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Barclays Fined by U.K., U.S. for Falsifying Libor Rates | Lindsay Fortado and Silla Brush
Jun. 27, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- Barclays Plc (BARC) was fined 290 million pounds ($451.4 million), the largest penalties ever imposed by regulators in the U.S. and U.K., after admitting it submitted ...
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Banker to the Bankers Knows the Numbers Are Lying | Jonathan Weil
June 28, 2012 (Bloomberg) -- The Bank for International Settlements, which acts as a bank for the world’s central banks, should know fudged numbers when it sees them. What may come as a surprise is ...
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Sea Levels Rising Fast on U.S. East Coast | Charles Q. Choi
Not clear whether human-caused global warming is to blame, experts say. The last house on Holland Island, Maryland, where 360 people lived before tides took over (file picture). Photograph by Astrid ...
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Life After Debt: We Don't Need Your Education | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 30, 2012 “Usually when you ask somebody in college why they are there, they'll tell you it's to get an education. The truth of it is, they ...
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PILLOW TALK: Totally, Locally | Deborah Goodwin
June 25, 2012 (ShapeShiftas) -- Yesterday, the Garden Goddess Suzanne gave me two beautiful heads of Napa cabbage that I bet would go for $10 each in Whole Foods. She claimed that she has so many ...
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40 Million Stars Mapped In New Night Sky Census | Space.com
Color-composite image of FSR 1735. The cluster is the circular regions of stars and enhanced brightness in the center of the image. North is up and East is to the left. CREDIT: Henri Boffin, ESO ...
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Anniversary of Gaza Blockade: A State of Siege, and Normalcy | Ramzy Baroud
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust June 20, 2012 -- Fifty international organizations June 14 marked the fifth anniversary of the Israeli siege on Gaza by calling on Israel to end its blockade of the ...
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The Twilight Of Investment | John Michael Greer
June 20, 2012 (Archdruid Report) -- It’s been a few weeks since the conversation on this blog veered away from the decline and fall of American empire to comment on points raised by the recent Age ...
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Silent Spring For Us? | Paul Craig Roberts
June 19, 2012 (PaulCraigRoberts) -- With her 1962 book, Silent Spring, Rachel Carson got DDT and other synthetic pesticides banned and saved bird life. Today it is humans who are directly threatened ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- June 26, 2012 | FCNL
Nuclear Calendar -- June 26, 2012 | Friends Committee on National Legislation June 26 1:30-4:30 p.m., Sen. Kelly Ayotte (NH); and six other speakers, "Sequestration and the Nation's Defense: ...
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Another World Is Possible: Build It And They Will Occupy | Mickey Z.
Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Be realistic, demand the impossible. (graffiti, Paris 1968) Let's imagine the state of the planet as a fire raging through a high-rise ...
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