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Fed May Be `Central Bank of the World' After UBS, Barclays Aid (Bradley Keoun and Hugh Son)
Dec. 2, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve data showing UBS AG and Barclays Plc ranked among the top users of $3.3 trillion from emergency programs is stoking debate on whether U.S. regulators bear ...
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U.S. Federal Reserve Conjures -- and Redefines -- Money (Matthew Cardinale)
Nov. 30, 2010 (Inter Press Service) -- ATLANTA, Georgia - The private central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, has begun purchasing $600 billion of long-term U.S. Treasury Bonds, ...
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Crop Failures and Drought Within Our Children's Lifetimes (Steve Connor)
Nov. 30, 2010 (The Independent/UK) -- Children today are likely to reach old age in a world that is 4C warmer, where the 10,000-year certainties of the global climate can no longer be relied on, and ...
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Wikileaks’ next target: A major US bank (Sahil Kapur)
Nov. 30, 2010 (Raw Story) -- He's been relentlessly revealing some of the U.S. government's most deeply held secrets, but for his next act, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange says he will expose the ...
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Ecuador rebuts Assange refuge offer (Al Jazeera)
President Correa says offer of residence made to WikiLeaks founder by lower official has not been approved Assange's current whereabouts are unclear Dec. 1, 2010 (Al Jazeera) -- Ecuadorean President ...
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WikiLeaks: U.S. opens criminal investigation against WikiLeaks founder (Haaretz)
Julian Assange: Obama administration is 'a regime that doesn’t believe in the freedom of the press'; Ecuador offers asylum to Assange Nov. 30, 2010 (Haaretz) -- U.S. federal authorities have begun ...
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Wikileaks: Clinton Says Leaked Memos Attack World (YNet)
In first public comments since release of hundreds of thousands of classified State Department cables, US secretary of state says leak erodes trust among nations. Obama administration 'aggressively ...
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Wikileaks: UN slams US over 'espionage' revelations (YNet)
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's spokesman says organization will take up issue 'with our US counterparts on various levels'. White House: Stealing of classified information a crime, Obama 'not ...
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WikiLeaks: Qatar okays use of airbase for U.S. attack on Iran (Jack Khoury)
Gulf state agreed partially to fund base's upkeep, as long as U.S. supports Qatar's continued resource mining Nov. 30, 2010 (Haaretz) -- Qatar agreed to allow the United States to use a base on ...
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Wikileaks confirm US role in bombings (Christian Science Monitor)
Dec. 1, 2010 -- SANA'A, Yeman (Christian Science Monitor) -- For the past year, the US has been thought to be conducting air strikes in Yemen against militants, with Yemen's permission. Yemen has ...
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Religion as a Tool of Repression (Charles Sullivan)
Nov. 30, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Free speech and dissent are always curtailed in times of war. Whenever soldiers occupy foreign nations, rational thinking is proscribed in favor of ...
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