Economic Intuition

I’m having a hard time with the recent hype, that things are getting so much better on the nation’s economic front. A question for those of you who feel the same way, Do you have a plan?

Duke Energy shuts off power to 500 each workday

Historic food, gas prices take toll on N.C. people who struggle to pay bills
CHRISTOPHER D. KIRKPATRICK- The Charlotte Observer
As food and gas prices hit historic highs, Duke Energy is shutting off more customers this year because they can’t pay their power bills.
Charlotte-based Duke, the largest utility in the Carolinas, disconnected 14 percent more N.C. customers [...]

Rumsfeld:Terror Attack Could Restore Neo-Con Agenda

Rumsfeld On Tape: Terror Attack Could Restore Neo-Con Agenda
Former Defense Secretary’s conversation with military analysts on political problems - “The Correction For That…Is An Attack”
Paul Joseph Watson

Shocking excerpts of confidential recordings recently released under the Freedom of Information Act feature former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld talking with top military analysts about how a flagging Neo-Con [...]

Blackwater Probe moves Forward

 Probe of Blackwater Killing Moves Forward 
By Gene Johnson 
TruthOut/The Associated Press
 
Seattle - A Justice Department team has traveled to Iraq to investigate the fatal shooting of an Iraqi guard by a security contractor, hastening the resolution of questions about whether US attorneys can prosecute him, an official said Thursday.
The contractor, Andrew Moonen of Seattle, was [...]

Olbermann: Bush Interview BoneHeaded & Unforgivable

New rumbling from Chilean volcano worries experts

 

 
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) - Chile’s Chaiten volcano groaned, rumbled and shuddered on Thursday, raising new concerns among authorities, as lightning bolts pierced the huge clouds of hot ash hovering ominously above its crater.
Chile’s National Emergency Office, ONEMI, said heavy ash kept shooting from the volcano in southern Chile as it generated small tremors.
On the ground, heavy flooding [...]

Youngest Supernova in Milky Way Found

 
Anne Minard for National Geographic News
Scientists have peered through a thick shroud of interstellar dust to reveal the youngest supernova ever seen in the Milky Way.
Stephen Reynolds, an astrophysicist at North Carolina State University, and his team suspected that supernova G1.9+0.3 was very young.
So they compared 2007 images of the object from NASA’s Chandra X-Ray [...]

Conyers Threatens Arrest for Rove

From Raw Story:
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-MI) is still on the hunt for former Bush strategist Karl Rove.
“We’re closing in on Rove,” Conyers was heard saying today on the House floor, according to a source for Politico. “Someone’s got to kick his ass.”
Rove, having refused to obey a subpoena calling for testimony [...]

A Thief has your Wallet

Don’t believe it?  Read “The Repubs as usual lie to us” it throughly explains why we are in the mess we are in. A priceless excerpt;
Republicans proudly proclaim, (some say chant), that it is a proven fact that tax cuts stimulate economic growth and result in higher tax revenues for the government. This is a seductive idea. [...]

Legal Defense Fund Moves to Stop Animal ID Program

Files Intent to Sue Letter with USDA and Michigan Department of Agriculture
Falls Church, Virginia - Attorneys for the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund  today sent a Notice of Intent to Sue letter to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Michigan Department of Agriculture (MDA) over implementation of the National Animal Identification System [...]