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The House Public Plan: Yes, It's Worth It

By Jacob Hacker
November 6, 2009

with Diane Archer

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Schumer Sends Letter On Stimulus Funds To China

By Steven Capozzola
From manufacturethis.org
November 6th, 2009

manufacturethis.org — In a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said the Obama administration should bar a $1.5 billion wind-farm project in Texas from receiving U.S. government stimulus funds because most of the power turbines would be made in China.

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Banks using the pressure from Obama's request to lend, to repo from others

By Faye Wilson
November 6, 2009

My vehicle is financed through Chase Bank. I have been late with the payment each month, during the past year, due to being the only one working in a house hold of 4. In 2007, my daughter was killed by a DUI driver. Her children at the time was 11 and 4. I now raise my 2 grand children, now 13 and 7. Naturally, this did affect my financial status. I had a call from Chase on 11-5-2009. more »

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Which Public Is That?

By Tom Sullivan
November 6, 2009

The Beltway cognoscenti keep telling us that a bipartisan solution to health care reform is what the public wants. Just what public is it that's more interested in process than results?

Conventional wisdom says that Obama has failed to make Washington more bipartisan if Democrats ram through a health reform bill without Republican support. more »

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Getting Serious With China -- New Pipe Tariff

By Dave Johnson
November 6, 2009

The Obama administration is taking steps to begin rebalancing trade with China -- and creating JOBS. In this case it looks like China has been "dumping" steel pipes --selling at prices that are below market -- to capture business away from American companies, causing them to close factories and lay off workers. more »

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Policy Needed for Job Growth

By Varya Rislove
From manufacturethis.org
November 5th, 2009

manufacturethis.org — Commentary by AAM's Varya Rislove: How can the U.S. economy create new jobs? Many of the 7.6 million jobs lost during this recession will not come back. It appears that the linkage between the growth in the economy and growth in jobs is broken.

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Pedal Powered Laptops in Afghanistan

From alternative-energy-news.info
November 5th, 2009

alternative-energy-news.info — There are solar powered laptops that will run without a conventional energy source but not everyone in the world can afford them.

Hope that there would be an affordable way for people in poorer and very remote areas to benefit from the use of computers has been realised, because of pedal power

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The Next Phase of Healthcare Apartheid

By Norman Solomon
November 5, 2009

In Washington, “healthcare reform” has degenerated into a sick joke.

At this point, only spinners who’ve succumbed to their own vertigo could use the word “robust” to describe the public option in the healthcare bill that the House Democratic leadership has sent to the floor.

“A main argument was that a public plan would save people money,” the New York Times has more »

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What is MERS and why is it on my title?

By TA Webster
November 4, 2009

"I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. more »

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Liberalism: A Fresh Look

By Don C. Marler
November 4, 2009

Liberalism: A Fresh Look
Don C. Marler
October, 2009

[Note: Two additional articles in this blog will add to the reader’s understanding of the issues raised here: Unemployment: Victory or Defeat in a Progressive Society and Christian Reconstructionism: American Taliban.]

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Wall Street's War Against the Real Economy & We, the People

By Dave Johnson
November 4, 2009

At a meeting with bloggers before last week's Building The New Economy conference, AFL-CIO President Rich Trumka talked about how we have developed two economies, one real and one financial. more »

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Where Were the Anti-War Demonstrators?

By Tom Gallagher
From commondreams.org
November 3rd, 2009

commondreams.org — Campaign for Americas Future every so often carries stories along the lines of "Where is the outrage?". This article from a peace activist asks the question but takes it one step further and gets out to find out for himself why peace demos are so poorly attended

Great read, the comments too. The MANY excuses and the guilty consciences.

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U.S. Stimulus Helping Chinese, Spanish Wind Energy Industries

By Natasha Chart
November 3, 2009

Wind energy is supposed to be able to create thousands of manufacturing jobs, but unfortunately the early wind energy manufacturing jobs financed by U.S. more »

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Tom Paine -- the game

By Clifford Johnson
November 3, 2009

Tom Paine -- the game

Let's play Tom Paine,
restored again!
What would he say
alive today?
I'm Tom Paine II
and so are you.

An Ode to Soap

Wall Street’s bigger better bubbles
Long and lightly lift the Troubles.
Why blame Wall Street when they burst
Compounded on the poor accurst?

Christendom in gold kept glowing,
Short the night and long the blowing. more »

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Blowing in the Wind: Aggressive Steps Needed for Clean Energy Manufacturing

By Steven Capozzola
November 2, 2009

On Friday, the Wall Street Journal trumpeted the news that a Chinese firm will be the exclusive supplier to one of the largest wind-farm developments in the U.S. and that the developer of the project would be seeking U.S. taxpayer assistance. more »

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How Goldman secretly bet on the U.S. housing crash

From mcclatchydc.com
November 2nd, 2009

mcclatchydc.com — WASHINGTON — In 2006 and 2007, Goldman Sachs Group peddled more than $40 billion in securities backed by at least 200,000 risky home mortgages, but never told the buyers it was secretly betting that a sharp drop in U.S. housing prices would send the value of those securities plummeting.

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Corporate Money In Elections -- What To Expect

By Dave Johnson
November 2, 2009

The Supreme Court may decide as soon as tomorrow on the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case involving a corporate-funded anti-Hillary smear ad. more »

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Lucky or Good?

By Tom Sullivan
November 2, 2009

The congressman’s staffer said her goodbyes and left the service desk. The cashier, pleasant-looking and about fifty, had listened to the health care conversation from behind the counter. Now that it was just the two of them, she opened up to my wife.

It has been a bad three years. She had been healthy, she said, until she developed a blood disorder. more »

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A Rich University's Mad Dash to Get Richer

By Sam Pizzigati
November 1, 2009

Investing recklessness at Harvard is making 'the best and the brightest' look awfully silly — almost as silly as a nation that lets staggering quantities of wealth continue to concentrate.

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Tough Decision on Afghanistan

By Joel Mathis and Ben Boychuk
From koreatimes.co.kr
November 1st, 2009

koreatimes.co.kr — So what does ``our peace, our victory" require?

``It is necessary only that any rulers, whatever their inclinations might be, know that they and their entourages will be killed, surely and brutally, if any harm to Americans originates from within their borders," Codevilla wrote. ``Respect beats friendship."

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