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Stimulus or Austerity?
by Donal 11/19/2010 - 11:10 am
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BBC reports that The Ben Bernanke gave a speech to the European Central Bank defending Quantitative Easing:
Ben Bernanke hits back at Fed critics
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World Energy Outlook for 2010
by Donal 11/11/2010 - 10:45 pm
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For a little background, Energy Depletion thinker Richard Heinberg narrates 300 Years of Fossil-fueled Addiction in Five Minutes.
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Pro-Growth or Financial Warfare?
Again I feel remiss for not keeping up with Amy Goodman.
New $600B Fed Stimulus Fuels Fears of US Currency War
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Camoflation
In today's Wall Street Journal, Kevin Warsh, one of the Governors of the Federal Reserve, brings back the M word to justify borrowing $75 million pro-liquid and pro-growth dollars.:
The New Malaise and How to End It
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Hyperstagflation
by Donal 11/9/2010 - 1:30 am
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Rasmussen Skews Red
Nate Silver grades the pollsters and finds Rasmussen biased.
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Energy or Water
Well that's a relief. At Forbes Magazine, Editor-in-Chief, former Republican presidential candidate, Heritage Foundation trustee and Fox News panelist Malcolm Stevenson "Steve" Forbes, Jr. proclaims that hydraulic fracturing will not only make money but will also solve US energy woes.
Energy Crisis Over!
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Small Government = Rotting Infrastructure?
Our bridges are collapsing, but the Infrastructurist notes that other countries are investing in their infrastructure, even in the face of austerity:
Britain Cuts Spending While Investing in Infrastructure
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Worth Remembering
From Ezra Klein at the Washington Post:
The end of the 'do-something' Congress
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Ralph Nader's ASPO Keynote Lecture
by Donal 10/31/2010 - 8:32 pm
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Lunch Keynote on Energy and Policy: Ralph Nader.
Unfortunately ASPO hasn't given permission to embed their videos of the 2010 ASPO conference, but you should be able to click on the link above. I couldn't get full screen feature to work, and in fact lost the video when I tried to enlarge it, but watching Nader in the small screen should be adequate. [Read more]
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Why Stay in College?
Why stay in college? Why go to night school?
Gonna be different this time?
Can't write a letter, can't send a postcard
I can't write nothing at all
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Targeting Gun Dealers
OK, say you're leading a religious flock in a city characterized by gun violence. This is what you read almost every day:
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In the News
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A Word from Our Sponsor
By Jane Mayer of the New Yorker. If you are wondering how far PBS is willing to go to placate David Koch to keep their funding? It gives you a look into the special documentry "Citizen Koch" and its fall out. The program was never aired except at Sundance. David Koch resigned from WNET on May 16th.
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Psychological Warfare by Social Media: The Battle For One...
By Judith Durbin via vocativ.com 5/20
Syrian rebels under siege in a strategic city on the Lebanese border are increasingly turning to social media to wage psychological warfare, according to Vocativ analysts monitoring the region.
The town of Al Qusayr has become ground zero in the war between rebel fighters on the one side and the joint forces of President Bashar Al Assad and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah on the other. Some of the most intense fighting has taken place there over the last few days. The New York Times reports both sides consider this battle a turning point in the larger civil war that has been raging for more than two years.
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The Bigger Story Behind the AP Spying Scandal
A collection of links and comments dealing with government spying and intimidation of journalists
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Vitamins That Cost Pennies a Day Seen Delaying DementiaA cheap regimen of vitamins in use for decades is seen by scientists as a way to delay the start of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, a goal that prescription drugs have failed to achieve. / Drugmakers including Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., Pfizer Inc. (PFE) and Eli Lilly & Co. (LLY) have spent billions of dollars on ineffective therapies in a so-far fruitless effort to come up with a treatment for dementia and Alzheimer’s. / Now, in the latest of a steady drumbeat of research that suggests diet, exercise and socializing remain patients’ best hope, a study published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that vitamins B6 and B12 combined with folic acid slowed atrophy of gray matter in brain areas affected by...
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