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Linn Washington, Jr. | 10.23.2011
They worked many late night hours since this past spring creating a unique vehicle -- part grassroots initiative and part cutting-edge technology -- for countering the most corrupting force in American politics today: corporate dominance now controlling too many elected leaders on Capitol Hill. Months before the Occupy Wall Street movement captured attention, inspiring millions across America while alarming this nation's political/corporate class, they began fashioning plans to enable honest people to run for elected office. A problem was how to get those honest, regular people to run for Congressional office without the need for those candidates to seek or accept money from lobbyists just so as to be able to afford the purchase of the TV ads traditionally presumed to be neccessary for effective campaigning.
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Dr. Lenore J. Daniels | 08.06.2011
Mostly Black, elderly, fixed-income, disabled residents are being pushed out of their apartment homes, homes they have occupied for 20, 30 years or more, by the ruthless determination of housing corporations, whose only goal is to further their growth and to increase profits. And these corporations accomplish their goal in Style with the misuse of young Black managerial staffs all too eager to please, too eager to "get rich quick." This is one reason we must participate in the October2011 movement. Watch Video Post Brothers Rental Apartments and 633 West Rittenhouse Street:
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Former StarBucks Customer | 05.12.2009
There comes a day when Corporate STARBUCKS at times goes a little to far ! Today my limit was pushed to the max with their Corporate denial of improper employee behavior in one of their Venice CA Corporate Stores ! Just what America needs, a new Blog only about the negative aspects of STAR BUCKS COFFEE STORES mistreatment of their INTERNATIONAL & NATIONAL customers ! Very interested in hearing from others Worlwide about their own personal mishaps on any of their least favorite STARBUCKS visits. This Blog will only be re- publishing the negative comments about this Corporate Giant ! STARBUCKS Corporation must have a very large group of angry former customers that have never been accounted for
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Cyril Mychalejko | 12.22.2008
A Canadian mining company intends to sue El Salvador's government for several hundred million dollars if it is not granted permission to open a widely unpopular gold and silver mine that scientists warn would have devastating effects on local water supplies. Pacific Rim Mining Corp., using its Nevada-based subsidiary Pac Rim Cayman LLC, filed a Notice of Intent on Dec. 9 through provisions in the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) that allow transnational corporations to sue governments over laws and decisions that often put public interests ahead of corporate profits.  Canadian Company Threatens El Salvador with Free Trade Lawsuit Over Mining Project
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Marakay Rogers | 03.11.2008
New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, accused of patronizing prostitutes, is a victim of the Patriot Act and his corporate enemies Moralists may dance in the streets at the fall of New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, while the Wall Street financiers w
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Stephen Lendman | 02.19.2008
The latest salvo in Bush v. Chavez.
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Stephen Lendman | 02.15.2008
Part II of this epic book.
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Stephen Lendman | 02.12.2008
An epic work on the importance of oil.
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FDC & PAID | 02.12.2008
Greed is defined as an excessive or uncontrolled desire for or pursuit of money, wealth, food, or other possessions especially when this denies the same goods to others. It is reprehensible acquisitiveness, an insatiable longing for power, and supremacy in order to advance individual interests at the cost of other's well being.
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AKBAYAN | 02.08.2008
AKBAYAN Citizens Action Party Rep. Risa Hontiveros said that dismissing Lozada’s explosive statement as an attempt to destabilize the country would not do, saying that what Lozada divulged lays accountability on the National Broadband Network (NBN) deal at the doorstep of Malacanang Presidential Palace. 
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