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t r u t h o u t | Wednesday, 16 October 2013
Freeing Marissa Alexander
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19447-freeing-marissa-alexander
Victoria Law, Truthout: Florida's appellate court has overturned the conviction of Marissa Alexander. In 2012, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing a gun at the ceiling to prevent her estranged husband from attacking her.
BP's Silent Disaster
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19463-bps-silent-disaster
Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera English: The 2010 BP oil spill has left a legacy of psychological and social problems among residents in the impact zone as the corporate juggernaut continues to deny compensation to victims.
Here Lies the Tea Party, 2009-2013
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19465-here-lies-the-tea-party-2009-2013
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Since the start of the government shutdown, the GOP has suffered from its lowest approval ratings in history. With Tea Party members at the helm of this hostile takeover, could this mean the end of their political reign?
Indigenous Nations Are at the Forefront of the Conflict With Transnational Corporate Power
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19445-indigenous-nations-are-at-the-forefront-of-the-conflict-with-trans-national-corporate-power-that-affects-us-all
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Truthout: Around America people still celebrate Columbus Day, showcasing the ongoing struggle for indigenous rights. But the future is in our hands, and we can enact change.
US Court: Transcanada's Keystone XL Profits More Important Than Environment
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19453-us-court-transcanadas-keystone-xl-profits-more-important-than-environment
Steve Horn, DeSmogBlog: The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit decided not to grant the Sierra Club and Clean Energy Future Oklahoma a temporary injunction on the construction of the southern half of Transcanada's Keystone XL tar sands export pipeline because they failed to show how the pipeline will have a "significant" environmental impact.
In Big Win for Defense Industry, Obama Rolls Back Limits on Arms Exports
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19451-in-big-win-for-defense-industry-obama-rolls-back-limits-on-arms-exports
Cora Currier, ProPublica: The US is loosening controls over arms exports, an act that could increase the flow of American-made military parts around the world and make it harder to enforce arms sanctions even in countries with UN arms embargos.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: John Boehner Finally Agrees to Bypass the Tea Party on Senate Plan, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19464-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-john-boehner-finally-agrees-to-bypass-the-tea-party-on-senate-plan
In today's On the News segment: House Republicans failed to pass their own plan to raise the debt limit, and the Senate stepped back in to lead negotiations; the US Supreme Court announced it will hear a case questioning whether the EPA can deny permits to refineries and power plants on the basis of pollution; ALEC is pushing a bill to weaken renewable energy standards in Ohio; and more.
Tea Party's War Memorial Rally Was Another "Let Him Die!" Moment
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19450-tea-partys-war-memorial-rally-was-another-let-him-die-moment
Joshua Holland, Moyers & Company: As the effects of the government shutdown are now spreading to the state level, costing Americans their jobs, Tea Party leaders rub salt in the wound by hijacking a march, organized by a nonpartisan veterans' group, to publicly denounce what they helped orchestrate.
The Cost of the Tea Party Shutdown Keeps Getting Higher
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19462-the-cost-of-the-tea-party-shutdown-keeps-getting-higher
Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future: While the government shutdown has cost the US economy millions of dollars, there is much more at stake as the Tea Party holds our government hostage.
Fast-Food Giants Make Billions While Their Workers Use Billions in Welfare Benefits
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19461-fast-food-giants-make-billions-while-their-workers-use-billions-in-welfare-benefits
Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet: According to a new study by University of California and University of Illinois labor economists, millions of fast food workers have been receiving welfare, unable to make ends meet working full time for these billion-dollar corporations.
Economist: There Is No Debt Crisis
http://truth-out.org/video/item/19458-economist-there-is-no-debt-crisis
Jessica Desvarieux, The Real News Network: Gerald Epstein, the co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute is interviewed about the debt ceiling "debacle" and how it will come down on everyday Americans.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
A Modest Proposal: Voters Must Pass a Sanity Test Before Casting a Ballot
Read the BuzzFlash Commentary
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18258-a-modest-proposal-voters-must-pass-a-sanity-test-before-casting-a-ballot
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: O.K., we are being sardonic, but wouldn't the fate of the United States be vastly improved if US citizens had to pass a sanity test to vote? That would pretty much eliminate the Tea Party.
