Tag: Vermont
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Sanders’ October 2010 Filibuster Against Corporate Greed
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhOAzqfMoms[/youtube]So many people are talking about Rand Paul’s filibuster of John Brennan’s CIA nomination in the U.S. Senate that I thought I would remind people of Vermont’s Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders made a much loved speech on the senate floor that was turned into a book. It was in Oct. 2010 and the U.S. Senate…
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. . . or Mexico
Gaza Is Not Toronto: It Has Been Under Full Occupation For Over 40 Years By M.J. Rosenberg – January 10, 2009, 8:57PM “I ask any of my colleagues to imagine that happening here in the United States. Rockets and mortars coming from Toronto in Canada, into Buffalo New York. How would we as a country…
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Freyne exits stage right
Peter Freyne, R.I.P I am not familiar with Seven Days, the publication that Peter Freyne last worked for, but I don’t believe that’s the paper he worked for when I toiled as a general assignment reporter at the Burlington Free Press from 1988 to 1990. I was always wary of him but, since I did…
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Bernie Sanders’ note from Denver
As I sat on the convention floor and watched the television monitors showing CNN and other corporate media outlets, I saw the presidential campaign being treated as if it were a football game, an academy awards ceremony or a beauty contest. That’s unfortunate, because this campaign is not really about John McCain or Barack Obama.…
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Results are in
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, (D-NY), scored comprehensive wins in Ohio and Texas. She also won in Rhode Island. Her opponent, Sen. Barack Obama, (D-IL), won in Vermont. The wins helped stanch Mrs. Clinton’ s string of 11 straight losses since her big night on Super Tuesday. The next ‘fight of the century’ figures to be…
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FORMER RIDGEWOOD MAN IS SLAIN IN VERMONT VICTIM OF FRIEND’S EX-LOVER
A 26-year-old former Ridgewood resident who moved to Vermont because of his love of skiing and the outdoors was hunted down and killed by the ex-boyfriend of a woman with whom he was friendly.
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FORMER RIDGEWOOD MAN IS SLAIN IN VERMONT; VICTIM OF FRIEND’S EX-LOVER
A 26-year-old former Ridgewood resident who moved to Vermont because of his love of skiing and the outdoors was hunted down and killed by the ex-boyfriend of a woman with whom he was friendly, authorities said Saturday.