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Imagine: If Mayor de Blasio Really Were a Socialist
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t r u t h o u t | 01.02
Imagine: If Mayor de Blasio Really Were a Socialist
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20858-imagine-if-mayor-de-blasio-really-w=
ere-a-socialist
Cliff Connor and Michael Steven Smith, Truthout: Conner and Smith propose a=
real socialist agenda for a real socialist mayor of New York City.
=20
Mandela Was Unable to Dismantle the White Oligarchy Keeping South Africa in=
Economic Chains
http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/20974-mandela-was-unable-to-dism=
antle-the-white-oligarchy-keeping-south-africa-in-economic-chains
Danny Schechter, Seven Stories Press: An excerpt from Madiba A to Z: The Ma=
ny Faces of Nelson Mandela offers insight into how South Africa changed in =
terms of who politically ruled it but how the economic power primarily rema=
ined in white and Western hands.
=20
Legacy of Occupy: A Review of Mark Bray's Translating Anarchy
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20860-legacy-of-occupy-a-review-of-mark-b=
rays-translating-anarchy
Paul Buhle, Truthout: Mark Bray's Translating Anarchy: the Anarchism of Occ=
upy Wall Street is the most compelling of OWS "insider" stories and an illu=
stration of anarchism as yeast to progressive movements.
Bluegrass Uprising
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20967-bluegrass-uprising
Madeline Ostrander, The Nation: As American energy production booms, thousa=
nds face pipelines - carrying flammable, toxic materials - in their backyar=
ds. Many experts say the pipelines are monitored poorly by the government.
=20
Home, Sweet (Privatized Military) Home
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20888-privatized-military-home-sweet-privati=
zed-military-home
Ellen Dannin, Truthout: The goals of faster and cheaper military housing we=
re achieved through privatization, but problems - such as unreliable builde=
rs and an unwillingness to fix persistent problems, including mold - have l=
ed to legal action by tenants.
=20
Major Social Transformation Is a Lot Closer Than You May Realize - How Do W=
e Finish the Job?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20966-major-social-transformation-is-a-lo=
t-closer-than-you-may-realize-how-do-we-finish-the-job
Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Truthout: We want to show that an effecti=
ve movement is speaking to the people's concerns and putting forth views th=
at they support. It starts with winning over the hearts and minds of the Am=
erican people.
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Time to Close the Red State Doughnut Hole
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20984-time-to-close-the-red-state-donut-h=
ole=20
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: The Medicare Part D "doughnut ho=
le" is being phased out slowly and will be completely closed by 2020. But a=
s one "doughnut hole" is closing, another one is opening up: the Red State =
Doughnut Hole.
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Jim Hightower | Geithner Gets a Perch on Wall Street
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20971-geithner-gets-a-perch-on-wall-stree=
t
Jim Hightower, OtherWords: The former treasury secretary is proof the Washi=
ngton-to-Wall Street revolving door serves the interests of bankers, not th=
e public.
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On Heels of Brazil-Wide Protests, Aerospace Strikers Win Pay Raise
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20973-on-heels-of-brazil-wide-protests-aeros=
pace-strikers-win-pay-raise
Wendy Thompson, Labor Notes: Unions in Brazil have declared their support f=
or Seattle workers who are fighting to keep their work despite Boeing's bul=
lying tactics.
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Elephants Pushed Toward Extinction as Terrorist Groups Bankrolled With Ivor=
y Trade to US and China
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/20972-elephants-pushed-toward-extinction-=
as-terrorist-groups-bankrolled-with-ivory-trade-to-us-and-china
Richard Schiffman, AlterNet: Carved ivory elephants may outnumber living el=
ephants, which are being slaughtered at the unsustainable rate of 35,000 pe=
r year.
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Japan Is Recruiting the Homeless to Clean U=
p Fukushima, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20986-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-japan-i=
s-recruiting-the-homeless-to-clean-up-fukushima-and-more
In today's On the News segment: Contractors in Japan are recruiting the hom=
eless to clean up the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant; millions of A=
mericans now have health insurance thanks to Obamacare; marijuana prohibiti=
on is finally over in Colorado=CD=BE and more.
