Wolf's Blog – July 2013 Archive (63)

Largest Fast Food Workers Strike Hits Seven Cities Across US

Fast food workers on strike Monday at McDonald’s near Yankee Stadium in NYC. Thousands of fast food workers went on strike in branches across seven U.S. cities on Monday in what could be the largest strike of its kind in U.S. history.

The workers are protesting unlivable wages and are calling for a nationwide living wage of $15 dollars an hour. “A lot of the workers are living in poverty, you know, not being able to afford to put food on the table or take the train to work,” said… Continue

Added by Wolf on July 29, 2013 at 10:14pm — 8 Comments

Dr. Ben Carson is Predicting the Beginning Of the End Of Obamacare

At the ripe age of 61, former Johns Hopkins neurosurgeon Ben Carson has seen his fair share of boondoggles.

The good doctor, though, has never seen a disaster quite as large as Obamacare. On Fox News the other day, Carson proclaimed that this “is the beginning of the collapse,” and characterized the mass roll-out as “foolish.” Is this just another instance of Fox News nuttery?

It turns out that there is much to fear in these last few months before the health-exchanges… Continue

Added by Wolf on July 28, 2013 at 12:32pm — No Comments

What Would You Do If A Bank Stole Everything You Owned?

With millions of Americans across the country facing default and foreclosure banks are hiring outside firms to take possession of their homes. It is often the case that those living in homes that have been repossessed by their lender stay until the very last minute, or simply aren’t aware of their final eviction date. In such cases these firms simply enter the home, take all of the personal belongings of the tenants, and restrict…

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Added by Wolf on July 26, 2013 at 8:40pm — 4 Comments

Planet Earth Is a U.S. Military Base The U.S. military has failed to win a single one of its numerous wars in our time. But hey, who has to win a specific war when it’s“wartime” all the time?

It could be any week on that great U.S. military base we know as Planet Earth and here’s the remarkable thing: there’s always news. Something’s always happening somewhere, usually on more than one continent, as befits the largest, most destructive, most technologically advanced (and in many ways least successful) military on the planet. In our time, the U.S. military has been sent into numerous wars, failed to win a single one, and created plenty of blowback. But hey, who has to win a specific… Continue

Added by Wolf on July 26, 2013 at 11:09am — 2 Comments

Statism is turning America into Detroit – Ayn Rand's Starnesville come to life

You thought Atlas Shrugged was fiction?

Look at this description of Detroit from today’s Observer:

What isn’t dumped is stolen. Factories and homes have largely been stripped of anything of value, so thieves now target cars’ catalytic converters. Illiteracy runs at around 47%; half the adults in some areas are unemployed. In many neighbourhoods, the only sign of…

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Added by Wolf on July 25, 2013 at 4:32pm — No Comments

8 Stark Realities of America's Dysfunctional New Economy Americans think they are to blame for their economic predicament, but the game is rigged against them.

There’s a new normal in the American economy for vast slices of society and it’s discouragingly tough, despite all the cheerleading from the White House and economists that the country is in a slow but steady recovery. If anything, the new American economy has undergone a structural shift where far too many jobs are not paying enough to cover basic living expenses and money worries are simmering and never-ending.

“It’s difficult to point fingers at people and say, 'You screwed up in… Continue

Added by Wolf on July 24, 2013 at 5:51pm — No Comments

10 Reasons the U.S. Economy Is Stuck And it will stay that way until average Americans take home a fairer share.

More than five years after the great recession hit, the US economy is still sputtering. The government revised GDP growth figures down last month to a meager 1.8% for the first quarter of this year. It doesn't take a PhD in economics to understand why: we have a demand problem. And we have a demand problem because the vast majority of consumers – aka workers – are not earning enough to pay for healthcare, education and retirement, let alone all the other stuff stores and service providers have… Continue

Added by Wolf on July 24, 2013 at 5:44pm — No Comments

Confirmed, Fukushima ‘leaking to ocean’

The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has admitted for the first time that the site™s reactors are leaking highly contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean.

Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, admitted the leakage to the ocean for the first time since a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami damaged the plant™s reactors in 2011.

The operator made the acknowledgement after steam was seen at one of the… Continue

Added by Wolf on July 24, 2013 at 9:55am — 1 Comment

The Trial That Is the Obama Admin's Greatest Shame

The differential treatment of crack cocaine and powder cocaine by America’s criminal “justice” system has been exposed as discriminatory and admitted to be unfair. Yet, the secret nightmare continues for thousands of African Americans still in prison for crack cocaine offenses, while people convicted of powder cocaine offenses – the majority of whom are white or Hispanic – have served far shorter sentences. Even as the US government has reformed the injustice of punitive sentencing for crack,… Continue

Added by Wolf on July 24, 2013 at 9:52am — No Comments

Why doesn't the government use its mass surveillance to bust the big criminals ... the banksters?

If the Government Is Going to Spy ... Why Doesn't It Do Something Useful?

The big banks have committed massive crimes and manipulated virtually every market.

The failure to prosecute fraud is preventing a sustainable economic recovery.

As such, prosecuting Wall Street fraud is arguably an issue of national security.

