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Greg Palast | Naughty Nuns, Bad Bankers and Ballot Bandits
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Greg Palast | Naughty Nuns, Bad Bankers and Ballot Bandits
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19580-naughty-nuns-bad-bankers-and-ballot-bandits
Greg Palast, Truthout: In a return to Jim Crow vote suppression tactics, Judge Richard Posner's voter ID law has kept 72,000 black voters from the polls.
How the Occupy Movement Began: The Full Account
http://www.truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/19567-how-the-occupy-movement-began-the-full-account
Nathan Schneider, University of California Press: Nathan Schneider, the author of "Thank You Anarchy," was covering the Occupy movement from its origins. In this excerpt, he chronicles the various threads of uprising that came together to become Occupy.
Will Domestic Drone Privacy Bills Fall Short Because of ALEC, Defense Industry Influence?
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/19594-will-domestic-drone-privacy-bills-fall-short-due-to-alec-defense-industry-influence
Candice Bernd, Truthout: In a few years, commercialized domestic drone technology may be able to capture your private information and share it with law enforcement agencies. And ALEC and defense industry contractors may have a hand in shaping civilian drone privacy policy.
How America Could Be the Happiest Country on Earth
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19617-how-america-could-be-the-happiest-country-on-earth
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: And the happiest country in the world is ... Denmark! That's according to a 156-nation survey published by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The survey ranks countries on aspects like healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices and social support.
Paul Krugman | The World According to the GOP
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19568-the-world-according-to-the-gop
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: There are a lot fewer economic arguments out there made in good faith than a naive observer might think - and that's precisely because powerful forces are doing their best to hoodwink said naive observers.
Politicians' Extortion Racket?
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/19601-politicians-extortion-racket
Karin Kamp, Moyers & Company: Some politicians are involved in a type of "legal extortion" to get their hands on cash, with terms like the "tollbooth" and "milker bills" describing some of these practices.
Enormous, Humongous Trade Deficit Up From Prior Month
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19609-enormous-humongous-trade-deficit-up-from-prior-month
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: Trade deficit = American jobs go away. Big, ongoing trade deficit = millions of US jobs go away. Enormous, humongous trade deficit = millions fewer jobs, poor economy, wage and income concentrated up to a few billionaires, democracy converts to plutocracy.
Always and Everywhere: The New York Times and the Enduring "Threat" of Isolationism
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19610-always-and-everywhere-the-new-york-times-and-the-enduring-threat-of-isolationism
Andrew J. Bacevich, TomDispatch: The United States has been at war for more than a decade now, with attacks and excursions in distant lands having become as commonplace as floods and forest fires. Yet during the recent debate over Syria, the absence of popular enthusiasm evoked expressions of concern in Washington.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Groups Want Congress to Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/19616-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-groups-want-congress-to-stop-the-trans-pacific-partnership-and-more
In today's On the News segment: A coalition of public interest groups wants Congress to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership; the cost of Tea Party obstruction keeps getting bigger; Bank of America was found liable for mortgage fraud, but don't expect any banksters to go to jail; and more.
Why Snowden's Passport Matters
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/19600-why-snowdens-passport-matters
Norman Solomon, Norman Solomon's Blog: The cancellation of Edward Snowden's passport wasn't just an effort to prevent the whistleblower from getting to a country that might grant political asylum. It was also a declaration that the US government can nullify the right to travel just as surely as it can nullify the right to privacy.
Economic Update: Worker Enterprises in Bolivia, New Party in Spain
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http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/19615-economic-update-economics-in-the-news
Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout: Wolff discusses the important economic events in Bolivia (workers taking over enterprises), Spain (indignados forming a new political Party X) and China (raising the value of the yuan to change China's and the world's economy).
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Personal Debt That Enriches Wall Street Is Greatest Threat to Retirees
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: It's not the national debt or so-called "entitlement programs" that are a serious threat to the nest eggs of retirees. It's personal debt that is encouraged by and enriches Wall Street.
