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It's crazy-making to watch the world's indifference to Israel's grinding destruction of the Palestinians. There isn't really even a word for it either the indifference or the criminal assault, and particularly the latter. But like it or not, admit it or not, Israel has thoroughly implicated America. To talk about all this I turned to a former CIA analyst, Kathleen Christison, whose recent book Palestine in Pieces (with co-author husband Bill Christison) gets pretty much everything right. An inhuman problem, but a joy to realize that some of us are aware. Total runtime an hour and seventeen minutes. Take a stand!

Author: LibertyPen Keywords: capitalism individualism liberty free market opportunity libertarian conservative government economics patriotism Added: November 6, 2009

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Health bill has some extra goodies; Home sales are soaring in Canada, eh?

Denis chats with Bob Bestani, candidate for US Congress in NH district CD-1. Topics covered include the economy, health care, defense, the Middle East, and education. Also: we share a clip by Mike Rodgers, US Congressman from Michigan, on health care.

What's going on in the IPO market?

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/10/24/Bright-Sided_Barbara_Ehrenreich Journalist and author Barbara Ehrenreich criticizes the "delusional" positivity that she believes has permeated American culture. She suggests that so-called "negative" realists are persecuted for their attitudes, particularly in business. ----- Barbara Ehrenreich presents a sharp-witted knockdown of America's love affair with positive thinking and an urgent call for a new commitment to realism. Americans are a "positive" people -- cheerful, optimistic, and upbeat: this is our reputation as well as our self-image. But more than a temperament, being positive, we are told, is the key to success and prosperity. In this utterly original take on the American frame of mind, Barbara Ehrenreich traces the strange career of our sunny outlook from its origins as a marginal nineteenth-century healing technique to its enshrinement as a dominant, almost mandatory, cultural attitude. Evangelical mega-churches preach the good news that you only have to want something to get it, because God wants to "prosper" you. The medical profession prescribes positive thinking for its presumed health benefits. Academia has made room for new departments of "positive psychology" and the "science of happiness." Nowhere, though, has bright-siding taken firmer root than within the business community, where, as Ehrenreich shows, the refusal even to consider negative outcomes -- like mortgage defaults -- contributed directly to the current economic crisis. - Commonwealth Club of California Barbara Ehrenreich is the author of thirteen books, including the New York Times bestseller Nickel and Dimed. A frequent contributor to the New York Times, Harpers, and the Progressive, she is a contributing writer to Time magazine. She lives in Florida.

STRATFOR : http://www.stratfor.com : Hopes of a binding climate change treaty in 2009 have faded, but the climate change issue will still have its place in talks when U.S. President Barack Obama visits China next week. STRATFOR analyst Matt Gertken provides a preview.

Beginning in Europe the share markets rose with the FTSE up 0.3% and the German market up 0.7%. The US opened strongly, and continued up all day with the preliminary close numbers the Dow listed up 2.1% and the S&P up 1.9%. Jobless claims dropped again, and productivity growth in the non-farm business sector for the third quarter of the year grew at an annual rate of 9.5% which is phenomenal. The AUD sits around US 91 cents.

It was a good night in Europe with the FTSE up 1.4% and the German market up 1.7%. The US market flattered to deceive last night with the bears taking control in the last hour. The Dow finished up 0.4% and the S&P up 0.2%. The non manufacturing ISM fell for the month, and the statement from the FOMC re-affirmed to keep short term interest rates low for a long period of time. The Australian market will open up.

Beginning in Europe, the news wasn't positive with more murmurs of a UK bank bailout pushing the market down 1.4%, and the German DAX falling by 1.3%. In the US it was another mixed session with the Dow Jones slighty down (0.02%) and the S&P slightly up (0.02%). I think that's akin to an each way bet in racing lingo, if horses are still your thing. The Australian market should open mixed.