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NEW YORK — Hundreds of millions of dollars of customer's money has gone missing from the brokerage firm run by former New Jersey governor Jon Corzine, sources told The New York Times. The New York-based company, MF Global, filed for bankruptcy Monday following bad bets on euro zone debt. The discovery of the missing millions stopped a last-minute deal to sell a major part of MF Global to another brokerage firm from going ahead, The New York Times reported. Corzine, 64, who once ran Goldman Sachs before becoming a U.S. senator and then governor of New Jersey, had been trying...

'Democrats trying to co-opt OWS protest'Tue Nov 1, 2011 8:26AM Interview with Stephen Lendman, writer and radio host, Chicago **SNIP** Lendman: The Democrats are smarter. They are trying to co-opt the protest, to get people to believe that the Democrats actually support them. ... I quoted Obama, in my article that will go out later. Obama basically saying, I'm on their side. To hell he's on their side! He's wrecked the economy, he's widened the wealth gap, he's enriched the bankers, he's waging multiple wars, they cost well over a trillion dollars. Every dollar spent on war means one less...

The Occupy Wall Street movement has had an incredible ascendency over the last few weeks. But despite its ambiguous aims — one has to wonder how this movement would measure up with other similar movements throughout history. On Rush Limbaugh’s Wednesday show, fill-in host Mark Steyn said he has low regard for Occupy Wall Street — not necessarily because it is a left-wing movement, but, he explained, because it is an imported movement. “I’m not sure how many people know this, but this whole thing — this is the most pathetic revolution in history,” Steyn said. “[French revolutionary] Robespierre would...