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| == News == | | == News == |
| === Friday | November 19, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Walmart-worldmap.jpg|thumb|World Map of Wal-Mart: Watch out for collapsing civilizations.]]
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| '''Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) To Open New Store In Portland'''<br />
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| The mega-retailer promises employment for 300 Portland-area serfs and countless sweatshop slaves across the globe. Watch out for falling wages.<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.nwcn.com/news/Walmart-to-open-new-store-in-Portland-creating-300-jobs-79990382.html Walmart to open new store in Portland, creating 300 jobs]
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| === Thursday | November 18, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Portland-streetcar-oldschool.jpg|thumb|Oldschool Portland Streetcars | Photo: [http://www.trainweb.org/mccann/streetcar.htm TrainWeb]]] | |
| '''The Best Little Streetcar In Texas'''<br /> | |
| Fort Worth puts runaway Portland streetcar on display.<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.star-telegram.com/2010/11/17/2640816/model-streetcar-goes-on-display.html Model streetcar goes on display in downtown Fort Worth]
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| === Wednesday | November 17, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Rip-tompig.jpg|thumb|R.I.P.]]
| | == References == |
| '''R.I.P. City'''<br />
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| '''Q.''' Why is Portland, Oregon nicknamed [[Rip City]]?<br />
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| '''A.''' [[Trail Blazers]] guard, [[Jim Barnett]], ripped the net in 1970 causing the sports announcer to hyperventilate and coin the phrase "[[Rip City]]."<br />
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| ''Go to story'': [http://www.chacha.com/question/why-is-portland-oregon-nicknamed-rip-city Why is Portland Oregon nicknamed rip city?]
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| === Tuesday | November 16, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Peta proud body scan.jpg|thumb|Proud body by [http://www.peta.org/ PETA].]]
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| '''Pouting <span class="plainlinks">[http://www.peta.org/ PETA]</span>philes Ponder "Proudbody Patdowns" @ PDX'''<br />
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| The success of [http://www.peta.org/ PETA]'s "proud body" campaign depends on ubiquitous distribution of [http://www.tsa.gov/ TSA]'s full-body scanners at all major airports. Unfortunately, the scanners slated for Portland International Airport ([[PDX]]) have failed to materialize and "Portland is not on TSA's deployment list" for the remainder of the year. Can PETA's "proud body" campaign successfully exploit any furtive gropings and fondlings TSA's "handlers" inflict upon Portland's air travel victims?<br />
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| :''Go to stories'':<br />
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| *[http://www.katu.com/news/local/108007129.html Researchers sound alarm over radiation from body scanners]
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| *[http://wewontfly.com/ WE WON'T FLY: Act Now. Travel with Dignity.]
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| === Monday | November 15, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Springtime-hitler.jpg|thumb|'''Full Disclosure''': Not every wannabe bully who tries to beat up on others is a <span class="plainlinks">[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springtime_for_Hitler dancing Nazi]</span>.]]
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| '''America's "Moral Majority" Blame Poor Folks For Economic Blight Imposed By Wall Street'''<br />
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| "Political conservatives (continue) to blame poor African-Americans and Hispanics for the very act of being poor even as 43.6 million Americans of all racial stripes, 12.3 percent of them white, are living in poverty and collectively struggling to survive the fallout of an economic downturn (characterized by) widespread layoffs, massive home foreclosures and loss of retirement savings and other assets."<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.theskanner.com/article/2010/11/13/Conservatives-Blame-the-Poor-for-being-Poor Conservatives Blame the Poor for being Poor]
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| === Sunday | November 14, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Condi-kick-out.jpg|thumb|Unwelcoming committee.]]
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| '''"Queen Of Terror" Denied Entry'''<br />
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| [[Rose City]] "radicals" question their own "victory" after realizing they just bolstered Portland's reputation as bastion of monochromatic pseudo-liberalism by compelling a [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/22/condoleezza-rice-cheney-a_n_190340.html conservative black woman] to take refuge in "(Dick) Cheney's bunker."<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2010/11/403627.shtml VICTORY?]
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| === Saturday | November 13, 2010 ===
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| [[File:Coal-fired power plant.jpg|thumb|Coal-fired power plant. Image: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/rs_butner/4193880822/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Scott Butner]]]
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| '''Coal Controversy Heats Up'''<br />
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| [[PGE]]'s [[Coal-Fired Power Plant|coal-fired power plant]] in [[Boardman]], [[Oregon]] "puts toxins into the air and water (that are) responsible for four of the five leading causes of death in the United States. These are serious toxins. If we wait another 10 years (to close the plant) the impacts could be disruptive and permanent."<br />
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| :''Go to story'': [http://www.columbian.com/news/2010/nov/13/debate-flares-over-coal-fired-power/ Debate flares over coal-fired power: Environmentalists at odds over when is best time to close pollution-causing plant in Boardman, Ore.]
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| :''Go to info resource center'': [http://www.ilovemountains.org/ End Mountaintop Removal Action and Resource Center]
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