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• Hungary Destroys All Monsanto GMO Corn Fields
• New Bill Being Considered In Congress Could Shut Down Social Media Sites Crucial To ‘Occupy’ Protests
• Pat Robertson: Christians Should Not Join ‘Occupy Wall Street.’ Everyone Else: Pat Robertson is Christian?
• Occupy Oakland Protesters Boo Mayor Quan Off the Stage
• PHOTOS: Oakland Residents Hold Candlelight Vigil For Iraq Vet Critically Injured By Police
• The Raid That Wasn't: A First-Person Account of Last Night at Occupy San Francisco
• Occupy SF: No-Show Raid Invigorates Protesters
• As Public Conversation Moves Left, Supercommittee Dems Move Right. Try to Contain Your Shock.
• Rep. Trent Franks (R-Idiot): Gay Marriage 'A Threat to Nation's Survival'
• From the Bwah Hah Hah Hah Files: Doomsday Ministry Scrubs End of World Predictions from Website
• Occupy Oakland Protester Scott Olsen Awake Ahead of Brain Surgery
• Perhaps the Best Way to Occupy Wall Street Is by Pulling Our Money Out of Big Banks -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Man Opens Fire Outside US Embassy in Bosnia
• OWS Beats The Tea Party—In Google Searches
• Bernie Madoff's Pathetic Story is Reminder Why Wall Street Protesters Occupy Zuccotti Park
• Neocon Stalwart John Podhoretz Kicks Every GOP Presidential Candidate Squarely in the Pants
• Herman Cain Denies That Palestinian People Exist
• PFAW Foundation Report: The Right to Vote Under Attack
• The E-Mails the Feds Say Show Texas Lawmakers Trying to Limit Voting Power of Hispanics
• Facts is Facts: Supply Side Economics Has Been an Epic Failure
• Obama Administration Announces Desert 'Solar Energy Zones'
• Occupy Oakland Protesters Remain in Legal Limbo After Release From Jail. NLG: Nearly 100 people were arrested and "illegally booked" in Oakland.
• "Iraq war hero critically injured in Oakland protests 'awake and lucid' in hospital as demonstrators vow to shut the city down with general strike." (WARNING: Graphic photos)
• "My night at Occupy San Francisco"
• NYPD Removes Gasoline, Generators From Downtown Protest Site
• "A record 49 percent of Americans live in a household where someone receives at least one type of government benefit, according to the U.S. Census Bureau."
• Alter: Obama’s Miracle Is a Scandal-Free White House
• Republicans Suddenly Discover Budget Cuts They Don't Like
• "Blood on the Tracks": Brian Willson’s Memoir of Transformation from Vietnam Vet to Radical Pacifist
• It's Time for Debt Forgiveness, American-Style
• US Soldier Goes on Trial for Afghan Civilian Murders: "Staff sergeant Calvin Gibbs is accused of murdering unarmed civilians in Afghanistan and taking body parts for trophies."
• William Rivers Pitt | Then They Fight You
• Joe Conason: Speaking up for That ‘1 Percent’
• Rick Perry: The Best Little Whore In Texas
• Wall Street Protesters Prepare for Winter Weather
• Pro-Israel Organization Chooses to Honor Anti-Semitic Stereotype Peddler Glenn Beck, While Condemning Occupy Wall Street -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Right-Wing Media Attacks Student Debt Relief
• Obama Strikes Back at Citizens United SCOTUS Decision
• We Need Liberals Now!
• Tea Party Group: Michele Bachmann Should Give Up
• GOP Doubles Down on Giving Excessive Tax Breaks to Millionaires -- Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Exxon Mobil Profits Climb 41%. In Other News, Everyone Else Is Still Broke.
• Michael Moore | Life Among the One Percent
• Death Toll in Baghdad's Twin Bombings Rises to 32
• House GOP’s ‘Job Creating’ Spending Cuts Destroyed 370,000 Jobs
• Madoff Family May Keep $82 Million Under Ruling. No, This Is Not From the Onion.
• NYPD Officers Surrender in Corruption Probe
• Cain's Smoking Campaign Aide Is a Pretty Dirty Guy
• State Troopers Evict Occupy Nashville Residents from Legislative Plaza
• The Study that Shows Why Occupy Wall Street Struck a Nerve
• Happy Halloween: NATO Libya Mission Will End Oct. 31
• Boehner Rejects Democrats’ $3 Trillion Deficit Reduction Proposal to ‘Supercommittee’ Because - You Guessed It - The Proposal Has New Taxes Included
• 'Anonymous' Takes Down Oakland Police Website in Retaliation for Attacks on Protesters
• Rick Perry May Dodge Future GOP Debates Because He Can't Debate His Way Out Of a Paper Sack. Romney May Follow Suit. Upside: No More GOP Debates.
