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U.S.
bilateral relations with Egypt seem about to head to a turning point,
but for sure at least there is "no doubt" that Washington "can't return
to business as usual" with Cairo as Obama told CNN on August 23.
Hungary
is about to pay off its debt to the International Monetary Fund and
then wants the creditor gone. The country was saved by Washington-based
group wit...
By Philip Kraske
Syria and sarin: such is politics On the nonsense surrounding the UN investigation into the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
By Rev. Dan Vojir
Mr. Trump, Where's Your Ethics Certificate? The Donald Gets Hit With Massive Fraud Suit By NY 
Donald
Trump, bloviator, bombast and birther extraordinaire has just gotten
hit with a rather large lawsuit from the State of New York claiming
fraud.
The
US is negotiating a NAFTA-style trade deal that should be alarming to
American consumers.The main reason it's not getting much attention is
that the mainstream media is largely ignoring it.This pact deserves more
news coverage. It threatens to undermine our own laws and increase the
opportunity for corporate takeovers of public resources in the United
States and abroad.The worst part?These negotiations are taking place
behind closed doors.As negotiations near completion, it's critical that
we let our members of Congress know that we don't support this kind of
corporate power grab. President Barack Obama is asking Congress to grant
"fast-track" authority, allowing him to negotiate the TPP and other
trade deals without otherwise requisite congressional oversight. We must
stop that from happening.Undermining laws that US citizens voted to put
in place isn't the American way.
FBI
Director Robert Mueller alleged that new terrorism threats were
emerging in Tunisia, Libya, Mali, Algeria, Syria, and Egypt, as well as
in the United States during an interview with cable channel CNN on
Thursday. The purpose of Mueller's statement is to stoke fear and
apprehension in the American population to justify the police state
surveillance programs set up by the government.
By Ari Berman
On the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, a New Civil Rights Movement Emerges 
There
were marquee names like Eric Holder and great speeches by civil rights
icons like Congressman John Lewis at the Lincoln Memorial. But the most
important people at the rally and march commemorating the fiftieth
anniversary of the March on Washington spoke earlier in the day, with
little fanfare, when many had yet to arrive.
'New Jim Crow' Placards Seized by Police & More From the March on Washington | Common Dreams
Article about the insanity of many of our leaders' policies decisions
Review
of documentary "Blackfish", which investigates SeaWorld, the death of
trainer Dawn Brancheau, and the keeping of orcas in marine parks.
By John Whitehead
Elysium: The Technological Side of the American Police State While much has been said about Blomkamp's use of Elysium to raise concerns about immigration, access to healthcare, worker's rights, and socioeconomic stratification, what I found most striking and unnerving was its depiction of how the government will employ technologies such as drones, tasers and biometric scanners to track, target and control the populace, especially dissidents.
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GROUNDBREAKING new Irish technology which could be the greatest
breakthrough in agriculture since the plough is set to change the face
of modern farming forever.
This article discusses the double meaning of the term idiot - i.e., fool and heteronomous subject
How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class
"Are we in danger of losing the "race against the machine," as the M.I.T. scholars Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee argue in a recent book? Are we becoming enslaved to our "robot overlords," as the journalist Kevin Drum warned in Mother Jones? Do "smart machines" threaten us with "long-term misery," as the economists Jeffrey D. Sachs and Laurence J. Kotlikoff prophesied earlier this year? Have we reached "the end of labor," as Noah Smith laments in The Atlantic?...HOW can we help workers ride the wave of technological change rather than be swamped by it?
A
measles outbreak in Texas traces to a congregation of a megachurch
whose leader, Kenneth Copeland, reportedly has warned followers away
from vaccines, advocating for faith healing and pushing the debunked
notion that vaccines cause autism. One of Copeland's churches, Eagle
Mountain International Church in North Texas, is the epicenter of the
outbreak, which now has hit at least 20 people.
Germany's
renewable energy industry has again shown its strength, shattering
through another solar power record, as utility company RWE announces it
will close fossil fuel power plants as they are no longer competitive.
