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Salmonella and Hepatitis Outbreaks Start Up as Government Shuts
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t r u t h o u t | 10.11
Salmonella and Hepatitis Outbreaks Start Up as Government Shuts Down
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19375-salmonella-and-hepatitis-outbreaks-start-up-as-government-shuts-down
Michael Meurer and Candice Bernd, Truthout: Dual outbreaks of salmonella and non-viral hepatitis sicken hundreds and leave one person dead, as thousands of federal food safety agency workers have been furloughed from a system neglected for years.
Star Trek and the NSA
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19146-star-trek-and-the-nsa
Alan James Strachan PhD and Janet Coster MA, Truthout: NSA director Keith Alexander has more in common with the Borg than with Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
Old Game, New Obsession, New Enemy: Now it's China
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19349-old-game-new-obsession-new-enemy-now-its-china
John Pilger, Truthout: More than jihadism or Iran, China is now Washington's obsession in Africa and beyond. This is a "policy" known as the "pivot to Asia," whose threat of world war may be as great as any in the modern era.
Over 865,200 Gallons of Fracked Oil Spill in North Dakota; Public in Dark for Days Due to Government Shutdown
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19372-over-865200-gallons-of-fracked-oil-spill-in-north-dakota-public-in-dark-for-days-due-to-government-shutdown
Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog: Though the spill occurred on September 29, the US National Response Center - tasked with responding to chemical and oil spills - did not make the report available until October 8 due to the ongoing government shutdown.
Officials in Arizona and Kansas Rig Ballots to Implement ALEC Voter Suppression Scheme
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19373-officials-in-arizona-and-kansas-rig-ballots-to-implement-alec-voter-suppression-scheme
Brendan Fischer, PR Watch: The new ploy is an effort to sidestep the US Supreme Court's decision earlier this year in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, which rejected an Arizona law requiring that voters show proof of citizenship to register to vote.
Snowden Accepts Whistleblower Award
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19364-snowden-accepts-whistleblower-award
Ray McGovern, Consortium News: Though former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has been indicted for leaking secrets about the US government's intrusive surveillance tactics, he was honored by a group of former US intelligence officials as a courageous whistleblower during a Moscow ceremony.
Subsidizing Economic Inequality
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19368-subsidizing-economic-inequality
Sam Pizzigati, Other Words: The federal government, we ought to keep in mind, already denies our tax dollars to companies with employment practices that discriminate on the basis of race or gender. We've decided, as a society, not to subsidize racial or gender inequality. Why should we subsidize economic inequality?
Postal Workers Elect New Leaders Who Pledge to Build a Movement
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19366-postal-workers-elect-new-leaders-who-pledge-to-build-a-movement
Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes: A diverse slate of local leaders pledging to take a firmer hand with management, increase transparency about contract details, collaborate with other postal unions and community groups, and mobilize members has just won national leadership of the American Postal Workers Union.
Before the 2014 Election, the Rise of India's Pied Piper
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19378-before-the-2014-election-the-rise-of-indias-pied-piper
Papri Sri Raman, Truthout: The Bharatiya Janata Party's designated prime ministerial candidate for the upcoming 2014 elections in India, Narendra Modi, is both popular idol and sometime laughing stock.
Refocusing Anti-Drone Activism
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19192-refocusing-anti-drone-activism
Camillo Mac Bica, Truthout: Like manned aircraft, submarines and surface vessels - UAVs, if they are employed responsibly and carefully, can satisfy the Just War Theory's criteria and comply with international law. Consequently, drones are not intrinsically immoral or illegal.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Wall Street Whistleblower Awarded $14 Million as a Result of Dodd-Frank Act
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18249-wall-street-whistleblower-awarded-14-million-as-a-result-of-dodd-frank-act
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Yes, there are some whistleblowers who are getting rewarded and not prosecuted under the Obama administration. They provide a glimmer of hope for regulatory enforcement of Wall Street.