• Oakland Spends Millions in Attack on Occupy Protesters, Closes 5 Schools Next Day
• Iraq War's Lessons Lost on US
• NYT: Black Voters’ Support for Obama Is Steady and Strong. But Is There Enough Intensity of Support High Enough to Result in a Sufficient Turnout?
• Voters Back Wall St. Protesters, Millionaire's Tax, Quinnipiac University New York State Poll Finds
• Sen. Bernie Sanders Joins Lawmakers to Demand Probe of Keystone Pipeline Plan -- Sen. Bernie Sanders for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Big Banks Don't Want Your Money, Unless You Pay Them to Keep It -- For Real -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Oakland Resident Appeals to Mayor Jean Quan: Apologize to Occupy Oakland and Try to Build Peace -- Mitch Hall for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Man Who Helped Bush Steal 2000 Election and Wreck FEMA Now Advises Perry -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Female Wal-Mart Employees File New Bias Case
• Class Warfare? Typical Hourly Wage Went Up Just $1.23 In The Last 36 Years
• The Real Reasons People Distrust Government
• Stocks Soar After Europe Deal
• Do-Nothing Congress Sets Record for Travel
• From the Irony Files: NYPD Threatens to Sue OWS Protesters
• ‘Hitler Was Sent By God,’ According To Pastor Involved With Rick Perry Prayer Event
• Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Says She Will Minimize Police Presence And That She Supports The OWS Movement
• Sachs Fiend: Goldman Attacks Occupy Wall Street's Non-Profit Bank
• Marines to Oakland Police: You Did This to My Brother
• Google Refuses to Remove Police-Brutality Videos
• Baghdad Bombings Kill At Least 10
• Occupy Oakland: 10 Questions Police Must Answer Over Scott Olsen Injuries
• "The Iraq War veteran injured in clashes between police and anti-Wall Street protesters felt so strongly about economic inequality that he wanted to do something to change it, his roommate said Thursday. Scott Olsen, 24, joined the protests as he worked his day job as a network engineer and left his apartment each night to sleep alongside protesters in San Francisco and Oakland."
• Are the Koch Brothers Funding Your News?
• Injured Veteran's Uncle Appalled by Oakland Police Action
• Rep. Lofgren: Copyright Bill is the 'End of the Internet'
• Ten Reasons Not to Bank On (or With) Bank of America
• O’Keefe Organization’s Undercover Attempt on Ohio Think Tank Fails
• FLASHBACK: Oakland Paid $2 Million Settlement After Attacking Dozens Of Antiwar Protesters In 2003
• A Job Creation Idea So Obviously Good Even Washington Couldn't Possibly Say No...Could It?
• There's America—and Then There's Washington
• Internal Labor Memo Warns Ohio Union Fight Could Go Either Way
• Drug War Profiteers: Book Exposes How Wachovia Bank Laundered Millions for Mexican Cartels
• Glenn Beck Mocks Marine Who Protested NYPD Police Brutality
• Rick Santorum: I’d Make Being Gay Illegal If I Could
• Occupy Protesters Rally Around Wounded Iraq Vet
• Motormouth Meets the "Machine Gun Preacher"
• "How I feel, as a United States Marine, about what occurred in Oakland."
• Flashback 2003: Police Violence Shocks Activists, Others at Port of Oakland Protest
• Bette Midler Offers to Buy Occupy Wall St. Protesters Porta-Potties
• Inspector: $6.6 billion Allegedly Stolen in Iraq Has Been Found
• Fukushima Fallout Was Almost Twice as Bad as Official Estimates, New Study Says
• Keeping It Clean: Maine’s Fight for Fair Elections
• UN Votes to End Libya Operations
• Shell Oil Profits Double in Third Quarter. In Other News, Everyone Else is Still Broke.
• "Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, who is being criticized from all sides for a police sweep of the Occupy Oakland encampment, said Wednesday that she was not involved in the planning and did not even know when the action was going to take place."
• Get'cha Popcorn Ready: Quran-Burning Pastor Terry Jones Is Running For President
• Egyptian Activists will March in Tahrir Sq. in Solidarity with Oakland Tomorrow, 10-28-11
• Gallup Finds Significant Drop in Unemployment During October
• Rachel Maddow: "The American dream was that anyone could make it. That is no longer the dream"
• Wall Street Firms Spy on Protesters in Tax-Funded Center
• The Mainstream Media’s Fear of Occupy Wall Street
• Cheat Sheet: What’s Happened to the Big Players in the Financial Crisis
• Fed Won’t Share Internal View of Underlying Risks
• Occupy Earth: Someone Got Rich and Someone Got Sick

• Robert Scheer: Thirty Years of Unleashed Greed
• Marine Veteran Scott Olsen's Injuries Prompt Official Review as Occupy Oakland Protests Continue
• Right Fight: Activists vs. House GOP
• San Francisco Police Appear to Call Off Occupy Raid
• Defense Industry: Keep Paying Us or the Economy Dies
• "BP received permission Wednesday to return to the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico to drill its first well after the Deepwater Horizon incident–the largest offshore oil spill in U.S. history."
