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• Attention mothers of Sydney: AFL

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 502
  The date November 9th was a pivotal day in the life of the fledgling Greater Western Sydney AFL team for two important reasons. The first of course was the appointment of legendary coach Kevin Sheedy as the team’s inaugural coach. The second, while less obvious may be even more critical. It was the AFL unveiling ...
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• Labor and Minority Groups Pressure President Obama for Greater Job Creation

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  The NAACP, the AFL-CIO and the Hispanic rights group La Raza joined forces to pressure the Obama administration to do more to create jobs for a recession-plagued nation. The normally pro-Obama groups made it clear that they felt his $787 billion stimulus had favored big banks and corporations and had not gone far ...
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• Publicity the chief motivator for AFL’s expansion signings

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 502
  The Karmichael Hunt and Kevin Sheedy experiments may very well end up unmitigated success stories that go on to revolutionise the way we look at both recruiting and coaching. But something tells me the main reason they’ve been snapped up isn’t all that football-related. Consider that Hunt, the rugby league ...
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• Lions and Demons to play exhibition game in China

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 502
  Melbourne and Brisbane will play an AFL exhibition game in Shanghai next year, the first professional Australian Rules match to be played in China. The Demons and Lions will meet at the Jiangwan Sports Centre in Shanghai on October 17 next year, the AFL announced on Saturday. AFL general manager national and ...
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• Thank you for Socialized Medicine!

  
  The Union News. — Authority: 536
  AFL-CIO leads the progressive coalition
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• AIG; Insurance Winners & Losers

  
  TheStreet.com — Authority: 560
  Shares of insurance companies finished the week flat after some volatility over the last few days.
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• Market Wrap-Up for Nov.20 (MRK, DRI, SJM, PFG, HPQ, POT, more)

  
  Dividend Stocks - The Dividend Daily — Authority: 449
  The markets were able to pull it together somewhat to close off the intraday lows. Volume finished at 3.75 Billion shares on the NYSE and 1.98 Billion shares traded on the NASDAQ. Today’s tough earnings news came from companies such as DR Horton ( DHI ) and Dell Inc. ( DELL ). Both companies got hit ...
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• >>Stimulus Bill Jobs created reports ‘riddled with inaccuracies’

  
  And So I Go: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow — Authority: 142
  Jobs reports ‘riddled with inaccuracies’ – USATODAY.com The results of the Stimulus Bill funds is a mess!   The reports of jobs created are so riddled with false statements and twisting the truth that even the Democrats should be appalled.  It is long past time for Congress to rescind this bill and make ...
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• Dell: Analysts Upgrades, Downgrades

  
  TheStreet.com — Authority: 560
  See who made what calls.
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• Top 10 Analyst Upgrades, Downgrades, Initiations (AFL, BRCM, DDS, D, INTC, MRVL, BTU, RTP, STP, TXN)

  
  24/7 Wall St. — Authority: 695
  These are Friday morning’s top 10 analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations we have seen early this morning in Wall Street research calls:AFLAC (NYSE: AFL) Raised to Overweight at Morgan Stanley.Broadcom Corp. (NASDAQ: BRCM) Started as Outperform at BMO Capital Markets.Dillard’s (NYSE: DDS) Raised to Buy at ...
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• Union Health Care Words that Work and more!

  
  Conservative Thoughts — Authority: 476
  SEIU’s Health Care Words that Work Evista   Make money online   Prozac   Payday advance loan   Cialis generic viagra   Cheap levitra   Car rentals   Day care   Tramadol 50mg   Fioricet   Generic viagra   Casino portal   Debt problem   Term life insurance policy   Cheap airline   Casino bonus   ...
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• Without Jobs, the Nation’s Future Circles the Drain

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 764
        After he was elected AFL-CIO president in September, Richard Trumka traveled around the country on a listening tour. Here’s one story he heard, which he described this week as the AFL-CIO, along with several key allies, launched a jobs initiative to help get our nation back to work . Last ...
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• Richard Trumka, Andy Stern accuse Fed of massive secret bailouts and cronyism [Paul, Grason team up]

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 172
  This is what I call “solidarity.” Richard Trumka, President of the AFL-CIO, Andy Stern, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), and Leo Gerard, President of the Steelworkers Union, all signed a letter with economists, labor leaders, and bloggers blasting Rep. Mel Watt’s amendment to gut the ...
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• Letter To House Financial Services Committee

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 767
  November 18, 2009 House Financial Services Committee 2129 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, D.C. 20515 Dear Chairman Frank, Ranking Member Bachus, and Members of the Committee, During the past two years, the Federal Reserve dramatically changedits operating procedures. Instead of simply setting interest ...
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• New York Times: “American Workers Are Overpaid”

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 440
  If recent resistance by IBEW and UNITE HERE members are any indication, the Times’ BreakingNews folks and corporate America have a long way to go before convincing workers that it is they, rather... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• AFL’s lack of international competition hurting the game

  
  The Roar - Your Sports Opinion — Authority: 502
  The months of October and November are a sobering reminder to the AFL just how much they trail in global stature to sports like rugby union, league and football. The question has no easy answer, and without a genuine International professional level for our elite level players, perhaps now is the time to get ...
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• With 16 Million Jobless, Should the Feds Pay People to Work?

  
  Politics Daily — Authority: 815
  Filed under: Economy The phrase "public jobs" carries decades of baggage, from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the "workfare" programs of the 1980s. But with nearly 16 million people unemployed and a recovery thats halting at best, theres growing pressure on the federal government to get directly into the ...
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• SEIU Wages War on Progressives

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 440
  The increasing willingness of other unions to openly back NUHW is most ominous for SEIU. It means that SEIU’s efforts to frame NUHW as a “rogue” labor organization guilty of “raiding” other unions... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Health care legislation is full of “goodies” for unions

  
  LaborPains.org — Authority: 121
  The Houston Chronicle ran an opinion piece by a local lawyer yesterday outlining “ lots of goodies tucked away in the health care bill “  (as the title reads) for labor unions. Before the rundown of the list of things that labor stands to gain from the bill, it’s important to have the end goal front and center, ...
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• EPI Explores Solutions to Job Hemorrhage

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 807
  Our friends over at the Economic Policy Institute hosted a live Webcast Tuesday featuring six speakers. The key conclusion? Progressive leaders warn of lasting damage from jobs crisis . One speaker was Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO. Heres what he had to say: If you prefer to read than watch, ...
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