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William Rivers Pitt | Green Eggs and Derp
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William Rivers Pitt | Green Eggs and Derp
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19066-green-eggs-and-derp
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: It is not every day that the troll under the bridge broaches the broad daylight and sprays his derangement into the air for all to see and hear, but there was Ted Cruz with his bare face hanging out, giving a clinic on just how preposterous the modern Republican Party has allowed itself to become.
Tim DeChristopher Talks With Truthout About the Government's Failure to Silence Him
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/19041-tim-dechristopher-talks-about-the-governments-failure-to-silence-him
Mark Karlin, Truthout: Tim DeChristopher speaks with Truthout's Mark Karlin about the power of activism and the injustices of his trial.
In Depth: The Debate Over the EPA's New Carbon Capture Climate Scheme
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/19063-in-depth-the-debate-over-the-epas-new-carbon-capture-climate-scheme
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: The EPA's new rules to address climate change rely on a relatively new "clean coal" technology that the industry says is not yet viable and some environmentalists fear will only feed the nation's addiction to fossil fuels.
Republicans Want All Americans to Be Greedy Shills
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19085-republicans-want-all-americans-to-be-greedy-shills
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: It's frankly astounding how the Republican Party has officially given up even the pretense of caring about average Americans. It is now proudly the party of the billionaires and the transnational corporations.
Climate Change Movement Shifts to Convey Urgency
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18925-climate-change-movement-shifts-to-convey-urgency-of-the-moment
Britney Schultz, Truthout: The climate justice movement is at a crossroads, and leaders in the movement say it is time to start effectively leveraging activists' commitment against the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced.
Lockup Quotas Help For-Profit Prison Companies Keep Profits High and Prisons Full
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19067-lockup-quotas-help-for-profit-prison-companies-keep-profits-high-and-prisons-full
Brendan Fischer, PR Watch: Given the longstanding, cozy relationships between for-profit prison companies and legislators, questions have long been raised about their role in promoting policies that put more people behind bars and create more demand for prisons.
Bragging Rights: Eight Exceptional(ly Dumb) American Achievements of the 21st Century
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19068-bragging-rights-eight-exceptionally-dumb-american-achievements-of-the-twenty-first-century
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: President Barack Obama is only the latest in a crowd of public figures who has jumped on the "American exceptionalism" bandwagon. This particularly American aptitude for doing good forcibly, by killing others, is considered an incontestable fact of earthly life needing no proof.
Obama's Justice Department: Trumpeting a New Victory in War on Freedom of the Press
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19074-obamas-justice-department-trumpeting-a-new-victory-in-war-on-freedom-of-the-press
Norman Solomon, Norman Solomon's Blog: While mouthing platitudes about respecting press freedom, the president has overseen methodical actions to undermine it.
Economic Update: Economic Downturns
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19087-economic-update-washington-struggles-over-the-debt-ceiling
Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout: Updates on buying politics, an adjunct's story, women in the US economy, and cutting mental health spending. Major discussions of "debt ceiling" maneuvers in Washington and meaning of Bangladesh workers' demonstrations.
Paul Krugman | Japan: Don't Ruin a Good Thing
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19033-japan-dont-ruin-a-good-thing
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: Maybe Japan can sustain growth in the face of this tax increase. But maybe not. Paul Krugman examines Japan's economy.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: A Government Shutdown Is Right Around the Corner, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19088-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-a-government-shutdown-is-right-around-the-corner-and-more
In today's On the News segment: Congress hasn't yet prevented one potential government shutdown, and the next one is right around the corner; a bipartisan group of four senators has teamed up to put an end to phone data collection; 35,000 part-time Walmart employees will soon be moved to full-time and will have access to full health care benefits; and more.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Fukushima Shows Catastrophic Potential of Privatizing Nuclear Power
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18219-fukushima-shows-catastrophic-potential-of-privatizing-nuclear-power
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: As a possible global nuclear disaster looms as a result of the Fukushima threat, it has become even clearer that profiteering corporations and nuclear power don't mix.
