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Rural America:Not Just A Drive thru
Seeded on Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:55 PM EST (Center for Rural America)
This is another story about Rural America. It is meant to point out that the people in rural America face problems not unlike those in urban America, but with a lot less PR and media.
Visit a Quaint "Foreign" Country and meet the Peasants of Rural America.
Sun Nov 8, 2009 5:25 PM EST
In my mind rural and urban America have become more foreign to each other than NYC is to Paris. Despite the French speaking French first , and possibly second English and vice verse, these urbanites probably have more in common than Rural and Urban Americans.
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The Iron Cheer of Empire
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 9:10 AM EST (CounterPunch.org)
It may be my bias, or my imagination, or my distaste for toil, but from here America looks like one big workhouse, "under God, indivisible, with time off to @!$%#, shower and shop." A country whose citizens have been reduced to "human assets" of a vast and relentless economic mach …
Rural Brain Drain--What to Do?
Seeded on Sun Nov 1, 2009 1:36 AM EDT (Newsweek)
As a rural resident I have mixed feelings about what it means to our community to have such a huge brain drain. My friend's kids are all leaving town in droves and main street is full of poor teen-aged single mothers.
Sanders to Push for Single-Payer Vote in Senate
Seeded on Thu Oct 29, 2009 3:35 PM EDT (Common Dreams)
U.S. Sen. Bernard Sanders will likely make history this year when - for the first time ever - he brings a bill creating a national single-payer health care system to the floor of the Senate for a vote.
The Spy Who loved Hamas..........
Seeded on Tue Oct 20, 2009 3:34 PM EDT (MotherJones.com)
"The West's usual assessment of the Muslim world—the moderates are our Sunni allies, and the extremists are the radical Islamists aligned with Shiite Iran—is exactly wrong, Crooke says.
Former Coach charged with having sex with a minor
Seeded on Fri Oct 9, 2009 8:41 PM EDT (FOX 40 WICZ TV)
Once again we see a grown man trying to use a position of trust and power, in this case a sports coach, to try and entice minor girls into having sex with him. This man has now been charged and if convicted faces life in prison.
What's up, Doc? Radioactive rabbit poop at Hanford: 300k in stimulus monies?
Seeded on Thu Oct 8, 2009 2:35 PM EDT ()
It was a low-flying poop detector. That is if the poop was radioactive. In late September, a helicopter hovered 50 feet above the Hanford nuclear reservation, methodically hunting almost 16 square miles for radioactive poop that critters with a taste for salt spread
The Single Payer Solution For Health Care Reform | Physicians for a National Health Program
Seeded on Tue Sep 29, 2009 12:53 PM EDT ()
Americans currently spend twice per capita ($7,000 per year) on health care as most other industrialized nations. We're currently paying more than enough for universal quality health care, but are not getting it.
Anti-War Groups Rethinking War on Afghanistan
Seeded on Sun Sep 20, 2009 4:25 PM EDT (The New York Times)
Since the election of President Obama the Anti-War movement has been quiet. Now with the proposals for increasing the military presence in Afghanistan the resistance is coming back to life.
is it Deja-Vu or are we just going in circles??
Seeded on Fri Aug 21, 2009 12:08 AM EDT (The New York Times)
Scientists in Germany reported Thursday that this often-described sense of lost-hiker déjà vu, of having inadvertently backtracked while wandering in the woods, is real. "People really do walk in circles," said Jan L.
Israel is the prime impediment to progress in the Middle East
Seeded on Tue Jul 21, 2009 5:51 AM EDT (TIME)
Benjamin Netanyahu's phony flexibility on a two-state solution was always transparent--and it's now becoming apparent that Israel is the prime impediment to progress in the Middle East. Over the weekend, the State Department asked Israel's Ambassador Michael Oren to convey U.S.
What Two Out Of Three Americans Really Want for Health Care
Seeded on Tue Jun 23, 2009 1:32 PM EDT (The Huffington Post)
An argument about the true nature of National Health Care and our fear of this terminology as Americans
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The Black Madonna: Black Goddess When I gaze upon the Black Madonna, whether in her form as Our Lady of Guadeloupe in the Americas or her European forms, I behold the countenance of mystery, things hidden, deep wisdom and dynamic power – I behold a magical presence that answers prayers and invocations, extends …
- Va. student mistaken for deer, shot to death
Officials in Virginia say a college student was shot to death while collecting frogs for biology class by a hunter who mistook her and her classmates for deer.
Photographing Snow ... I love It!
If you have the motivation and the stamina, photographing snow scenes can be quite satisfying!
- C Street House No Longer Tax Exempt
Residents of the C Street Christian fellowship house will no longer benefit from a loophole that had allowed the house's owners to avoid paying property taxes.
Vaccines on horizon for AIDS, Alzheimer's, herpes
Malaria. Tuberculosis. Alzheimer's disease. AIDS. Pandemic flu. Genital herpes. Urinary tract infections. Grass allergies. Traveler's diarrhea. You name it, the pharmaceutical industry is working on a vaccine to prevent it.
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