emptywheel.firedoglake.com - 11/17/2008
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Flint
I was talking with mr. emptywheel about what one of the bad--but by no means worst--case scenarios in a GM bankruptcy would be. This scenario is just one of several that might happen--by no means guaranteed, and Congress would fight the scenario at every stage, though with ...
telegraph.co.uk - 11/16/2008
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telegraph.co.uk —
A surreal scientific blunder last week raised a
huge question mark about the temperature records that underpin
the worldwide alarm over global warming. On Monday, Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), which is run by Al Gore's chief ...
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The world has never seen such freezing heat
opiniojuris.org - 11/17/2008
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opiniojuris.org —
Somali pirates strike again, this time hijacking a
Saudi-owned tanker off the coast of Kenya . The
running stand off with the hijacked ship carrying arms and a Ukrainian crew continues; Russia announces that it repelled an attack on a different ...
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Here There Bee (More) Pirates … and Might the ...
online.wsj.com - 11/19/2008
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online.wsj.com —
Much has been said about the impact of
the credit crisis on U.S. auto makers, and whether
or not the government should assist the industry during this extraordinary financial turmoil. In these discussions, many critics simply ignore the substantial ...
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Why GM Deserves Support
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Why Does The GOP Want To Destroy The Auto Manufacturing Sector?
DownWithTyranny! —
... Yesterday emptywheel, whose lives in Michigan, looked at a possible GM bankruptcy from another perspective-- a purchase of part of the company by China, something that could well be engineered by China's #1 mole inside the U.S. government, Mitch McConnell. ...
Auto Bailout Worries
Open Left - Front Page —
... Auto Industry ready to file Chapter 7? Rather than Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which would keep the auto industry functioning, it might instead file Chapter 7. That means it would just liquidate and cease to exist. ...
Power Line Wants to Buy Detroit and Drown It In Lake Michigan
Firedoglake —
... Of course, given what the Bush Administration has done to US strategic interests and the condition of our armed forces, it's a lesson some on the other side would prefer to sweep under the rug. They don't seem to mind the likely result of the Chinese owning the heart of our industrial base. ...
Notes From The Real World: Budget Crises?
Firedoglake —
... What's left of it, anyway. Here's hoping we don't all end up testing it's limits -- that would be even uglier. But given the jobless claims trend? Not looking great.
-- Consider the high costs of our oil addiction in this one story. And the short-sighted way we conduct ourselves in terms of long-term consequences -- Jane's superb piece on the Volt is a great case in point. As is Marcy's on Flint. We have to do better. Step one? Stop allowing people who run us into ...
Chinese Want To Buy the Big 3
Firedoglake —
Per Marcy, who predicted it -- the Chinese car makers SAIC and Dongfeng have plans to acquire the Big 3: ...
We’re All Detroit, MI Now
Firedoglake —
A while back, I wrote a post called We're all Flint, MI now. Mitch Albom just wrote a story that might as well be called We're all Detroit, MI now (h/t Leen and dakine). He called it "The Courage of Detroit." It's long--so to induce you to read it, I'm going to give you an almost-spoiler. ...
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eschatonblog.com 11/20/2008 — This is rather ominous: LONG BEACH, Calif. — Gleaming new Mercedes cars roll one by one out of a huge container ship here and onto a pier. Ordinarily the cars would be loaded on trucks within hours, destined for dealerships around the country. But these are not ordinary times. For now, the ...
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yglesias.thinkprogress.org 12/12/2008 — James Fallows writes about the rapidly expanding Beijing Metro — which has added several lines and extended others just during Fallows time living in China. This seems like an incredibly smart decision on the part of the Beijing government. ...
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