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The Village That Reinvented the World
Almost four decades ago, Gaviotas was started as a sustainable community in one of the harshest places in South America. It has worked -- largely because of trees. By Dr. Tom Termotto
Strangelets, Black Holes and the GOD Particle  The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator that straddles the border of France and Switzerland, is quite busy lately playing with the most basic ingredients of the universe. Much of humanity is completely oblivious to what is taking place there, even though the elemental forces of creation are being manipulated as never before. Perhaps it's time to take a closer look at .... By Tony Irwin
Credit Scores and the Madness of Crowds  This article expounds on the way that society has placed an overemphasis on the importance of one's credit score, and why this is simply another product of advertisement. By Brent Budowsky
"Second Amendment Solutions": Why Everyone MUST Vote
The notion that America is turning to the right is a fraud perpetrated by the right, pushed by Republicans, repeated like parrots by the mainstream media. If everybody votes, Democrats win. By Sally McMillan
The've Still Got It Wrong
AS Barney Frank said, "How many times do you need to be hit over the head before you realize you can't work with them?" By Bud Goodall
The Morning After: What Went Wrong & What We Can Do With Narrative to Make it Right
The president failed to communicate the good work he was doing, failed to provide the core narrative that good government is all about promoting the public good, and failed to realize that most Americans pay more attention to soundbites and signs and anger than we do to calm rationality and a cool demeanor. This is a war of ideas, and every day we engage in a battle of narratives ... each and every one of us. By E.David Ferriman
America Must Start Moving Forward Faster
The New Dream for America is equality and an ever forward vision for a better future for the coming generations. Lets stop talking about it and lets work together and make it happen. California says 'no' to legalizing marijuana cultivation
In a landmark ballot measure that tested the boundaries of the public's acceptance of pot, California voters decided Tuesday night they're still not ready to legalize marijuana smoking as a leisure activity. 6 Terrorists Inspired by Fox News and Glenn Beck  Fox -- and Glenn Beck in particular -- seem to be inspiring conservatives to engage in armed civil war with their liberal neighbors. Here are six actual terrorists inspired by Fox News. They have killed six Americans and wounded six others between them. (Seven, if you count the woman who took a sneaker to the skull from Paul's man): By Rob Kall
Moonies Take Back Washington Times  The right wing Washington Times is changing hands, from a team run by Sun Myung Moon's son Preston to a team of former Washington Times employees. This sale, for one dollar plus assumption of millions in debt, is seen as a transfer of control back to Sun Myung Moon. By Timothy Gatto
Election Day Blues
I sat and watched MSNBC and watched them make their assessments about why the Democrats lost so badly. Well the fact that the President didn't do anything but reward his campaign contributors with a massive deficit causing bail-out while turning its back on the manufacturing sector wasn't a real vote-getter By Marta Steele
Democracy or Dumbocracy? Only the Vote Counters Know for Sure
Random thoughts as election results trickle in and my spirits sink. By Joyce McCloy
Voting News: Vote flipping in Indiana, Maryland, Penn. 10,000 calls to 866OURVOTE
866-OUR-VOTE received over 10,000 calls today. Top states include CA, GA & PA. Some in today's news. Would you believe Alabama didn't have enough pens, so used pencils to mark ballots, causing probs? ..MD Diebold touchscreens flip votes from GOP to DEM!..CA awaits millions of mail ballots..probs with epoll books,paper poll books, power outages,locked up ballots,polling place moves, machine shutdowns, vote flipping, scams... By Cenk Uygur
Why Are Democrats Going to Lose When They Are More Popular?
There is a fascinating disparity in these 2010 elections. When asked which party will cope better with the issues facing this country over the next couple of years, Democrats win 42-38%. When asked who will handle the economy better, Democrats win 44-37%. When asked which party you approve of more in Congress, Democrats win 36-30%. Yet, they're about to get wiped out. Latest Articles
Americans to be Pummeled by Yet Another "Sky-Is-Falling" Pro-Meatpacker Study
"We're not expecting anything even close to the truth when these pro-meatpacker groups unveil their self-serving study, and based on the history of the consulting firm they've used and the hype they're trying to generate, we'd better be prepared for a spectacular deception," Elections, selections, and projections
Tuesday is a big day for horse races of both the metaphorical and acutal kinds. Giants Win World Series !  The curse has been lifted ~ 52 years ago ( 1958 ) the New York Giants packed up their bags and abandoned New York for San Francisco and left millions of East Coast Giant fans in the lurch without their favorite team, which had recently swept the Cleveland Indians in the 1954 World Series. New York never forgave them until they finally caved in 2010 when Bochy's cardiac kids captured their hearts. Don't Worry, Be Happy!  Don't worry -- be happy! The Midterms still represent a big problem for the Democrats -- they're going to be voted down as a direct consequence of their dithering and leaderlessness -- but the political reality is that the world is not going to end." Scorpio New Moon November 5-6, 2010  The Scorpio New Moon, occurring on November 5th at 9:52pm Pacific time and on November 6th at 12:52 Eastern time, is very powerful this year because it sits alone in the sky. It makes no major aspects to other planets, and so we are left alone with ourselves to dive deep and explore the scorpionic themes of death and rebirth. The new seeds we plant must gestate in darkness for a while. Obama prepares to expand military attacks in Yemen
