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The Hunger Games: The world after a climate apocalypse, teen fiction style

Mon, 19 Mar 2012 18:29:00 -0700

Grist - Mar. 19 - The revolution will be televised. So will the post-apocalyptic fight to feed ourselves on a ruined planet. Those are two key themes of the wildly popular young adult (YA) trilogy that begins with The Hunger Games, whose movie version comes out this week.

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What Makes Somalis So Different?

Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Dec. 22 () - You’d expect their children would be — on the whole — relieved to live in a stable Western country where even the president is black. But the Somalis who settled in Minneapolis and other selected corners of the U.S. were war refugees, with little money and not many job skills. A recent U.S. census study said Somali immigrants, statistically, were among the “youngest and poorest” newcomers to the U.S., with 82 percent of the community in Minneapolis living below the poverty line.

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To all our veterans past and present, "Thank You" (tribute video)

Thu, 11 Nov 2010 00:00:00 -0800

allvoices.com - Nov. 11 (Opinion) -

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Liberals Gone Wild

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - By Michael Scott Moore - Sep. 01 (Editorial) - “Liberal,” in Europe, means almost the reverse of what it means in North America. In Europe, it refers to laissez-faire economic policy. And because most large parties of the European left and right are committed to maintaining large, bureaucratic welfare states, liberal parties across the continent tend to be fairly small.

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Racist Latino Group Harasses Tea Party: “You’re Too White. Go Back to Europe.”

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Gateway Pundit - By Jim Hoft - Jul. 19 (Opinion) - A racist latino group harassed tea party patriots this week in Anaheim, California. The racists told the tea party patriots to– “Go back to Europe!” Don’t expect the state-run media to touch this story.

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'Angels and Demons' journey: Traveling to see the Large Hadron Collider

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

minnpost.com - By Shawn Lawrence Otto - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - In Italy they like to eat late. Most people don’t even head out to the restaurants until about 9. And in Torino there are many of them, mostly spilling out onto the sidewalks. In the old town center, an area of winding streets and tall brick and stone buildings, it’s sometimes hard to tell what is restaurant and what is street - tables are placed out onto the pavement and cars wind between them. They seem to all merge into an outdoor party full of a pleasing mix of wood smoke from the grills, fresh and delicious seafood, Fiat exhaust and wine. Which explains why this morning came especially early. We had to be at the old Fiat plant, now a huge shopping, hotel, and conference complex, at 6:45 a.m. to catch a bus to CERN — the European Organization for Nuclear Research. The Fiat plant is about a two mile walk from the hotel. It was still that sort of liquid cool before what you could just tell was going to be a hot summer morning.

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Bank Tax, We Hardly Knew Ye

Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Miller-McCune - Jul. 14 (Opinion) - Michael Scott Moore was a 2006-2007 Fulbright fellow for journalism in Germany, and his first novel, Too Much of Nothing, was published by Ca... Why euro-bashers could turn against the dollar, and how they might be stopped. How did such an

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"Looting Main Street"

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Matt Taibbi, Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez - Apr. 12 (Interview) - This scheme is not at all uncommon. I think in Jefferson County, it might have been a little bit more obscene and cartoonish than it is in other places. But there are communities all over America that are starting to see these interest rate swap deals blow up. The Pennsylvania school system, Detroit, the city of Detroit, Los Angeles, Oakland, Chicago—they’re everywhere. And so, we’re going to start seeing what happened in Jefferson County occur in counties all over the country.

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Missile Defense Could Be the Silver Bullet

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

sptimes.ru - By Dmitry Trenin - Nov. 08 (Opinion) - In the eyes of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, the “resetting” of U.S.-Russian relations became a reality only six weeks ago, when U.S. President Barack Obama announced his decision to reconfigure U.S. missile defense plans for Europe. Putin called Obama’s step “courageous,” which, coming from him, is perhaps the highest form of personal approbation

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Poverty - A Disease Spreading Across America

Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

NewsVine - By John Crippen - Mar. 28 (Editorial) - News Type: Event — Tue Mar 3, 2009 3:22 PM PST us-news, poverty, hunger, americans, medicine, homeless John Crippen This view is not an image of the war torn Iraq. It's not the hiding place of Osama Bin Ladin in Afghanistan with his terrorist network. These images were not even taken from an inner city of the United States. These images were taken on the California Central Coast in an average size town between Los Angeles and San Francisco. These buildings are a reminder of the San Simeon Earthquake in December of 2003. Even though these building have been condemned, There's evidence of recent inhabitance. While visiting these shacks there were shoes, torn furniture, broken windows, children's toys, and Food-4-Less bags that appear to be brand new. Poverty is an ever increasing epidemic in the United States right now. There's no signs of it slowing down any time soon. The unemployment rate is second only to the Great Depression of the 1930's. Some of the people inhabiting these buildings are likely to be immigrants, while others may be mentally ill or just down on their luck. Complaints by the business community have increased because of the increase of pan handling in the business districts of the community. Banks as well as small stores have had an increase in robberies and the general public is feeling the effects of all these dynamics. Not unlike the rest of the country, California is having to tighten it's budget. The worst part is that the people who need the help the most are the first ones to be short changed. The mentally ill, the physically disabled, war veterans, and the elderly have all been one of the first to be placed on the chopping block. The trend seems to be to take from those who have the least ability to speak for themselves. Often written off as drug users or bums, many of these people used to be functional members of society. Bipolar disorders, Schizophrenics, and even ware veterans with PTSD often get written off in this manner. Many essential services have been cut back or sometimes even gotten rid of all together. Community Mental Health Clinics and Outreach Programs have definitely been hit hard by these cutbacks. Even on a state and federal level there has been tremendous cutbacks. It often appears to be a self perpetuating cycle. The people in need of food and shelter commit a crime just to get into the system, whether it be a mental institution or a county jail, these people often "throw a brick" just to get three hots and a cot. This is especially true in the colder seasons because the broken down shacks do not have heating. America's priorities continue to be focused over seas as this epidemic continues to grow. We give food, shelter, medicine, and even education to people overseas, but do not realize what is happening right here in our own back yards. Those same resources could be used to feed, clothe, treat, and educate our own people. Never has it rang more clear than now, charity begins at home. The issue of funding has been compounded with the fact that we have a severe shortage of health care workers. Nurses, LVN's, CNA's, and even doctors are very much in need right now. Often pushed to their limits and beyond with incredible amounts of overtime, it's taking a severe toll on our health care system. Schools simply cannot produce quality health care workers fast enough to meet the increasing needs. Medications for some of the mentally ill are astronomical in cost, sometimes costing almost $1000.00 a bottle for some of the new atypical psychotropics are but one example. Even with medical or medicare, many of the people needing these medications cannot afford the co-pays. The situation is only going to get worse as we bring our kids home from Iraq and Afghanistan. One study has suggested that for every solder that has died in Iraq or Afghanistan, there are ten more that will come back with severe injuries. That would mean tens of thousands of our sons and daughters will be in need of the already depleting services. It's time to reassess our core values and remember what is most important in this time of destitute and need, less we have to re-live the sobering and disturbing economy of the 1930's.

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Know A Conservative That Needs Some Changing?

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By James Boyce - Oct. 29 (Opinion) - I believe that justice can sometimes be delayed, but it can never be denied. I served my country to the best of my ability and I hope to serve it again. And like Jim Martin, I will serve with character, dignity and grace. Something I can not say about the man I pray he replaces.

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Linking NAFTA and Immigration

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Common Dreams - By Ted Lewis - Mar. 02 (Opinion) - NAFTA's relevance to this year's election and the likelihood that a Democratic president will have to scrap or change it is due as much to its role in accelerating undocumented migration from Mexico as to the visceral reaction swing voters in Midwestern states such as Ohio have to job losses it causes here at home. During the NAFTA debate in 1993, advocates assured the U.S. and Mexican people that it would greatly alleviate unauthorized immigration by increasing employment opportunities in Mexico and closing the gap between U.S. and Mexican wages. But the promise of prosperity has been a mirage for millions of Mexicans: the value of the Mexican minimum wage dropped 23 percent in NAFTA's first decade; 19 million more Mexicans are living in poverty than 20 years ago, and today, one quarter of Mexico's population cannot afford basic foods.

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Two Presidents and a Wannabe Emperor

Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:55:33 -0700

Harper's - By Scott Horton - Aug. 21 (Opinion) - Today the leaders of the NAFTA states are holding an important summit to help chart the regional trade association's future. NAFTA is the largest free trade association in the world and in terms of volume of goods and services flowing across its frontiers is second only to the European Union. Unlike the EU, however, political issues take a backseat, and one nation is clearly in the driver's seat: the United States. But the domestic political winds of the United States also present NAFTA's biggest challenge--and particularly the internal politics of the Republican Party. Bush launched his presidency with a meeting with Mexico's Vincente Fox in which he promised that NAFTA would progress towards liberalization of the movement of services, promising immigration reform that would benefit the millions of Mexicans who now reside in the United States. Bush failed to deliver on any of his promises. Moreover, the Republican Party today is in the grips of xenophobic delusions worthy of the Know Nothings.

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