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Van Jones: Bank Settlement: $25B Down, $675B to Go

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Van Jones - Feb. 12 (News Analysis) - 'We must not forget the more than 14 million homeowners (one in five) whose homes are underwater, beneath a crushing total $700 billion in negative equity. We must not forget the more than 4 million families who have lost their homes.' Van Jones, Reader Supported News

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The Ron Paul Campaign on a Trick in Maine | Lew Rockwell's Political Theatre

Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

LewRockwell.com - Feb. 12 (News) - In fact, he will probably even win the ‘beauty contest’ straw poll the media has already called for Mitt Romney – even before all the votes have been tallied. “In Washington County – where Ron Paul was incredibly strong – the caucus was delayed until next week just so the votes wouldn’t be reported by the national media today.

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EUROPE-DEVELOPMENT: The "Indignados" Still Have Wind in Their Sails

Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Inter Press Service - By Cleo Fatoorehchi - Feb. 06 (News) - EUROPE-DEVELOPMENT By Cléo Fatoorehchi AIX-EN-PROVENCE, Feb 6, 2012 (IPS) - Months of protest across the European Union, sparked by indignant youth demanding an end to the brand of free market capitalism that has blighted the continent with an unemployme

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50-State, $25B Mortgage Settlement: Relief for Struggling Homeowners or Bailout for Big Banks?

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Feb. 10 (News Analysis) - The U.S. Justice Department has unveiled a record mortgage settlement with the nation's five largest banks to resolve claims over faulty foreclosures and mortgage practices that have indebted and displaced homeowners and sunk the nation's economy. While the deal is being described as a $25 billion settlement, the banks will only have to pay out a total of $5 billion in cash between them. We speak to one of the settlement's most prominent critics, Yves Smith, a longtime financial analyst who runs the popular finance website, "Naked Capitalism." "The settlement, on the surface, does look like it's helping homeowners," Smith says. "But, in fact, the bigger part that most people don't recognize is the way it actually helps the banks with mortgages on their own books... The real problem is that this deal is just not going to give that much relief." [includes rush transcript]

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CPAC Panel: ‘Celebrate’ Citizens United Ruling

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

nationofchange.org - By Michael Beckel - Feb. 11 (News Report) - Anonymous political speech. Foreign money in U.S. elections. The proliferation of super PACs. How grave a threat do any of things pose to American democracy? Not much, according to a panel of conservative attorneys, who gathered Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. The high-profile legal minds on the CPAC panel largely agreed that the changes to the campaign finance landscape are grounds for celebration.

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US Marines posed with Nazi symbol in Afghanistan

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Yahoo! News - Feb. 10 (News) - The Marine Corps on Thursday once again did damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS — a special unit that murdered millions of Jews, gypsies and others.

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THE BIG LIE: “Rich People Create Jobs”

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

finance.yahoo.com - By Nick Hanauer - Feb. 03 (Opinion) - theory is often used to justify very low taxes on investors and high-income earners, under the theory that such folks have to be given an incentive to "create jobs." But the trouble with the theory, says Nick Hanauer, is that it's just wrong.

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Asia's highest mountains have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Damian Carrington - Feb. 08 (News Report) - The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows. The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that aro

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Meltdown: Earth Rapidly Losing Ice Cover - Olga Belogolova - NationalJournal.com

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

National Journal - By Olga Belogolova - Feb. 09 (News Report) - Glaciers and ice caps outside of Greenland and Antarctica are losing nearly 150 billion tons of ice each year, contributing to an annual 0.4 millimeter rise in sea levels globally, according to a study done by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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What NASA's Blue Marble Photo Reveals About Climate Change

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:39:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Bill McKibben - Feb. 08 - In fact, it's likely that the week that photo was taken will prove "the driest first week in recorded US history." Indeed, it followed on 2011, which showed the greatest weather extremes in our history—56 percent of the country was either in drought or f

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Why Wall Street Should Stop Whining

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Matt Taibbi - Feb. 10 (News Analysis) - When I read things like this I'm simultaneously amazed by two things. The first is the unbelievable tone-deafness of people who would complain out loud, during a time when millions of people around the country are literally losing their homes, that their bonuses - not their total compensation, mind you, but just their cash bonuses, paid in addition to their salaries and their stock packages - are barely enough to cover the mortgage payments for their new condos, the taxis they take when walking is too burdensome, and their girlfriends with expensive tastes. The second thing that amazes me is that Sherman is buying all this.

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Keystone Pipeline Facts

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Robert Redford - Feb. 10 (News Analysis) - 'Joe Nocera's op-ed in the New York Times yesterday deserves a response and a reiteration of the facts surrounding the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. ...Let's put the rhetoric aside, and simply focus on the facts. Nocera wants us to believe that approving this pipeline is a matter of national security. ... The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would not make the United States of America safer. Why? It would not make us safer, because the majority of the processed oil was already scheduled for export to foreign countries. That's right, this Keystone XL pipeline's Canadian tar sands oil would have

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How Conservative Elites Stoke Racist Anxieties to Gain Power and Split Blacks and Whites

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Chauncey DeVega - Feb. 10 (News Analysis) - Newt Gingrich calling Obama a “food stamp president,” Rick Santorum implying that African Americans are parasites who leach off of white people, and Ron Paul’s old newsletters, which describe black men as monstrous beasts (“giant negroes” who stand ready to attack whites at any moment), are examples of this phenomenon on the national stage.

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Komen Fundraiser Calls for CEO Nancy Brinker to Quit

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Karen McVeigh - Feb. 10 (Opinion) - Ellis refers to her disappointment even as Brinker reversed the funding decision. "Brinker's words struck me as vague and hollow – no future commitment to Planned Parenthood and no specific apology to the low-income women who would have become the collateral damage from the defunding," Ellis wrote. "I also don't believe Brinker and her board when she claims that Komen's decision wasn't political."

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Op-Ed Columnist: Money and Morals

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman, New York Times - Feb. 09 (Opinion) - Conservatives have started telling us that the growing inequality is about a decline in morals. But it’s mainly about money.

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REPORT: What would Russian intervention in Syria look like?

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Block Party: BELIEVE Campaigner Brings Hip-Hop and His Message Into Neighborhoods That Need It Most | Baltimore City Paper

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:01:31 -0800

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Believe Campaign Baltimore | Mixed results revealed for Believe campaign - Baltimore Sun

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Why 'Baltimore Believe' Cannot Work--and the Real Work We Must Do Instead

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Female Montrose Christian Teacher Arrested for Sex With Student | NBC4 Washington

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube To Debut Fashion Week Collections Before Runway | Complex

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Adele explains how she swore without her voice (Video) - Celebritology 2.0

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Survey Paints Portraits of Black Women In America

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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The War of the Wars

Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

wordpress.com - By Sheilah Kast - Jul. 18 (News Analysis) - The Civil war and the War of 1812 square off.

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Baltimore Believe campaign: 10 years after the Believe campaign, Baltimore is safer and stronger - baltimoresun.com

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - Feb. 09 (Opinion) -

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