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- IRS Sends 15,000 Stimulus Checks To The Wrong Bank Accounts [Whoops]
- Economic News: A Cloud That Lacks A Silver Lining
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- Clinton Links McCain to Bush
- More Than Just Numbers
How the Economic Stimulus Really Works
A visual explanation.
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Common laws that encode the lessons of human experience
http://www.bloggernews.net/ 115781In the USA, few remember that the left once was on the forefront of insisting that men be paid a living wage, which was defined as enough to support a household. Instead, I have seen the left evolve to a libertarian agenda, where it has decided to “reform” many laws in order to free people from
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INTERNATIONAL FACT FINDING MISSION FOR NCR LAND RIGHTS
http://www.bangkit.net/ 2008/ 05/ 18/ international-fact-finding-mission-for-ncr…28 April 2008 The continued arrest of indigenous community leaders by the police, acting in collusion with plantation companies in Sarawak must stop immediately. The recent arrests of five community leaders in the Kg.
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Interview with rapper Chuck D of Public Enemy
http://dearkitty.blogsome.com/ 2008/ 05/ 18/ interview-with-rapper-chuck-d-of-pu…This is a music video of Public Enemy’s She Watch Channel Zero. From British weekly The Observer: Return of the great rap rebel Public Enemy’s 1988 album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, was a landmark in hip hop, as politically powerful as it was musically inventive.
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URBAN SETTLERS GROUPS TO FORM “TASK FORCE” WITH SELANGOR GOVERNMENT
http://www.bangkit.net/ 2008/ 05/ 18/ urban-settlers-groups-to-form-task-force-w…2 May 2008 PERMAS lauds the Selangor State government’s initiative in setting up a TASK FORCE which will play consultative, think tank and advisory role on land and housing issues, particularly pertaining to urban poor communities.
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“Sucker Nation”: Diane Francis exposes the Fat Cats, Expats, and Passport-Collectors who bleed Canada dry
http://flaggman.wordpress.com/ 2008/ 05/ 17/ sucker-nation-diane-francis-exposes…Diane Francis, the grande dame of Canadian business journalism, is now deep into her “Sucker Nation” series of columns in the Financial Post, exposing the outrageous ways that Canadian taxpayers get ripped off by amoral fat cats, expats, and passport-collecting jet-setters.
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Who is this guy Paulson, anyway...? Doesn't he work for Bush...?
http://takeitpersonally.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ who-is-this-guy-paulson-anyway-d…doesn't that automatically mean his credibility is less than zero...? Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. said yesterday that financial markets have stabilized since March, when the collapse of investment house Bear Stearns roiled Wall Street, and said he expects economic growth to rebound by the end of the year.
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Open Letter To ASEAN Labour Ministers Meeting, Grand Hyatt, Bangkok, Thailand 6th -7th May, 2008
http://www.bangkit.net/ 2008/ 05/ 18/ open-letter-to-asean-labour-ministers-meet…We, migrants from Burma, who currently live and work in Malaysia and Thailand, have recently met and discussed the situation of migrant workers. We work as construction workers, domestic workers, factory workers, fisherfolk, migrant health workers and plantation workers.
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My economic stimulus check
http://www.christianpf.com/ my-economic-stimulus-check/has arrived!! Has yours? I got mine direct deposited a couple of days ago, we have not done much to stimulate the economy yet. But, my wife has lots of wonderful plans for the money- so it won’t be long.
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Fell Into Economic Stimulus Loophole
http://www.knoxviews.com/ node/ 7919We just found out a quirk in the Economic Stimulus Tax Rebate law. Neither of our children qualify for the $300 per child rebate payment, even though they're under 17 years of age and have valid SSNs. This is because one of them was adopted as a special needs child last year.
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IRS Sends 15,000 Stimulus Checks To The Wrong Bank Accounts [Whoops]
http://consumerist.com/ 5009330/ irs-sends-15000-stimulus-checks-to-the-wrong-ba…That economic stimulus check you were expecting may have accidentally stimulated your neighbor's bank account. Newsday is reporting that 15,000 checks tumbled astray thanks to an IRS "computer programming glitch." One local taxpayer, who asked not to be identified, reported that he had discovered an unexpected deposit of $1,800 in his bank account.