“In the greatest government intervention in the financial markets since the Great Depression, Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke began a series of government rescue operations designed to restore confidence in the credit markets. The Fed’s bailout of AIG and the SEC’s banning of short sales were the first steps preceding an historic $700 billion comprehensive federal proposal…”

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“The Indian government has constituted a panel of soothsayers headed by astrologer Deadpan Hoochwala to advise the National Insecurity Advisor on terror related issues. The panel, after studying the position of various planets, has submitted that the position of some of them was not favorable for the nation at the moment. It has also suggested that the PM wear a special bracelet to deflect terror attacks from the country’s soil…”

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SHELLEY ACKERMAN
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$One Trillion to save AIG and Other Failing Financial Institutions

Yes, the astrologers told you this was comin’ and it’s just the beginning I fear. Pluto will spent a good 15 years in Capricorn.

As I write this, the Feds continue to meet and congress is voting on the specifics of the giant bailout for the financial meltdown created by the unregulated culture of greed that began during the Reagan years and reached dire extremes during the Bush years…”

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“A senior Saudi cleric has said purveyors of horoscopes on Arab television should face the death penalty, a paper said on Sunday, days after another cleric urged the same fate for channel owners who broadcast “indecent” shows.

“Sorcerers who appear on satellite channels who are proven to be sorcerers have committed a great crime… and the Muslim consensus is that the apostate’s punishment is death by the sword,” Sheikh Saleh Al-Fozan told Al-Madina daily.

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“Prior to the airing of her interview with ABC’s Charles Gibson this week in which, according to Alessandra Stanley “(Palin’s) eyes at times looked uncertain and her voice hesitated, and she looked like a student trying to bend prepared answers to fit unexpected questions”, McCain’s VP hopeful was outed and criticized for having billed the State of Alaska $16,951.00 for 312 nights spent at home, and charged the state for her family’s travel expenses. Dick Cavett’s post and Bob Herbert’s “She’s Not Ready” both hit the spot, as does this NYT beauty, “In Office Palin Hired Friends and Hit Critics”, a comprehensive look at how the anti-abortion, anti-book, and pro-gun Mama got here from there…”

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“A number of prominent astrologers of the country have put forth contradictory predictions regarding the PPP Co-chairman and presidential candidate Asif Ali Zardari.

Some of them have calculated that Asif Zardari, as the President of Pakistan, will have a smooth sailing. Regarding his health, they say Zardari will attain the age of 90 years. There will be attempts on his life during 2009 and 2011 but he will survive. Zardari will prove to be a successful president and would continue to remain on the post for quiet a long period…”

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“Pakistan’s president-elect Asif Ali Zardari has bowed to warning by astrologers and put off his oath taking to Tuesday from Sunday after his convincing win in the presidential polls.

“Sep 6 to 8 are unfavourable dates for oath taking,” newspapers flashed the prediction by astrologer A.S. Chaudhry in Islamic Pakistan where otherwise predictions are not given much weight…”

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“The thickness of the bones in our toes after a certain point in human history has led several archaeologists to place the origin of shoes at approximately 40,000 years ago. Because most of the material used in footwear cannot be preserved that long, the oldest pair of shoes — discovered in Oregon in 1938 — dates from 8000 to 7000 BCE…”

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“Planetary positions may have a strong influence on people’s health, suggests the initial findings of a University Grants Commission (UGC) project.

The five-year study, nearing completion, is being conducted by the Delhi-based Lal Bahadur Shastri Rashtriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha’s department of medical astrology…”

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“Before getting into what the forward motion of Jupiter and Pluto on Sept 8 might mean in this election season, the ICE SHELF that broke off of an island in the Canadian Arctic this week was the size of Manhattan! This as oil profits just soar higher and higher. I wonder what this world would be like if these stories went unreported, as so many do. Case in point:

Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now, two of her producers, and several hundred other dissenters were violently arrested for protesting (a constitutional right) outside of the convention hall where the GOP met in St. Paul, MN. I..”

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