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Turning Up the Heat on Bailed-Out Banks Over Bonuses

Posted by admin in Tuesday, October 28th 2008   
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In letters to the heads of nine major U.S. banks getting propped up with billions of taxpayer dollars, Waxman said he “question[s] the appropriateness of depleting the capital that taxpayers just injected into the banks through the payment of billions of dollars in bonuses, especially after one of the financial industry’s worst years on record.”
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Michael Moore political movie released free on Web

Posted by admin in Wednesday, September 24th 2008   
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Filmmaker Michael Moore released his latest documentary for free on the Internet on Tuesday, marking a first for the maverick director who aims to encourage young people to vote — preferably for Democrats — in November’s U.S. presidential election.
“Slacker Uprising,” a feature-length film documenting Moore’s tour of swing states during the 2004 presidential election year, […]