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• The Mouse That Roared

  
  SteveAudio — Authority: 419
  Trust the intellectually dishonest to be, well, dishonest. Eamon Javers writing at Politico.com reports Disneys Bob Iger, at the White House Jobs Summit said: Disney CEO Robert Iger, for example, used one of the break-out sessions to propose a cut in the corporate tax rate – a move that would cost the Treasury ...
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• Late Night: “I’m Dreaming of a Whine Christmas…”

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 727
  Just in time to get you in the holiday spirit, we’ve got this report from Wall Street : NEW YORK – Five senior executives at American International Group told the insurer last week they may quit if their compensation was cut significantly by the U.S. pay czar , the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday. The ...
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• Greed, Health Care Reform and the American Recovery Act

  
  THE SWASH ZONE — Authority: 428
  Middle America needs to get a grasp on corporate greed, and recognize it as the modern day King George. Two of President Obama’s major initiatives, Health Care Reform and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will fare much better if the working class skeptics see the role corporate greed plays in both ...
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• Late Night: Aetna Really Wants You to Know

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 727
  Thank you, Aetna, for wanting us to know. Your boldness is breathtaking and your timing is impeccable. This month, as the Senate is embroiled in heated debate over health care reform, one might expect insurance companies to be on their best behavior – the same way restaurants are when the health inspector drops by. ...
  4 days ago

• Patient Dumping For Fun And Profit

  
  43-Ideas-Per-Minute — Authority: 477
  In another sign that nothing is wrong with the healthcare industry and reform is just a pointless endeavor only to be used to deny people care/coverage, its great that we have people like AETNA to deny people care/coverage now. In a third-quarter earnings conference call in late October, officials at Aetna ...
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• Foreign Nuclear Waste: House members now being touted as "anti-American jobs"

  
  Dee's 'Dotes — Authority: 122
  Never mind the fact that nuclear waste poses a serious health threat to everyone and everything on our planet. If the U.S. does not accept the 20,000 tons of N-waste to Tennessee wtih 1600 of it coming to Utah, the entire economy will be undermined. So says Energy Solutions and its advocates in the U.S. House, ...
  4 days ago

• Trumka—Time for Radio to Pay the Piper and All the Musicians

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 650
  AM and FM radio stations that broadcast songs over the air to your cars and homes have had a free ride for more than 80 years. They don’t have to pay the musicians and singers who make the music. A good deal for corporate radio, a bad deal for working musicians.  Legislation in Congress, the Performance Rights ...
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• Old dog, old tricks

  
  AmeriNZ — Authority: 421
  Don Brash apparently learned nothing from his defeat in the 2005 election, a failure that saw him dumped as National Party Leader. He’d moved the party so far to the right, it co-opted the policies of the neo-conservative ACT Party; the voters didn’t buy it. Now head of a “productivity” task force, Brash has ...
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• Revisiting Dickens’ Scrooge: Was He Mean or Kinda Green?

  
  EcoSalon — Authority: 536
  Don’t be hating on Scrooge. There might have been some green blood flowing through that iniquitous heart of steel. True, Ebenezer was a clueless curmudgeon, hardened by celibacy and tortured by a dysfunctional relationship with money. An abusive boss and cynical social recluse, he shunned the caroler’s tin cup ...
  2 weeks ago

• In Defense of Goldman

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 616
  The Lloyd’s Prayer Our Chairman, who art at Goldman Blanfein be thy name The rally’s come God’s work be done On earth as there’s no fear of correction Give us our daily gains… Poor Goldman Sachs. Everyone is on its case. Criticizing. Carping. Jealous. Envious. So, today we rise in defense of the Wall ...
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• The Stock Market is Up, Id Rather Have a Job

  
  STONE SOUP MUSINGS — Authority: 109
  Robert Reich has an article on the disconnect between stocks and jobs that asks a great question: How can the stock market hit new highs at the same time unemployment is hitting new highs? Simple. The market is up because corporate earnings are up. Corporate earnings are up because companies are cutting costs. And ...
  2 weeks ago

• Objectively Pro-Swine Flu

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 727
  Perverse as it sounds, corporate America apparently wants the swine flu to spread: House Education and Labor Committee Chairman George Miller (D-Calif.) is pushing an emergency bill that would require employers with more than 15 workers to provide up to five days of paid sick leave. That’s about the length ...
  3 weeks ago

• Employers Pressure Doctors, Workers to Stay Mum on Workplace Injuries

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 650
  More than two-thirds of injured or sick workers in a recent survey feared employer discipline or even losing their jobs if their injuries were reported, a new study from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed today. The GAO surveyed more than 1,000 occupational health practitioners and found: More ...
  3 weeks ago

• Taking a Closer Look at Payday Loan Abuses

  
  Fired Up! Missouri — Authority: 608
  Rep. Mary Still (D-Columbia) is hosting a "district hearing" at the Columbia Public Library tonight for public and expert input on the abuses of payday loan companies .  Still sponsored legislation this year to restrict interest rates on payday loans, but Speaker Ron Richard refused to assign the bill to a ...
  3 weeks ago

• Conspiracy Theories: Which Do You Believe?

  
  Socyberty — Authority: 533
         Last week I had a visit from my cousin and his new wife who we will call John and Barbara. I had always believed that he was rather ordinary but sensible and intelligent. We got to talking about swine flu. His wife Barbara told me that the H1N1 virus was less serious than ordinary seasonal flu and that ...
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• Your two lips are dripping honey, ah

  
  SteveAudio — Authority: 419
  How can you tell Dick Morris is lying? He writes an editorial : As the suicidal Democratic congressmen proceed to rubber-stamp the Obama health care reform despite the drubbing their party took in the 09 elections, the president trotted out the endorsements of the AMA and the AARP to stimulate support. Um, yeah. ...
  3 weeks ago

• ‘16 Deaths Per Day’ Highlights Weak Penalties for Worker Fatalities

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 650
  Every day, 16 workers go to work and don’t come home. They are killed on the job. But far too often, employers that have created or ignored dangerous workplace conditions are not held accountable. Civil penalties are weak and criminal prosecutions rare. Now, “ 16 Deaths Per Day ,” a new video from Brave New ...
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• Post Dispatch Welcomes Blunts Self-Serving, Selective Outrage About Special Treatment For Wall Street

  
  Fired Up! Missouri — Authority: 608
  Responding to Roy Blunts recent grandstanding about wall street firms receiving early H1N1 vaccine shipments, the Post-Dispatch today welcomes Blunts newfound interest in the special treatment received by the folks on Wall Street . Whatever the reason, we welcome Mr. Blunt to the populist outrage front. Mr. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Employment Bill Called ‘Corporate Giveaway’

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  By Mike Lillis The Washington Independent Last week, as House Democrats took to the floor with near-unanimous praise for legislation to help the unemployed and stimulate the fragile economy, Rep. Lloyd Doggett ( D-TX ) offered a wildly different message. “This bill,” he said, “represents a textbook ...
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• Wall Street at Front of Line for Swine Flu Vaccine

  
  AFL-CIO NOW BLOG — Authority: 650
  Just when you think you can’t be shocked by Wall Street outrages, we hear Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and other Wall Streeters are getting supplies of the H1N1 ( swine flu ) vaccine, while school kids, pregnant women and the chronically ill are being turned away at clinics around the country because there is a ...
  4 weeks ago

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