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SIGNS OF THE TIMES
CHRONOLOGICAL LIST
DECEMBER 2008 AND PRIOR
December 2008 - Financial
A Deeper Recession Ahead: UN Team Warns About Our Financial Future
(Financial Times, 12-1-08)
The U.S. Government Tab Is Up $6.3 Trillion On The Bailout (MSN Money,
12-1-08)
'Congress Should Not
Bailout The Big 3 Automakers' Says Michael Moore (Common Dreams, 12-3-08)
The Underemployment Rate Is Worse Than Imagined (Washington Post, 12-6-08)
Bailouts Cost More Than All U.S. Wars and Many Big Programs Combined (Wall
Street Journal, 12-8-08)
Fed
Refuses to Disclose Recipients of $2 Trillion (Update2) (Bloomberg,
12-12-08)
A Bitter End
In A UN Climate Conference Made Rich Nations Under Fire For Refusing Massive Aid
Boosts To Protect Poor Countries (DW-World, 12-13-08)
U.S. Financial Crisis: Corrupted America (New York Times, 12-16-08)
Video - Russia's Financial Crisis
Kicks In (CNN, 12-19-08)
The $850 Billion Stimulus Package In Detail And A Look At The Costs Of
Some Of The Top Government Spending Projects (CNN, 12-22-08)
Wall St Journal: An Ethanol
Bailout? And we thought we'd seen everything. (Environmental Working
Group, 12-24-08)
Due To The Deteriorating Economy, States Cut Deeper in Medicaid (Washington
Post, 12-26-08)
The
Devastation Of Iceland's Economic Fall And How It Shook The World (Wall
Street Journal, 12-27-08)
Hidden From The Public, Accounting Standards Are Mired In Loopholes And
Political Pressures (Washington Post, 12-27-08)
A List Of The Most Dumbest Moments In 2008 Business (Yahoo, 12-30-08)
December 2008 - Environmental
Noise
Pollution Threatens Lives Of Whales And Dolphins (BBC News, 12-3-08)
EU Climate Package In
Detail: Focusing On Emission Cuts, Renewables And Energy Effeciency
(BBC News, 12-5-08)
EPA Failing to Protect Public Health (Scientific American, 12-8-08)
Are Chemists, Engineers on Green Jobs List? (New York times, 12-9-08)
EPA's Latest
Chemical Proposals Get It Half Right, Recent EPA Toxics Advisor Says
(Environmental Defense Fund, 12-9-08)
EU Leaders Reach A
New Climate Deal To Fight Global Warming (BBC News, 12-12-08)
Undercut By The EPA: Dead Zones Found In The Chesapeake Are Blamed For The
Decline Of Blue Crabs, The Chesapeake Foundation Wants Enforcement To Stabilize
Marine Life (Washington Post, 12-30-08)
December 2008 - Miscellaneous
Terrorists Are Easily Getting A Hold Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction And Are More
Likely To Attack Major Cities (Washington Post, 12-2-08)
European Commissioner Jacques
Barrot Adopts The 'Framework Decision' On Combating Racism And Xenophobia (EJP,
12-5-08)
Op-Ed Columnist - The Brightest Are Not Always the Best - David Halberstam's
Book In Detail (New York Times, 12-6-08)
Due
To Weak Oversight, Bad Hospitals Stay Open And Patients Suffer (New York
Times, 12-7-08)
The
Dangers And History Of The Atomic Bomb (New York Times, 12-8-08)
People Who Lost Jobs And Health Insurance Overwhelm Emergency Rooms (New
York Times, 12-8-08)
The Recent Siege Of Mumbai And Other Related Attacks (Washington Post.
