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  • Manchester College staff strike back

    Syndicated from Libcom on Wed, 2010-06-30
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  • Democratized Pacifica radio has spent over $2.4 million on its boards

    Syndicated from Infoshop News on Wed, 2010-06-30

    <p><em>Your subscriber pledge cards at WBAI, he lamented, &ldquo;they&rsquo;re kept in boxes. They&rsquo;re kept around the place. They&rsquo;re no...

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  • Liberal Watchdog Questions White House Gmail Use

    Syndicated from Slashdot on Wed, 2010-06-30

    MexiCali59 writes "Liberal watchdog CREW has joined Republican Congressman Darrell Issa in calling for an investigation into whether White House staffers regularly use private email accounts to communicate with lobbyists.

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  • The Peak Oil Crisis: The Real Gulf Crisis

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-06-30

    At last report BP was making progress on the relief wells that are being drilled to plug the runaway well in the Gulf. The London Times reports that BP hopes to penetrate the casing of the leaking well and start pumping in well-sealing mud in about two weeks. Let's hope something works.

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  • Feingold: 'Standing Up to the Unholy Alliance Between Washington and Wall Street'

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-30
    Statement by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI)

    WASHINGTON - Wall Street and its allies have been calling the shots in Congress
    for decades, so they must be glad to see how things are shaping up on
    financial regulatory reform.

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  • Poverty reduction takes more than "tough love"

    Syndicated from CCPA on Wed, 2010-06-30

    CCPA senior economist Armine Yalnizyan recently wrote a post on the Progressive Economics Forum blog noting that the Great Recession may undo the "success story" of declining poverty rates over the past decade for lone parents.

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  • Crisis of democracy

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-06-30

    From the Enron debacle to the BP catastrophe, the principal architects of our society have abused the trust they enjoy because of their specialized knowledge. It’s time, on the world stage, for the emergence of ‘omni-competent citizens’

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  • G20 Arrests and Organizing for Freedom

    Syndicated from Media Co-op
    Promoted by blackandred on Wed, 2010/06/30 - 8:44am

    By Harsha Walia - June 29, 2010

    This is a quick update to let you all know that I am in fact out of jail and all charges against me have been withdrawn as of Tuesday June 29th...The charges and multiple counts that I was specifically facing were extremely serious and fabricated. Throughout my detention it became evident that it was largely an exercise in intimidation and political targeting...Even after I was ordered released, several police officers were insistent on laying further charges.

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  • DR Congo Marks 50 Troubled Years of Independence

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-30

    KINSHASA - Portraits of the four presidents who led the Democratic Republic of Congo through 50 years of corruption and conflict glowered down Wednesday on world leaders marking the African nation's independence anniversary.

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  • Crazy Ideas For Crazy Garden Farmers

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-06-30

    I wonder if a book titled A Guide To Insane Farming would sell, especially when, upon opening the book, the reader would encounter descriptions of how farming is actually done today.

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  • Why Gay Marriage Is Good for Everyone

    Syndicated from Energy Bulletin on Wed, 2010-06-30

    This weekend in the Washington Post, there's an article about a couple who first met while serving in various capacities during WWII, who just celebrated their marriage in DC this weekend after a "62 year engagement." This would be a romantic story in any context - but it isn't a story of parted lovers who finally found each other again after decades apart.

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  • Ancient Fossils Show Arctic Now Near Climate Tipping Point

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-30

    BOULDER, Colorado - Current levels of
    Earth's atmospheric carbon dioxide may be high enough to bring about
    "irreversible" shifts in Arctic ecosystems, according to new research
    published today by scientists from the United States, Canada and The
    N

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  • Unmanned Drones - Targeted Killing vs. "Collateral Murder"

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-30
    by Thalif Deen

    UNITED NATIONS - When a
    Pakistani-U.S.

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  • Barred from Jerusalem for Crime of Being Palestinian

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-30
    by Donald Macintyre in Jerusalem

    To say that Palestinian Murad Abu-Khalaf's roots are in Jerusalem is a serious understatement. His family lived in the Baka district of West Jerusalem until they were forced to leave in the war of 1948.

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  • Goldman Admits it Had Bigger Role in AIG Deals

    Syndicated from Common Dreams on Wed, 2010-06-30
    by Greg Gordon

    WASHINGTON — Reversing its oft-repeated position that it was acting
    only on behalf of its clients in its exotic dealings with the American
    International Group, Goldman Sachs now says that it also used its own
    money to make secret wagers against the U.S. housing market.

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