Monthly Archives: January 2010

The Great Recession continues….

Too Big To FAIL, Systemic Damage....bla, ba, bla.  When will we learn that there should not be anything that is too big to fail, probably when it is too late...

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U.S. Home Sales Tumble

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sales of previously owned U.S. homes fell at the fastest pace on record last month as the boost from a popular tax credit faded, industry data showed on Monday. The National Association of Realtors said existing home sales fell 16.7 percent to an annual rate ...

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Sam’s Club cuts 11,200 jobs, 10 percent of workforce

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sam's Club, the warehouse club division of Wal-Mart Stores Inc is cutting roughly 11,200 jobs, or about 10 percent of its workforce, as it outsources in-store product demonstrations and eliminates new business membership representative jobs. Sam's Club Chief Executive Officer Brian Cornell said on Sunday that the retailer would outline charges associated ...

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Israeli attack on Iran could be disaster — for U.S. economy

Israel will not be complicit in a second Holocaust. If Iran or any other nation that has called for the destruction of Israel is about to acquire nuclear weapons, the Israelis will attempt to destroy that nation's uranium-enrichment facilities. In June 1981, Israel launched a successful air attack on an Iraqi nuclear reactor, and in ...

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The eyes have it High-tech tools add to anti-crime arsenal.

New technology introduced this morning by the Boone County Sheriff’s Department is a step forward for Mid-Missouri counties building criminal databases. A $200,000 COPS — or Community Oriented Policing Services — technology grant will fund license plate and iris scanners for patrol vehicles and the Boone County Jail. The grant is a small chunk of a ...

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H1N1 swine flu hoax falls apart at the seams

(NaturalNews) The great swine flu hoax of 2009 is now falling apart at the seams as one country after another unloads hundreds of millions of doses of unused swine flu vaccines. No informed person wants the injection anymore, and the entire fear-based campaign to promote the vaccines has now been exposed as outright quackery and ...

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Spy drones will monitor U.K. citizens

LONDON, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- Camera-equipped drones, developed by the British military for use in war, will be used in England to keep an eye on civilians from the sky, officials say. Police in Kent and Essex counties plan to start using them in 2012 for routine monitoring of motorists, protesters, agricultural thieves and illegal dumping, ...

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Latin American leaders say US occupying Haiti

Venezuela, Bolivia and Nicaragua say the US is using the international relief operation in Haiti as a cover-up for a military takeover. Bolivian President Evo Morales said that he will request an emergency UN meeting to reject what he calls the US military occupation of Haiti. "It's not right that the United States should use this natural ...

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What ‘skeptics’ really believe about vaccines, medicine, consciousness and the universe

(NaturalNews) In the world of medicine, "skeptics" claim to be the sole protectors of intellectual truth. Everyone who disagrees with them is just a quack, they insist. Briefly stated, "skeptics" are in favor of vaccines, mammograms, pharmaceuticals and chemotherapy. They are opponents of nutritional supplements, herbal medicine, chiropractic care, massage therapy, energy medicine, homeopathy, prayer ...

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Highlights of Obama’s first year, by the numbers

Highlights of Obama’s first year, by the numbers:___ 7,949.09—Dow Jones Industrial Average close on Jan. 20, 2009. 10,609.65—Dow Jones Industrial Average close on Jan. 15, 2010. 13 million—Number of people 16 and older unemployed as of January 2009. 14.7 million—Number of people 16 and older unemployed as of December 2009. 7.7 percent—Unemployment rate January 2009 10.0 percent—Unemployment rate December 2009 $787 billion—Cost ...

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