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t r u t h o u t | Ten Things That Terrify Right-Wingers - 0 views

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    "These are some of the things that keep American conservatives awake at night. Modern American conservatism is based on an almost endless series of grievances. Author Thomas Frank coined a term for it: the conservative "plenty-plaint" -- a long and ever-evolving list of personal and cultural gripes dressed up as an ideology. But there's also fear! And while it spans the breadth of the movement, this is the year of the Tea Party revolt, when the grassroots right, disgusted with the idea of semi-affordable health-care and tepid financial reforms is rebelling against even its own establishment. And the divide between the grassroots base and its leadership extends to the very fears that animate them. As we'll see, the conservative movement's business-attired hacks and the hard-Right tea Party types waving misspelled signs out in the streets have some very different causes for alarm. So, here are ten of the most interesting things that absolutely terrify Wingnuttia. First, a few terrors of the real hard-core Right. For the Tea Partier, the midterm GOP primary voter, it's not just the anxiety over social change that typifies more traditional conservatism. A broad chunk of the GOP base today is animated by wildly unrealistic terrors -- monsters stalking them as the sun sets, perhaps hovering just beyond their peripheral vision."
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PostPartisan - Drone strike for the WikiLeaks founder? - 0 views

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    Did my colleague, Marc Thiessen, just call for a drone strike in Iceland? Thiessen is obviously incensed by WikiLeaks's dissemination of tens of thousands of pages of government documents relating to the Afghan war. And he wants WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, to pay. Here's how Thiessen put it:
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The Death of News | The Nation - 0 views

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    Ten years ago, when we first focused national attention on the dangers of the US media cartel, the situation was already grim, although in retrospect it may seem better than it really was. In the spring of 1996 Fox News was only a conspiracy (which broke a few months later). CNN belonged to Turner Broadcasting, which hadn't yet been gobbled by Time Warner (although it would be just a few months later); Viacom had not yet bought CBS News (although it would in 1999, before they later parted ways); and, as the Telecommunications Act had been passed only months earlier, local radio had not yet largely disappeared from the United States (although it was obviously vanishing). One could still somewhat plausibly assert, as many did, that warnings of a major civic crisis were unfounded, overblown or premature, as there was little evidence of widespread corporate censorship, and so we were a long way from the sort of journalistic meltdown that The Nation had predicted.
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Top Ten Reasons for a New 9/11 Investigation | Strike-The-Root: A Journal Of Liberty - 0 views

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    The 9/11 attacks have been used to destroy America in ways that no mere terrorist assault could ever do.   And that is the number one reason for a new, independent, unbiased investigation into the events of September 11, 2001.
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"Hot Coffee" Documentary Exposes Corporate Attacks on Consumer Rights, Features Expert ... - 0 views

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    What Really Happened? Stella Liebeck, 79-years-old, was sitting in the passenger seat of her grandson's car having purchased a cup of McDonald's coffee. After the car stopped, she tried to hold the cup securely between her knees while removing the lid. However, the cup tipped over, pouring scalding hot coffee onto her lap. She received third-degree burns over 16 percent of her body, necessitating hospitalization for eight days, whirlpool treatment for debridement of her wounds, skin grafting, scarring, and disability for more than two years. Despite these extensive injuries, she offered to settle with McDonald's for $20,000. However, McDonald's refused to settle for this small amount and, in fact, never offered more than $800. The jury awarded Liebeck $200,000 in compensatory damages - reduced to $160,000 because the jury found her 20 percent at fault - and $2.7 million in punitive damages for McDonald's callous conduct. (To put this in perspective, McDonald's revenue from coffee sales alone was in excess of $1.3 million a day.) The trial judge reduced the punitive damages to $480,000, but did state that McDonald's had engaged in "willful, wanton, and reckless" behavior. Mrs. Liebeck and McDonald's eventually settled for a confidential amount. The jury heard the following evidence in the case: McDonald's Operations Manual required the franchisee to hold its coffee at 180 to 190 degrees Fahrenheit; Coffee at that temperature, if spilled, causes third-degree burns (the worst kind of burn) in three to seven seconds; Third-degree burns do not heal without skin grafting, debridement and whirlpool treatments that cost tens of thousands of dollars and result in permanent disfigurement, extreme pain and disability of the victim for many months, and in some cases, years; The chairman of the department of mechanical engineering and bio-mechanical engineering at the University of Texas testified that this risk of harm is unacceptable, as did a wid
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Glenn Greenwald On "America's Lawless Elite" | On Point with Tom Ashbrook - 0 views

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    Glenn Greenwald studied law and spent ten years as a litigator in federal and state courts across the country. Now he's a big two-fisted progressive blogger and columnist for Salon.com. And he's out with a blistering critique of what has happened to American law. We've stopped applying it to everyone, says Greenwald. We've carved out an exemption for Americans in the halls of power. We've created what Greenwald calls a "lawless elite" that is running roughshod over our economy and national policy. Over American law. This hour On Point: Glenn Greenwald, and liberty and justice for some.
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TP: Die Epidemie der Rastlosigkeit und die Karriere des Koks für Kinder - 0 views

