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US Consumer Confidence At 16-Year Low; House Prices Slide (Shobhana Chandra & Timothy R. Homan)
June 24 (Bloomberg) -- Confidence among Americans dropped to the lowest level in 16 years and house prices fell the most on record, raising the risk that consumers will cut back on purchases after ...
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Drilling Off-Shore Is A “Crazy Thing†Says NASA Scientist James Hansen (Climate Progress)
(Climate Progress) -- Twenty years ago today, before he became America’s top climate scientist, NASA’s James Hansen was among the first to warn Congress and the nation about the dangerNs of ...
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Greenspan Says Market `Crisis' May Extend Into 2009 (Nasreen Seria and Scott Lanman)
June 24 (Bloomberg) -- Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said financial market turmoil may continue into next year, though Fed efforts in March to revive credit have reduced the ...
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NASA warming scientist: 'This is the last chance' (Seth Borenstein)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Exactly 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientist said the situation has gotten so bad that the world's only hope is drastic action.
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Speculators Are Largest U.S. Oil Contract Buyers (Tina Seeley)
June 23 (Bloomberg) -- Speculators became the largest players in oil futures markets, nearly doubling their share in the past eight years as prices rose to records, in a radical shift for the ...
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Shortages, Prices Hit California Food Banks as Schools Recess (Ryan Flinn)
June 23 (Bloomberg) -- Turning dozens of hungry children away from a free meals program wasn't how Vince Harper wanted to start the summer.
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Gas Could Fall to $2 if Congress Acts, Analysts Say (Rex Nutting, Michael Kitchen)
Limiting speculation would push prices to fundamental level, lawmakers told
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Penetration (James Kunstler)
(World News Trust) -- The telling moment last week was Robert Hirsch's appearance on the CNBC morning "Squawkbox" financial show in which he proposed the probability of $500-a-barrel oil within "a ...
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Sleepwalking to Fallujah -- Joe Bageant
Joe BageantJoe Bageant -- World News Trust April 28, 2004 Each workday I commute toward Washington, D.C. along Route 7, where patriotic war slogans are spray-painted on the overpasses, and homemade ...
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Gang Rape of the Black Community (Eran Reya)
June 20, 2007 (World News Trust) -- The June 22nd 2007 Florida home invasion and gang-Rape of a mother and son by ten teenagers illustrates the need for a radical restructuring of the Black male ...
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George Carlin mourned as a counterculture hero (Keith St. Clair)
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Acerbic standup comedian and satirist George Carlin, whose staunch defense of free speech in his most famous routine Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television led to a key ...
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