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The David Shuster Lesson (Mary Lyon)
Mary Lyon, From The Left -- World News Trust After years of drought, this is an historic election year. If ever there was a time to want to get into the game, 2008 is it. And David Shuster has to be ...
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U.S. Retail Sales Probably Fell in January for a Second Month (Shobana Chandra)
Retail sales in the U.S. probably fell in January for a second month as falling home prices discouraged consumer spending, a sign the biggest part of the economy is starting to falter, economists ...
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Deep Capture: CEO of Overstock.Com Lays It All Out (Patrick M. Byrne)
Editorial Note: What follows is an excerpt and a link to a collection of posts from the personal blog of Patrick M. Byrne, CEO of Overstock.Com, a NASDAQ-listed company with a market capitalization ...
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A Credit Card You Want to Toss | Robert Berner
Bank of America abruptly notified cardholders in good standing their rates would skyrocket if they didn't opt out fast. Is BofA greedy or needy? Robert Berner -- Newsweek Feb. 7, 2008 -- Credit-card ...
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Carolyn Baker Reviews "The Final Empire" By William Kotke
Carolyn Baker -- Speaking Truth To Power -- Feb. 8, 2008 -- My intention in reviewing this stunning book is to share how it has illumined my understanding that collapse and vision are not separate, ...
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Exclusive! The FBI Deputizes Business (Matthew Rothschild)
Matthew Rothschild -- The Progressive Jan. 7, 2008 -- Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The ...
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Back Up The Rabbit Hole (John Michael Greer)
John Michael Greer -- Archdruid Report -- One of the Archdruid Report's central purposes, the attempt to glimpse the future’s patterns in the Rohrshach inkblots of the present, poses a notoriously ...
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U.S. Retailers Report Weakest January Sales In Nearly Four Decades (AP)
Weak numbers from Wal-Mart; more evidence of faltering economy -- Feb. 7, 2008 -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- The nation’s retailers delivered more evidence of a stumbling economy Thursday, as merchants ...
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Honeybee Deaths Resume in U.S. Hives, USDA Reports (Alan Bjerga)
By Alan Bjerga -- Feb. 7 (Bloomberg) -- A malady that has killed billions of bees since 2006, threatening about $15 billion in pollinated crops, is devastating hives again, according to the U.S. ...
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CIA Says Used Waterboarding On Three Suspects (Randall Mikkelsen)
By Randall Mikkelsen WASHINGTON, Feb. 5 (Reuters) -- The CIA used a widely condemned interrogation technique known as waterboarding on three suspects captured after the Sept. 11 attacks, CIA ...
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