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As the economy spirals out of control, more and more Americans are seeing their jobs, savings, and hopes for the future evaporate.
Increasingly, many have resorted to desperate measures to ward off eviction, dept, and unemployment; an alarming number are even turning to crime and suicide.
Not surprisingly, the tragedies of the wealthy grab headlines while the suffering on Main Street is largely ignored by the mainstream, national media. Read more...
President Obama blast the childish Republican Party. I is beyond obvious that the Republican party is grossly out of touch with the suffering of the American people.
A common treatment for attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, prescribed millions of times a year, may change the brain in the same ways that cocaine does, a new study in mice suggests. Research from Rockefeller University shows that methylphenidate, commonly known as Ritalin, causes physical changes in neurons in reward regions of mouse brains. In some cases, the effects overlapped with those of cocaine.
do nothing, many more low-income people already teetering on the brink could end up living on the streets over the next two years.
China is about to embark on a multibillion dollar media expansion overseas, including the establishment of a 24-hour English language all-news channel modeled after CNN. These are only the most recent steps in a methodical strategy for Chinese state media to "go global" and make "the voice of China better heard in international affairs" -- a plan set in motion by President Hu Jintao immediately after his accession to power in 2002. Since then, Chinese state broadcasters have considerably strengthened their foreign news operations, enhanced foreign language services and established the supporting bureaucracy to get the government's message out swiftly when news breaks. Read more...
broadband boosters. It would offer substantial funding for high-speed Internet networks in corners of the country that still rely on dial-up connections or have only one broadband option.The hope is that construction of these networks will create jobs, and that better access to broadband will spur all sorts of new economic activity. Yet not everyone agrees that broadband funding belongs in a stimulus plan. Read more...
As President Hugo Chavez intensifies his anti-Israel campaign, some Venezuelans have taken action, threatening Jews in the street and vandalizing the largest synagogue in Caracas — where they stole a database of names and addresses.Now many in Venezuela's Jewish community fear the worst is yet to come. Read more...
The list of purported Massachusetts victims in the Bernard Madoff scandal totals some 456 people and entities – from trusted investment advisers to local doctors to powerful law firms and small business owners – and is likely to grow once the full extent of the disgraced money manager’s scheme is understood. Read more...
Forty years after arriving in Israel as self-identified descendants of Tribe of Judah, first member of Israelite community gets letter from Interior Ministry approving request for citizenship. Ministry says more approvals to follow"Hallelujah, Hallelujah," members of Dimona's Black Hebrew Israelite community sang out after one of them received a notification that he was eligible for Israeli citizenship.
BAM is an organization whose sole purpose is to maximize exposure of missing persons of color, so they can receive the awareness needed to be reunited with their families.
Founded in 2008 by a veteran law-enforcement official, BAM will create public awareness campaigns for public safety and provide parents and loved ones of missing persons with a forum for spreading the word of their disappearance, with pictures and profiles of missing individuals. BAM will use a variety of media, including print, television, and the internet, to help locate missing persons of color for this severely underserved population.
BAM is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
The Army is investigating a stunning number of suicides in January _ a count that could surpass all combat deaths on America's two warfronts last month.
As technology advances into easier and more rapid forms of mobile communications, television being accessible not only from your living room but from your computer screen or iPod, and a touch screen generation emerging, it all seems pretty sleek and ultramodern, but deep within this chasm of technical euphoria, morality, decency, and old fashion honesty is plunging to a new Greco-Roman low.......Read more...
Rather than trying to destabilize his Arab neighbors, he founded a pan-African confederation modeled along the lines of the European Union. On Feb. 2, 2009, Colonel Qaddafi was named chairman of the African Union. His election, however, has caused some unease among some of the group’s 53-member nations as well as among diplomats and analysts. Colonel Qaddafi, who has ruled Libya with an iron hand, is a stark change from the succession of recent leaders from democratic countries like Tanzania, Ghana and Nigeria. Read more...
By SIMON ROMERO
Former KKK grand wizard David Duke, who once ran for governor of Louisiana, has called the newly appointed chairman of the Republican Party a "black racist," reports WDSU.com.
