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Economy: 'Buy farmland and gold,' advises Dr Doom
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The US is going to go bankrupt. By Leo Lewis, Asia Business Correspondent Feb 22, 2010 The world’s most powerful investors have been advised to buy farmland, stock up on gold and prepare for a “dirty war” by Marc Faber, the notoriously bearish market pundit, who predicted the 1987 stock market crash.
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Environment: 6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save The World
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	Mycologist Paul Stamets studies the mycelium -- and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world. Mushrooms to clean up oil spills? To transform toxic Farm Run Off? To combat pox viruses and the Flu? Yes, yes, and yes according to Paul Stamets in this 18 minute talk -- and there is more…
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Economy: The Austrians Were Right
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The first Austrian scholars were predicting the bubble back in 2003 ...foreseeing the housing bubble, rising gold prices, and a declining economy... But most mainstream Keynsian economists blame the free market for boom-and-bust cycles and prescribe various types of government intervention as the cure. Unfortunately the worst not over yet! If you can stand the facts... read & watch the videos.
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Liberty: "Good Germans?" Majority of Americans Favor Torture for Detroit Underwear Bomber
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	What does this tell us about ourselves? By Joshua Holland \| AlterNet December 31, 2009 Here's a poll asking Americans if they approve of their government committing one of the worst crimes against humanity and violating its own long-standing laws and treaty commitments.
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Liberty: Have Americans Traded Freedom For Security?
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According to polls, Americans support torture and don't mind that their government spies on them without obtaining warrants from a court. By Paul Craig Roberts \| CounterPunch, December 25, 2009 Obama's dwindling band of true believers has taken heart that their man has finally delivered on one of his many promises -- the closing of the Guantanamo prison. But the prison is not being closed. It is being moved to Illinois, if the Republicans permit.
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Global Warming: Climate Talks on Verge of Collapse in Final Hours
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	A leaked UN documents is among a number of news items as the climate talks reach the home-stretch By Nick Berning \| Open Left December 18, 2009 There's a somber mood in Copenhagen on the last day of climate negotiations, with prospects for a strong and fair agreement feeling further and further out of reach.
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Real Estate: Waiting with 45,000 People Afraid of Losing Their Homes -- Ground Zero in America's Mortgage Meltdown
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The American home-owner's dream is on life support: millions are suffering disastrous subprime mortgages or sky-high interest rates. By Andy Kroll \| Tomdispatch.com December 2, 2009 At the end of a week in mid-October when the Dow Jones soared past 10,000, Goldman Sachs recorded "just another fantastic quarter" with a .2 billion quarterly profit, JPMorgan Chase raked in a cool .6 billion, and a New York Times headline declared "Bailout Helps Revive Banks, And Bonuses," I spent a Saturday evening with about 100 people camped out in a northern California parking lot.
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Business: 10 Companies to Avoid This Holiday Season
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	Yes, there's Wal-Mart, but also a bunch of surprises, too. by Tara Lohan at 5:00 AM on December 4, 2009 Air America put together a list of companies that you should think twice about before handing them your money.
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International: 6 Signs That the American Empire Is Coming to an Early End
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The day of America's global pre-eminence is over. We must face the new global realities By Michael T. Klare, Tomdispatch.com. Posted October 27, 2009 Memo to the CIA: You may not be prepared for time-travel, but welcome to 2025 anyway! Your rooms may be a little small, your ability to demand better accommodations may have gone out the window, and the amenities may not be to your taste, but get used to it. It's going to be your reality from now on.
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Energy: Printed PV: Nanosolar unveils 640MW utility-scale panel fab, high-efficiency CIGS cell production
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	Stop buying Si wafer based PV NOW... Price-crash to-follow! By Tom Cheyney \| PT-Tech September 2009 After staying relatively quiet for much of the past year, thin-film PV manufacturer Nanosolar has come out with a full docket of announcements: the completion of its 640MW panel-assembly factory near Berlin celebrated during an event attended by the German Minister of the Environment and other dignitaries; the start of serial roll-to-roll production of its flexible copper-indium-gallium-(di)selenide cells in the company’s San Jose facility; $4.1 billion in panel purchases from customers--including some of the world’s largest utility companies; NREL-verified cell efficiencies up to 16.4%; and new technical details of both its printed CIGS cell technology and utility-scale panels.
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