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Thursday, October 27, 2011 (2011x214)

Uitzenddatum: Okt 27, 2011

2011/10/27 Headlines: Occupy Wall Street Supporters Nationwide March Following Occupy Oakland Crackdown; Washington Post Under Fire for Occupy Wall Street Coverage; Democratic Supercommittee Members Propose to Cut Medicare, Medicaid; Protester Disrupts Budget Deficit Meeting, Calls for End to War; European Leaders Strike Controversial Debt Relief Deal for Greece; NYPD Maintains Secret Intelligence Files on Muslims Who Change Their Names; Ex-Goldman Sachs Board Member Released on $10 Million Bail amid Insider Trading Charges; Egyptian Police Officers Get Eight Years in Prison for Beating Death that Inspired Popular Uprising; Libyan Officials Claim Gaddafi's Son Wants to Surrender; Hillary Clinton Welcomes Bahrain Foreign Minister in Talks; Argentina: 12 Dirty War Officials Sentenced to Life for Human Rights Abuses; Obama Outlines Student Loan Plan; Obama Speech Interrupted by Keystone XL Tar Sands Oil Pipeline Protesters; Lawsuit Revived Against Mining Giant Rio Tinto for War Crimes in Papua New Guinea; House OKs Land Swap to Help Rio Tinto Build Massive Arizona Copper Mine; Department of Interior Places 20-Year Moratorium on Uranium Mining in Southwest; Former Massey Employee Convicted in West Virginia Mining Disaster Cover-Up; Former U.N. Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter Jailed After Underage Sex Sting; Former Congressman Howard Wolpe, Apartheid Critic, Dies at 71