Ted Cruz's America
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18257-ted-cruz-s-america
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
Charles P. Pierce | Reign of Morons: Apotheosis, Starring Ted Yoho
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/today-in-the-reign-of-morons-101613
Read the Article at Esquire
California Wants to Protect Transgender Students; GOP Targets Them
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18254-california-protect-transgender-gop-targets
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
Protectors vs. Destroyers - Canadians Unite to Stop Fracking in New Brunswick
http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/protectors-vs-destroyers-canadians-unite-stop-fracking-new-brunswick/
Read the Article at Waging Nonviolence
Refusing to Make Peace With War
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18256-refusing-to-make-peace-with-war
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
Backlash for the GOP: Democrats Raising Big Bucks in the South
http://www.nationaljournal.com/hotline-on-call/southern-democrats-raising-big-bucks-20131015?mrefid=HomepageRiver--
Read the Article at the National Journal
Arizona Man Allegedly Kills Girlfriend in Attempt to Scare Her With a Gun
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/arizona-man-kills-girlfriend-in-attempt-to-scare-her-with-a-gun
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
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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>A Modest Proposal: Voters Must Pass a Sanity Test Before Casting a Ballot </strong></p>
<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>O.K., we are being sardonic, but wouldn't the fate of the United States be vastly improved if US citizens had to pass a sanity test to vote? That would pretty much eliminate the Tea Party.</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Sg1Mh8OSRQGzo%2FSshYoPj3o3cGKlBqKG"><strong>Read the BuzzFlash Commentary</strong></a></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 America</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wxhMeAiywHoXjotEuuMAZXo3cGKlBqKG"><strong>Read the Article at BuzzFlash</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Charles P. Pierce | Reign of Morons: Apotheosis, Starring Ted Yoho</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=eyf%2FzfrbP6mhcTrkscGE%2Fno3cGKlBqKG"><strong>Read the Article at Esquire</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>California Wants to Protect Transgender Students; GOP Targets Them</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>Protectors vs. Destroyers - Canadians Unite to Stop Fracking in New Brunswick</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=hOjT3%2ByH7rMGfrSMcvROrXo3cGKlBqKG"><strong>Read the Article at Waging Nonviolence</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Refusing to Make Peace With War</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>Backlash for the GOP: Democrats Raising Big Bucks in the South</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CQknzxnciEHwUYzMs3FBq1HenABwFnQL"><strong>Read the Article at the National Journal</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Arizona Man Allegedly Kills Girlfriend in Attempt to Scare Her With a Gun</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=V47FTts6TENXZni5fnrXf3o3cGKlBqKG"><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>Victoria Law, Truthout:</strong> Florida's appellate court has overturned the conviction of Marissa Alexander. In 2012, she was sentenced to 20 years in prison for firing a gun at the ceiling to prevent her estranged husband from attacking her.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WdLgbgZGulvqkvejnNvmFno3cGKlBqKG"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wgCrpy77fPSwCMlRmJrCfHo3cGKlBqKG"><strong>BP's Silent Disaster</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>Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera English:</strong> The 2010 BP oil spill has left a legacy of psychological and social problems among residents in the impact zone as the corporate juggernaut continues to deny compensation to victims.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=scX1u3To3myxM3o4tFpfoHo3cGKlBqKG"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=x3Hn06aIGYHU4Flio4ZfF3o3cGKlBqKG"><strong>Here Lies the Tea Party, 2009 - 2013</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> Since the start of the government shutdown, the GOP has suffered from its lowest approval ratings in history. With Tea Party members at the helm of this hostile takeover, could this mean the end of their political reign?