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A 'perfect storm' of hunger (Edmund Sanders and Tracy Wilkinson)
The U.N.'s World Food Program is struggling as costs of food and fuel skyrocket while the numbers of people needing help surge across the globe. Millions are in danger. April 2, 2008 -- KHARTOUM, ...
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Upscale (James Kunstler)
(Clusterfuck Nation) -- Things continue to slip, slide, and shift strangely Out There.
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Antarctica's Wilkins Ice Shelf Risks Collapse, U.K. Group Says (Alex Morales)
March 25, 2008 (Bloomberg) -- An Antarctic ice shelf bigger than Connecticut risks collapse because of global warming after a retreat that began on Feb. 28, the British Antarctic Survey said. The ...
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Black Swans Everywhere (James Kunstler)
(Clusterfuck Nation) -- After a one-day reprieve from total meltdown in the financial markets, news media cheerleaders for the most reckless gang of bankers in world history declared the crisis over ...
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A Real Freak Out (James Kunstler)
Things are getting very weird very fast -- and will probably get even weirder, faster, as the train wreck of bad debt meets the Saint Paddy's Day Parade of bacchanalian excess at the grade-crossing ...
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Campaign Blues (James Kunstler)
James Kunstler -- Clusterfuck Nation -- While it's gratifying to watch Hillary Clinton melt back into her senate seat -- in the process foiling the ascent of Emperor Bill the 1st -- one can't help ...
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Still Pretending (James Kunstler)
James Kunstler -- Clusterfuck Nation -- The maneuvers that the big banks are making nowadays, along with their enablers at the Federal Reserve and elsewhere in Washington, really amount to little ...
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Burning Down the House (James Kunstler)
James Kunstler -- Clusterfuck Nation Behind all the blather and bullshit about the Federal Reserve's rescue gambits and the machinations of the ratings agencies, and the wiles of foreign sovereign ...
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A Credit Card You Want to Toss | Robert Berner
Bank of America abruptly notified cardholders in good standing their rates would skyrocket if they didn't opt out fast. Is BofA greedy or needy? Robert Berner -- Newsweek Feb. 7, 2008 -- Credit-card ...
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Exclusive! The FBI Deputizes Business (Matthew Rothschild)
Matthew Rothschild -- The Progressive Jan. 7, 2008 -- Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The ...
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Disarray (James Kunstler)
James Kunstler -- Clusterfuck Nation The dark tunnel that the U.S. economy has entered began to look more and more like a black hole last week, sucking in lives, fortunes, and prospects behind a ...
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