We now live in a nation where doctors destroy health, lawyers destroy justice, universities destroy knowledge, governments destroy freedom, the press destroys information, religion destroys morals, and our banks destroy the economy.
The Wrecking Crew Is Winning. Congress is taking this week off on the first of their spring breaks.
The legislators will return to find only four days left before the first of the Republican Congress' austerity bombs – the deep automatic cuts in government spending known as the sequester – is set to explode on March 1. That will be followed by the threat to shut down the government at the end of March and the threat to blow up the financial system with a new debt ceiling melodrama beginning sometime around the middle of May. Once more, the Republican Congress is holding the economy hostage as "leverage" to extort deep and unpopular cuts in the core pillars of family security – Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. Not surprisingly, Americans disapprove in large numbers, with Congress in general and Republicans in particular setting new records in popular disregard. Cenk Mad As Hell About Arctic Oil Drilling. White House Approves Arctic Drilling. World’s First Genetically Modified Babies ‘Created’ in US.
Anthony Gucciardi, ContributorActivist Post In a developing story, the Daily Mail is now reporting that the very first (admitted) group of genetically modified babies have been ‘created’ in the United States.
The scientists involved reportedly announced the result on the night of June 27th, stating that 30 babies were born using genetic modification techniques. The Final Failure of a Failed Congress. House Speaker Rep.
John Boehner (R-Ohio), right, and House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), in Washington, January 1, 2013. Ian Fletcher: Leak Cracks Open Trans-Pacific Partnership Scandal. Obama was warned, frankly, about the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Given his status as a center-left president, the public's burgeoning disapproval of free-trade agreements, and the fact that he criticized such agreements when President Bush made them, he really should have known that such treaties were not for him. And yet he chose to plow ahead. As I noted last year, the omens were not good. After the failed promises of NAFTA, a job-destroying trade deficit that has grown despite a long series of free-trade agreements, and ever-more-aggressive foreign mercantilism, it really should have been obvious that America needed a new trade strategy. The Pacific free trade deal that's anything but free. Legislators Ban Phrase "Sea Level Rise"
The "Monsanto Rider": Are Biotech Companies About to Gain Immunity from Federal Law? Congressman Jack Kingston, Georgia, Chairman of the House Agriculture Appropriations Committee poses questions before the House Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee in Washington, D.C., Tuesday, March 6, 2012.
Kingston was voted "legislator of the year for 2011-2012" by the Biotechnology Industry Organization, whose members include Monsanto and DuPont. (Photo: Bob Nichols / USDAgov)While many Americans were firing up barbecues and breaking out the sparklers to celebrate Independence Day, biotech industry executives were more likely chilling champagne to celebrate another kind of independence: immunity from federal law. Unless the Senate or a citizen's army of farmers and consumers can stop them, the House of Representatives is likely to ram this dangerous rider through any day now. Eco-Investigators Say Fracking Air Pollution Is Poisoning Families in Texas. A hydraulic drilling rig.
(Photo: Chiot's Run)Cameron Cerny moved with his mother and father to Karnes County in southern Texas 10 years ago. The 15-year-old boy used to take long bike rides through the country with his mother, Myra, but they don't take rides together much anymore. Karnes County is in the heart of the oil-rich Eagle Ford Shale formation, which has become a relatively new hotspot for intensive oil drilling and hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking. " Since 2010, 18 oil wells were drilled or fracked within a mile from the Cernys' home, and a total of 37 existing wells, along with processing facilities and a wastewater injection well, operate within two miles of their home.
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Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. Biotech_Report_US.pdf / How the U.S. State Department Promotes the Seed Industry’s Global Agenda. Hollywood Gets To Party With TPP Negotiators; Public Interest Groups Get Thrown Out Of Hotel. We've been talking about the ridiculous levels of secrecy around the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) agreement -- a trade agreement that is being designed to push through basically everything that Hollywood wants in international copyright law. Obama Administration Finalizes Polar Bear Extinction Plan. For Immediate Release, February 19, 2013 Contact: Brendan Cummings, (760) 366-2232 x 304 or bcummings@biologicaldiversity.org Obama Administration Finalizes Polar Bear Extinction Plan New Rule Shrugs Off Dire Climate Threat to Ice-dependent Animals WASHINGTON— After months of high-profile statements about climate change, the Obama administration today finalized a special rule that fails to protect polar bears from greenhouse gas pollution under the Endangered Species Act.
The new regulation is modeled on a previous Bush-administration measure excluding activities occurring outside the polar bear's habitat — such as carbon emissions from coal plants — from regulations that could slow Arctic warming to prevent the bear’s extinction.