Remembering Rocketdyne: Discussing America's Worst Nuclear Meltdown (Not Th=
ree Mile Island) With Erin Brockovich
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20975-remembering-rocketdyne-discussing-amer=
icas-worst-nuclear-meltdown-not-three-mile-island-with-erin-brockovich
Shad Engkilterra, EnviroNews: CNN has reported that the infamous accident a=
t Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island power facility was the worst nuclear mel=
tdown ever in the United States, but the network is wrong.
=20
Economic Update: Recent Economic History
http://truth-out.org/news/item/20987-economic-update-recent-economic-histor=
y=20
Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout: Updates on Wisconsin's public=
employees, the GRAT tax evasion and the past 50 years of the "War on Pover=
ty." Major discussions of the Fed's "taper program"; the Boulder, Colorado,=
vote to produce electricity production itself; and evaluating 20 years of =
NAFTA.=20
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Surplus Armed Forces Equipment Further Militarizes Local Police
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18395-surplus-armed-forc=
es-equipment-further-militarizes-local-police
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Incrementally, local police forces are =
becoming more militarized. It's not an accident.
William Greider | Happy New Year, Losers
Read the Article at The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/blog/177751/happy-new-year-losers
David Sirota | Celebrating the End of the Fake "War on Christmas"
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18394-sirota-fake-war-on=
-christmas
Smarter, Deadlier Drones Mapped Out in Defense Plan
Read the Article at Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/smarter-deadlier-drones-mapped-defense-plan-192252528=
.html
Finance's Hold on Our Everyday Life Must Be Broken
Read the Article at The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jan/01/finance-hold-everyday-=
life-broken-capitalism
Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower, Should Be Given Clemency
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/02/opinion/edward-snowden-whistle-blower.htm=
l?hp&rref=3Dopinion
8,000 Dead: Iraq Sees Highest Annual Death Toll in Years
Read the Article at The Associated Press
http://www.mintpressnews.com/un-iraq-sees-highest-annual-death-toll-years/1=
76162/?utm_source=3DSigned+Up+on+Website&utm_campaign=3Ddd8253101e-Mail+Chi=
mp&utm_medium=3Demail&utm_term=3D0_51e062931b-dd8253101e-96411445
Bill Nye Wants To Wage War on Anti-Science Politics, Make a Movie - and Sav=
e the Planet From Asteroids
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2014/01/bill-nye-interview-asteroids-clima=
te-science-politics
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Surplus Armed Forces Equipment Further Militarizes Local Police </strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: normal;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.2"><strong>Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: </strong>Incrementally, local police forces are becoming more militarized. It's not an accident.</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tHrcgksapky0NzVYRC2r8curny%2BqEedc"><strong>Read the BuzzFlash Commentary</strong></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>William Greider | Happy New Year, Losers</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jf2bWsCoE6A3cZLYgNqglMurny%2BqEedc"><strong>Read the Article at The Nation</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>David Sirota | Celebrating the End of the Fake "War on Christmas"</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7vfa4dOVCq4dWswebahqeMurny%2BqEedc"><strong>Read the Article at BuzzFlash</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Smarter, Deadlier Drones Mapped Out in Defense Plan</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AvfaoVR%2FyMSxEbs0JVlJO5euIIsZ37UH"><strong>Read the Article at Yahoo! News</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Finance's Hold on Our Everyday Life Must Be Broken</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=T%2BRHQbjlQ9C0IhGze9TgHsurny%2BqEedc"><strong>Read the Article at The Guardian</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower, Should Be Given Clemency</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=b7M%2FtVFmZqaP4sIOK92LJcurny%2BqEedc"><strong>Read the Article at The New York Times</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>8,000 Dead: Iraq Sees Highest Annual Death Toll in Years</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=V8xhcZeWHOcgrW2pxQwcmsurny%2BqEedc"><strong>Read the Article at The Associated Press</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Bill Nye Wants To Wage War on Anti-Science Politics, Make a Movie - and Save the Planet From Asteroids</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3bN1XwzBZqcqcM26ZUSPU8urny%2BqEedc"><strong>Read the Article at Mother Jones</strong></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Cliff Connor and Michael Steven Smith, Truthout:</strong> Conner and Smith propose a real socialist agenda for a real socialist mayor of New York City.