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Aug 8, 2011

USA News, Aug 08, 2011


Obama, Tea Party, get hammered over downgrade
USA Today (blog)
By David Jackson, USA TODAY While members of both parties are upset with Standard and Poor's, the decision to downgrade the US credit rating has provided Republicans and Democrats a new chance to attack their least favorite political opponents. ...
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USA Today (blog)
How bad will economic news get in US and worldwide?
USA Today
S&P Managing Director John Chambers, who took part in the credit-rating decision, told USA TODAY Sunday that while the size and growth of the US. government's debt were behind the downgrade, politics factored in even more heavily. ...
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Desperate Democrats Launch Campaign to Blame GOP for S&P Downgrade
NewsMax.com
Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi fired the first salvo Thursday, with a USA Today Op-Ed titled “Unlike GOP, Democrats Will Focus on Jobs.” Republicans, Pelosi alleged, “have put our economy at risk by threatening a first-ever default on our debt and ...
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S&P: Further US Credit Downgrade Possible
Voice of America
Axelrod noted that some Tea Party members of Congress refused to support any deal to raise the US debt ceiling, even if doing so risked a US default on its debt obligations. “They played brinksmanship with the full faith and credit of the United States ...
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Tea Party disquiet hits presidential hopefuls
Financial Times
... senior leaders in Congress last week that narrowly avoided a potentially disastrous default on the US debt. According to a poll conducted by Gallup and USA Today, 46 per cent of the public disapproved of the agreement, while 39 per cent approved. ...
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Public Frustrated With Partisan Debt Talks
The Epoch Times
The public views the deal unfavorably, with greater than two to one believing it will worsen the economy, according to a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll taken hours after the president signed the deal on Aug. 2. Among key negotiators, Obama came out with the ...
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Debt And The Economic Degrowth Frontier
The Market Oracle
Finally, that schoolkid named Obama has to default, move to Washington and get a job under an assumed name. Back in the real world, with its unreal or plain fantastic sovereign debt crisis, it is perhaps "surprising" to Obama's PhD economic advisers ...
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The deadly sins of the Tea Party
Asbury Park Press
Last year, as the Tea Party was complaining about high taxes under the “radical” Obama, it was reported that taxes are as low as they've been in 60 years. USA Today reported at the time that, “federal, state and local income taxes consumed 9.2 percent ...
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Will political debacle provide 3rd-party opening?
Korea Times
But it might be only a double-dip recession away. Paul Goldman is former chairman of the Democratic Party of Virginia. Mark J. Rozell is professor of public policy at George Mason University. They contributed this article to USA Today.
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USA Today News: Obama, Congress reach a debt deal
Watch USA Today News - Season 2011, Obama, Congress reach a debt deal: President ... on a compromise to avoid the nation's first-ever financial default. ...
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Obama signs debt bill to avoid US default Hours before the midnight deadline, US President ... To send your Press Releases, News and Articles Click Here ...
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U.S. debt: agreement passed in Congress, Obama wants to refocus ...
come from stock market today. The Chairman then quickly passed the text, ... The threat of defaultset aside, at least until 2013, Obama scolded Congress for ... the debt of the United States, goodnews "for the U.S. and global economy" ...
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GREECE News, Aug 08, 2011


New Greece K-9 dog named in honor of slain 7-year-old
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Officer Mark Dave Cubiotti suggested naming the dog after Hunter, and the announcement was made at today's Hunter Resch Foundation Carnival. Greece police have not had a K-9 unit for nearly a decade, and the dog will assist with patrols, ...
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New Zealand's fiscal core 'rotting' – NZIER
National Business Review
In an editorial in today's Dominion Post, Mr de Raad says New Zealand may look strong but its fiscal core is "rotting" just like in the US and Greece, with "unsustainable" costs associated with an ageing population. "Our newfound illusion of fiscal ...
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S&P: Downgrade 'modest'; US faces hard choices
USA Today
For example, S&P first downgraded Greece to A from AA in early 2004. It now carries a CCC rating, the lowest. The last country that fell from an AAA rating was Ireland in March 2009. Ireland is currently in the middle of the European debt maelstrom. ...
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Goldman Sachs slashes December target for Australian sharemarket's benchmark index
The Australian
... at Credit Suisse today said the recent market rout had thrown up some great bargains, with stocks looking "really cheap" should any coming crisis be softer than the global financial crisis or last year's fallout from concerns around Greece. ...
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'This is final chord of free market era'
Ynetnews
We may expect a short-tem negative reaction on the markets, if at all; either way, there are not many alternatives in today's markets to US government bonds. "Where is the world going to invest its money – in Greece? When S&P announced that it would ...
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earthquake at Greece today - Rapture Flight To Heaven
earthquake at Greece today. Location is a "light" message from God? About Greece , the Greek flashing light at Greece ...
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SCIENCE News, Aug 08, 2011

