Remember the wind-powered rotating skyscrapers of Dubai? Well, the building boom in the Emirates is over, thanks to the financial crisis. Most of the huge and expensive construction projects have been cancelled or are on hold. Not only that, foreign laborers are being laid off at an astounding rate ...

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2009-03-06 FOR GOP: ALL PAIN, NO GAIN By Ben Smith / Politico Four months after John McCain's sweeping defeat, senior Republicans are coming to grips with the fact that the party is still – in stock market terms – looking for the bottom. Republicans this week are processing two sobering ne...

Being stuck in suicidal, dangerous, dead-end positions when you follow the Republicans, right-wing fascists and hatemongers, and the likes of Steve Sailer. Does this news surprise anyone anymore? For GOP: all pain, no gain Four months after John McCain’s sweeping defeat, senior Republicans are com...

www.oism.org/pproject/s33p36.htm  T HE SIGNEE'S NAMES CAN BE FOUND ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER SOME TEXT FROM ABOVE LINK Political leaders gathered in Kyoto, Japan, in December 1997 to consider a world treaty restricting human production of "greenhouse gases," chiefly...

By Tom Laskawy Tom Vilsack has certainly got farm-state legislators talking. The buzz generated by the Obama administration's proposal to cut "direct payments" to farmers continues to grow. Unfortunately, all the sturm and drang may be for naught. And not necessarily because the cut to thi...

Many of us are blissfully unaware that almost the whole of human history -from the hunters and gatherers to the rise of towns and cities, the development of science and medicine -the whole of our great human pageant- has taken place within an atypical period of fair weather. For most of our 4.5-bill...

Trust: Joe Torre’s “The Yankee Years.� (Roger Angell, March 9, 2009 , The New Yorker) Verducci has range and ease; he’s a shortstop on the page. He gets us into the visiting-team clubhouse before the sixth game of the Yankees-Red Sox American League championship in 2004 (the Red Sox have com...

WHEN THERE'S TRUST THERE'LL BE TREATSWHEN WE FUNK WE'LL HEAR BEATS Some albums are islands. Even if they leave breadcrumbs hinting at their origins we inevitably lose our way once we hit the water's edge. Despite their tectonic heft, these sorts of sonic landmasses tend not to be touchstones. Oh the...