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The editorial seen around the world | Mark Leon Goldberg
A version of the same editorial calling for action in Copenhagen ran in 56 newspapers in 45 countries today. Many on the front page. This unprecedented effort was spearheaded by the Guardian. Good ...
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Americans Toss Out 40 Percent of All Food | Robert Roy Britt
Nov. 26, 2009 (LiveScience.com) -- U.S. residents are wasting food like never before. While many Americans feast on turkey and all the fixings today, a new study finds food waste per person has shot ...
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Eliot Spitzer: Geithner, Bernanke 'Complicit' in Financial Crisis and Should Go | Amy Goodman
Dec. 4, 2009 (Democracy Now) -- In an extended interview, we speak with former New York governor Eliot Spitzer about the financial crisis and how it was handled by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben ...
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YouTube Launches Channel For Citizen Journalists | Paul Bond
TV, online outlets can request, obtain video via new initiative Nov 17, 2009 (Hollywood Reporter) -- Celebrities beware: YouTube is making it even easier for anyone with a camera phone to turn your ...
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Scientist Says Warming Will 'Wipe Out Billions' If Political Leaders Fail To Act (Jenny Fyall)
Nov. 29, 2009 -- Most of the world's population will be wiped out if political leaders fail to agree a method of stopping current rates of global warming, one of the UK's most senior climate ...
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Goldman/AIG Conspiracy Theories: There’s a Reason They Won’t Go Away (Thomas Adams)
Note: this post is by Thomas Adams, at Paykin Krieg and Adams, LLP, and a former managing director at Ambac and FGIC, with some minor additions by yours truly. This is a significant piece of some ...
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Still Doing God’s Work on Wall Street (Robert Sheer)
Nov. 25, 2009 (TruthDig) -- Jail, anyone? Perhaps that’s too harsh, and at any rate premature, but is anyone ever going to be held accountable for the behind-the-scenes sweetheart deals that passed ...
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Wickedness Abides (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust "While Dubai is not big enough to set off financial repercussions outside the Middle East, the main fear is that investors could flee risky markets all at ...
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Courting Convulsion (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 23, 2009 -- How infantile is American society? Last night's CBS "Business Update" (in the midst of its "60 Minutes" program) featured three items: 1.) ...
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BOOKS: A Choice of Enemies - America Confronts the Middle East, By Lawrence Freedman (Jim Miles)
A Choice of Enemies -- America Confronts the Middle East. Lawrence Freedman. Anchor Canada (Random House). 2009. Nov. 17, 2009 -- The subtitle to this text carries an interesting choice of active ...
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The Fate of the Yeast People (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 16, 2009 -- Every time I do a Q and A after a college lecture, somebody says (with a fanfare of indignation) -- so as to reveal their own brilliance in ...
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