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Wall Street Grain Hoarding Brings Farmers, Consumers Near Ruin (Jeff Wilson)
April 28 (Bloomberg) -- As farmers confront mounting costs and riots erupt from Haiti to Egypt over food, Garry Niemeyer is paying the price for Wall Street's speculation in grain markets.
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Monster of Ambition (James Kunstler)
(Clusterfuck Nation) -- I was pretty disturbed eight years ago when Hillary Clinton up and announced she was running for a New York seat in the U.S Senate. Say what? She didn't even live here after ...
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Preparing For What Future? (John Michael Greer)
(Archdruid Report) -- Last week’s Archdruid Report post, as my regular readers will recall, tried to point out that the current round of price spikes in food and petroleum prices does not justify ...
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The Suffering of Soldiers (NYT Editorial)
Several years into a pair of wars, the Department of Veterans Affairs is struggling to cope with a task for which it was tragically unready: the care of soldiers who left Afghanistan and Iraq with ...
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Goodbye To Our Dearest Love (T.P. McWhorter)
Today I answered a call and it was friend from the USA. He sounded somewhat different than from when we last spoke and I asked him if everything was alright. He said he was going to be ok, but then ...
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Analysis: Good Economic News Something of a Mirage (Jeanine Aversa)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The unemployment rate drops. Productivity grows. The trade deficit shrinks. Sounds great, right? Not so fast. Borrowing radio broadcaster Paul Harvey's signature saying: let's hear ...
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Who Here Finds It Hard to Eat a Good Meal These Days? (T. Scheisskopf)
What about filling the gas tank, the heating oil tank, paying the electric bill or affording that airline ticket when you really have to get somewhere? Who here is having problems finding a job that ...
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Laws Under Lock and Key (Sen. Russ Feingold)
The Bush administration recently announced it will allow select members of Congress to read Justice Department legal opinions about the CIA's controversial detainee interrogation program that have ...
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Food vs. Fuel a Global Myth (Robert Zufrin, Gal Luft)
In recent weeks, a flood of reports and statements has claimed that the world's biofuel programs—in particular the U.S. corn ethanol effort—is starving poor people around the globe. Even the UN's ...
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Special Counsel Shut Down Probe of Siegelman Case Last Year (Ben Evans)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Office of Special Counsel last year shut down a previously undisclosed investigation into the federal prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, according to an ...
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Lawyers for Guantánamo Inmates Accuse U.S. of Eavesdropping (William Glaberson)
One lawyer for Guantanamo detainees said he replaced his office telephone in Washington because of sounds that convinced him it had been bugged. Another lawyer who represents detainees said he ...
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