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Getting the Attention of the Bandit Class
If It’s Not Dead on Arrival, Someone Should Shoot It Quick: Paulson’s Fixit Plan for Wall StreetBy MIKE WHITNEY It is being billed as a “massive shakeup of US financial market regulation”, but don’t be deceived. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson’s … Continue reading
Get ’em While They Last
The New Yorker Thanks to Harry Edwards / The Rag Blog
Physician, Heal Thyself
Former Surgeon General: Mainstream Medicine Has Endorsed Medical MarijuanaBy Dr. Jocelyn Elders / AlterNet / March 26, 2008 A historic document from the 124,000-member American College of Physicians certifies the medical value of marijuana. One of America’s largest and most … Continue reading
Art : New York Salutes its Garbage
SHHHH! No trash talking… How, exactly, would the Big Apple rot if nobody picked up the trash? Within a couple of weeks the city would be carpeted with trash — more than 120,000 tons of it, according to Robin Nagle, … Continue reading
Federal Continuity Directive 1: Beyond Duct Tape
Lifted shamelessly from Bad Attitudes. Freedom Through Fear [snip] But today’s topic in the post-election prolonging of Bush ideology is the attempt to reinforce and extend the primacy of the “global war on terror“ (GWOT in Bush-speak) as the federal … Continue reading
Texas Conventions : A Real Challenge
Ecstatic Obama delegate at Dallas Convention. Photo by Dallas Morning News. Several Rag bloggers and members of MDS/Austin attended the Travis County Democratic conventions in Austin on March 29, 2008. Most were delegates for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Between … Continue reading
The Disembodied Lightness Is Sheer Illusion
Well, this just sucks, especially since I’m an IT manager for a small manufacturing company. Welcome to the real world. Richard Jehn / The Rag Blog Google Data Center along the Columbia River in Oregon.It is no coincidence that search … Continue reading
We Need to Lead by Example, Not Threats
Toward a Humanist Foreign Policyby Carl Coon President George W. Bush has proved to be as much of a disaster on foreign affairs as on domestic issues. More, if possible. And not just on Iraq. On many other issues, including … Continue reading
Analysing the Conflict in Southern Iraq
Read the LA Times headline! This wouldn’t be happening if BushCo could have stayed the hell out of the Middle East. And the MSM doesn’t help by pushing buttons that make it sound like the US is always the “good … Continue reading
Could Collider Produce Black Hole? Well, Maybe Just a Little One…
Part of a detector to study results of proton collisions by a particle accelerator that a federal lawsuit filed in Hawaii seeks to stop. Photo by Valerio Mezzanotti / NYT. Asking a Judge to Save the World, and Maybe a … Continue reading
Group Protests Autonomous Military Robots
SWORDS (Special Weapons Observation Reconnaissance Detection Systems) robots are equipped with either the M249, machine gun which fires 5.56-millimeter rounds at 750 rounds per minute or the M240, which fires 7.62-millimeter rounds at up to 1,000 per minute.Anti-landmine campaigners to … Continue reading
Bringing Iran to Its Knees at Minimal Cost
Russian Intelligence Sees U.S. Military Buildup on Iran BorderBy RIA Novosti / March 27, 2008 Moscow – Russian military intelligence services are reporting a flurry of activity by U.S. Armed Forces near Iran’s borders, a high-ranking security source said Tuesday. … Continue reading
