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Stock futures signal weaker Wall St after Fed

February 19, 2010 05:22 AM ET
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(Reuters) – U.S. stock index futures fell, pointing to a weaker start for Wall Street on Friday after the U.S. Federal Reserve raised an emergency lending rate it charges banks.
 
U.S. state pension funds have $1 trillion shortfall
 

Police State USA: TSA now to start swabbing passengers’ hands for traces of explosives

 

China Won't Back Down

In recent months, a pretense of cordiality has given way to unusually public squabbling. China is threatening to boycott U.S. defense contractors over arms sales to Taiwan and is loudly protesting President Obama's meeting this week with the Dalai Lama.
 
 
– Hiring Death Squads Is Coming Back to Haunt U.S. Companies
Dole Foods and Chiquita may be on the verge of facing justice for ‘pacifying’ their work force, suppressing labor unions and terrorizing peasant squatters in Colombia.
 
FRANCE TO PROVIDE TOTAL BUDGETARY SUPPORT FOR HAITI OF 270 MILLI. .

        WORLD NEWS

 
Nigeria: After a Third Term, Niger President Ousted
 
Georgia denounces French sale of tanks and warships to Russia
 
Ruling: No Court Can Hear Abuse and Wrongful Death Claims from Guantanamo  Center for Constitutional RightsFebruary 17, 2010 - Yesterday evening, the district court in Washington, D.C. ruled against two men who died in Guantanamo in June 2006 and their families in a case seeking to hold federal officials and the United States responsible for the men’s torture, arbitrary detention and ultimate deaths at Guantánamo. Following a two-year investigation, the military concluded that the men had committed suicide. Recent first-h

 
 
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CANADA

DECLARATION OF A POLITICAL EMERGENCY ~

Canada's North ~ the prostitution continues

By Andrew Nikiforuk. Submitted by Luc Majno
 
Men figure skaters bedazzle the world
 
Concert Barricade Collapses, leaving 19 people injured
 
‘An attack on Israel would be considered an attack on Canada’
 
Top Restaurants in British Columbia
 
Save Winter - Stop Tar Sands, the Dirtiest Form of Oil
 
Nice try, Canada. But you’re fired
Bode, sequins, Bob Costas’s amazing hair and the one thing the host country really shouldn’t get wrong
By Steve Almond
 
New Cold War: Russia vs. Canada
Their hockey rivalry is decades old, but the rise of Alex Ovechkin lends it a new fury
By Ethan Sherwood Strauss
 

ASIA/MIDDLE EAST

Europeans Press Israel for Answers After Dubai Killing
 
Netanyahu says world inching closer to Israel’s position on Iran.
Ha’aretz
The ‘gap in understanding’ between Israel and the world over Iran is narrowing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday. Disputed elections in Iran
 
All Systems Go: No Dysfunction in Profitable Afghan Enterprise ~ By Chris Floyd
 

Isolated and battered, Israeli doves hold protest Israel’s battered pro-peace camp is showing signs of life with a weekly Jerusalem protest by a motley collection of anarchists,

 

MARKETS/ECONOMICS

Wholesale inflation surges...
 
 
 
Expert Says Greek Debt Challenges Logic of EU
"The Greek debt crisis has exposed the underlying contradictions of Europe's economic monetary union-- a single currency and market absent a single government--at a time when the EU is beset by growing conflicts among the member states".

 

BUSINESS

 
 
 
 
 
Until and unless excess debts are liquidated, the disease cannot be subdued. It will merely return at a different time, in a different form. Next to feel the pain: Sovereign nations!
 
 
Should Have, Would Have, Could Have… Research Reveals the Power of Counterfactual Reflection on Life’s Pivotal Moments
UC Berkeley business management professors find counterfactual thinkers are more analytical in organizational settings.
 
The Front Organizations for U.S. Oligarchs Have Been Established in Abu Dhabi
 

TECH

The Safest & Most Dangerous Cell Phones
 
 

HAITI

 

U.S.

