Tag: Economy
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7/29 Newspurge: Ugly Truth & Lies
“Do the orders still stand?” – Who was he? // Life sentence for (ex-State Dept) Florida drug smuggler // Gay priest sex scandal as undercover Berlusconi reporter ‘films clerics at gay clubs’ // Journalists starting to accept the fact that their print publications will eventually fold
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corbett report: episode139 – know your history: colonial scrip
from corbett report: We know that the banksters have enslaved society in a perpetual cycle of debt servitude…but what is to be done? Join us this week as we delve into history for an example of a people taking the power of money creation into their own hands. download/subscribe the latest corbett report interviews: #199…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Food Bubble, Government Weed, Competing Currencies
Story#1: Food Bubble: How Wall Street Starves Millions & Gets Away With It // Story#2: Oakland Marijuana Law Passes; ‘Pot Factories’ Coming to Bay Area // Story#3: Competing Currency Being Accepted in Michigan
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Oakland Marijuana Law Passes; ‘Pot Factories’ Coming to Bay Area
Oakland approves marijuana farms // How legalized pot could hurt Mexico’s cartels // Ecstasy as a viable treatment for trauma victims?
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Econocrash Updates: Competing Currencies & Scary Graphs
New types of money are popping up across Mid-Michigan and supporters say, it’s not counterfeit, but rather a competing currency.
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mystery trader buys all europe’s cocoa
from telegraph: Even Willy Wonka might struggle to use this much chocolate. Yesterday, somebody bought 241,000 tonnes of cocoa beans. The purchase was enough to move the entire global cocoa market, sending the price to the highest level since 1977, and triggering rumours and intrigue in the City. It is unclear which person, or group…
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Food Bubble: How Wall Street Starves Millions & Gets Away With It
A new article in Harper’s examines the role Goldman played in the food crisis of 2008 when the ranks of the world’s hungry increased by 250 million.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Amiri Abducted?, Kelly Suicided?, Farmers Bankrupted?
Story #1: Missing Iranian Nuclear Scientist Turns Up at Pak Embassy // Story #2: ‘Why I’m certain my friend Dr Kelly was murdered’ // Story #3: 46,000 dairy farms closed down in last 10 years
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Defcon 7/15: Tracked, Traced & Databased
Consumer group sniffs Congresswoman’s open wi-fi // Fmr. NSA exec Thomas A. Drake may pay high price for media leak // NSA executive leaked after official reporting process failed // Mobile phones ‘causing memory loss’ // Teens using digital drugs to get high
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7/15 Newspurge: Crash Years
Classified CIA transcript counters Bin Laden terror role // More & more Americans preparing for social collapse // Taliban jihad terror monkeys probably not real // Gov. Paterson turns to higher power by wearing red string Kabbalah bracelet to ward off evil // Obama more like Reagan than FDR // IDF officer indicted on charges…
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46,000 Dairy Farms Closed Down In Last 10 Years
About 40% of all dairy farms (or 46,000) went out of business over the last 10 years, due to falling milk prices and rising costs.
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60+ lbs of vegetables stolen from south carolina garden
from msnbc: The sign on the side of the road reads, “Home grown veggies for sale,” but thieves apparently ignored the words, “for sale”. The theft happened over the weekend at a home along Bennetts Bridge Road in the Greer area of Spartanburg County. The homeowner didn’t want to be identified, but told deputies that…
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expect 400k government layoffs at state, local level
from usatoday: Here’s another headwind for a sputtering job market: State and local governments plan many more layoffs to close wide budget gaps. Up to 400,000 workers could lose jobs in the next year as states, counties and cities grapple with lower revenue and less federal funding, says Mark Zandi, chief economist for Moody’s Economy.com.…
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‘pay what you want’ at new non-profit panera
from freakonomics: A new non-profit Panera outside of St. Louis has caught the eye of a number of Freakonomics readers. Customers are told to pay what they want for their meals. “The pilot restaurant is run by a nonprofit foundation,” the Associated Press reports. “If it can sustain itself financially, Panera will expand the model…
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7/1 Newspurge: Independent’s Day
Obamaville shanty towns spread across America // Facebook page of sexy Russian ‘spy’ Anna Chapman // Billions in cash shipped out of Afghanistan // Lady Gaga’s upcoming tour to include human corpses // Obama appoints more friends & donors to ambassadorships than Bush, Clinton & Reagan // Portland police re-opening Gore investigation