Texas Officials Work to Avert Health Crisis After Ike (Update4)

 
By Brian K. Sullivan and Demian McLean
Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) — Three days after Hurricane Ike delivered a less-powerful punch than predicted, coastal Texas is struggling to fend off a health-care crisis.
In Galveston, water and sewer systems aren’t working. Its hospital is closed. The city is littered with debris and officials are asking for help against [...]

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Political Destabilization in South and Central Asia: The Role of the CIA-ISI Terror Network

by Andrew G. Marshall

 

Global Research, September 17, 2008

 
 
 

IntroductionRecent terror attacks in New Delhi on September 13, 2008, raise the questions of who was responsible and for what reason these attacks occurred. Terror attacks in India are not a new phenomenon, however, in their recent past, they can be largely attributed to the actions, finances, training [...]

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The Unknown Holiday

Today is Constitution Day. Few Americans know this. Neither banks nor government offices will be closed. And most of us will go to work today, spending nearly half our time laboring to pay taxes to the various levels of government. In this sense today is no holiday at all. It’s merely a designated spot on [...]

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THE POINT OF NO RETURN

Dictators do not appear overnight. They must gradually assume more and more power over time so that the population does not realize what is going on, or does not feel it is worthwhile to object.But to maintain control, dictators “seduce” their population into greater and greater atrocities, over time. There is more than simply acclimating [...]

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Why Iran’s nuclear weapons dont matter.

The [Ohio class] submarine has the capacity for 24 Trident missile tubes in two rows of 12. The dimensions of the Trident II missile are length 1,360cm x diameter 210cm and the weight is 59,000kg. The three-stage solid fuel rocket motor is built by ATK (Alliant Techsystems) Thiokol Propulsion. The US Navy gives the range [...]

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Bush family cleaning up on transfer of public lands to private hands

Bush family cleaning up on transfer of public lands to private hands
By Wayne Madsen
Online Journal Contributing Writer
Sep 16, 2008, 00:26
 

(WMR) — WMR has learned from a senior Democratic congressional source that the Bush family, most notably former President George H. W. Bush, is reaping windfall profits from the transfer of title of public federal [...]

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EcoDriving Practices

Believe You Can Reduce Fuel Use and Emissions
Many of the best practices for green driving are subtle, but they can add up over a year. Making small changes in your driving can be the most effective way to reduce fuel use and carbon dioxide emissions, and the best part is you can do it [...]

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Looking Ahead – The Weekly Petroleum Inventory Reports

Posted by Nate Hagens on September 17, 2008

 

VLCC Tanker – capable of transporting 2 million barrels
 
Tomorrow at 10:30 EDT we will get our first official report of crude/product inventories since Hurricane Ike and second since Hurricane Gustav. Below the fold are some brief thoughts on what has transpired in the past week, followed by [...]

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Drug War’s Latest Tally: 872,721 Pot Arrests, an All-Time High

 
by Paul Armentano
If denial is the first sign of addiction, then Drug Czar John Walters is hooked to the gills. He’s addicted to targeting and arresting marijuana consumers, and he’ll do and say anything to keep this irrational and punitive policy in place.
Speaking earlier this month on C-Span, the reigning Czar stretched his usual deceit [...]

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The Fed’s Failure

 
by Michael S. Rozeff
The first and most important rule of speculation is to cut your losses quickly, while they are still small. In poker, this means folding when you don’t have good cards. In research and development, it means halting investment when the initial results are unpromising. In stock speculation, it means selling a purchase [...]

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