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U.S. Michigan Consumer Sentiment Index Drops to 56.7 (Bob Willis & Steve Matthews)
June 13 (Bloomberg) -- Confidence among U.S. consumers fell to the lowest level since 1980 in June, hurt by record gasoline prices and a rising unemployment rate.
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Location, Location, Re-Location (Carolyn Baker)
June 2 (World News Trust) -- For approximately ten days last month I traveled across the United States from my former home in New Mexico to my new home in Vermont. My journey has been the ...
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Dealing with Gasoline Prices (Dale Allen Pfeiffer)
(Mountain Sentinel) -- Why prices are rising, what isn't being done about it, and what it means for you. (The following article not only attempts to explain what is going on in the oil market, it ...
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Why Decline Matters (John Michael Greer)
May 28 (Archdruid Report) -- One of the most curious blind spots in the contemporary imagination, as I have suggested more than once in these essays, can be traced in the way that the concept of ...
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Anxious Hiatus (James Kunstler)
May 26 (Clusterfuck Nation) -- Loveliness was everywhere this holiday weekend in upstate New York, and it was probably hard for many to believe that the wayward nation would return to the dread ...
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Secret Spy Court Repeatedly Questions FBI Wiretap Network (Ryan Singel)
Does the FBI track cellphone users' physical movements without a warrant? Does the Bureau store recordings of innocent Americans caught up in wiretaps in a searchable database? Does the FBI's ...
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Society of The Owned (Terrence Heath)
When George W. Bush first spoke of “the ownership society,” he led most Americans to believe, and many did believe, that he was talking about them. Now, four years later, it’s easy to conclude that ...
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Thousands Who Earn $200,000+ Avoid Paying Income Tax (Kevin McCoy)
Death is inevitable, but federal income taxes aren't for an increased number of high-income earners.
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Old dogs and Hard Time -- Joe Bageant
Joe Bageant Joe Bageant -- World News Trust June 12, 2008 Late at night through my window by the computer I can see my neighbor Stokes bicycling at 10 p.m. to the local convenience store to buy ...
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U.S. Life Expectancy Still Trails 30 Countries (Mike Stobbe)
ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- For the first time, U.S. life expectancy has surpassed 78 years, the government reported Wednesday.
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Worse That Any Impeachable Offense (Mary Lyon)
(World News Trust) -- I would never have thought there'd be any greater crimes than those of George W. Bush, nor any villain greater. I'm wrong. And no, it's not Dick Cheney, either, or anything ...
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