Cheney Admits that He Lied about 9/11
What Else Did He Lie About?
By Washington's Blog
Vice President acted as if he was the president on 9/11.
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80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read: Nearly 80 percent of New York City high school graduates need to relearn basic skills before they can enter the City University’s community college system.
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French unemployment rises again to 10.6 percent in Q4: Its gross domestic product has shrunk for three of the last four quarters, and some expect the economy will enter another recession in the first part of this year.
US Oil Production Surpasses Saudi Arabia's for the First Time in a Decade: The financial crisis may or may not be a game changer in terms of the global political economy, but the cheap energy story in the US is a game changer and the full ramifications are still being contemplated.
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Eric Holder: Some Banks Are So Large That It Is Difficult For Us To Prosecute Them: Since, "it will have a negative impact on the national economy, perhaps even the world economy," one has to stare open-mouthed at the state of our union.
Wholesale Foreclosure Sales Planned: The U.S. federal government is making plans to sell more than 250,000 foreclosure homes at wholesale prices in bulk to a series of investor-backed firms in an effort to speed up the recovery of the housing market and artificially push home prices higher.
New York's Homelessness Worst Since The Great Depression: More than 21,000 children - an unprecedented 1% of the city's youth - slept each night in a city shelter in January, an increase of 22% in the past year;
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