12-9-08)
Arabs Hail
To Muntadhar al-Zeidi, An Iraqi Journalist Who Threw Shoes At George W. Bush
(AOL News, 12-15-08)
Israel’s ‘Crime
Against Humanity’ (Common Dreams, 12-15-08)
Drunk
George Tenet Lashed Out At Bush's Neocons (Information Clearing House,
12-16-08)
Counterterrorists Officials Say 'Torture Just Doesn't Work': The Tactical
Costs Of Prisoner Abuse (Vanity Fair, 12-16-08)
The Truth About
Evangelist Rick Warren In Detail (Common Dreams 12-18-08)
George Bush Thanks a Terrorist (The Daily Beast, 12-18-09)
Rebuilding America And Finding Solutions That Work (New York Times,
12-23-08)
Christian Communities In Iraq Decrease And Face A Grim Future (CNN,
12-24-08)
A Developed Plan That Could Help Barack Obama With Peace In The Middle East
(Washington Post, 12-26-08)
VIDEO: The Art and Craft of Lobbying 283053-1 : C-SPAN Video Library
(12-29-08)
Israel Kills More in "All-Out" Gaza War (Islam Online, 12-30-08)
Foolishly Breeding The Next
Generation Of Militants And Islamic Radicals, A Grim Future Lies Ahead For The
Israelis In Gaza (AlterNet, 12-31-08)
November 2008 - Financial
Former
Soviet President Gorbachev Gives Opinion On The Global Financial Crisis
(Russia, 11-2-08)
Bad News For U.S.
Banks; New Tax Policy And The Billion Dollar Bailout Debate (Common
Dreams, 11-10-08)
A Financial Mess: Bailout Lacks Oversight (Washington Post, 11-13-08)
Naomi Klein: The Borderline Illegal Deals Behind the $700 Billion Bailout
(AlterNet, 11-18-08)
A Grim
Look At The Financial Crisis Balance Sheet; In The Trillions (CNBC,
11-18-08)
Major Companies Ask For Bailouts While The Tax Payers Suffer (New York
Times, 11-19-08)
Bailout Cost Now Exceeds $7.7 Trillion (Money News, 11-24-08)
U.S. Pledges Top $7.7 Trillion to Ease Frozen Credit (Bloomberg, 11-24-08)
Bailout costs $8.5 trillion - Video (Real News Network, 11-26-08)
Government bailout hits $8.5 trillion (SF Gate, 11-26-08)
Financial Crisis Tab Already In The
Trillions and Counting (CNBC, 11-28-08)
Economic rescue could cost $8.5 trillion (Los Angeles Times, 11-30-08)
November 2008 - Environmental
In
The West, Bark Beetles Are Killing Millions of Acres Of Trees (NY Times,
11-18-08)
A Three-Year
Nationwide Survey Finds That China's Water And Crop Supply Are At Risk Due To
Massive Erosion (ENN, 11-21-08)
A New Study Says Increasing Levels Of Carbon Dioxide In The Earth's Atmosphere
May Make The Oceans More Acidic Than Previously Thought
(National Geographic
News, 11-24-08)
The
Economic Slump Limits The Move On Clean Energy Due To Rising Costs Of Coal And
Oil (New York Times, 11-24-08)
Oceans Becoming Acidic Ten Times Faster Than Thought (National Geographic,
11-24-08)
Ocean growing more
acidic faster than once thought, study shows (University of Chicago,
11-25-08)
November 2008 - Miscellaneous
The Political Rise And Popularity Of Islamist Parties Are Changing Islamist
Attitudes Towards Women (Post Global, 11-4-08)
An Address From The President Of Russia To The Federal Assembly Of The Russian
Federation (President of Russia, 11-5-08)
A Jewish Iranian
Parliamentarian Says 'Iran's Jewish Community Doesn't Face Major Problems Today'
(EJP, 11-6-08)
Bloomberg L.P. v. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (Justia
News, 11-7-08)
Now With
Obama In Office, Germany Will Resist Against Calls For More Troops (DW-World,
11-9-08)
Monks Erupted Into A Brawl Next To The Site Of Jesus' Tomb (AOL News,
11-11-08)
The Iskander
And The Deployment Of The U.S. Third Positioning Region Of Its Missile Defense
Shield In Eastern Europe (Russia, 11-11-08)
Russia Will Cooperate If The West Takes Things Seriously (Spiegel, 11-14-08)
C-SPAN Video: After Words with Niall Ferguson (C-SPAN, 11-17-08)
President
Dmitry Medvedev says Russia must never be parliamentary republic (RIA,
11-18-08)
Obama's Future Plans With Russia Turns Out To Be A Bad Idea (New York Times,
