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Economy: Official Unemployment Hits 9.5% (Reality Even Worse)
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The official count -- known as U3 and dutifully reported by most of the media -- fails to show the true extent of the wreckage. By Meteor Blades \| Daily Kos July 2, 2009 Unemployment rose to 9.5% in June, a 26-year high, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. A total of 14.7 million Americans are now officially out of work, and payroll employment has fallen by 6.5 million since the downturn began in December 2007, 19 months ago.
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Accountability: The “Spirit of Humanity"
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	The government of Israel committed an act of piracy. By Paul Craig Roberts \| ICH July 01, 2009 On June 30, the government of Israel committed an act of piracy when the Israeli Navy in international waters illegally boarded the “Spirit of Humanity,” kidnapped its 21-person crew from 11 countries, including former US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney and Nobel Laureate Mairead MaGuire, and confiscated the cargo of medical supplies, olive trees, reconstruction materials, and children’s toys that were on the way to the Mediterranean coast of Gaza. The “Spirit of Humanity,” along with the kidnapped 21 persons, is being towed to Israel as I write.
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Health & Wellness: Health Specialist Cathy Diaz Reports On Her Experience Using Resveratrol
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Scientists have identified a substitute to red wine called Resveratrol that they believe might do more than just protect the heart. By Cathy Diaz \| New 13 June 15, 2009 NEW YORK - I'm a 35-year-old news veteran, who's been covering health and wellness news for more than a decade. I admit I can sometimes be jaded and skeptical with an 'I've seen it all attitude.'
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Thought Provoking: Hemp Grows on World, Not National, Territory
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	That the so-called US "Drug War" is an artifice and a fraud perpetrated by official ignorance and greed. By Garry Davis \|WSA Jun 25, 2009 WASHINGTON, D.C. Statement by World Citizen Garry Davis, World Coordinator of the World Government of World Citizens: As the German nation, after World War I was "humiliated" by the conditions of the Versailles Treaty leading eventually to World War II, so the Russian nation was "humiliated" along with its disintegrating army and navy following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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Politic: Washington escalates “drug war” intervention in Mexico
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$700 million approved by the US Congress as part of the so-called Merida Initiative By Bill Van Auken \| WSWS Mar 27, 2009 With the announcement of a new border security plan Monday and the two-day visit by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to Mexico City and Monterrey which ended Thursday, Washington is launching a major intervention in Mexico in the name of combating drug trafficking and associated violence.
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Finance: There ain't no rest for the wicked
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	Global Empire By James Quinn \| Financial Sense via Silver Bear Cafe, May 30, 2009 Money doesn't grow on trees for most of America. We sit down at our kitchen tables and write out checks to the phone-company, electric company, credit card-company, mortgage-company, and auto finance company every month. We clip coupons and go to the grocery store every week to put food in the mouths of our children.
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Spiritual: Impeach the monsters: New Dawn
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IMPEACH: from Late Latin impedicare, fetter (as a foot), shackle, hinder. MONSTER: from Latin monstrum, inauspicious portent or sign. By Mankh (Walter E. Harris III) \| Axis of Logic May 2009 Typically there are signs or warnings before 'shit happens.' I think of this process as a pattern of mercy built into the universe.
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Real Estate: U.S. : Cops enforce illegal bank foreclosure. Homeowner dies resisting eviction
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	Where were the headlines on May 21 in the capitalist-owned press about the just-signed Helping Families Save Their Homes Act and its foreclosure moratorium? By Kris Hamel \| Workers World May 28, 2009 Mark D. Fussner died May 22 after an hours-long shoot-out with police following the bailiff’s unsuccessful attempt to evict the 44-year-old homeowner. Two 24th District Court officers had come to Fussner’s home on Anne Street, in the working-class downriver Detroit suburb of Allen Park, to carry out a writ of eviction after foreclosure.
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Accountability: US Violated Geneva Conventions, Bush Iraq Commander Says
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A stunning admission from General David Petraeus reveals that the US may have violated international law. By John Byrne \| Raw Story May 30, 2009 The head of the US Central Command, General David Petraeus, said Friday that the US had violated the Geneva Conventions in a stunning admission from President Bush's onetime top general in Iraq that the US may have violated international law.
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Politic: The Results Are In: Americans Are Now More Closely Aligned With Progressive Ideas Than at Any Time in Memory
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	On issue after issue, significant majorities of Americans favor progressive solutions to the nation's problems and reject the right's worldview. By Joshua Holland \| AlterNet May 30, 2009 On issue after substantive issue, significant majorities of Americans favor progressive solutions to the nation's problems and reject the right's worldview. That's true whether the issue at hand is taxes, war and peace, the role of government in the economy, health care, and on and on.
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