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Sir Ian McKellen Reads Manual for Changing Tires in Dramatic Voice | Open Culture • by Dan Colman
…shades of Peter Sellers performing The Beatles in Shakespearean mode and Richard Dreyfuss giving a dramatic reading of the iTunes End-user license agreement. And, oh, let us not forget Christopher Walken’s hilarious reading of Lady Gaga’s Poker Face. [link link and link]
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Occupy Des Moines: Dozens Arrested In Iowa, Including A 14-Year-Old
Dozens were arrested at the first Occupy Des Moines event Sunday night, including a former Iowa state representative and a 14-year-old girl.
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Obama health-care law modeled on Romney plan – politics – Decision 2012 – msnbc.com
Newly obtained White House records provide fresh details on how senior Obama administration officials used Mitt Romney’s landmark health-care law in Massachusetts as a model for the new federal law, including recruiting some of Romney’s own health care advisers and experts to help craft the act now derided by Republicans as “Obamacare.”
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November ballot is a death match for Ohio unions – Salon.com
After fierce but inconclusive battles in Wisconsin, the great labor struggle of 2011 is now centered in that ultimate swing state of Ohio. A richly funded national right-wing effort to break the economic and political power of the labor movement in its Midwestern heartland is now facing a ballot test in a Nov. 8 referendum to affirm or overturn a union-busting law, known as Senate Bill 5.
As in Wisconsin and other states, conservatives in Ohio have focused their fire on public-sector unions, which are easy to identify with unpopular levels of government spending and taxation. But just as there is little doubt the assault on public-sector unions this year is part of a broader effort to weaken collective bargaining rights and undermine labor’s political strength, efforts to repeal Senate Bill 5 will depend on the solidarity of private-sector union members who are not directly affected by the legislation, but can see the handwriting on the wall.
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Feds: ‘Elements’ Of Iranian Government Plotted To Kill Saudi Ambassador | TPMMuckraker
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Just Blow The Whole Thing Up | Talking Points Memo
…the Justice Department is pushing very hard on the claim of Iranian government complicity. …the claim that Iran would try to mount a violent attack in the US capital and trying to assassinate allied foreign ambassadors would have vast and dramatic international implications, to put it mildly. …
Our initial read of the court documents suggests that FBI and DEA agents were involved from the first. We’ll bring you more shortly. It sounds at this point that the plot was aspirational until US government agents became involved and worked with the alleged conspirators to move it toward operational.
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Why Believe In Keynesian Models? – NYTimes.com – Paul Krugman
A correspondent asks a good question: what evidence makes me believe that Keynesian economics is broadly right, given the relative absence of experience with large fiscal stimulus programs?
I’d answer that question with several points. …
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Developing: Mass Arrests and Beatings at #OccupyBoston | Crooks and Liars • by Susie Madrak
UPDATE: Boston PD beat and arrested the Vets for Peace [link to video] who tried to protect the protesters. Mass arrests made, tents and sleeping bags thrown into waiting garbage trucks.
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