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[Todays Economy News] Chicken Shit New World: Can Obama Kill the Economy? Only Time Will ...: Bob Herbert published an excellent op-ed a few days ago commenting on discussions at the recent "The Next American Economy: Transforming Energy and Infrastructure Investment" conference.

[OpEd-Contributor] Matthew Continetti: Democrats' agenda on life support | Washington ...: Obama had five goals: Reform the banks, spend more on education, create a "green economy" through cap and trade and government subsidy, pass universal health insurance, and shift the focus of discretionary spending from defense to social programs. Strip away the spending initiatives, and you see that none of Obama's goals has been achieved.

[Business Insider: Economy] It's Official: The Oil Export Crisis Has Arrived: The Easier to extract oil is of course coming out first, however that does not necessarily imply that unconventional oil can replace conventional oil, should there be a shortage of the latter. In 2008 for example 85.4 million barrels of oil were consumed per day, in Alberta on the other hand only 1.3 million b/d were produced falling far short of the industry's expectations.

[Robert Amsterdam] Russia's Move on Mongolia - Robert Amsterdam: Auslin argues "If the next American president ignores Moscow's inroads, democratic development in Asia will come under threat and the United States may soon be faced with a strategic challenge in one of the world's most resource-rich regions. (...) If Russia succeeds in blackmailing Mongolia into economic subservience, then it can try to extend this tactic to other Central Asian nations."

[AlterNet.org: Health and Wellness] Moral Decay Swirls Around Banking Bailout: Time for a Criminal ...: Could it have possibly been the result of thirty years of mindless deregulation and greed on the part of Republican (and more than a few Democratic) politicians and Wall Street operators? Might the blame lie with an administration that pissed away a trillion dollars of our country's treasure on a unnecessary, stupid war that never should have been fought in the first place?

[Firedoglake] The Seminal » Washington Post's Disclosure Failure in Jack ...: When you take into account the facts that I’ve hinted at above (@27), that it seems probable that our government’s security infrastructure conspired with MS to augment our capability with features built-in to it’s operating systems, you could, with just a little more effort, understand that our nation stands every bit as vulnerable to attack as Al Qaeda, and as a matter of fact, the price we might pay for provoking a successful counter attack is probably on the order of millions of times the cost of our attacks on our enemies.

[Institutional Economics] Institutional Economics: 'Light Reading It's Not' - Forbes: Financial market economists are unanimous in expecting a 25 bp tightening from the RBA at Tuesday’s Board meeting, according to a Reuters poll taken today. February inter-bank futures are giving a 69% probability to a 25 bp tightening, while iPredict has an implied probability of 87%. 

[PoliticalGroove Forums] Op Ed frank rich - the state of the union is comatose: On Wednesday night he could be seen sneering when Obama pointed out that most of the debt vilified by Republicans happened on the watch of a Republican president and Congress that never paid for “two wars, two tax cuts, and an expensive prescription drug program.” The president’s indictment could have been more lacerating. Crunching Congressional Budget Office numbers, David Leonhardt of The Times calculated that of the projected $2 trillion swing into the red between the Clinton surplus and 2012, some 33 percent could be attributed to Bush legislation and another 20 percent to Bush-initiated spending (Iraq, TARP) continued by Obama.

[transCurrents] transCurrents: Sri Lanka North-East settlements likened to Robert ...: for your further information, this so called "expert" should know it is the LTTE leader who practised ethnic cleansing by throwing out more than 100,000 muslims and all the sinhalese from the north in the early nineties not the sri-lankan government.

[News Dissector Blog] News Dissector Blog » Blog Archive » Plant Implodes; Obama Becomes ...: The last time we heard from our last King George, counting his brief photo-op in the role of savior of Haiti , we learned that he had become a motivational speaker. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania said that if we don't act quickly in developing long-term solutions to these and other problems, the United States will be a second-rate economic power by the end of this decade.

[Public Intelligence Blog] Journal: Op-Ed on Haiti Log-Jam, Politics, and Debt « Public ...: Just over five days or 120 hours after a major earthquake hit the area of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, it is increasingly clear that the US approach to organizing the delivery of emergency assistance and supplies is so ineffective that the general directing the distribution of emergency aid needs to be fired without further delay.  The catastrophic blunder involved is the decision by the US military in the person of Gen. Ken Keen to insist on routing all external aid through a single substandard, inadequate, and partially destroyed landing field, the Toussaint L”˜Ouverture airport.  This airport has a single runway, and room to park only about half a dozen medium to long range aircraft.  The result is that once six aircraft are parked in the unloading area, all incoming traffic must be waved off until one of the six planes has taken off again, as a colonel on the ground explained in a press conference broadcast on C-SPAN radio here this afternoon.  The control tower, radar, and other facilities have been destroyed by the earthquake.  Even once cargo has been offloaded, it has been tending to build up at the airport because the streets and roads leading from the airport towards the main population concentrations are blocked by collapsed buildings and other debris.  The result is an agonizing slowness in delivering vital supplies upon which the immediate survival of up to 3 million Haitians now depends.

[California High Speed Rail Blog] California High Speed Rail Blog » Thursday Is HSR Stimulus Day: It’s also lost on them because the CHSRA is just lame in positioning its reports. I know and you know that the biz plan is just a snapshot of a scenario at this point in time, but but Joe Homeowner doesn’t know that, so the CHSRA needs to be super-defensive about releasing anything that says anything like “fares will now be $100 from LA to SF.”

[Bill Dahl] Bill Dahl » Blog Archive » An Interview With Futurists and ...: “Adaptive Efficiency” - “An economy’s success depends on its ability to invent and embrace protocols. Kling and Schulz use North’s phrase “adaptive efficiency,” but they’re really talking about how quickly a society is infected by new ideas”¦..When the economy

[accessinternetmarketing] Media Channel 2.0 ”” Blog ”” personal finance blog: Last week, the Wall Street Journal argued in an op-ed that the ongoing battle between Google, Baidu, and Beijing amounted to protectionism on the part of the Chinese government, and that Google, and other US companies blocked by the CCP's censorship regime such as Facebook and Twitter, should push for the US to bring a case against China before the WTO. According the Washington Post, Chinese dissident Ran Yunfei agrees, suggesting that rather than leaving China Google should pressure the Chinese regime through the WTO and the US government.

[POLITICO Top Stories] How to rebuild Haiti - Robert B. Zoellick - POLITICO.com: "Ultimately, for environmental restoration, economic development and equitable social systems to take root in Haiti, the Haitian people must become engaged and take full ownership over the efforts..." - Sustainable Land Development International (SLDI) Sets Sights on Haiti

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