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Net Neutrality:Why you should give a damn

By Michael Janover - The Rocky Mountain News

OK, I’m old. I was around when Channel 2 went on the air in Denver in the early 50’s and brought us Blinky the Clown. It was exciting. Television. In Colorado!
In the mid-60s, cable TV and the dish staked their claims, and folks in the mountains could finally [...]

Share the Outrage in Your Credit Card’s Fine Print

The Fed apparently is getting a bit nervous about the credit card industry and the possiblility it will be this next bubble to burst or to go bust, ironically because of it’s own predatory practices. When you consider that “Penalty fees make up nearly half of industry revenues” the credit card industry is “banking” on [...]

Pandora’s Pandemic Box

Over the past year people concerned about the research to be conducted at the National Bio Agro Defense Facility have been called alarmist, chicken little and NIMBY’s by the proponents of the NBAF for questioning the lab’s true purpose. Think about it common sense says, why would the US government spend three-fourths of a billion dollars on a facility to study [...]

The Killers in the Lab

Source: By Elisa D. Harris, Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation National Advisory Board
The government’s charge that Dr. Bruce Ivins, a top Army biodefense scientist, was responsible for the 2001 anthrax mailings has focused renewed attention on the important question of whether we are adequately prepared to protect against a future bioweapons attack. More than [...]

Athens NBAF meeting, some oppose others argue need

Source: Ken Foskett - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

A polite crowd of about 200 people filled a University of Georgia auditorium Thursday to register support and opposition to a proposed animal research facility under consideration at UGA and sites in five other states.
The Department of Homeland Security will select the site of the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility later [...]

NBAF Insanity: Was Site selection ever about Safety?

On August 11th, the AP released a story that vindicates a lot of people who oppose the NBAF and the entire methodology used to justify it’s placement on the US mainland. For everyone else you should be very concerned. The DHS Undersecretary Jay Cohen  (a political appointee by George Bush nominated in June 2006), is disregarding his own government experts and [...]

The Looming Nuclear Nightmare in the Backwoods of North Carolina

This is an excerpt from Jeffrey St. Clair’s new environmental history, Born Under a Bad Sky, now available from AK Press / CounterPunch Books.

Pools of Fire
Source: Jeffrey St.Clair - CounterPunch
Looking for weapons of mass destruction? Try the backwoods of North Carolina. The site is easy to find. You don’t need infrared telemetry, informants, or [...]

I.O.U.S.A. National Premier Raleigh,N.C. August 21

B.J. Lawson is sponsoring a ONE night showing of I.O.U.S.A. There will be a live discussion among Warren Buffett, Pete Peterson, and David Walker following the viewing of the film. The documentary starts at 8:00pm ET. Lawson for Congress has sponsored an entire theater for the national premier, and welcomes you to attend the showing and discussion completely free of [...]

Time to Downsize from Big Gov’t like David Price

Once again David Price, who chairs the House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee is wrong on NBAF. His stance on NBAF has not changed as evidenced by his recent comment,  ”Those who are forming rock-hard opinions now are doing so with incomplete information”.
Well, Price I believe Raleigh took a rock-hard look at the facts. The public utilities [...]