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Wednesday, 01 July 2009
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Senator Edward Kennedy's health committee released a health care reform plan that offers a government-run insurance program option, with an annual fee on companies with more than 25 employees that don't provide health coverage.
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Monday, 29 June 2009
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One might be tempted to dismiss the recent findings of the US State Department on human trafficking as largely political. But do not be too hasty.
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 Monday, 29 June 2009
June 19, 2009 (Commodity Online) -- The
world faces “mass starvation” following North America's next major crop
failure. And it could even happen before year's end. So says
Chicago-based Don Coxe, who is one of the world's leading experts on
agricultural commodities, so much so that Canada's renowned BMO
Financial Group named the fund after him.
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 Monday, 29 June 2009
The U.S. health care system is unbelievably inefficient, providing far
less effective health care for what is incredibly high costs, compared
to all other industrialized countries. The main reason is the private
health insurance industry.
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 Monday, 29 June 2009
June 27, 2009 -- Doom-mongers have got it wrong - there is enough space in the world to produce the extra food
needed to feed a growing population. And contrary to expectation, most
of it can be grown in Africa, say two international reports.
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 Monday, 29 June 2009
June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Bernard Madoff told a federal judge
he had no excuses before a judge sentenced him to 150 years for
masterminding the largest Ponzi scheme in history.
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 Monday, 29 June 2009
June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Investors are moving in lockstep
like never before, driving up stocks, commodities and emerging
markets and risking a replay of last year, when they all plunged
the most since World War II.
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 Monday, 29 June 2009
Interview with Jane Burgermeister, a science journalist who has filed
criminal charges against the World Health Organization, U.S. officials and
business executives. She alleges that the H1N1 “swine flu” pandemic is a hoax
designed to sell vaccines.
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 Monday, 29 June 2009
America is "the man in the mirror,"
the gigantic, floundering Narcissus, sailing into the stormy seas of
history.
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 Wednesday, 24 June 2009
June 24 (Bloomberg) -- The Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development raised its forecast for the economy
of its 30 member nations for the first time in two years as the
U.S. slump shows signs of easing.
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 Monday, 22 June 2009
The U.S. economic situation is going to get a lot worse.
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 Saturday, 20 June 2009
Public Plans Dominate our Health System so why the fuss over a proposed new public plan?
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 Saturday, 20 June 2009
The
election victory of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is likely to
complicate U.S. President Barack Obama's new approach to his country's
conflict with Iran.
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 Thursday, 18 June 2009
June 18 (Bloomberg) -- Polar ice caps are melting faster
and oceans are rising more than the United Nations projected
just two years ago, 10 universities said in a report suggesting
that climate change has been underestimated.
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 Thursday, 18 June 2009
It will be up us, just like it always has been... the writer, the
Nicuaraguan janitor, the forty-year-old family man forced to bag
groceries at Walmart, the pizza delivery guy, the welder and the
certified nurse... the long haul trucker and the short order cook. And
they will snicker at us from their gilded roosts on Wall Street and
Pennsylvania Avenue.
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 Monday, 15 June 2009
The Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) is perhaps the
only surviving collective intelligence left in the United States that
is producing ideas consistent with reality.
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 Monday, 15 June 2009
Public opinion polls released in the United States revealed that, by a
substantial percentage, its citizens believe torture is an acceptable
option for interrogation of suspects deemed terrorists by various U.S.
governmental agencies.
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June 12, 2009 (World News Trust) -- Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) may yet turn out to be a "good guy" -- the addition of "national" to the "health care insurance cooperatives" may well make them almost effective. The details as to who runs the "national" and under what rules makes all the difference.
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Sometimes having hope in a place like Gaza
becomes more of a liability than a lifeline
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Mr. Obama
should not waste another week pretending that we can keep this old
system going. The public needs to know that we will be making our
livings differently, inhabiting the landscape differently, and spending
our days and nights differently -- even while we suffer our losses.
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We should oppose a fake
reform that fails to include a genuine public option. The let down of
no bill will be less than the let down of a GOP plan passed by
Democrats.
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June 8, 2009 -- pattrice jones is an ecofeminist educator,
activist, and writer. She is the author of Aftershock: Confronting
Trauma in a Violent World: A Guide for Activists and Their Allies
and co-founder of the Eastern Shore Sanctuary and Education Center.
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If
Obama continues to approach Arabs and Muslims as one single collective,
ready to be manipulated and wooed with bogus promises, fancy rhetoric
and impressive body language, then he will surely be disappointed.
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A CNN headline,
reporting Obama's plans for his June 4 Cairo address, reads "Obama
looks to reach the soul of the Muslim world." Perhaps that captures his
intent, but more significant is the content hidden in the rhetorical
stance, or more accurately, omitted.
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On this day of remembering,
I recall my heritage and the parts of it I need to remember that can
serve me well as collapse unfolds.
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Humans have tinkered with the natural world
since we appeared on the evolutionary stage. Our days may be numbered:
As the home team, Nature bats last.
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When the
world steps out of a sixty-year old referential framework
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Among other things, collapse is asking us to grow up, to become initiated elders and thereby guide humanity in a revolutionary new direction.
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This is probably the most important book review I've ever written because A Presidential Energy Policy is unquestionably the most crucial book for anyone aware of the collapse of civilization, which is well underway, to read and understand. It is second only to Mike's first masterpiece, Crossing The Rubicon: The Decline of The American Empire at The End of The Age of Oil (2004).
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June 12, 2009 (Washington Post) -- The global economy is set to shrink this year more than previously
expected, according to a forecast issued yesterday by the World Bank.
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World Health Organization raising swine flu alert to highest level. Its First Global Flu Epidemic In 41 Years.
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Tens of millions of people will be displaced by climate change in coming
years, posing social, political and security problems of an unprecedented
dimension.
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June 8, 2009 -- Giant jellyfish like this one are
taking over parts of the world's oceans as overfishing and other human
activities open windows of opportunity for them to prosper, say
researchers.
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June 9 (Bloomberg) -- The Wall Street firms that trade
directly with the Federal Reserve say speculators betting that
interest rates may head higher this year are wrong.
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June 9 (Bloomberg) -- Pacific Investment Management Co.,
which runs the world's biggest bond fund, said the economic
outlook “looks bad” for most of the world and central banks
will refrain from raising interest rates.
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