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When military spending goes up, domestic spending goes down.

The aerospace company makes out like a bandit while sucking the lifeblood from the real economy.

SACP Official Tribute to Madiba as delivered by General Secretary Comrade Blade Nzimande

And yet by now most critical SPD voices, though unhappy, have been won over, partly with threats, but often due to fear of the alternatives. Attempts at a coalition of the CDU with the Greens foundered. A combination of SPD, the Greens and the LEFT party, which would have a very slim majority, is still taboo, leaving nothing but new elections, which could simply repeat the results of the September vote - or be even worse for the SPD. So, say the SPD bosses, vote Yes!

pensions, Mandela, Trade pact, Germany, shaking hands

The members of the University of Illinois Chicago, have voted to go on strike after fifteen months of negotiations. Among the faculty members key demands are improvements in pay for adjunct professors. In light of Congress planning to fail to extend unemployment benefits for the long term unemployed, we present Daniel Kahn and the Painted Bird's video of "March of the Jobless Corps".

President's party thwarts opposition hopes of denting Maduro's power in what it called a referendum on his performance

The creepiest gifts given in the animal kingdom