http://platosbeard.org/archives/287
(will try to embed links to individual articles... just cutting and
pasting from my blog post, today)
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# Guardian | Bubble economics
Alan Greenspan - the man primarily responsible for the current crisis.
Greenspan, always accommodating to the needs of Wall Street, worked on
the principle that the best way to cope with the collapse of one
bubble was to blow another one.
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# BBC | Canada puts US on ‘torture list’
The United States has been listed as a country where prisoners are at
risk of torture in a training document produced by the Canadian
foreign ministry.
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# BBC | Thirteen convicted for India riot
More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, died in the riots, although
independent groups say the toll was nearly 2,000.
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# E-Commerce News: Time Warner Starts the Meter in Net Access Experiment
Time Warner’s plan includes installing bandwidth meters on new high-
speed accounts and giving users access to a Web page where they can
track how much they have consumed and upgrade to more expensive plans
if necessary. Users will pay on a per-gigabyte basis for bandwidth
they use above and beyond their plan.
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