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  • Texas unemployment offices break down

    Texas unemployment offices break down

    July 19, 2009

    Unprecedented unemployment and political posturing by Governor Rick Perry have forced the Texas Workforce Commmission into a complete breakdown. There were warnings from the Texas AFL-CIO more than a month ago, but the corporate media reported...

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  • COMMENTARY The mentality of marginalization

    COMMENTARY The mentality of marginalization

    July 19, 2009 By Sam Webb

    Because of McCarthyism, the Cold War, the long economic expansion following WW II, and a resistence to think anew, the Left has been on the edges of politics for more than a half century. During this...

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  • Couple covered by over 10,000 bees

    Couple covered by over 10,000 bees

    July 19, 2009 By Xinhua News Agency

    (Xinhua) The couple of beekeepers Li Wenhua (C, front) and Yan Hongxia, are enshrouded with over 10,000 bees, by using the queen bee as a bait, to showcase their familiarity and intimacy with the bee and...

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  • COMMENTARY Blood and oil in Central Asia

    COMMENTARY Blood and oil in Central Asia

    July 19, 2009

    Original source: . Reposted by permission of the author. In the past month, two seemingly unrelated events have turned Central Asia into a potential flashpoint: an aggressively expanding North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and a nascent...

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  • COMMENTARY Calif. budget crisis  who should pay the bill?

    COMMENTARY Calif. budget crisis who should pay the bill?

    July 19, 2009

    WHITTIER, Calif. — California’s state budget is still being debated with continued threats of cuts and services to the most needed in our state. Here in California we all continue to be on pins and needles...

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