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A Progressive 4-point Plan For The First 100 Days Of Democratic Party Control Of Congress (Chirolas)
(If It Happens...) William Chirolas -- World News Trust Oct. 24, 2006 -- Everyone is offering up to the Democratic Party a multi-point plan in the manner of the GOP’s 1994 Contract with America -- ...
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Enron's Skilling Sentenced to 24 Years for Fraud
By Thom Weidlich and Laurel Brubaker Calkins Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Jeffrey Skilling, Enron Corp.s former chief executive officer, was sentenced to 24 years and four months in prison for his role in ...
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Bush Signs the Reichstag Fire Decree (Larisa Alexandrovna)
Larisa Alexandrovna -- Huffington Post Oct. 23, 2006 -- With a flip of the wrist, Bush signed into law the anti-Habeas Corpus, pro-torture law (cleverly repackaged as the Military Commissions Act of ...
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Enter Barack Obama (James Kunstler)
James Kunstler -- Clusterfuck Nation Oct. 23, 2006 -- History doesnt repeat itself, but it rhymes, Mark Twain famously observed. A hundred and fifty years (roughly) after the civil war, the United ...
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Global Warming May Be Mother of All Finance Woes (John F. Wasik)
By John F. Wasik Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- Global warming is challenging celebrity worship as the latest obsession in worldwide media. Magazines from Newsweek to Scientific American have devoted issues ...
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U.S. Army North up and running
Army Times Oct. 17, 2006 -- U.S. Army North, the Army’s newest service component command, reached full operational capability Monday, which means that it is fully manned, equipped and ready to ...
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US Housing Market Poised To Worsen, Derivatives Show
By Darrell Hassler and Hamish Risk Oct. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The slumping U.S. housing market is about to get a lot worse, according to traders of mortgage-backed securities and the so-called ...
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Gaia's Physician (Amanda Kovattana)
By Amanda Kovattana -- Energy Bulletin/Blogspot In Japan, scientists enjoy a celebrity status much like a sports hero or rock star. Their achievements evoke national pride, thus their pictures grace ...
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How Close to Catastrophe? (Bill McKibben)
By Bill McKibben -- New York Review of Books James Lovelock is among the planets most interesting and productive scientists. His invention of an electron capture device that was able to detect tiny ...
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Corrode Your Conformity (Jason Miller)
Big Brother Doesn’t Practice Fraternal Love By Jason Miller -- World News Trust “Non-violence is a weapon of the strong.” --Mahatma Gandhi "It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ...
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New hippies are fighting to replace oil (Tim Holt)
By Tim Holt -- San Francisco Chronicle The generation of activists who fought for civil rights, against an unpopular war, and started the environmental movement is poised for one last hurrah, one ...
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