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Sam Pizzigati: "In a Lost Decade ..." - Too Much

Sam Pizzigati: "In a Lost Decade ..." - Too Much

Excerpt: Next Monday, January 18, Goldman Sachs will reportedly release the figures on the bank's bonus outlays for 2009. That should make next Monday one of the most fascinating - and infuriating - days in U.S. financial history.

A bank that nearly crashed 16 months ago - and avoided crashing only because the federal government came galloping to the rescue - will hand out over $20 billion in bonuses at a time when one out… Continue

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Quick Fact: Beck again falsely claims FDR, Sunstein were "pushing" for "Second Bill of Rights"

Quick Fact: Beck again falsely claims FDR, Sunstein were "pushing" for "Second Bill of Rights"

http://mediamatters.org/items/201001110052

On his Fox News program, Glenn Beck again falsely claimed that Franklin Roosevelt, in support of a "Second Bill of Rights," "was pushing for a change to the Constitution." Beck added that "progressives" like Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Director Cass Sunstein have "been… Continue

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RedState witch-hunts for Southers, gets everything wrong

RedState witch-hunts for Southers, gets everything wrong

http://mediamatters.org/items/201001110048

In a January 11 post, RedState's Erick Erickson attacks Erroll Southers, President Obama's nominee to be chief of Transportation Security Administration, asserting that video shows that "[a]ccording to Erroll Southers, pro-life Christians and our support of Jews is a bigger threat to national security than Al Qaeda." In… Continue

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Limbaugh distorts AP analysis on stimulus to falsely claim no jobs have been created

Limbaugh distorts AP analysis on stimulus to falsely claim no jobs have been created

http://mediamatters.org/items/201001110045

On the January 11 edition of his radio show, Rush Limbaugh falsely distorted an Associated Press analysis of road and bridge construction to advance the falsehood that stimulus spending has had no effect on job creation. In fact, the AP analysis reported that the stimulus "has produced some jobs"… Continue

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Spiceworks raises $16 million in venture funding

Spiceworks raises $16 million in venture funding

The company makes software to manage information technology networks.

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/theticker/entries/2010/01/11/spiceworks_raises_16_million_i.html

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Who Controls Your Clicks?

Who Controls Your Clicks?

2010 will be a defining year for the Internet. Will control remain in the hands of its millions of users? Or will a few phone and cable companies decide which Web sites you can and can't see?

The Federal Communications Commission must hear from you in the next few days before it creates a final rule that, if done right, will protect Net Neutrality — the Internet's First Amendment — once and for all.

But they're facing intense pressure… Continue

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Factually challenged news channel hires factually challenged Palin

Factually challenged news channel hires factually challenged Palin

http://mediamatters.org/items/201001110028

The New York Times reported that Fox News has hired Sarah Palin as a contributor who "will appear on the network's programming on a regular basis as part of a multi-year deal" and "will host an occasional series that will run on the network from time to time." Fox News hired Palin despite her months of pushing… Continue

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Cutting Obama off at the knees

It's hard to imagine, but a new sneak attack in the Senate could block much of the progress President Obama's made on global warming and force him to adopt President Bush's climate policy.1

President Obama has been cracking down on global warming under Clean Air Act provisions that Bush and Cheney ignored.

But an oil-state Republican senator has arranged a vote next week to block the Clean Air Act—and we could lose. Few in Congress even know this attack is happening.… Continue

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White House Backing Away from Net Neutrality? Not So Much

White House Backing Away from Net Neutrality? Not So Much

The argument that somehow the Obama administration has completely changed position on Net Neutrality as a key component of expanding broadband deployment is a new one. But there's no evidence that the administration is wavering.

Daily Kos…

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Will you join me Wednesday

TrueMajority

We don't have the luxury of giving up.

Bill McKibben

Join me Wednesday night to find out what's next for our climate.