</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WcKf151WI3Hwr9KPNxF9Q3o3cGKlBqKG"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=I6EPD83%2FR%2BoILZbl%2Fj7NVXo3cGKlBqKG"><strong>Indigenous Nations Are at the Forefront of the Conflict With Transnational Corporate Power</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>Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Truthout:</strong> Around America people still celebrate Columbus Day, showcasing the ongoing struggle for indigenous rights. But the future is in our hands, and we can enact change.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=u8PakUU9hvQxAWtmOYE2AXo3cGKlBqKG"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=b8MdDQlaUkAyVz0wal340no3cGKlBqKG"><strong>US Court: Transcanada's Keystone XL Profits More Important Than Environment</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, DeSmogBlog:</strong> The US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit decided not to grant the Sierra Club and Clean Energy Future Oklahoma a temporary injunction on the construction of the southern half of Transcanada's Keystone XL tar sands export pipeline because they failed to show how the pipeline will have a "significant" environmental impact.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TDPktSm4%2F7eTHbrTSbDVS90SuawrUQN8"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lZSqgyqFcI%2FwhNOqiCXA4Xo3cGKlBqKG"><strong>In Big Win for Defense Industry, Obama Rolls Back Limits on Arms Exports</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>Cora Currier, ProPublica:</strong> The US is loosening controls over arms exports, an act that could increase the flow of American-made military parts around the world and make it harder to enforce arms sanctions even in countries with UN arms embargos.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fDYskPc7QGPrVDFEZRyXLHo3cGKlBqKG"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=IBdQf3WZFjhSl2Ksrme12Xo3cGKlBqKG"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: John Boehner Finally Agrees to Bypass the Tea Party on Senate Plan, 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> House Republicans failed to pass their own plan to raise the debt limit, and the Senate stepped back in to lead negotiations; the US Supreme Court announced it will hear a case questioning whether the EPA can deny permits to refineries and power plants on the basis of pollution; ALEC is pushing a bill to weaken renewable energy standards in Ohio; and more.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FS%2F6Cg%2FANdNOeQVmM8f2pXo3cGKlBqKG"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=39ElfwPLsXxlIokX8l%2BXzHo3cGKlBqKG"><strong>Tea Party's War Memorial Rally Was Another "Let Him Die!" Moment</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>Joshua Holland, Moyers & Company:</strong> As the effects of the government shutdown are now spreading to the state level, costing Americans their jobs, Tea Party leaders rub salt in the wound by hijacking a march, organized by a nonpartisan veterans’ group, to publicly denounce what they helped orchestrate.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FXBtoOQxtleCbp%2BP7XhX%2Fd0SuawrUQN8"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KawURGiv0ip7VS4ujOF2u90SuawrUQN8"><strong>The Cost of the Tea Party Shutdown Keeps Getting Higher</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>Isaiah J. Poole, Campaign for America's Future:</strong> While the government shutdown has cost the US economy millions of dollars, there is much more at stake as the Tea Party holds our government hostage.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=znjA9HxQNFN4tqUf3vR%2FlXo3cGKlBqKG"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Yy2PkWs1kbqP8O68pWVtwHo3cGKlBqKG"><strong>Fast-Food Giants Make Billions While Their Workers Use Billions in Welfare Benefits</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>Steven Rosenfeld, AlterNet:</strong> According to a new study by University of California and University of Illinois labor economists, millions of fast food workers have been receiving welfare, unable to make ends meet working full time for these billion-dollar corporations.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=124N2u%2BpePlE5didTIbGnXo3cGKlBqKG"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lZSqgyqFcI9ZIRjhJCFEhHo3cGKlBqKG"><strong>Economist: There Is No Debt Crisis</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>Jessica Desvarieux, The Real News Network:</strong> Gerald Epstein, the co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute is interviewed about the debt ceiling "debacle" and how it will come down on everyday Americans.</p>
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