Power companies prepare as solar storms set to hit Earth
Sat,6 Aug 2011 10:04 AM PDT
Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three large explosions from the Sun over the past few days have prompted U.S. government scientists to caution users of satellite, telecommunications and electric equipment to prepare for possible disruptions over the next few days. Full Story

NASA's Juno probe sets sail for Jupiter
Fri,5 Aug 2011 01:55 PM PDT
Reuters -
photoCAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - An unmanned rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Friday, sending a robotic scout on its way to Jupiter to gather details about how the solar system formed.

Bad weather delays Ariane rocket launch
Fri,5 Aug 2011 11:28 AM PDT
Reuters - CAYENNE, French Guiana (Reuters) - Bad weather on Friday delayed the launch in French Guiana of an Ariane rocket carrying two satellites, the Arianespace rocket launch company said. Full Story

Experts study what parasites eat to find ways to kill them
Fri,5 Aug 2011 12:56 AM PDT
Reuters - HONG KONG (Reuters) - Researchers in Australia are working on a technique that will allow them to starve to death parasites which are proving harder to destroy using existing drugs. Full Story

NASA finds new evidence of liquid water on Mars
Thu,4 Aug 2011 04:39 PM PDT
Reuters -
photoLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - NASA scientists have discovered new evidence that briny water flows on Mars during its warmest months, raising chances that life could exist on the Red Planet, the space agency said on Thursday.

NASA confirms space shuttle debris found in Texas
Thu,4 Aug 2011 01:49 PM PDT
Reuters -
photoCAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA confirmed on Thursday that a large piece of debris from space shuttle Columbia, which was destroyed in 2003, has been found in a drought-stricken Texas lake.

Post-shuttle, U.S. space explorers need not be human
Thu,4 Aug 2011 06:31 AM PDT
Reuters -
photoWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Now that the shuttle fleet is permanently grounded, the U.S. space spotlight could shift toward the path-breaking astronomical science that NASA does without human beings on board.

Alaska study finds female moose manipulate males to fight
Wed,3 Aug 2011 04:49 PM PDT
Reuters - ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Moose-mating season, just around the corner in Alaska, means crisp fall days, ripe berries on the bushes and, according to a new study, animal behavior that might seem more at home in a rowdy singles bar. Full Story

Spacewalkers ready space station for Russian upgrade
Wed,3 Aug 2011 02:57 PM PDT
Reuters -
photoCAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A pair of spacewalking cosmonauts floated outside the International Space Station Wednesday to prepare the orbital outpost for upcoming Russian renovations.

Russia says high ice melt opens Arctic trade routes
Wed,3 Aug 2011 02:41 PM PDT
Reuters - MOSCOW (Reuters) - Arctic ice cover receded to near record lows this summer, opening elusive northern trade routes from Asia to the West, Russia's climate research agency said on Wednesday. Full Story

Cameroon, Chad sign pact to fight elephant poaching
Wed,3 Aug 2011 10:00 AM PDT
Reuters - YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroon and Chad have signed an accord to ramp up efforts to fight poachers who kill hundreds of elephants a year in a protected park on their common border, ministers from both nations said. Full Story

20-million year-old ape skull found in Uganda
Tue,2 Aug 2011 10:00 AM PDT
Reuters -
photoKAMPALA (Reuters) - Ugandan and French scientists have discovered a fossil of a skull of a tree-climbing ape from about 20 million years ago in Uganda's Karamoja region, the team said Tuesday.

Rare fossil of sea reptile found on Alaska beach
Fri,29 Jul 2011 05:15 AM PDT
Reuters -
photoANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska scientists have discovered the fossil of a rare, prehistoric marine reptile that is likely the most complete remnant of the creature ever found in North America.

SpaceX eyes November 30 cargo launch to space station
Thu,28 Jul 2011 03:20 PM PDT
Reuters - CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Space Exploration Technologies, a privately owned firm developing a space taxi with U.S.-government backing, plans to launch its second test capsule on November 30 and send it all the way to the International Space Station, a company manager said on Thursday. Full Story

NASA probe poised for launch to Jupiter
Thu,28 Jul 2011 06:08 AM PDT
Reuters -
photoCAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A NASA satellite was hoisted aboard an unmanned Atlas 5 rocket at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Wednesday in preparation for launch next week on an unprecedented mission to the heart of Jupiter.