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It's All About Efficiency!

By Berry Ives
October 10th, 2008

U.S. Government policy needs to focus on efficiency for the most rapid recovery from our current crisis. I'm talking about the stuff that should be happening no matter what you think of the bailout.

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Colorado to Review How It Purges Voters’ Names

From nytimes.com
October 9th, 2008
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nytimes.com — "...The announcement came in response to an article in The New York Times describing how election officials in Colorado and eight other states were screening voter registration applications or removing people from the voter rolls in ways that seemed to violate federal law..."

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Who Owns The Federal Reserve?

By Ellen Brown
From globalresearch.ca
October 9th, 2008
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globalresearch.ca — The financial engineers of the US Kleptocracy appointed Ben Bernanke, an expert on the depression, to replace Alan Greenspan.

How fortunate, almost as if they knew what was coming even while they were pumping toxic debt into the Globalized banking system they created.

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How Is the Financial Crisis Affecting Cities?

By Harry Moroz
October 9th, 2008

The financial crisis has dug in its heels and Treasury’s plan to buy up troubled assets hasn’t been able to dislodge them. more »

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Tales from the Tippers

By Ian Mishalove
October 9th, 2008

The most important American election in recent memory will be here in less than 30 days. With deepening crises at home and abroad, millions of previously disengaged citizens are tuning in to try to make sense of it all.

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Top 10 Follow-Up Questions Not Asked by Brokaw.

By Cynthia Boaz
October 8th, 2008

1) Senator McCain, you do realize that 'prioritize' does not also mean 'doing everything at once', don't you?

2) What in the love of pete is "clean coal"?

3) Senator, with all due respect, can you respond to a question without ending with "my friends"?

4) What exactly did you mean by the term "that one"?

5) So a simple "yes" or "no" please- should health care be a commodity??? more »

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The Real Economy Strikes Back

By Robert Borosage
October 7th, 2008

So much for the $700 billion bailout of Wall Street. Stocks are tanking across the world. Clearly, once the bailout passed, investors took a good look at the real economy and dove for the mattresses. We’re headed into a great reckoning. And at the heart of that, as argued in our new op-ad in the New York Times, is this country’s unsustainable global economic strategy. more »

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Ten-Point Program for Systemic Economic Transformation

By Rebecca Em Campbell
October 6th, 2008

TEN-POINT PROGRAM FOR SYSTEMIC ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION

1. Nonviolent secession of North American bioregions from the American empire, breaking the power of its criminal federal government that has seceded from the American people, and is actively violating human and natural rights throughout the planet. more »

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Foreign Disservice

By Tom Sullivan
October 5th, 2008

Two items this weekend reminded me of the Foreign Service Exam. To be considered for the U.S. diplomatic corps, applicants have to pass a test which includes a challenging section on English usage. An English professor of mine once said he'd known college deans who couldn't pass it. Too bad passing it isn’t a requirement for American heads of state. more »

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Is Bailout Constitutional?

By Jeff Watkins
October 4th, 2008

According to our Constitution, all appropriation bills must start in the House of Reps. So, here is my question and thought. Is the bailout bill that started in the Senate Constitutional? more »

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