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For two straight days, lawyers for a reporter Trump had sued asked the businessman question after question on the same theme: Trump’s honesty. 
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The struggling corporate giant behind The Olive Garden, Longhorn Steakhouse, and other national restaurant chains is forcing tens of thousands of workers to effectively pay rent on their own money.
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Olive Garden: Looks like a great place...to boycott.
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Trump’s team isn’t just monochromatic and male. At least four, and perhaps as many six of the men are billionaires. They range in age from 50 to 74 — or, from “younger old white guy” to “older old white guy.”Five team members are named Steve — which means that eight of them are not. For diversity, that will have to do.
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In Philadelphia and beyond, opponents of the Trans-Pacific Partnership are winning the political battle on the prospective trade deal.
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The elite reward themselves and strengthen class divisions in the process.
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Timothy O’Brien, who interviewed the real estate developer and reality TV star while researching his 2004 book, “TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald,” appeared Wednesday morning on CNN, where he explained what he found after the titular subject of that book sued him for libel.
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Donald Trump is the culmination you would expect when a large and prosperous country adopts the politics of arrogance and the economics of greed. American corporate power, using globalism and economic agreements like NAFTA and the WTO, spreads into every corner of the globe.
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Speaking at a rally of Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in Omaha, Aug. 1, billionaire Warren Buffett offered Donald Trump that both men release their tax returns together and answer questions from the public.
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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is strongly opposed to voting on the Trans-Pacific Partnership during the lame-duck session of Congress later this year, he told The Huffington Post.
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This month, nineteen U.S. Senators called attention to the Web of Denial, a network of front groups that oppose any productive action to combat climate change.
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if you're going to learn about the patrons of greed this article is a good place to start.
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The TPP would expand corporate and investor rights at the expense of medical affordability, the environment, and labor rights.
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Fewer than one in five Americans think that free trade agreements create jobs and higher wages, and 36% say that FTAs have hurt their financial situation.
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The scheme of creating money out of nothing by issuing consumer loans made banksters richer than ever before and too big...
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Emma Raine is accused of ordering a hit on her second husband, pastor Ernest Smith, in 2006.
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The Trans-Pacific Partnership needs to be reworked so the trade deal can help middle-class Americans.
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With more than $4 million already spent or committed in support of GOP candidates this year, the Republican Attorneys General Association (RAGA) is poised to play a huge role in November’s state attorney general elections. And it is doing so with a huge assist from billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch and other fossil fuel interests.
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In the fight to save the world from the effects of climate change, it's international need vs home-grown greed.
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India not only has the largest number of child labourers in the world, but we also have the worst forms of child labour, including slavery, trafficking and...
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Swaziland’s king Mswati III passes suppression, unaccountability and royal opulent spending in the face of drought, starvation and poverty, as traditionally ‘Swazi’ values. Sonkhe Dube , a young exiled activist, tells Peter Kenworthy that he begs to differ.
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Federal Reserve unveils new allegations that a former executive at the bank had run a long campaign to obtain regulatory secrets.
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The fact that business groups are spending millions to influence pols to pass TPP shows the pact is in jeopardy
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According to a CBS News/New York Times poll conducted last month, only 35 percent of registered voters thought the United States gained from globalization, while 55 percent thought it lost.
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Free trade agreements do nothing to stem the tide of greed at home or abroad. Worse yet, TPP gives too much political power to multi-national corporations that don't have a vested interest in the prosperity, health and welfare of the American people.
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A dozen victims of an EB-5 fraud scheme are suing Koreatown’s Wilshire Bank, saying the institution played a role in the scam.
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Lots of protests have erupted at the DNC, but the one that is really making headlines is the anti-TPP crowd that is fighting to keep this disaster of a trade deal from ever becoming a reality. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this.
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America needs to break up its biggest banks, but not for reasons likely to give a tingle to Occupy Wall Street’s remnant rabble (or its Great Everywhere Spirit, Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts). This isn’t about some political exercise in election-year demonization. Bankers, as a class, aren’t villains. They’re not “banksters” grifting money from middle-income pockets. And they’re certainly not vampire squids on the collective face of humanity, as Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi has infamously described Goldman Sachs. And while it might be rhetorical overkill to say they’re “doing God’s work,” as Goldman boss Lloyd Blankfein has put it, bankers do fulfill a critical economic function. Bankers, not bureaucrats, are supposed to be the efficient allocators of capital in America’s market-based economy. They connect people who have spare dough to those who need a bit of spare dough, such as entrepreneurs looking to start a business or companies looking to grow one. We need lots of successful banks, and we need smart folks to run them.
But America doesn’t need 20 banks with combined assets equal to nearly 90 percent of the U.S. economy, or five mega-banks — JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, and Goldman Sachs — with combined assets equal to almost 60 percent of national output, three times what they were in the 1990s. That amount of complexity and financial concentration — which has grown worse since the passage of Dodd-Frank — is a current and continuing threat to the health of the U.S. economy. Now don’t blame market failure or unintended results of deregulation. Banks that big and complex and interconnected are both the unsurprising outcome of Washington’s 30-year expansion of the federal safety net and the cause of its ongoing existence. When you combine a “too big to fail” guarantee from Uncle Sam with the natural human tendency toward irrational exuberance, you have the key elements in place for another unaffordable financial crisis. [click on article title above to read full article] Via Operation Deja Vu
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Even under the new Karegnondi Water Authority, the amount city residents pay for water will rise significantly
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