Dear Mr. President:
What a joy and relief it is to be able to salute you as President Obama. Congratulations on a magnificently run campaign. Your discipline, vision, strength and courage will take America and the world a long way. Now that we have made it through the courtship of the primary season, the engagement party in Grant Park on November 4th, and the wedding on January 20th, we're entering into
marriage—the final stage, one that is full of challenges.
It's high noon in our politics, where hope abounds. But it is midnight in our economics. But we have hope that the darkness will lead to a new light that will shine even brighter. We are in a time of the worst economic crisis of the last half century, and amid expanding wars and conflicts in Iraq, the Middle East and Africa. The two great themes of ending poverty at home and unnecessary wars abroad must dominate our priorities. Read more...
Eric Holder won Senate confirmation Monday as the nation's first African-American attorney general, after supporters from both parties touted his dream resume and easily overcame Republican concerns over his commitment to fight terrorism and his unwillingness to back the right to keep and bear arms.
school-yard bullies?Nationally, the United States is a religious nation, but nobody does church like
Black folks, a new study shows.
“African-Americans are markedly more religious on a variety of measures than the U.S. population as a whole, including level of affiliation with a religion, attendance at religious services, frequency of prayer and religion’s importance in life,” says the report by the Pew Forum on Religion Public Life. Read more...
a consultant for the Atlanta-based group, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
During his tenure at the SCLC, Steele led the near-bankrupt organization to financial stability and helped build its new headquarters. He also helped it establish conflict resolution centers abroad. Read more...
Last fall, Noah’s Arc: Jumping the Broom debuted in limited release in theaters around the country. The black gay themed film centered on the upcoming wedding of a male couple and the dramedy which unfolds leading up to their walk down the aisle.
Last month, Noah’s Arc was nominated for two NAACP Image awards: Best Independent Motion Picture and Outstanding Writing for a Motion Picture. Read more...
The CIA failed until Thursday to brief the full Senate intelligence committee that one of its senior officers, the former station chief in Algeria, has been under federal investigation for months for allegedly raping at least two Muslim women, congressional sources tell ABC News. Read more...
"Uberveillance is not on the outside looking down, but on the inside looking out through a microchip that is embedded in our bodies," Dr Michael told ninemsn. US company VeriChip is already using implantable microchips, which store a 16-digit unique identification number, on humans for medical purposes. Read more...
Personal bankruptcies surged to more than 1 million filings in the United States in 
2008 -- the most since a rewrite of bankruptcy laws went into effect in 2005.
Filings of Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcies rose 33% in 2008 as the economy worsened, according to data from U.S. bankruptcy courts and compiled by bankruptcy data firm Automated Access to Court Electronic Records. Chapter 13 bankruptcy allows people to pay off debts under a three- to five-year plan; Chapter 7 bankruptcy allows for a discharge of all debts. Read more...
Excessive exposure makes a child materialistic, which in turn affects their relationship with their parents and their health.
That is one of the conclusions of a new wide-ranging survey into British childhood, produced for the Children's Society.
It says that children are part of a new form of consumerism, with under 16 year-olds spending £3 billion of their own money each year on clothes, snacks, music, video games and magazines.
The report claims that some advertisers "explicitly exploit the mechanism of peer pressure, while painting parents as buffoons" and that in its most extreme form, advertising persuades children that "you are what you own".
In addition the "constant exposure" to celebrities through, TV soaps, dramas and chat shows is having a detrimental effect. Read more...
Google and Nasa are throwing their weight behind a new school for futurists in Silicon Valley to prepare scientists for an era when machines become cleverer than people.
Google and Nasa’s backing demonstrates the growing mainstream acceptance of Mr Kurzweil’s views, which include a claim that before the middle of this century artificial intelligence will outstrip human beings, ushering in a new era of civilisation. Read more...
soldiers while undermining the minds of those on the other, according to a National Research Council report drafted for the U.S.
y financial recession. The recent World Social Forum that was held in the Brazilian city of Belem as an alternative to World Economic Forum being held Davos with the theme 'another world is possible', was well received with the presence of leaders from most of the South American presidents to promote Latin America as a model for global economic development and co-operation. In this conference Hugo Chavez strongly criticized the global capitalist system for the current financial mess. He quoted that "In Davos the world that is dying is meeting, here the world that is being born is meeting.", a true portrayal of the failing capitalist system and a desire for new world.
