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The numbers coming out of the US housing market are getting bad:
A record 2.18 million homes sat vacant and available for sale in the fourth quarter, according to the report, up from 2.07 million in the third quarter and the 2.1 million a year earlier. The fourth-quarter reading on vacant homes [...]
That’s a lot of scratch…
A source inside the Obama campaign says the candidate’s web site has seen one of its best hours tonight, raising $525,000 in one hour. A senior aide inside the Obama campaign said the candidate’s site saw its “highest peak” tonight in both online donations and traffic, “bigger [...]
Shell is calling peak oil will begin in 2015. Will the days of cheap, easy motoring be over so soon or will we just go nuclear? Neither scenario bodes well for a world that seems unable to stop consuming.
World demand for oil and gas will outstrip supply within seven years, according [...]
OVER the years, I’ve been deeply moved by the people who’ve told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. This sense is even more profound today. That is why I am supporting a presidential candidate in the Democratic [...]
A very weird voice of god-type whisper anticipated the words ot Mitt Romney during the recent GOP candidate debate. MSNBC doesn’t know how it got there. Very strange indeed.
The whisper that could be heard just before an answer from Mitt Romney at Thursday’s Republican debate was the result of a microphone [...]
If this isn’t a smoking gun then I don’t know what is. The question is, who is accountable for this colossal blunder?
The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 [...]
Will we see the resurgence of the pink-slip parties of the late 90’s?
The exact number of jobs cuts being planned was not given. The reports, citing unnamed sources, said the reductions could number “hundreds of workers.” Yahoo currently has about 14,000 employees.
A representative for the company could not be immediately reached [...]
The Vancouver Sun’s David Baines has published a piece on Tom William’s new charity site GiveMeaning. Baines concludes his article by saying:
He said the financial return for the year ending Sept. 30, 2007, which is just now being filed, will show a greater percentage of overall donations going to charity. We [...]
Jim Kunstler, creator of clusterfucknation and prophet of peak oil driven doom is at SFU tonight. If you can, you should give him a listen. Here is a sampling of his latest blog entry:
George W. Bush, tried to appease the beast by offering each American adult the dollar equivalent of half [...]
While Gregor Robertson remains undecided about running for the city’s top job, the Vancouver-Fairview MLA may be emerging as the consensus choice for a mayoral candidate for both the Coalition of Progressive Electors and Vision Vancouver.
“We think that there’s a real possibility for someone, perhaps Gregor Robertson, to be a unifier [...]
