Economy
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Standard & Poor’s Puts ‘Negative’ Outlook on U.S. AAA Rating (Robert Burgess)
Apr. 18, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Standard & Poor’s put a “negative” outlook on the U.S. AAA credit rating, citing rising budget deficits and debt. “We believe there is a material risk that U.S. policy ...
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'No safe levels' of radiation in Japan (Dahr Jamail)
Experts warn that any detectable level of radiation is "too much." According to the US Department of Energy, no level of radiation is so low that it is without health risks Apr. 4, 2011 (Al Jazeera) ...
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Japan nuclear operator aims for cold shutdown in 6-9 months (Taiga Uranaka)
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese nuclear power plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) hopes it will be able to achieve cold shutdown of its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant within six to ...
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Class Warfare Scoreboard: Guess Who's Winning? (Mike Whitney)
Apr. 1, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- This has gotta' be a joke. According to a new report by the BEA, personal consumption expenditures (PCE) increased by $69 billion (7 percent), while ...
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The New Colonialism (Paul Craig Roberts)
Paul Craig Roberts Apr. 1, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- What we are observing in Libya is the rebirth of colonialism. Only this time it is not individual European governments competing for ...
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Global systemic crisis: Autumn 2011 -- Very Serious Breakdown Of The Economic, Financial And Monetary System (Leap/E2020)
Budget/T-Bonds/Dollar, The Three US Crises That Will Cause The Very Serious Breakdown Of The Global Economic, Financial And Monetary System April 16, 2011 -- Public announcement GEAB N°54 ...
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Inflation Hits Money and Lies (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
Apr. 16, 2011 -- How do the powerful keep the U.S. population dumb and distracted? A key tactic has been using methodologies that produce totally misleading underestimates of key economic factors. ...
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Emotional Resilience In Traumatic Times (Carolyn Baker)
Apr. 15, 2011 (Speaking Truth To Power) -- While mainstream media have been encouraging collective dithering over a possible U.S. government shutdown, the chilling realities of off-the-chart levels ...
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BOOKS: Monsoon - The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power. By Robert D. Kaplan (Jim Miles)
Monsoon - The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power. Robert D. Kaplan. Random House, New York, 2010 April 13, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- When I first read Robert Kaplan, it was shortly ...
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100 Reasons for Revolution (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust April 12, 2011 -- There comes a time when the Gordian knot must be cut, when the systems and processes that might have been used to correct the errors and ...
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Why Do People Hate John Maynard Keynes? (Mike Whitney)
John Maynard Keynes Apr. 9, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Anyone who spends time on the economics blogs knows that Keynes is blamed for everything from the Wall Street bailouts to ...
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