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POPSCritics blast $3M mining handout A mining company owned by Goldman Sachs and two private equity funds is in line to get a $3 million earmark for work at a rare earth elements mine in Mountain Pass, Calif.
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POPSGulf oil to drop dollar-denominated pricing Starting in 2018, the Gulf states will no longer sell their oil for dollars. They will instead use a "basket" structure which will include Chinese, Japanese, and European currencies, gold, and a yet-to-be-created common Gulf currency. This could, to put it mildly, have very far-reaching effects.
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POPSA 'Classified' Photo Op Turns Into a Soaring Blunder.... How dumb. Can you have a "secret", "classified" maneuver of F-16s & a 747 flying at app. 1000 ft. around the Statue of Liberty in broad daylight? So now that everyone knows about it, why is the one over D.C. cancelled for May? And how much did this operation cost just to update their photo files?