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fhZOrW8xXXwhkyjgXxNiwcurny%2BqEedc"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cDwncdRIHW1aEYHzNmmBqcurny%2BqEedc"><strong>Mandela Was Unable to Dismantle the White Oligarchy Keeping South Africa in Economic Chains</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Danny Schechter, Seven Stories Press:</strong> An excerpt from <em>Madiba A to Z: The Many Faces of Nelson Mandela</em> offers insight into how South Africa changed in terms of who politically ruled it but how the economic power primarily remained in white and Western hands.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=xPffEG452BBSDNIimdZsbcurny%2BqEedc"><strong>Read the Excerpt</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=D9su2m4e0qzUKw3cX4GwV8urny%2BqEedc"><strong>Legacy of Occupy: A Review of Mark Bray's <em>Translating Anarchy</em></strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Paul Buhle, Truthout:</strong> Mark Bray's <em>Translating Anarchy: the Anarchism of Occupy Wall Street</em> is the most compelling of OWS "insider" stories and an illustration of anarchism as yeast to progressive movements.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=f5ARFUXqdLsdOwconosPTsurny%2BqEedc"><strong>Read the Review</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pRDrhToY5WkD%2BE6oHikql8urny%2BqEedc"><strong>Bluegrass Uprising</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Madeline Ostrander, The Nation:</strong> As American energy production booms, thousands face pipelines - carrying flammable, toxic materials - in their backyards. Many experts say the pipelines are monitored poorly by the government.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BceILeDdtK3bkS7h%2BeCb6peuIIsZ37UH"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=tHb3rRLQXcVFTtT9K0D6Jsurny%2BqEedc"><strong>Home, Sweet (Privatized Military) Home</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Ellen Dannin, Truthout:</strong> The goals of faster and cheaper military housing were achieved through privatization, but problems - such as unreliable builders and an unwillingness to fix persistent problems, including mold - have led to legal action by tenants.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PcaSskIPEs40kouky7%2FBbsurny%2BqEedc"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cAH%2BpxsKQMEuKFCFBCzpQsurny%2BqEedc"><strong>Major Social Transformation Is a Lot Closer Than You May Realize - How Do We Finish the Job?</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Truthout:</strong> We want to show that an effective movement is speaking to the people’s concerns and putting forth views that they support. It starts with winning over the hearts and minds of the American people.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> The Medicare Part D "doughnut hole" is being phased out slowly and will be completely closed by 2020. But as one "doughnut hole" is closing, another one is opening up: the Red State Doughnut Hole.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Jim Hightower, OtherWords:</strong> The former treasury secretary is proof the Washington-to-Wall Street revolving door serves the interests of bankers, not the public.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EqnNG8pgnIy1RWJ1Du8%2BRsurny%2BqEedc"><strong>On Heels of Brazil-Wide Protests, Aerospace Strikers Win Pay Raise</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Wendy Thompson, Labor Notes:</strong> Unions in Brazil have declared their support for Seattle workers who are fighting to keep their work despite Boeing's bullying tactics.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=umnridoG0UjYFPJNP7%2FAfsurny%2BqEedc"><strong>Elephants Pushed Toward Extinction as Terrorist Groups Bankrolled With Ivory Trade to US and China</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Richard Schiffman, AlterNet:</strong> Carved ivory elephants may outnumber living elephants, which are being slaughtered at the unsustainable rate of 35,000 per year.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=OFAzyZ4oRIz%2B%2Bvyb3IzOvMurny%2BqEedc"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Japan Is Recruiting the Homeless to Clean Up Fukushima, and More</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>In today's On the News segment:</strong>  Contractors in Japan are recruiting the homeless to clean up the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant; millions of Americans now have health insurance thanks to Obamacare; marijuana prohibition is finally over in Colorado; and more.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qx%2F0w%2FLP4TErLLX5Eedyjcurny%2BqEedc"><strong>Remembering Rocketdyne: Discussing America's Worst Nuclear Meltdown (Not Three Mile Island) With Erin Brockovich</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Shad Engkilterra, EnviroNews:</strong> CNN has reported that the infamous accident at Pennsylvania's Three Mile Island power facility was the worst nuclear meltdown ever in the United States, but the network is wrong.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout:</strong> Updates on Wisconsin's public employees, the GRAT tax evasion and the past 50 years of the "War on Poverty." Major discussions of the Fed's "taper program"; the Boulder, Colorado, vote to produce electricity production itself; and evaluating 20 years of NAFTA.</p>
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