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Updated: 2:55 pm pst Monday 03 March 2008
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Iraqi counterpart Jalal Talabini pictured in Baghdad Monday
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![]() Asian stock markets, with the exception of China's - where shares continue to climb - have tumbled as investors react nervously to a steep decline on Wall Street Friday after disappointing news reawakened worries about a U.S. recession
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Chavez Warns Of War In South America
Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez has ordered thousands of troops to his country’s border with Colombia, and he warns that cross-border operations by Colombia’s U.S.–backed military could lead to "war in South America". More…
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THE
Iraq war has cost the US 50–60 times more than the Bush administration
predicted and was a central cause of the sub–prime banking crisis
threatening the world economy, according to Nobel Prize–winning
economist Joseph Stiglitz
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A more detailed synopsis–
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Venezuelan leader warns neighbor’s action against rebels could lead to war…
Government records incorrectly kill off thousands, and there’s no easy fix
‘Americans are bred deep into their psyches to think of America as a good country and, I think, much harder than just the hurdle of getting troops out of Iraq is to get Americans to realise the terrible things we do in the name of the United States’
Citing Lack of Support, Frustrated Iraqi Volunteers Are Abandoning Posts
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BUSINESS
Group battled Cleveland’s mortgage ‘loan sharks’ long before U.S. crisis
Uh Oh! Someone’s going to Gitmo for this one
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SCI/TECH/ENVIRONMENT
Climate
science maverick James Lovelock believes catastrophe is inevitable,
carbon offsetting is a joke and ethical living a scam. So what would he
do?
Our
disconnection from indigenous values have brought us to where we now
are. Only a reconnection with those values will allow us to survive the
collapse of civilization…
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MARKETS
Group battled Cleveland’s mortgage ‘loan sharks’ long before U.S. crisis
"Economists
are cautioning that the nation’s growing dependence on corn would make
for a double jolt in the event of a drought across the Midwest: soaring
prices not just for food but also for gasoline". This is why ethanol is
an insane "solution"
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A new study suggests that hormone replacement therapy makes the accurate reading of mammograms more difficult. NBC’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman reports – fr. Luc Majno If It’s All About You, You’re in Trouble. Why a Sense of Entitlement Can Wreak Havoc on Happiness
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OP-ED
It all makes sense if you think like a sociopath
by Walter C. Uhler
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VIDEO/AUDIO
Central banks worldwide and other investors are salivating to invest in the new Lakota Nation, which refuses to talk to them…
j.grub–
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NATURE
Climate
science maverick James Lovelock believes catastrophe is inevitable,
carbon offsetting is a joke and ethical living a scam. So what would he
do?
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