Economy
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Scott signs bill forcing drug tests on welfare recipients (Miami Herald)
May 31, 2011 (Miami Herald) -- Floridians will have to submit urine, blood or hair samples for drug testing before receiving cash benefits from the state, under a bill Gov. Rick Scott signed into ...
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Hail Caesar (Paul Craig Roberts)
June 2, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Although the financial press speculates about a downgrade of the U.S. government’s credit rating and default if political impasse prevents the debt ...
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Deluded, Greedy and Obese: 'The brightest and best' in one generation ravage their children's birthright (Steve Salmony)
June 1, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Perhaps it is not only our fate as elders to confront certain obviously emerging and rapidly converging global challenges, it may also be that we elders ...
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The Truth about the US Economy (Robert Reich)
May 31, 2011 (RobertReich.org) -- The U.S. economy continues to stagnate. It’s growing at the rate of 1.8 percent, which is barely growing at all. Consumer spending is down. Home prices are down. ...
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Offshoring has destroyed the economy (Paul Craig Roberts)
A Nobel Economist Says Globalism Is Costly For Americans May 31, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- These are discouraging times, but once in a blue moon a bit of hope appears. I am pleased to ...
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Is Fukushima Now 10 Chernobyls into the Sea? (Harvey Wasserman)
May 26, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- New readings show levels of radioisotopes found up to 30 kilometers offshore from the on-going crisis at Fukushima are 10 times higher than those measured in the ...
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New Leak Feared at Stricken Japan Nuclear Plant (Kiyoshi Takenaka and Yoko Nishikawa)
May 26, 2011 -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Radioactive water appears to be leaking from a waste disposal building at Japan's Fukushima nuclear complex, operator Tokyo Electric Power said Thursday, in a new ...
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VIDEO: Inside Job (2010) -- Full Movie (Charles Ferguson)
May 25, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- "Inside Job" provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to ...
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7 Ways to Stop Wall Street's Con Game (David Korten)
May 25, 2011 (YES! Magazine) -- Wikipedia defines a “confidence trick” as “an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence. The victim is known as the mark, the trickster is ...
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VIDEO: War & Revolutions: Europe and the Arab World (Empire)
May 23, 2011 (Empire) -- Empire travels across the continent's centres of power to examine European hypocrisy. efpkLal92Gs
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10 Steps to Defeat the Corporatocracy (Bruce E. Levine)
May 23, 2011 (AlterNet) -- Many Americans know that the United States is not a democracy but a "corporatocracy," in which we are ruled by a partnership of giant corporations, the extremely wealthy ...
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