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A Pillow Salesman from Crisis, Pursued By Disaster, Followed Closely By Catastrophe Posted: 2 years ago by zion
Here's an article related to a new book that came out last week called Crisis, Pursued By Disaster, Followed Closely By Catastrophe. It's a pretty interesting memoir.
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Putting aside food crisis, G8 leaders savor world delicacies Posted: 1 year ago by topofall
Food crisis - what food crisis!!
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Credit crisis could cost nearly $1 trillion, IMF predicts Posted: 2 years ago by deEPCHill
The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that financial losses stemming from the U.S. mortgage crisis might approach $1 trillion, citing a "collective failure" to predict the breadth of the crisis.
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Women 'are facing extinction' in rural England, leaving thousands of bachelors in crisis Posted: 2 years ago by AutumnLotus
The countryside is in crisis. But for once it isn't the threat of disease to livestock, the purchasing power of the supermarkets or house building plans that is ruining rural England. It is the extinction of that species so integral to a thriving village life - the eligible young woman.
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Worst Crisis Since '30s, With No End Yet in Sight Posted: 1 year ago by bingo
The financial crisis that began 13 months ago has entered a new, far more serious phase.
Lingering hopes that the damage could be contained to a handful of financial institutions that made bad bets on mortgages have evaporated. New fault lines are emerging beyond the original problem in areas like credit-default swaps, the credit insurance contracts sold by American International Group Inc. and others firms. There's also a growing sense of wariness about the health of trading partners.
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Google puts Darfur crisis on its map Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
A scan of Google Earth shows a large swath of Central Africa trimmed in orange. Zoom in and the words "Crisis in Darfur" appear, along with icons of flames marking 1,600 villages destroyed in fighting.
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Abortion crisis as doctors refuse to perform surgery Posted: 3 years ago by AutumnLotus
Britain is facing an abortion crisis because an unprecedented number of doctors are refusing to be involved in carrying out the procedure.
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Pope Will Address Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis Posted: 2 years ago by deEPCHill
And just in time, too.
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"In a world where the next crisis is a moment away..." Posted: 2 years ago by muppet
We need more fear mongering leaders...Yeah. That's it...
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Water crisis threatens Yemen's swelling population Posted: 3 months ago by kakana
Water shortages in the southern city of Aden are already fueling violence. One person was shot dead and three were wounded, two of them police, during water protests on Aug. 24.
*This is about water, something we take for granted every day.
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Naples Garbage Crisis Posted: 3 years ago by gnikgnok
Evidently, all the dumps are full and there's nowhere else to take the trash from the city. After two weeks it's really piling up. It's scary to think this will be happening in more and more cities.
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After The Crisis: A Parody of 15 Corporate Logos Posted: 12 months ago by cactushair
Hilarious parody of what the recession has done to these corporate logos.
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Biden predicts early crisis will test Obama Posted: 1 year ago by hOOsker
"I promise you it will occur..."
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"Parliament of clowns" laughs off financial crisis Posted: 9 months ago by Bornbad
Clowns from across the world met in Germany Friday to pitch laughter as a way to survive the economic crisis.
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Spike Lee Claims God Caused The Economic Crisis To Elect Obama Posted: 11 months ago by 2manyusernames
“So many things have happened – all of a sudden, the economy goes south at that moment, and then McCain,” Lee replied. “There were so many things. It was almost a movement that had to be ordained, I think.”
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Microsoft Vine: Emergency Social Networking Posted: 7 months ago by Ankabout
Microsoft has released Vine, software aimed at helping friends & relatives connect during times of crisis. Apparently inspired by Hurricane Katrina.
Alternate Article
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Global financial crisis takes its toll on China Posted: 10 months ago by aclister
- 20 million laid off
- half of all toy factories have closed
- government plans 4 trillion yuan ($USD 585 million) stimulus package.
- risk of "mass incidents and social unrest" as jobless migrants return to the countryside.
I have also heard that the factories are just closing their doors - no back pay, no severance packages. We are not talking wealthy people here but they all contribute to the developed world's way of life.
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Food crisis could force wartime rations and vegetarian diet on Britons Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
The British people face wartime rations and a vegetarian diet in the event of a world food shortage, a new official assessment on the UK’s food security suggests today. Even though the nation is 73 per cent self-sufficient in food production, higher than during the 1950s, the food chain is at risk from global influences such as a global increase in population, climate change which brings extreme weather patterns, higher oil prices and more crops being grown for bio-fuel instead of food.
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Exotic birds fall prey to foreclosure crisis Posted: 12 months ago by suebe
Real estate agent Jeffrey Dolfinger was making a routine occupancy check on a foreclosed home near Poughkeepsie, New York, when he made a heart-wrenching discovery: two bedraggled cockatiels nearly starved to death.
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Crisis feared as U.S. water supplies dry up Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
An epic drought in Georgia threatens the water supply for millions. Florida doesn’t have nearly enough water for its expected population boom. The Great Lakes are shrinking. Upstate New York’s reservoirs have dropped to record lows. And in the West, the Sierra Nevada snowpack is melting faster each year.
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