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Decisions, Decisions -- 'Blind Spot,' or 'The Great Squeeze'? (Carolyn Baker)
Always eager to preview Long Emergency, end-of-civilization-oriented documentaries, I recently found myself in a rather blessed quandary. I received review copies of "Blind Spot" from Director ...
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Resist or Become Serfs (Chris Hedges)
April 6, 2009 (TruthDig) -- America is devolving into a third-world nation. And if we do not immediately halt our elite’s rapacious looting of the public treasury we will be left with trillions in ...
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Strange Days (James Kunstler)
The executives of Citibank, Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan, and a long list of hedge funds, will be found cringing in their wine-lockers behind a measly layer of privet hedge when the tattooed minions ...
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Capitalist Incarnate: My interview with a vampire (Jason Miller)
As we sat down across the narrow table from one another, I scrutinized him with the cautious enthusiasm of a scientist observing a lethal strain of bacteria under a microscope. I was face to face ...
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More than 90 dead in Italian quake (Deepa Babington)
Quake kills more than 90 people, worst in Italy since 1980 * As many as 50,000 people could be homeless, official says * Berlusconi declares national emergency * Some towns almost totally wiped out, ...
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An Antarctic ice shelf has disappeared: scientists (Reuters)
April 4, 2009 -- WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- One Antarctic ice shelf has quickly vanished, another is disappearing and glaciers are melting faster than anyone thought due to climate change, U.S. and ...
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CSI Bailout: Bill Moyers Interviews William K. Black
April 3, 2009 (PBS) -- BILL MOYERS: For months now, revelations of the wholesale greed and blatant transgressions of Wall Street have reminded us that "The Best Way to Rob a Bank Is to Own One." In ...
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Antarctica: Collapse of the ice bridge supporting Wilkins Ice Shelf appears imminent
April 3, 2009 (European Space Agency) -- The Wilkins Ice Shelf is at risk of partly breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula as the ice bridge that connects it to Charcot and Latady Islands looks ...
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Bloomberg Aches From Wall Street's Pain (Dirk Smillie)
Wall Street's meltdown and retooling competitors threaten the media powerhouse.
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'Eureka machine' puts scientists in the shade by working out laws of nature (Ian Sample)
The machine, which took only a few hours to come up with Newton's laws of motion, marks a turning point in the way science is done
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As Crisis Loomed, Geithner Pressed But Fell Short (Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Jeff Gerth)
Before Timothy Geithner became Treasury chief, he regulated major U.S. banks. Now he says: "We're having a major financial crisis in part because of failures of supervision."
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