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AFP - Wire storieshttp://www.afp.com/english/news/stories/newsmlmmd.57125db79fdee1ccb900f12e6183738c.71.html [AFP - Wire stories] LONDON (AFP) - Britain's economy saw zero growth in the second quarter compared with the first three months of 2008, official data showed Friday, leaving the country on the brink of recession, analysts said.

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VIPK Blog[VIPK Blog] Economy screeches to halt (AFP): Britain's economy stopped AFP - Britain's economy stopped growing in the second quarter of 2008, recording the weakest quarterly growth rate for 16 years and leaving the country on the brink of recession, analysts said Friday.

Khoodeelaar! the East London 'No to Crossrail hole Bill' Campaignhttp://khoodeelaar.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/0650-gmt-0750-uk-london-monday-18-august-2008-khoodeelaar-told-you-so-that-crossrail-london-is-a-scam-that-all-the-hype-about-crossrail-being-vital-for-the-london-economy-and-the-u/ [Khoodeelaar! the East London 'No to Crossrail hole Bill' Campaign] 0650 GMT 0750 UK London Monday 18 August 2008: KHOODEELAAR! Told ...: being vital for the London [!!!!!] economy and the UK economy [the hype, the lie was LAST  uttered in a state-of-the-farce exhibition of fakery by Ruth Kelly, the crass role playing Crassrail hole plot peddling fronter as UK Transport minister] IS A LIE, has been a lie and will continue to be a lie UNLESS the liars can show NOW that they have got it right and that they have known what they have been talking about…..The WEEKEND evidence shows that the liars remain liars…. A typical sample of the news was on the Times newspaper web site yesterday …..” Labour isn’t working again..”

Gold & Silver Forumhttp://goldismoney.info/forums/showthread.php?t=294016 [Gold & Silver Forum] Richard J. Maybury: The Coming Great War: Finally, after 1492, people began to cross the ocean to America to escape their governments, and England's underground economy was transplanted to America where it flourished. Virtually every adult in colonial America was engaged in smuggling or tax evasion of one sort or another.

FiNTAG - Daily Hedge Fund News, Views, Opinions and Gossip[FiNTAG - Daily Hedge Fund News, Views, Opinions and Gossip] THE FINTAG NEWSLETTER @ 22 August 2008: It's kind of surreal, don't you think, for the Democrats to be holding a nominating convention as two monuments to FDR's government intervention in the financial markets totter on the brink of failure?

Abibitumi Kasa Afrikan Language and Liberation Institutes and Community Networkshttp://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/abibiwiase-adawurob-s-m-afrikan-world-news/37099-mugabe-s-biggest-sin-anglo-american-chinese-interests-clash-over-zimbabwe-s-stra.html [Abibitumi Kasa Afrikan Language and Liberation Institutes and Community Networks] Mugabe’s Biggest Sin: Anglo-American and Chinese interests clash ...: Twenty eight years later, the same Robert Mugabe is under escalating attack from the West, especially Zimbabwe’s former colonial master, England, including strong economic sanctions designed to bring the country to the brink of collapse, to force him to open the economy to foreign (read Anglo-American and allied) investment. Ironically, the issue seems not all that different from the Ian Smith era: London and US control of the resources of the rich land, and Zimbabwean efforts to resist that control.

Peace Action Bloghttp://peaceblog.wordpress.com/2008/08/21/blood-in-august-on-avoiding-world-war-iii/ [Peace Action Blog] Blood in August: On Avoiding World War III: The Europe that waltzed its way up to and over the brink in the 1914 was the world you read about in the stories of Sherlock Holmes, and the novels of Edith Wharton — where the worst monsters prowling the earth were petty criminals and gold-digging bachelors.

Newsroomhttp://www.wwpmc.com/newsroom/2008/07/goldbugg-report-july-15-2008_4212.html [Newsroom] The GoldBugg Report - July 15, 2008: But there is at the same time a rapidly expanding high end of the market driven by new wealth in China, India, Russia and the Gulf which is beyond anybody's control." Martin Rapaport-Telepgraph.co.uk

Photojournalism Linkshttp://photojournalismlinks.com/2008/08/20/updatesfeed/ [Photojournalism Links] Updates: Features and Photo Essays - Thomas Dworzak: A Green Famine in Ethiopia (TIME: August 7, 2008) “In spite of its fertile farmland, the African nation still teeters on the brink of starvation”. (Credit: Thomas Dworzak for TIME) .

SWJ Bloghttp://smallwarsjournal.com/blog/2008/08/2-august-swj-news-oped-and-eve/ [SWJ Blog] 2 August SWJ News, Op-Ed, and Events Roundup: spoke exclusively to the Daily Telegraph in the week when the British death toll in Afghanistan reached 114, with 17 fatalities in the last two months. UK forces have uncovered evidence that British Muslims are actively supporting the Taliban and al-Qa'eda in attacks on coalition forces in southern Afghanistan, Brig Butler said.

A to Z Energy ETF[A to Z Energy ETF] DrumBeat: August 15, 2008: And Keynes’s Londoner “regarded this state of affairs as normal, certain, and permanent, except in the direction of further improvement … The projects and politics of militarism and imperialism, of racial and cultural rivalries, of monopolies, restrictions, and exclusion …

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