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Obama's Trumped-Up Job Count Fails Science Test
Business  (tags: obama, PresidentBarackObama, WhiteHouse, u.s., UnitedStates, America, americans, politics, government, business, jobs, unemployment, money, economy, economic-crisis, bloomberg, corruption, dishonesty, news, society )

SirRobert
- 1 day ago - bloomberg.com
President Barack Obama had stated his administration had saved and created a surplus of jobs recently and at first it was an unverifiable assertion, then it became bureaucratic ineptitude with possible fraud involvement. Obama's transparency isn't working
Refining Poop Power: Wastewater In, Cellulosic Ethanol Out
Business  (tags: economy, energy, environment, Entrepreneurs, goodnews, greenbuilding, humans, investments, oil, technology, sewage sludge, ethenol )

Cowboss
- 54 days ago - thedailygreen.com
There's no nice way of saying this: A group of green-minded entrepreneurs are making a clean-burning car fuel out of, well, poop. They don't call it that, of course -- they prefer to call it "municipal wastewater" or "sewage sludge," but trust me, that's
Is Your Bank 'Underwater'? Check Debt Levels Here
Business  (tags: business, banks, financial, financial-crisis, economy, money, HousingMarket, loans, debts, FederalReserve, world, u.s., americans, America, news, research, economic-crisis, bad-loans, recession, consumers, finance, foreclosures, government )

SirRobert
- 74 days ago - msnbc.msn.com
Current analysis is providing a list of the 400 U.S. banks that are moving into 'deep water', and are further being weighed down by the Housing Market's contractions due to bad loans. Is your bank on this list?
Obama to Give Speech on Financial Crisis Monday
Business  (tags: business, economy, politics, obama, finance, money, society, consumers, americans, usa, corporate )

Cal
- 79 days ago - reuters.com
U.S. President Barack Obama will give a speech about the financial crisis on Monday, marking the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the White House said.
U.S. Poverty Rate Hit 11-Year High in 2008
Business  (tags: economy, americans, humans, consumers, society, politics )

Cal
- 79 days ago - latimes.com
Incomes fell and the ranks of the uninsured grew slightly, though not as much as expected, the Census Bureau says
Sockeye Collapse: BC Indian Chiefs Accuse Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans
Business  (tags: consumers, corruption, cover-up, dishonesty, economy, Entrepreneurs, environment, ethics, farming, government, law, humans, money )

Cowboss
- 101 days ago - thefishsite.com
An Aborigine chief and Secretary-Treasurer of the Union of BC Indian Chiefs has stated his horror at the Department of Fisheries and Oceans ignorance to the full range of problems affecting salmon runs in British Columbia.
In Brazil, Paying Farmers to Let the Trees Stand
Business  (tags: conflict, corruption, business, consumers, finance, government, humans, money, law, SustainableDevelopment, abuse, debt )

Cowboss
- 99 days ago - nytimes.com
QUERENCIA, Brazil -- José Marcolini, a farmer here, has a permit from the Brazilian government to raze 12,500 acres of rain forest this year to create highly profitable new soy fields. But he says he is struggling with his conscience.
Sissy Farmer, Joel Salatin, Speaks Out
Business  (tags: abuse, americans, business, consumers, corruption, cover-up, dishonesty, ethics, farming, humans, government, law, lies, marketing, money, society, usa, environment )

Cowboss
- 105 days ago - thebovine.wordpress.com
Look, for example, at herbivores. They don't eat fermented forage, like silage, they don't eat grain, and they certainly don't eat chicken manure, dead chickens or dead cows [all common food in Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations].
Call for More Imports of GM Feed Ingredients Into EU
Business  (tags: corruption, corporate, dishonesty, economy, farms, government, humans, society, environment, abuse, cover-up, consumers, gmos )

Cowboss
- 109 days ago - thedairysite.com
UK - Ministers and farmers say that imports of genetically modified (GM) imports should be increased. To overcome the dilemma of dwindling global supplies on non-GM feed ingredients and the EU ban on growing GM varieties, the permitted maximum GM ingredie
Germany Introduces 'Without Gene Technology' Label
Business  (tags: corporate, corruption, ethics, farms, finance, government, marketing, money, politics, society, environment, gmos, labeling )

Cowboss
- 107 days ago - thedairysite.com
The German Minister for Agriculture, Ilse Aigner (CDU), has presented a standardised logo for food products 'without gene technology'. Improvement of the poor acceptance of the 'without gene technology' label is expected thereby. To date, only a f
 
 
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