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The Spark Newspaper

We publish a newspaper every two weeks titled The Spark.

Issue no. 831 — October 6 - 20, 2008

Editorial

Editorial: Extortion: Wall Street demands 700 billion, Congress hands it over!

Pages 2-3

Chicago: Turning Midway Airport over to plundering bank

Unemployment soaring... with more to come

Unemployment figures: Damn lies

Nothing new under the sun?

Unemployment funds going broke

Racist South Carolina cop gets off scot-free

Education package?

How much health care can you afford?

At the bottom of their list

Witnesses: Engineer had green light

Pages 4-5

Pig at the Trough

SEC leaves Wall Street foxes guarding the henhouse

Oink, Oink: The super-rich buy super-yachts in super numbers

Now there’s only 3 big banks...

Roosevelt’s New Deal: Big Government’s Rescue of Big Business

Financial crisis: After the U.S. comes Europe

Pages 6-7

Electric Vehicles? Just like 1993!

California admits: There’s no money for state workers’ paychecks

GM won’t pay retirees what it owes

Mad as Hell at Detroit Axle

Page 8

Hunger on the increase

Afghanistan: Will the U.S. bring the Taliban back to power?

 
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