the Wall Street Journal editorial page invoked the Yemeni terror allegations as justification for the Obama administration's declared intention to carry out the "targeted killing" of a US citizen, Anwar al Awlaki. It further argues that the latest terror scare "underscores how crucial it is that US intelligence be able to eavesdrop on email and phone conversations" without having to obtain a warrant. Tomgram: Engelhardt, Pentagon Lovers and Welfare Queens  By the time you read this, I'll already have voted -- the single most reflexive political act of my life -- in the single most dispiriting election I can remember. As I haven't missed a midterm or presidential election since my first vote in 1968, that says something. Or maybe by the time you've gotten to this, the results of the 2010 midterm elections will be in. In either case, I'll try to explain just why you don't reall  Best News Links from the Web
Letter to a whiny young Democrat
The U.S. House of Representatives, the most insufferable gaggle of political mongrels this side of, well, the rest of Congress, reverts to GOP control like a brain tumor reverts to a more aggressive form of cancer, and everything gets bleaker and sadder and, frankly, a whole lot nastier. David Corn: And 2010's Biggest Winner Is  Campaign finance reform advocates are in total despair. For decades, they have tried to lessen the impact of special interest money on the political system. (The House Democrats passed Obama-backed legislation earlier this year to force disclosure of contributors, but the bill stalled in the GOP-obstructed Senate.) Now the dam seems gone, blown up, in rubble. Scores killed as series of bombs rock a dazed Baghdad
Sixteen bombs struck Baghdad on Tuesday, exploding near crowded coffee shops and a Shiite mosque and bringing a city still reeling from a major attack Sunday to a standstill. at least 63 people were killed and almost 250 wounded in what security officials said were car bombs and roadside bombs 鈥" most of them detonated over the space of less than 90 minutes. THE ROVING EYE: A New Model for the Americas: Democratic Brazil, not Plutocratic US  With the USA on the verge of going even farther retrograde into Corpocracy, Plutocracy and Oligarchy, with genuinely psychotic and reactionary political forces coming to the halls of power now, what country in the Western Hemisphere has the character to offer a progressive model that can empower all people, not a voracious few? Yes, Brazil, which has just seen Lula's chosen successor, Dilma Roussef, elected to the presidency. Memoir: Bush considered replacing VP Cheney  Cheney had volunteered to step down in 2003 so Bush could pick someone else as his 2004 campaign running mate. Bush considered the offer, writing that while Cheney "helped with important parts of our base, he had become a lightning rod for criticism from the media and the left." While Bush did not like Cheney's image as described by critics, accepting his resignation offer would help "demonstrate that I was in charge." Think Election Spending Is Excessive? Just Wait Until '12
Campaign spending is expected to hit $4 billion this election cycle, making it the most expensive midterm campaign ever in the United States, but some analysts predict it could be dwarfed compared to what's coming in 2012. ProPublica: What Elections Could Do For the Foreclosure Crisis, FinReg, and Other Issues We're Watching
A Republican victory would shift control of the oversight and appropriations process in Congress, and lobbyists are hoping that means less money for agencies like the SEC and the CFTC to hire staff and aggressively enforce the Dodd-Frank financial regulatory reform bill passed this summer. Eugene Robinson - What's behind the Tea Party's ire?
Bush was vilified by critics while he was in office but not with the suggestion that somehow the government had been seized or usurped - that it had fallen into hands that were not those of "the American people." Yet this is the Tea Party suggestion about Obama. Thank you Supreme Court for all the sleazy attack ads
Campaign 2010 is noteworthy for many things. Most remarkable has been the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision issued at the start of the year that opened wide the spigots of corporate money flooding into this year's election. NYT Editorial: Vote
Republicans want to go back to more tax cuts for the rich and more free passes for Wall Street and big corporations. Tea Party candidates are particularly worrisome. Some want to privatize Social Security. Others want to eliminate Medicare. Betting on the Republican establishment to temper these excesses is a bad bet. Afghan Police Unit Defects to Taliban
A spokesman for the Taliban said the movement's fighters made contact with the Khogeyani's police force, cut a deal, and then sacked and burned the station. As many as 19 officers vanished, as did their guns, trucks, uniforms and food. 4 U.S. Citizens Killed in Mexico
Four U.S. citizens were shot to death in separate attacks in the border city of Ciudad Juarez over the weekend. It was not clear Tuesday how many of the killings were related or what motivated the killers. Dan Froomkin: Election Day 2010 Voting Problems Expected; Call Centers Are Open
The nation's patchwork of sometimes unreliable and unverifiable voting mechanisms is not up to the task of reliably counting every vote. Reports of touch-screen electronic voting machines accidentally "flipping" votes are already coming in from around the country. Olbermann suspends "Worst Persons' segment after "Sanity' rally  MSNBC's Keith Olbermann announced Monday that he was suspending his well known "Worst Persons in the World" segment until further notice with the hope of toning down the vicious rhetoric on cable news. "The overall message that the tone needs to change, was not lost on any of us," Olbermann said on his Monday show
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