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The Backward Slide into Recession (Mike Whitney)
Aug. 30, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Ongoing deleveraging has slowed personal consumption and trimmed 2nd quarter GDP to a revised 1.6 percent. The economy is sliding backwards into ...
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Sun storm to hit with 'force of 100 million hydrogen bombs' (Peter Farquhar)
Aug. 25, 2010 (news.com.au) -- AFTER 10 years of comparative slumber, the sun is waking up -- and it's got astronomers on full alert. This week several U.S. media outlets reported that NASA was ...
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Oil Addiction And Identity (Scott Brown)
The Fundamentals of the Crisis and the Response Aug. 30, 2010 (CarolynBaker.net) -- As much as anybody, I want to see the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico be the final wake up call needed to move our ...
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Make Sure the Bunker is Well Stocked (Mike Whitney)
Aug. 29, 2010 -- (Information Clearing House) -- Robert Herz was forced to resign from his job as as chairman of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) because he insisted that the banks ...
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Our Redeemer (David Glenn Cox)
Machiavelli David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Aug. 29, 2010 -- I was recently rereading Machiavelli and he said, when you acquire lands where the prince is unpopular you come as a redeemer. When ...
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BOOK REVIEW: Palestine Betrayed. By Efraim Karsh (Jim Miles)
Palestine Betrayed. Efraim Karsh. Yale University Press, London, 2010. Aug. 27, 2010 (Palestine Chronicle) -- Was Palestine betrayed? Of course it was, by the British, the United States, France, the ...
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Not Tits but Horns! (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Aug. 28, 2010 -- Alan Simpson broke the cardinal rule in Washington; he said what he really thought. Turn about is fair play so here’s what I really think. His ...
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Morgan Stanley Analyst Says Governments to Default (Matthew Brown)
Aug. 25 (Bloomberg) -- Investors face defaults on government bonds given the burden of aging populations and the difficulty of increasing tax revenue, according to a Morgan Stanley executive ...
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U.S. Economy Grew a Revised 1.6% in Second Quarter (Bob Willis)
Aug. 27, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy grew at a 1.6 percent annual rate in the second quarter, less than previously calculated, as companies reined in inventories and the trade deficit ...
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Rebranding Iraq: Playing with Numbers and Human Lives (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Aug. 26, 2010 -- The soldiers of the U.S. 4th Stryker Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division hollered as they made their way into Kuwait. "We won," they claimed. "It’s ...
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Collapse of ancient Ellesmere ice shelf stuns scientists (Margaret Munro)
This NASA image shows the section of the Ward Hunt ice shelf which recently broke off. (IMAGE/NASA) "The ice seems to be fracturing all over the Arctic once again” Aug. 26, 2010 -- (Post Media News) ...
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