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The Audacity of Depression -- Joe Bageant
Joe Bageant at Innies CafeRage fatigue, plastic dirt and happy hour in techno-totalitarian America Joe Bageant -- World News Trust April 3, 2008 One of the best things about the hundred or so book ...
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Research debunks health value of guzzling water (Will Dunham)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The notion that guzzling glasses of water to flood yourself with good health is all wet, researchers said on Wednesday.
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NY Fed Bank Chairman Says Officials Must 'Act Forcefully' To Stem Crisis (Craig Torres)
April 3 (Bloomberg) -- New York Federal Reserve Bank President Timothy Geithner said capital markets are still ``substantially impaired'' and policy makers and financial industry leaders must ``act ...
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Net Energy and Jevons' Paradox (John Michael Greer)
(Archdruid Report) -- As last week’s Archdruid Report post suggested, a difficult paradox lies in wait for attempts to bail industrial society out of its peak oil predicament by bringing new energy ...
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Rice Jumps to Record, Corn Near High as Demand Outpaces Supply (Glenys Sim)
April 3 (Bloomberg) -- Rice climbed to a record and corn traded near its highest ever on speculation the 3 percent annual increase in global demand for cereals will outstrip supply as governments ...
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The Audacity of Depression -- Joe Bageant
Joe BageantJoe Bageant -- World News Trust April 2, 2008 Rage fatigue, plastic dirt, and happy hour in techno-totalitarian America One of the best things about the hundred or so book festivals in ...
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Political Ponerology: A Science of Evil Applied for Political Purposes (Dale Tavris MD, MPH)
(World News Trust) -- I define evil as the exercise of political power -– that is, the imposition of one’s will upon others by overt or covert coercion -– in order to avoid extending one’s self for ...
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Bernanke Says U.S. Economy May Contract `Slightly' (Scott Lanman)
April 2 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke acknowledged for the first time that the economy may contract as homebuilding weakens further, unemployment rises and consumer ...
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ACLU: Military skirting law to spy (Larry Neumeister)
NEW YORK — The U.S. military is using the FBI to skirt legal restrictions on domestic surveillance to obtain private records of Americans' Internet service providers, financial institutions and ...
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A 'perfect storm' of hunger (Edmund Sanders and Tracy Wilkinson)
The U.N.'s World Food Program is struggling as costs of food and fuel skyrocket while the numbers of people needing help surge across the globe. Millions are in danger. April 2, 2008 -- KHARTOUM, ...
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IMF Cuts Global Forecast on Worst Crisis Since 1930s (Shamim Adam)
April 2 (Bloomberg) -- The International Monetary Fund cut its forecast for global growth this year and said there's a 25 percent chance of a world recession, citing the worst financial crisis in ...
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