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Arrested for Supporting Local Business: Occupying Black Friday at the Big Boxes in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City - In the early morning hours of Black Friday, 10 members of Occupy OKC discovered that chanting “Buy local!” in a crowded Walmart is an arrestable …
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The Power of Occupy Wall Street Is Not Just What They’re Doing, but How They’re Doing It
Waste your summer prayin' in vain for a savior to rise from these streets Well I'm no hero girl that's understood...” —Bruce Springsteen, “Thunder Road” …
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Newt Gingrich: “I Call on the President to Repudiate the Concept of the 99 and the 1“
2012 GOP presidential contender Newt Gingrich today, during an event in South Carolina, said that he repudiates the very idea behind the Occupy Wall Street movement — that the …
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China-Based Corporate Web Behind Troubled Africa Resource Deals
For centuries, wave after wave of colonists and foreign investors have swept through Africa, looking for profits from the continent’s abundant reserves of oil and prized minerals. …
A Gut-Check Moment for Mr. Obama
One way or another, we will soon learn a very large truth about the man in the Oval Office.
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Wal-Mart Chairman Rob Walton: The Worst of the One Percent?
Brave New Films, the film studio that produced the ground-breaking documentary, “Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price,” is holding an online vote to pick the “worst of the …
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Employer Health Costs Rise Faster Than Medicare
Much of the attention on the rising cost of health care has focused on unsustainable public outlay for programs like Medicare. The federal government — using tax dollars — …
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Ten Things Newt Gingrich Doesn’t Want You to Know About Him
Today, former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced that he is taking steps to consider becoming the GOP nominee for president in 2012. As Gingrich begins the …
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The Long Game: Payroll Taxes, Hostage-Taking, and Social Security
Yesterday Thom Hartmann and I discussed the proposal to extend and expand what Democrats have called the ‘payroll tax holiday.’ (Video is below.) There are no heroes in this …
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GOP Willing to Raise Payroll Taxes on 113 Million Households to Spare 345,000 Millionaires From Tiny Surtax
Senate Democrats yesterday introduced legislation — as they’ve been promising to — that would extend a soon-to-expire payroll tax cut, and pay for it by implementing a surtax on …