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BBC coverage of President Dwight Eisenhower's Farewell Address, in ehich he warns the United States of America against the rise of the Military Industrial Co...
online.wsj.com - 5/21/2009
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BJORN LOMBORG Some business leaders are cozying up
with politicians and scientists to demand swift, drastic action...
on global warming. This is a new twist on a very old practice: companies using public policy to line their own pockets. The tight ...
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The Climate-Industrial Complex
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com - 5/21/2009
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America now has a full-blown industrial policy. But
it's an odd one -- a combination of lemon...
socialism and taxpayer-financed regulation. Consider GM and Chysler. To what purpose are our taxpayer dollars being put as we bail them out? Apparently only ...
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What Industrial Policy Should Be
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Behold the Mayor of the Village
Firedoglake —
The Village is a very screwed up place, wired for Republican talking points, observe David Broder damning those dirty effing hippies:
In every instance, Obama heeded the advice of his uniformed and civilian defense leaders and in each case but Afghanistan, he abandoned a position he had ...
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Rising Hegemon —
The Village is a very screwed up place, wired for Republican talking points, observe David Broder damning those dirty effing hippies: In every instance, Obama heeded the advice of his uniformed and civilian defense leaders and in each case but Afghanistan, he abandoned a position he had taken as the Democratic presidential candidate. The predictable result has been the first sustained outcry from the left, angry denunciations from leaders of constituencies that had been early supporters. They feel betrayed as they watch him continuing, with minor modifications, the ...
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Blood Money: Blue Dogs and the Medical-Industrial Complex.
mahablog.com 7/31/2009 — © Vclements | Dreamstime.com Dan Eggen writes for the Washington Post that the Blue Dogs are reaping a bounty of campaign cash from the medical-industrial complex .
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