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By Don Monkerud

Wages for most Americans didn't improve from 1979 to 1998, and the median male wage in 2000 was below the 1979 level, despite productivity increases of 44.5 percent. Between 2002 and 2004, inflation-adjusted median household income declined $1,669 a year. To make up for lost income, credit card debt soared 315 percent between 1989 and 2006, representing 138 percent of disposable income in 2007.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23094.htm



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By Tom Eley

The main thrust of president Barack Obama's speech before the centenary meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Thursday was to blame working class African-Americans for the social crisis engulfing them.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23095.htm



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By Jeremy R. Hammond

Setting aside the platitudes that comprised most of Clinton's speech and looking closely at her remarks that actually spoke meaningfully towards U.S. policy under the Obama, a picture emerges, one not of a change of course from Bush but rather of near perfect continuity between the two administrations.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23097.htm



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Lots of vague news about some kind of assassination program run out of the Oval Office during the Bush II administration.

You've got to hand it to Congress, the news media and even the "alternative" press for being so clueless.

What kind of people does the White House hit team go after - and why?

It's no mystery.

Details:
http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/673.html



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A new U.S. government report paints a disturbing picture of the current and future effects of climate change and offers a glimpse of what the nation’s climate will be like by century’s end. By Michael D. Lemonick, reposted with permission from Yale’s.

http://tinyurl.com/lcw4yj

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Study: World to Warm Faster Than Predicted
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/27-9

Climate Change to Force 75 Million Pacific Islanders From Their Homes
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/27-1

Climate Change Seen as Threat to US Security
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/08/09-1

http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/672.html

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House Panel to Probe CIA Assassination Program

Jason Leopold, Truthout: "The House Intelligence Committee formally announced Friday that it will probe whether the CIA broke the law by failing to inform Congress about a top secret assassination program reportedly aimed at targeting leaders of al-Qaeda. Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes said the probe would be part of a wide-ranging investigation about the way in which the CIA informs Congress about its covert activities and other matters."

http://www.truthout.org/071809A?n



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Prescription for Disaster
http://www.lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff35.1.html

The Great Government Bread Machine
http://www.lewrockwell.com/calderwood/calderwood28.1.html

On the Next Bubble: It's Government Spending and Debt
http://www.lewrockwell.com/faber/faber11.1.html



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35,000 UK stores to close this year?

As many as 35,000 UK shops could close this year as the recession bites hard into the British economy. That's a prediction included in a report by Experian and featured on The Money Programme tonight on BBC2, presented by retail ghoul Mary Portas (right).

http://www.bitterwallet.com/deathwatch-35000-uk-shops-to-close-this-year/13904



City suspends payment of contracts

Running out of cash because of the state budget deadlock, the City of Philadelphia has stopped paying many of its bills until the impasse is resolved, City Finance Director Rob Dubow said this morning.

http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/heardinthehall/City_suspends_payment_of_contracts.html



Bankruptcy Filings up 33 Percent over a 12-month Period

Total 12-month Total of Bankruptcy Filings 1.2 Million. In last Report, Filings up 27 Percent in one month.

http://snipurl.com/ng0sr


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By Raw Story

More and more mainstream media are brokering cozy relationships between politicians and lobbyists.

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article23087.htm



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