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Law Curbs McDonald's Happy Meal Toys (Lisa Baertlein)
Nov. 3, 2010 -- LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- San Francisco has become the first major U.S. city to pass a law that cracks down on the popular practice of giving away free toys with unhealthy restaurant ...
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Town seeks new life via $1/week rent (Pauline Askin)
Nov. 4, 2010 -- SYDNEY (Reuters) -- An Australian rural community desperate to encourage new families to move in and revitalize the town is offering to rent farm houses to interested families for ...
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Plan To Lift Smoking Ban In Small Pubs (Reuters)
Nov. 4, 2010 -- AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -- Bowing to resistance to a smoking ban imposed on the nation's bars and cafes more than two years ago, the new Dutch government has opted to partially reverse ...
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US Is Not Greatest Country Ever (Michael Kinsley)
Nov. 3, 2010 (Politico.com) -- When foreign car companies started opening factories in the United States, back in the 1980s, it seemed like an act of obeisance. The plants didn't make economic sense ...
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Election Day Loss: ACORN Declares Bankruptcy (Greg Kaufmann)
Nov. 3, 2010 (The Nation) -- On this Election Day, when Democrats stand to suffer at the polls, and fewer voters have registered than in previous midterm elections, it seems sadly ironic that ACORN ...
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Republicans Deal Stinging Rebuke to Obama
House Republican leader John Boehner of Ohio celebrates the GOP's victory that changes the balance of power in Congress.(AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) Nov. 3, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Agence France ...
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Earth Will Take 100,000 Years to Recover from Global Warming Say Geologists (Louise Gray)
The Earth will take 100,000 years to recover from global warming if mankind continues to pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, geologists have warned Nov. 2, 2010 (Telegraph) -- A conference ...
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Fed to Buy Extra $600 Billion of Treasuries to Boost Growth (Scott Lanman)
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg Nov. 3, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve will buy an additional $600 billion of Treasuries through June, ...
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U.S. 'Quantitative Easing' is Fracturing the Global Economy (Prof Michael Hudson)
Moreover, it may well be asked whether we can take it for granted that a return to freedom of exchanges is really a question of time. Even if the reply were in the affirmative, it is safe to assume ...
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Towards Martial Law in America: Authority to Deploy Troops Domestically during 'National Emergencies' (James Corbett)
Whistleblower: Coast Guard Implementing Martial Law Oct. 27, 2010 (Global Research, The Corbett Report) -- Earlier this month, the United States Coast Guard upheld its self-declared status as a ...
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Psychological Inoculation For A Century Of Challenges (Carolyn Baker With Nicole Foss)
An exclusive interview with one of the most astute minds in the world of finance whose insights offer crucial preparation for living in a post-industrial world Nov. 2, 2010 -- BOULDER, Colo. ...
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