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Crisis : Handle your business folk

Crisis : Handle your business folk

While many of us walk around oblivious too the serious economic conundrum our country is in, and remain inattentive to the world around us and feel secure in our little niche with our weekly pay checks, it is really a troubling time in our beloved (...)

16 Mar. 2010 | | Torrance Stephens - All-Mi-T

The Debt Potato

The Debt Potato

The past year has been all about shifting debt. The financial crisis drove American homeowners into debt. Homeowners defaulted on their loans (or threatened to), driving the banks into debt. The U.S. government bailed out the banks, shifting debt to the (...)

15 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

Has Obama Gone Fishing or Gone Mad?

Has Obama Gone Fishing or Gone Mad?

Are you a weekend fly fisher, do you like to take the kids fishing, do you take vacations surrounded by the prospects of reeling in the “Big One” with future stories about how it got away? Or do you like to simply sit with your line in the (...)

12 Mar. 2010 | | Liberally Conservative

The Conservative Pushback Against The McCarthyite Sleaze Of Cheney & Kristol

The Conservative Pushback Against The McCarthyite Sleaze Of Cheney & Kristol

Given the Democrat vs. Republican and left vs. right rancor that seems to suffuse every issue today, the conservative pushback against the despicable Liz Cheney and Bill Kristol over their McCarthyite tagging of Department of Justice lawyers who defended (...)

10 Mar. 2010 | | Shaun Mullen

U.S. Jobs Data Propels Crude Oil Above $80 a Barrel

U.S. Jobs Data Propels Crude Oil Above $80 a Barrel

Jobs data indicating that U.S. economic recovery might be picking up steam finally pushed crude oil futures decisively over the stubborn $80 a barrel threshold. Nymex’s benchmark West Texas Intermediate settled Friday at $81.50 a barrel, a (...)

9 Mar. 2010 | | Staffjam

Administration ’flexible’ on 9/11 trial venue: Great remember our discussion!

Administration 'flexible' on 9/11 trial venue: Great remember our discussion!

Administration ’flexible’ on 9/11 trial venue A reminder and I hope this gets to someone of consequence! The perfect location for 9/11 trial: Leavenworth Kansas, United States Penitentiary! Why is it not mentioned? My experience with Fort (...)

22 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | James Joiner

Is Romney On The Rise Again?

Is Romney On The Rise Again?

When Romney was nowhere to be seen during Scott Brown’s insurgent campaign in Massachusetts I said that it might have indicated the end of Romney’s run on the right. I was completely wrong. Romney got a strong reaction from the crowd here at (...)

19 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Rob Port

Apathy in America means that we’re all potential victims

Apathy in America means that we're all potential victims

My younger son, Kyle, still bears an ugly scar on his right eyelid from an attempted mugging on the CTA. In 2008, he was on his way home on the Green Line from his part-time job at Kennedy-King College as a City Colleges student when he was jumped by a (...)

18 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | Monroe Anderson

U.S. – Iran Power Struggle over Iraq

U.S. – Iran Power Struggle over Iraq

A secure, stable and democratic Iraq will have first to wait for an end to the raging power struggle over Iraq between the United States and Iran inside and outside the occupied Arab country. By Nicola Nasser* U.S. Ambassador Christopher Hill’s (...)

18 Feb. 2010 | 1 comment | nicola

Britain alleges Brit tortured by Pakistan at US behest: That was not torture, you tell me!

Britain alleges Brit tortured by Pakistan at US behest: That was not torture, you tell me!

UK Document Calls US Actions Torture, it gets worse but should it? Okay lets talk torture! Water boarding we have discussed many times. That most definitely is torture and there is no gray area there. However sleep deprivation? I can handle that. If (...)

16 Feb. 2010 | 2 comments | James Joiner

The New Face Of Poverty In America: You Can Have A Job But Still Go Hungry

Having written early and often about the U.S.’s descent into a corporatocracy, most recently here and here, I thought that I was pretty much tapped out on the subject. But then I read an absolutely mind-blowing statistic: One of every eight (...)

15 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Shaun Mullen

Crude oil prices took a dive on Friday

Blizzard conditions in the U.S. Northeast had propelled West Texas Intermediate prices back up above $75 earlier in the week. But a decline of some 1.5% on Friday pushed prices down near $74 a barrel again. Still, oil was ahead about 4% on the week. Crude (...)

15 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Staffjam

Congress Pushing for Radical Steps to Shake up Iran with New Energy Sanctions

Congress Pushing for Radical Steps to Shake up Iran with New Energy Sanctions

U.S. lawmakers are toughening their stance on Iran’s energy industry with new economic penalties, but experts doubt the Islamic regime will pay much attention and is more likely to open the doors even wider to other players eager to replace fleeing (...)

10 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Staffjam

Senseless Savagery: A U.S. Connection to the Juarez Student Massacre

Senseless Savagery: A U.S. Connection to the Juarez Student Massacre

Sixteen Mexicans, most of them teens, were gunned down at a high school party by multiple, heavily armed killers, who reportedly filed away in silence last weekend. A horrified world viewed photos of Sunday morning streets running red with innocent blood. (...)

