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Constitutional Rubbish (Joel Hirschhorn)
If prominent people tell a lie enough times, again, and again, and again, then the public lie becomes accepted fact, a cultural myth. So it is with the three coequal branches of government lie. It ...
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Bad Collateral (James Kunstler)
There is a whiff of revolution in the American air for the first time, really, since 1861. A lot of reasonable people see a good chance that our society will sink into disorder if these trends ...
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Pakistan: Half a Million Refugees as Fighting Continues in Swat (Jeremy Hammond)
Pakistani military officials have said that the number of civilians who have fled fighting in Pakistan has reached 1.3 million. A figure of more than half a million who have been registered has been ...
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Decoupling From Reality (James Kunstler)
It's not just the stock markets that have decoupled from reality as we enjoy the fragrant vapors of spring -- it's the entire conscious consensus of everybody holding the levers of power and ...
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The Bottom (James Kunstler)
Personally, I think a lot of good things await us, but not the ones we're expecting.
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The Joker (James Kunstler)
If the flu is the real deal, it will surely drive a stake through the faintly-beating heart of that invalid global economy, and possibly even continental-scaled economies like the United States, the ...
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Rule of Law Vetoed by President Obama (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
April 22, 2009 (World News Trust) -- There are no headlines or pontificating pundits, but the real news that has become crystal clear to any but the most delusional and distracted Americans is that ...
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Housing Bubble Smackdown: Bigger Crash Ahead | Mike Whitney
Huge "shadow inventory" Mike Whitney -- Global Research April 21, 2009 -- Due to the lifting of the foreclosure moratorium at the end of March, the downward slide in housing is gaining speed. The ...
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Note: Hope = Truth (James Kunstler)
We would be so much better off simply fixing up and reactivating the normal-speed track system that is sitting out there rusting in the rain -- and save our more grandiose visions for a later time
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Fed's Fisher Forecasts Steep Contraction in US GDP (Nipa Piboontanasawat)
April 14, 2009 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher said “grim” figures indicate the world’s largest economy shrank steeply last quarter. “The economic data in the ...
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The Coming Siege of Austerity (James Kunstler)
So many forces are arrayed against a return to the previous "normal" that we will be lucky, in another eighteen months, to still find ourselves speaking English and celebrating Christmas
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