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• Ethiopia sells tourism operator, hotel

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 543
  Ethiopia’s government sold National Tour Operation and Travel Agency Enterprise to ABC Plc, the country’s largest car-rental company, Capital reported, citing Wondafrashe Assefa, a spokesman for t read more
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• U.S. Income Inequality Is Frightening–And Much Worse Than We Thought

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 117
  The Business Insider, September 30, 2009 U.S. Income Inequality Is Frightening–And Much Worse Than We Thought Posted using ShareThis The newest economic inequality numbers, which ran counter to the expectations of almost  all experts , are frightening. The Associated Press released an article titled,  US ...
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• The Democrats don’t want to abolish the private insurance industry. They are capitalists.

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 117
  “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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• HCAN and Organizing for America continue the profit-making power of the insurance industry

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 117
  HCAN and Organizing for America are following in the footsteps of organizations that are created every time health care reform is attempted. They promote incremental changes to the system and the legislation urgently (health reform can’t wait!) and passionately promoted is not designed to solve the crisis, but ...
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• The Two-class Society: The Destruction of Civic Life

  
  Everyday Citizen — Authority: 514
  Most of us tend to think of political parties in terms of their positions on issues of the day. For instance, if we hear talk of cutting taxes, reducing the size and role of government, strengthening the military, and relying on private enterprise, we identify that with todays Republicans and the political right-wing. ...
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• U.S. Has Bases In 130+ Countries, 5.2 Million Contracted Employees (2005)

  
  BASIL & SPICE--FINANCIAL WELL BEING — Authority: 130
  By Loyd Eskildson The intent of One Nation Under Contract (Yale University Press/ 2009) is to highlight the implications of privatizing government policy, that present practice is scandalous, and that undoing government privatization is not the answer.  Unfortunately, Stangers overly academic treatise fails ...
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• Memo to Bankrupt Cities: Try Competition

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 617
  As cities across the country face growing deficits, instead of their current strategy of raising taxes and cutting services, they might like to take a look at a few case study examples of how those before them solved their challenges. As an example, ten years ago we hosted the then-mayors of Indianapolis, Stephen ...
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• The Private Public: Or – Why Mike Bishop has Driven me Off the Deep End

  
  Kicking Ass Ann Arbor — Authority: 434
  *The following not reflect the views of College Dems, AcaDems, or even really me* I’m angry.  Really angry, and have been for a while.  Angry at the state legislature for cutting the Michigan Promise, angrier at them for cutting the need biased aid that can sometimes really be the difference between being able ...
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• The George W. Bush Institute: Free Markets, Small Government… Since When

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 503
  Get ready because I am going to slap George W. Bush around a little bit. Now, don’t get me wrong, it isn’t like I hated him. After all I voted for him twice. There was a lot that Bush did that I supported, mostly on the security and war fronts. But, I really stood against his domestic agenda almost completely. I ...
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• What the Regents should do instead of increasing fees

  
  Remaking the University — Authority: 423
  If you are going to inflict pain on students, the least you can do is feel their pain.  The second thing you can do is broadcast their pain to the Governor and the legislature that caused it.    Maybe then they’d think twice about forcing more fee hikes with more cuts. Maybe even the fanatical governor would ...
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• Here we go again – more of the same on transportation funding

  
  Eye on Williamson — Authority: 136
  Hank Gilbert and GOP state Sen. John Carona have forced  a discussion, finally, about raising the statewide gas tax in Texas into the forefront.  Gromer Jeffers, Jr. at TrailBlazers has Perry’s latest statement on the issue, Perry said state needs to “raise dollars” for roads . At a stop in Dallas ...
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• Leasing water system could be a risky move for Chicago

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 550
  if [Daley] is tempted to dangle Chicagos vast water system as his next lease deal, he might want to first consult Atlanta, which is still smarting from a botched experiment with privatizing a big-city water supply. Or the mayor could look someplace closer to home, like Bolingbrook, one of dozens of suburbs and ...
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• Saving BC Hydro from Gordon Campbell

  
  Creekside — Authority: 512
  So far, the cornerstone of Premier Gordon Campbells green revolution consists of forcing the public utility BC Hydro to buy power at twice the market value from private independent power producers and then resell it at a loss to owners of air-conditioners in California . A good deal for IPP investors like ...
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• Chicago water for sale?

  
  Newstips Blog — Authority: 426
  With Chicagos water system still "on the table," mayors and managers from other cities offer perspectives – and an effort to establish greater transparency in Chicagos asset sales merits more attention…
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• Chicago Blogging: Mayor Daley Sees Gold In Lake Michigan

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 437
  The Chicago Tribune’s Michael Hawthorne reports that Chicago Mayor Richard Daley is mulling over whether to privatize water. Currently the city Dept. of Water Management controls the treated water from Lake Michigan that is sent to the taps/showers of every Chicagoan. Daley is thinking of leasing the system to a ...
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• It’s High Time to Take Back Our Schools

  
  The Beacon — Authority: 617
  A few weeks ago a 16 year old high school girl was gang-raped for a period of over two hours in a poorly-lit courtyard on the campus of her high school during the homecoming dance. While there have been outpourings of horror, sympathy for the victim, funds raised for her future, etc., I’ve seen absolutely no call ...
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• Carona slams toll roads, advocates for raising the gas tax

  
  Eye on Williamson — Authority: 136
  At the end of last week the Texas Taxpayers and Research Association (TTRA) got together for their annual meeting . While they have a catchy name, it’s hard to tell from the TTRA’s BoD list if any actual taxpayers were represented, (since corporations in Texas pay little if any taxes in Texas).  At any rate ...
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• Health Minister changing deck chairs on Titanic

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 489
  Health Minister Doug Currie, what we have is a failure to manage Doug Currie to spin off Department of Health to public corporation Health PEI On Friday Health Minister Currie announced he was changing the management of PEI’s health care delivery for the third time in 8 years. Health PEI may or may not be the ...
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• A plan to save civilization

  
  ThinkingShift — Authority: 119
  This coming week, I’m in Taiwan but through the magic of auto-posts, ThinkingShift lives on. I hope to take heaps of shots with my new plastic fantastic Superheadz Pink Dress camera. But today I’m bringing you a slide presentation you need to look at. Awhile back I told you about Lester Brown , the American ...
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• How the Democrats might privatize and cut Social Security

  
  SF Gray Panthers — Authority: 117
  After Bush’s 2005 fiasco, Democrats and Republicans will join hands to privatize and cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid in a more subtle way. Don’t let your guard down! Note: This was written in June and July of 2008, before Obama was even a presidential candidate, let alone elected. It was also written ...
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