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Feingold, Dodd planning filibuster of wiretap bill, prospects dim
Posted by Jeff from Rawstory
A Dodd-led filibuster in February attracted just 29 supporters, short of the 41 necessary to keep a bill from coming to a vote. Speaking in Washington Monday, Feingold was pessimistic about their chances this time around.
Bloomberg.com: Worldwide
Posted by theangryindian from Bloomberg
June 24 (Bloomberg) -- The world's biggest financial firms may lose as many as 175,000 jobs by this time next year as Citigroup Inc. and other banks shed workers amid slowing revenue and billions in writedowns, executive recruiters say.
CHRYSLER BUILDING ON THE BLOCK to Abu Dhabi Investors
Posted by Jeff from Nypost
Sources say the super-rich Abu Dhabi Investment Council is negotiating an $800 million deal for a 75 percent stake in the Art Deco treasure that has defined the Midtown skyline since 1930.
Arianna Huffington makes waves on the Web
Posted by Jeff from MSNBC
Her site - HuffingtonPost.com - has blossomed from a handful of staff to 50 and an audience of nearly 15 million visitors a month. Her Internet newspaper is attracting eyeballs and advertising that might otherwise gravitate to traditional media outlets. The site is also helping to set the media's agenda.
The political lessons of the American Axle strike
Posted by Sandyenglish
American Axle workers began to return to work earlier this week, after the end of a three-month walkout in Michigan and New York. The struggle-one of the longest walkouts in the auto industry in decades-ended in a bitter defeat for the workers.
United Steelworkers and Largest UK Trade Union to Merge to Counter Abuses of Globalisation
Posted by SeekThankfully from Afp.google
Merger would help negotiations against multi-nationals, according to press report. This could also be "the first step towards a global union that could take in labour movements from the world's emerging markets in eastern Europe, Latin America and Asia", according to press report. Unite's 2 million members in UK and Ireland are employed by BP and Rolls Royce. USW has "more than one million members in the United States and Canada."
Halliburton Charged with Selling Nuclear Technologies to Iran
Posted by theangryindian from Projectcensored
According to journalist Jason Leopold, sources at former Cheney company Halliburton allege that, as recently as January of 2005, Halliburton sold key components for a nuclear reactor to an Iranian oil development company. Leopold says his Halliburton sources have intimate knowledge of the business dealings of both Halliburton and Oriental Oil Kish, one of Iran's largest private oil companies.
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