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Nine Billion Little Feet on the Highway of the Damned -- Are we there yet Pa? (Joe Bageant)
Joe Bageant -- World News Trust -- HOPKINS VILLAGE, Belize -- The din of squealing, laughing children is the background white noise of the Third World. In Belize, as in most of the Third World, 45 ...
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The Dilemma (Mary Lyon)
Mary Lyon, From The Left -- World News Trust -- Feb. 6, 2008 -- It's the Feast of St. Agatha, virgin martyr from the early days of Christianity. It falls on Super Duper Tuesday this year.
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Service sector surprisingly weak in January (Greg Robb)
The non-manufacturing side of the U.S. economy, which had been the firmest pillar of the economic expansion, buckled in January, according to data reported Tuesday by the Institute for Supply ...
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ISM Services Index Fell More Than Forecast in January (Shobhana Chandra)
Shobhana Chandra -- Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. service industries unexpectedly shrank in January at the fastest pace since the last recession as the housing slump deepened and consumer spending ...
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FBI wants palm prints, eye scans, tattoo mapping (Kelly Arena, Carol Cratty)
The FBI is gearing up to create a massive computer database of people's physical characteristics, all part of an effort the bureau says to better identify criminals and terrorists.
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Avoid another subprime mess (Derek DeCloet)
Investment banking is a great business. The hours are inhuman and the job can be murder on family life; once, near the end of a long boom, a mergers specialist admitted to me that he'd been home for ...
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Three Nights in Philly (Joe Bageant)
Skinned goats, phantom love and the providence of prostitutes Joe Bageant -- World News Trust -- A fellow expatriate told me recently when I left Belize, Central America, which I now consider my ...
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US Invasion And Occupation Killed One Million In Iraq (AFP)
More than one million Iraqis dead since 2003 invasion: study
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Subprime, CDO Bank Losses May Exceed $265 Billion (Shenn, Mildenbank)
Losses from securities linked to subprime mortgages may exceed $265 billion as regional U.S. banks, credit unions and overseas financial institutions write down the value of their holdings, ...
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The Great Credit Unwind Of 2008 (Mike Whitney)
"The current crisis is not only the bust that follows the housing boom, it’s basically the end of a 60-year period of continuing credit expansion based on the dollar as the reserve currency. Now the ...
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Ex-9/11 Panel Chief Denies Secret White House Ties (Justin Rood)
Book Charges Zelikow May Have Interfered With the 9/11 Commission's Report
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