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Odds 'n Sods:
Reader D.K. mentioned this item that first appeared in the AMA's Morning
Rounds e-newsletter: Hospitals in Cities Most at Risk of Terrorist Attack
Do Not Have Capacity To Treat Injured, Report Finds
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Eric mentioned that the US Federal Reserve has now resorted to desperation
measures to
pump liquidity in the midst of the global credit collapse: We read in The
New York Times:
Fed
Takes Steps to Add Liquidity. The piece begins: "The Federal Reserve
announced new steps on Friday to help ease tight global credit markets by increasing
the size of its cash auctions to banks and allowing financial institutions
to put up credit card debt, student loans and car loans as collateral for Fed
loans." Yikes!
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US
diplomat: 100,000 may have died in Myanmar cyclone. The article begins:
"Bodies floated in flood waters and survivors tried to reach dry ground on
boats using blankets as sails, while the top U.S. diplomat in Myanmar said
Wednesday
that up to 100,000 people may have died in the devastating cyclone. Hungry
crowds stormed the few shops that opened in the country's stricken Irrawaddy
delta,
sparking fist fights, according to Paul Risley, a spokesman for the
U.N. World Food Program in neighboring Thailand..." We also read in The
Globe and Mail: How
the 'rice bowl of Asia' was emptied. We can expect even more
severe shortages of rice, globally.
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Joe S. suggested this piece over at the LATOC site: The
U. S. Electric Grid: Will It Be
Our Undoing?
