Money & Markets
China Takes 10% Stake in Morgan Stanley to Cover Junk Mortgages
By Joseph A. Giannone – Reuters (19 Dec 2007)Credit Crisis Hits Top US Bond Insurer
By Stephen Bernard – Associated Press (21 Dec 2007)Credit Crisis to Become Lawyers’ Picnic as Banks Face Class-Action Claims
By Tom Bawden – Times Online, New York (21 Dec 2007)Putin, the Kremlin Power Struggle and the $40bn Fortune
By Luke Harding – Guardian Unlimited (21 Dec 2007)Vladimir Putin Interview with Time Magazine
Press Release: Government of Russia (20 Dec 2007)Elitists Consider Assassinating Ron Paul
By Paul Joseph Watson – Prison Planet (14 Dec 2007)Ron Paul on Mad Money w/Jim Cramer
Video at YouTube (14 Dec 2007)Present Day DOJ/CIA Collusion?
Congress, Bush in Clash Over CIA Interrogation Tapes
Associated Press (15 Dec 2007)Deepcaster Letter Details How US Government Manipulates Major Markets
By Chris Powell – GATA (15 Dec 2007)Call to Relax Basel Banking Rules
By Edmund Conway – London Telegraph (16 Dec 2007)Content Islanders Reject Capitalism for Traditional Trade
By Nick Squires – New Zealand Herald (12 Dec 2007)Schwarzenegger Will ‘Declare Fiscal Emergency’ In Weeks
NBC11.com (14 Dec 2007)Are Commodities a Bubble Ready to Burst?
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (18 Dec 2007)Citi Launches $49bn SIV Rescue [Register to view full article.]
By David Wighton – Financial Times, New York (14 Dec 2007)Broker Charged With Defrauding School Districts
From the Associated Press – Observer-Reporter.coom (12 Dec 2007)Weak Dollar Restores Health to Wide Range of Exporters
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard – London Telegraph (19 Dec 2007)‘Helicopter money’ Is So Passe; This is a Fleet of C-17s
Investors Stunned by ECB’s E350 Billion
By Ralph Atkins, et al – Financial Times, London (18 Dec 2007)Another Wave of Food Price Inflation Is On The Way
By Javier Blas, et al – Financial Times, London (16 Dec 2007)
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Precious Metals
Ecuador Seeks to Tax Miners’ Winfall Revenue
By Alonso Soto – Reuters (18 Dec 2007)
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Food & Health
Hungry Times for Area Food Banks
By Alfred Lubrano, et al – Philly.com (Dec 07)Inside the Ontario Food Terminal
A blog post by Tim (7 Oct 2007)
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Life
Clam, 405, is Oldest Animal Ever
By Richard Alleyne – London Telegraph (31 Oct 2007)Amazing Grace History
At YouTube – By Wintley PhippsScientists Seek to Help ‘Locked-in’ Man Speak
By Yvonne S. Lee – CNN (14 Dec 2007)Popular Science Innovation of the Year: Nanosolar Powersheet
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Geopolitical
Statement Introducing the Free Competition in Currency Act
Rep. Ron Paul, MD (13 Dec 2007)Slave Labour That Shames America
By Leonard Doyle – The Independent (19 Dec 2007)Nick from Philly911Truth.org Visited by Secret Service
We Are Change Blog (14 Dec 2007)NYCLU Sues NYPD for Harassing Photographers
At NYCLU website (6 Dec 2007)Israel: US Report on Iran May Spark War
By Laurie Copans – Associated Press (15 Dec 2007)6 States Defy Law Requiring ID Cards
By Thomas Frank – USA Today (18 Dec 2007)WW1 Letter Found 93 Years Later
From BBC News (14 Dec 2007)
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Playa Cofi Jukebox ~ Top 100 Songs forom the Golden Years of Pop Music
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