Link: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/08/27/nazi-gun-control-gateway-hitler-tyranny-175591/

Hitler would seize ‘gun registration lists’ of legal gun owners in the places he invaded to locate those who owned firearms legally under their previous government. The Nazi’s would immediately order all firearms be turned over within 24 hours or face immediate execution. The people on those lists a horrifying dilemma. If they turned over their weapons as ordered they could face being executed anyway or sent to a forced labor camp anyway.

Link: http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2012/08/27/important-chart-world-80-crash-175731/

Here it is the ratio of the Dow to The Gold Price demonstrating the real return on stocks and it indicates another 80 percent drop lies ahead. “The Most Important Chart in the World” is the ratio of the Dow Jones Industrial Average: The Gold Price. In a nutshell, charting this ratio demonstrates the “real” return on stocks adjusted for inflation or currency debasement.

Link: http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/aug2012/cong-a27.shtml

Last week’s report by Washington, D.C. political blog The Hill details the vast wealth of the nation’s legislative representatives and serves as an indictment of the anti-democratic nature of the American political system. The “50 Wealthiest Lawmakers” list shows that dozens of congressional politicians have amassed huge fortunes while simultaneously slashing the wages, benefits and social services of the American people.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/27-4

Mitt Romney’s new energy platform calls for more fossil fuel production and less regulation. It’s a vision of an energy future that is dirtier and deadlier than an economy founded on a transition to renewable energy sources. And, despite the devastating droughts and massive wildfires of the last few months, it’s a plan that ignores the climate dangers associated with a drill-and-burn policy.

Link: http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/08/27

Conservatives force the deficit issue, ignoring job creation, and insisting that tax increases on the rich wouldn't generate enough revenue to balance the budget. They're way off. But it takes a little arithmetic to put it all together. In the following analysis, data has been taken from a variety of sources, some of which may overlap or slightly disagree, but all of which lead to the conclusion that withheld revenue, not excessive spending, is the problem.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/education/crazy-country-6-reasons-america-spends-more-prisons-higher-education

Dollars doing to prisons will soon outpace dollars going to higher education in every state of the union.

Link: http://www.alternet.org/college-students-are-going-homeless-and-hungry-and-corporate-america-trying-exploit-them

A look at the growing numbers of homeless and hungry college students trying desperately to make ends meet--and those who are willing to exploit them.

Link: http://www.foodnavigator-usa.com/Product-Categories/Food-safety-and-labeling/Brazil-orders-Nestle-to-label-GM-products

A court in Brazil has ordered Nestlé to impose mandatory labelling for all its products in the country highlighting more than 1% genetically modified (GM) ingredients.