• Supercommittee Democrats Offer Major Capitulation
• If American Land were Distributed the way American Wealth Is
• OWS: "The canon chancellor of St Paul's Cathedral, the Rev Dr Giles Fraser, has resigned in protest at plans to forcibly remove protesters from its steps, saying he could not support the possibility of 'violence in the name of the church.'"
• "If the election were held today, the Obama-Biden ticket would not win the 270 electoral votes required to hold the White House."
• Michael Moore: Obama First Term ‘Heartbreaking’
• Pepper-Spraying NYPD Police Officer Tony Bologna Transferred to Staten Island. For a New York City Cop, That Is the Equivalent of a Transfer to Outer Mongolia.
• New Alliance to Back Libya, Replacing NATO
• Coalition of Religious Groups Urge 'Supercommittee' Members Not to Screw the Poor
• Black Voters' Support for Obama is Steady; Challenge Remains in Liberal Base Voter Turnout
• US Economic Growth Doubled in Last Quarter
• Crisis Averted? Eurozone Strikes a Deal
• Game on: Elizabeth Warren stands by Occupy Wall Street
• Marine veteran fighting for life after being shot in the face with gas canister during Occupy Oakland clashes
• Wars for Oil: A Wrecking Ball to our Economy, Ecology and Morale -- Jacqueline Marcus for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Rick Scott's Pee Test Fails a Court Test
• The top 1 percent of earners more than doubled their share of the nation’s income over the last three decades
• Perry Basically Admits That He's Too Dumb to Debate
• Three Reasons Why It’s Better for the Economy if the Super-Committee Fails to Get a Deal -- Robert Creamer for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Herman Cain's 9-0-9 Is a Scam-Oh-Scam for the Middle Class -- Paul Buchheit for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• 68% of Independents Support a Tax Increase on Millionaires
• No Apology From Rush Limbaugh For Defending ‘Christian’ Terrorists
• 280% increase in new accounts for local credit union in Washington State
• "Occupy Wall Street" gets a boost from a new report on income distribution
• World Reaches Milestone of 7 Billion People
• Glenn Greenwald: WikiLeaks Cables and the Iraq War
• U.S. May Miss Year-End Goal for Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Decision, Although It Would Be a Major Surprise if the White House Doesn't Approve It
• Canadian Government Announces Multi-Billion Dollar Warship Building Program. Canada Has a Military-Industrial Complex Too?
• Latest Poll: Ohioans Still Going with Obama
• Good Bye Drumming All Night, Hello Porta Potties to OWS NYC
• How the Austerity Class Rules Washington
• Wisconsin Democrats Allege Governor Walker Used Taxpayer Dollars for Campaign Website
• Mutinies Abound in the Republican Party
• Ex-Goldman Director Gupta Charged in Insider Case
• Gov. Chris Christie’s Budget Cuts Put 4,000 New Jersey Police Officers Out Of A Job
• Is the Robin Hood Tax Coming?
• Occupy Wall Street's Battle Against American-Style Authoritarianism
• Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum Blasts Gay Marriage Supporters, Defends Support For Anti-Sodomy Laws
• Star Power: Warren Picks Up Franken Endorsement In Mass. Senate Race
• More on the Police Riot Against Occupy Wall Street in Oakland
• Tar sands pipeline will comfort our enemies. By Steven M. Anderson, retired Army brigadier general, and senior mentor with the Army’s Battle Command Training Program.
• Only Countries with Socialized Medicine have AAA Bond ratings?
• Once Again, Oakland Police Use Extreme Force and Weapons in Dispersing Occupy Oakland
• Cain's Tax Delinquency. Herman Cain, the businessman GOP presidential candidate who’s been surging in the polls with his 9-9-9 tax plan, lapsed in his own tax payments in 2006—then fought paying them.
• Unions rally, march with Occupy Portland protesters
• New Poll Finds a Deep Distrust of Government. Uh, and that is news? It's coming from the left and right now, at least of THIS government: the corporate duopoly.
• Is the Obama DOJ Finally Going to Arrest a Wall Street Board Member?
• Why Companies Aren't Getting the Employees They Need. The conventional wisdom is that our education system is failing our economy. But our companies deserve a lot of the blame themselves. And This is in the Wall Street Journal!
