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Why Isn't This a Front Page Story Nationwide?

Joel Sucher | Posted 03.02.2013 | Business
Read More: Bank Settlement, Lanny Breuer, Robo-Signing, Howard Beale, Cynthia A. Kouril, Fraudclosure, Lps, Pacific Street Films, Eric Holder, Fraud, Lender Processing Services, Joel Sucher, Foreclosure Diaries, Perry Mason, Department of Justice, Foreclosure, Docx, Lenny Bruce, Lorraine O Brown, Business News
Joel Sucher

So time marches on and so do the foreclosures. Justice for homeowners impacted by the fraud is yet to be achieved, and -- if the financial services industry has its way -- the remuneration will be paltry at best.

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Occupy Planet Earth: The Great Rising Up

Dr. Judith Rich | Posted 12.19.2011 | Politics
Read More: Unity, Arab Spring, Peter Finch, Consciousness, Howard Beale, We Are the 99 Percent, Occupy Wall Street, Mahatma Gandhi, Politics News
Dr. Judith Rich

We are witnessing the birth of a new paradigm for mankind, one that is a game-changer for the planet. What is unfolding before our very eyes, ears, hearts and minds, is the awakening of our collective consciousness.

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Play Howard Beale's MAD Libs and Discover Why the Occupy and Tea Party Movements Are Alike

David Ropeik | Posted 12.13.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Howard Beale, Tea Party Movement, Tea Party Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Walls Street, Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party, Comedy News
David Ropeik

For all their apparent differences, the Occupy Wall Street protestors and the Tea Party are far more alike than either side, or the punditocracy, would like to admit.

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Occupy: Mad As Hell And Not Going To Take It Anymore

Dori Hartley | Posted 01.21.2012 | Politics
Read More: Government, Network, Human Rights, Howard Beale, Revolution, Occupy Wall Street, Redroom, Mad as Hell, Politics News
Dori Hartley

So, are you angry enough to take your own life back? Are you ready to be heard? Are you at the place where your present condition is so threatened that the only thing that could possibly save you is your own rebellious voice?

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Mad as Hell

Chris Weigant | Posted 12.05.2011 | Politics
Read More: Wall Street, Howard Beale, Occupy Wall Street, Wall Street Protests, Occupy Wall Street Protests, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The protesters in the Occupy Wall Street movement have been criticized for not being focused enough, or not providing a list of demands, or not having leaders. This can be forgiven. Call it free-floating rage.

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#f*ckyouwashington: The Story of a Hashtag and a Movement

Jeff Jarvis | Posted 09.23.2011 | Media
Read More: Washington DC, Debt Ceiling, Howard Beale, Anti Washington Sentiment, Debt Ceiling Talks, Debt Ceiling Obama, Cantor Debt Ceiling, Media News
Jeff Jarvis

I didn't intend this to be anything more than spouting off in 140 profane characters. It turns out that the people of Twitter taught me a lesson about the potential of a public armed with a Gutenberg press in every pocket, with its tools of publicness.

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From Anger to Action: Why Women Must Get Mad

Barbara Hannah Grufferman | Posted 08.12.2011 | Women
Read More: Women, Women's Rights, Baby Boomers, Violence Against Women, Women's Issues, Life After 50, Howard Beale, Bureau of Labor Statistics, The New York Times, The Best of Everything After 50, Feminism, Women's Empowerment, Network, Unemployment, Health Care Reform, Women and Politics, Women News
Barbara Hannah Grufferman

Women, this is a call to action. We have to stand up and say "We're as mad as hell as we're not going to take it anymore!" Demand jobs, equal pay, health care, the right to choose what we do with our own bodies.

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Teachers, We Need To Stick Together!

Peter Zucker | Posted 06.14.2011 | Home
Read More: Education, Teachers, Educators, Apathy, Teachers Unions, Howard Beale, United Federation of Teachers, Education Reform, New York, Home News
Peter Zucker

Apathy and ignorance of what is going on with education today will ultimately be our undoing. The time has come for us to start standing up for our rights.

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Only a Pawn in Their Game

Paula Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Pawn in Their Game, Sponsors, Demagoguery, First Amendment, Boycott, Mitch McConnell, Securicrats, Howard Beale, Deadly Spin, Free Speech, Anthony Lewis, Wendell Potter, Fox, Boehner, Times v. Sullivan, Politics News
Paula Gordon

Spare me the shock. Violent talk inspires murderous rage. Tormented souls are precisely why such incendiary talk is so dangerous. And spare me the s...

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Wrestling with Demons in UFC

Elliot Worsell | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Read More: Ultimate Fighting, Dan Hardy, Ryan Giggs, Josh Koscheck, Ufc, Mma, Manchester United, Gsp, Epl, Dana White, Chelsea FC, Sports, Howard Beale, Chelsea, Sports News
Elliot Worsell

The Brits aren't being squashed, disgraced or smashed out of sight, but they are being beaten. The scorecards don't lie. We want to stand and bang, and the spoilsports won't let us.

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"Network" -- A Precursor to Glenn Beck

Ben Cohen | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Network, Cnn, News Network, Corporate Media, Howard Beale, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Media, Media News
Ben Cohen

The film was a warning to the media industry that was beginning to go off the rails. Chayefsky understood the trajectory it was taking and painted an apocalyptic landscape to make his point.

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The Mad-As-Hell Flight Attendant

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011 | Travel
Read More: Steven Slater, Jetblue-Flight-Attendant, Crazy Employees, Jetblue, Flight Attendants, Howard Beale, Airline Travel, Travel News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I'm of two minds on this whole crazed flight attendant thing. My sympathies naturally gravitate to the guy who's telling management to Shove It. On the other hand, who wants to be imprisoned at 35,000 feet with a demented burn-out?

