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The Corporate Media Occupies a News Blackout | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 7, 2012 "The revolution will not be objectively reported." --Richie Alexandro, "Meet Me at Zuccotti" During the July Fourth hoopla... We ...
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Higgs-like particle found in ‘milestone’ for mankind | Agence France-Presse
Proton-proton collisions as measured by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) in its search for the Higgs boson particle. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images July 4, 2012 ...
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The Smartest Man is a Firedancer | Byron Wien
Byron WienJuly 2, 2012 (Blackstone) -- When the New Democracy party in Greece defeated the anti-bailout Syriza, I was anxious to learn what The Smartest Man in Europe thought of it all. The next day ...
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U.S. Banks Aren’t Nearly Ready for Coming European Crisis | Simon Johnson
Simon JohnsonJune 24, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- The euro area faces a major economic crisis, most likely a series of rolling, country-specific problems involving some combination of failing banks and ...
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There’s Something Rotten in Banking | Bloomberg Editors
llustration by Bloomberg View Jul. 2, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- You might have missed the latest bank scandal, the one involving Barclays Plc (BARC), in the hubbub of last week’s U.S. health-care ruling ...
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Diversity of Tactics... and Perspectives | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 3, 22012 “Extreme violence has a way of preventing us from seeing the interests it serves.” --Naomi Klein The Occupy movement is less than ...
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Hostage Racket | James Howard Kunstler
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust July 2, 2012 -- Not to put too fine a point on it, but didn't that cunning rogue Chief Justice John Roberts pour a jug of Karo syrup into the gas tank of ...
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The Euro is a Big Success - No Kidding | Greg Palast
June 27, 2012 (Nation of Change) -- The idea that the euro has "failed" is dangerously naive. The euro is doing exactly what its progenitor -- and the wealthy 1%-ers who adopted it -- predicted and ...
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A Huge Break in the LIBOR Banking Investigation | Matt Taibbi
Oli Scarff/Getty Images June 28, 2012 (Rolling Stone) -- This is a huge story: On Wednesday, Barclays won the race to reach a deal with U.S. and British regulators, beating UBS, which was reportedly ...
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Is Your Mortgage Payment Based on Lies? | Mark Whitehouse
Jun. 27, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- Anyone who thinks it's a good idea to trust a group of banks in London to set a benchmark borrowing rate that affects the value of some $360 trillion in mortgage loans, ...
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Barclays Reduced Libor After October 2008 Bank of England Call | Joshua Gallu
Jun. 27, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- Barclays Plc (BARC) deliberately reported artificially low borrowing costs at the height of the 2008 financial market turmoil after a senior manager discussed external ...
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