8 Feb. 2010 | 3 comments | Billie Greenwood

That light difference

Do Italians watch over their governors? Can Italian democracy be healthy if voters do not endorse good behavior and sanction bad? Scott Brown, a Republican former model, won the Massachusetts Senate race. The election, in a state where Democrats (...)

29 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Massimo Famularo

USA and the Taliban

USA and the Taliban

What do the “invisibles” think, those forgotten exponents of civil society, the workers, the good people who fight on in silence day by day in Afghanistan for a better future and democracy? This question has been answered by the Italian film (...)

28 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Guido Banfi

Worse than nothing: New bipartisan proposal blocks immigration reform

Worse than nothing: New bipartisan proposal blocks immigration reform

Taking a "tough on illegal immigration" stance appeal to elected officials who are eager to please constituents. But simplistic solutions to complex problems are almost always wrong. Yesterday Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) along with several (...)

26 Jan. 2010 | 2 comments | Billie Greenwood

Remembering Dr. King & The Never Ending Struggle For Civil Rights

Remembering Dr. King & The Never Ending Struggle For Civil Rights

When I was first cutting my teeth in the newspaper business, my editors sent me out on "house ends," visits to homes where I would interview families of interest because something very bad of interest had happened to them. It was the late (...)

18 Jan. 2010 | 1 comment | Shaun Mullen

America Waits For Leadership

How can history be an accurate record when the elusive present is being recorded as wild distortions of reality? The mainstream media’s (MSM) record of the White House, which it reflects onto the American perspective, as well as it’s flaccid (...)

11 Jan. 2010 | 1 comment | PacificGatePost

Surprise: Democrats Breaking Promises, Raising Taxes For People Making Less Than $250,000

Surprise: Democrats Breaking Promises, Raising Taxes For People Making Less Than $250,000

Remember when Obama promised this? In order to save our children from a future of debt, we will also end the tax breaks for the wealthiest 2% of Americans. But let me be perfectly clear, because I know you’ll hear the same old claims that rolling (...)

31 Dec. 2009 | 2 comments | Rob Port

War on Terror Requires Continued Muslim Support From Friends and Family of Suspects

Christmas Day Attack Attempt

Detroit, USA- The attempted Christmas Day foiled terror attack proved that there are terrorists out there still very much planning and attempting to carry out attacks on the United States and Europe. The alleged terrorist is a 23 year old man from an (...)

29 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Manzer Munir

Napolitano – Incompetence In Ascendance

When a CEO fumbles and stumbles repeatedly, then demonstrates incompetence, the company’s Board takes remedial action, and if it doesn’t, the shareholders get vocal with their votes. When the head of Homeland Security repeatedly demonstrates (...)

29 Dec. 2009 | | PacificGatePost

Arts & Entertainment

Immigrant = guilty until (or even if) proven innocent

Immigrant = guilty until (or even if) proven innocent

Immigration Procedures: The USA is becoming a police state (if it has not yet turned into one). Immigrants are snatched from their homes and sent to jails (same place they keep hardened criminals) for mere violation of immigration status. In other (...)

29 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Bakoh

Fascinatingly Solipsistic

Fascinatingly Solipsistic

What’s the most incredible thing about living in the White House? Why, the royal treatment, of course! Okay, so I needed to take a little break from studying Worker’s Compensation Law, right? It was a little before 11:00 p.m., I made myself a (...)

10 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Jeff Schreiber

Transforming Perceptions Of Reality

We have entered a new phase of reality distortion as negative events become positive in their reporting. Truth is being transformed. I don’t refer here to politicians lying about the state of affairs to promote a self serving scheme or other, I (...)

4 Dec. 2009 | | PacificGatePost

NG O&G Summit welcomes Neil Bush and Karl Rove

NG O&G Summit welcomes Neil Bush and Karl Rove

The latest in the highly anticipated NG O&G summit has just taken place in New Orleans. Today, energy is at a crossroads. While the energy crisis has made its mark in the media the industry met to discuss the impacts on the sector. It is of utmost (...)

20 Nov. 2009 | | Emma Naylor

’We Don’t Learn From Our Mistakes.’

In late 2000 Louis Pepe was a guard in the same New York facility where Khalid Sheikh Mohammed will likely be housed during his trial. One of the prisoners was an alleged top aide to Osama bin Laden : Mamdouh Mahmud Salim. On November 1st, 2000 Salim and (...)

19 nov. 2009 | | Jeff Schreiber

21st Century Celebrities

21st Century Celebrities

Some people think that globalization is a process which tends to standardize cultures, and then to destroy our world’s diversity. Given that the Internet’s development is in line with this process, they also consider that the Internet is the (...)

18 Nov. 2009 | | Josse

Show Trial Goes To New York

Show Trial Goes To New York

The significance of continuing growth in unemployment ranks has been obliterated from news headlines by an unexpected decision by the Administration: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other Guantanamo Bay Sept. 11 terrorist detainees will be tried in a (...)

16 Nov. 2009 | | PacificGatePost

American Equilibrium

Everywhere I go, amongst people of the middle and especially the upper middle class, I keep hearing this phrase : "It is what it is. Some of the time when I hear it, it is uttered with some frustration. But lately I hear people saying it with a kind (...)

13 nov. 2009 | | Cobb

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