"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." -- Thomas Pynchon
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July 2008
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National Australia Bank Writes Off 90% of Its U.S. AAA Rated Debt
Heavy Metals Found In Baby Pacifiers - Danger
Russia Unloads Half Freddie/Fannie Exposure
Indian army patrols cities as Islamist group claims wave of bombings that left 46 dead
Neuroscience, National Security & the "War on Terror"
Huge chunk snaps off storied Arctic ice shelf
Two More Banks Fail
FDIC takes over 2 more banks, closing 28 branches
Panic Building on Wall Street
Heating up the Cold War
Fortress Iran is Virtually Impregnable to a Successful Invasion
Key Benazir Bhutto assassination witness shot dead
IOC's Rogge quiet on human rights for reasons of State
New DNS exploit now in the wild and having a blast
Rice professor says granite countertops may be tainted with uranium
Bloomberg: U.S. Foreclosures Double as House Prices Decline
Ford's Worst Quarter Ever
Engineers Warn Of Attacks On Internet Vulnerability
UK: Retail sales dive 3.9% in worst fall for 22 years
Economic tremors in the West reach China
Minot airmen fell asleep with classified nuke hardware
What Happens When The FDIC Runs Out Of Money?
Bush says Wall Street 'got drunk'x
Global credit crisis takes hold in Japan
US Can Download Your Laptop At Border Crossings
UK: New mortgages plummet 70%
"Greenhouse" bees spread disease to wild bees
Wachovia Bank Gave Counterfeit Bills, Couple Says
How HUD Mortgage Policy Fed The Crisis
Why You Will Eat Less in the Future
U.S. General Warns Russia on Nuclear Bombers in Cuba
World's Smallest Camera Plane Shows Off in Public
Salon: Bush's historic abuse of power "could rival Watergate"
Mohawk Nation News Publisher to Be Charged
Commercial bankruptcies soar, reflecting widening economic woes
FEMA seeks immunity from suits over trailer fumes
Record Decline in U.S. Home Prices in May From a Year Ago
UK: Plan Would Allow Banks to Seek Emergency Funding in Secret
Population bomb 'ticks louder than climate'
Half the Amazon Rainforest to be Lost by 2030
FDIC Sold Predatory Loans After Failed Bank Takeover
American Inequality Highlighted by 10-Year Gap in Life Expectancy
The global economy is at the point of maximum danger
Is America too big to fail?
Economist: "America may default on its debt"
Wachovia Has Record $8.9 Billion Loss, Cuts Dividend
A man without shame: Michael Savage calls autistic children "brats"
Unprecedented Demand Cleans Out Major Storable Food Supplier Through 2009
Inflation and the Specter of World Revolution, by James Petras
Death of Free Internet is Imminent: Canada Will Become Test Case
Big Brother tightens his grip on the web
8,500 U.S. banks; many will die soon
Thought control: it's the computer world's latest game plan
UK: Millions of decent taxpayers will foot the bill for institutional idiocy
Wall Street's Great Deflation
WaMu wary of IndyMac cashier's checks
GOP whistleblower names Karl Rove in Ohio's 04 election theft
Maryland troopers spied on activist groups: Protesters added to database of terrorist suspects
Rewarding failure: Freddie Mac CEO paid almost $20M last year
JP Morgan’s Dimon: Prime Mortgages Look “Terrible”
UK economy heading for recession next year: unemployment could top two million by 2010
Concern Mounts About FDIC Deposit Fund
Why Are Tens of Thousands of Plastic “Burial Vaults” Stacked in a Field Near Madison, Georgia?
Wachovia Securities raided in auction rate probe
". . . the emergence of something very strange: a state backed financial capitalism . . ."
Bernanke, Paulson outline strategy to make working class pay for Wall Street crisis
Monetary minefield
Illinois Governor Planning to Send National Guard Into Chicago
$5 million bail for hacker who caused no damage
GM drops health coverage for ex-workers 65 and older
NOAA and Louisiana Scientists Predict Largest Gulf of Mexico “Dead Zone” on Record This Summer
CNN reporter criticizes TSA, finds self on terror watch list
Canadian millitary under fire for planned laser purchase
China's All-Seeing Eye, by Naomi Klein
Gas Lines Coming This Fall
The Next Financial Tsunami is Breaking Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and US Mortgage Debt
Inflation: Price jump worst since '91
Britain to train army in Nigeria to combat delta rebels
Fears of Neo-Nazi Center in Berlin
Cops to IndyMac customers: Remain calm or face arrest
UK commander says the British will stay in Iraq
Court Backs Bush on Military Detentions
MI5 officers 'outsourced the torture of British nationals to Pakistani agencies'
Welcome to the Frozen Economy
All Italians to be fingerprinted
Contaminated US site faces 'catastrophic' nuclear leak
US faces global funding crisis, warns Merrill Lynch
Fears over safety of savings triggers panic in America
Wholesale inflation is worst in 27 years
Worse Than McCain, by Mike Whitney
Cockburn: Could Anyone be "Worse" Than Bush?
