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Even
the best deals are only netting 5 percent. That's not enough to wet the
beak of the big players who thought they'd be raking in the moolah. Now
that the price of distressed properties has skyrocketed, the Wall
street guys are going to make even less, which means they'll probably
reduce their spending on housing and move on to more lucrative areas of
investment.
As
the gun carnage continues across the United States, the Right won't
stop peddling its bogus historical claimsabout the Second Amendment and
rallying its gullible supporters to fight even modest safety laws. But
victims of gun violence are finally fighting back.
So,
we have over 7 million homes from the real estate bubble under the
radar, out of view, kept out of the market by banks. I think the
metaphor of a fart works-- gas that came in, got bigger even, and it's
just sitting there, waiting.
By Danny Schechter
Israel's Bombing of Damascus: When Aggression is Framed As Defense
Syria is Bombed--How the Press Reacts
Israel's Bombing of Damascus: When Aggression is Framed As Defense
Syria is Bombed--How the Press Reacts
All
digital communications -- meaning telephone calls, emails, online chats
and the like -- are automatically recorded and stored and accessible to
the government after the fact. To describe that is to define what a
ubiquitous, limitless Surveillance State is.
By Richard (RJ) Eskow
Mushroom Clouds Over Texas, 500 Deaths in Bangladesh -- That's Why We Need Unions
Mushroom Clouds Over Texas, 500 Deaths in Bangladesh -- That's Why We Need Unions
The
Texas plant did not report the fact that it was storing 270 tons of
ammonium nitrate to the Department of Homeland Security as required by
law, even though that's more than 200 times the amount Timothy McVeigh
used to blow up the Federal building in Oklahoma City. We're expected to
suspend our civil liberties in the name of national security, but
businesses aren't even being asked to follow safety regulations.
After
a terrorist attack, if anyone dares suggest that the killings represent
blowback from U.S. military violence abroad, that person can expect
furious denunciations even though the point is almost surely true, a
paradox that William Blum confronts in this article from Anti-Empire
Report.
ere are top-down religions and bottom up religions and ways of thinking about matters of faith and god.
As
a kid I learned to write fast, clean, and hard in an old-fashioned
newsroom, among chattering teletypes, clattering Linotype machines, and
the eleven a.m. daily roar of the presses.
Diverse Panel at IFP talks about the web and independent film.
'Author claims she was duped into signing over the rights on her prizewinning book'
Humanity
is at a critical juncture in its history. Prophecy appears to be coming
true. Indeed, the various religions of the world are being linked
together as one (e.g., psychiatrist Carl Jung's work and mythologist
Joseph Campbell). For many, it also appears that prophecy, as
identified in the "Bible's" "Book of Daniel," may be coming true. Does
this mean we're doomed? Not if Zoe Hudson's work is taken to heart.
A
new rule set for approval by the North Carolina Mining and Energy
Commission requiring some disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic
fracturing has been withdrawn at the request of industry giant
Halliburton. Lawyers for Halliburton say regulations requiring
disclosure of chemicals pumped into the ground during drilling would
reveal trade secrets. Landowners and environmentalists, pushing for
public disclosure, worry about the potential for groundwater and well
contamination.
Afghan
President Hamid Karzai acknowledged Saturday that he has frequently
received money from the CIA and that he had called a meeting this past
week with the CIA's Kabul station chief, who he said "promised that they
are not going to cut this money." Saturday also marked one of the
deadliest days of 2013 for international forces in Afghanistan. Five
U.S. service members were killed by a makeshift bomb in southern
Afghanistan, two more were killed when an Afghan soldier turned his
weapon on foreign troops in western Afghanistan, and one was killed in
an attack in the north.
Upset
with Wells Fargo's foreclosure practices, protesters held a
demonstration on May Day that briefly shut down one of the bank's
branches in downtown Los Angeles. The action was organized by Occupy
Fights Foreclosures, an Occupy Los Angeles subcommittee that has been
assisting homeowners fight what they consider are fraudulent
foreclosures. About 80 activists, which included foreclosed homeowners,
stood in front of the bank's entrance for a half hour before joining the
nearby May Day demonstration held by the Southern California
Immigration Coalition.
How
did Barack Obama become America's first black president? He pleased the
"elites," according to Clarence Thomas, the second African-American
ever to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Speaking about his life at
Pittsburgh's Duquesne University in April, Thomas explained that he
always thought there would be a black president in his lifetime. "The
thing I always knew is that it would have to be a black president who
was approved by the elites and the media because anybody that they
didn't agree with, they would take apart," he added.
