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In this plutocrat's playground of a city, it's good to know there's still a ...
No matter what horrors the stiff-collared plutocracy enact on the city that I love, I know that somewhere in this neoliberal theme-park there is at least one bolthole for freaks, perverts, bohemians, migrants, angry feminists and revolutionaries to ...
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We're Not Sandernistas: Reinventing the Wheels of Bernie's Bandwagon
Given how much corporate and plutocrat agendas shape our candidate selection pool, and propaganda by consolidated corporate media shapes “mainstream” attitudes, the probability of leftists finding an electable candidate who is in all or most ways ...
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Sonia calls suspension of Congress MPs 'a black day for democracy'

Sonia calls suspension of Congress MPs 'a black day for democracy'
NEW DELHI: Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Monday dubbed as 'black day for democracy' the suspension of 25 party MPs from Lok Sabha as her party said the Narendra Modi government is implementing "Gujarat model" of democracy here.
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"The Look of Silence": Will New Film Force U.S. to Acknowledge Role in 1965 ...
Joshua Oppenheimer, director of The Look of Silence and the Academy Award-nominated film, The Act of Killing. Related. As Indonesia's New President Takes Office, Cabinet Includes Officials Tied to Atrocities of Old. Oct 28, 2014 | Story. "Indonesia is ...
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'Murder of Democracy,' Says Sonia Gandhi on Suspension of Party Lawmakers
New Delhi: Sonia Gandhi today said the suspension of 25 Congress lawmakers from the Lok Sabha is a "murder of democracy." The Congress President was leading her party's lawmakers from both Houses in a protest against the suspension.
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Latest Government Statistics News

Commentary: New England unemployment statistics don't add up to accurate ...
The difficult economic circumstances in the rest of New England are further evidenced by the increase in recipients of various government programs. The most notable example is the growth of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as ...
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Panhandle provides perfect setting for cycling adventures
Panhandle provides perfect setting for cycling adventures - Business, Government Legal News from throughout WV. Member Center: ... Don Blankenship UBB Mine Trial · Law · Business · Education · Energy · Health Care · Government · Tonight Live · Opinion ...
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China central bank official sees downward pressure on economy persisting: paper
Sheng Songcheng, the director of the statistics division of the People's Bank of China (PBOC), was quoted as saying by the National Business Daily on Saturday. Pressured by uneven domestic and export demand, cooling investment and factory ... Sheng ...
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Latest Shadowstats News

Shadowstats' John Williams Expects Hyperinflation Within Months
There are those predicting inflation, those predicting deflation, those in between… and then there's the ultra-hardcore hyperinflationists. It's easy to see where John Williams, founder of Shadowstats.com, fits in. He's forecasting a hyperinflationary ...
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Niall Ferguson Has Not Admitted He Was Wrong About Inflation
The numbers Ferguson is quoting here come from a website called Shadowstats run by a guy named John Williams. The first problem is that even the Williams admits he's not actually calculating what inflation would be “If the old methods were still used”, ...
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Why won't inflation conspiracy theories just die already?
Those who argue that inflation is higher than the official numbers have often made predictions that the Fed's monetary stimulus will cause inflation to soar. That includes Shadowstats' John Williams, who predicted an imminent "hyperinflationary ...
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