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U.S. Economy Shrank 6.2% Last Quarter, Most Since ’82 (Timothy R. Homan)
Feb. 27 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. economy shrank in the fourth quarter at an even faster pace than previously estimated as consumer spending plunged, companies cut inventories and exports sank.
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SACRED DEMISE: By Carolyn Baker: Book Foreword By Sarah Anne Edwards, Ph.D.
Feb. 26, 2009 (Speaking Truth To Power) -- Within the next three weeks, my forthcoming book, Sacred Demise: Walking The Spiritual Path of Industrial Civilization's Collapse will be released and will ...
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Depression In The East Points The Way For The Rest Of The World (Larry Elliott)
Feb. 25, 2009 (Guardian) -- Anybody who doubts that the global economy is facing its most serious downturn since the 1930s should take a squint at the latest trade figures from Japan. Exports in ...
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A Tale of Two Speeches (Mary Lyon)
Feels like it’s still the best of times and the worst of times
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Scientists find bigger-than-expected polar ice melt (AFP)
Feb. 25, 2009 -- GENEVA (Khaleej Times) -- Icecaps around the North and South Poles are melting faster and in a more widespread manner than expected, raising the sea level and fuelling climate ...
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US Television viewing at all-time high (Alana Semuels)
Nielsen's 'Three Screen Report' for the fourth quarter says the average American now watches more than 151 hours of TV a month
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California Lawmaker Wants To Make Marijuana Legal (Wyatt Buchanan)
Feb. 24, 2009 SACRAMENTO (San Francisco Chronicle) -- California would become the first state in the nation to legalize marijuana for recreational use under a bill introduced Monday by Assemblyman ...
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Bernanke Sees 2010 Recovery ‘Only If’ Banks Stabilize (Craig Torres and Scott Lanman)
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the U.S. economy is in a “severe” contraction, and warned the recession may last into 2010 unless policy makers can stabilize the ...
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Housing Prices in 20 U.S. Cities Fall a Record 18.5% (Timothy R. Homan and Courtney Schlisserman)
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Home prices in 20 U.S. cities declined 18.5 percent in December from a year earlier, the fastest drop on record, as foreclosures climbed and sales sank.
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U.S. Consumer Confidence Collapsed to Record Low in February (Bob Willis)
Feb. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Confidence among U.S. consumers plunged to a record low in February, signaling spending will slump further as unemployment soars.
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Radical Love: Mickey Z. Interviews Natty Seidenverg
Natty Seidenverg is a writer and an activist from the high desert region of Cascadia. She's been giving radical love workshops for about three years and was kind enough share her thoughts with me, ...
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