.... In the cases of the Roosevelt institutions, public capital went hand in hand with ...bad assets on the books of financial institutions dwarfs any previous crisis, and is literally.... Paulson's idea of allowing financial institutions to park questionable securities in a government...bad paper off the books of financial institutions, we should demand: Much tougher regulation of all financial institutions going forward. That can't be done in...

... less than the truth, we mince words. We use euphemisms like mendacity and inaccuracy Â… or, as the Associated Press put it, "McCain's claims skirt facts." But increasing numbers of otherwise sober observers, even such august institutions as the New York Times editorial board, are calling John McCain a liar. You might well ask, What has McCain done to deserve this? What unwritten rules did he break? Are his transgressions of degree or of ...

.... Of course its political leaders should try to maximize the revenue they can wring out of Washington and Exxon. But they shouldn't call that self-help. AlterNet is a nonprofit organization and does not make political endorsements. The opinions expressed by its writers are their own. David Morris is co-founder and vice president of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance in Minneapolis, Minnn., and director of its New Rules project.

... economic and environmental grounds (about a fifth of California's energy is used to move water from north to south). "The days are over when we can consider wastewater a liability," says Peter Gleick, president of the Pacific Institute, an environmental research group in Oakland. "It's an asset. And that means figuring out how best to use it." As we deplete the earth's nonrenewable resources, like oil and metals, the one-way trip from ...

... term "informed market decisions" ring a bell? After all the "invisible hand" of free markets is little more than free speech on economic issues. Anyway, if you openly admit you're ignorant of plain English then you ain't gonna have much credibility. That's why all yer rich buddies in power are using trillions (13 figures) of tax payer money to bail out all those loser capitalist financial institutions. Bret Cahill

... as They Pursue Cross-Border Deals -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chinese banks have been pursuing larger, more ambitious M&A deals. Many deals have involved taking stakes in foreign institutions, according to a report by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG). The report, titled Venturing Abroad: Chinese Banks and Cross-Border M&A , ...

...Archæopteryx to be the greatest evidence for their scenario concerning the evolution of birds, some recently-found fossils invalidate that scenario in other respects. Lianhai Hou and Zhonghe Zhou, two paleontologists at the Chinese Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology, discovered a new bird fossil in 1995, and named it Confuciusornis. This fossil is almost the same age as Archæopteryx (around 140 million years), but has no teeth in its ...

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... his real parents were nothing. THE BORG I think one of my legs just got longer than the other! -- Frederick Martin McNeill Poway, California, United States of America mmcneill@fuzzysys.com ****************************************** "The institution of the family is decisive in determining not only if a person has the capacity to love another individual but in the larger social sense whether he is capable of loving his fellow men ...

... eye will make the whole world free. If you're with an eye for an eye and you protect and enforce an eye for an eye then we can be free from injustice and oppression. But if you don't then they can set up an institution and enforce a philosophy worse than an eye for an eye. If you just go forgiveness and let them do what they want to do they'll just do their thing with out you, which can be worse than an eye for an eye. Making the...