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Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlineshttp://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20080721_theres_more_to_the_economy_than_taxes/ [Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines] Yet if the past 30 years or so have taught us anything, it should be that the global forces shaping the U.S. economy are more powerful than a mere tax cut—or tax hike—and they persist no matter what party is in power and who is president. Jimmy Carter confronted an economic situation that was strikingly similar, in some respects, to the one we face today.

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Common Sense and Wonderhttp://commonsensewonder.com/?p=3630 [Common Sense and Wonder] All the News That Fits: Indeed, just as Duranty not only lied about the famine but slandered those who told the truth about it, so Times editor Bill Keller, in a remarkably callous 2003 response to a Ukrainian group that sought to have Duranty’s Pulitzer rescinded, compared the petitioners to the dictator who had slaughtered so many millions of their people, suggesting that revoking the award “might evoke the Stalinist practice to airbrush purged figures out of official records and histories.” When a member of Gareth Jones’s family wrote to Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., in 2003, asking him to return Duranty’s award, Sulzberger ”” whose family’s newspaper had been instrumental in airbrushing Jones from history ”” didn’t even bother to reply. And when the Pulitzer board decided that same year not to rescind the prize, Sulzberger released a statement alluding to “defects” and “lapses” in Duranty’s work ”” weak language indeed to describe the covering up of a holocaust ”” and offering a few feeble, euphemistic words of “sympathy” for “those who suffered as a result of the 1932-33 Ukrainian famine.”

TANATA[TANATA] New Insights on Life of Jesus: Then Jesus painted the ordinary manner of acting among the Herodians, applying to them the passage from the Prophet Isaias read in the synagogue on the preceding Sabbath, which treats of dumb dogs that do not bark, that do not turn away from evil, and that tear men in secret. He reminded them that those adulterers were delivered over to justice while Herod, the patron of their accusers, lived in the open commission of the same crime, and He gave them signs by which they might recognize the Herodians.

Free Dominion - Principled Conservative - Party and Canadian Politics - Canada Blogshttp://www.freedominion.com.pa/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=1196398#1196398 [Free Dominion - Principled Conservative - Party and Canadian Politics - Canada Blogs] The Times, It Ain’t a-Changin’: Indeed, just as Duranty not only lied about the famine but slandered those who told the truth about it, so Times editor Bill Keller, in a remarkably callous 2003 response to a Ukrainian group that sought to have Duranty’s Pulitzer rescinded, compared the petitioners to the dictator who had slaughtered so many millions of their people, suggesting that revoking the award “might evoke the Stalinist practice to airbrush purged figures out of official records and histories.” When a member of Gareth Jones’s family wrote to Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., in 2003, asking him to return Duranty’s award, Sulzberger — whose family’s newspaper had been instrumental in airbrushing Jones from history — didn’t even bother to reply. And when the Pulitzer board decided that same year not to rescind the prize, Sulzberger released a statement alluding to “defects” and “lapses” in Duranty’s work — weak language indeed to describe the covering up of a holocaust — and offering a few feeble, euphemistic words of “sympathy” for “those who suffered as a result of the 1932-33 Ukrainian famine.”

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