United States Lost Output Clock
You've heard of the debt clock? This it the lost output clock, showing the difference between what we are producing and what we should be producing. It's at $4 trillion, according to Federal Reserve Figures, and climbing...
You've heard of the debt clock? This it the lost output clock, showing the difference between what we are producing and what we should be producing. It's at $4 trillion, according to Federal Reserve Figures, and climbing...
Kerry
will elicit some more words from the Arabs. Some more promises from
Netanyahu. There may even be a festive opening of a new round of
negotiations, a great victory for President Obama and Kerry. But nothing
will change. Negotiations will just drag on. And on. And on. For the
same reason that there has been no movement in the past, there will be
no movement in the future.
A
scathing analysis of how "useful idiots" of both the Republican and
Democrat stripe dominate the news with their mutually hateful "idiot
wars," keeping the far more important story or corporation domination
off its rightful place on the front page. Also stresses how much liberal
idolaters of faux-progressive Obama block political progress as much as
the "right-wingnuts" they vilify.
How
is it that it was Democrats all squeamish in Kentucky recently over
fricking hemp legalization? Because police and other traditional
Democratic special interests own them of course.
By
helping to fund illegal settlements the Israel Lobby,with the help of
U.S. charitable foundations, is in fact an agent of the State of Israel.
It is in direct opposition to U.S. policy regarding illegal
settlements and its actions hinder a peaceful solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Eroding
political support is exactly what congressional Republicans want. They
fear that Obamacare, once fully implemented, will be too popular to
dismantle. So they're out to delay it as long as possible while keeping
up a drumbeat about its flaws. Repealing laws by hollowing them out --
failing to fund their enforcement or implementation -- works because the
public doesn't know it's happening.
By earl ofari hutchinson
Thomas's Race Hit on Obama No Surprise
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas did the seemingly impossible. He turned from court mute to a hit man on President Obama. In an interview at Duquesne University Law School in April, Thomas snidely rapped Obama for being the darling of the "elites." To Thomas that means liberals, progressives, intellectuals, and the supposedly hopelessly liberal media.
Thomas's Race Hit on Obama No Surprise
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas did the seemingly impossible. He turned from court mute to a hit man on President Obama. In an interview at Duquesne University Law School in April, Thomas snidely rapped Obama for being the darling of the "elites." To Thomas that means liberals, progressives, intellectuals, and the supposedly hopelessly liberal media.
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Israeli
jets bombed Syria on Sunday, rocking Damascus for hours and sending
pillars of flame into the night sky in what a Western source called a
new strike on Iranian missiles bound for Lebanon's Hezbollah. Local
people reported massive explosions and internet video showed the
capital's skyline lit by flashes; Syrian opponents of President Bashar
al-Assad rejoiced at Israel's third raid this year, and second in 48
hours, while anger in Tehran highlighted how Syria's civil war risks
spinning further beyond its borders.
"Absent
a magic potion or explosive economic growth, it was all but inevitable
President Barack Obama would have to break some of his campaign promises
to keep others. If there's one thing that distinguished them besides
their ambition, it was their incompatibility"
Former
US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has outraged anti-gun
campaigners after praising America's powerful gun lobby for not giving
in to pressure to tighten laws. Addressing tens of thousands of
delegates at the annual convention of the National Rifle Association in
Houston, Texas, Palin said: "The Washington establishment sneers at you,
and you don't give up. "The lamestream media just plain doesn't get
you, and you don't give up. You don't retreat."
Search
teams on Saturday found the bodies of two American crew members near
where their military refueling plane crashed in the rugged mountains of
Kyrgyzstan, while the third crew member was still missing. Residents of
the rural, sheep-herding region described hearing the plane explode in
the air and seeing it break apart as it fell. "I heard a very loud
explosion," Emil Bokochev, a member of the village council, told an AP
reporter at the site. "Literally six or seven seconds afterward there
was another explosion and the plane broke apart into four or five pieces
and at that moment we thought it was going to fall on the village
Chaldovar."
Israeli
missiles struck a research center near the Syrian capital Damascus,
setting off explosions and causing casualties, Syria's state news agency
reported early Sunday, citing initial reports. If confirmed, it would
be the second Israeli strike on targets in Syria in three days,
signaling a sharp escalation of Israel's involvement in Syria's bloody
civil war.
"Orb
won the 139th running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs with a
furious rally in the homestretch. The victory gave famed trainer Shug
Mcgaughey his first Kentucky Derby victory."