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NY Court Orders New Sentence in 1968 Air Hijacking
A man sentenced to prison for 15 years for hijacking a plane from New York to Cuba four decades ago will be resentenced after a federal appeals court ruled Thursday that a lower-court judge wrongly concluded he would not be eligible for parole. The 2nd U 5/31/12 from ABC News Read more »
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Extremist Voices Continue Hijacking Religion to Attack LGBT People
WASHINGTON, D.C. May 30, 2012 - The Human Rights Campaign – the nation's largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organization – is strongly condemning the latest round of anti-LGBT rhetoric from extremist religious voices. In a distur 5/31/12 from YubaNet Read more »
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Think Tanks: Hijacking The Education Sector
Somewhat lost in last week's news about John Chubb withdrawing from the Romney advisory team (here) was the news that EdSector's higher ed team was leaving for New America. Kevin Carey et al will be formally announced sometime this week. No word yet on w from This Week in Education Read more »
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"Inside Job" Director Charles Ferguson: Wall Street has turned the U.S. into a "Predatory Nation"
AMY GOODMAN: With election season heating up here in the United States, the economy remains a crucial focus of the presidential campaign. Earlier this month, the Justice Department opened a criminal probe into a $3 billion trading loss in risky derivativ from Energy Bulletin Read more »
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Charles Ferguson's 'Predator Nation: Corporate Criminals, Political Corruption, and the Hijacking of America'
Charles Ferguson has followed up his Academy Award-winning documentary film Inside Job, with a hot potato of a new book: (Crown Business). Ferguson, who lives at the far west end of Soho in New York City, spent a lot of time around Prince and Mercer stre from AlterNet.org Read more »
