Government
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Wikiarguments: A Practical Plan to Get Big Money Out of Politics (Carmen Yarrusso)
"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.” --Henry David Thoreau Nov. 24, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Clearly, our government is deeply ...
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Fail and Grow Rich on Wall Street (Robert Scheer)
Nov. 24, 2010 (TruthDig) -- Welcome to the brave new world of post-bailout capitalism. The Commerce Department announced Tuesday that corporate profits are at their highest level in U.S. history, ...
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US Designates 'Critical' Polar Bear Habitat in Arctic (Agence France Presse)
Nov. 24, 2010 -- WASHINGTON (Agence France Presse) -- The U.S. government Wednesday designated "critical habitat" for polar bears who live on Alaska's disappearing sea ice, a move that could impact ...
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Corporate Profits Were the Highest on Record Last Quarter (Catherine Rampell)
Nov. 23, 2010 (New York Times) -- The nation’s workers may be struggling, but American companies just had their best quarter ever. American businesses earned profits at an annual rate of $1.659 ...
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Report: Body Scanner Makers Doubled Lobbying Cash Over 5 Years (Diana Sweet)
Nov. 23, 2010 (Raw Story) -- Multimillion dollar government contracts don't just happen. Ask the companies with the big government contracts to supply Body-scanning machines to U.S. airports how ...
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TSA Gestapo Empire (Paul Craig Roberts)
Nov. 23, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- It doesn’t take a bureaucrat long to create an empire. John Pistole, the FBI agent who took over the Transportation Security Administration on July 1 ...
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Bush Lies - Not Just To Us, But To Himself (Ray McGovern)
Nov. 23, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Why should George W. Bush have been "angry" to learn in late 2007 of the "high-confidence" unanimous judgment of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies that ...
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Fighting Doom: The New Politics of Climate Change (Brendan Smith)
Nov. 23, 2010 (Common Dreams) -- I am not an environmentalist. But all I think about these days is the climate crisis. I admit I have arrived late to the party. Only recently have I begun to realize ...
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Bernanke vs. Keynes (Mike Whitney)
Nov. 23, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- Investment drives the economy. It creates jobs, builds factories, develops technology, and stimulates growth. When investment falls, spending slows, ...
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Technology Addiction and Virtual Reality (Charles Sullivan)
Nov. 22, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- It will be difficult, if not impossible, to bring the United States back from the brink of social and economic collapse upon which it is so precariously ...
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The Stench of American Hypocrisy, Part 2 (Paul Craig Roberts)
Nov. 22, 2010 (Information Clearing House) -- In a recent column, "The Stench of American Hypocrisy," I noted that U.S. public officials and media are on their high horse about the rule of law in ...
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