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USA 2008: The Great Depression

Food stamps are the symbol of poverty in the US. In the era of the
credit crunch, a record 28 million Americans are now relying on them
to survive – a sure sign the world's richest country faces economic
crisis

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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/business/01fraud.html?partner=MYWAY&pagewanted...

Colorado Proposes Tough Law on Executive Accountability
By DAN FROSCH

DENVER — For 30 years, Lew Ellingson loved being a telephone man.

His job splicing phone cables was one that he says gave him “a true
sense of accomplishment,” first for Northwestern Bell, then US West
and finally Qwest Communications International.

But by the time Mr. Ellingson retired from Qwest last year at 52, he
had grown angry. An insider trading scandal had damaged the company’s
reputation, and the life savings of former colleagues had evaporated
in the face of Qwest’s stock troubles.

“It was a good place,” he said wistfully. “And then something like
this happened.”

Now, Mr. Ellingson is the public face of a proposed ballot measure in
Colorado that seeks to create what supporters hope will be the
nation’s toughest corporate fraud law.

http://www.reuters.com/article/healthNews/idUSN3143203520080331?feedType=RSS&feedName...

Doctors support universal health care: survey
Mon Mar 31, 2008 5:14pm EDT

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of U.S. doctors now favor
switching to a national health care plan and fewer than a third oppose
the idea, according to a survey published on Monday.

The survey suggests that opinions have changed substantially since the
last survey in 2002 and as the country debates serious changes to the
health care system.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/01/zimbabwe

Secret Mugabe meeting ponders military move or fixed result - but not
an admission of defeat

· Zimbabwe president persuaded not to declare victory
· Trickle of results raises fears of rigged election

A crisis meeting of Robert Mugabe's security cabinet decided to block
the opposition from taking power after what appears to have been a
comprehensive victory in Zimbabwe's elections but was divided between
using a military takeover to annul the vote and falsifying the
results.

Diplomatic and Zimbabwean sources who heard first-hand accounts of the
Joint Operations Command meeting of senior military and intelligence
officers and top party officials on Sunday night said Mugabe favoured
immediately declaring himself president again but was persuaded to use
the country's electoral commission to keep the opposition from power.

The commission began releasing a trickle of results yesterday, more
than 36 hours after the polls closed, but the opposition Movement for
Democratic Change said it believed the count was being manipulated.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/apr/01/biofuels.energy

Demands for crackdown on biofuels scam

US 'splash and dash' loophole undermines climate change fight

* Terry Macalister
* The Guardian,
* Tuesday April 1 2008

This article appeared in the Guardian on Tuesday April 01 2008 on p1
of the Top stories section. It was last updated at 00:44 on April 01
2008.

The EU is being urged to take action to stop a biofuel trading scam
that exploits US agricultural subsidies and undermines the fight
against global warming.

Up to 10%% of biofuel exports from the US to Europe are believed to be
part of the rogue scheme reaping big profits for agricultural trading
firms.

The "splash and dash" scam involves shipping biodiesel from Europe to
the US where a dash of fuel is added, allowing traders to claim 11p a
litre of US subsidy for the entire cargo. It is then shipped back and
sold below domestic prices, undercutting Europe's biofuel industry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/world/middleeast/01hamas.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slo...

In Gaza, Hamas’s Fiery Insults to Jews Complicate Peace Effort

By STEVEN ERLANGER
Published: April 1, 2008

Hamas and Fatah Supporters Clash at Gaza University (April 1, 2008)

“Jews are a people who cannot be trusted,” Imam Yousif al-Zahar of
Hamas told the faithful. “They have been traitors to all agreements —
go back to history. Their fate is their vanishing. Look what they are
doing to us.”

At Al Omari mosque, the imam cursed the Jews and the “Crusaders,” or
Christians, and the Danes, for reprinting cartoons of the Prophet
Muhammad. He referred to Jews as “the brothers of apes and pigs,”
while the Hamas television station, Al Aksa, praises suicide bombing
and holy war until Palestine is free of Jewish control.

If fox didn't use made up news or opinion's they wouldn't have anything to
air for like half the day. So really they just do it out of necessity.
Otherwise fox would be about 12 hrs of bad news reporting and 12 hrs of
infomercials.

Don't you love Fox's boner commercials?

Fox Keeps Up Variations Of The 'Some People Say' Only They Direct It At
Hillary
Today on Fox and Friends they kept up the 'some people say' gimmick that
they have used so often in the past and continued to use it today.

Will it be Barack that they diss tomorrow or will they stick with Hillary,
because we know it won't be John McCain.

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Fox Frets About "Your Tax Dollars"
Proving what a farce his "business news" show is, Neil Cavuto, Fox's
"premiere business news" guy opened today (March 31, 2008) not with news
about what happened on Wall Street or Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's plan
to overhaul the banking system, but with nearly two-month-old news about
Barack Obama's energy proposals.

Yes, the station that claims it is the place to go for politics was
apparently in need of fresh Obama-bashing material so it decided to pay
attention to something Obama has been talking about for a long, long time,
namely his energy plan, which he spoke about again in Pennsylvania today.

Yes, Mr. Fox Business News opened his show with a FOX NEWS ALERT and video
of Obama speaking: "That's why I propose investing $150 billion over the
next decade in a green energy sector that will create up to 5 million jobs
including many right here in Pennsylvania."

Then to a grim-faced Cavuto: