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U.S. Consumer Confidence Droops to Three-Month Low in March (Shobhana Chandra)
Mar. 29, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Confidence among U.S. consumers dropped more than forecast in March as fuel costs surged to the highest level in more than two years. The Conference Board’s confidence ...
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Home Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Declined 3.1% From Year Earlier (Alex Kowalski)
Mar. 29, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- Residential real estate prices dropped in January by the most in more than a year, raising the risk that U.S. home sales will keep slowing. The S&P/Case-Shiller index of ...
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The Capitalist Follies (David Glenn Cox)
David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Mar. 28, 2011 -- There are days in this world when the events overwhelm us. Forces of nature batter us and remind us of how frail our lives and our societies ...
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Make No Mistake (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Mar. 28, 2011 -- Taking in Charles Ferguson's excellent documentary, Inside Job, about the dark doings of Wall Street in our time, I confess I was awestruck ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- March 28, 2011 (FCNL)
Nuclear Calendar -- March 28, 2011 March 18-28 House and Senate recess. (Senate recess is March 19-27.) March 25-28 Ecumenical Advocacy Days. Doubletree Crystal City-National Airport Hotel, 300 Army ...
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Joe Bageant, 1946-2011
Mar. 27, 2011 -- (JoeBageant.com) -- After a vibrant life, Joe Bageant died yesterday following a four-month struggle with cancer. He was 64. Joe is survived by his wife, Barbara, his three ...
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Soaring radioactivity deals blow to Japan's plant (Shinichi Saoshiro)
Mar. 27, 2011 -- 11:21 p.m. JST (10:21 EST) -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Workers were withdrawn from a reactor building at Japan's earthquake-wrecked nuclear plant Sunday after potentially lethal levels of ...
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5 Reasons Why Technology Can Never Be Neutral (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Mar. 27, 2011 -- It's repeated so often that few of us even stop to question its validity: "Technology is neutral. It's only as good or as bad as those using it." Here ...
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Housing's Double Dip (Mike Whitney)
Mar. 26, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- The housing market is now in full retreat. This week, the Commerce Department reported that sales of new homes plunged nearly 17 percent in February to ...
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Libya: The Objective of 'Humanitarian Bombing' is Death and Destruction (Prof. Michel Chossudovsky)
Mar. 21, 2011 (Global Research) -- The Bombing of Civilian Targets The objective is not to come to the rescue of civilians. Quite the opposite. Both military as well as civilian targets have been ...
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Our Theaters of the Absurd (Danny Schechter)
Mar. 25, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- It's been a long time since I sat in a college literature class and learned about the theater of the absurd, the work of great writers like Beckett, Ionesco, ...
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