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Stolen Elections And Media Blackouts: Carolyn Baker Interviews Mark Crispin Miller
Oct. 24, 2008 -- Burlington, Vt. (Truth To Power) -- Shortly before a public lecture presented at Champlain College, I sat down with Mark Crispin Miller, Professor of Media Studies at New York ...
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Consumer Confidence in U.S. Plunged to Record Low (Shobhana Chandra)
Oct. 28 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. consumer confidence fell to the lowest level on record in October as stocks plunged and banks shut off credit, raising the risk spending will tumble.
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Broken Securities Industry Still Has $20 Billion to Pay Bonuses (Christine Harper, Serena Saitto
Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Five straight quarters of losses and a 70 percent slide in its stock this year haven't stopped Merrill Lynch & Co. from allocating about $6.7 billion to pay bonuses.
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Arctic is melting even in winter (Jonathan Leake)
The polar icecap is retreating and thinning at a record rate
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The Farness Doctrine and the Elimination of the Unfit Pundit (T.P. McWhorter)
Oct. 28, 2008 (World News Trust) -- Lately, it seems, even here in Malta, that there is lots of great talk about regulation and deregulation. There are many assertions of speculation, taxation, ...
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The Sweetest Poison Of All (T.P. McWhorter)
Oct. 28, 2008 (World News Trust) -- I have noticed, that here in Malta, as well as in all of the places in the United States with people with whom I still have contact, that there are HUGE rises in ...
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World Food Day: Global Crises’ Double Standards (Ramzy Baroud)
Oct. 23, 2008 (World News Trust) -- The 25th annual World Food Day, marked Oct. 16, was an occasion whose arrival and passing received little media attention or governmental fanfare. Evidently, much ...
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Chomsky, Zinn, and Obama (Mickey Z.)
Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Oct. 23, 2008 "You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches, and then pull it out six inches, and say you're making progress." --Malcolm X Another ...
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Mickey Z. Does Stand-Up Tragedy -- Saturday, Nov. 15 @ 7 p.m.
Oct. 27, 2008 (World News Trust) -- New York City's own Mickey Z. is the author of two new and decidedly offbeat books. Both "CPR for Dummies" (experimental novel) and "No Innocent Bystanders: ...
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Evil Wall Street Exports Boomed With `Fools' Born to Buy Debt (Mark Pittman)
Oct. 27 (Bloomberg) -- Tom Bosh lowered the telephone receiver into its cradle, making a decision on the way down. "We're not buying any more," he told his traders at Bank of New York Co. "Nothing."
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How Should You Vote? (Jeremy R. Hammond)
American voters should shift their electoral strategy from seeking to put the lesser of evils into power to seeking to elect the force for the greatest good.
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