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Scan the headlines in Borderland Beat, a “blog dedicated to the reporting of organized crime on the border line between the US and Mexico,” then ask yourself if the US will somehow be immune from the tsunami of violence and corruption currently overwhelming Mexico. But the US will do little or nothing until it’s too [...] The plant focuses heat from the sun onto water filled tubes to create steam to drive turbines. After Gutenberg and NY Times have more. The gridlock shows no sign of improving. The problem is that since authorities forced closure of illegal and unsafe coal mines near Beijing, Inner Mongolia is cheerfully shipping bootleg coal along the G110 expressway. Why that expressway? Because there are no inspection points. And all those trucks is what is snarling traffic. As any resident [...] A response to Spencer Ackerman’s opening gambit on Pakistan diplomacy [...] The Cordoba House Initiative has become the summer’s defining political Rorschach test. Depending on whom you ask, the controversy surrounding Park 51 in downtown Manhattan, widely termed the ‘Ground Zero Mosque,’ is either a distraction or one of the most important issues facing the people of the United States, a matter of defending religious liberty [...] For some, their Facebook relationship says “It’s complicated.” For us, it’s where we live. We moved from SoCal to Utah then Sue got a job in San Jose. So we’re bouncing back and forth between them until things settle down and we figure out where to live. Several of the new hires with Sue [...] Mayor Bloomberg strongly defends the Ground Zero mosque while Obama, Harry Reid, Howard Dean and other Democratic ‘leaders’ remain mute or attack it. Yet again, Democratic leadership shows itself to be both gutless and complicit with the far right. Islam did not attack the World Trade Center — Al-Qaeda did. To implicate all of Islam [...] Charles Bowden, author of Murder City: Ciudad Juarez and the Global Economy’s New Killing Fields talks about how there are now 25,000 retail outlets for drugs in Tijuana now, that 23,000 have been killed recently in Mexico as a result of the drug wars, and how US border policies are a failure with corruption [...] I spend my nights in the factory Building bombs for the good of the nation It’s my job can’t you see? Massive plutonium radiation They’re gonna rock and destroy Made from the finest of alloys They’re gonna fly under the radar Six feet over the Russian horizon [Chorus:] Making The Bombs! Making The Bombs! [...] YouTube A few months ago, Tim Wise wrote a widely circulated article called, “Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black ” which challenged America to take a close look at the hypocrisy of the Right Wing. Now, a Pittsburgh rapper is accepting his challenge in true Hip Hop form. Jasiri X has released [...] |  | ||||
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