AFTER OSLO...

Caution urged as sewage leaks into Hudson River
http://news.yahoo.com/caution-urged-sew ... 48244.html

a wastewater treatment plant disabled by fire was spewing millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Hudson River.

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Questions Linger Following Wastewater Treatment Plant Fire
http://origin.ny1.com/content/top_stori ... plant-fire

The city's 14 wastewater treatment plants were built from 1903 to 1987.

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Amtrak Service Between New York And Boston Suspended Until Saturday
http://www.ny1.com/content/news_beats/t ... l-saturday

Amtrak officials said this afternoon that damage to an overhead power system will prevent trains from moving between New York and Boston until Saturday. A heavy truck hit the system near New Haven, Connecticut, causing the service suspension.

...AND LIBYA

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Leader Qaddafi Sends Message to Russia, China
Posted: 2011/07/23
http://mathaba.net/news/?x=627659

regarding the NATO European terrorists targeting of the pipe factory of the great man-made river in the city of Brega, where pipes are manufactured to compensate for damaged pipes of the river, the only source of drinking waters and irrigation for the people of Libya.

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Jul 23, 6:20 AM EDT
Indian [?] Kashmir shuts down to protest alleged rape
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/ ... 3-04-15-50

Answering separatist leaders' calls for a general strike on Saturday, banks, schools and most other businesses remained shuttered in Kashmir's main city of Srinagar. Public transport was not running, and few government workers showed up at their offices.

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Jul 22, 6:37 PM EDT
A boom in corporate profits, a bust in jobs, wages
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 2-18-37-00

Unemployment is stuck at 9.2 percent, two years into [duh] what economists call a recovery.

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Jul 22, 12:30 PM EDT
Unemployment rates rose in majority of US states
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/ ... 2-12-30-32

unemployment rates in 28 states and Washington, D.C., increased last month

That's a change from May, when 24 states reported falling unemployment rates.

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Strong quake jolts northern Japan, no tsunami warning issued
TOKYO | Sat Jul 23, 2011 10:26am IST
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/07/2 ... 1220110723

preliminary magnitude of 6.5 hit northeastern Japan

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Obama officials, S&P clash over downgrade threats
WASHINGTON | Sat Jul 23, 2011 2:41am IST
http://in.reuters.com/article/2011/07/2 ... onomicNews

"The basis for changing the view was our view around the nature of the political gridlock around the whole fiscal process,"

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Analysis: Aging PC giants see writing on the wall
SAN FRANCISCO | Fri Jul 22, 2011 7:30pm BST
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/07/2 ... T420110722

Apple Inc, which single-handedly showed with its iPad that many consumers are more than happy with an unladen, light and mobile computer, obliterated all estimates by selling a whopping 9 million tablets.

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Saboteurs Target a Train Traveling from Aleppo to Damascus, Driver Martyred
Jul 23, 2011
http://www.sana.sy/eng/337/2011/07/23/359899.htm

The Ministry urges all citizens to cooperate with security and police apparatus to give any information available about the saboteurs and criminals who exploit and hide behind demonstrations to carry out terrorist acts that target civilians as well as damaging private and public properties.

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