The
New York State attorney general's office filed a civil suit on Aug 24,
accusing Donald J. Trump's for-profit investment school of engaging in
illegal business practices.
By Martin Hill
Ron Paul Shocker: Obey international law, pay taxes to authorities, & abstain from all offensive subject matter Ron Paul's new network has a lot of rules in the fine print.
Three
leaders of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and the movement's former
arch-foe Hosni Mubarak faced separate trials on Sunday on similar
charges of involvement in the killing of protesters. With Egypt now
under an army-installed government after last month's overthrow of
Islamist President Mohamed Mursi, local media seized on the symbolism of
scheduling both sessions on the same day. "Trial of two regimes,"
headlined al-Shorouk daily.
Prominent
Israeli Cabinet ministers are calling for a U.S.-led response to what
appears to have been a chemical attack in Syria last week that the prime
minister describes as a "terrible crime." Benjamin Netanyahu told his
Cabinet on Sunday that "this situation cannot continue." Neither
Netanyahu nor the ministers specified what type of response they were
urging. The Obama administration is considering military options.
The
cumulative output of five million vehicles is staggering. The figure is
particularly remarkable when the economic value of this output is
calculated. Assuming the average value of a Jeep produced at the plant
is $40,000, five million vehicles would be worth $200 billion.
Arming
rebels and authorizing military action by USA/NATO forces will not
solve the problem facing Syria, but indeed could lead to the death of
thousands of Syrians, the breaking-up of Syria, and it falling under the
control of violent fundamentalist jihadist forces. The entire Middle
East will become unstable and violence will spiral out of control.
By Thomas Farrell
Antoinette Tuff and the Prevention of Suicide by Cop Antoinette Tuff prevented a young man from committing suicide by cop and possibly killing her and others in the process. She told him that she understood how he felt because she had felt the same way after her husband had left her. Her non-death loss in her life moved the young man to surrender to the police. But we Americans should do more to understand how non-death loss causes depression and suicidal thoughts. Latest Articles
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I'm Thinking. Please. Be Quiet. - By GEORGE PROCHNIK NYTimes.com
Noise is the supreme archenemy of all serious thinkers. "around 1850, Schopenhauer pronounced noise to be the supreme archenemy of any serious thinker. His argument against noise was simple: A great mind can have great thoughts only if all its powers of concentration are brought to bear on one subject, in the same way that a concave mirror focuses light on one point. Just as a mighty army becomes useless if its soldiers are scattered helter-skelter, a great mind becomes ordinary the moment its energies are dispersed." and here's a question for you "Where does this leave those of us facing less restrained barrages? Could a critical mass of sound one day be reached that would make sustained thinking impossible?"
Does Media Violence Lead to the Real Thing? - y VASILIS K. POZIOS, PRAVEEN R. KAMBAM and H. ERIC BENDER NYTimes.com
There is now consensus that exposure to media violence is linked to actual violent behavior. ... a meta-analysis of studies that looked at the correlation between habitual viewing of violent media and aggressive behavior at a point in time, found 200 studies showing a moderate, positive relationship between watching television violence and physical aggression against another person. Other studies have followed consumption of violent media and its behavioral effects throughout a person's lifetime.In a study published in the journal Pediatrics this year, the researchers Lindsay A. Robertson, Helena M. McAnally and Robert J. Hancox showed that watching excessive amounts of TV as a child or adolescent -- in which most of the content contains violence -- was causally associated with antisocial behavior in early adulthood. (An excessive amount here means more than two hours per weekday.)
Luckily
for anyone who has ever needed an IV bag to replenish lost fluids or to
receive medication, it is also one of the least expensive. The average
manufacturer's price, according to government data, has fluctuated in
recent years from 44 cents to $1. The tale of the IV bag shows how
secrecy helps keep health care prices high: at every step from
manufacturer to patient, there are confidential deals that obscure
prices and profits. A bundled charge for "IV therapy" was almost 1,000
times the official cost of the solution.
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