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CHICAGO CARNAGE: 13 SHOT ON BASKETBALL COURT
HP | author | 09/20/13

Thirteen people, including a 3-year-old boy, were shot on Thursday night in a park on Chicago's South Side, the Chicago Tribune reported.   The shootings reportedly occurred at a basketball court in Cornell Square Park in the city's Back of the Yards neighborhood. ... Read more

7 in 10 Americans Think Government Is For The Banks And Big Corps (Not The People)
Zero Hedge | author | 09/20/13

72% of the poor and 71% of the middle-class believe government policies (fiscal and monetary) have done little or nothing to help them. Of course, this will be eschewed by the academics (as Santelli recently exclaimed regarding the arrogance of the intellectuals) because "the people" just don't get it. But when 69% of all Americans, according a new Pew study, say large banks and financial institutions have benefited the most from post-recession government policies; communications policies are going badly awry. Despite a surging stock market, exploding home prices, and low rates spurring all kinds of subprime auto loan exuberance, there has been little change in these perceptions since July 2010. ... Read more

Fukushima Earthquake 2013: Quake Reported Near Damaged Nuclear Plant
HP | author | 09/19/13

RT reports a moderate earthquake has struck near the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. A 5.3-magnitude earthquake has hit the Japanese prefecture that is home to the nuclear power plant crippled in the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.   The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake struck early Friday at a depth of about 13 miles (22 kilometers) under Fukushima Prefecture and about 110 miles (177 kilometers) northeast of Tokyo.   The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center did not issue an alert. ... Read more

The Dead Rhetoric of War
Truthdig.com |Chris Hedges | 09/16/13

The intoxication of war, fueled by the euphoric nationalism that swept through the country like a plague following the attacks of 9/11, is a spent force in the United States. The high-blown rhetoric of patriotism and national destiny, of the sacred duty to reshape the world through violence, to liberate the enslaved and implant democracy in the Middle East, has finally been exposed as empty and meaningless ...

... It was only an insightful question by a reporter, and an offhand remark by Kerry that opened the door to a Russian initiative, providing the Obama administration a swift exit from its mindless bellicosity and what would have been a humiliating domestic defeat. ...

... Twelve long years of fruitless war in Afghanistan and another 10 in Iraq have left the public wary of the lies of politicians, sick of the endless violence of empire and unwilling to continue to pump trillions of dollars into a war machine that has made a small cabal of defense contractors and arms manufacturers such as Raytheon and Halliburton huge profits while we are economically and politically hollowed out from the inside. The party is over. ... Read more

The Startling Size of US Military Operations in Africa
MotherJones | Nick Turse | 09/06/13

The Pentagon's Africa Command will tell you there's one military base on the entire continent. Don't believe them.

They're involved in Algeria and Angola, Benin and Botswana, Burkina Faso and Burundi, Cameroon and the Cape Verde Islands. And that's just the ABCs of the situation. Skip to the end of the alphabet and the story remains the same: Senegal and the Seychelles, Togo and Tunisia, Uganda and Zambia. From north to south, east to west, the Horn of Africa to the Sahel, the heart of the continent to the islands off its coasts, the US military is at work. Base construction, security cooperation engagements, training exercises, advisory deployments, special operations missions, and a growing logistics network, all undeniable evidence of expansion--except at US Africa Command. ... Read more

Tiny Home Assembled In Just One Day Has A Big Surprise Inside
HP | Shana Ecker | 09/17/13

Sometimes a home's exterior can be, well, misleading. And usually that's a bad thing, but sometimes there is an exception. That's the case with the portable home ÁPH80 designed by Spanish architecture firm Ábaton. From the back, the simple construction of a grey cement board gives it the appearance of a garden shed, but step around to the front and you'll see this jewel box of a tiny home in full glory. ... Read more
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