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Alan Greenspn says Iraq war was about oil
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tovarichpeter
on 17 Nov 2015
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3 days ago
http://www.theguardian.com/wor The man once regarded as the world's most powerful banker has bluntly declared that the Iraq war was 'largely' about oil. Appointed by Ronald Reagan in 1987 and ...
AIPAC should register as a foreign agent
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tovarichpeter
on 8 Mar 2018
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11 days ago
https://forward.com/opinion/39
China major source of fentanyl in U.S.
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tovarichpeter
on 19 Aug 2019
15 comments, latest
21 days ago
https://www.theatlantic.com/he
Suveillance breeds conformity
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tovarichpeter
on 3 Jan 2014
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2 months ago
http://www.salon.com/2014/01/0 Longtime Salon readers will have known for some years that Glenn Greenwald is an unapologetically opinionated journalist with an unwavering skepticism about corporate-government power. In 2013, the rest ...
Urgent: Nigerian astronaut lost in space. Needs $3 million to come home
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tovarichpeter
on 4 Mar 2019
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2 months ago
https://boingboing.net/2016/02 Subject: Nigerian Astronaut Wants To Come Home Dr. Bakare Tunde Astronautics Project Manager National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) Plot 555 Misau Street PMB 437 Garki, Abuja, FCT ...
Modern slavery
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tovarichpeter
on 3 Nov 2019
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2 months ago
Will old people take over the world?
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tovarichpeter
on 23 Mar 2013
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2 months ago
http://io9.com/will-old-people One of the consequences of radical life extension is the potential for a gerontocracy to set in the entrenchment of a senior elite who will hold on to ...
Multi generational families are coming back.
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tovarichpeter
on 8 Jul 2017
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3 months ago
https://www.washingtonpost.com
Alan Deshowitz is a complete fraud
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tovarichpeter
on 28 Mar 2015
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4 months ago
http://www.counterpunch.org/20 Historian Christopher Dietrich on the 100-year-long history of American torture; Jeffrey St. Clair on the implications of giving impunity to theCIA’s torturers; Chris Floyd on how the US ...
Israelis bomb hospital and park
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tovarichpeter
on 28 Jul 2014
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4 months ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ Gaza Strip (AP) -- A Gaza park was attacked Monday, killing at least 10 Palestinians, including children, a Palestinian health official said. Israelis and the Palestinians traded blame ...
Two bankers commit suicide in London in two days
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tovarichpeter
on 28 Jan 2014
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4 months ago
http://www.nydailynews.com/new A 39-year-old JP Morgan tech executive fell to his death from the bank's 33-story London headquarters on Tuesday morning. On Sunday afternoon a retired 58-year-old Deutsche Bank executive ...
The pentagon is devouring the U.S. economy
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tovarichpeter
on 5 May 2019
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4 months ago
https://www.rollingstone.com/p
Can Judaism survive without anti-semitism
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tovarichpeter
on 18 Nov 2018
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5 months ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1
Trump's FDA appointment actually looks promising
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tovarichpeter
on 11 Mar 2017
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7 months ago
http://www.sfgate.com/nation/a Scott Gottlieb served as a deputy commissioner of the FDA under President George W. Bush. Scott Gottlieb served as a deputy commissioner of the FDA under President George ...
Desalinization: Israel now makes more water than it needs
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tovarichpeter
on 29 Jul 2016
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7 months ago
http://www.scientificamerican. July 19, 2016 — Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I stand on a catwalk over two concrete reservoirs the size of football fields and watch water pour ...
Trains are an older but better way to travel
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tovarichpeter
on 17 Aug 2019
32 comments, latest
7 months ago
https://www.latimes.com/travel
Making America more like Scandinavia
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tovarichpeter
on 12 Jul 2016
179 comments, latest
8 months ago
http://www.theatlantic.com/pol A once powerful demographic group is losing ground in American politics. For most of the countrys history, white Christian Americathe cultural and political edifice built primarily by white ...
SF supes go full NIMBY
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tovarichpeter
on 21 Dec 2019
11 comments, latest
9 months ago
https://sf.curbed.com/2019/12/ Sent from my iPhone
Housing prices enter cyclical downturn
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tovarichpeter
on 16 Oct 2018
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10 months ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/view
Divorced dads target CA outdated alimony law
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tovarichpeter
on 13 Sep 2019
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10 months ago
https://www.latimes.com/califo
Anti-vax parents throwing measles parties
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tovarichpeter
on 13 Feb 2015
3 comments, latest
10 months ago
http://www.theonion.com/articl Local media in California have reported that some anti-vaxxer parents are considering throwing “measles parties” at which unvaccinated children can come in contact with infected children in order ...
Study concludes U.S. is oligarchy not democracy
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tovarichpeter
on 26 Aug 2016
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10 months ago
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US Princeton and Northwestern Universities concluded that the U.S. government represents not the interests of the majority of citizens but those of the rich and powerful. "Testing Theories of American ...
Trump is right about carried interest deduction
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tovarichpeter
on 17 Sep 2015
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10 months ago
http://www.forbes.com/sites/pe #politics
Woodrow Wilson pushed U.S. into WW1
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tovarichpeter
on 5 Aug 2018
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a year ago
https://www.huffingtonpost.com
Public transit in the Bay Area is broken
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tovarichpeter
on 22 Sep 2019
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a year ago
https://www.mercurynews.com/20
Jerry Seinfeld says "political correctness is creepy"
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tovarichpeter
on 10 Jun 2015
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a year ago
http://www.mercurynews.com/cel Jerry Seinfeld, called a "famously clean comedian," is speaking out against political correctness on college campuses and elsewhere in society, saying he's really bothered by the "creepy, PC ...
DOJ pursuing Moodys
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tovarichpeter
on 2 Feb 2015
2 comments, latest
a year ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/
Oakland has replaced SF as hipster city
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tovarichpeter
on 20 Nov 2014
6 comments, latest
a year ago
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/ Bay with the fastest-growing rents in the U.S. isnt San Francisco. Oakland, long synonymous with crime and blight, is attracting businesses and residents priced out of its more ...
Things an HOA can’t do to you.
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tovarichpeter
on 8 May 2018
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a year ago
http://www.realtor.com/advice/
YIMBY movement growing rapidly everywhere.
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tovarichpeter
on 25 Jul 2019
5 comments, latest
a year ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/opin
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