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Greenland Ice Sheet Faces 'Tipping Point in 10 Years'; (Suzanne Goldenberg)
Scientists warn that temperature rise of between 2C and 7C would cause ice to melt, resulting in 23ft rise in sea level Aug. 11, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Guardian) -- The entire ice mass of Greenland ...
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U.S. Is Bankrupt and We Don't Even Know (Laurence Kotlikoff)
Aug. 10, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Let’s get real. The U.S. is bankrupt. Neither spending more nor taxing less will help the country pay its bills. What it can and must do is radically simplify its tax, ...
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Four Deformations of the Apocalypse (David Stockman)
July 31, 2010 (New York Times) -- If there were such a thing as Chapter 11 for politicians, the Republican push to extend the unaffordable Bush tax cuts would amount to a bankruptcy filing. The ...
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Rachel Maddow Misses Journalistic Opportunity (Joel S. Hirschhhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhhorn -- World News Trust Aug. 10, 2010 -- On her August 9 show on MSNBC Rachel Maddow went for an easy attack on those seeking government reforms through constitutional amendments, ...
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Stocks Drop, Treasuries Rally on Growth Concern (Stephen Kirkland and Nikolaj Gammeltoft)
Aug. 11, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Stocks plunged, sending the MSCI World Index to its biggest drop since June, and Treasuries led a rally in government bonds on concern that the U.S. economic recovery is ...
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Matthew Simmons, Investment Banker, Peak Oil Theory Advocate, Dies at 67 (Edward Klump and David Wethe)
Aug. 9, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- Matthew R. Simmons, an energy investment banker who was a leading proponent of the “peak oil” theory that claims the Earth is running out of crude, died yesterday. He was ...
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Three Days to Revolution (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Aug. 9, 2010 -- Rage is born of desperation; it is incubated and nurtured by ignorance and neglect. It is fathered by the unfeeling and uncaring, the safe and ...
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The Queasy Season (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 9, 2010 -- A scarlet tinge colors the Virginia creeper, the Canada geese grow restless out on the fairways, an ominous canapé fatigue spreads through ...
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Nonfarm payrolls drop 131,000 in July (Greg Robb)
Private payrolls up 71,000, economists had been expecting growth of 100,000 Aug. 6, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- U.S. employers continued to hire but at a sluggish pace that adds to pessimism ...
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Smoke on a Bridge: Lebanon Awaits a Verdict (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 5, 2010 -- BEIRUT, Lebanon -- Jamal is a Lebanese driver in his late 50s. He appeared unshaven and terribly exhausted as he drove his old passenger van from the ...
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Same-Sex Marriage Ban Overturned in California (Joel Rosenblatt)
Aug. 4, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- A federal judge overturned California’s ban on same-sex marriage, or Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment passed by 52 percent of the state’s voters in 2008. U.S. ...
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