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Years ago I wrote the first general-audience book about the global warming crisis, and since then my activism to put the brakes on it has taken me from a 50-mile summer march across Vermont to this winter's international conference in Copenhagen, Denmark. A lot of TrueMajority members have joined in along the… Continue

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Conservative media dubiously compare Reid's controversial comments to Lott's support of segregationist Thurmond

Conservative media dubiously compare Reid's controversial comments to Lott's support of segregationist Thurmond

http://mediamatters.org/items/201001110019

Responding to Sen. Harry Reid's recently reported controversial comments about President Obama, numerous conservative media figures have accused Democrats of having a "double standard" regarding racially insensitive remarks made by Republicans, specifically citing the… Continue

Added by John Richard Clinton Maenpaa on January 11, 2010 at 6:33pm — No Comments

Unions To The White House

Unions To The White House

White House meets with union leaders today over the tax issue.

Time explores the tense talks around the high-premium insurance tax: "...the issue now emerging as the major flash point is the Senate's proposed 40% excise tax on high-cost insurance policies ... Sources on all sides say they believe there ultimately will be a compromise that would maintain the tax but lift the threshold, so that it would be applied to fewer policies. Yet that would… Continue

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Media claim GOP abandoned Lott -- but GOP also elected him to leadership again

Media claim GOP abandoned Lott -- but GOP also elected him to leadership again

http://mediamatters.org/items/201001110013

Politico and National Review Online both stated that Republicans forced former Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott to resign as Senate majority leader following his praise for Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist campaign for president. In fact, although Lott did resign as majority leader, the Senate Republican… Continue

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The beginning of wisdom...

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

- Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Added by John Richard Clinton Maenpaa on January 11, 2010 at 6:15pm — No Comments

Frank Rich: The Other Plot to Wreck America

Frank Rich: The Other Plot to Wreck America
Last week, ABC World News was also stiffed by Citi, which refused to answer questions about its latest round of outrageous credit card rate increases and instead e-mailed a statement blaming its customers for "not paying back their loans."

http://www.opednews.com/populum/link.php?id=104622

Added by John Richard Clinton Maenpaa on January 11, 2010 at 6:13pm — No Comments

Waxman Attacks Winograd On Israel; Ignites A Political Firestorm

Waxman Attacks Winograd On Israel; Ignites A Political Firestorm

In a move characterized by one Harman constituent as desperate, Waxman sent the following letter to Harman's Jewish supporters, attacking and misquoting Winograd's position on the issue of Israel/Palestine. Here is the text of Waxman's letter, distributed on his letterhead:…

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Added by John Richard Clinton Maenpaa on January 11, 2010 at 6:09pm — No Comments

George Will Defends Harry Reid Against Liz Cheney's Charges of Racism

George Will Defends Harry Reid Against Liz Cheney's Charges of Racism

Posted: 11 Jan 2010 07:00 AM PST

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The panel on This Week weighed in on this quote from the new book "Game Change" by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann:

Reid was wowed by Obama's oratorical gifts and believed that the country was ready to embrace a black presidential candidate, especially one… Continue

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New Billy Bragg dates in Belgium, and more...

New Billy Bragg dates in Belgium, and more...

TOUR DATES/EVENTS CONFIRMED

22 January 2010 - Roundhouse, London, England

20-minute performance with the acoustic Blokes to help celebrate the 30th anniversary of fRoots magazine. Plus other artists.

http://www.roundhouse.org.uk/whats-on/productions/billy-bragg-and-june-tabor-4091

30 January - Exchange, Sturminster… Continue

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RFK Jr and Taibbi Discuss Obama's Sellout (VIDEO)

RFK Jr and Taibbi Discuss Obama's Sellout (VIDEO)

Barack Obama once believed that we could prevent another economic crisis by enforcing tougher regulations for Wall Street. Then he filled his cabinet with former Wall Street insiders who want to keep the system as broken as possible.
WATCH the video

http://airamerica.com/ringoffire/blog/01-08-2010/rfkjr-taibbi-obama-sellout/

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Will the Next Real Estate Bubble Pop in China?

Will the Next Real Estate Bubble Pop in China?
Prices have been increasing exponentially, and many think it's only a matter of time before the market collapses and the world feels the aftershock.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/10/AR2010011002767.html

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