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Wholesale prices jump in January!

WASHINGTON - February 26, 2008 - Battered by bad economic news, consumer confidence plunged while wholesale food, energy and medicine costs soared, pushing inflation up at the fastest pace in a quarter century.

The Labor Department said Tuesday that wholesale inflation jumped by 1 percent in January, more than double the increase that analysts had been expecting.

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U.S. home foreclosures jump 90% as mortgages reset!

February 26, 2008 - Bank seizures of U.S. homes almost doubled in January as property owners failed to make higher payments on adjustable-rate mortgages.

Repossessions rose 90 percent to 45,327 last month from the same period a year ago, according to RealtyTrac Inc., a seller of foreclosure statistics that has a database of more than 1 million properties. Total foreclosure filings

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Rising inflation creates unease in Middle East!

AMMAN, Jordan - February 25, 2008 - Even as it enriches Arab rulers, the recent oil-price boom is helping to fuel an extraordinary rise in the cost of food and other basic goods that is squeezing this region’s middle class and setting off strikes, demonstrations and occasional riots from Morocco to the Persian Gulf.

Here in Jordan, the cost of maintaining fuel subsidies amid

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Turkish raid strains U.S.-Kurd ties!

AMADIYAH, Iraq - February 25, 2008 - Peshmerga Gen. Muhammad Mohsen took down his American flag, folded it up, and placed it in his office corner Sunday, reflecting the growing anger in Iraq's Kurdish north with U.S. support for Turkey's campaign against separatist rebels operating in the region.

The intermittent offensive against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) rea

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France, the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia secretly launch their first joint war game!

February 25, 2008 - DEBKAfile’s military sources report exclusively that the first Persian Gulf exercise without the U.S. in many years began February 24, 2008. It will last ten days. It is also the first time the United Arab Emirates and France have invoked their 19-year-old military pact. France has contributed 1,500 navy marine and air force personnel to the exercise, the UAE 1,500,

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U.S. can attack Russia in 2012-2015!

MOSCOW, Russia - February 23, 2008 - After 2012-2015, the U.S. will be able to annihilate Russian strategic nuclear forces by a non-nuclear pre-emptive strike.

''I declare that the likelihood of a military threat is great as never before now,'' Konstantin Sivkov, the first vice-president of the Russian Academy of Geopolitical Problems, told Interfax AVN military ne

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Cryptic notes left at vandalized banks!

BREMERTON, Washington - February 21, 2008 - Bremerton police said four banks were vandalized early Thursday, with each incident involving windows broken with pieces of concrete that had notes taped to them, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

The banks involved were a US Bank at 2020 Sixth St., a Key Bank at 3750 Wheaton Way, a Bank of America at 1000 Sixth St. and a Kitsap Bank a