CNN Poll: Another Great Depression Likely in Next 12 Months? CNN asked 1,015 Americans a few questions on June 3-7, 2011. The hard hitting questions and the tell-tale answers reveal what the true state of the economy is and what the American people think of it. But you probably won’t hear this on the evening broadcast. [...]
Read My Lips, No New CARBON Taxes “There will be no carbon tax under the government I lead,” were the words that were uttered out of the mouth of Julia Gillard, while she was campaigning for office. After getting into office her stance changed on a dime. After the election, Gillard announced to Australians that [...]
Rochester Police Chief Calls For An Internal Investigation Rochester, N.Y — On May 12th, of 2011, a lady from Rochester was told to go inside her own house while she was videotaping the police. Rochester city police were working a routine traffic stop in front of her house, located in the 19th Ward, Rochester, New York. This [...]
Humanitarianism Crisis, Or The West Gaining Control? Speaker John Boehner wants details from President Obama, but also insists that the United States shouldn’t pull out just yet. NATO still has a critical role to to play in Libya. What? This very much sets a double standard for the Republicans. They say the U.S. shouldn’t have invaded [...]
Judges Busted For Betraying Kids And Gaining Financial Reward The story starts with two very prominent judges from Pennsylvania. One is Mark Ciavarella, who is former Judge of the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. The other is Michael Conahan, a former judge from Luzerne County Pennsylvania. These two cohorts worked together [...]
War Profiteers Busted In Bottled-Water Contract Fraud The latest conviction of a string of indictments is former U.S. Army major Charles J. Bowie Jr; Bowie pleaded guilty to one count of money-laundering on May 11, 2011. The increasingly complex Cockerham bribery case moves forward. Army Maj. John Cockerham was the ringleader of a $15-million kickback scheme, which is [...]
The Number One Enemy Is Ignorance Julian Assange is very critical of the media and he is heavily targeted by the U.S. government. Assange said also that the number one enemy to all of us is ignorance. And that relates to not understanding what is actually going on in the world. Who is responsible for [...]
Obama Doesn’t Care If 8.9 Million Residents Freeze The winter of 2011 has been a brutal one. Atlanta has iced over several times. Chicago has fought a blizzard. Tulsa is getting blanketed again. Road crews are busier than ever. Yet President Obama has come up with one way to slash the budget. He wants to cut [...]
The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business Why is Wal-Mart so big and how did it get that way? Do you really know anything about the retail giant? Professor Nelson Lichtenstein tries to explain the background of Wal-Mart. If you’re interested at all about business and Big Box stores in [...]
Survivors of WikiLeaks Create OpenLeaks Julian Assange became the story of the year in 2010. As 2011 moves forward, journalism has been changed forever. Whether you like Assange or not, he has changed history. Assange is arguably the biggest change agent of the decade. WikiLeaks has created a frenzy of its own sort. Transparency should be [...]