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-- America becoming the world's largest wind-energy producer;

-- Portugal building the world's largest solar photovoltaic farm to supply enough electricity for 30,000 homes;

-- rising investment levels being made in renewable energy;

-- community banks functioning as an alternative to Wall Street giants;

-- the Common Good Bank model distributing profits back to the community and making all lending and spending decisions through participatory democracy;

-- cooperatives turning wage slaves into worker-owners;

-- calls increasing for a minimum corporate tax that could raise billions of dollars to stimulate economic growth;

-- Ecuador questioning the legitimacy of foreign debt;

-- Washington possibly losing its right to appoint future World Bank presidents;

-- Net Neutrality hopes for passage increasing, but not without stiff corporate opposition against it;

-- community land trust solutions offering hope for the foreclosure crisis; also, in Landmark National Bank v. Kesler (August 2009), the Kansas Supreme Court ruled unanimously against Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems' (MERS) right to bring a foreclosure action; over half of all new residential mortgages are registered with MERS; the ruling applies to other mortgage holders in Kansas, but it sets a precedent that other states may follow;

-- the Pathway to Housing program calling for a "housing first" approach to address the problem of chronic homelessness;

-- in opposition to America's war on drugs, a Latin American Commission on Drugs calling for a new paradigm; and

-- Ecuador becoming the first country to declare constitutional rights for nature.

Truth Emergency: Inside the Military Industrial Media Empire

Former PC Director Peter Phillips and former Associate Director Mickey Huff discuss the terrible toll from America's imperial wars, with special emphasis on the carnage in Iraq. In America today, a "literal Truth Emergency" exists given the absence of "a truly free press" to report accurately on events and developments abroad or at home at a time of grave economic crisis, affecting growing millions, and misdirected spending for militarism and banker bailouts.

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Sadly, the Most Censored Story of the Year is too hot... by Truthifyouwantit on Friday, Oct 2, 2009 at 11:36:07 AM
Good grief by Phil Weingart on Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 at 3:30:32 AM
ITS ALL IN YOUR MIND by MARGARET BASET on Saturday, Oct 3, 2009 at 3:34:09 AM