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A Spoonful Of 'Socialism' Makes Capitalism Work : NPR »
Posted by: jovial 1 week ago in Political Opinion
Eighty years ago this week, the roaring free market of the 1920s came to a devastating collapse. What we didn't understand then, and still ...
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How conservative greed and corruption destroyed American politics »
Posted by: Neophile 1 year, 3 months ago in News
Washington is the city where the scandals happen. Every American knows this, but we also believe, if only vaguely, that the really monumental scandals are ...
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Our Healthcare: Greed and Sleaze or Choice and Freedom »
Posted by: jovial 4 months, 2 weeks ago in Health & Fitness
Ah, Independence Day. We Americans love our freedom and our freedom to choose. But when it comes to our healthcare system, it seems we've ...
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Recession or Depression; Who Cares What You Call It? »
Posted by: Spadecaller 7 months, 4 weeks ago in Political News
Why is the term "recession" used? Using it has certainly not aided consumer confidence nor has it softened the fall of stock markets. Other than ...
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Kristof: The Body Count at Home »
Posted by: Beau7890 2 months, 1 week ago in Political Opinion
About as many people who were killed on 9/11 die every two months because of our failure to provide universal insurance — and yet many ...
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You Can Cap The Pay, But The Greed Will Go On »
Posted by: Beau7890 9 months, 2 weeks ago in Business & Finance
With business executives seemingly oblivious to the nation's crisis, it's easy to see the appeal of capping exorbitant pay and wild spending. But ...
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Can America be Salvaged? »
Posted by: ameliog 2 months ago in Political Opinion
I really don’t know what to say anymore, about a country in which people are all worked up about government czars, but sat silently ...
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Firms That Got Bailout Money Keep Lobbying »
Posted by: Beau7890 10 months ago in Business & Finance
The financial giant Bank of America says it is no longer lobbying the federal government about its unfolding bank bailout. After receiving $45 billion in ...
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Greed Through History (Photos) »
Posted by: Radiofreeeuropa 1 month, 3 weeks ago in Business & Finance
Newsweek magazine's photo collage that reminds us greed was not invented by the financial bankers on Wall St....though they may have refined it.
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Cemetery workers charged with dismembering bodies - 7/09/09 - Chicago News - abc7chicago.com »
Posted by: y_soitenly 4 months, 2 weeks ago in News
July 9, 2009 (ALSIP, IL.) (WLS) -- Hundreds of bodies were dug up and thrown into a mass grave or stacked into plots already in use ...
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Fear, Greed and X-Rays »
Posted by: Progressive 2 months, 3 weeks ago in Political Opinion
Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist. And doctors -- despite ...
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A NEO-CON STORY - IT'S GOT EXCITEMENT, INTRIGUE, THE RENDERED FAT OF JERRY FALWELL »
Posted by: Radiofreeeuropa 6 months, 2 weeks ago in Political News
The Republican leadership is in total disarray. Every day, President Obama and his administration prove themselves to be extremely capable of not only handling the ...
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Charlie Chaplin on Life!! »
Posted by: ELISHEVA1 7 months, 2 weeks ago in News
An awesome dose of the illusion of the world that we have been living within and the necessary steps required to lead us to solution ...
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The Sounds of Silence - Cantos Gregorianos Modernos »
Posted by: Spadecaller 1 year ago in Arts & Entertainment
Here's an updated interpretation of "The Sounds of Silence," the song which catapulted the 1960s folk music duo Simon and Garfunkel into the limelight ...
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YouTube - Sesame Street Explains the Madoff Scandal »
Posted by: truthiness 8 months, 1 week ago in Humor
Jimmy Kimmel Live - Sesame Street explains the Madoff Scandal
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