Japan Agrees to Foreign Help with Fukushima
Read the Article at the Australian Broadcasting Commission
http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2013/s3855960.htm
Poison Gas, Poison Values, Poison History
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18217-poison-gas-poison-values-poison-history
Thinking Like a Conservative (Part One): Mass Shootings and Gun Control
Read the Article at The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/blog/176343/thinking-conservative-part-one-mass-shootings-and-gun-control
Disinfo Wars: Alex Jones' War on Your Mind
Read the Article at Project Censored
http://www.projectcensored.org/disinfo-wars-alex-jones-war-mind/
Judge Orders Documents Released in Probe of Scott Walker Aides
Read the Article at The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/appeals-judge-orders-documents-released-in-closed-investigation-of-walker-aides-b99107011z1-225265902.html
Ted Cruz's Phony Obamacare Filibuster Was Really About ... Ted Cruz
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ted-cruzs-phony-obamacare-filibuster-was-really-about--ted-cruz/2013/09/25/b8f273a8-2632-11e3-b3e9-d97fb087acd6_story.html?hpid=z2
Poachers Poison 90 Elephants With Cyanide in Zimbabwe Wildlife Park
Read the Article at NBC News
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/25/20689560-poachers-poison-90-elephants-with-cyanide-in-zimbabwe-wildlife-park?lite
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Judge Orders Documents Released in Probe of Scott Walker Aides</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Ted Cruz's Phony Obamacare Filibuster Was Really About ... Ted Cruz</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>William Rivers Pitt, Truthout:</strong> It is not every day that the troll under the bridge broaches the broad daylight and sprays his derangement into the air for all to see and hear, but there was Ted Cruz with his bare face hanging out, giving a clinic on just how preposterous the modern Republican Party has allowed itself to become.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WH2DM4UL402aIavoErlfwTeqZgIm5pio"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Tim DeChristopher Talks With Truthout About the Government's Failure to Silence Him</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Mark Karlin, Truthout:</strong> Tim DeChristopher speaks with Truthout's Mark Karlin about the power of activism and the injustices of his trial.</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=C1ld8FTobiuBB%2BqCGyqZeDeqZgIm5pio"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>In Depth: The Debate Over the EPA's New Carbon Capture Climate Scheme</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Mike Ludwig, Truthout:</strong> The EPA's new rules to address climate change rely on a relatively new "clean coal" technology that the industry says is not yet viable and some environmentalists fear will only feed the nation's addiction to fossil fuels.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QYPQrUX%2FjHvrTJtABKKSKTeqZgIm5pio" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MZNeEXIITrU2pIQU5B0mNjeqZgIm5pio"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Republicans Want All Americans to Be Greedy Shills</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> It's frankly astounding how the Republican Party has officially given up even the pretense of caring about average Americans. It is now proudly the party of the billionaires and the transnational corporations.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XA8lKEDt3b5K24Pk7jsjqavEcGQFD%2Bpu" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IFzw03IFgF7qC4K94h5asTeqZgIm5pio"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Climate Change Movement Shifts to Convey Urgency</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Britney Schultz, Truthout:</strong> The climate justice movement is at a crossroads, and leaders in the movement say it is time to start effectively leveraging activists' commitment against the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lQkMxGi155vPapFGdpzsPTeqZgIm5pio" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mxlzrUnM4wKCJZ%2BaCQshOzeqZgIm5pio"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Lockup Quotas Help For-Profit Prison Companies Keep Profits High and Prisons Full</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Brendan Fischer, PR Watch:</strong> Given the longstanding, cozy relationships between for-profit prison companies and legislators, questions have long been raised about their role in promoting policies that put more people behind bars and create more demand for prisons.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bacfQSVWhgqifBJxrBX5lTeqZgIm5pio" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UKU9D3I2J7c%2BssaTQNAp6qvEcGQFD%2Bpu"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Bragging Rights: Eight Exceptional(ly Dumb) American Achievements of the 21st Century</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch:</strong> President Barack Obama is only the latest in a crowd of public figures who has jumped on the "American exceptionalism" bandwagon. This particularly American aptitude for doing good forcibly, by killing others, is considered an incontestable fact of earthly life needing no proof.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=oTot8oswOuljx7sjE3hisjeqZgIm5pio" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kKUrcfzm737fpwj3XqYUlTeqZgIm5pio"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Obama's Justice Department: Trumpeting a New Victory in War on Freedom of the Press</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Norman Solomon, Norman Solomon's Blog:</strong> While mouthing platitudes about respecting press freedom, the president has overseen methodical actions to undermine it.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Rv8Vtl4Z9MyAhoeKEszJvDeqZgIm5pio" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=O2zyZOogMrqtNt06mKF%2FrDeqZgIm5pio"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Economic Update: Economic Downturns</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout:</strong> Updates on buying politics, an adjunct's story, women in the US economy, and cutting mental health spending. Major discussions of "debt ceiling" maneuvers in Washington and meaning of Bangladesh workers' demonstrations.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=L4N8unMJA7ze1ZCIN4dOuDeqZgIm5pio" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Listen to the Radio Segment</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=a1F1W2O03kuBKOCA3EDXYavEcGQFD%2Bpu"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Paul Krugman | Japan: Don't Ruin a Good Thing</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.:</strong> Maybe Japan can sustain growth in the face of this tax increase. But maybe not. Paul Krugman examines Japan's economy.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nTnAJtSbfyLWQsxPFV%2FToqvEcGQFD%2Bpu" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JlpZ0ypjkBIst89VXIJ9SzeqZgIm5pio"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: A Government Shutdown Is Right Around the Corner, and More</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>In today's On the News segment:</strong> Congress hasn't yet prevented one potential government shutdown, and the next one is right around the corner; a bipartisan group of four senators has teamed up to put an end to phone data collection; 35,000 part-time Walmart employees will soon be moved to full-time and will have access to full health care benefits; and more.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1TnY%2F00xCHN95ZzSA81kgjeqZgIm5pio" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</strong></a> </p>
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