http://www.deepjournal.com/p/6.html en-GB DeepJournal daan@deepjournal.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:22:24 +0200 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 12:22:24 +0200 http://backend.userland.com/rss webtank.nl DeepJournal General news http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/2811.html [...] So in the final analysis, is it any wonder why the income inequality gap is growing? Without small businesses having a legitimate chance to compete and without good jobs for American workers, the middle class in America is going to continue to get chewed up and spit out. The following are 30 statistics that prove that the elite are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer and the middle class is being destroyed in 2010.... Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0200 webtank.nl/s/16/e/3619 General news http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/2812.html One day in March 1969, a Nobel Prize-winning biologist spoke at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Our government has become preoccupied with death," George Wald said, "with the business of killing and being killed." More than four decades later, how much has really changed? Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0200 webtank.nl/s/16/e/3620 General news http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/2810.html Bernays was no rabid right-winger. He was an elitist liberal who believed that "engineering public consent" was for the greater good. This could be achieved by the creation of "false realities" which then became "news events". Here are examples of how it is done these days. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0200 webtank.nl/s/16/e/3618 General news http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/2809.html In their reporting, however, the US corporate media - in near monolithic fashion - has failed to mention the drawdown would not include the more than 100,000 private military contractors that are already serving in Iraq, in addition to the 144,000 troops.  Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200 webtank.nl/s/16/e/3617 General news http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/2808.html Many readers have started to complain that all I do is "scare" people and that I don't provide any practical solutions.  Well, not everyone can move to Montana and start a llama farm, but hopefully this article will give people some practical steps that they can take to insulate themselves (at least to an extent) from the coming economic collapse.  Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200 webtank.nl/s/16/e/3616 General news http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/2807.html IT IS OUR BEST ESTIMATE THAT SUCH A MILITARY STRIKE WOULD SET A CHAIN OF EVENTS IN MOTION THAT WOULD CUMULATE IN A CHANGE OF REGIME IN IRAN TO ONE THAT WOULD NOT BE A THREAT TO ISRAEL, THE UNITED STATES, OR TO US INTERESTS: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200 webtank.nl/s/16/e/3615 General news http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/2806.html John Pilger is working on a new documentary called The War You Don't See. Riz Khan talks about spin, wars and the war in Iraq in particular with veteran documentary maker, investivative reporter John Pilger. Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200 webtank.nl/s/16/e/3614 General news http://www.deepjournal.com/p/7/a/en/2805.html While commenting favorably on China's increased "contributions to international peacekeeping efforts, humanitarian assistance and disaster relief, and counter-piracy operations," it focuses extensively on what was noted above: That the nation's military capacity may keep pace with its economic growth and pose a challenge to the domination of the western Pacific Ocean region [...]. Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0200 webtank.nl/s/16/e/3613 General news