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Eye-balling the Fifth Century (Fred Reed)
July 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- When a country works reasonably well -- when the schools teach algebra and not governmentally mandated Appropriate Values, when the police are scarce ...
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Barack Obama is Gutting the Core Principles of the Democratic Party (Glenn Greenwald)
The president's attacks on America's social safety net are destroying the soul of the Democratic party's platform July 22, 2011 (The Guardian) -- In 2005, American liberals achieved one of their ...
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Corporate Tax Holiday in Debt Ceiling Deal: Where's the Uproar? (Matt Taibbi)
July 22, 2011 (RollingStone) -- Have been meaning to write about this, but I’m increasingly amazed at the overall lack of an uproar about the possibility of the government approving another ...
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Audit: Fed Gave $16 Trillion in Emergency Loans (Stephen C. Webster)
July 22, 2011 (Raw Story) -- The U.S. Federal Reserve gave out $16.1 trillion in emergency loans to U.S. and foreign financial institutions between Dec. 1, 2007 and July 21, 2010, according to ...
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An Economy Destroyed: The Enemy Is Washington (Paul Craig Roberts)
July 22, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Recently, the bond rating agencies that gave junk derivatives triple-A ratings threatened to downgrade U.S. Treasury bonds if the White House and ...
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States negotiating immunity for banks over foreclosures (Scot J. Paltrow)
Jul 20 2011 -- NEW YORK (Reuters) -- State attorneys general are negotiating to give major banks wide immunity over irregularities in handling foreclosures, even as evidence has emerged that banks ...
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Congrats to the Gang of Six, the Powerful, the Wealthy, and Multinational Corporations (Bernie Sanders)
July 21, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- If there was ever a time in the modern history of America that the American people should become engaged in what's going on here in Washington, now is that time. ...
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UN Says Climate Change Threatens World Security (Agence France Presse)
July 21, 2011 (Agence France Presse) -- Climate change could exponentially increase the scale of natural disasters while at the same time threatening world security, a senior UN official told the UN ...
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Fed planning for potential default (Kristina Cooke and Tim Ahmann)
Jul 20 2011 -- PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -- The Federal Reserve is actively preparing for the possibility that the United States could default as a deadline for raising the government's $14.3 trillion ...
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The NSA Is Building An Artificial Intelligence System That Can Read Minds (Dylan Love)
Jul. 18, 2011 (Business Insider) -- The NSA is working on a computer system that can predict what people are thinking. "Think of 2001: A Space Odyssey and the most memorable character, HAL 9000, ...
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An Unprecedented 1 in 66 Americans is a Diagnosed Psychotic (Robert Johnson)
July 20th, 2011 (Business Insider) -- Outselling even common drugs to treat high blood pressure and acid reflux, antipsychotic medications are the single top-selling prescription drug in the United ...
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