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Singing the Vegetable Opera (James Kunstler)
March 5, 2007 -- The jive-finance economy had a few acidic burps last week -- or, at least, thats how it may seem in the days ahead as the equity markets finally upchuck the toxic notional junk ...
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Asian Stocks Extend Global Drop on U.S. Growth Concern (Stuart Kelly & Makiko Suzuki)
Asian stocks tumbled, extending a global selloff that wiped at least $1.5 trillion from the value of global equities, on concern U.S. growth will stall.
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In The Reign Of The One-Nutted King... (Joe Bageant)
...janked rats cried for blood as the prosthetic hand of love waved goodbye to reason
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Judge Orders 2 Papers to Remove Stories from Web Sites (Associated Press)
A judge has ordered two Kansas City newspapers to remove articles about an area utility from their Web sites and temporarily barred the papers from publishing the story.
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Board of Public Utilities of Kansas City, Kan., document details possible clean-air violations
At least 15 projects and upgrades at power plants operated by the Board of Public Utilities of Kansas City, Kan., may have violated federal clean air laws, according to a confidential BPU document.
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A Primeval Tide of Toxins (Kenneth R. Weiss)
Runoff from modern life is feeding an explosion of primitive organisms. This rise of slime, as one scientist calls it, is killing larger species and sickening people.
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Hezbollah Rearms, Raising Risk of Reigniting War With Israel (Janine Zacharia)
Six months after a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militia is rearming, raising the specter that even a small border skirmish might trigger another war.
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Goldman, Merrill Almost `Junk,' Their Own Traders Say (Shannon D. Harrington)
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Merrill Lynch & Co. and Morgan Stanley, which earned a record $24.5 billion in 2006, suddenly have become so speculative that their own traders are valuing the three ...
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Real ID Act postponed two years (Nicole Gaouette)
The 2005 law requiring new drivers licenses now to take effect in 2009.
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Texas oilman Pickens says global oil production at its peak (Jim Krane
Legendary Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens sees todays stubbornly high oil price as evidence that daily global production capacity is at -- or very near -- its peak.
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The Peak Oil Crisis: The 4 Facets of Peak Oil (Tom Whipple)
Looming just over the horizon are four great storms that soon will have a major impact on nearly all the world’s peoples and their descendents for decades to come. We know these storms are coming, ...
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