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Azi Paybarah / Capital New York:
Bloomberg: ‘Plain and simple,’ Congress caused the mortgage crisis, not the banks — Photo via British Prime Minister's Office flickr stream. — Owners of the park at the center of the Occupy Wall Street protests are losing patience, but what can they do? — 11:03 am Nov. 1, 20111Add a comment
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Julie Shapiro / DNAinfo.com:
Cafe Laid Off 21 Workers Because of Occupy Wall Street, Owner Says — FINANCIAL DISTRICT — Twenty-one restaurant workers lost their jobs last week because of the Occupy Wall Street protests, the cafe owner said Tuesday. — Marc Epstein, owner of the Milk Street Cafe at 40 Wall St. …
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Andrew Breitbart / Big Government:
Rape, Gropes, and Assaults, Oh My: Mayor Bloomberg, Shut Down Zuccotti Park! … It's time for New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg to pull the plug on the dangerous circus in crime zone Zuccotti Park. — People have the right to protest, to assemble peaceably, to raise their voices and petition their government.
Pat Garofalo / ThinkProgress:
Mayor Bloomberg: ‘It Was Not The Banks That Created The Mortgage Crisis’ — A favorite conservative pastime since the financial crisis of 2008 struck is to try and deflect blame away from Wall Street and its excesses and onto Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and government housing policy.
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New York Post:
Occupy ‘ball’ street
Occupy ‘ball’ street
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Eman El-Shenawi / Alarabiya.net English:
Tunisians poke fun at Obama in assault on his Facebook page
Tunisians poke fun at Obama in assault on his Facebook page
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Jordan Bloom / The Daily Caller:
‘Occupy’ coloring book offers songs, poems, Anonymous masks
‘Occupy’ coloring book offers songs, poems, Anonymous masks
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Weasel Zippers and Hot Air
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Wire:
Satire on Occupy Wall Street Trips Up Rick Perry
Satire on Occupy Wall Street Trips Up Rick Perry
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Are big banks feeling pressure from Occupy Wall Street?
Are big banks feeling pressure from Occupy Wall Street?
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David Dayen / Firedoglake:
Bloomberg: Blame Congress for the Housing Bubble
Bloomberg: Blame Congress for the Housing Bubble
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Noreen Malone / New York Magazine:
More and More Homeless People Are Sleeping at Occupy Wall Street Sites
More and More Homeless People Are Sleeping at Occupy Wall Street Sites
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James V. Grimaldi / Washington Post:
Lawyer: Cain accuser wants to tell her side of story — Win McNamee/GETTY IMAGES - Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain speaks at the National Press Club October 31, 2011 in Washington, DC. During a question and answer portion of the program, Cain called the accusations of sexual harassment against him “a witch hunt”.
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Alexander Burns / The Politico:
Herman Cain now recalls ‘couple of other’ items in accuser's complaint — Herman Cain once again revised his account of the sexual harassment allegations he battled in the 1990s, saying in a TV interview he recalled there were additional “ridiculous” items in his accuser's complaint, beyond the single incident he detailed Monday.
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David Weigel / Slate:
Mark Block Won't Talk About the Other Cain Scandal … - Herman Cain's Other Scandal: His Campaign Chief Won't Talk About It — If the United States Had To Wage a New War Tomorrow, Could We Afford It? - Can You Ever Hire an “Escort” To Do “Escorting,” or Are They All Prostitutes?
