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Health Care Fraud: One Reason Gov't-Sponsored Universal Health Care is Essential (Dale Tavris M.D.)
Dale Tavris, MD, MPH -- World News Trust Health care is too important to the well being of the American people to entrust it to for-profit corporations. A 2004 report by the Institute of Medicine ...
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For Sale: The West's Deadly Nuclear Secrets (The Times Of London)
Jan. 6, 2008 -- A whistleblower has made a series of extraordinary claims about how corrupt government officials allowed Pakistan and other states to steal nuclear weapons secrets. Sibel Edmonds, a ...
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Citigroup, Merrill Face More Writedowns, Goldman Says (Elizabeth Hester & Alexander Haigh)
Citigroup Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Merrill Lynch & Co. may write down an additional $34 billion in securities linked to the collapse of the subprime mortgage market, according to Goldman Sachs ...
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CIA Man 'Can Take White House Down' (Press TV)
Former head of the CIA's clandestine service Jose Rodriguez claims he can take the White House down over a torture cover-up scandal.
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October Home Prices Post Record Decline (Stephen Bernard)
NEW YORK (AP) -- U.S. home prices fell in October for the 10th consecutive month, posting their biggest monthly decline since early 1991, according to the Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home price ...
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Crisis May Make 1929 Look Like 'A Walk In The Park' (Ambrose Evans-Pritchard)
Twenty billion dollars here, $20 billion there, and a lush half-trillion from the European Central Bank at give-away rates for Christmas. Buckets of liquidity are being splashed over the North ...
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Firm High on Pain Drug (Lisa Wright)
They've heard all the jokes, and then some. No, Cheech and Chong aren't on the payroll. Neither is the Weed Man. They don't have free samples, or the munchies. And their office Christmas party ...
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Food Pantries Turning People Away (bink, Daily Kos)
From the New York Times, we hear today that food pantries in Connecticut are turning the hungry away: Amid this holiday season, food pantries in lower Connecticut are reporting a surge in the number ...
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Bonuses On Wall Street Surge 14 Percent (Joe Del Bruno)
This might have been one of Wall Street's most dismal years in a decade, but that hasn't stopped bonus checks from rising an average of 14 percent. Four of the biggest U.S. investment banks — ...
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101 Dumbest Moments in Business (Fortune Magazine)
Ah, what a dumb year it was! Fortune chose the absolutely dumbest of the dumb that the gods of fate and humor delivered into our laps - and yours - this past year.
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