A three-month old baby in Louisiana died in her home from blood loss due to rat bites. There were holes in the walls and holes in the floor. Evidently, the landlord spent FEMA money earmarked to repair the house on something else, but the authorities were still trying to determine if they should file criminal charges against the parents!

It would serve the public interest best if the John Day Basin Resource Management Plan and Environmental Impact Statement was rendered not worthy of further consideration and set aside in the same way as its nasty sister, the Western Oregon Plan Revisions.

As designated managers of our precious public lands the Bureau Of Land Management has a responsibility to provide the public with the highest quality of service possible. That is certainly not happening here.

Ocean surfaces have warmest summer on record

Only Obama, it seems, fails to get the message that we’re losing Afghanistan. Afghanistan remains for him the "war of necessity". Send yet more troops, his generals plead. And we are supposed to follow the logic of this nonsense.
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The Bankers are coming, the Bankers are coming!

You don’t have to go to the G20 in Pittsburgh to protest corporate globalization - the most powerful people in the world are coming here! Let’s give these banking bastards a Chicago welcome.

Chicago journalist and activist Kari Lydersen appears on Democracy Now! to talk about her recent book "Revolt on Goose Island" about the 2008 Republic Windows and Doors sit-in strike, and subsequent ramifications.

The Beast from South America rears its Head again. (Ps. 83) In addition to bringing us Sayonara Baby and the smallest parasitic mites on earth, I bet they're here to get rid of the Bush Nazis that have been plaguing us. 9/14 El Sendero Luminoso to the Lord. 9/19 Just got back from UK. Kweer chaps!http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2009/09/438145.html