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Obama says Americans should get swine flu vaccine (Julie Pace)
Sept. 1, 2009 -- WASHINGTON (AP) -- With a potentially deadly swine flu outbreak looming, President Barack Obama is urging Americans to take steps to prevent infection. Obama was briefed Tuesday on ...
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The Nightmare of Contemplating Global Derivatives (Mogambo Guru)
The Mogambo Guru -- World News Trust Sept. 1, 2009 -- TAMPA BAY, Fla. -- There are plenty of nightmarish things in the world today, but few nightmares match the terror of finding your wife still ...
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White House Fears Liberal War Pressure (Mike Allen)
Sept. 1, 2009 (Politico.com) -- White House officials are increasingly worried that liberal, anti-war Democrats will demand a premature end to the Afghanistan war before President Barack Obama can ...
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Group Charges Complicity by CIA Medics in Torture (William Fisher)
Sept. 1, 2009 -- NEW YORK (Inter Press Service) -- Did physicians and psychologists help the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency develop a new research protocol to assess and refine the use of ...
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TOON: The Citizens Began To Turn Into Monsters (This Modern World)
http://www.salon.com/comics/tomo/2009/09/01/tomo/index.html
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Freddie Mac-Financed US Home Prices Rise 1.7 Percent, Gaining in All Areas (Kathleen M. Howley)
Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- The average price of homes bought with mortgages funded by Freddie Mac rose 1.7 percent during the second quarter and for the first time in two years there were gains in every ...
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Antiestablishmentarianism (ddjango)
ddjango -- World News Trust If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation, and then by deflation, the banks and the corporations that ...
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Elegy (ddjango)
ddjango -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2009 -- I was "introduced," you might say, to the Kennedys when I was thirteen, in 1960. My father, who had supported Eisenhower in 1952 and Stevenson in 1956, ...
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Driving a Fiat Currency into a Tree (Mogambo Guru)
The Mogambo Guru -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2009 -- TAMPA BAY, Fla. -- Floy Lilley at the Mises Institute, in her essay at LewRockwell.com, notes that the gold-standard dollar “provided us with ...
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End of Summer Blues (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Aug. 31, 2009 -- In my larval, pre-blogging days, I always faced the back-to-school moment with abject dread. It meant returning to a program of the most ...
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Cubans, U.S. Veterans Have Health Care in Common: Book Review (Jeffrey Tannenbaum)
T.R. Reid Aug. 31 (Bloomberg) -- The world offers at least two pure systems of “socialized medicine,” the state-run variety that many Americans with private insurance assume they’d hate. Cuba has ...
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