Not A Creature Was Stirring….

Library-like silence in the stores as Thanksgiving sales fail to draw crowds The police officers who set up double metal barricades yesterday along the sidewalks of Fifth Avenue in Manhattan need not have bothered. While the New York Police Department had erected the barriers to protect what they expected to be burgeoning crowds of shoppers [...]

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‘The Doves Were Right’

RICHARD HOLBROOKE | NYT | November 28, 2008 In 1961, John Fitzgerald Kennedy brought to Washington a new generation of pragmatic young activists who came to be known as the New Frontiersmen. When the journalist Theodore White later wrote a memorable photo essay about them for Life magazine, he called them the “action-intellectuals.” The most [...]

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One Man’s Military-Industrial-Media Complex

DAVID BARSTOW | NYT | November 30, 2008 In the spring of 2007 a tiny military contractor with a slender track record went shopping for a precious Beltway commodity. The company, Defense Solutions, sought the services of a retired general with national stature, someone who could open doors at the highest levels of government and [...]

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How Bush’s Privatizing Scams Have Gutted America!

The NeoCons have privatized our roads, our ports, our borders, our forests, our prisons, our water, our wealth, and our heritage for profit and they have destroyed our childrens future. If it wasn’t for a national outcry they would’ve had social security too. Come Saturday Morning: The Sting Collapses By: FDL Just as the economic [...]

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Wal-Mart Shoppers Who Trampled Employee To Death Are Being Sought By Police

Police Seeking Wal-Mart Shoppers Who Trampled Employee COLLEEN LONG | November 29, 2008 11:48 AM EST | NEW YORK — Police were reviewing video from surveillance cameras in an attempt to identify who trampled to death a Wal-Mart worker after a crowd of post-Thanksgiving shoppers burst through the doors at a suburban store and knocked [...]

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OPEC: Oil Prices Will Not Rise Until Mid-2009

OPEC: Oil prices to remain flat through mid-2009 Raw Story/Agence France-Presse Published: Saturday November 29, 2008 CAIRO (AFP) – OPEC predicted on Saturday that world oil prices would not rebound until mid-2009, after the cartel left its output unchanged at a consultative meeting in Cairo. “The prices will not begin to rise before the second [...]

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The Quickening…Shop Till You Drop!

WALMART WORKER WHO WAS TRAMPLED HAS DIED IN HOSPITAL!

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Kristol: Bush Should Give Medal Of Freedom To Torturers And Wiretappers

Kristol Calls On Bush To Pardon Torturers And Wiretappers, Reward Them With Medal Of Freedom In his new Weekly Standard column, right-wing pundit Bill Kristol lays out a to-do list for President Bush before he leaves office. He urges Bush to deliver speeches “reminding Americans of our successes fighting the war on terror.” Kristol dreams, [...]

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Milk (2008)

“Give them hope” Speech by Supervisor Harvey Milk, in 1978 San Francisco Milk Trailer 2008 Mr. Penn, an actor of unmatched emotional intensity and physical discipline, outdoes himself here, playing a character different from any he has portrayed before. – NYT Freedom Fighter in Life Becomes Potent Symbol in Death A. O. SCOTT | NYT [...]

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Black Friday Shooting At Toys ‘R’ Us Leaves Two Dead In SoCal

SoCal Toys ‘R’ Us Shooting Leaves Two Dead GILLIAN FLACCUS | November 28, 2008 09:24 PM EST | PALM DESERT, Calif. — Two men pulled guns and shot each other to death in a crowded toy store Friday after the women with them erupted into a bloody brawl, witnesses said. Scared shoppers fled but no [...]

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