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The Grain Exchange
The Financial Times said concerns over the US harvest had prompted senior G20 as well as United Nations officials to consider an emergency meeting on food supply, with a scheduled conference call set...
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Naming Names
Standards of care. Standards of journalism. Nancy Barnes as editor of the Minneapolis StarTrib today writes of the violations off the standards of care. To edit her piece today: “The case of the...
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The Killings at Accent Signage Systems
In a slowly developing story, a shooting took place today at Accent Signage Systems’ 30,000-square-foot office and production space in the Bryn Mawr neighborhood in Minneapolis during the end of the...
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Hearing the Screams, As Money Talks in Iran
The Fall of Iran’s Currency to Now Half of a Half. “There is just such a tremendous disconnect, said Marianne Banziger of the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center, “with people not...
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Greek Mythology
On Monday, all of Greece’s opposition parties – Syriza, Independent Greeks, Golden Dawn and the Communist Party – condemned the shooting which occurred in central Athens before dawn, adding to a wave...
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On the Butt End of Cigarette Smuggling in a Middle East Jihad
In Algeria this week, Mokhtar Belmokhtar was accused of ordering an attack on a gas facility, master-minding the plot to take and kill hostages. Nicknamed “Mr Marlboro”, Belmokhtar acquired the name...
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In School Districts Above the Law
Statutory rape, based upon age, is when in Minnesota someone more than two years older than the victim engages in sexual penetration with someone at least 13 years of age and less than 16 years of age....
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Competitive Currency Debasement
Toxic waste. There was spillover on other neighboring countries from competitive currency debasement. In the words of Kevin Kersten, SJ, life in the modern world has many sorts of enmities, whether...
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The Green Line in Cyprus
There was need in so many countries for low-interest loans that are essential to keeping its banks afloat. And thus the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve bank. Like for Cyprus where there is need...
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The Book of Numbers: Why Pope Benedict Abdicated
The New Irish Prayer for all of Europe through the end of February had been: “May the road rise up to meet you, since your congregation won’t. May the wind at your back always be your own, so long as...
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While America Slept, Under Surveillance
There was Amy Goodman, in 2008. There were Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) in the summer of 2011. Had you heard about the recipients of Section 215 National Security Agency letter...
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Concussion Syndrome from NFL Affects the Entire State of Minnesota
As history students of Nazi Germany learn eventually, collaborators rarely get punished. A spokesman for the Minnesota Vikings voiced concern when The Sports Facilities Authority of Minnesota had...
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Give To The Max Day
Since 2005, Lorena Klinnert and a group of friends have raised money for the Bluefields Children’s Fund which supports a food program and school expenses for children in Bluefields, a very poor...
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When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going
With a true commander-in-chief instead of a community organizer, the US would have yesterday declared war on Leyte, sent in every troop in the Pacific and started feeding the people, turning over the...
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Nothing To Fear Except Fear Itself
Last night in the invisible world of unrestricted power, James R. Clapper Jr. , director of national intelligence, released what appeared to be the original court document authorizing the National...
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Watching a Humanitarian Crisis Take Seed
With 125,000 dead and more than 2.2 million Syrians already displaced to other lands, there are 4.25 million people internally displaced in Syria. There is food for 14 million of the 20 million still...
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Target and My Credit Card
Negligence? Target cyber security was just negligent? And how long does it take to discover something is wrong with your cyber security? And then no announcement? The announcement of the “breach” came...
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The Real War on Terror
Reblogged from Baseball91's Weblog: The cost of freedom: American presidents like to invoke patriotism in their speeches, reminding us of the lives that were spent to preserve the freedoms evoked...
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But where is the Lamb?
But where is the lamb? Yes it is Sunday in the District of Colombia. In an orchestrated move calling attention away from any questioning of why all the secret courts much less the breaches into the...
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The Executive Branch Was Spying on the Legislative Branch
It has been thirteen years worth of erosion of the U S Constitution since the Patriot Act was passed.. And with this new laxity over human rights in the United States, both under Democrat and...
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