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A Commodity Called Misery (Joe Bageant)
Here in Hopkins Village, darkness has come and brought with it good old Eljay, ready to split a bottle of the local bitters on my porch. The night winds are rising and with them comforting assurance ...
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Overpopulation, Overconsumption and the Balance of Power (Dale Allen Pfeiffer)
Feb. 10, 2009 (www.mountainsentinel.com) -- I have been asked to write about overpopulation as part of an effort to focus awareness on this problem.
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Central Banks Sacrifice Independence as Crisis Grows (Rich Miller & Simon Kennedy)
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The global financial crisis is forcing the world’s central bankers to surrender some of their prized independence. Regaining it won’t be easy.
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Huge Observatory in Andes Takes Shape (SPACE.com Staff)
ALMA, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array is being assembled high in the Chilean Andes by a global partnership.
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Poverty of Imagination (James Kunstler)
A striking poverty of imagination may lead to change that will tear this nation to pieces.
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Taxpayer Bailout Rises to $9.7 Trillion as Fed, Treasury Step Up Financing (Mark Pittman & Bob Ivr
Feb. 9 (Bloomberg) -- The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is completing would raise the government’s commitment to solving the financial crisis to $9.7 trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 ...
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Biden Vows to Continue Bush Policy Towards Iran (Jeremy R. Hammond)
So far, the Obama administration has offered little in the way of evidence that it represents a significant “change” from the previous administration.
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5th Avenue: A Primer on Bipartisanship
America is not clamoring for bipartisanship. She is tired of the petty fighting that passes for political debate. America is a centrist nation. The current crop of Republicans, with few exceptions, ...
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Savings Lost to Madoff, Elderly Forced Back to Work (Jason Szep)
Fri Feb 6, 2009 7:59pm EST-- After losing his entire life's savings to disgraced fund manager Bernard Madoff, 90-year-old Ian Thiermann abandoned retirement and now works the aisles of a grocery ...
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They Just Don't Get It (Bernie Horn)
February 5th, 2009 - 11:48pm ET-- Right now, conservative U.S. senators—both Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats—are thrashing around trying to cut pieces out of President Obama’s economic recovery ...
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