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		<title>MB360: Employment Engineering: Firing those who Work with Their Hands. Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate Jobs Protected by Bailout Structure. Other Sectors Dealing with Depression Trends.</title>
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		<title>THE RICH? THEY GET ELECTED</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:53:44 +0000</pubDate>
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Posted on Nov 7, 2009
A day after it was announced that the U.S. unemployment rate had hit the double-digit mark, a report was released showing that nearly half of the members of Congress are millionaires, seriously questioning the notion that our lawmakers identify with “we the people.”
Hilariously enough, four of the top five richest lawmakers in Congress [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=factsnews.wordpress.com&blog=6655825&post=885&subd=factsnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The United States of Plutocracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Posted on Sep 8, 2009
By William Pfaff

The United States has for practical purposes been a plutocracy for some years now. American national elections usually function more or less correctly, except that they have become all but completely dominated by money.
The contributors of money to Senate and House campaigns are dominated by the source of that money, and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=factsnews.wordpress.com&blog=6655825&post=882&subd=factsnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New American Plutocracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Paul Kurtz
The following article is from Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 20, Number 4.
Plutocracy: (1) government by the wealthy, (2) a controlling class of the wealthy. From the Greek ploutokratia, from ploutos, wealth, and kratia, advocate of a form of government.
I am deeply troubled by the fact that in the upcoming presidential and congressional elections there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=factsnews.wordpress.com&blog=6655825&post=877&subd=factsnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>YAHOO: Preparing for the Worst</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Robert Kiyosak
Posted on Monday, August 24, 2009, 12:00AM
&#8220;Is the crisis over?&#8221; is a question I am often asked. &#8220;Is the economy coming back?&#8221;My reply is, &#8220;I don&#8217;t think so. I would prepare for the worst.&#8221;
Like most people, I wish for a better future for all of us. Life is better when people are working, happy, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=factsnews.wordpress.com&blog=6655825&post=871&subd=factsnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stock Market History &#8211; Dow Jones 1990 to 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 19:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The market has been looking pretty good over the past few months. Do not get too excited. The market becomes very volitile in recession/depression times. Jobs have not recovered.
The above chart shows the dow from 2007 (the peak) and now. Its highest point was about 14000 (which was WAY overvalued fueled by bubbles) and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=factsnews.wordpress.com&blog=6655825&post=839&subd=factsnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EFF: Boston College Campus Police: &#8220;Using Prompt Commands&#8221; May Be a Sign of Criminal Activity</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, EFF and the law firm of Fish and Richardson filed an emergency motion to quash [pdf]and for the return of seized property on behalf of a Boston College computer science student whose computers, cell phone, and other property were seized as part of an investigation into who sent an e-mail to a school mailing list identifying another [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=factsnews.wordpress.com&blog=6655825&post=860&subd=factsnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>GLOBAL RESEARCH: World Depression: Regional Wars and the Decline of the US Empire</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:08:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Prof. James Petras
Introduction
            All the idols of capitalism over the past three decades crashed.  The assumptions and presumptions, paradigm and prognosis of indefinite progress under liberal free market capitalism have been tested and have failed.  We are living the end of an entire epoch:  Experts everywhere witness the collapse of the US and world financial system, the absence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=factsnews.wordpress.com&blog=6655825&post=857&subd=factsnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>THE ATLANTIC: The Quiet Coup</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[FACTSNEWS- MUST READ! Lengthly, we will only post the first paragraph.
Full Article
The crash has laid bare many unpleasant truths about the United States. One of the most alarming, says a former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund, is that the finance industry has effectively captured our government—a state of affairs that more typically describes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=factsnews.wordpress.com&blog=6655825&post=854&subd=factsnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NYTIMES: Adults Spend 8 Hours a Day Spent on Screens, Study Finds</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:58:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By BRIAN STELTER
IN a world with grocery store television screens, digitally delivered movie libraries and cellphone video clips, the average American is exposed to 61 minutes of TV ads and promotions a day.
Some people may think that amount seems excessive. But “people don’t seem to be getting up and running away,” said Jack Wakshlag, chief research [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=factsnews.wordpress.com&blog=6655825&post=851&subd=factsnews&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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