1. Taking Evolution Seriously (John Michael Greer)

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2. Looking for Roong Thisdara (John Michael Greer)

  Nov. 26, 2008 (Archdruid Report) -- There have been many times, during the two and a half years I’ve been writing posts for The Archdruid Report, when I’ve found myself staring at a blank computer screen of a Wednesday morning, wondering what on Earth I can say that my readers might find even remotely interesting. Happily, such times have been scarce this November. A passing reference, in my post two weeks ago, to my dissatisfaction with a presentation on the Transition Town movement brought a flurry of comments asking me to say more about that; I did so last week, and fielded another flurry of comments as well as some lively critiques on other blogs.

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3. The Party's Over as US Government Seizes Control of Citigroup Expenses (James Doran)

Thursday 1 January 2009 20.52 GMT-- The US government has seized control of Citigroup's staff Christmas party budget and set tight restrictions on the use of its corporate jet in exchange for its $45bn (£28bn) bail-out.

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4. HSBC and Credit Suisse drawn into US tax probe (Katherine Griffiths)

  HSBC and Credit Suisse have been pulled into a US investigation into whether banks helped customers illegally avoid paying tax, according to a report

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5. Goldman’s 10-Q raises questions about its transfer pricing (Ronald Fink)

Lawmaker claims bank is ‘hiding’ TARP money offshore

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6. AIG’s offshore strategies hide a scam (Lucy Komisar)

 

NEW YORK—The company getting the biggest US bailout operated a scam to help clients cheat on US taxes, regulators say. It is AIG, American International Group, the world’s largest insurance conglomerate.

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7. Global Systemic Crisis --.New Tipping-Point In March 2009 (LEAP/E2020)

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8. Unemployment Filings Reach 26-Year High (Annya Shin)

Wednesday, December 24, 2008; 10:26 AM- The number of people filing for unemployment benefits hit a 26-year high last week, as the deepening recession forced more employers to cut jobs.

 

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9. Mass Grave Plundered at Site of Taleban Prisoners’ Massacre (Tom Coghlan)

December 24, 2008- The Afghan Government has called on Nato troops to guard an alleged war crimes site that has been plundered and as many as 2,000 bodies apparently removed.

 

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10. Lehman's Rise and Fall (Sinclair Stewart, Paul Waldie)

Long before it became the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, Lehman Brothers dove into the nascent market for high-risk home loans aimed at a vulnerable part of U.S. society. In the second part of a special investigation, Report on Business examines how Lehman's ties to the 'unethical' business spelled disaster for the company and helped ignite the deepest economic crisis in decades

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11. Regulator Let Bank Backdate Its Books (Jessica Holzer)

December 23, 2008- WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department's inspector general is probing the Office of Thrift Supervision for permitting a backdated capital infusion into IndyMac Bancorp a few months before its collapse in July.

 

 

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12. How It All Began (Sinclair Stewart, Paul Waldie)

Black Monday, Sept. 15., will be remembered by a generation as the day the great recession that is now strangling the global economy became inevitable. On that day, the U.S. government made the fateful decision to allow Lehman Bros. to fail. But the catastrophe unleashed by Lehman's collapse has far-reaching roots

 

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13. Madoff Failure Shows Oversight ‘Flawed,’ Levitt Says (Ken Prewitt, Tom Keane)

Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Bernard Madoff’s ability to avoid scrutiny from U.S. regulators for years shows that the monitoring system is “broken and has to be fixed,” former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Arthur Levitt said. 

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14. U.S. 'Not Getting What We Pay For' (Ceci Conolly)

Many Experts Say Health-Care System Inefficient, Wasteful

 

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15. Air Car? Why Not in The USA? Can You Power a Car on Air?(Videos)

Air-Powered Automobiles are a reality. Powered by compressed air. This is quite compelling stuff in this video.

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16. Obama Revitalizes Disaster Capitalism: The Shock Doctrine Receives A Make-Over (Carolyn Baker)

  Dec. 1, 2008 (Truth To Power) -- Since many months before the November election, Truth to Power has been researching and informing readers regarding the fundamental underpinnings of Barack Obama's agenda and his likely appointments in the areas of economic, foreign policy, and energy issues. Not only have I written several pieces on the topic, so have a variety of other researchers. In reviewing our reporting, what has remained consistent and therefore validates it, is Obama's adherence to neoliberal, globalist policies couched in the rhetoric of "change" but offering no substantial departure from the ultimate strategies of imperialism, corporate capitalist supremacy, and almost total ignorance (or ignore-ance) of the energy and environmental suicide perpetuated by endless growth.

