(Principled Progressive returns on Wednesday. Have a safe and happy 2013!) SIBEL EDMONDS’ PREDICTIONS FOR THE NEW YEAR: SAME OLD, SAME OLD, MORE “WAR ON …WHATEVER.” A noted whistleblower posts her year-end assessment as the old year splutters out and and the new year rings in. Piece of cake, she says. When one puts [...]
New data from the bottom of the planet has scientists warning that the world has seen what may only be the smallest fraction of what could lie ahead as the year when climate change has asserted itself as a global destabilizing force comes to a close. Researchers studying some of the best climate logs ever [...]
OBAMA’S DIGESTION: DOES HE “HAVE THE STOMACH TO CARRY ON ANOTHER WAR?” Apparently so, says Jason Hirthler, as he notes the bi-partisan “imperial lockstep” between the two major parties as, for example, Defense Secretary Panetta places cruise missiles in Turkey for its conflict with Syria, and State Secretary Clinton jiggles the nerves by talking of [...]
MERRY CHRISTMAS! WHILE YOU WERE UNWRAPPING GIFTS, CONGRESS GAVE THE GREEN LIGHT TO WARRANTLESS EMAIL SNOOPING. Federal agencies will be allowed to continue spying on the private emails of Americans after the Senate mysteriously dropped a key amendment to legislation that had been advertised as a way to protect the rights and privacy of [...]
HOT TIME AT THE OLD BYRD RESEARCH STATION. Temperature readings at this oceanographic station in southwest Antarctica indicates that the ice cap is heating at twice the rate that climatologists had predicted, raising the image of likely melting that could raise ocean levels by a disastrous ten feet within a few years. (Common Dreams) [...]
THE ROAD TO ZERO WASTE MAY LEAD THROUGH THE FLANDERS REGION OF BELGIUM. By both citizen action and government enforcement, this Dutch-speaking section of Belgium is converting traditional Dutch cleanliness into a program of waste prevention and re-cycling through a multi-pronged movement to encourage source separation for garbage, massive private and corporate composting operations, [...]
Will a “grand bargain” to avert the ostensible calamity of going over the “fiscal cliff” forge a legislative accord on the backs of the most vulnerable Americans? Progressives are increasingly worried about President Obama’s use of Social Security as a bargaining chip with an increasingly rancorous Congress. Not much more than a month since Election Day, [...]
BROTHER, CAN YOU SPARE A TEMP JOB? While unemployment rates in the U.S. have shown some improvement, with less than 9% of the work-force unemployed on a “given day,” this measure of unemployment masks the fact that over 13% of workers and their families will face a period of non-employment during some part of [...]
U.S. AND WORLD MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE CONNECTICUT SHOOTING IS DRIVEN BY A POLICE STATE “AGENDA.” So argues former Assistant Treasury Secretary Paul Craig Roberts, following his interview on the subject for Moscow RT television. Roberts notes that this media, like most others, is focused on the issue of a ban on “assault weapons,” whereas the most [...]
“THE DANGER SIGNS ARE ALL AROUND”: 2012 IS THE YEAR OF CLIMATE CHANGE With the end of another year comes the predictable reviews of various events and specific categories of what occurred in 2012. For scientists and weather experts, their conclusion is stark and sobering: climate change is happening “before our eyes” and at [...]
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