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9/11 Mind Swell (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Aug. 11, 2009 -- As we approach the eighth anniversary of 9/11 consider this paradox. In the post 9-11 years the scientific evidence for disbelieving the ...
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Chacaltaya’s glacier has gone (Dunx)
Chacaltaya's glacier Aug. 10, 2009 (SKUK) -- The 18,000 year old glacier that was home for more than 60 years to the world’s highest ski area, Chacaltaya in Bolivia, has now melted away completely ...
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Crisis and climate force supply chain shift (Richard Milne)
Aug. 9, 2009 -- AMSTERDAM (Financial Times) -- Manufacturers are abandoning global supply chains for regional ones in a big shift brought about by the financial crisis and climate change concerns, ...
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VIX Signals S&P 500 Swoon as September Approaches (Jeff Kearns and Michael Tsang)
Aug. 10 (Bloomberg) -- Options traders are increasing bets that the steepest rally in the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index since the 1930s won’t survive September, historically the worst month for U.S. ...
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Is the U.S. on the Brink of Fascism? (Sara Robinson)
Sara Robinson -- Campaign for America's Future Aug. 7, 2009 -- All through the dark years of the Bush Administration, progressives watched in horror as Constitutional protections vanished, nativist ...
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You Say Tomato, I Say Agricultural Disaster (Dan Barber)
Karen Barbour Aug. 9, 2009 -- TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (New York Times) -- If the hardship of growing vegetables and fruits in the Northeast has made anything clear, it’s that the list of what can go wrong ...
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Krugman says world avoided second Great Depression (Eileen Ng)
Paul Krugman Krugman says world avoided second Great Depression but real recovery will take time Aug. 10, 2009 -- KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Aggressive stimulus spending by governments helped ...
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The Health Insurers Have Already Won (Chad Terhune and Keith Epstein)
How UnitedHealth and rival carriers, maneuvering behind the scenes in Washington, shaped health-care reform for their own benefit Aug. 6, 2009 (Business Week) -- As the health reform fight shifts ...
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The Cheney-Like Secrecy of the Obama White House (John Nichols)
Aug. 9, 2009 (The Nation) -- Those of us who proposed the impeachment of Vice President Dick Cheney for violating his oath of office and engaging in a Nixon-on-steroids spree of high crimes and ...
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The Fog of Numbers (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler World News Trust There's something happenin' here What it is ain't exactly clear.... --Buffalo Springfield Aug. 10, 2009 -- One of main reasons behind the vast confusion now ...
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Entering the Greatest Depression in History (Andrew Gavin Marshall)
More Bubbles Waiting to Burst Global Research, Aug. 7, 2009 Introduction While there is much talk of a recovery on the horizon, commentators are forgetting some crucial aspects of the financial ...
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