11-19-08)
Hezbollah's Youth Movement; The Mahdi Scouts (New York Times,
11-20-08)
National Intelligence Council report: A Scary Look At What Our Future Holds
(Times Online, 11-21-08)
Bearing
Out The Betrayal: Israel's Breach Of The Ceasefire In Gaza
(Information Clearing House, 11-21-08)
Rising Costs Of Private Medicare Plans With No Evidence Of Improving Care
(New York Times, 11-23-08)
Digital Music VS. CD's: Atlantic Record's Success In Digital Sales
(New York Times, 11-25-08)
The
Power Of The Internet: Activists Take The 'Revolution' Online (CNN,
11-27-08)
The Health-Care System In The U.S. Is A Waste (Washington Post, 11-30-08)
Bioterrorism Is Among Us: World's Most Dangerous Pathogens Is Under Loose
Regulation (Washington Post. 11-30-08)
HIV Industry Is Out Of Control And Eating Up Funds For Expense On Health Needs
(AOL News, 11-30-08)
October 2008 - Financial
Learning How Much Of An Impact The Global Financial Crisis Could Take On The
American Economy (Financial Times, 10-12-08)
The Truth About The
Unemployed And How It Hurts Our Economy (Slate, 10-22-08)
The $810 Billion Bailout Bill: A Complete Disaster (Blogging Stocks,
10-27-08)
A Devastating Look
At The '£1.8 trillion' World Credit Loss (BBC News, 10-28-08)
Greenspan Slept as Off-Books Debt Escaped Scrutiny (Update1) (Bloomberg,
10-30-08)
October 2008 - Environmental
A Graph
That Shows The State Of The Planet (BBC News, 10-25-08)
A Disturbing Article About A Serious Threat On Greenhouse Gases That Worries
Scientists (AOL News, 10-28-08)
A Satellite
Data Revealed About One-Fifth Of The Arctic's Sea Ice "Plummeted" Last Winter
(BBC News, 10-28-08)
A Devasting
Global Eco 'crunch' Is On The Way (BBC News, 10-29-08)
October 2008 - Miscellaneous
The Russian
Sukhoi Su-30 Fighter Jet vs. U.S. Fith-Generation Warplane: The Russian
Warplane Scores A Decisive Victory (Russia, 10-6-08)
Unstable Unexploded Bombs Still Lie In Germany After World War II (Spiegel,
10-14-08)
Berlin, Germany Grows Cold Against America (Reuters, 10-30-08)
September 2008 -
Miscellaneous
About Bisphenol-A
(Safer States, 9-17-08)
June 2008 - Environmental
Forest Disappearing in Papua New Guinea (New York Times, 6-3-08)
Who got us in this energy mess? Start with Ronald Reagan (Climate Progress,
6-8-08)
FDL Book Salon Welcomes David Michaels: Doubt Is Their Product (Firedoglake,
6-21-10)
May 2008 -
Environmental
Carbon
Fees: Open Letter to Congress (Carbon Fees, 5-4-08)
July 2007 - Miscellaneous
Media
Falsely Labels O’Hanlon And Pollack ‘Vocal Critics’ Of Bush Administration
(Think Progress, 7-3-09)
May 2007 - Financial
Taxpayers on the hook for $59 trillion (USA Today, 5-29-07)
July 2006 - Environmental
Methane bubbling from Siberian thaw lakes as a positive feedback to climate
warming (Nature, 7-3-06)
June 2006 - Miscellaneous
Report reveals
global slum crisis (BBC News, 6-16-06)
April 2006 - Miscellaneous
Review of Witch-Child, A
BBC2 Investigation Into How Young Children are Being Abused and Tortured in
Christian Exorcism Ceremonies (SAFF, 4-4-06)
February 2006 - Miscellaneous
Torment of
Africa's 'child witches' (Times Online, 2-5-06)
January 2006 - Environmental
The Earth is about to catch a morbid fever that may last as long as 100,000
years (The Independent, 1-16-06)
July 2005 - Environmental
Methane's Impacts on Climate Change May Be Twice Previous Estimates (NASA,
7-18-05)
May 2005 - Financial
Louis Proyect:
Jared Diamond, Greenwasher (Counterpunch, 5-9-05)
February 2004 - Miscellaneous
The Real Churchill (Ludwig von
Mises Institute, 2-27-04)
November 2003 - Miscellaneous
Why I Hate
Thanksgiving (Counter Punch, 11-27-03)
November 2001 - Miscellaneous
The Fourth World
War (In Motion Magazine, 11-5-01)
June 2001 - Environmental
The
Sixth Extinction (Action Bioscience, June, 2001)
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