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The trick to more restful sleep, may indeed involve a few teaspoons of peanut butter an hour before bed time. I felt the urge to repost an article written by Tariq Ali, well, a portion of a recent article I read of his off Counterpunch web site. The context involves the protesting of certain Islamic women in France, one…

EKATER TO YELSTIN’s SPLEENY   A lot has been written about the humiliation Russia experienced when it ceased to be a superpower; a lot has also been written about the rapid immiseration of a vast segment of the post-Soviet population. But these things were affected by the daily experience of fear. It was certainly bad…

As currently structured, Wall Street investment banks have no incentive to bring viable companies to market.  Wall Street makes the same huge fees for putting lipstick on a pig and dumping it on the public as they do for launching solid companies with real job growth potential. Over the past decade, trillions of dollars of…

Hello Chummies, I write for an on line music magazine (Perfect Sound Forever,) and they just posted a 2009 best album list…….perhaps we are now removed far enough away from such lists to make it more tolerable to look at…. This general concept is becoming more an more irrelevant for a variety of reasons…but with…

Feb 3 2010 “What will a Grounds Hog do now?” By: Ossip Maltempi He called on friendly acquaintances Phone calls that were never answered Choosing minor holidays (chiefly American minor holidays) caller would wish them well hoping that holiday would be enjoyed thinking to himself that children’s favorite holidays tend to be those where they…