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• Housing Is The Bright Spot

  
  San Diego Blog — Authority: 127
  Housing is the bright spot in our economic landscape, according to the Federal Reserve’s "Beige Book" report. More banks are willing to lend to first-time home buyers. However, commercial real estate is a weak sector, weighed down by business closures and difficulty in obtaining financing. According to a report from ...
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• Banner plane

  
  Brown Cafe - UPS info for UPSers — Authority: 153
  On word of mouth info I heard today it seems the Teamsters, and I am assuming it was Local 177, hired a banner plane to fly past the Edison building in NJ yesterday. I was told that Bloomberg was doing a news piece at the time on UPS and may have caught the plane on camera. The banner supposedly accused the company of ...
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• Maddow: Big Business and the “Child Labor Endorsing, Pro-Slavery Freaks”

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 158
  by bluegal Crooks & Liars.com Rachel Maddow wins my semi-famous “Don’t Sugarcoat It” award for her talented muckraking in this segment. It’s becoming abundantly clear to everyone in the left-wing activist community that without loophole-free campaign finance reform we are unlikely to change anything ...
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• Lord Mandelson Sets Out U.K. Government’s Skills for Growth Plan

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 155
  Business Secretary Lord Mandelson has set out the Government’s vision for giving people and businesses the skills they need to help drive economic growth. The Government will: Create a modern class of technicians, through a dramatic expansion of  advanced apprenticeships, creating 35,000 new places over the ...
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• The Political Winds are Shifting

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 548
  The Political Winds are Shifting By Ann Robertson and Bill Leumer The labor movement is beginning to stir after decades of setbacks and defeats. Having embraced the concept of a partnership with the employers, most labor officials renounced any recourse to strikes, the only effective weapon when properly ...
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• Review of movie, Labor Day

  
  The Indypendent — Authority: 532
  Labor Day is a documentary funded by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) about the union’s involvement in electing Barack Obama president. The film is a good agit-prop vehicle for motivating union members to get involved with SEIU’s formidable get out the vote organizing and not a political ...
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• Today At TNR (November 12, 2009)

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 140
  Inside the Obamacare Laboratory: Have Democrats Learned the Right Lessons from Massachusetts? by Jonathan Cohn Previewing Obama’s Asia Visit: Why He Has a Rare Chance to Improve U.S.-Japan Relations , by R. Taggart Murphy TNRtv: The Jew-Hating, Gay-Bashing Westboro Baptist Church Comes to New York. Oh Boy. by ...
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• Ray Nagins laissez-faire recovery in progress

  
  Library Chronicles — Authority: 536
  Are they still paying big-time wages at Genes Po-boys? There is a glut of vacant apartments in New Orleans but the people who need them cant afford them, according to a study released today by a pair of research organizations. The study estimates that by next year, the city will have a surplus of at least 6,582 ...
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• Feel free to do it again

  
  Library Chronicles — Authority: 536
  Sternly worded letter passes expiration date . Two-and-a-half years after putting Tulane University on its blacklist for post-Hurricane Katrina personnel actions, a national organization of professors has lifted its censure because, an official said Tuesday, it approves of what Tulane has done to correct the ...
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• High labor costs chase medical trade show out of Chicago

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 548
  And when I say "high labor costs," Im talking about union labor costs. And the Chicago Tribune certainly knows better, and its ridiculous that they omit that from their report. A premier medical trade show is dropping Chicago for its 2012 gathering and heading to Las Vegas instead, citing the high cost of labor ...
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• Female Hotel Workers Injured More Than Men, Study Shows

  
  HispanicTrending — Authority: 127
  November 10, 2009 By STEVEN GREENHOUSE A new study of workers at 50 hotels in the United States found that women were 50 percent more likely to be injured than men, and that Hispanic women had an injury rate two-thirds higher than their white female counterparts. The study, which will be published in January in The ...
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• West Coast ports band together to fight global competition

  
  Oregon Living — Authority: 811
  Port of Portland will join forces for the first time with Los Angeles and Seattle.
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• Australia Posts Second Straight Month of Strong Job Growth

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  Australian employment rose 24,500 in October, which led investors to believe a further increase in interest rates was almost certain to come next month.
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• Court orders Cathay Pacific Airways to pay millions to wrongfully dismissed pilots

  
  Aircrew Buzz — Authority: 458
  by B. N. Sullivan A Hong Kong High Court judge has ruled that Cathay Pacific Airways, Ltd. unfairly fired and defamed 18 pilots in 2001, and has ordered the carrier to pay the pilots HK$58.7 million -- an amount equivalent to nearly US$8 million. The pilots were among 49 who were fired by Cathay during a labor ...
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• A Stitch In Time... Doesnt Necessarily Save Your Nethers

  
  BlogHer - Health & Wellness — Authority: 140
  I hadnt realized that this was actually something that real women actually did, but apparently it is: vaginal cosmetic surgery is maybe not as popular as Botox, but women are getting it done. The thing is, according to a British study, getting your hoo-hah snipped carries a lot of risks. More risks than Botox. About ...
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• At FDL, HCANt shill Jason Rosenbaum defiles dead veterans

  
  Corrente — Authority: 617
  Is "defiles" too strong a word? Lets see! The set-up : 2,266 Veterans Die Because They Are Uninsured The pitch: nahant brings to our attention an extremely important and tragic statistic this Veteran’s Day. Via the Huffington Post :
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• Jon Gosselin accuses TLC of child labor violations, asks for hands to be amputated

  
  The Dish Rag — Authority: 701
  J on Gosselin is accusing TLC of violating child labor laws. Of course he is. RadarOnline.com reports that his attorneys are painting him as "David versus Goliath" in their response to TLC’s request for a preliminary injunction against the reality TV dad. You know, this is the preliminary injunction that may ...
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• Kids Free on 3 & 4 night cruises

  
  CruiseMagic.com — Authority: 129
  Travel Dates: 3-night cruises: Jan. 7 – April 15, 2010 4-night cruises: Jan. 10 – April 11, 2010 Additional Details: Applies to stateroom Categories 4-12 only Available to book online and through GDS Must mention booking code KFO Other Articles You May Be Interested In Disney Cruises to Alaska Disney ...
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• Straight from the “I Shit You Not file”

  
  Doug's Dynamic Drivel — Authority: 134
  Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy see the article at Open Left Tags: Business , child labor , lobbying , slavery
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• Latte Links (11/11)

  
  Caffeinated Thoughts — Authority: 140
  Here’s some miscellany for this fine Wednesday evening. Gallup: Republicans Edge Ahead of Democrats in 2010 Vote The Page: What’s In Sarah Palin’s Book by Mark Halperin (I love the picture he has, it’s hilarious). Big Government: Using Unions As Weapons: UPS v. FedEx by Nick Gillespie The ...
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