The Chained CPI: A Zombie Benefit Cut Still Walks
Read the Article at The Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-chained-20131004,0,4565719.story
States Guarantee High Prison Populations for Private Prison Industry's Profits
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18248-prison-populations-private-profits
Republican Extremism and the Lessons of History
Read the Article at Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/republican-extremism-and-the-lessons-of-history-20131010
VA Freezes Expedited Disability Claims Due to Shutdown
Read the Article at Military.com
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/10/11/va-freezes-expedited-disability-claims-in-shutdown.html
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Furloughs 90 Percent of Workforce
Read the Article at The Hill
http://thehill.com/blogs/e2-wire/e2-wire/327869-nuclear-agency-furloughs-90-percent-of-workforce#ixzz2hQ41axEN
Here's Who Profits If the Government Defaults
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/10/who-would-benefit-government-default
Gun Mishap Cuts Short Anti-"Libtard" Police Chief's Disciplinary Hearing
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gun-mishap-cuts-short-anti-libtard-police-chief-s-disciplinary-hearing
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: normal;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.2"><strong>Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: </strong>Yes, there are some whistleblowers who are getting rewarded and not prosecuted under the Obama administration. They provide a glimmer of hope for regulatory enforcement of Wall Street.</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>States Guarantee High Prison Populations for Private Prison Industry's Profits</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>Republican Extremism and the Lessons of History</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XqWTUg4qxPP9wvHBYGkwGJUq3t61isLY" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Rolling Stone</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>VA Freezes Expedited Disability Claims Due to Shutdown</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9%2Bc7U8ZVSR%2FB3lzy6XPp5Z81rulx6tzW" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Military.com</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Nuclear Regulatory Commission Furloughs 90 Percent of Workforce</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=SHw3Qdlea8e04EmBXaqqVJUq3t61isLY" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at The Hill</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Here's Who Profits If the Government Defaults</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aIoii%2FKOxElXWXQEQYTfCZUq3t61isLY" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Mother Jones</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Gun Mishap Cuts Short Anti-"Libtard" Police Chief's Disciplinary Hearing</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aZfwzaW52HKPLY3ubV%2FKkJUq3t61isLY" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Talking Points Memo</strong></a></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>Michael Meurer and Candice Bernd, Truthout:</strong> Dual outbreaks of salmonella and non-viral hepatitis sicken hundreds and leave one person dead, as thousands of federal food safety agency workers have been furloughed from a system neglected for years.</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=oYUUHK93wgAbir2dUpY4KpUq3t61isLY" 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=eOjDr4v%2F9OosaGLxcGSEtZUq3t61isLY" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Star Trek and the NSA</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>Alan James Strachan PhD and Janet Coster MA, Truthout:</strong> NSA director Keith Alexander has more in common with the Borg than with Captain Jean-Luc Picard.</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=ZQKdrxBdDyq9ABXKKi996ZUq3t61isLY" 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=kr8Hmm7jRxQ%2B1Y3OttHCfpUq3t61isLY" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Old Game, New Obsession, New Enemy: Now it's China</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>John Pilger, Truthout:</strong> More than jihadism or Iran, China is now Washington's obsession in Africa and beyond. This is a "policy" known as the "pivot to Asia," whose threat of world war may be as great as any in the modern era.</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=O28sW%2BuGpTnVTFX7hgfSwJUq3t61isLY" 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=MBI%2FtwwqZOmM2Vu9qb5xXZUq3t61isLY" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Over 865,200 Gallons of Fracked Oil Spill in North Dakota; Public in Dark for Days Due to Government Shutdown</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>Steve Horn, DeSmog Blog:</strong> Though the spill occurred on September 29, the US National Response Center - tasked with responding to chemical and oil spills - did not make the report available until October 8 due to the ongoing government shutdown.</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=iMl8OPPPlkiIODoV8lXweJUq3t61isLY" 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=TypCc7%2F9RLPVJSjwKzjbmZUq3t61isLY" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Officials in Arizona and Kansas Rig Ballots to Implement ALEC Voter Suppression 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>Brendan Fischer, PR Watch:</strong> The new ploy is an effort to sidestep the US Supreme Court's decision earlier this year in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, which rejected an Arizona law requiring that voters show proof of citizenship to register to vote.</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=PaFi7FrXU%2BcB1%2FpbVtcCqpUq3t61isLY" 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=6v5MTu3daR71zkscqtA%2BVpUq3t61isLY" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Snowden Accepts Whistleblower Award</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>Ray McGovern, Consortium News:</strong> Though former NSA contractor Edward Snowden has been indicted for leaking secrets about the US government's intrusive surveillance tactics, he was honored by a group of former US intelligence officials as a courageous whistleblower during a Moscow ceremony.</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=rW8tnFPMvMCOGGgCdEpxbZUq3t61isLY" 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=iHv6VIWxgZDPIeMXj9ONaZUq3t61isLY" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Subsidizing Economic Inequality</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>Sam Pizzigati, Other Words:</strong> The federal government, we ought to keep in mind, already denies our tax dollars to companies with employment practices that discriminate on the basis of race or gender. We've decided, as a society, not to subsidize racial or gender inequality. Why should we subsidize economic inequality?</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=fpu9eSVNE1Kw9NH1uw5sHpUq3t61isLY" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </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>Alexandra Bradbury, Labor Notes:</strong> A diverse slate of local leaders pledging to take a firmer hand with management, increase transparency about contract details, collaborate with other postal unions and community groups, and mobilize members has just won national leadership of the American Postal Workers Union.</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>Papri Sri Raman, Truthout:</strong> The Bharatiya Janata Party's designated prime ministerial candidate for the upcoming 2014 elections in India, Narendra Modi, is both popular idol and sometime laughing stock.</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>Camillo Mac Bica, Truthout:</strong> Like manned aircraft, submarines and surface vessels - UAVs, if they are employed responsibly and carefully, can satisfy the Just War Theory's criteria and comply with international law. Consequently, drones are not intrinsically immoral or illegal.</p>
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