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Must-read op-ed: Why I refuse to vote for Barack Obama

From The Daily Crux:

Today we’re passing along one of the best opinion pieces you’re likely to read this month.

The author supported President Obama in 2008, but has now had a dramatic change of heart. This short article explains why.

If you still know someone who’s considering voting for the president as the “lesser of two evils,” you may want to pass this along…

Read full article…

POLL: ROMNEY TAKES 14-PT LEAD AMONG MIDDLE CLASS

In early August, with our Republican analysis of the POLITICO-George Washington University Battleground Poll, we wrote “… this election will remain close until the final weeks of the campaign.  There will be ups and downs for both campaigns throughout the next 13 weeks, but the basic dynamics that are driving this electorate and framing this election remain well in place.”   Two conventions, and tens of millions of campaign dollars later, we continue [...]

20% ‘Fat Tax’ Needed to Fight Obesity

It’s a proposition some might find hard to swallow: a 20-percent tax on unhealthy food to improve the health of the nation.

Yet such a tax — spread across the food chain from manufacturer to consumer, coupled with changes in food policy to spur production of healthier food — is needed to reverse the pandemic of obesity and chronic diseases, researchers say.

Two articles published online today (May 15) in the British [...]

‘Occupy’ letter to editor threatens storming Wall St with guns

USA TODAY’s article on Kobe Bryant moving to fifth place on the all-time NBA career scoring list was incomplete, and it left me wanting more information (“A game for Bryant to remember and forget“).

The article neglected to state who is first and second all-time in scoring. It told us that Wilt Chamberlain was fourth and that Michael Jordan is third all-time, and included their point totals.

I’ll tell USA TODAY’s readers who are No. 1 and No. 2: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar [...]

All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace – by Adam Curtis

It has been far too long since Adam Curtis’ last impressive instalment of his thought provoking three part series, that to many of his growing plethora of fans, Including myself, is a fascinating rabbit hole of innovative ideas and opinion pieces.

Plausible and creative, in the four years since his creation of that earlier three part series, The Trap, which you can view here at Chris Martenson.com, with [...]

Fundamentally underlying logic is the china bubble, the mother of all bubble are ripe for burst, the huge repercussion is deadly.

As a local, my observation of china long term economic perspective is : this country economic model of cheap labor, lower interest rate, artificial lower forex rate is hitting the wall, manifested by the fact that gov now only can rely on real estate, fix capital investment to keep so called 8 % GDP growth to maintain certain level of unemployment rate to avoid social unrest, but now 95% of [...]