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Where the hell is Matt?

Hillary or Barack? You Choose

RIP, Kerwin James

New Birth Brass Band tuba player Kerwin James, who walked out of devastated New Orleans with his instrument on his back, passed away Friday at a Houston hospital.

When the news of his passing hit James’s native Treme neighborhood in New Orleans, a spontaneous parade erupted on St. Phillip Street. Have a look

Food Shortage, Food Prices & Corporate Greed p

The Wall Street Journal today reports on the massive profits of companies dealing in grain processing (high-fructose corn syrup, ethanol and others), fertilizers, genetically modified seeds, pesticides and other food- and farm-related products and services.

In the last quarter alone, the six most profitable companies in this sector have earned more than $4 billion. Here's how they might spend a bit of their windfall:

Those profits make the United Nations Food Program's emergency request for $755 million to feed the 73 million people at risk of starvation look tiny. It amounts to 20% of the profits from those companies over the last three months. And remember, these companies – Monsanto, Cargill, Mosaic, ADM, Deere and Bunge – have for the most part been raking it in for at least a couple years, as they ride (or is that drive?) the congressional mandate for ethanol.

Food prices, according to one index, are up 57% in a year.

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Cult leader comes to America.

Evil Defined

The BBC reports:

A jury in Texas has sentenced a man to 25 years in prison for severely burning his two-month-old daughter in a microwave oven last year.

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Who Knew? Peace sign is fifty years old.

This symbol, arguably the world's most recognised logo, is fifty years old today. 
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The Fall of Rome xxx the US

Asked whether the United States could repair the damage it has suffered to its reputation during the Bush presidency and especially since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, Kouchner replied, "It will never be as it was before."

"I think the magic is over"

Racists in South Carolina Attack TV Reporter

Despite the popularity of the USA's first ever black presidential candidate, as far as racism goes, it ain't over. 

Watch a black South Carolina TV reporter as she is  attacked doing her stand-up.

http://gawker.com/366823/tv-reporter-attacked-by-racist-crowd-in-south-carolina

Is a terrorist threat real?

"The Power of Nightmares,"  a powerful BBC 2004 documentary never aired in the United States.

Watch this excerpt and it will be clear why.

"Nightmares," challenges the neo-conservative justification for the (Bush- Blair, Rumsfield & Cheney) invasion and occupation of Iraq

The filmmakers argue that the nature of the threat that Al Qaeda poses has been distorted and exaggerated for political advantage.

It's worth watching.