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Occupy Oakland: focusing or fading away?

Occupy activists have assailed a federal government they say colludes with the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. But on Monday when the president came to raise money in downtown Oakland – home of the nation’s most militant Occupy movement – the protesters did little to respond.

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Stealth Romney Ad Quotes Hillary Clinton

“Shame on you, Barack Obama.” Source: politico.com Mitt Romney's Presidential campaign launched a stealth ad in Ohio, POLITICO first reported this morning. The ad is also running in Iowa, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, New Hampshire, and Nevada, according to the tracking service TVEyes.

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Stealth Romney Ad Quotes Hillary Clinton

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Don’t Resent the Rich; Fix the Tax Code (Part 3): Robert Shiller

Op-Eds Illustration by Paul Windle By Robert Shiller Wed Mar 07 00:00:31 GMT 2012 We have ample reason to believe that financial markets are quite useful. And yet our wonderful financial infrastructure has not yet brought us the harmonious society we might consider ideal

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Don’t Resent the Rich; Fix the Tax Code (Part 3): Robert Shiller

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L.A. councilmen tour Occupy LA encampment

An invitation from a speaker at a council meeting prompts four to mingle with those set up outside City Hall for days to demonstrate against economic policies that benefit corporations and the wealthiest Americans. In the middle of Tuesday’s Los Angeles City Council meeting, where the most scintillating item on the agenda was a proposal to increase ticket prices at the L.A. Zoo, a speaker stood …

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