The Slow Money Alliance, an organization that seeks to build networks and develop new financial products and services to invest in small food enterprises and local food systems, connecting investors to their local economies, and building the "nurture capital" industry, held its national gathering at beautiful Shelburne Farms, Vermont on Thursday and Friday of last week.

A new report that highlights Afghanistan’s extensive mineral deposits provides fuel for the United States’s military project. But it also signals the existence of a wider resource-competition that reflects the 21st-century’s emerging geopolitics.

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In a move that has many Torontonians scratching their heads, officials in charge of G20
security have ordered that trees in the security zone have to be removed. Bus shelters and
garbage cans have also been removed.

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PHOENIX - Emboldened by passage of the nation's toughest law against illegal immigration, the Arizona politician who sponsored the measure now wants to deny U.S. citizenship to children born in this country to undocumented parents.

Wall Street's biggest banks are engaged in the legislative equivalent of house-to-house fighting as the final provisions of the US financial reform bill are decided in Congress.