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Matthew Cardinale, 10/28/2007
The US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has officially processed two complaints made by resident association leaders, Diane Wright and Shirley Hightower, of Hollywood Courts and Bowen Homes public housing communities.
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Prensa Latina, 10/28/2007
IMF (International Monetary Fund) director, Rodrigo Rato, forecast that the dollar is due for a disorganized and pronounced fall.
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John Wojcik, 10/26/2007
United for Peace and Justice, the largest antiwar coalition in America, has announced plans for 11 peace marches to take place around the nation on Oct. 27.
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MercoPress, 10/26/2007
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said U.S. foreign policy is in part responsible for soaring oil prices and predicted that crude will continue its upward spiral rapidly closing in on the 100 US dollars per barrel benchmark.
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Joel Wendland, 10/24/2007
Certainly in its coverage of the negotiations between the autoworkers and the Big Three, the media's coverage has been generally skewed to favor the interests and aims of the companies, while disparaging the workers as either irresponsible or ignorant of their best interests.
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Granma International, 10/23/2007
Your genocidal blockade, your support for terrorism, your murderous Cuban Adjustment Act, your wet-foot/dry-foot policy, your protection of the worst terrorists in this hemisphere, your unjust punishment of the five Cuban heroes who exposed the danger posed to U.S. citizens and those of other countries of dying in mid-flight, must all end.
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Jonathan Springston, 10/23/2007
A bipartisan Georgia House of Representatives study panel on reforming eyewitness identification procedures held the third in a series of hearings on Monday, October 22, 2007.
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Dr. Glen Barry, 10/23/2007
I remain deeply uncertain and even ambivalent regarding their desirability and ultimate effectiveness. Nuclear and clean coal energies are the logical next technological steps in the progression of human dominance of the Earth.
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Joel Wendland, 10/23/2007
Meatpacking giant Smithfield Foods is suing the United Food and Commercial Workers, the union that many Smithfield workers have chosen to represent them in their unionizing efforts at the company.
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Scott Marshall, 10/23/2007
The other thing that is at play here is globalization. The US market is still a hugely important market for the auto companies, and they need to have market share here, even though all three of the Big 3 have huge investments overseas and rake in huge profits overseas.
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Political Affairs, 10/22/2007
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Joel Wendland, 10/22/2007
Hard line Republicans in the House of Representative last week applauded themselves after blocking an effort to override George W. Bush's veto of a children's health care bill by a margin of about a dozen votes.
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Earth Talk, 10/22/2007
Getting a large institution or corporation on board with recycling is no easy job, especially when you are starting from scratch.
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Maria Duarte, 10/22/2007
Extraordinary rendition is the hush-hush US policy of abducting foreign nationals who are deemed to be a threat to national security and transferring them to secret overseas prisons for interrogation.
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David Swanson, 10/21/2007
If you haven't already, you really should read Chris Hedges' book "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning." The portrait of war and wartime propaganda and emotion is brilliant and deadly accurate. But the headline is misleading.
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Joel Wendland, 10/21/2007
Some 300 national and local LGBT civil rights organizations have formed an alliance called United ENDA to oppose a stripped down version of the Employment Non-discrimination Act (ENDA) that excludes protections for transgender individuals from job discrimination.
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JC Garrett, 10/21/2007
Never did I imagine the country that I love would actively advocate torture. I knew there would always be isolated incidents. A rogue intelligence agent, the rare sadistic member of the military, a sick law enforcement or corrections officer.
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Tula Connell, 10/20/2007
The wealthiest 1 percent of Americans earned 21.2 percent of all income in 2005, according to new data from the Internal Revenue Service. That is up sharply from 19 percent in 2004, and surpasses the previous high of 20.8 percent set in 2000, at the peak of the previous bull market in stocks.
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Rosalio Muρoz and Joelle Fishman, 10/20/2007
Some 2,000 Latino leaders and activists from throughout the United States met here Oct. 5-9 to map an action plan and social justice program for the 2008 elections.
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Xinhuanet, 10/20/2007
The U.S. Air Force said on Friday that the incident of mishandling nuclear warheads in August was an "unacceptable mistake" of a sort that had never happened before.
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