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Gulf Ecosystem in Crisis Three Years After BP Spill
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t r u t h o u t | 10.21
Gulf Ecosystem in Crisis Three Years After BP Spill
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19526-gulf-ecosystem-in-crisis-after-bp-spill
Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera English: The ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico is still suffering massive damage three years after the major oil spill caused by BP in 2010. From oily debris washing ashore on beaches to a major decline in daily catches, many residents and fishermen struggle to maintain what was once a thriving industry.
Chris Hedges | Let's Get This Class War Started
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19527-lets-get-this-class-war-started
Chris Hedges, TruthDig: Just as Fitzgerald showed us in his American classic "The Great Gatsby," wealth breeds "a class of people for whom human beings are disposable commodities." However, the reality of this ruling class built of "careless people" is more scary than any fiction could predict.
SEC Files Charges in Magnetar Deal
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19535-sec-files-charges-in-magnetar-deal
Jake Bernstein and Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica: The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged asset manager Harding Advisory and the firm's head, Wing Chau, with fraud for its role in one of the most notorious groups of mortgage securities deals behind the financial meltdown.
After Budget Deal, Time to Move Forward
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19532-after-budget-deal-time-to-move-forward
Dean Baker, Truthout: Even after the shutdown has plunged Republican approval ratings into the ground, the Democrats continue to lose the debt ceiling debate by viewing it through a conservative framework instead of using the political leverage they acquired to help the American people.
Let the Dysfunctional Plantation-Based Red States Secede
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19546-let-the-dysfunctional-plantation-based-red-states-secede
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: The activism we see from Tea Party radicals in Washington today is just a modern-day reboot of the same government obstructionist strategies that have been around since the early days of slavery.
A Field Guide to the Koch O' Nuts Behind the Near Government Default
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19544-a-field-guide-to-the-koch-o-nuts-behind-the-near-government-default
Mary Bottari, PR Watch: With the government shutdown causing GOP ratings to plummet, the Koch brothers are working hard to shield themselves from the media damage even though they have bankrolled nearly every group working against the Affordable Care Act, including many behind the shutdown.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obamacare Website Glitches Keeps Hundreds From Enrolling, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19545-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-obamacare-website-glitches-keeps-hundreds-from-enrolling
In today's On the News segment: According to Moody's analytical expert Mark Zandi, constant economic brinkmanship is putting our economy at risk; gay marriage is now legal in 14 states in our nation; US Attorney General Eric Holder has tentatively agreed to a record $13 billion settlement in the case of several civil lawsuits against JP Morgan over the sale of troubled mortgage-backed securities; and more.
The Business of America Is War: Disaster Capitalism on the Battlefield and in the Boardroom
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19530-the-business-of-america-is-war-disaster-capitalism-on-the-battlefield-and-in-the-boardroom
William J. Astore, TomDispatch: While the government might shut down, war continues to churn a profit for the leaders of the modern US military industrial complex as America trades profit for suffering across the globe.
Bill Moyers: Martin Wolf on the Debt Ceiling Circus
http://truth-out.org/video/item/19539-martin-wolf-on-the-debt-ceiling-circus
Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company: Financial Times chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf, is interviewed about the current financial crisis in America and claims that the US debt ceiling is "the legislative equivalent of a nuclear bomb aimed by the US at itself."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
JP Morgan to Pay $13 Billion in Fines, NYT Says, but Still No Criminal Charges Against Top Wall Street Execs
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18266-jp-morgan-to-pay-13-billion-dollars-in-fines-nyt-says-but-still-no-criminal-charges-against-top-wall-street-execs
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Yes, the Department of Justice is apparently going to impose a record-setting fine on JP Morgan Chase, but once again it appears that, to Eric Holder, this is a crime that occurred without a perpetrator.
Privatization Benefits the 1%; Public Services Benefit Everyone
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18265-privatization-benefits-the-1-public-services-benefit-everyone
There's Money to Be Made in Milking the Tea Party, 'Natch!
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18267-theres-money-to-be-made-in-milking-the-tea-party-natch
Snowden Leaks: France Summons US Envoy Over NSA Surveillance Claims
Read the Article at The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/21/snowden-leaks-france-us-envoy-nsa-surveillance
New Report Reveals Koch Brothers Could Make $100 Billion Profit if Keystone XL Pipeline Is Built
Read the Article at EcoWatch
http://ecowatch.com/2013/10/20/koch-brothers-100-billion-profit-keystone-xl-pipeline-built/
Cyber Zombie Surveillance Bill CISPA Is Back, With Fewer Privacy Concerns ... Maybe?
