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• Beating Triangulators on Financial Reform

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 744
  Triangulators like Bill Clinton and his protégé Rahm Emanuel adopt a position above and beyond traditional political lines. They explain that the liberals and the conservatives both hate it, so it much be a good idea. Conventional thinkers, like the op-ed writers for the WaPo, are impressed, they write good things. ...
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• JS Kim Interview with Ilene from Phil’s Stock World

  
  The Underground Investor — Authority: 406
  Ilene’s the editor at Phil’s Stock World, where she keeps readers up to pace with the latest stock market news and events from around the internet. Visit her at Phil’s Favorites site. Her background is in law and biological science, so she may stray from financial matters every so often. (For instance, [...]
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• Note to “Salary Czar” Feinberg: Bankers Yield Negative Returns

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 744
  Recently Ken Feinberg, the “Salary Czar” for bailed-out companies, came under all kinds of pressure and threats to quit from upper management executives at AIG . He has taken a ton of flack for capping some banker’s salaries at $500K. Up until now, “compensation consultants” appeared to use a “what the ...
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• Screens: Greed Corp (PS3/360/PC)

  
  Diehard GameFAN — Authority: 143
  Screens: Greed Corp (PS3/360/PC) Developer: W!Games Publisher: W!Games Genre: turn-based strategy Release Date: early 2010 [Show as slideshow] ...
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• Glad confidence is coming back. Whew. Thought we were melting down there for awhile. Let’s all go shopping.

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  Reality Sucks, it truly does. This is from Zero Hedge ( http://www.zerohedge.com/article/brace-impact-2010-private-demand-us-fixed-income-has-increase-elevenfold-or-else ): “As everyone is engrossed by assorted groundless Christmas (and other ongoing bear market) rallies, and oblivious to the debt monsters hiding ...
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• The American-Israeli War on Gaza

  
  NOVAKEO.COM — Authority: 135
  One year ago today, Israel launched “Operation Cast Lead”, a murderous full-scale military assault on the small, densely populated, and defenseless Gaza Strip. The operation resulted in the massacre of over 1,300 Palestinians, the vast majority civilians, including hundreds of children. This includes only those ...
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• O. Henry’s “Gift of the Magi” and the American Way

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 744
  In “The Gift of the Magi,” O. Henry tells the story of Della and Jim, a couple rich in love who can barely afford their $8 per week flat. It’s Christmas, and Della sells her long, beautiful hair to a wig maker so she can buy Jim a fob for his pocket watch. Meanwhile, Jim sells his beloved watch to buy Della ...
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• Bomb, Bomb Iran: Lessons From Iraq Unlearned

  
  NOVAKEO.COM — Authority: 135
  In a New York Times op-ed this week that advocates bombing Iran, the author, Alan J. Kuperman, director of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Program at the University of Texas at Austin, begins by suggesting that President Barack Obama should “sigh in relief that Iran has rejected his nuclear deal”. In ...
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• Just something to get the brick rolling

  
  Love for Life - A strong immune system means protection from disease. A united community presents an impenetrable front against corruption! — Authority: 434
  I was forced by a small debts tribunal to repay a sum of money forwarded to me by National bank in error. Thats ok but they wanted me to pay interest at the full commercial rate for credit cards. I spoke to a bank employee to explain my disability and hardship. He later told the tribunal we had a verbal agreement ...
  2 days ago

• Greed is The Worlds New God

  
  Authspot — Authority: 520
  Greed is the worlds new God We’ve all been seeded inside this pod Our minds well cultivated Marked with an imprinted scan We have been monitored And set in place of a plan All human thoughts eliminated In comes an electronically tagged buyer Pressing our thoughts Only to aim higher We are now been used as ...
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• Herding the Fat Cats: A Holistic Approach to Stifling Corporate Greed—And Solving Our Tax Code and Healthcare Problems in the Process!

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  After a year of bailouts and a barely-breathing economy, many Americans want to know what 2010 will bring. Has corporate America really learned its lesson? Author Blaine Loomer isn’t waiting around to find out. He offers up a holistic solution to ending corruption in America’s big businesses that will also create ...
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• kbr

  
  skippy the bush kangaroo — Authority: 536
  why are we still doing business with them? and why arent the dems growing a spine and asking the tough questions we need answered? once again, the army decided to side with the same contractor that has overcharged them for feeding our troops, electrocuted our forces due to faulty work, and exposed them to human ...
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• Why The President’s Inability to Lead Highlights the Value of FDL’s Reachout to “Strange Bedfellows”

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 744
  The times call for a leader of Churchillian or Rooseveltian magnitude; what we have instead is a cautious risk-averse manager. Bold progressives must fill the leadership vacuum in order to restore and support a vibrant US middle class. When he confronted a world-wide economic collapse not of his making last winter, ...
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• Post-Christmas economic vent

  
  Secular Right — Authority: 496
  Following Derb’s vent, I have to get this one off my chest, however elementary the sentiment:  If I hear one more Democrat (and occasional Republican) in the House or Senate condescend to business, I am going to throw up.  Today it’s insurance and drug companies, tomorrow it’s oil producers, toy companies, ...
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• The Art and Jewel of Contentment

  
  The Reformed Reader — Authority: 127
   Working through Burrough’s Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment  has been a great exercise.  I’m not quite finished with it, but so far I’ve been making many little notes based on Burrough’s wisdom.   There are some aspects of it I probably wouldn’t capitalize on, but others I am trying to etch in ...
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• Contractors Cost More? No One Could Have Anticipated . . .

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 744
  image courtsey of Tracy O Back in March, Obama ordered the Office of Management and Budget to take a close look at the government’s contracting procedures, especially the use of outside contractors . Cost-plus contracts came under particular scrutiny, as did sole-source contracts. One of the first agencies to ...
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• Those Poor People

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 572
  We’ve all seen the commercials. Scenes of a loving family sharing Christmas morning, followed by a sudden cut to a homeless child trying to get cozy in the freezing rain. Invariably, some sort of connection is made between these two scenarios, usually between the children being the same age, gender, generic ...
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• Getting a grip on cruise ship pollution

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 463
  Cruise ships emit particulates that cause health problems like athsma, as well as more heat-trapping carbon dioxide per passenger mile than aircraft and trains. Most cruise ships burn bunker fuel, which is 1,000 times dirtier than the fuel burned in diesel trucks....In one week, an average cruise ship generates ...
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• PaddyMac Prefers Profits Over People

  
  Whallah! — Authority: 126
  Predictably, PaddyMac bemoans the fact that the Senate passed their version of health care benefits. Its not that he is necessarily against people getting health care benefits, since he doesnt even mention that. It is that the insurance companies wont get to gouge: Only might I add: While sensible, ordinary ...
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• Mr. Rothschild’s Energy Discovery

  
  InvestmentWatch — Authority: 157
  What Mr. Rothschild had discovered was the basic principle of power, influence, and control over people as applied to economics. That principle is “when you assume the appearance of power, people soon give it to you.” Mr. Rothschild had discovered that currency or deposit loan accounts had the required appearance ...
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