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EIA Says Not Aware of Oil Data Probe (Ayesha Rascoe, Tom Doggett, Matthew Lewis)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Energy Information Administration said on Thursday it is unaware of any investigation by federal market regulators of the agency's weekly report on oil inventory levels.
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Going on an Imperial Bender: How the US Garrisons the Planet & Doesn't Even Notice (Tom Engelhardt)
(TomDispatch) -- Here it is, as simply as I can put it: In the course of any year, there must be relatively few countries on this planet on which U.S. soldiers do not set foot, whether with guns ...
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Prosecuting Bush (The Real News)
Vincent Bugliosi, former prosecutor, on prosecuting George W. Bush for murder.
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The Post-Petroleum Job Ads (John Michael Greer)
(Archdruid Report) -- The mismatch between the narratives of sudden apocalypse that shape so much of today’s debate about the future, on the one hand, and the sluggish pace at which the predicament ...
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Oil to Drop Below $100 as Funds Sell Commodities, Gartman Says (Betty Liu, Mike Munshi)
Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Hedge fends, pensions funds and other speculators may have had ``enough of the commodity business'' and will sell assets, driving the price of oil to below $100 a barrel, ...
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Florida Real Estate Bottom Signaled by Sale of Distressed Condos (Bob Ivry)
Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Sales of distressed Miami properties have begun, signaling a bottom for south Florida's real estate market and the end of waiting for vulture funds armed with about $30 ...
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U.S. Must Buy Assets to Prevent `Tsunami,' PIMCO's Gross Says (Jody Shenn)
Sept. 4 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government needs to start using more of its money to support markets to stem a burgeoning ``financial tsunami,'' according to Bill Gross, manager of the world's ...
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Republicans Are Mean (Mary Lyon)
(World News Trust) -- I sat through Rudy Giuliani and the debut of Sarah Palin, and I’ve come to only one conclusion. Republicans are mean.
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A Moment of Unaccustomed Candor: Noonan and Murphy on Palin (Videos)
Two conservative commentators on MSNBC, after they're off the air, say what they really think about the veep choice. Hint: It is not exactly complimentary, nor does it speak to unanimity in the ...
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Unintelligence in Federal Intelligence Agencies (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
(World News Trust) -- The Bush administration has found yet another way to waste taxpayer money while providing huge sums to private contractors. According to a survey of activities in 2007 by the ...
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A Connection of Disconnects (Mary Lyon)
(World News Trust) -- One certainly can’t say that the Republican Convention doesn’t bring divergent individuals together. Sometimes, they’re the strangest of strange convention bedfellows.
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