Japan: Typhoon Talas Leaves Path Of Destruction

Japan: Typhoon Talas Leaves Path Of Destruction

TOKYO — Japan braced for more heavy rain and floods Monday as the death toll from the worst typhoon to hit the country in seven years climbed to 34. Rescuers searched for 55 others who remained missing, and tens of thousands of families struggled without power or telephone service.

Typhoon Talas, which was later downgraded to a tropical storm, lashed coastal areas with destructive winds and record-setting rains over the weekend before moving offshore into the Sea of Japan. Thousands were stranded as it washed out bridges, railways and roads.

Unemployed Workers Face Tough Competition: Underemployed

Unemployed Workers Face Tough Competition: Underemployed

WASHINGTON — The job market is even worse than the 9.1 percent unemployment rate suggests.

America's 14 million unemployed aren't competing just with each other. They must also contend with 8.8 million other people not counted as unemployed – part-timers who want full-time work.

When consumer demand picks up, companies will likely boost the hours of their part-timers before they add jobs, economists say. It means they have room to expand without hiring.

'Obama is new words, but old tricks as US acts like empire'

A year has passed since U.S. President Barack Obama came into office promising change, many though are finding little difference between him and his predecessor, George W. Bush. RT's Marina Portnaya talks to journalist Margaret Kimberly about Obama's year.

U.S Right Wing and GOP Presidential Candidates Spreading Paranoid Anti-Muslim Hysteria as Part of Take-Over Strategy | | AlterNet

U.S Right Wing and GOP Presidential Candidates Spreading Paranoid Anti-Muslim Hysteria as Part of Take-Over Strategy | | AlterNet

The sudden rise of Islamophobia in the United States is alarming while the movement that advances anti-Muslim resentment seems bizarre and filled with eccentric, even dangerous characters. But when viewed in the context of a new, groundbreaking research document by the Center for American Progress and an obscure, decades-old political memorandum by a long-forgotten former Supreme Court Justice, the Islamophobic crusade raging across the country appears perfectly in line with longstanding goals and methods of conservative organizing, and appears to focused on much more than demonizing Muslims.

'WE UNDERESTIMATED THE POWER OF THIS STORM'

Rochester, Vermont Hit Hard By Irene

ROCHESTER, Vt. — Coffins lie exposed at the village cemetery, having popped out of the ground. Homes are reduced to what look like piles of giant matchsticks. A weathered brown house hangs precariously out over a creek, an enormous chunk of soil underneath chewed away by floodwaters.

Limbaugh On Powell And Obama "Melanin Is Thicker Than Water" | News One

Limbaugh On Powell And Obama "Melanin Is Thicker Than Water" | News One

Right wing talk show host, Rush Limbaugh reiterated what he said during the 2008 Election when he said that Powell supported the candidate Barack Obama “because he’s Black” on his radio show.

After Colin Powell told CBS News “Face The Nation” that he wasn’t sure who he was going to vote for in the 2012 Election, Limbaugh said on his radio show that Powell will vote for President Obama in 2012 because “melanin is thicker than water.”

Daily Kos: New Pew poll shows moderate attitudes among Muslim Americans; Peter King calls for more hearings

Daily Kos: New Pew poll shows moderate attitudes among Muslim Americans; Peter King calls for more hearings

A fascinating and in-depth new survey of Muslim Americans from Pew has some very interesting results. It's difficult to summarize given the poll's length, but here's an excerpt from their press release: