Friday, July 30, 2010

Consumer Metrics Institute News: July 30, 2010 – Inside the New GDP Numbers - Benzinga


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Consumer Metrics Institute News: July 30, 2010 â€" Inside the New GDP Numbers

Benzinga


Bureau of Economic Analysis ('BEA') released its "advance" estimate of the annualized growth rate of the US Gross Domestic Product ('GDP') during the 2nd quarter of 2010. Per their report, the GDP grew during the quarter at an annualized rate of 2.4%, ...


What Today's GDP Report Says

TheStreet.com


After Revisions, Real GDP And PCE Even Farther From Previous Peak

The Business Insider


Four things to learn from new GDP data

Christian Science Monitor


IMarketnews.com -USA Today -CNNMoney


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Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Monday, July 26, 2010

Daniel Ellsberg describes Afghan war logs as on a par with 'Pentagon Papers' - The Guardian


The Guardian


Daniel Ellsberg describes Afghan war logs as on a par with 'Pentagon Papers'

The Guardian


Daniel Ellsberg, a former US military analyst, has described the disclosure of the Afghan war logs as on the scale of his leaking of the "Pentagon Papers" in 1971 revealing how the US public was misled about the Vietnam war. ...


White House: Leaked Documents Real, pose Potential Threat; No New Broad ...

Voice of America


WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says there's evidence of war crimes in the ...

CNN


WikiLeaks: Why national security isn't Obama's biggest concern

Christian Science Monitor


Reuters -FOXNews -W »


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Saturday, July 24, 2010

Iowa Dam Fails Causing 'Catastrophic' Release of Water - FOXNews


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Iowa Dam Fails Causing 'Catastrophic' Release of Water

FOXNews


A 300-foot-long breach in Lake Delhi Dam Saturday sent water spilling downstream and hundreds of people fleeing for safety in eastern Iowa. David Fink, Lake Delhi dam operation manager, c »


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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Panel hits NY's Rangel with ethics violations - USA Today


New York Times


Panel hits NY's Rangel with ethics violations

USA Today


WASHINGTON â€" A House ethics subcommittee Thursday charged New York Rep. Charles Rangel with ethics violations, a blow to the veteran Democrat roughly 100 days before crucial midterm congressional ...


Charles Rangel charged with ethics violations: How bad for Democrats?

Christian Science Monitor


House panel charges Rangel with ethics misdeeds

The Associated Press


Rangel faces a House ethics committee hearing

CNN


MiamiHerald.com -New York Daily News -ABC News


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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

New Video Bolsters Ousted USDA Official's Claims Obama Administration Overreacted - FOXNews


CNN International


New Video Bolsters Ousted USDA Official's Claims Obama Administration Overreacted

FOXNews


The NAACP on Tuesday posted newly released video in an effort to support a USDA official who was forced to resign a day earlier, after a previously published video showed her telling a story about not giving her "full force" support to help a white ...


USDA official's resignation stirs racial tempest

Los Angeles Times


Firing of USDA official highlights larger political problems involving race

Washington Post


Ex-Agriculture Official Says White House Forced Her Out

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Monday, July 19, 2010

Sunday, July 18, 2010

BP: Cap could keep oil from flowing until well killed - USA Today


Globe and Mail


BP: Cap could keep oil from flowing until well killed

USA Today


Pressure testing of the busted well in the Gulf of Mexico could keep oil from spewing into the sea until a relief well is drilled, a BP official said Sunday. BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles told reporters during a morning technical briefing ...


BP Plans to Keep Gulf Well Sealed Until Killing It

BusinessWeek


Amid Tests, BP Sees No Signs of Damage to Well

New York Times


Seal on Gulf well could remain until it is permanently plugged by a relief ...

Los Angeles Times


Houston Chronicle -Washington Post -MiamiHerald.com


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Thursday, July 15, 2010

BP Says Cap Is Repaired and Cutoff Test Can Proceed - New York Times


The Guardian


BP Says Cap Is Repaired and Cutoff Test Can Proceed

New York Times


Dave Martin/AP BP began a test of a new cap on its leaking well, cutting off the flow of oil to collection ships. By HENRY FOUNTAIN NEW ORLEANS â€" After a new setback because of a hydraulic leak, BP prepared Thursday to pick up where it left off the day ...


BP says key test on blown Gulf well to start soon

Reuters


BP will try to start test on blown well

MarketWatch


BP: Leak fixed, Gulf well test to begin 'soon'

USA Today


BusinessWeek -BBC News -FOXNews


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Wednesday, July 14, 2010

US Delays Test of Device That Could Seal Gulf Well - New York Times


The Guardian


US Delays Test of Device That Could Seal Gulf Well

New York Times


ABOARD THE RESOLUTE, 40 miles off Louisiana â€" Workers on surface ships continued to flare gas and oil on Wednesday at the site of BP's runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico after officials announced that a critical pressure test on the ...


Oil spill muddies bank M&A in US Gulf

Reuters


After days of progress, BP freezes work in Gulf

BusinessWeek


BP Delays Work on Cap, Relief Well

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Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Yankees owner George Steinbrenner dies at 80 - Boston Globe


CBC.ca


Yankees owner George Steinbrenner dies at 80

Boston Globe


(Richard Drew/AP) Yankees owner George Steinbrenner (right) posed with the 1999 World Series trophy with Yankees manager Joe Torre (left) and New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani. By Peter Abraham A shipbuilder from Ohio who once promised absentee ...


George Steinbrenner, 80, has died from heart attack

USA Today


Steinbrenner dies from heart attack

MLB.com


What they're tweeting about George Steinbrenner

SportingNews.com


SI.com -Houston Chronicle -CBSSports.com


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Monday, July 12, 2010

Roman Polanksi freed after Swiss reject US extradition request - Washington Post


Washington Post


Roman Polanksi freed after Swiss reject US extradition request

Washington Post


Swiss authorities freed 77-year-old movie director Roman Polanski on Monday, choosing not to extradite him to Los Angeles to face sentencing for having sex with a 13-year-old girl in 1977. By Edward Cody PARIS -- Swiss authorities freed French director ...


Roman Polanski Freed by Swiss

ABC News


Film director Roman Polanski will not be extradited to US: Switzerland

New York Daily News


Polanski case about rape, not legal wrangling. Let's not forget that

Los Angeles Times (blog)


RTT News -E! Online (blog) -Seattle Post Intelligencer


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Sunday, July 11, 2010

BP Sees Progress in Bid to Increase Gulf-Oil Capture - BusinessWeek


Globe and Mail


BP Sees Progress in Bid to Increase Gulf-Oil Capture

BusinessWeek


(Updates with comments from Wells in third paragraph. For more on the oil spill, see {SPILL }.) By Katarzyna Klimasinska July 11 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc made progress overnight in the effort to inst »


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Saturday, July 10, 2010

In spy swap, agents were pawns in a practiced game - The Associated Press


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In spy swap, agents were pawns in a practiced game

The Associated Press


WASHINGTON â€" In the rapid-fire spy swap, the United States and Russia worked together as only old enemies could. Less than two weeks after the FBI broke the spy ring in a counterintelligence operation cultivated for a decade, 10 Russian secret agents ...


Russian expert in spy swap 'resurfaces near London'

AFP


Hero's welcome?

BBC News


Sutyagin says he is in Britain without visa after Russia-US spy swap

RIA Novosti


ABC News -CNN -FOXNews


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Friday, July 9, 2010

Prisoner Swap in Vienna Ends US-Russia Espionage Case - New York Times


CNN (blog)


Prisoner Swap in Vienna Ends US-Russia Espionage Case

New York Times


Matthias Schrader/AP A Vision Airlines jet believed to be carrying the Russian agents parked near a Russian plane at a Vienna airport on Friday. By NICHOLAS KULISH, PETER BAKER AND ELLEN BARRY VIENNA â€" In a seeming flashback to the cold war, ...


Spy exchange completed at Vienna airport

Washington Post


Were deported Russian spies as incompetent as they seemed?

Christian Science Monitor


Russian, US Spies Swapped at Vienna Airport

Voice of America


Aljazeera.net -The Associated Press -RIA Novosti


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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Russia Frees Scientist in Exchange for Spy Suspect - New York Times


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Russia Frees Scientist in Exchange for Spy Suspect

New York Times


MOSCOW â€" An advocate for an imprisoned Russian scientist, Igor V. Sutyagin, said on Thursday that he had evidently been released in return for the Russian suspect Anna Chapman, in a prisoner exchange redolent of the Cold ...


Who is on the 'spy-swap' list?

BBC News


US to Arraign 11 with Spying for Russia

Voice of America


Russian scientist to arrive in Britain as part of 'spy swap' with US

The Guardian


RIA Novosti -Aljazeera.net -BusinessWeek


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Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Climategate: No whitewash, but CRU scientists are far from squeaky clean - The Guardian


CNN


Climategate: No whitewash, but CRU scientists are far from squeaky clean

The Guardian


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Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Israeli soldiers face criminal indictments in Gaza incursion - CNN International


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Israeli soldiers face criminal indictments in Gaza incursion

CNN International


By the CNN Wire Staff Jerusalem (CNN) -- Israeli soldiers face criminal indictments for their conduct during a three-week incursion into Gaza, including charges of manslaughter and the use of a Palestinian man as a "human shield," Israel's chief ...


Israeli army to charge Gaza war soldiers

Jewish Telegraphic Agency


Israeli army: Gaza war troops to be disciplined

The Associated Press


Israeli soldier faces manslaughter charges over Gaza deaths

AFP


BBC News -Aljazeera.net -BusinessWeek


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Monday, July 5, 2010

BP's Gulf spill tab exceeds $3 billion as "A Whale" tested - USA Today


The Hindu


BP's Gulf spill tab exceeds $3 billion as "A Whale" tested

USA Today


BP's costs for the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill climbed nearly half a billion dollars in the past week, to $3.12 billion, for cleanup, containment, relief well drilling and damage claims. The London-based energy giant announced Monday that it's ...


BP: Oil Spill Costs Reach $3.1 Billion

Voice of America


BP:Gulf Oil Spill Response Costs, Claims Total $3.12B To Date

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Sunday, July 4, 2010

Large-scale skimmer continues testing in Gulf - CNN


National Geographic


Large-scale skimmer continues testing in Gulf

CNN


By the CNN Wire Staff New Orleans, Louisiana (CNN) -- A ship billed as the world's largest skimming vessel will continue testing its abilities in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday. The boat, which sw »


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Saturday, July 3, 2010

Hundreds killed, scores injured in Congo oil tanker explosion - CNN International


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Hundreds killed, scores injured in Congo oil tanker explosion

CNN International


By the CNN Wire Staff (CNN) -- At least 230 people were killed and 190 injured when an oil tanker flipped over and exploded in the Democratic Republic of Congo, a government spokesman said Saturday. Five of the dead were United Nations peacekeepers, ...


At least 200 die as tanker explodes in Congo

msnbc.com


Fuel Truck Explosion Kills 200 in DRC

Voice of America


Congo in mourning as oil tanker explosion leaves 250 dead, over 100 injured

International Business Times


WVLT -CBC.ca -AFP


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Friday, July 2, 2010

Job Creation in Private Sector Remained Weak in June - New York Times


Reuters (press release)


Job Creation in Private Sector Remained Weak in June

New York Times


Job seekers hand out resumes at the University of Phoenix's table at a job fair sponsored by Houston Hires in Houston this week. By MICHAEL POWELL The United States added just 83000 private-sector jobs in June, a dishearteningly low number that could ...


The Jobs Report

Forbes


Payrolls in US F »


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Thursday, July 1, 2010

Factbox: Gulf of Mexico oil & gas ops shut due to Alex - Reuters


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Factbox: Gulf of Mexico oil & gas ops shut due to Alex

Reuters


TEXAS (Reuters) - Hurricane Alex, the season's first hurricane, drenched the Texas-Mexico border on Thursday as it made landf »


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