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Pillow Talking about Irene (Deborah Goodwin)
Sept. 14, 2011 (ShapeShiftas.com) -- On the Saturday of Irene, I posted a picture of this pillow, called The Eye of the Hurricane, on the ShapeShiftas' Facebook page, with the caption, "This one's ...
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Another ‘Symbolic Victory’: Abbas’ New Political Gambit (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 22, 2011 -- When Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas decided to go to the United Nations to request the admission of Palestine as a full member, he ...
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Moral Bankruptcy: Wll U.S. Veto Palestine? (Jim Miles)
Sept. 19, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- This week at the UN -- if the U.S. push to disable the process does not succeed -- a vote will be taken on Palestinian statehood. The United States has ...
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The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama’s Fall From Grace (Chris Hedges)
Sept. 19, 2011 (Truthdig) -- Barack Obama’s politically expedient decision to betray and abandon his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, exposed his cowardice and moral bankruptcy. In that moment, ...
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The Rainmakers (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Sept. 19, 2011 -- This much can be stated categorically about the USA these days: the more distressed our economy gets, the more delusional thinking you ...
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The EU Debt Bubble: The Eurozone is Crumbling (Bob Chapman)
Sept. 18, 2011 (Global Research) -- There are those who make excuses for the Federal Reserve and for the European Central Bank as well. Both are controlled by the banking community and are only ...
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The $2 Billion UBS Incident: 'Rogue Trader' My Ass (Matt Taibbi)
The entrance to UBS headquarters in Zurich. FABRICE COFFRINI/AFP/Getty Images Sept. 15, 2011 (Rolling Stone) -- The news that a "rogue trader" (I hate that term -- more on that in a moment) has ...
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Record Arctic Ice Melt Threatens Global Security (Stephen Leahy)
This data visualisation from the Aqua satellite show the maximum sea ice extent for 2008-09. Credit:NASA Goddard's Scientific Visualization Studio Sept. 15, 2011 (Inter Press Service) -- All the ...
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SAT reading scores fall to lowest level on record (Justin Pope)
Sept. 14, 2011 (AP) -- SAT reading scores for the high school class of 2011 were the lowest on record, and combined reading and math scores fell to their lowest point since 1995. The College Board, ...
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Taking on Turkey: Israel’s ‘Dangerous’ Game (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Sept. 14, 2011 -- The UN Palmer Report, which largely exonerated Israel for murdering nine unarmed Turkish civilians in international waters May 31, 2010, seemed in ...
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Can We Stop the Next Fukushima Times 10,000? (Harvey Wasserman)
Sept. 13, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- The horrible news from Japan continues to be ignored by the western corporate media. Fukushima's radioactive fallout continues to spread throughout the ...
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