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Sunday, October 02, 2011

HUFFINGTONPOST.COM: NYPD Arrests 700 'Occupy Wall Street' Protesters

Sunday, October 2, 2011

NYPD Arrests 700 'Occupy Wall Street' Protesters On Brooklyn Bridge

Hundreds of people protesting Wall Street abuses were penned in and arrested by police Saturday, two weeks into an ongoing demonstration that has become known on Twitter as#OccupyWallStreet.

	Wall Street Ends Worst Quarter Since Depths Of Financial Crisis
	WATCH: Dozens Arrested Protesting BofA Foreclosure Practices
	'Breastaurant' Feud: Hooters Sues Rival For Stealing 'Trade Secrets'
	Shovel-Ready Projects Exist, And U.S. May Need Them For Long Time
	California To Quit Foreclosure Settlement Talks

BLOG POSTS

	Debra Goldblatt-Sadowski: How to Impress Me With Your Resume Remember that episode of Seinfeld? Well, we're with Mr. Lippman. Chill out on the exclamation points -- they are rarely necessary in a resume/cover letter. When in doubt, leave them out.
	Peter Nowak: CRTC Chair Crossed Harper Government Too Many Times Konrad von Finckenstein has a pretty good resume for someone who's looking to prove their independent thinking, which is a good trait if you're an entrepreneur, but not so much for a government-appointed bureaucrat. The fear now is that the prime minister will move to install a CRTC chair who is more subservient.
	Jeffrey Rubin: Governments Powerless to Prevent Another Recession The more you hear about the extraordinary efforts that governments around the world are taking to promote economic growth, the less confident you can be in the result.
	Max Fraad Wolff: Political Web 2.0? From the Arab Spring through the OECD year of discontent, the web 2.0 generation is using social media to agitate against the status quo.
	Stacie Nevadomski Berdan: Looking for a Job? Think Globally. Globalization is here and now and happening, faster every year, so all of us -- especially high school, undergrad and grad students -- will need to figure out how to deal with it.

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

HuffPost Business: Daily KosPoll - Majority Of GOP Voters Favor Raising Taxes On Wealthy

Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Poll: Majority Of GOP Voters Favor Raising Taxes On Wealthy

Nearly three-quarters of Americans say they support President Barack Obama's proposal to tax households making $1 million or more at the same or higher rate as middle-class households, according to a recent poll from website Daily Kos.

	General Motors Factory Workers Approve New Profit-Sharing Contract
	Paul Krugman: U.S. Needs 'Financial Equivalent Of War'
	Animated Video Chronicles Rise To Fame Of The 'Trader From Hell'
	Reebok To Pay Millions Over False 'Toning Shoes' Claims

BLOG POSTS

	Jeremy Rifkin: The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power Will Transform Society (Excerpt) The "democratization of energy" has profound implications for how we orchestrate the entirety of human life in the coming century. We are entering the era of "Distributed Capitalism." The Third Industrial Revolution.
	Jared Bernstein: Why the Economic 'Uncertainty' Line Is Shovel-Ready Nonsense While conservative politicians are busy jamming their perennial tax cut/deregulate agenda into the current economic context, the thing that businesses are truly uncertain about is when they're going to start seeing some customers again.
	Richard Barrington: How Bernanke Ruined the Stock Market's Week The Federal Reserve's latest attempt to revive the economy--the so-called Operation Twist--received a resoundingly negative reaction upon its announcement on September 21.
	Michele Nash-Hoff: U. S. Lost 1.9 Million Manufacturing Jobs Due to Trade Deficit With China American policymakers have long assumed that as China's huge middle class grew, U.S. companies' sales to these new consumers would also grow. But it did not work out that way.
	Andrew Fieldhouse: In Favor of Progressive Taxation and a Balance Approach to Budgeting Progressive taxation is a palatable approach to deficit reduction embraced by the public -- unlike nearly every other deficit reduction approach.

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Friday, September 09, 2011

HuffPost World Daily Brief

Friday, September 9, 2011

Libyan Fighters Face Off: Snipers, Hand-to-hand Combat, and Rocket Fire

WISHTATA, Libya -- Libyan fighters launched a two-pronged assault Friday on one of the last towns to resist the country's new rulers, clashing with Moammar Gadhafi's supporters inside Bani Walid as a weeklong standoff dissolved into street-to-street battles, the revolutionary forces said.

	Yemeni Tribes Demand President's Resignation
	Nasir Abas, Former Al Qaeda Militant, Now Comic Book Hero
	Egyptians Tear Down Wall Outside Israeli Embassy
	Turkish PM: Country's Warships Will Escort Gaza-Bound Aid Ships
	Mexican Navy Busts Zetas Cartel's Communications System

BLOG POSTS

	Amb. Marc Ginsberg: The Arab World & the 9/11 Decade If 9/11 represented a "clash of civilizations" it also compelled a "shotgun relationship" between the U.S. and the Middle East.
	Anthony Vance: The Trials of an Educator in Iran If planning with others to educate young people can in some contorted worldview equate with conspiracy against national security, I suppose Mahmoud Badavam is guilty as charged.
	Alexander Goerlach: The Turning Point Today, the images of 9/11 have entered the historical record, not unlike black-and-white images of the construction of the Berlin wall or the fall of the Eastern Bloc.
	Dr. Josef Olmert: US and Israel: UN Veto in September and What's to Come The Netanyahu government should be very careful not to weaken the depth of the American resolve to help Israel deal with its most significant problems, such as the impending UN session about Palestinian statehood and its possible implications.
	Hussain Abdul-Hussain: There Will Be No Civil War in Syria In Syria, there are no symptoms of civil war, only state brutality against peaceful protesters. Suggesting otherwise only helps justify such brutality and doubt the intentions of the protesters, even before these get a day in the sun without fear from Assad's repression.