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25 Jun 2009 10:47

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Biz: Based on our GDP, the economy appears to be on the Atkins diet

  • -5.5% decline in GDP in the first quarter of ’09 source
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25 Jun 2009 10:38

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World: Ahmadinejad wants an apology from the guy Republicans called “timid”

Because Obama dared to be modestly critical, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says he’s striking the same critical tone as Bush. Hmmmm. source
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25 Jun 2009 10:30

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World: Mousavi under intense amounts of pressure to stop fighting Iran vote

  • I am pressured to abandon my demand for the vote annulment … a major rigging has happened … I am prepared to prove that those behind the rigging are responsible for the bloodshed … Continuation of legal and calm protests will guarantee achieving our goals.
  • Mir Hossein Mousavi • On the protests that continue despite much fighting by the leadership and his hand being forced to give up the protests. Beyond the protests, Mousavi was the managing editor of the Kalameh-ye Sabz daily newspaper, which was forced to close this week. He’s not happy about that at all. The protests have been slowed greatly because of increased police presence but the protracted fight has had the side effect of showing massive rifts within the Iranian establishment. • source
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25 Jun 2009 10:21

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Tech: Windows 7: Still expensive, but cheaper than Vista

  • $119 The price the average consumer will pay to upgrade to the Home Edition from Windows XP or Vista; the most expensive package – a new version of Ultimate – costs $319
  • 10% The decrease in prices for Windows 7 from Windows Vista – which is nice, but Apple’s Mac OSX Snow Leopard will only cost $29 for most consumers to upgrade source
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25 Jun 2009 00:15

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Tech: Tesla Motors gets some killer $$$$ behind it from the Feds

  • $465 million to build the kind of cars Detroit couldn’t source
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