Source: FBI Knew Austin Attack Was Coming.
Dallas office dispatched agents yesterday afternoon to be on the ground in Austin
 
READ THE MAN’S SUICIDE NOTE--WHICH HAS A LOT OF TRUTH IN IT
 
Wall Street’s Bailout Hustle
Goldman Sachs and other big banks aren’t just pocketing the trillions we gave them to rescue the economy - they’re re-creating the conditions for another crash.
 
February 18, 2010 06:17 PM ET
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NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Cleveland has won the dubious distinction of being the most miserable city in the United States, according to a new poll.
 
By Joel S. Hirschhorn
Real, Uglier American Unemployment
Can you trust national averages? As bad as the jobless data you hear are, you have not been told the whole truth. If you think the terrible impact of Americ’s Great Recession is shown by an official unemployment rate of about 10 percent, think again.
 
What Happened When a Professor Got His Students to Participate in His ‘Veil for a Day’ Project

Anyone who thinks we’re a post–racial society should get a load of the reactions.
 
Spokesman: Unruly passenger took a swing at Romney
Former presidential candidate reportedly did not retaliate

 

Cheney Admits to War Crimes, Media Yawns, Obama Turns the Other Cheek

On Sunday, in an exclusive interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News’ "This Week," Cheney proclaimed his love of torture, derided the Obama administration for outlawing the practice, and admitted that the Bush administration ordered Justice Department attorneys to …

 

AMERICAS

 

SC/ENVIRONMENT

Radiation breakdown
 
UN Climate Chief to Step Aside
 
 
 
 
‘Slow doesn’t just happen anymore. You have to make the effort’, says Honeybloom. ‘I truly believe that slowing down your life is a radical choice’
 
 

HEALTH and HEALTHIER TALK

By Mike Adams, NaturalNews Editor
February 18 - It’s being called the largest research fraud in medical history. Dr. Scott Reuben, a former member of Pfizer’s speakers’ bureau, has agreed to plead guilty to faking dozens of research studies that were published
 
Untreated Poor Vision in Elderly Linked to Dementia
According to a recent University of Michigan study, elderly people with visual disorders that are left untreated are significantly more likely to develop dementia. Early treatment of visual problems may delay the development of dementia.
 
Obesity—Mild Or Severe—Raises Kidney Stone Risk
Obesity in general nearly doubles the risk of developing kidney stones, but the degree of obesity doesn’t appear to increase or decrease the risk one way or the other, a new study from Johns Hopkins shows.
 
 
The great thing about Corporate America is that competition is always fierce for the national title of greediest.

 

OP ED

Solving Class Warfare
 
 
 

 
Either Bill Maher was doing his best effort to impersonate Mel Brooks as King Louis XVI in “History in the World, Part I” or he has a complete and utter disregard for the intellectual competency of the American people.
 
The battle over ‘retard’ Rahm Emanuel, Sarah Silverman and Rush Limbaugh caught flak for using the dreaded R-word. Is it ever OK?
 
 
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Babes to the Slaughter
 
 
 
 
 
 
George Albayan sent a message to the members of Bite Club of KC: URGENT REQUEST FOR EMAILS TO BE SENT ‘PLEASE, click on the attached link and read the article entitled, ‘And Now You Want to Kill More Innocents’.
 
 
 
 
 

FEATURES

Wow, my friend "Tara" has so much talent! Turn-on your speakers and enjoy: 01 Grief Stricken.mp3 ~Vince
 
There’s a lot of history in a surname. A new project will put the origins of thousands online

LETTERS/INTERVIEWS

Bite Club protest ~ from Jason Miller
 
from Frederick, HRH Prince Frederick von Saxe-Lauenberg, Founder President :- Children of the World 2000 member of the International Peace Bureau World Peace Emissary  www.kyazanga.org/childrenoftheworld»
 

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