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Treasury Dept. caps salaries at $500,000 at automakers, banks

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration's pay chief is limiting the cash compensation for executives at companies that received the largest U.S. taxpayer bailouts to $500,000 and delaying some other payouts

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NPR execs want their pundits off Fox News

Executives at National Public Radio are none too comfortable with the obvious right-wing bias emanating from Fox News. In fact, they recently went so far as to ask one of their top political correspondents, Mara Liasson, to “reconsider” her regular appearances on the network. Should Mara leave Fox because of their obvious bias

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Obama’s big sell out!

Barack Obama ran for president as a man of the people, standing up to Wall Street as the global economy melted down in that fateful fall of 2008. He pushed a tax plan to soak the rich, ripped NAFTA for hurting the middle class and tore into John McCain for supporting a bankruptcy bill that sided with wealthy bankers “at the expense of hardworking Americans.” Obama may not have run to the left of Samuel Gompers or Cesar Chavez, but it's not like you saw him on the campaign trail flanked by bankers from Citigroup and Goldman Sachs

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US: Whistleblower psychiatrist warns of soldier on soldier violence

Kernan Manion, a psychiatrist who was hired last January to treat Marines returning from war who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other acute mental health problems borne from their deployments, fears more soldier-on-soldier violence without radical changes in the current soldier health care system. Working for a personnel-recruiting company which was contracted by the Defence Department at Camp Lejeune, Manion became alarmed at the military’s inability to give sufficient treatment to returning soldiers.

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Drones to fly over US

New drone to scour U.S. coast for smugglers.

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Russians ban Jehovah’s Witnesses

If Secretary of State Hillary Clinton draws inspiration from Eleanor Roosevelt the same way she famously did as First Lady, maybe Clinton will speak out against the blow to the freedoms of press, speech and religion dealt by the Russian Supreme Court this week. Russia's highest court upheld a regional ruling that outlaws Jehovah's Witnesses from gathering to worship and sharing their beliefs with others

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Will Houston make gay history?

Annise Parker could make Houston the largest American city ever to elect an openly gay mayor. But first she has to overcome a last-ditch effort by anti-gay activists to derail her campaign

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Monckton holds strong to Hitler’s Youth statement, “Yes I did it, and I’ll do it again"

It’s hard to listen when your emotions are…heated (couldn’t resist). Just ask Christopher Monckton who, in a heated moment, called the young activists who protested The Americans for Prosperity meeting in Copenhagen yesterday. (Monckton heads up an organization called the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a group known for its opposition to scientific consensus on climate change).

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Monckton holds strong to Hitler’s Youth statement, “Yes I did it, and I’ll do it again"

Tea Party patriots want mandatory Christmas carols in public schools

The Tea Party movement is supposed to be all about keeping the government out of your business. But if some California members get their way, the state will force public schoolchildren to sing Christmas carols

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Coal in the water and in the air is making Americans stupid

So as we all know by now the ones that control our “destiny” and by that I mean the government are very interested in keeping us dumb and stupid so they can continue their game and keep us Doing what we do best entertain ourselves with not important things. So now a new study proves that coal in air and coal byproducts in our water IS MAKING US DUMB And DUMBER

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