  • Aufmerksamkeitsdefizite, geringe Frustrationstoleranz, impulsives oder gar aggressives Verhalten: Was sich liest wie die Charakterbeschreibung manches Fußballfans ist in den Kinderarztpraxen der Republik das Diagnosebild eines Kindes mit Aufmerksamkeitsstörung-Syndrom, kurz ADHS (Aufmerksamkeits-Defizit-Hyperaktivitäts-Störung). In einem Drittel aller Fälle heißt die Lösung Methylphenidat, Handelsname "Ritalin" oder "Medikinet", ein Amphetamin-Derivat, das die Gedanken fokussiert. In Deutschland erhalten zur Zeit täglich rund 60.000 Kinder und Jugendliche die Substanz, in den USA und Großbritannien sind die Zahlen ähnlich.
  • Auffällig an diesen neurobiologischen Konzeptionen bleibt bis heute, dass innerhalb der diagnostischen Blickreduzierung dieser Konzeptionen die oftmals als problematisch erkannten psychosozialen Lebenshintergründe von betroffenen Kindern als mögliche primäre Verursachungen der Verhaltensprobleme weitestgehend bewusst ausgeblendet bleiben
  • Die Übergänge sind gleitend, der Raum zwischen eingebildeten, herbeigeredeten, schwachen und starken Symptomen fließend, das Phänomen "gleicht eher dem Übergewicht als den Windpocken", wie Manfred Döpfner, Professor für Psychotherapie am Klinikum der Universität zu Köln, annimmt. Er behauptet, dass nur bei einem Prozent eines Kinderjahrgangs die Diagnose völlig eindeutig ist. Das Problem: Heute werden zwischen 3 und 15 % der Kinder mit ADHS diagnostiziert.
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  • Die Bundesopiumstelle registrierte 1993 die Nutzung von nur 34 Kilogramm reinem Methylphenidat, im Jahr 2001 waren es bereits 693 Kilogramm. Zwischen 1998 und 1999 hatte sich die Menge verdoppelt, in einem knappen Jahrzehnt kam es zu einer 20fachen Steigerung. Damit aber nicht genug. Bis 2004 stieg die Menge noch einmal kräftig an, der Arzneimittelverordnungsreport 2005 zeigte nun eine Steigerung um das Dreißigfache. In 2005 wurde 1.200 Kilogramm von deutschen Apotheken ausgegeben
  • auch das Ausland berichtet über den Anstieg des Verbrauchs.
  • Die Vorreiterrolle beim Vertrieb nehmen wieder einmal die Ärzte in den verschreibungsfreudigen USA ein. In den Staaten sollen zwischen drei und fünf Prozent der Kinder unter ADHS leiden, auch hier sitzt demnach in jeder größeren Schulklasse im Durchschnitt ein Kind mit ADHS. Mindestens fünf Millionen Kinder erhalten täglich Ritalin oder ein anderes Methylphenidat
  • Die Droge ist begehrt, weitere Zahlen zeigen das Ausmaß des Hypes: Zwischen Januar 1996 und Dezember 1997 wurden rund 700.000 Dosiseinheiten als gestohlen gemeldet, Ritalin und seine Vertreter stehen bei der DEA noch heute in den Top-Ten der gestohlenen Drogen und Medikamente. Aktuell kostet eine Pille Ritalin auf dem Schwarzmarkt zwischen drei und 15 Dollar. Die Dosierung ist auf den Lerneffekt ausgerichtet, meist werden nur ein bis drei Pillen mit 10 mg geschluckt, euphorische oder speed-ähnliche Effekte sind aber erst ab 200 mg zu erwarten.
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Brown warns of enduring al-Qaida threat to UK | Politics | guardian.co.uk - 0 views

  • Brown warns of enduring al-Qaida threat to UK Prime minister says 60,000 civilians have been trained to deal with terrorist incidents
  • Some 60,000 civilians, including shop managers and council workers, have been trained to cope with the threat."Today, not only the police and security and intelligence officers and our armed forces, but also the emergency services, local councils, businesses and community groups are involved in state-of-the-art civil contingency planning,"
  • Gordon Brown today warned that al-Qaida remains the biggest security threat to the UK, as he revealed that tens of thousands of civilians have been trained to deal with terrorist attacks as part of a new strategy to combat extremists.
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  • By 2011, Britain will be spending £3.5bn a year on counter-terrorism, Brown said. The imprisonment of 80 terrorists in Britain in the last two years was hitting the morale of al-Qaida. Part of the new strategy would address the longer-term causes of terrorism by "understanding what leads people to become radicalised, so we can stop the process".Brown said that more than two-thirds of the plots threatening the UK are linked to Pakistan.
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