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The benchmark RTS has now lost 57 percent since hitting an all-time high in May, a slump analysts put down to falling energy prices, global market turmoil and political issues, including worries over the war in Georgia.Newsmax.com – Russia Halts Trading to Stop Market Meltdown
Rothschild plans to announce her support for McCain on Wednesday in Washington.Newsmax.com – Top Clinton Fundraiser Backing McCain, Not Obama
An Associated Press voter survey conducted Sept. 5 found that among white women, 65 percent said Mrs. Palin shared their values, compared with 46 percent who said the same of Mr. Biden. A new Newsweek poll revealed support for Mr. McCain among white females is 53 percent, compared with 37 percent who favor Mr. Obama.Washington Times - Palin triggers feminism reversal
Despite his insistent demands for a rapid withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama secretly urged Iraqi leaders to delay an agreement that would lead to a draw down in troop numbers.Newsmax.com – Obama Pressured Iraq to Delay Troop Withdrawals
The RTS Index has dived 42 percent since oil prices peaked at $147 on July 11, falling victim to the global credit crisis and dropping commodity prices.http://www.moscowtimes.ru/articles/detail.php?ID=370948
Light, sweet crude for November delivery fell $4.87, or 4.82 percent, to $96.38 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, after earlier dropping to $94.41, the lowest level since Feb. 14. A close at that level would be oil's first settlement under $100 since March 4.Oil plummets as Ike largely spares energy output - Yahoo! News
There is no single meaning of the Bush doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration -- and the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one in common usage today. It is utterly different.Charles Krauthammer - Charlie Gibson's Gaffe - washingtonpost.com
The smart bomb, the GBU-28, is a laser-guided weapon whose warhead can burrow through more than 20 feet of concrete and up to 100 feet of dirt, according to AFP.Newsmax.com – U.S. Approves Bunker-Buster Bombs to Israel
Google faces far less risk in product development than the usual business does. It routinely introduces half-finished products and services as online “betas” because it knows that, even if the offerings fail to win a big share of the market, they will still tend to produce attractive returns by generating advertising revenue and producing valuable data on customer behavior. For most companies, a failed launch of a new product is very costly. For Google, in general, it’s not. Failure is cheap.Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The Omnigoogle
In the past 1000 years, three previous such events -- the Dalton, Maunder, and Spörer Minimums, have all led to rapid cooling. One was large enough to be called a "mini ice age". For a society dependent on agriculture, cold is more damaging than heat. The growing season shortens, yields drop, and the occurrence of crop-destroying frosts increases.DailyTech - Sun Makes History: First Spotless Month in a Century
Oil production is set to decline this year for the first time in a decade, a decline that is widely expected to accelerate rapidly in 2010. Of Russia's 14 largest oil fields, seven are more than 50% depleted. Production at its four largest gas fields is also in decline. Russia drilled about four million feet of new wells last year. In 1990, it drilled 17 million.Global View - WSJ.com
...For much of its history, Russia has been a weak state masquerading as a strong one -- a psychological profile in insecurity.
The preliminary estimate of the second-quarter increase in real GDP is 1.4 percentage points, or $39.7 billion, more than the advance estimate issued last month. The upward revision to the percentage change in real GDP primarily reflected upward revisions to exports and to private inventory investment and a downward revision to imports.BEA: News Release: Gross Domestic Product and Corporate Profits
...Real GDP....................................... 3.3[%]
In a speech broadcast by the news channel, Nasrallah announced that the next war would end in a "clear and decisive victory for Hizbullah."Nasrallah: Next war will end in victory - Israel News, Ynetnews