Link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rw-sanders/the-super-congress-we-did_b_914635.html

Perhaps I was asleep, or have amnesia, or maybe I was abducted by aliens, but I don't remember ever having elected a Super Congress. However, apparently there will be a committee of twelve that will effectively run our country. That is, if Congress votes for the debt crisis solution posed by Obama and his fellow republicans.

Link: http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/08/02/fukushima-radiation-1000-times-h-bomb-peak-2/

Dr. Chris Busby, world famous physicist, said tests run at the respected Harwell Radiation Laboratory in England demonstrate the airborne radiation in Japan is 1,000 times higher than radioactive “fallout” at the peak in 1963 of H-Bomb detonations by the nuclear powers. The calculations were on radioactive Cesium 137.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/economy/151862/mortgage_company_bailed_out_by_taxpayers_is_caught_forging_documents_to_foreclose_on_them/

GMAC, one of the nation's largest mortgage servicers, faced a quandary last summer. It wanted to foreclose on a New York City homeowner but lacked the crucial paperwork needed to seize the property.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/economy/151887/us_of_austerity%3A_what_%24570_billion_cuts_will_do_to_our_water%2C_air%2C_the_jobless%2C_children%2C_the_elderly%2C_and_the_poor/

The debt ceiling deal simultaneously slashes programs crucial to our country's functioning and opens the door to more devastating- and mandatory - cuts.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/world/151877/imperial_psychosis%3A_we_pour_trillions_into_empire_while_gutting_programs_americans_depend_on/

For months Americans have been focused on raising that debt ceiling, as onscreen countdown clocks ticked away to disaster. Isn’t it time to lower America’s war ceiling?

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/programmes/faultlines/2011/08/201181125338194522.html

With 1% of Americans controlling 40% of the country's wealth, we examine the gap between the rich and the rest. The richest one per cent of Americans earn nearly a quarter of the country's income and control an astonishing 40 per cent of its wealth. Inequality in the US is more extreme than it has been in almost a century - and the gap between the super-rich and the poor and middle class people has widened drastically over the last 30 years.