There are up to three million "direct and indirect" victims worldwide of the alleged fraud by US broker Bernard Madoff, a Spanish law firm that has filed a US lawsuit in the name of some of the victims said Tuesday.
Details about more than three dozen secret memoranda written by Bush Administration officials now sit atop a chart created by a public interest reporting group. The memos track new details about dozens of secret Bush Administration legal positions on torture, detention and warrantless wiretapping. Read more...Teleportation may be nature's most mysterious form of transport: Quantum information, such as the spin of a particle or the polarization of a photon, is transferred from one place to another, without traveling through any physical medium. It has previously been achieved between photons over very large distances, between photons and ensembles of atoms, and between two nearby atoms through the intermediary action of a third. None of those, however,
provides a feasible means of holding and managing quantum information over long distances. Read more...
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The body count is still rising. For months on end, marked by bankruptcies, foreclosures, evictions, and layoffs, the economic meltdown has taken a heavy toll on Americans. In response, a range of extreme acts including suicide, self-inflicted injury, murder, and arson have hit the local news. By October 2008, an analysis of press reports nationwide indicated that an epidemic of tragedies spurred by the financial crisis had already spread from Pasadena, California, to Taunton, Massachusetts, from Roseville, Minnesota, to Ocala, Florida. Read more...
United Nations estimates that there are about 4.5 million displaced Iraqis -- more than half of them refugees -- or about one in every six citizens. Only 5 percent have chosen to return to their homes over the past year, a period of reduced violence from the high levels of 2005-07. The availability of healthcare, clean water, functioning schools, jobs and so forth remains elusive. According to Unicef, many provinces report that less than 40 percent of households have access to clean water. More than 40 percent of children in Basra, and more thanOn January 14, as the combined forces of recession and foreclosure continued their long, cruel assault on the Rust Belt, Cleveland's public school system marked the new semester with a troubling piece of data: the number of students who had been homeless at some point during the school year had jumped to 1,728. Compared with the same date in 2006, this number represented a spike of nearly 150 percent and served as further confirmation that, for all the whingeing of Wall Street executives, the poor and vulnerable have been hardest hit by the flailing economy. Not that Cleveland's poorest students needed reminding. In December, when Project ACT, a social service program for homeless students run by the Cleveland Metropolitan School District, asked a group of homeless parents what they wanted for Christmas, the parents responded with wish lists worthy of Little Dorrit: toilet paper, bleach, paper towels, food. Read more...
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When photographs of torture and abuse at Abu Ghraib appeared in 2004, Bush's approval ratings sank, yet torture themes multiplied in film and TV. From 2002 through 2005, the Parents Television Council counted 624 torture scenes in prime time, a six-fold increase. UCLA's Television Violence Monitoring Project reports "torture on TV shows is significantly higher than it was five years ago and the characters who torture have changed. It used to be that only villains on television tortured. Today, "good guy" and heroic American characters torture --
and this torture is depicted as necessary, effective and even patriotic". Read more...
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by Jennifer Harper
Another combatant joined the ever-expanding Limbaugh wars Monday.
Consumer activist Ralph Nader challenged Rush Limbaugh to reimburse the American public for his multimillion-dollar salary -- adding more discord to the life of the radio host, who skirts the line between media heavy and uber-politico.
"It's amazing how he gets away with it. Rush Limbaugh hammers away about big government and welfare and yet he's the corporate welfare king," Mr. Nader said. "He's an unctuous megalomaniac." Read more...
The grand jury in Willacy County, in the Rio Grande Valley near the U.S.-Mexico border, said Cheney is "profiteering from depriving human beings of their liberty," according to a copy of the indictment obtained by Reuters.
The indictment cites a "money trail" of Cheney's ownership in prison-related enterprises including the Vanguard Group, which owns an interest in private prisons in south Texas.
Former attorney general Gonzales used his position to "stop the investigations as to the wrong doings" into assaults in county prisons, the indictment said. Read more...
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