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Hong Kong's ghostly seas warn of looming global tragedy (AFP)
HONG KONG, Oct 29 (AFP) Oct 29, 2009 The live fish facing death in the glass tanks in Hong Kong's famous seafood restaurants tell a strange and haunting tale of a looming global tragedy. At the ...
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Economy in U.S. Expands for First Time in a Year (Timothy R. Homan)
By Timothy R. Homan Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy grew in the third quarter for the first time in more than a year, propelled by stimulus-driven gains in consumer spending and home ...
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Soros: China should lead ‘new world order’ (Daniel Tencer)
By Daniel Tencer Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 -- 3:56 pm (Raw Story) -- China should step up to the plate as the leader of a new global economic order, and the US shouldn't fear the establishment ...
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The Iron Cheer of Empire -- Joe Bageant
Joe Bageant No free tortillas in the Workhouse Republic Joe Bageant -- World News Trust Oct. 29, 2009 AJIJIC, Mexico -- Every afternoon when I knock off from writing, after I suck down a Modelo beer ...
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Book Review: Time's Up, By Keith Farnish (Carolyn Baker)
“In short, we are prepared to die in order to live a life that is killing us.” –Keith Farnish from Time’s Up: An Uncivilized Solution to A Global Crisis Oct. 27, 2009 (Transition Times) -- I live in ...
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After the Billionaires Plundered Alabama Town, Troops Were Called in ... Illegally (Mark Ames)
"We have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieve greater prosperity and opportunity for all," says one Goldman Sachs adviser. But tell that to the people of Samson, Ala.
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Gas Pump Thievery: Who's Really Behind the Rising Prices at the Pumps? (Jim Hightower)
What's going on here is not the "magic of the marketplace," but some hocus-pocus by brand-name dealers.
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Book Review: The Living Universe by Duane Elgin (Carolyn Baker)
Oct. 20, 2009 (Transition Times) -- In the current moment it is nearly impossible to trust many of the voices in our world that issue from the field of economics. It is safe to say that none of the ...
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Self-jiving Nation (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Oct. 26, 2009 -- The scene in the White House these days must be a sort of Opera Bouffe, in which an earnest and rather grave young man moves from one ...
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Rethinking Relativity: Is Time Out of Joint? (Rachel Courtland)
From New Scientist Ever since Arthur Eddington travelled to the island of Príncipe off Africa to measure starlight bending around the sun during a 1919 eclipse, evidence for Einstein's theory of ...
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We Are The Revolution (Thurman James)
Thurman James -- World News Trust Oct. 24, 2009 -- To salvage the environment and reform our economy we must first break the stranglehold that the money mongers have on our government. The first ...
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