2 Missing Teen Cases, 2 Different Police Responses

re: Amber "The news media showed little interest."

Not true. Escondido PD is busier than the Poway sheriff's dept, though, the population is larger and there are more lower income people in Escondido.
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Wendell Potter is great!

He was a health care CEO, now he's helping us understand the politics of health care. C'mon, you got 20 minutes, right?

Who says those wars haven't been successful?

NY Times: Afghan Opium Kingpin On CIA Payroll

Brother of Afghan Leader Said to Be Paid by C.I.A.
By DEXTER FILKINS, MARK MAZZETTI and JAMES RISEN
Published: October 27, 2009 NYT

Marine reportedly killed by opium-fueled private contractors
By John Byrne
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 -- 9:43 am


Fallujah birth defects blamed on US weapons
By Daniel Tencer
Thursday, March 4th, 2010 -- 1:26 pm
Iraqi doctors reportedly warn women not to have children; Doctors pressured not to 'embarrass the United States': claim

Those previous stories are just "collateral damage" or ... ummm... "tools" or some shit, lets define "success."

Western producers like BP, Exxon Mobil, and Shell are enjoying their best access to Iraq's southern oil fields since 1972... March 4, 2010, 3:50PM EST (Bloomberg)


Yeah, that's the ticket!

*sigh*
Just 1/2 way though Dexter by Design by Jeff Lindsay , and wondering if season 3 of Leverage and season 4 of Dexter(Showtime TV) will ever show up on Netflix. I refuse to pay $60 a month for cable to be barraged with more ads. I'm also wondering if Dexter will ever kill any mass murderers, umm, say this guy?


satire

Bob Dylan's songwriting

And someone else's voices, please.

Why do we allow the dinosaurs to order us to war?

Who Killed the Electric Car?

Who Killed the Electric Car? (Wikipedia page

Who Killed the Electric Car? Week of 6.9.06 PBS NOW

Why do we allow the oil companies and the Saudis and all the others to hamper our use of inventions of innovative men like Stanford R. Ovshinsky ?

Chile

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Chile's Socialist Rebar
by Naomi Klein