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Satan Is Good, God Is Bad: Our Shifting Moral Compass and Why Atheists Are Throwing the Devil Under the Bus
Derek Murphy writes at Holy Blasphemy:
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Death by overwhelming and inescapable consumerism? Via Gawker:
A man who was fed up with his girlfriend’s incessant Christmas shopping responded to her request for one more look around a mall shoe store by leaping seven floors to his death.
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Rebel fighters hold a position on a front line in the Damascus suburb of Yalda on September 18, 2013 in Syria. (AFP Photo/Ward Al-Keswani)
How Likely Are Bail-Ins? Bank of England Says U.S. “Could Do Today” (Part VI)
The Bank of England’s Tucker, who has worked with U.S. regulators on the cross-border hurdles to taking down an international firm said that “U.S. authorities could do it today — and I mean today.” The FDIC official in charge of planning for resolutions, confirmed that the U.S. system is ready to handle a big-bank collapse.
Today’s AM fix was USD 1,255.25, EUR 912.05 and GBP 765.49 per ounce.
Yesterday’s AM fix was USD 1,245.75, EUR 906.13 and GBP 757.76 per ounce.
Poll: Obama disapproval hits high
The poll shows that 54 percent of Americans disapprove of president's job performance.
Read More: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/president-obama-disapproval-rating-poll-10...Sebelius seeks probe of ACA launch
The HHS secretary announces several steps being taken to address the HealthCare.gov debacle.
Read More: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/sebelius-obamacare-website-investigation-1...Sign language interpreter a 'fake'
Reports say a man on stage at Nelson Mandela's ceremony moved his hands but made no sense.
Read More: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/mandela-ceremony-deaf-sign-language-interp...Reports: Cruz walked out of service
The Texas Republican reportedly left Nelson Mandela's memorial during Raul Castro's speech.
Read More: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/ted-cruz-nelson-mandela-memorial-service-1...Mich. may ban abortion in ACA plans
After an unusual citizens' petition drive, the state could become the 24th to implement a ban.
Read More: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/michigan-obamacare-affordable-care-act-abo...Sebelius back to Hill for more drubbings
She'll most likely have to answer Republican attacks on an ever-growing list of topics.
Read More: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/obamacare-kathleen-sebelius-100982.html7 million Obamacare customers?
A botched rollout and a broken website derail the administration's enrollment goal.
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In the Shadow of War
Originally posted at TomDispatch. In the years when I was growing up more or less middle class, American war on the childhood front couldn’t have been sunnier. True, American soldiers were fighting a grim new stalemate of a conflict in Korea and we kids often enough found ourselves crouched under our school desks practicing for […]
Read More: http://original.antiwar.com/engelhardt/2013/12/10/in-the-shadow-of-war/A Book the Military Won’t Want You To Read
I am reading Ann Jones’s new book, They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return from America’s Wars: The Untold Story and I am crying, again. I am thinking how military recruiters would like to destroy copies of this book the way the Pentagon did to Tony Shaffer’s memoir three years ago – and this is […]
Read More: http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2013/12/10/a-book-the-military-wont-want-you-...WaPo “Fact Checker” Fails on Iran Nuclear Fatwa
In the wake of the preliminary nuclear deal with Iran, the Washington Post’s “Fact Checker,” Glenn Kessler, has questioned whether Obama administration officials should have taken the anti-nuclear fatwa by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei seriously. But the column is less a disinterested investigation of the truth about the issue than a polemic that leans clearly toward the related position of Israel, AIPAC and their Congressional supporters.
Read More: http://dissidentvoice.org/2013/12/wapo-fact-checker-fails-on-iran-nuclear-fatwa/Sexual assault fight 'long from over'
The battle between Claire McCaskill and Kirsten Gillirband is ending in a draw -- for now.
Read More: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/sexual-assault-fight-chain-of-command-pent...Bombers Attack Another Funeral; 39 Killed, 46 Wounded Across Iraq
At least 39 people were killed and 46 more were wounded across Iraq. The most significant attacks took place in Diyala province.
Read More: http://original.antiwar.com/updates/2013/12/10/bombers-attack-another-funeral-39...W.H. aide: Podesta to recuse from Keystone
His opposition to the pipeline is well known, and the move deflates the hopes of climate activists.
Read More: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/12/john-podesta-white-house-keystone-xl-pipel...300k Fukushima refugees still living 'in cages' in makeshift camps
Over two years after an earthquake and tsunami devastated areas in and around the Japanese city of Fukushima, many residents have been left to live in impromptu residential camps with no hope of returning to their previous ways of life.
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