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Japan has a new Prime Minister who seems eager to foster nationalism. We look at his policies for furthering the interests of the Japanese capitalism. Koizumi’s five and a half year reign as Prime Minister came to a voluntary end in September. He tossed the keys to the official residence to his protege Shinzo...
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If you and your family, friends and neighbors were the last people left on Earth, would you be able to survive, assuming access to fresh water, plants and animal life? As humans we have come a long way, but if we are to go much further we must reassess the direction we are taking...
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It seems that Dr. Jack Kevorkian needs a little of his own medicine, so to speak. The Michigan state parole board rejected a request to pardon the doctor or commute his sentence, even though he is in grave medical condition. He is currently serving a 10-25 year sentence for his roll in the assisted...
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Wednesday, Dec. 7th is Pearl Harbor Day, a day that looks to commemorate the fallen soldiers of the Pearl Harbor attack by the Japanese military in 1941. Of course, no one ever calls it America Gets Out of Economic Collapse Day, even though 2,390 deaths, 1,178 injuries, 21 sunken ships, and 323 planes destroyed...
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Monday marked the beginning of a New Jersey bear hunt with the intention of thinning the population. Over 5,000 hunters gathered for the 6-day hunt to thin a bear population estimated at 1,600 to 3,200 bears. With an increase in the number of bears, and the encroachment of human development into their habitat, the...
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Due to scandal after scandal, the city of San Diego has taken the self-proclaimed title of “America’s Finest City” off of the city’s official Website. In recent years, San Diego has been one of America’s most corruptible. Most recently is congressmen Duke Cunningham’s stepping down from office after pleading guilty to accepting $2.4 million...
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On Wednesday, Nov 15th, the Ford Motor Company issued a recall for over 200,000 vehicles. There where two separate recalls, one for a cable rubbing up against the frame of the car, exposing wires, and the second was for a metal strap the held up the fuel tank. While no injuries where caused by...
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The recent raucous presidential election of a year ago fading into the foggy past, our nation has had its deficient political attentions buzzed about, alighting on the replacement of two Supreme court Justices, illegal immigrants, scandals involving CIA agents, hurricanes, brain-dead women, faulty intelligence justifying the war in Iraq, and state and Congressional races,...
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The disaster following Hurricane Katrina is yet another tragic result of a system that does not work in the best interests of its people in general. Relatively few of the deaths, which have as yet to be determined, will be directly attributable to the storm itself, but rather to the unfortunate geography of the...
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Among other blurbs on behalf of capitalism and its virtues, one of the more frequently heard is that the system creates opportunity open to all. Especially in the United States, the claim goes that anyone can succeed, anyone can prosper, that capitalism in the US is a land of opportunityBall it takes is hard...
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