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Beyond Wind Plan, Pickens Eyes Pipelines in Drought-Ridden U.S. by Roland, the Gunslinger on Fri 05 Sep 2008 10:56 PM EDT Legendary Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens recently detailed his plan to wean America off foreign oil by blanketing the Great Plains with wind turbines.

The credit crunch is likely to last another 18 months, the head of the UK's largest mortgage provider warns.

The federal government has prepared a plan to take control of troubled mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, several news outlets reported Friday night.

The U.S. misery index is up. Unemployment is at a five year high. The US dollar is at a generational low. Home loans are hard to get and usurious if you get them. College is out of reach for millions. Petrol so expensive that people aren't traveling, are rethinking location decisions like where they work and live, how often they visit family, are cutting shopping trips and buying more online.

“ANZ is lying through their teeth by saying they have no involvement in the OceanGold Didipio Gold-Copper mining project. The bank is listed as one of the top shareholders in the latest OceanaGold Corporation annual report,” said Clemente Bautista, national coordinator of militant environmental group Kalikasan People’s Network for the Environment (Kalikasan-PNE).

High prices of commodities could also have been mitigated if government had not surrendered control over the oil industry by maintaining oil deregulation.

To help bridge the gap between business and law, I’m pleased to announce that the US Chamber of Commerce has included an article titled Three Ways to Avoid Lawsuits in the September 2008 edition of US Chamber.com Magazine.  Click here to see the full article.  Also, don’t forget to come back this

To help bridge the gap between business and law, I’m pleased to announce that the US Chamber of Commerce has included an article titled Three Ways to Avoid Lawsuits in the September 2008 edition of US Chamber Magazine.com.  Click here to see the full article.  Also, don’t forget to come back this

Microsoft, tired of being ridiculed by Apple Computers in the amusing and highly successful Mac and PC commercials, decided it needed to respond, so it hired a hot new advertising agency and gave them 300 million dollars to make them cool again. This ain't cool. In fact, Its pretty much incomprehensible.

Each Friday, I post the stuff— cool projects, inspiring photos, call for artists, events – that I bookmarked that week. I hope you’ll find something in here to inspire your weekend making sessions. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RixLYeeubXs Inspiration: A great thing to keep in mind: Be