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Things I read today 09-03-09



C. Wright Mills, Free Radical - by Todd Gitlin
A good essay on a familiar sounding man.

Smart Grid: Government spying targets Rural America - Blacklisted News
All for our safety?

The United Nations: Our Children’s New Parents? - By Dana Gabriel
It's for the children.

Montreal police officer bitten by breastfeeding woman - Story
More protecting and serving - make sure to read the comments of the well trained Canadians.

$50 trillion wiped off world financial assets: study - CBC News
Did it just disappear?

Federal New Democrats want complete overhaul of EI system - CBC News
The joke that is 'employment insurance'.

"Global Capitalism Has Developed A Planetary Consumer Culture Based Upon Exploitation And Exclusion" Discuss - by Jake Gordon
Consuming ourselves into oblivion.

Germany: Blackmail tactics against Opel workers - By Ulrich Rippert
Breaking the union's backs.

Merck to buy Schering-Plough for $41.1 billion - Reuters
Big pharma gets bigger.

Residents denounce expansion - Story
There is always money for the distractions.

Developing world may need $700 billion -World Bank - Reuters
What's another $700 billion?

U.S. economy has 'fallen off a cliff': Buffett - CBC News
Reference to 'Economic Pearl Harbour' and this being a kind of 'economic war'. - "Everything will be all right. We do have the greatest economic machine that's ever been created,"

GERMANY: Total objector receives fourth disciplinary arrest - Story
"To change the behaviour"

ADL Lists McLamb, Von Kleist, Banister and Others as “Extremists” - Blacklisted News
Everyone is an 'extremist'.

World Bank: Global economy will shrink in 2009 for first time since WWII - Raw Story
Let it fall.

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