Excellent comment about this from Signs of the Times:
Enough already! with this “Iran wants to destroy the world” nonsense. It is repeated ad nauseam, like some insane machine. This rabid ranting comes from the one regime that DOES seem hell bent on destroying the world, and as such represents the highest level of hypocrisy imaginable. [...] Read Full Story
Source: San Francisco Business Times.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain cashes his monthly Social Security checks despite calling the federal program “a disgrace,” the Associated Press reports.
“I’m receiving benefits,” McCain told campaign reporters, but added, “the system is broken.”
In 2007, he received benefits of $23,157 from Social Security, approximately $1,930 a month. The maximum monthly benefit [...] Read Full Story
It’s one of the better nutrition blogs.
I recently read this book after discovering it on another health site. It’s a compilation of chapters written by several researchers in the fields of comparative biology, paleontology, archaeology and zoology. It’s sometimes used as a textbook. I’ve learned some interesting things, but overall it was pretty disappointing. The [...] Read Full Story
Source: Glenn Greenwald, Salon.com.
One of the most striking aspects of our political discourse, particularly during election time, is how efficiently certain views that deviate from the elite consensus are banished from sight — simply prohibited — even when those views are held by the vast majority of citizens. The University of Maryland’s Program on International [...] Read Full Story
Source: Ted Rall, Information Clearing House.
Nothing Honorable About the Vietnam War
Every presidential candidacy relies on a myth. Reagan was a great communicator; Clinton felt your pain. Both storylines were ridiculous. But rarely are the constructs used to market a party nominee as transparent or as fictional as those we’re being asked to swallow in 2008.
Still [...] Read Full Story
Source: Mike Whitney, CounterPunch.
The Fed’s emergency rescue plan for the financial markets is hopelessly flawed. It’s a scattershot approach that doesn’t address the real source of the problem; an unregulated, unsustainable structured finance system that emerged in full-force after 2000 and spawned a shadow banking system that creates trillions of dollars of credit without sufficient [...] Read Full Story
It means better care and more attention. You can find a good doctor who charges between $100 and $300 a visit, depending on what you need. I like having a private doctor and HMO “care” as back-up and to pay for some of the basic tests.
Source: Maggie Mahar, Health Beat Blog.
More and more doctors are [...] Read Full Story
The key is low carb AND high fat, especially saturated fat.
Source: The Healthy Skeptic.
A study was just published in the New England Journal of Medicine on July 17th comparing the effectiveness and safety of three different weight loss diets. 322 moderately obese subjects were assigned to one of three diets: low-fat, restricted-calorie; Mediterranean, restricted-calorie; [...] Read Full Story
By Nick Madigan, Baltimore Sun.
Documents show state police monitored peace and anti-death penalty groups
Undercover Maryland State Police officers repeatedly spied on peace activists and anti-death penalty groups in recent years and entered the names of some in a law-enforcement database of people thought to be terrorists or drug traffickers, newly released documents show.
The files, made [...] Read Full Story
