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What's Wrong with a 30-Hour Work Week?
24 minutes ago
by tim
By Don Fitz, Synthesis/Regeneration, Fall 2009 With millions of jobs lost during the first part of 2009, who is calling for a shorter work week to spread the work around? Not the Republicans. Not even the Democrats. But why is there nary a peep from unions? In the U.S., auto sets the pace for organi ...
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Bolivian President Evo Morales on Climate Debt, Capitalism, Why He Wants a ...
1 hour ago
by tim
Democracy Now!, December 17, 2009 Bolivian President Evo Morales joins us in Copenhagen to talk about the UN climate talks, capitalism, climate debt and much more. “Policies of unlimited industrialization are what destroys the environment,” Morales said. “And that irrational industrialization is cap ...
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Time for insurance CEOs to celebrate!
1 hour ago
by Virgil Proudfoot
Now that any meaningful healthcare reform has been defeated, here's something all the insco CEOs can treat themselves to, using the money we... read more
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Olbermann Vows Not to be “Mandated” into ObamaCare
3 hours ago
by JAMES
from Newsbusters: Maybe Leavenworth has a TV studio Keith could use . . . On tonight’s Countdown, Olbermann vowed to break the law and go to jail if ObamaCare requires him to buy private-sector health care insurance. Keith made his macho boast in the course of his melodramatic Special Comment this e ...
Just Americans Making ... - james4america.wordpress.com · Rank: 57,455 · 79 references
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It's a wonderful life
4 hours ago
by Patrick R. Gibbons
Despite the recession life today is better than it was in the 1970s. We make more money, we have more leisure time and we live longer. All thanks to our dynamic capitalist economy – an economic...
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Obama becomes the “Fearmonger”: ObamaCare or Bankruptcy!
4 hours ago
by JAMES
ABC’s Karen Travers reports from Washington: President Obama told ABC News’ Charles Gibson in an interview that if Congress does not pass health care legislation that will bring down costs, the federal government “will go bankrupt.” The president laid out a dire scenario of what will happen if his h ...
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Welcome to Obamaland: Please Leave Reality at the Door
4 hours ago
by Michael van der Galien
In an interview with ABC News, President Obama once again proved to be one of the best spinners in Washington, D.C. The United States, he said, will go “bankrupt” if his multi-trillion dollar health care plan America cannot afford, isn’t passed by Congress. I know what you’re thinking: “ that doesn’ ...
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Environment: does capitalism play a role in global warming ?
4 hours ago
by goodflagbetsy
Years ago I had a girlfriend that played a game known as “6 Degrees of Kevin Bacon”, a game where folks would try to link something with Kevin Bacon through a series of direct and indirect associations. This, to me, is a lot like the association between a capitalist’s drive for profit and eco-destru ...
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Environment: if Iran were to stall the Climate Summit ?
4 hours ago
by goodflagbetsy
Suppose that some rogue state, such as Iran, entered the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit and effectively shut it down due to its unwillingness to participate with the rest of the world in light of its own economic concerns … what would be the appropriate recourse from the global community? I usuall ...
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