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Bear's Storm -- Owsley Stanley
Owsley Stanley bronze cast belt buckle(Editor's Note: Owsley Stanley died Sunday in a car accident in his home country of Australia. Stanley helped out as an advisor to the World News Trust project ...
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Japan's multiple crises deepen (Shinichi Saoshiro and Chisa Fujioka)
Japan braces for potential radiation catastrophe Mar. 16, 2011 -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan raced to avert a catastrophe Wednesday after an explosion at a quake-crippled nuclear power plant sent ...
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Japan braces for potential radiation catastrophe (Taiga Uranaka and Ki Joon Kwon)
Mar. 15, 2011 -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -- Japan faced potential catastrophe Tuesday after a quake-crippled nuclear power plant exploded and sent low levels of radiation floating toward Tokyo, ...
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BOJ Fails to Contain Investor Panic as Nuclear Danger Rises (Keiko Ujikane and Mayumi Otsuma)
Mar. 15, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- The Bank of Japan’s step to provide short-term liquidity and expand an asset-purchase program failed to contain investor panic today as the risk of nuclear radiation ...
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Humanitarian crisis deepens in Japan (Yoko Kubota)
Millions of people in Japan are spending a fourth night without water, food or heating, as tens of thousands of rescue workers struggle to reach them Mar. 15, 2011 -- RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Reuters) ...
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Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand (Chris Hedges)
Mar. 14, 2011 (TruthDig) -- The liberal class is discovering what happens when you tolerate the intolerant. Let hate speech pollute the airways. Let corporations buy up your courts and state and ...
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Rock Me on the Water (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Mar. 14, 2011 -- There was Japan, standing quietly offstage all these years, minding its own business, more or less -- though unwinding financially and ...
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Worker Uprising: Up to 185,000 Protest in Madison as Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Signs Union-Busting Bill (Democracy Now)
Mar. 14, 2011 (Democracy Now) -- In Wisconsin, more than 100,000 people filled the streets of Madison Saturday in what what has been described as the state’s largest protest ever. The massive rally ...
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We Americans Better Damn Well... Beware (Gregory Crawford)
Mar. 13, 2011 (World News Trust) -- Recent efforts by Republican politicians to eliminate federal funding of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have focused on NPR’s supposed “liberal bias.” In ...
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Let me remind you of something crucial when it comes to nuclear power incidents and accidents: They lie (MadHound)
Mar. 13, 2011 (Democratic Underground) -- People lie. When it comes to nuclear incidents and accidents, plant owners, government officials, and the media lie. If they can't cover up an incident, ...
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Japan scrambles to avert nuclear meltdown (Taiga Uranaka and Ki Joon Kwon)
Mar. 13, 2011 -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -- Japan fought on Sunday to avert a disastrous meltdown at two earthquake-crippled nuclear reactors as estimates of the death toll from the tsunami that ...
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