News Selected By World News Trust Editors
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Davos Elite Rebuffs Risk Warnings From Policy Makers (Adrian Cox)
By Adrian Cox Jan. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Bankers, investors, and executives last week arrived at the Swiss resort of Davos giddy about record profits and bonuses. After five days of hectoring by policy ...
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2 election workers convicted of rigging '04 presidential recount (M.R. Kropko)
M.R. KROPKO -- Associated Press Jan. 24, 2007 -- CLEVELAND -- Two election workers in the state's most populous county were convicted Wednesday of illegally rigging the 2004 presidential election ...
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Internet to revolutionize TV in 5 years: Bill Gates (Ben Hirschler)
Ben Hirschler Jan. 26, 2007 -- DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) -- The Internet is set to revolutionize television within five years, due to an explosion of online video content and the merging of PCs ...
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Russian scientists 'alarmed' as millions of birds begin falling from world's skies (Sorcha Faal)
Sorcha Faal, and as reported to her Western Subscribers -- Pravda Jan. 26, 2007 -- An alarming series of reports from the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences Influenza Research Institute are ...
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Affluenza: Rampant consumerism erodes us (Paul Majendie)
By Paul Majendie -- Reuters Jan. 25, 2007 -- Beware the Affluenza Virus. An epidemic of mindless consumerism is sweeping the world with the compulsive pursuit of money and possessions making people ...
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Brown: Politics Played Role in Katrina (Associated Press)
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Jan. 20, 2007 -- NEW YORK (AP) -- Political storm clouds gathered again over the federal government's response to Hurricane Katrina as former Federal Emergency Management ...
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Monster Bunnies For North Korea (David Crossland)
Fat German Rabbits To Feed Poor By David Crossland -- Der Speigel Jan. 10, 2007 -- An east German pensioner who breeds rabbits the size of dogs has been asked by North Korea to help set up a big ...
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'Spaceship Earth' Sculpture Collapses (Associated Press)
Associated Press Jan. 5, 2007 -- ATLANTA -- A million-dollar stone sculpture, intended to remind future generations of the Earth’s fragility, made its point a bit early -– it collapsed just three ...
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Is The U.S. Planning a Horrific Global Nuclear War? (Michel Chossudovsky)
By Michel Chossudovsky -- Information Clearing House Jan. 17, 2007 -- At no point since the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th, 1945, has humanity been closer to the ...
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What We Wanted to Tell You About Iran (Flynt Leverett & Hillary Mann)
By FLYNT LEVERETT and HILLARY MANN -- New York Times Op-Ed Dec. 24, 2006 -- WASHINGTON -- HERE is the redacted version of a draft Op-Ed article we wrote for The Times, as blacked out by the Central ...
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Global systemic crisis in 2007 (LEAP/E2020)
Financial sector: Another bubble close to bursting Public announcement GEAB N°10 Dec. 16, 2006 -- Finance is one of the four sectors identified by LEAP/E2020 in the December issue of their ...
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