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Added by Wolf on July 23, 2013 at 5:20pm — No Comments

Signs of Liberty Slipping: 10 Things You Could Do in 1975 That You Can’t Do Now

In 1975:

1.You could buy an airline ticket and fly without ever showing an ID.

2.You could buy cough syrup without showing an ID.

3.You could buy and sell gold coins without showing an ID

4.You could buy a gun without showing an ID

To continue reading:… Continue

Added by Wolf on July 23, 2013 at 5:10pm — No Comments

Israeli soldiers have depraved “fun” making “Rachel Corrie pancakes”

Israeli soldiers had a “fun” time making what they called “Rachel Corrie pancakes.”

Photos of the event were posted on the Facebook page of the “Heritage House,” a settlement in occupied East Jerusalem that houses so-called “lone soldiers,” men recruited from overseas to join the Israeli occupation forces.

Nesim Pesarel, one of the “Heritage House” residents, seen in a photo from his personal Facebook page.

Above the photos of young men, some in Israeli army… Continue

Added by Wolf on July 20, 2013 at 10:39pm — 3 Comments

McDonald's Accidentally Served Up a Minimum Wage "McManifesto"

Marie Antoinette, meet Ronald McDonald.

A lot of people are angry about McDonald’s new financial advice website for employees, an ill-conceived project which drips with “let them eat cake” insouciance. “Every dollar makes a difference,” McDonald’s lectures its struggling and often impoverished…

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Added by Wolf on July 20, 2013 at 10:27pm — 3 Comments

Grand dame, Helen Thomas dies at 92

Helen Thomas, the grand dame of the White House press corps, has passed away at the age of 92.

Thomas, who worked the White House beat for 49 years for United Press International and Hearst newspapers, died on Saturday at her home in Washington after a long illness, the Gridiron Club and Foundation announced in a statement.

Thomas, who covered 10 US presidents, had been a fixture at presidential press conferences for decades and was often allowed to ask the first… Continue

Added by Wolf on July 20, 2013 at 10:21pm — No Comments

Yeah man...When Will the Psychiatric Establishment Reject the Drug War and Embrace Psychedelic Research?

It is clear that the cultural zeitgeist has turned towards the therapeutic use of psychedelics. Recent articles in The New York Times and CNN are slowly informing the public of the exciting research that MAPS supporters have known about for some time—that some psychedelics, even with their historic baggage, their potential for misuse, and vilified reputation, have some of the most promising therapeutic potential that we have seen in psychopharmacology in a generation.

However, what… Continue

Added by Wolf on July 19, 2013 at 10:42pm — No Comments

25 Best Ways to Detox From Heavy Metals, Pesticides, Environmental Pollutants, and Metabolic Waste

Dylan Charles - Waking Times

If you are endlessly tired, irritable, have trouble losing weight, or feel depressed, you might be suffering from the environmental onslaught of toxins being poured into our air, water and soil by greedy corporate monopolies.

If you aren’t sure whether you are suffering from toxic overload, you can at least be certain you are not immune to the toxic effects of environmental pollution like oil spills, fracking, chemtrails, nuclear energy (think… Continue

Added by Wolf on July 19, 2013 at 10:37pm — No Comments

FAA warns Colorado town that shooting down drones could lead to prosecution or

On the heels of a Colorado town’s announcement that it was floating the idea of legalized drone hunting, the Federal Aviation Administration has warned that the practice could result in prosecution and fines.

The small town of Deer Trail, Colorado is currently weighing an ordinance that would grant residents permits to shoot down unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, and even encourage the

practice by awarding a $100 bounty to anyone presenting identifiable pieces of a drone…

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Added by Wolf on July 19, 2013 at 10:00pm — 14 Comments

New MRI research reveals cancer cells thrive on processed sugar

Do you have a sweet tooth? If so, your dietary habits could be significantly adding to your risk of developing cancer. New research published in the journal Nature Medicine has confirmed that processed sugar is one of the primary driving forces behind the growth and spread of cancer tumors, so much so that the future of cancer screening could rely on scanning the body for sugar accumulation.

Scientists from University College London (UCL) in the U.K. made this discovery after… Continue

Added by Wolf on July 19, 2013 at 9:43am — 2 Comments

Ten Years Ago: The Death of Dr. David Kelly. Murdered on the Orders of Her Majesty’s Government?

The official inquiry into that death, the Hutton Inquiry, was quickly convened and issue its report in January 2004, officially concluding that Dr. Kelly had taken his own life by a combination of slitting his left wrist and overdosing on coproxamol. Over the course of the decade, however, information has come to light suggesting that the Hutton Inquiry not only ignored key evidence in the case pointing to foul play, but that the report in fact actively covered up such evidence.

The… Continue

Added by Wolf on July 19, 2013 at 9:33am — No Comments

Are “Professional” Politicians the Problem? Democracy v. Demarchy? HELL YEAH THEY ARE!

Do we really need politicians?

Can’t we cut out the useless middlemen and do it ourselves?

Professional politicians just pimp their services out to the highest bidder.

And American democracy – once a glorious thing – has devolved into an oligarchy, according to two leading IMF officials, the former Vice President of the Dallas Federal Reserve, the the head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Moody’s chief economist and many others.

This is not… Continue

Added by Wolf on July 19, 2013 at 12:06am — 1 Comment