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• A Move to Revive Glass-Steagall

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 739
  Ten years ago, Congress dismantled the decades-old Glass-Steagall Act, breaking down the firewalls between commercial banks and securities houses, and helping Wall Street firms grow into the too-big-to-fail institutions that exist now. There’s been a great deal of debate about the extent to which the death of ...
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• Americas Metastasizing Intelligence Apparatus

  
  Corrente — Authority: 625
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• Riddle keeps pre-trial tweeting despite judge’s advice

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 604
  Outspoken political consultant Sam Riddle refused his last chance at two plea deals Monday and will be the first figure accused of being involved in Detroit and Southfield bribery scandals to go to trial. FBI officials allege that Riddle negotiated and arranged bribes for convicted Detroit City councilwoman Monica ...
  6 days ago

• Congressional Transparency Reveals… the New Watergate?

  
  The Mudflats — Authority: 588
  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made good on her promise to put congressional spending records online for the first time ever.  Score one for transparency in government! As long as a Representative stays within the guidelines, they have broad latitude about how to spend their alloted money.  At first glance ...
  6 days ago

• Authority to Spy on Americans Unclear as Patriot Act Expires

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 568
  Editor’s Note: Unclear my ass. Read the Bill of Rights Source: ABC News Rushed into law by Congress just weeks after Sept. 11, 2001 three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act granting officials far-reaching surveillance and seizure powers in the name of national security, are due to expire this ...
  6 days ago

• Royalty Bill’s Chances Fading

  
  Radio 2020 — Authority: 121
  Washington Research Group Concept Capital ’s Paul Gallant says in a new report that chances of the Performance Rights Act passing have downgraded from a 60% likelihood to 40%. The Performance Rights Act would force radio stations to pay royalties for playing music on top of the usual array of song writer ...
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• Synagro exec. Rosendall gets 11 months in jail

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 604
  DETROIT—Former Michigan Vice President of Synagro Technologies James Rosendall was sentenced to 11 months in prison and $200,000 in fines this afternoon for approving at least $6,000 in bribes to former city councilwoman Monica Conyers in exchange for a favorable vote on a $1.2 billion sludge disposal contract with ...
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• Loudon: Barack Obama and the Socialist Healthcare Scamsters

  
  RBO — Authority: 529
  Physicians for a National Health Program National Coordinator Dr. Quentin Young with Sen. Barack Obama at Dr. Young’s 80th birthday celebration in 2003.Trevor Loudon writes on his New Zeal blog:Despite little public clamor for government controlled health care, the US Senate is looking increasingly likely to pass ...
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• Constitutional Law’s Tyranny of Complexity

  
  Pajamas Media — Authority: 820
  If we don’t stop rewriting our basic law into gobbledygook that the average person can’t understand, this country faces a dark future.
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• Single payer at the National Press Club and the days news

  
  Corrente — Authority: 625
  Statement of Russell Mokhiber President, Single Payer Action Good morning. My name is Russell Mokhiber. I’m the president of Single Payer Action. Single Payer Action is a non-profit 501c.4 organization. Our mission is a simple one: – secure single payer Medicare for all national health insurance for the ...
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  Black Agenda Report — Authority: 131
  
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• Feds praise man facing prison in Monica Conyers corruption case

  
  Detroit Business News — Authority: 819
  Federal prosecutors are recommending a maximum prison sentence of 11 months for a sludge-company representative who exposed corruption in Detroit government.Jim Rosendall will stand before a judge Nov. 30 in federal court in Detroit. He worked for Houston-based Synagro (SIN-uh-groh)...
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• Audio Conyers (D-Detroit): "Im Getting Tired Of Saving Obamas Can"

  
  theblogprof — Authority: 683
  Saving Obamas can? From what, exactly? Believe it or not, Conyers says this because he thinks that Obama is bowing (!) to the GOP on healthcare. I kid you not! Listen to Conyers himself: Now, it is true that Obama bows, but he only does so to people that either are our enemies or used to be. King Abdullah of Saudi ...
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• Company at center of bribery scandal competing for new contract with Detroit

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 604
  Even though Synagro Technologies has been tied to a bribery scandal that may land two company representatives, consultant Rayford Jackson and former Michigan executive James Rosendall , in prison, the Texas-based waste disposal company is in the running for a new contract with the city. When bribery charges ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Democrats don’t want to abolish the private insurance industry. They are capitalists.

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 126
  “For the Democrats, with the exception of John Conyers and a few others, they simply don’t want to abolish the private insurance industry. They are capitalists and believe in the capitalist system that makes health care a commodity to be bought and sold. For them, health care is not a human right. … One minute ...
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• Who Is “Nutty”?

  
  The American Sector — Authority: 128
  Representative John Conyers Jr., Democrat of Michigan and the second-most senior member of the House, today ripped into President Obama and Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff, accusing them of “bowing down” to “nutty right-wing” proposals just to get a health care bill passed. “I’m getting tired ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama Isnt Just Losing Support In the Polls

  
  Cutting Through The Fog — Authority: 132
  For the first time since Obama took office, the majority of political polls now show him at a level that is below a 50% favorability rating -- that theoretical level at which any President can still be considered popular.But, more than polling, Obama is losing popularity with his own political party. There are ...
  2 weeks ago

• Conyers: Obama "Bowing Down" to the Right on Healthcare

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 458
  Across the nation many Progressives have been disillusioned with the leadership shown by President Obama on Healthcare. As a former single-payer proponent himself we simply hoped that he would fight harder for a better bill. Instead, he allowed the Congress to mostly write the healthcare bill and far from gave a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Friday Talking Points [102] — Harry Reid's Glacial Progress Grinds On

  
  ChrisWeigant.com — Authority: 419
  Our illustrious (cough, cough) White House press corps showed it could get to the bottom of a story with impressively journalistic and probative skills this week. The story that so obviously required multiple questions to President Obama on his trip to Asia? Whether hes eating enough, and whether hes losing weight. ...
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• He said it

  
  Quiddity — Authority: 469
  I was listening to an interview with Democratic Rep John Conyers where he said these words (and I will quote them exactly) … the public option’s only available, which is the only way you’ll manage costs and give some competition to thirteen hundred other health insurance companies, the only way he could have ...
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