Détente Or Hidden Agendas? A Sign Of "The Times," by Gilad Atzmon
Antarctic Ice Shelf All But Lost
Run on banks spells big trouble for US Treasury
Cryptogon: "Brace for impact"
FBI Investigating Dead Fowl in Front of U.S. Capitol
The Next Bubble
Forests to fall for food and fuel
Thousands of innocents on terrorist list
Analysts say more U.S. banks will fail
Over caviar and sea urchin, G8 leaders mull food crisis
U.S. Stocks Tumble on Concern Fannie, Freddie May Need Rescue
Fannie, Freddie insolvent, Poole tells Bloomberg
Fannie and Freddie Credit Implosions Are Too Big to Bail Out
Google To Photograph every UK Front Door
IndyMac Bank seized by federal regulators: Second Largest Bank Failure in U.S. History
Crisis Deepens as Big Bank Fails
Italy to fingerprint all Roma gipsy children
UK: Slide in house prices is the worst since the Great Depression
SF: Professor Ticketed for "No to Empire" Bumper Sticker
Israel hints at pre-emptive attack on Iran
Iraq denies IAF using its airspace
FEMA Trailer Manufacturers Knew About Formaldehyde, Findings Went Undisclosed
Senate Approves Telecom Amnesty, Expands Domestic Spying Powers
KishKish Lie Detector for Skype
Israel's Iran attack timetable ties to US election cycle
Strait of Hormuz: Depth in Metres
Iran and Asymetric Warfare
US foreclosure filings rose 53 percent in June
U.S. defends laptop searches at the border
Crisis wipes $1 trillion from financial stocks
DHS Wants Taser Bracelets On All Air Passengers
Connecting the Dots: The Axis of Evil in Motion Under Peculiar Cosmic Weather
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae shares pummeled
UK: Government Asks Stores to Stockpile Food in Case of Infrastructure Breakdown
US: Pending home sales fall 4.7 percent
Turkey: Coup plot arrests deepen political crisis
Bush tries to pardon himself (vid.)
Bush Caught Lying About September 11th
FTC says it won't intervene to protect Internet user privacy
US stocks plunge, job cuts spread
The disappearance of bees poses a disaster for us all.
FBI: Fake doctor held in toxin sting
Kiryat Gat tells its school girls: No romancing with Bedouin
What Really Killed Bear Stearns?
Mortgage ruling could shock U.S. banking industry
A Backlog Of Cases Alleging Fraud: Whistle-Blower Suits Languish at Justice
Wheat Plunges as U.S. Report Shows Spring Acreage Increased
Starbucks to close 600 US stores, rein in growth
Fed-Up Families Turn To Barbed Wire, Shotguns To Police Neighborhood
Vacant Homes Spread Blight in Suburb and City Alike
China inspired interrogations at Guantánamo
State-Sponsored Terror: British and American Black Ops in Iraq
Small Banks' Reckoning Day Is Coming: Billions in Troubled Construction Loans Pose Test for Regional Lenders
Anatomy of a small town bank failure
TX Computer Techs Must Now Have PI License
GM shares fall below $10 for first time since 1954
Stocks tumble again: Dow index is down 20 percent from its October high
Extinction risks vastly underestimated: study
Weather Risks Cloud Promise of Biofuel
Awesome near-Earth asteroid graphics
What if Chicken Little is right?
Global food price rises exacerbate famine in Ethiopia and Somalia
Patient dies in hospital waiting room while patients , doctors and secuity turn heads (vid.)
Woman who died on hospital floor called 'beautiful person'
In ruling that could have serious privacy implications, YouTube ordered to hand over viewing data
FBI's Next-Gen ID Databank to Store Face Scans
Right-Wing Apoplectic Over Pixar’s WALL-E: ‘Malthusian Fear Mongering,’ ‘Fascistic Elements’
Secret World Bank study: biofuel caused food crisis
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