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U.S. Stocks Rally on Global Bank Central Liquidity Move (Rita Nazareth)
Nov. 30, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks rose, sending benchmark gauges higher for a third day, after central banks acted together to make additional funds available to lenders as Europe’s crisis ...
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Fed, Five Central Banks Cut Rate on Dollar Swaps (Scott Lanman and Jeff Black)
Nov. 30 (Bloomberg) -- The Federal Reserve cut the cost of emergency dollar funding for European banks as part of a globally coordinated central-bank response to the continent’s sovereign-debt ...
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Your New American Dream (James Howard Kunstler)
James Howard Kunstler -- World News Trust Nov. 28, 2011 -- It's really something to live in a country that doesn't know what it is doing in a world that doesn't know where it is going in a time when ...
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Nuclear Calendar -- November 26, 2011 (FCNL)
Nuclear Calendar -- November 26, 2011 Nov. 19-27 House and Senate Thanksgiving recess. (House recess is through Nov. 28.) Nov. 26 20th anniversary of the last British nuclear weapon test, "Bristol." ...
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Canada’s Halifax International Security Forum: Self-Promoting Interests (Jim Miles)
Nov. 22, 2011 (Foreign Policy Journal) -- I did not catch as much of Canada’s Halifax International Security Forum as I would have liked, but if what I saw was indicative of the whole program, then ...
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Welcome To Happy Valley: Occupy Penn State,(Carolyn Baker)
Nov. 17, 2011 (CarolynBaker.net) -- State College, Pennsylvania, home of Penn State University, is ensconsed in a somewhat bucolic region of the commonwealth called Happy Valley. The name ...
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‘Zero-Problems’ Foreign Policy No More: Turkey and the Syrian ‘Abyss’ (Ramzy Baroud)
Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Nov. 24, 2011 -- When Recep Tayyip Erdogan became Turkey’s prime minister in 2003, he seemed to be certain of the new direction his country would take. It would ...
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Occupy Revolution (Joel S. Hirshhorn)
Joel S. Hirschhorn Joel S. Hirschhorn -- World News Trust Nov. 21, 2011 -- History tells us that it is nearly impossible to know in real time whether some kind of national, grassroots public protest ...
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Non-violence does not have to be passive (Jim Miles)
Nov. 21, 2011 (Palestine Chronicle) -- I have just watched the video of the University of California students at Davis against the heavily armed police that is becoming prominent on many internet ...
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PILLOW TALK: Dear Hunters (Deborah Goodwin)
This moose hung around our place for a few days last winter. We named him(?) Hector Nov. 18, 2011 (ShapeShiftas) -- It's hunting season here in Vermont -- deer hunting with rifles right now -- I ...
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PILLOWTALK: Rage Against The Machine (Deborah Goodwin)
A really arresting image (no pun intended) Nov. 8, 2011 (ShapeShiftas) -- Yesterday the evil corporations ruined my day. It only took one: The evil, incompetent, bankrupt communications corporation ...
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