| Banks in California, Georgia, Michigan, Minnesota and Missouri were shuttered, costing the FDIC a total of $1.5 billion. | |
| According to The Nation, the US firm has offered some of the retired Pakistani officials a whopping salary package of 60,000 dollar per month. | |
| CEO at leading parts supplier: "Energy independence...ultimately means that fuel has to be more expensive" | |
| As it is, the LHC was only undergoing test firing. Full particle-smashing duties are scheduled to restart this month. | |
| Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office tells THE WEEKLY STANDARD that the speaker will not allow the final language of the health care to be posted online for 72 hours before bringing the bill to a vote on the House floor, despite her September 24 statement that she was “absolutely” committed to doing so. | |
| An ExxonMobil-led consortium has beaten rival Russian, French and Chinese groups to bag initial rights to develop Iraq’s West Qurna field, the Oil Ministry said. | |
| The US government is now so totally under the thumbs of organized interest groups that “our” government can no longer respond to the concerns of the American people who elect the president and the members of the House and Senate. | |
| The unemployment rate in the U.S. soared to a 26-year high of 10.2 percent in October and employers cut more jobs than forecast, underscoring why Federal Reserve policy makers say interest rates will remain low until the labor market recovers. | |
| People who protest the Winter Olympics are nothing more than “terrorists” with “limited intellect,” Liberal Burquitlam MLA Harry Bloy said in the legislature Monday. | |
| At least 12 people have been killed and more than 30 injured in a shooting rampage at the Fort Hood US military base in Texas. | |
| Thanks to our controlled and uncontrolled media, we know when you take the derivative of the foreclosure crisis you get those greedy predatory lenders at AIG, Goldman Sachs and Bank of America plotting to steal our tacky (I mean tract-y) houses. | |
| The number of Americans receiving food stamp assistance soared above 36 million for the first time in August, the eighth month in a row that enrollment set a record, the U.S. Agriculture Department said on Wednesday. | |
| The new financial instruments invented about 30 years ago helped the America’s wealthiest to suck up the extra wealth created by deregulated finance system, explains Les Leopold, author of “The Looting of America”. | |
| A Senate panel cleared Thursday a climate bill that would reshape the U.S. economy. Republicans boycotted the vote. | |
Saturday, November 7, 2009
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