CHINESE INVESTORS PUTTING A LOT OF “STOCK” IN THE COUNTRY’S GREEN-ENERGY CAR INDUSTRY. BYD, which makes an electric car, puts itself up for stock market sales and the market responds by large increase in price, despite the company’s recent poor earnings report. Analysts suggests that BYD is a surrogate for the interest of investors in [...]
WHAT’S THE MATTER WITH KANSAS? “BIG GOVERNMENT” STEPS IN TO BAN ABORTION (Kansas City Star) New and excessive regulations against clinics that provide abortions in Kansas have led to a backlash among clinic operators complaining of draconian new rules and by women’s rights advocates that charge the legislation that created the stricter oversight is just [...]
WISCONSIN TEA PARTY; STATE GOES AFTER PLANNED PARENTHOOD IN PURSUIT OF AN “ANTI-ABORTION” AGENDA, CURTAILS PREVENTIVE HEALTH CARE NEEDS OF THOUSANDS OF WOMEN. In its 27 clinics around the state, Planned Parenthood is involved in encouraging contraception and treatment and precautionary protection against infectious diseases. With their funds drastically cut and with federal abortion funding [...]
IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN: 20 BILLION FOR AIR CONDITIONING, NOT A CENT AVAILABLE FOR VITAL U.S. DOMESTIC NEEDS. (UK Daily Mail) $20 billion is the amount estimated to cost the U.S. government each year to provide air conditioning to keep soldiers cool in these two countries; and not even the President’s touted “draw down” of troop forces is [...]
Authorization for the U.S. military mission against Moammar Gaddafi and Libya was rejected in a floor vote of the House of Representatives on Friday, but a simultaneous effort to pull funding for the joint U.S./NATO intervention failed. The overall outcome was deemed “symbolic” by the New York Times. House Republicans lead by Speaker John Boehner [...]
Gaddafi gives troops Viagra for mass rapes COLONEL Gaddafi gave his troops Viagra and ordered mass rapes to terrorise rebels, it was claimed last night. The tyrant hoped to raise soldiers’ sex drive to help them spread fear, according to the International Criminal Court’s top prosecutor. Luis Moreno-Ocampo said: “In some areas we had 100 [...]
“WHENEVER PRIME MINISTER BENJAMIN NETANYU SNEEZES FOUR HUNDRED CONGRESSMEN SAY ‘GESUNDHEIT’”! (Antiwar.com) This is Philip Giraldi’s statement in describing the huge influence of the Israel lobby on the foreign policy of the Unites States. In support of that expression, he cites the appearance of GOP presidential candidates before a fundamentalist Christian forum of Ralph Reed, [...]
AMERICA’S WARS… OBAMA BOWS TO PUBLIC PRESSURE BY FAKING A WITHDRAWAL FROM AFGHANISTAN. (Washington Post) Public support for the war in Afghanistan has been eroding for years, and that support has been polling at record lows as of late. Congress is increasingly anxious to reduce the footprint of US forces in Afghanistan and the costs [...]
WHAT’S A NICE JEWISH GIRL LIKE YOU DOING ON THE INTERNATIONAL FLOTILLA TO END THE SIEGE OF GAZA? (Dissident Voice) A New York City psycho-therapist, a Holocaust survivor, attempts to answer this question for herself in participating in the Audacity of Hope ship which will set sail later this month. Head of the Jews Say [...]
The United States Supreme Court handed down two controversial decisions on Monday that, together, embody the rightward shift of the court and the hesitation of justices to oppose some of America’s largest corporations. The most important ruling from the Court on Monday was in a blockbuster case involving a class action lawsuit against Wal-Mart alleging [...]
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