Welcome to Our World
By David Glenn Cox
You thought your white collar and your wealth would protect you
as you nodded in agreement that outsourcing was vital to a growing economy. You
thought these things could never reach you? Well here's another clue for you
all, the walrus is Paul, coo coo ka choo.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21483.htm
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Senate Scandal Snares Obama's Chief Aide
By Sarah Baxter, Washington
THE bullish, foul-mouthed but effective Chicago arm-twister
Rahm Emanuel has come under pressure to resign as Barack Obama's chief of staff
after it was revealed that he had been captured on court-approved wire-taps
discussing the names of candidates for Obama's Senate seat.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21479.htm
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Blagojevich Legal Hurdle: A Crime, or Just Talk?
Tapes of Ill. governor discussing Senate pick may fall into a
legal gray area
By David Johnston
"This town is full of people who call themselves ambassadors,
and all they did was pay $200,000 or $300,000 to the Republican or Democratic
Party," said Mr. Bennett, referring to a passage in the criminal complaint
filed against the governor suggesting that Mr. Blagojevich was interested in an
ambassadorial appointment in return for the Senate seat.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21480.htm
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Report: Bush masked cost of wars that could top $1.7 trillion:
Even if Barack Obama draws down troops in Iraq like he's
promised, a new report finds the US is on pace to have spent nearly $2 trillion
on military operations including Iraq and Afghanistan over the next decade.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Report_Cost_of_wars_could_top_1216.html
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Feinstein gets nod to chair intelligence panel:
California Sen. Dianne Feinstein has been tapped as the
chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Majority Leader Harry Reid
said Monday, a post that would give her immense clout over U.S. intelligence
agencies and the power to shape policies on wiretapping and the treatment of
detainees.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/15/MNBV14OHE5.DTL
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First the Chinese accumulated dollars, now everyone is joining
the stampede:
What caused the crisis? For some, the story is simple. It's all
about global imbalances.
http://tinyurl.com/6gvy27
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Banks get another bailout: Judge signs order to protect Madoff
investors:
Stanton signed the order after the Securities Investor
Protection Corporation asked that steps be taken to protect investors in the
scheme, which has ensnared several major banks and prominent figures as victims
and could result in as much as $50 billion in losses.
http://tinyurl.com/64duvb
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US consumer data shows record slump:
The fall was the second straight month of record declines in
the consumer price index (CPI) and the biggest since 1947, when the Labour
Department began recording the figures, it said on Tuesday.
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2008/12/20081216154853641784.html
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Best Buy 3Q profit sinks, company offers buyouts: -
Best Buy Co. Inc. offered voluntary severance packages to
virtually all its 4,000 corporate employees Tuesday as the nation's largest
consumer electronics chain announced its third-quarter profit skidded 77
percent.
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/081216/earns_best_buy.html
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Unemployment: Worse Than it Looks:
The most publicized measure of U.S. unemployment tells only
part of the story
http://tinyurl.com/5w8765
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More people on S.F. streets newly homeless:
Across the country, the nose-diving economy isn't just causing
home foreclosures and stock market dips, it is squeezing people, particularly
families, out of their homes. The number of hungry people has also jumped.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/16/BA5N14OGCD.DTL
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The United States: A Country Without Mercy
By Paul Craig Roberts
We have to ask ourselves why American service men and women and
CIA operatives delight in torturing people about whom they know nothing? It has
been well known since the Stalin era that torture never produces accurate
information.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21482.htm
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