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Bacteria That Eat Waste & Shit Petrol (Koert van Mensvoort)
Silicon Valley is experimenting with bacteria that have been genetically altered to provide ‘renewable petroleum’.
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U.S. Loses 62,000 Jobs, Jobless Rate Holds at 5.5% (Bob Willis)
July 3 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. employers cut jobs in June for a sixth consecutive month as soaring fuel prices and a slowing economy forced companies to reduce costs.
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Whistle-Blower: Feds Have a Backdoor Into Wireless Carrier -- Congress Reacts (Kevin Poulsen)
A U.S. government office in Quantico, Virginia, has direct, high-speed access to a major wireless carrier's systems, exposing customers' voice calls, data packets and physical movements to ...
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China Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo (Scott Shane)
WASHINGTON — The military trainers who came to Guantanamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of “coercive management techniques” for possible use ...
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President Bush Boosts Porn Industry With Economic Stimulus Plan, According to AIMRCo (Kirk Mishkin)
NEW YORK, July 2 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- An unforeseen and surprising beneficiary of the Economic Stimulus Plan, a plan that George Bush contends will "boost our economy and encourage job ...
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The Sacred McCow (Mary Lyon)
(World News Trust) -- I guess this is proof, after a fashion, that the war has indeed followed us home. Some of our leading veterans-turned-political-warriors, from John McCain to Wesley Clark and ...
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Global Warming's Twin Evil: Wildfires and Drought (Dr. Reese Halter)
(AlterNet) -- The hundreds of fires hitting California right now are a wake-up call to both government and California residents: we're unprepared for a rapid climate change crackling at our ...
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June Job Cuts in U.S. Up 47% From Year Ago, Challenger Says (Timothy R. Homan)
July 2 (Bloomberg) -- Job cuts announced by U.S. employers increased last month, led by reductions at financial-service companies stemming from the collapse in mortgage lending, according to a ...
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Overdue U.S. Home-Equity Credit Lines Rise Most Since 1987 (Hugh Son)
July 2 (Bloomberg) -- Consumers fell behind on loans secured by their homes at the fastest pace in two decades in the first quarter, signaling deeper distress in the U.S. economy, the American ...
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North Korea Smackdown -- How The "Dear Leader" Blackmailed Bush (Mike Whitney)
June 30, 2008 (Information Clearing House) -- After seven years of nonstop belligerence and saber rattling, the Bush administration has given North Korea everything it has demanded. In return, the ...
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The Toddler King's Insufferable Reign is Doomed (Jason Miller)
(World News Trust) -- Both George Bush and Dick Cheney have emphatically proclaimed the American Way of Life as “non-negotiable.” As hard as it may be for the feeble-minded, deluded, conscienceless, ...
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