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/cispa-NSA-cybersecurity-feinstein-senate
US and Canada Among Only Four Nations to Vote Against UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
Read the Article at CBC News Canada
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-votes-no-as-un-native-rights-declaration-passes-1.632160
Supreme Court Will Hear Case on Executions and Mental Disability
Read the Article at NPR
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/10/21/239088719/supreme-court-will-hear-case-on-executions-and-mental-disability
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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>JP Morgan to Pay $13 Billion in Fines, NYT Says, but Still No Criminal Charges Against Top Wall Street Execs </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>Yes, the Department of Justice is apparently going to impose a record-setting fine on JP Morgan Chase, but once again it appears that, to Eric Holder, this is a crime that occurred without a perpetrator.</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=KhoL5bBRC4A0kliyTdGab10LEh8hXQf1"><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>Privatization Benefits the 1%; Public Services Benefit Everyone</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=fpo0y75aLeUZFucQ7jmz1V0LEh8hXQf1"><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>There's Money to Be Made in Milking the Tea Party, 'Natch!</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>Snowden Leaks: France Summons US Envoy Over NSA Surveillance Claims</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=QJSxyL3O5G%2F7ai6rs9Ph0V0LEh8hXQf1"><strong>Read the Article at The Guardian</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>New Report Reveals Koch Brothers Could Make $100 Billion Profit if Keystone XL Pipeline Is Built</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=Cpc1f%2B7pRQM4G5YQqWklJl0LEh8hXQf1"><strong>Read the Article at EcoWatch</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Cyber Zombie Surveillance Bill CISPA Is Back, With Fewer Privacy Concerns ... Maybe?</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=HALwIxE85406jW67k9RHa10LEh8hXQf1"><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>US and Canada Among Only Four Nations to Vote Against UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples</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=a6Y0hZBWSRL1ltufjpe%2Bil0LEh8hXQf1"><strong>Read the Article at CBC News Canada</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Supreme Court Will Hear Case on Executions and Mental Disability</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=fzBwL1eu53qDs7sVacdgdV0LEh8hXQf1"><strong>Read the Article at NPR</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>Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera English:</strong> The ecosystem in the Gulf of Mexico is still suffering massive damage three years after the major oil spill caused by BP in 2010. From oily debris washing ashore on beaches to a major decline in daily catches, many residents and fishermen struggle to maintain what was once a thriving industry.</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=fhvrjfSoO2UPzIh6nN3lW10LEh8hXQf1"><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=0P9LLu3PsuHL3MDryi%2FGZeMg8eHKO45p"><strong>Chris Hedges | Let's Get This Class War Started</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>Chris Hedges, TruthDig</strong> Just as Fitzgerald showed us in his American classic <em>The Great Gatsby,</em> wealth breeds "a class of people for whom human beings are disposable commodities." However, the reality of this ruling class built of "careless people" is more scary than any fiction could predict.</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=8B5MnvRLPfYZZPS%2FyzpADF0LEh8hXQf1"><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=Slx2s%2F7J9s85YCjFrgCW%2F10LEh8hXQf1"><strong>SEC Files Charges in Magnetar Deal</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>Jake Bernstein and Jesse Eisinger, ProPublica:</strong> The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged asset manager Harding Advisory and the firm's head, Wing Chau, with fraud for its role in one of the most notorious groups of mortgage securities deals behind the financial meltdown.</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=sHptVLVh6ZVHl%2FL72LVurV0LEh8hXQf1"><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=1YTQRpnmBlmw3%2FBfrnhnyV0LEh8hXQf1"><strong>After Budget Deal, Time to Move Forward</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>Dean Baker, Truthout:</strong> Even after the shutdown has plunged Republican approval ratings into the ground, the Democrats continue to lose the debt ceiling debate by viewing it through a conservative framework instead of using the political leverage they acquired to help the American people.</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=NsZB9c9tCjaDc%2FdQZHPTpV0LEh8hXQf1"><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=WT35JLSaWPC%2Bfux40Txv%2B%2BMg8eHKO45p"><strong>Let the Dysfunctional Plantation-Based Red States Secede</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> The activism we see from Tea Party radicals in Washington today is just a modern-day reboot of the same government obstructionist strategies that have been around since the early days of slavery.</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=6mu3TFIZXT7YYD33wbYt9l0LEh8hXQf1"><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=39GMHx6epUPdXPQ7rwl82l0LEh8hXQf1"><strong>A Field Guide to the Koch O' Nuts Behind the Near Government Default</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>Mary Bottari, PR Watch:</strong> With the government shutdown causing GOP ratings to plummet, the Koch brothers are working hard to shield themselves from the media damage even though they have bankrolled nearly every group working against the Affordable Care Act, including many behind the shutdown.</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=dg8bpngbYsgAF9s9wo%2F9CF0LEh8hXQf1"><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=k57gghYfy8B4zY6EaHXNLl0LEh8hXQf1"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obamacare Website Glitches Keeps Hundreds From Enrolling, 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> According to Moody's analytical expert Mark Zandi, constant economic brinkmanship is putting our economy at risk; gay marriage is now legal in 14 states in our nation; US Attorney General Eric Holder has tentatively agreed to a record $13 billion settlement in the case of several civil lawsuits against JP Morgan over the sale of troubled mortgage-backed securities; and more.</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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HMrDFk1mjD6ZD%2BJKdisWvF0LEh8hXQf1"><strong>The Business of America Is War: Disaster Capitalism on the Battlefield and in the Boardroom</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>William J. Astore, TomDispatch:</strong> While the government might shut down, war continues to churn a profit for the leaders of the modern US military industrial complex as America trades profit for suffering across the globe.</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>Bill Moyers, Moyers & Company:</strong> <em>Financial Times</em> chief economics commentator, Martin Wolf, is interviewed about the current financial crisis in America and claims that the US debt ceiling is "the legislative equivalent of a nuclear bomb aimed by the US at itself."</p>
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