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17. AT&T Plans to Reduce 12,000 Jobs, Spending as Slump Deepens (Amy Thomson)

Dec. 4 (Bloomberg) -- AT&T Inc., the largest U.S. phone company, will cut 12,000 jobs and reduce spending next year, striving to become leaner as the U.S. economy falters. 

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18. OPEC Failure Foretells Decline 10 Years After $10 Oil (Anthony DiPaola, Mark Shenk)

Dec. 1 (Bloomberg) -- A decade after OPEC failed to prevent oil from collapsing to $10 a barrel, the world’s biggest producers are delaying actions needed to arrest the steepest slide in energy prices. 

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19. Americans' Food Stamp Use Nears All-Time High (Jane Black)

Wednesday, November 26, 2008- Fueled by rising unemployment and food prices, the number of Americans on food stamps is poised to exceed 30 million for the first time this month, surpassing the historic high set in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina.

 

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20. TOON: Happy Thanksgiving From All The Children Of Iraq (Mr. Fish)

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21. VIDEO: Thanksgiving Prayer (William S. Burroughs)

This poem resonates today as exposing what has gone horribly wrong in the USA, or maybe what has always been wrong. This is a short film by Gus Van Sant of Mr. Burroughs reading his poem called Thanksgiving Day Nov. 28, 1986.

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22. Volcker will head new Obama board (Mike Allen)

  Nov. 26, 2008 (Politico) -- President-elect Barack Obama on Wednesday will announce the creation of a president’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, chaired by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, to provide outside advice from heavyweight thinkers, officials said.

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23. Bush Labor Department misled Congress in effort to privatize jobs (John Byrne)

  Nov. 25, 2008 (Raw Story) -- President George W. Bush's Labor Department misled Congress in an effort to prove outsourcing jobs to private companies was more efficient than assigning the jobs to government employees, according to a Government Accountability Office report released Monday.

 

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24. Bernanke Says He Erred in Gauging Mortgage Fallout (AP)

  Nov. 23, 2008 -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke acknowledges he was wrong in believing that there would be limited fallout to financial markets from risky mortgages that soured after the housing market's collapse.

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25. Bracing the Satellite Infrastructure for a Solar Superstorm (Sten F. Odenwald and James L. Green)

  A recurrence of the 1859 solar superstorm would be a cosmic Katrina, causing billions of dollars of damage to satellites, power grids and radio communications

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26. 5 Myths About Our Ailing Health-Care System (Shannon Brownlee, Ezekiel Emanuel)

With Congress ready to spend $700 billion to prop up the U.S. economy, enacting health-care reform may seem about as likely as the Dow hitting 10,000 again before the end of the year. But it may be more doable than you think, provided we dispel a few myths about how health care works and how much reform Americans are willing to stomach.

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27. Premature Triumphalism (John Michael Greer)

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28. Facing Peak Oil in Motown (John Michael Greer)

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29. Halliburton Investigations Continue (Margie Burns)

  Dec. 1 (Progressive Populist) -- Somewhat off the radar screen in recent weeks, the Department of Justice is quietly continuing to investigate major military contractor Halliburton and its spin-off company KBR. Halliburton is the giant oilfield services company where Vice President Dick Cheney was CEO before joining the 2000 Republican ticket with George W. Bush. The investigation has borne fruit. On Sept. 3, in US District Court in Houston, the feds filed a plea agreement with Albert Jackson “Jack” Stanley, the former chairman and CEO of KBR. Stanley pled guilty to bribing Nigerian officials in oil commerce.

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30. CORRECTION: Shape An Obama Cabinet We Can Believe In (Bill Moyer)

CORRECTION: WRONG PHOTO -- World News Trust inadvertantly included a photo of PBS journalist Bill Moyers when this story was first posted.  Backbone Campaign director Bill Moyer is someone else. We regret any confusion this may have caused.  --Francis Goodwin, World News Trust managing editor.

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