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Hot Oil! Narco Pirates Smuggle Mexican Petrol into Texas
Hot oil? Petroleum “pipa” with the mark of the Zetas, the infamous drug cartel branching out into petro-piracy. Photo from NarcoGuerra Times.HOT OIL! Union crooks, drug cartels and U.S. corporations are stealing billions of bucks of Mexican petroleum. By John … Continue reading
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By Betty Dubose Hamilton / The Rag Blog / November 16, 2009 With the following list, Dr. Robert P. Watson of Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, graded Barack Obama on his first six months in office. I think the … Continue reading
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Cannabis Café : Getting High in Portland
Portland’s Cannabis Cafe opened on Friday the 13th of November, 2009. Photo from The Portland Mercury.Dutch-style pot shop:Cannabis Café is medical marijuana salon …the cafe comes almost a month after the Obama administration told federal attorneys not to prosecute patients … Continue reading
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Bitter Tears : The Untold Story of Johnny Cash
Top, Cash’s album, “Bitter Tears,” met with opposition from the music industry. Below, Pima Indian Ira Hayes, celebrated by Johnny Cash, helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima, an act caught in the famous photograph by Joe Rosenthal. Hayes died … Continue reading
Ven. Sevan Ross : A Buddhist’s View of Wage Theft
Ven. Sevan Ross, on right, with Unitarian Universalist minister James Ford. Photo from Monkey Mind.A Buddhist’s view of wage theftRight Livelihood and paying people what’s right As long as we regard each other not as humans but as the “other,” … Continue reading
Peter Matthiessen : The Tragedy of Leonard Peltier
The Tragedy of Leonard Peltier Vs. the United States of America …this man’s life leaks away behind grim concrete walls for the unworthy purpose of saving face for the FBI and a U.S. Attorney’s Office… By Peter Matthiessen / November … Continue reading
Big Pharma : The Orgasm Scam
‘Restless Vagina Syndrome’:Big Pharma’s newest fake disease By Terry J. Allen / November 9, 2009 It’s not your fault, ladies (and certainly not your partner’s), that you don’t orgasm every time you have intercourse, or that you lack the libido … Continue reading
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Tagged Big Pharma, Marketing, Pharmaceutical Companies, Sexuality, Women
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BBC Poll on Capitalism : Where’s the Love?
Global survey on free market capitalism:Majority say fix it or ditch it By James Robbins / November 9, 2009 Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a new BBC poll has found widespread dissatisfaction with free-market capitalism. In … Continue reading
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The bitter tears of Johnny CashThe untold story of Johnny Cash, protest singer and Native American activist, and his feud with the music industry By Antonino D’Ambrosio / November 9, 2009 In July 1972, musician Johnny Cash sat opposite President … Continue reading
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Development: US fails to measure up on ‘human index’ Nation slumps from 2nd to 12th in global table· Richest fifth take home $168,000, poorest $11,000 * Buzz up! * Digg it * Ashley Seager * The Guardian, Thursday 17 July … Continue reading
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BOOKS / ‘Eating Animals’ : The Beef with Factory Farms
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals:A sweeping indictment of factory farms …what we should be talking about is how upward of 99 percent of animals are raised and what it does to them, what it does to the environment, what it … Continue reading
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Tagged Animal Cruelty, Books, Environment, Factory Farms, Food, Investigative Journalism, Meat Industry, Nonfiction, PETA, Vegetarianism
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