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35,000 UK stores to close this year?

As many as 35,000 UK shops could close this year as the recession bites hard into the British economy. That's a prediction included in a report by Experian and featured on The Money Programme tonight on BBC2, presented by retail ghoul Mary Portas (right).

https://www.bitterwallet.com/deathwatch-35000-uk-shops-to-close-this-year/13904



City suspends payment of contracts

Running out of cash because of the state budget deadlock, the City of Philadelphia has stopped paying many of its bills until the impasse is resolved, City Finance Director Rob Dubow said this morning.

https://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/heardinthehall/City_suspends_payment_of_contracts.html



Bankruptcy Filings up 33 Percent over a 12-month Period

Total 12-month Total of Bankruptcy Filings 1.2 Million. In last Report, Filings up 27 Percent in one month.

https://snipurl.com/ng0sr


From Information Clearing House



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=recession
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bankruptcy

By Raw Story

More and more mainstream media are brokering cozy relationships between politicians and lobbyists.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article23087.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=mainstream+media
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=lobbyists

By Arundhati Roy

What can we do, now that democracy and the free market are one?
https://informationclearinghouse.info/article23092.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Arundhati+Roy

Taking Populism Seriously

By Adrian Kuzminski

The populist impulse of today, widespread but fragmented and disorganized, is what's left of a once proud and impressive mass political movement in this country. In its heyday, in the 1880s and 90s, fifty populists from the People's party, were elected to the US Congress, with many others winning state and local offices. Such a showing by a third party today would be cataclysmic.

https://informationclearinghouse.info/article23080.htm



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Adrian+Kuzminski

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/17-9



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Cheney
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=assassin

https://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/07/17-1

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Journalist Imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay to Sue George Bush

Gwladys Fouche, The Guardian UK: "An al-Jazeera journalist who was imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay plans to launch a joint legal action with other detainees against former US President George Bush and other administration officials, for the illegal detention and torture he and others suffered at the hands of US authorities."

https://www.truthout.org/071909Y?n



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Sami+al-Haj
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Bush+legacy
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gwladys+Fouche

https://www.brasschecktv.com/page/669.html



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=biological+weapon

https://tinyurl.com/ldaljl

Corporations Sponsor Wolf-Killing "Derbies": Take Action to Stop Them
https://action.defenders.org/site/R?i=F4rhdNocnBKBG7q-6l4i5w..



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=wolves

CounterPunch
by Evan Knappenberger

07/16/09

Amy made a decision to go AWOL. It was a decision made not out of fear, but out of courage. She simply refused to participate in something she considered to be immoral. A young, beautiful woman with an intellect to match, Amy now chooses to hide in anonymity rather than to turn herself in and be readmitted into a system full of implicit and explicit violence. She cannot drive, rent housing, keep a bank account or phone, or visit her family. But what Amy lacks in lifestyle choices, she more than makes up for in integrity. ‘Not hurting people is worth it’ she claims...

https://counterpunch.org/knappenberger07162009.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=AWOL
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=deserter
https://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Evan+Knappenberger

Christian Science Monitor
by Paul Lamb

07/16/09

Can social capital redeem our financial souls? At a time when financial markets have clearly let us down, we can’t afford to breathe new life into a carcass. Social capital offers the solution we have been looking for. What is social capital? It refers to the worth of our social networks, individual skills, and even things like the time we invest in volunteering. For example, the time I put into helping a neighbor paint a fence (free of charge) is a form of social capital. Its value equates to the time I spent and the ‘worth’ of an enhanced relationship. In traditional economics, the nonfinancial contributions we make are basically worthless. Financial transactions and our monetary net worth are all that really matter. Sadly, we have sunk to measuring our individual and national value through debt, surpluses and productivity gains. But what if we looked beyond investments and financial capital and began taking social capital seriously?

https://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0716/p09s02-coop.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp