Economy
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Halliburton Knew Cement for BP Well Was Unstable (Jeff Plungis)
Oct. 28, 2010 (Bloomberg) -- The cement Halliburton Co. recommended to seal BP Plc’s Macondo well was unstable in tests and may have contributed to the April 20 blowout, the staff of a national ...
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When Criminals Vote… (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Oct. 26, 2010 -- Election Day is mental illness in plain view -- unabashed, unfettered lunacy not even trying to masquerade as sanity. If we woke up, it would take ...
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Planet Hoover (David Glenn Cox)
Victorian London workhouse David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Oct. 26, 2010 -- It is a dangerous time to be alive, it makes the zoo keepers nervous when they enter the cage to feed you one more ...
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Self Defense for Radicals: Collective Soul + Activist Heart (Mickey Z)
Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 14, 2010 -- In his book, Climate Wars: The Fight for Survival as the World Overheats, author Gwynne Dyer presents a series of scenarios that could potentially play ...
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Too Pig to Jail? Ban Foreclosures Now (Ted Rall)
Oct. 21, 2010 -- SAN FRANCISCO (Information Clearing House) -- What would happen to you if you got caught forging a mortgage application? You'd go to jail. And rightly so. In one case in Florida, an ...
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Fraud Task Force Pursues Criminal Investigation of Mortgage Servicers (Carrie Bay)
Oct. 19, 2010 (DSNews) -- Allegations that some of the nation’s largest mortgage servicers cut corners in processing foreclosures and filed unsubstantiated paperwork could turn criminal. ...
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Jim Rogers Says Bank Balance Sheets Full of Rotten Stuff (CNBC)
Oct. 20, 2010 (CNBC) -- The problems banks have with mortgages will take a long time to be solved and bank stocks are not attractive despite the recent drop in price following fears over problems ...
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Why The Paperwork Appears 'Sloppy' (Neil Garfield)
Oct. 20, 1010 (Livinglies) -- After centuries of lending money and preparing loan documents it seems that the least likely suspect for screwing up the paperwork on tens of millions of “loans” would ...
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When Banks Are the Robbers (Amy Goodman)
Oct. 20, 2010 (TruthDig) -- The big banks that caused the collapse of the global finance market, and received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts, have likely been engaging in ...
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America's False Consciousness (Charles Sullivan)
Oct. 20, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- An essay authored by Patrick Martin, and published at the World Socialist Web Site Oct. 13, 2010, revealed some interesting findings regarding the ...
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Obama Hires a Hustler (Robert Scheer)
Oct. 19, 2010 (TruthDig) -- One day as Wall Street was crashing, President George W. Bush had the temerity to plaintively ask his treasury secretary, Henry Paulson: “How did this happen?” Paulson, ...
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