Jonathan Easley / The Hill:
Cain PAC accuses left of ‘high-tech lynching’ in fundraising letter
Cain PAC accuses left of ‘high-tech lynching’ in fundraising letter
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Daniel Wagner / Associated Press:
Official: MF Global admitted using client money — WASHINGTON—MF Global, the failed securities firm led by Jon Corzine, admitted using clients' money as its financial troubles mounted, a federal official says. — An MF Global executive admitted that to federal regulators in a phone call early Monday …
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MF Global accounts shock leaves clients scrambling
MF Global accounts shock leaves clients scrambling
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Wall Street Journal:
MF Global Acknowledged Diverting Customer Funds
MF Global Acknowledged Diverting Customer Funds
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Henry Blodget / Business Insider:
Wow, Jon Corzine — Way To Fly Your Company Into A Mountain
Wow, Jon Corzine — Way To Fly Your Company Into A Mountain
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Paul Mason / BBC:
Greek referendum is coin-flip on euro exit — I say “while it lasts” because the opposition is mobilising a parliamentary manoeuvre to bring down the government, which may succeed - returning Europe to its status quo of containable trauma. — If Greeks reject the 50% controlled default …
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Robert Kuttner / prospect.org/blog/beat-press:
Bravo Papandreou! — Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou says his country will hold a referendum on a new European debt deal reached last week. — Greek Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou startled Europe and the financial world Monday by announcing that he will be calling a referendum …
Tyler Cowen / Marginal Revolution:
Why is Greece turning down the “bailout” — Make no mistake about it, the decision to hold a “referendum” is a decision to turn down the deal altogether. The referendum will never be held. It is scheduled for January and the current deal, which is not even a worked out deal, won't be on the table by then.
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opoa.org:
AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CITIZENS OF OAKLAND FROM THE OAKLAND POLICE OFFICERS' ASSOCIATION — Oakland, Ca. — We represent the 645 police officers who work hard every day to protect the citizens of Oakland. We, too, are the 99% fighting for better working conditions, fair treatment …
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Arlette Saenz / ABCNEWS:
Rick Perry on Viral Video: ‘I Felt Good, Felt Great’ — DES MOINES, IOWA - Texas Governor Rick Perry said he he “felt good, felt great” during a weekend event in New Hampshire. Video of Perry giving the freewheeling speech went viral this week and was parodied on late night TV …
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Isaac Chotiner / The New Republic:
Did Tim Pawlenty Blow It?
Did Tim Pawlenty Blow It?
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Jonah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Tim Pawlenty's lost chance
Tim Pawlenty's lost chance
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Paul Krugman:
Graduates Versus Oligarchs — Dean Baker raises an important point here: it's really awfully late in the game to be saying that the important inequality issue is college graduates versus non-graduates. It's not clear that this was ever true, and it certainly hasn't been true for a while.
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ourfuture.org/blogs_chrono/* and The New Republic
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Herman Cain / The Daily Beast:
LaHood: GOP Doesn't Care About Jobs — Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the lone Republican in Obama's Cabinet, says his party wants to do nothing in Washington, and is more committed to defeating the president than creating jobs. — Democrats aren't alone anymore in sounding the alarm …
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Tom Jensen / Public Policy Polling:
Snowe looking safer
Snowe looking safer
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Equality Matters:
Chick-Fil-A Donated Nearly $2 Million To Anti-Gay Groups In 2009 — Earlier this year, Chick-fil-A became embroiled in a controversy surrounding its donations to anti-gay groups. Though Chick-fil-A president Dan Cathy denied having an “agenda against anyone,” an Equality Matters investigation discovered …
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Tim Stelloh / New York Times:
Brooklyn Detective Convicted of Planting Drugs on Innocent People — The New York Police Department, already saddled with corruption scandals, saw its image further tainted on Tuesday with the conviction of a police detective for planting drugs on a woman and her boyfriend.
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Seung Min Kim / The Politico:
Democrats vow to block spending riders — House Democrats on Tuesday attacked “blatantly partisan” policy provisions Republicans are pushing in routine funding bills that would repeal health care reform and environmental regulations. — In a letter to Speaker John Boehner …
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Brian Beutler / tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com:
TPMDC — Democrats Demand Boehner Avert Government Shutdown Threat
TPMDC — Democrats Demand Boehner Avert Government Shutdown Threat
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Lee Fang / ThinkProgress:
Exclusive: Romney Family Investment Group Partnered With Alleged Perpetrators Of $8 Billion Ponzi Scheme — Mitt Romney and his son Tagg Romney. Tagg is the managing partner to Solamere Capital, a firm that invested in a new company employing brokers accused of taking part in the Allen Stanford Ponzi scheme.
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Dennis Prager / National Review:
Four Legacies of Feminism — As we approach the 50th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan's feminist magnum opus, The Feminine Mystique, we can have a perspective on feminism that was largely unavailable heretofore. — And that perspective doesn't make feminism look good.
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