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New Home Sales Plunge to Lowest Level in 16 1/2 Years (Martin Crutsinger)
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sales of new homes plunged in March to the slowest pace in 16 1/2 years as a two-year housing downturn extended into the start of another spring sales season. The median price of a ...
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There is No Gas Shortage (Ed Wallace)
But Washington, Wall Street, and ethanol and oil and gas companies want you to think there is, says automotive expert Ed Wallace
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Business As Usual (John Michael Greer)
(Archdruid Report) -- Those of us who are watching the crisis of industrial society arrive on schedule take our omens where we find them, and one appeared yesterday morning in the unlikely form of ...
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How Hillary Can Knock-Out Obama (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
(World News Trust) -- Now is the time for Hilary Clinton to take a bold position that in one brilliant, courageous stroke shows the nation that she is more willing to pursue true reforms of the ...
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Thank God for Howard Dean (Mary Lyon)
(World News Trust) -- After watching Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama slug it out and beat each other up, there is one name that shines for me and still gives me hope. It's neither of the above. ...
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Food Rationing Confronts Breadbasket of the World (Josh Gerstein)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (The Sun) -- Many parts of America, long considered the breadbasket of the world, are now confronting a once unthinkable phenomenon: food rationing.
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Blind Spot (James Kunstler)
(Clusterfuck Nation) -- I happened to be flying into Minneapolis the very day that Northwest Airlines announced its merger with Delta -- Delta to be the more senior (more equal) partner -- in ...
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Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand (David Barstow)
In the summer of 2005, the Bush administration confronted a fresh wave of criticism over Guantanamo Bay. The detention center had just been branded “the gulag of our times” by Amnesty International, ...
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California Unemployment Hits 6.2%; Worse than Ohio, Pennsylvania (Marc Lifsher)
SACRAMENTO — California's unemployment rate rose by a whopping half a percentage point in March, reaching 6.2% as a weakening economy shed jobs in the ailing construction and financial activities ...
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Fed Sees Weakening US Economy, Rising Prices (Reuters)
(Reuters) -- Economic conditions are weakening across much of the United States at the same time food, fuel and raw material prices are increasing, the Federal Reserve said.
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The Most Powerful People in America (Joel S. Hirschhorn)
(World News Trust) -- They are not the rich and superrich, nor the politically powerful running the two-party plutocracy, nor the greedy heads of banking and finance companies, and certainly not the ...
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