• Obama to announce new plan to try and merge private college loans with government loans at a lower interest rate
• CBO: Income Of The Top 1 Percent Exploded Over The Last Three Decades
• The City Council of Los Angeles Tilts Toward Occupy Wall Street -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Matt Taibbi, OWS's Beef: Wall Street Isn't Winning – It's Cheating
• The OWS Battle to End Crony Capitalism Was Presaged in the Battle for Brooklyn -- Michael Galinsky for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Conservatives Turn On Romney Over Ohio Union-Busting Law
• As Wall Street’s Universe Collapses
• NRA Adds The Media To Their "Massive Obama Conspiracy"
• Perry Plan Would Grant Big Tax Break to Wealthiest. Try to Contain Your Shock.
• Army Ranger Died on His 14th War Deployment
• The People Out of Doors: Change You Can Believe In
• "How else to accept today’s bizarre plot line: A decade ago Republican George W. Bush took our great nation into a $3 trillion war on lies. Today that party is mindlessly controlled by a cultish anti-tax pledge made to lobbyist Grover Norquist and his Americans for Tax Reform group, who once proclaimed: “I don’t want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub.”"
• 25 Reasons Why Police Officers Never Showed Up To Tea Party Rallies (Warning: many pictures)
• The Bankers' Blockade of WikiLeaks Must End: "Whether you support WikiLeaks or not, the blockade by Visa, Mastercard, Paypal and others is a sinister attack on free speech."
• Birther Oathkeeper Convicted In Attempted Courthouse Takeover
• SPECIAL REPORT: Out-of-State Corporate Money Floods Ohio Battle Over Anti-Collective Bargaining Bill
• #OccupySupply Delivers Propane, Tents, and Refrigeration to #OccupyKStreet
• 'Joe the Plumber' Launching Congressional Bid. Fans of the Absurd Rejoice.
• Rick Perry's Flat Tax Not So Flat After All
• Obama Administration Clears Way for Wave of Industrial Offshore Oil Drilling in Arctic
• Poll: Obama Losing His Base
• Ex-Murdoch Executive Questioned in Phone-Hacking Scandal
• Wall Street Occupiers Fear Drummers Will Be Their Undoing
• Police State Targets Occupy Movements
• Wounded Syrians Abused at Hospitals, Rights Group Says
• From the Derp Files: Bachmann Says Uninsured Americans Can Rely on ‘Charitable Organizations’ for Health Care
• Oakland Police Use Rubber Bullets, Flash Grenades and Smoke Bombs to Evict Occupy Oakland
• The Republicans’ War on Science and Reason
• Lack of Demand, Not Regulation, Caused Jobs Crunch, Says Treasury Official
• NPR’s Slow Slide to the Right
• Albany, New York State Police Refuse to Arrest OWS Protesters
• Outside Cleveland, Snapshots of Poverty’s Surge in the Suburbs
• Iraq War: Mission Failed
• George W. Bush War Crime Prosecution Blocked in British Columbia
• How Many Slaves Work for You?
• Iranian Influence in Iraq? Inconceivable!
• Ron Paul to Eliminate Student Loans if Elected President
• Arrests Are Making Occupy Movement Stronger
• Scott Walker's Recall Plan: Rake in Unlimited Cash
• Iraq Withdrawal Plan Splits GOP
• Who Is Causing the Most Disruption to Residents in Southern Manhattan? The NYPD -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
• Pat Robertson: GOP Base Is Becoming Too Extreme. No, This is Not from The Onion.
• “If the FBI and J Edgar Hoover’s friends and associates resist the notion that the blackmailing, extorting, empire-building, racist, homophobic man was gay, fine, whatever they wish to think. The straights can have him.”
• US's Most Powerful Nuclear Bomb Being Dismantled
• Gun-Loving Gov. Perry's College Transcript Has Lots Of Cs & Ds -- Tony Peyser for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• A Time for Outrage to Actively Engage in the Defense of Human and Economic Rights -- Ann Davidow for Buzzflash at Truthout
• Occupy Wall Street: If South Americans Can Reform Their Constitutions, Then Why Not Us? -- Nikolas Kozloff for Buzzflash at Truthout
• Conservatives Try to Smear Occupy Movement with Charges of Anti-Semitism -- Bill Berkowitz for BuzzFlash at Truthout
• 72 Percent of New York City Voters Support the Continuation of Occupy Wall Street -- Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout
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  THE LIGHTER SIDE:
• Nancy Grace’s Nipple Slip Traumatized Kids
• Herman Cain, After Mis-Step, Introduces 9-9-9 Plan For Abortion
• Doonesbury So Totally Went There
• President's Approval Rating Soars After Punching Wall Street Banker in Face
• Republicans' Anti-Working Class Agenda Not Resonating with Voters for Some Reason