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Goldman Sachs was one of the last Wall Street giants to enter the subprime lending world, but when it did, it quickly climbed into bed with profligate, highflying firms — companies such as New Century Financial Corp. » read more

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/77852.html

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What Minksy Saw

Why the Crisis Isn't Going Away

By MIKE WHITNEY

http://www.counterpunch.org/whitney11032009.html

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Warning: this smarts…

The "I Didn't Do It" Culture

Social Decay in America

By JOHN STANTON

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Perhaps the “I Didn’t Do It” philosophy is the American Way.
What kind of country spends $1.5 trillion on national security every year—and growing-- but has to debate whether to spend $900 billion to make basic healthcare available to all citizens. The nation’s human capital—as the Unaccountable Elite like to say—has to be viewed as part of the overall critical infrastructure of the USA.

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http://www.counterpunch.org/stanton11032009.html

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The Best Justice That Money Can Buy

Stanley Kutler

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091103_best_justice_money_can_buy/

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Our Produce-or-Die Culture Is Killing Us -- And We're Idiotically Grinning and Bearing It

By Joe Bageant, JoeBageant.com

http://www.alternet.org/story/143684/

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Maine voters latest to turn down gay marriage

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE5A312O20091104

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Jonathan Safran Foer's 'Eating Animals' Book Will Fundamentally Change the Way You Think About Food

By Kathy Freston, AlterNet
http://www.alternet.org/story/143692/

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It's Time to Rebuild Our Passenger Railroad System

By James Howard Kunstler, Chelsea Green Publishing
The following is from the foreword of Waiting on a Train: The Embattled Future of Passenger Rail Service by James McCommons (Chelsea Green, 2009).

The world economic fiasco, which I call "The Long Emergency," may be speeding us into a future of permanent nostalgia in which anything that is not of the present time looks good

http://www.alternet.org/story/143716/

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**************Closer to ‘home’ items…(Ohio/Indiana/Kentucky area)

Do you have some time to ‘rapid respond’ to an item on your local paper’s website?

Driehaus has traded principles for party
When did our elected officials stop representing the interests of their electorates? Rep. Steve Driehaus...

http://news.cincinnati.com/opinion

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Election 2009 Results locally

http://news.cincinnati.com/news/politics

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From ProgressOhio…

Factory Farms Write Business Model into State Constitution

Bret Thompson

Issue 2, the brainchild of corporate agribusiness, passed today. Issue 2 backers spent at least 40 times more than their opposition, a coalition of farmer, consumer and environmental groups known as Ohio ACT (Ohio Against Constitutional Takeover).

Natalie Kee, a spokesperson for Ohio ACT, stated, “Issue 2’s passage proves that money plays too large a role in public policy. We will be keeping the closest eye possible to make sure the ‘safe, local food’ that Ohio voters were promised becomes a reality. We will be watching.”

Warren Taylor, owner of Snowville Creamery, summed up the vote saying, “This loss shows that a multi-million dollar greenwashing campaign can buy a place in the Ohio Constitution. I fear for the future of small, sustainable, family farms.”

http://www.progressohio.org/page/community/post/bretprogressohio/CXcQ

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After 15 years, ex-DEA agent wins settlement from U.S.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/homepage/story/78286.html

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Tear down mental walls on climate, German chancellor says

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/world/story/78269.html

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One in Five Mammals Threatened With Extinction

by Mark Henderson

http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/11/03-7

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Military Commissions Revived: Don't Do It, Mr. President!

Andy Worthington

http://www.truthout.org/1103095

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Please let President Obama hear from you on this matter..and on others, also!

http://www.whitehouse.gov/CONTACT/

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McClatchy Cartoon…

MAKING THE WORLD SAFE FOR KLEPTOCRACY

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/cartoons/index.html

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A War That Can’t Be Won
Starts with candy, ends in napalm
By Serge Halimi
Barack Obama once described the operations in Afghanistan as a “necessary war”. That war has lasted eight years and General Stanley McChrystal, the commander of the US forces there, appointed by Obama, is urging him to deploy 40,000 more troops.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23888.htm

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Heeding George Kennan’s Sage Advice

by Ray McGovern,

http://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2009/11/03/heeding-george-kennans-sage-advice/

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George McGovern: Get Out of Afghanistan

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091103_mcgovern_get_out_of_afghanistan/

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Jeremy Scahill Takes on Max Boot over Afghan Fiasco

http://www.commondreams.org/video/2009/11/03-0

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Banks and Bombs

Report Slams Bank Links to Clusterbomb Production
By Olesya Dmitracova

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23889.htm

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from and about ‘over there’

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Noam Chomsky: No Change in US 'Mafia Principle'

by Mamoon Alabbasi

As civilised people across the world breathed a sigh of relief to see the back of former US president George W. Bush, top American intellectual Noam Chomsky warned against assuming or expecting significant changes in the basis of Washington's foreign policy under President Barack Obama.

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"There is basically no significant change in the fundamental traditional conception that we if can control Middle East energy resources, then we can control the world," explained Chomsky.

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/03-2

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Keeping Afghanistan Safe from Democracy

Robert Scheer

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091103_keeping_afghanistan_safe_from_democracy/

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A Long-Term Disaster for Obama and the US

The Delegitimization of Karzai

By PATRICK COCKBURN

http://www.counterpunch.org/

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Juan Cole: Informed Comment

Protests on Anniversary of Embassy Hostage-Taking;
Khamenei Complains about Obama's Negotiating Style

http://www.juancole.com/

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When Is It Legitimate For The Oppressed To Take Up Arms?

By Arundhati Roy - Al Jazeera
We meet Arundhati Roy, the Indian writer and activist. For years she has been known as one of the world's most vocal advocates of freedom and social justice. She has earned the wrath of her fellow countrymen for her vehement criticism of India's nuclear weapons.
Roy is against the development of nuclear weapons without regard to the lives of the poor, and the refusal to grant Kashmir independence. She has called the US-led war in Afghanistan "another act of terror against the people of the world" and considers US-style capitalism to be the cause of much of the world's instability.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23887.htm

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An Obama Relative Living in China Tells of His Own Journey of Self-Discovery

By ANDREW JACOBS

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/asia/04brother.html?ref=world

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Honduras: Vote Postponed on Deal to End Crisis

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/americas/04briefs-Honduras.html?ref=world

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Peace and Solidarity

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"Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it."