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Argentina Default Looms, Pension Seizure Roils Market (James Attwood and Bill Faries)
Oct. 22 (Bloomberg) -- Argentina's planned seizure of $29 billion of private pension funds stoked concern the nation is headed for its second default in a decade.
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U.S. Stocks Drop on Earnings; Texas Instruments, Freeport Fall (Elizabeth Stanton)
Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks slid as companies from Texas Instruments Inc. to Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. reported profit and revenue that failed to meet analysts' estimates.
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Government of Thieves (Paul Craig Roberts)
Oct. 17, 2008 (CounterPunch) -- Just as the Bush regime’s wars have been used to pour billions of dollars into the pockets of its military-security donor base, the Paulson bailout looks like a Bush ...
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U.S. Moves Toward Second Stimulus This Year As Bernanke, Bush Shift (Ryan Donmoyer & Scott Lanman)
Oct. 21 (Bloomberg) -- Lawmakers and officials moved toward forging a second fiscal stimulus bill after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke endorsed the idea and the Bush administration dropped ...
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U.S. pilot ordered to shoot down UFO (Reuters)
He was told to never talk about Cold War incident; files now are public
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What Now? (James Kunstler)
Oct. 20, 2008 (World News Trust) -- It's fascinating to read the commentators in mainstream journals like The Financial Times and The Wall Street Journal all strenuously pretending that "the worst ...
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The Flight to Abstraction (John Michael Greer)
Oct. 15, 2008 (Archdruid Report) -- My decision some two and a half years ago to launch a weekly blog on the future of industrial society has had its share, or more than its share, of unexpected ...
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The Power of the Nonrational (John Michael Greer)
Oct. 8, 2008 (Archdruid Report) -- For the release of a book on the end of industrial civilization, it was certainly good timing. Over the last week or so, as my book The Long Descent: A User’s ...
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Cassandra's View (John Michael Greer)
Oct. 1, 2008 (Archdruid Report) -- As I mentioned in last week’s post, I took the opportunity this year to travel to Sacramento to attend the annual conference hosted by ASPO-USA -- the ...
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Protecting Our Families and Future In A Time Of Crisis (Carolyn Baker)
Carolyn Baker reviews Sharon Astyk's Depletion And Abundance
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Europe and the Middle East: Will EU Be a More Just Mediator? (Ramzy Baroud)
Oct. 19,2008 (World News Trust) -- Europe has showed greater willingness in recent months to play a larger part in the Middle East's most protracted conflict, that of Israel and Palestine. But ...
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