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• End the Fed News

  
  Photon Torpedo Tube's Blog — Authority: 426
  The House Financial Services Committee voted affirmatively to include the language from the Audit the Fed bill (HR1207) as an amendment to HR 3996, Financial Stability Improvement Act of 2009 (FSIA). As it stands now, if HR 3996 passes without changes to the amendment, the GAO would finally have authority to conduct ...
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• Book Review – Makers

  
  The Global Sociology Blog — Authority: 137
  Cory Doctorow ’s Makers has a lot in common with the previous books I have read from him and the themes developed throughout the stories are also familiar to many regular Doctorow readers. As in previous novels, Doctorow locates his story in a futuristic United States / Western hemisphere where capitalism as we ...
  14 hours ago

• The Reason Oversight of Federal Reserve is Necessary

  
  Photon Torpedo Tube's Blog — Authority: 426
  Here is Representative Alan Grayson (D. FL) discussing the 2008 currency swaps by the Fed of over 1/2 a Trillion Dollars with zero oversight by Congress or anyone else.
  20 hours ago

• You don’t need an extended warranty

  
  Jason Gooljar: The Working Families Party Man -- Kill the Corporation — Authority: 128
  In general, we have found extended warranties to be a bad deal for the customer and have long advised against them. The most cautious consumers might want to consider an extended warranty for a repair-prone brand, provided that the warranty is both inexpensive and comprehensive and the cost of repairs tends to be ...
  23 hours ago

• Grassroots vs. Astroturf: The Climate Spin Machine Goes Into Overdrive

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 532
  Hoggan cites the example of the recent Bonner and Associates/American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) scandal involving forged letters claiming to be from community groups unhappy with climate legislation and sent to members of Congress: "Ive seen (Bonner and Associates) contracts where theyre ...
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• Democrat Prosecutors Refuse to File Charges Against SEUI Thugs Caught on Video Beating Protestors.

  
  The IUSB Vision Weblog — Authority: 136
  Via BigGovernment.com:It has been more than three months since Kenneth Gladney was viciously attacked by SEIU employees. The assault wasn’t an accident, but a deliberate attempt to intimidate and silence tea party activists and town hall protesters. The morning of the Gladney assault, the White House presented to ...
  3 days ago

• What if you would like to give thanks for capitalism? (Reconsidering Thanksgiving part 1)

  
  Professor, What If...? — Authority: 110
  In the run up to turkey day, I am reposting my three-part piece on Thanksgiving. Here is part one: If you are looking for a reason to give thanks this Thanksgiving, how about this: give thanks for capitalism! I came across this nifty idea when searching around the internet for “alternative ways to spend ...
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• Another GTL™ Open Post Monday: “President Lou Dobbs”? Howard Dean — Is He Right In Saying Healthcare Reform Push Is Democrats’ Waterloo? Have We Been Fair To President Obama Given The Short Time He Has Been At The Helm? SOUND OFF HERE

  
  The Gun Toting Liberal — Authority: 125
  THE Gun Toting Liberal Reaches Out To His Fellow Commentators -Slash- Co-Bloggers And Readers To Furnish Their Opinions On Any Of The Above, Below, Or Anything Else Political One Wishes To O-Pine On…That’s right, folks — it’s YOUR turn to speak up again. President Obama is... This is only a comment summary. ...
  3 days ago

• Johann Hari: The real reason Obama is not making much progress

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 532
  Despite the real improvements on Bush – such as the end of torture, the resumption of stem-cell research, and opposition to the coup in Honduras – many people are asking: why he is delivering so little, so slowly? A pair of seemingly small stories about the forces warping American politics can help us to answer ...
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• FT.com / Media - Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact

  
  The Information Paradox — Authority: 493
  FT.com / Media - Microsoft and News Corp eye web pact: Microsoft has had discussions with News Corp...
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• BREAKING: Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with power to appoint militias, create laws - Boing Boing

  
  The Information Paradox — Authority: 493
  BREAKING: Leaked UK government plan to create "Pirate Finder General" with power to appoint...
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• Flipping Out: Israel’s Drug Generation (2008)

  
  WIDE EYE CINEMA - Free Truth Documentaries — Authority: 138
   Military service is compulsory in Israel for all Jewish men and women. After their years of service, they are granted a discharge bonus, which many of them use to fly to India to recover from their experiences. Approximately 90 per cent will use drugs during their stay, and each year some two thousand of them [...] ...
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• Checkpoint (2003)

  
  WIDE EYE CINEMA - Free Truth Documentaries — Authority: 138
   ‘Checkpoint’ deals with the daily routine at the militarized border. Palestinians stand waiting – sometimes for hours – to learn whether they can cross. Frustration is heaped onto indignity, and those who can’t tell a convincing enough story to the soldiers are refused entry, no matter how innocent their ...
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• House (1980)

  
  WIDE EYE CINEMA - Free Truth Documentaries — Authority: 138
   Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitai confronts the implications of the 1948 war on the Palestinians by following the history of a West Jerusalem home requisitioned by the Israeli government.View House (1980) full post and video at WIDE EYE CINEMA View House (1980) full post and video at WIDE EYE CINEMA
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• Audit the Fed Bill: True Bipartisanship

  
  Photon Torpedo Tube's Blog — Authority: 426
  An article in the Huffington Post reports on a dramatic victory for Ron Pauls Audit the Fed Bill, HR-1207. The link is at Arthur Delaney, Audit The Fed Effort Wins Support From An Unusual Coalition, huffingtonpost.com (Nov. 22, 2009) . The Bill came before the House Finance Committee for a vote on Friday. The ...
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• Because You Never Know When You Will Be Killed by a Faulty Spoke

  
  The Unbroken Window — Authority: 435
  In t his edition of Progressive Corporatism in Many Lessons: But as the business grew, so did its troubles. Hundreds of new bike operators arrived, pestering tourists and testing the city’s tolerance. Pedicab owners, alarmed at lax safety standards, began a push for regulation — an effort that stretched for ...
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• I will never eat movie popcorn again!

  
  Jason Gooljar: The Working Families Party Man -- Kill the Corporation — Authority: 128
  A medium-sized popcorn and medium soda at the nation’s largest movie chain pack the nutritional equivalent of three Quarter Pounders topped with 12 pats of butter, according to a report released today by the advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest.via Pop Goes The Diet: Movie Popcorn Is Really, ...
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• Unthinkable? Pricing drugs humanely

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 532
  The industry says high prices are the only way to recoup the vast sums that it ploughs into advancing the frontiers of medicine. But if we were starting from scratch it would surely be better to finance research collectively, perhaps with big payments for scientists who hit upon breakthroughs. Of course its ...
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• The Coal Industrys $47 Million PR Spending Spree

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 532
  But for all their expensive efforts to sell the public on the wonders of clean coal, ACCCE isnt working quite as hard to make the technology a reality. The coalitions members have committed the comparatively paltry sum of $3.6 billion to research the technology between 2003 and 2017, according to an April report from ...
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• New derivatives legislation "was probably written by JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs"

  
  Corrente — Authority: 627
  The Nation : Who drafted this dubious piece of legislation? Bankers (or their lawyers) did. The leading sellers of derivatives are an exclusive club of five very large financial institutions--Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs--that hold 95 percent of the derivatives ...
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