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Exploring What It Means to be a Terrorist

Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Network, Joseph Stack, John Patrick Bedell Pentagon Shooter, War on Terror, Timothy McVeigh, Joseph Stack Bombing, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Howard Beale, Terrorism, John Walker Lindh, Austin IRS Bombing, Richard Reid, War on Terrorism, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Pentagon Shooting, John Patrick Bedell, Mohammed Atta, Politics News
Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D.

If the country is facing a war on terror, then we need to understand that any violence against innocent civilians that is intended to make a political statement is terror, no matter where it comes from.

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William Shakespeare and Fox News

Norman Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Glenn Beck Fox News, Glenn Beck, Howard Beale, Media News
Norman Horowitz

'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though not a Montague. What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any oth...

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Watch Long Island For the New Right Wing Groundswell

B.D. Gallof | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Long Island, Left Wing, Rush Limbaugh, Howard Beale, Tom Suozzi, Nassau, Right Wing, Democrats, Tea Party, Barack Obama, Election, New York, Republicans, Ann Coulter, Sarah Palin, Bill O'Reilly, New York News
B.D. Gallof

Today we will see the crawl, but next year we will see the running. The bouillabaisse of discontent has been churning, and this year's minority will be a movement looking to step up.

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What Is Work? Success Through the Immigrant Mindset

Sharon Glassman | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Network, Kinky Friedman, Living News, Work, Career Advice, Corporate Social Responsibility, Immigrant, Entrepreneurship, Work Ethic, Happiness, Sharon Glassman, Cuban-Americans, Adlai Wertman, California, Success, Glenn Llopis, Howard Beale, Healthy Living News
Sharon Glassman

"I was raised by two people who had lost their country," explains Glenn Llopis, a California-based entrepreneur with Cuban parents. "We were taught to see and seize opportunity."

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My GE Dishwasher Tragedy, Manufacturer Parts, Car Repairs and Doctor Visits: Let's Be Mad as Hell and Not Take it Anymore!

Michael Russnow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Abc, General Electric, Ge, Russnow, Howard Beale, Nbc, Anderson Cooper, Technology, Cbs, Regulation, Cars, Network, Cnn, Paddy Chayefsky, Ceos, Michael Russnow, Oprah, Dateline, 20/20, 60 Minutes, Peter Finch, Pepboys, Toyota Corolla, Toyota, Business News
Michael Russnow

Manufacturing CEOs do very little to reduce the need for maintenance work and perhaps there should be legislative enforcement requiring them to do so.

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Want the Public Option as Much as I Do? Then Get Mad

Bryan Young | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: John Kerry, Kathleen Sebelius, Public Option, Howard Beale, Orrin Hatch, Healthcare Reform, Single Payer, Health Care Reform Debate, Single Payer Health Care, Healthcare, Obama Public Option, Politics News
Bryan Young

I don't trust private industry with my health.

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A Lion Is Chewing my Foot off, Somebody Call a Cop! 2

Norman Horowitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Paddy Chayefsky. Arthur Jensen, Howard Beale, Carl Rove, News Anchors, Media News, Iraq, Media News
Norman Horowitz

Would things be any different had the broadcast networks been "free" to keep America informed about our wars and the constitutional violations as well as the entirety of the run of the mill transgressions perpetrated by the Bush/Cheney administration?

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Paralytic Debt Poisoning

Max Keiser | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Banking Crisis, Financial Crisis, Debt, Global Financial Crisis, Bank Bailout, Max Keiser, Pensions, Howard Beale, Pbgc, Business News
Max Keiser

A red tide of toxic debt has poisoned the nation's financial system. And the American taxpayers are paralyzed as the financial oligarchs brazenly plunder their Fed and Treasury pockets.

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The Other March Madness

Annabelle Gurwitch | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Network, Anger, Howard Beale, Healthy Living News
Annabelle Gurwitch

Furious, angry, incensed, you name it, we're feeling it. This idea of retroactively demanding a giveback could catch on and if it does, I've got a list of other things I want to get back -- damn it.

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The Search for a Bailout End Game

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: John F. Kennedy, Iraq Surge, Congress, Automaker Bailout, Wall Street Bailout, Howard Beale, Economy, Rick Santelli Video, Economic Crisis, Aig, Cincinnati, Don McNay, Stimulus, Henry VIII, Barack Obama, Rick Santelli Revolution, Thomas More, US Economy, Iraq War, Wall Street Crisis, Economic Stimulus Package, Bailout, Henry Paulson, Kentucky, Rick Santelli, Economic Stimulus, Lexington KY, Republicans, Citigroup, Business News
Don McNay

Every bailout plan reminds me of an economic re-run of the Iraq war: There is a lot of panic. A hastily written plan sweeps through Congress without scrutiny. The plan is expected to "shock and awe" us.

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Artificial Dissemination

Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Network, Democratic Primary, Old Media vs. New Media, Big Media, Howard Beale, Media Coverage of 2008 Election, 2008 Presidential Race, 2008 Democratic Primary Debates, The Kingmakers, Democratic Party, Iran Nuclear Weapons, Mike Gravel, Breaking Media News, Justice Anthony Kennedy, Trent Lott, Kennedy v. Louisiana, Strom Thurmond, Books, Media News
Kevin Morris and Glenn Altschuler

Reading The Kingmakers evokes feelings not dissimilar to watching Mike Gravel during debates: you sympathize with him, but can't help concluding that he's a few bricks short of a load.

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