Read the BuzzFlash Commentary
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18271-personal-debt-that-enriches-wall-street-is-greatest-threat-to-retirees-not-national-debt
Elizabeth Warren to Wall Street Regulators: Put Big Bank CEOs in Jail
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/10/elizabeth-warren-letter-wall-street-jail
Read the Article at Mother Jones
Jim Hightower | Monsanto Buys a Food Prize
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18270-hightower-monsanto-buys-prize
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
Social Security Flubbed Its Rollout; No One Remembers
http://ourfuture.org/20131023/social-security-flubbed-its-rollout-no-one-remembers
Read the Article at the Campaign for America's Future
Secret Memos Reveal Explicit Nature of US-Pakistan Agreement on Drones
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/top-pakistani-leaders-secretly-backed-cia-drone-campaign-secret-documents-show/2013/10/23/15e6b0d8-3beb-11e3-b6a9-da62c264f40e_story.html?wpisrc=al_excl
Read the Article at The Washington Post
The Trillion-Dollar Money Pump for the 1%
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/10/24
Read the Article at Common Dreams
Diebold Charged With Bribery, Falsifying Docs, "Worldwide Pattern of Criminal Conduct"
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10323
Read the Article at BradBlog
Three California Kids Hurt When Gun on Cop's Motorcycle Fires
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/23/cop-motorcycle-gun-hurts-students/3174121/
Read the Article at USA Today
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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>It's not the national debt or so-called "entitlement programs" that are a serious threat to the nest eggs of retirees. It's personal debt that is encouraged by and enriches Wall Street.</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=Biv5e0mVGQBesKFVzDaYSjOmg9m%2FxJWF"><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>Elizabeth Warren to Wall Street Regulators: Put Big Bank CEOs in Jail</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>Jim Hightower | Monsanto Buys a Food Prize</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>Social Security Flubbed Its Rollout; No One Remembers</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>Secret Memos Reveal Explicit Nature of US-Pakistan Agreement on Drones</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>The Trillion-Dollar Money Pump for the 1%</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>Diebold Charged With Bribery, Falsifying Docs, "Worldwide Pattern of Criminal Conduct"</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>Three California Kids Hurt When Gun on Cop's Motorcycle Fires</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>Greg Palast, Truthout:</strong> In a return to Jim Crow vote suppression tactics, Judge Richard Posner's voter ID law has kept 72,000 black voters from the polls.</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>Nathan Schneider, University of California Press:</strong> Nathan Schneider, the author of <em>Thank You Anarchy</em>, was covering the Occupy movement from its origins. In this excerpt, he chronicles the various threads of uprising that came together to become Occupy.</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>Candice Bernd, Truthout:</strong> In a few years, commercialized domestic drone technology may be able to capture your private information and share it with law enforcement agencies. And ALEC and defense industry contractors may have a hand in shaping civilian drone privacy policy.</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=YmFG2CMaRwGXag8mM1mSfzOmg9m%2FxJWF"><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=Uj1ke6Gb5%2B5osnItyofFWDOmg9m%2FxJWF"><strong>How America Could Be the Happiest Country on Earth</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> And the happiest country in the world is ... Denmark! That's according to a 156-nation survey published by the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network. The survey ranks countries on aspects like healthy life expectancy, freedom to make life choices and social support.</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=wqo5b%2Fax20%2F52ueqqVHkMzOmg9m%2FxJWF"><strong>Paul Krugman | The World According to the GOP</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> There are a lot fewer economic arguments out there made in good faith than a naive observer might think - and that's precisely because powerful forces are doing their best to hoodwink said naive observers.</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=emJ4vScg5P1Tr4UujEb%2BBjOmg9m%2FxJWF"><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=z%2Brpwcd0jwxI035eHzn2mDOmg9m%2FxJWF"><strong>Politicians' Extortion Racket?</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>Karin Kamp, Moyers & Company:</strong> Some politicians are involved in a type of "legal extortion" to get their hands on cash, with terms like the "tollbooth" and "milker bills" describing some of these practices.</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=i3OIMji4HAwQcTTv6ZlE8zOmg9m%2FxJWF"><strong>Enormous, Humongous Trade Deficit Up From Prior Month</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>Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future:</strong> Trade deficit = American jobs go away. Big, ongoing trade deficit = millions of US jobs go away. Enormous, humongous trade deficit = millions fewer jobs, poor economy, wage and income concentrated up to a few billionaires, democracy converts to plutocracy.</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=7Cm0866z01ZUnvmHHc3LOTOmg9m%2FxJWF"><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=iKPpMB3bMRLkdwPIFc5YqDOmg9m%2FxJWF"><strong>Always and Everywhere: <em>The New York Times</em> and the Enduring "Threat" of Isolationism</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>Andrew J. Bacevich, TomDispatch:</strong> The United States has been at war for more than a decade now, with attacks and excursions in distant lands having become as commonplace as floods and forest fires. Yet during the recent debate over Syria, the absence of popular enthusiasm evoked expressions of concern in Washington.</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=Uj1ke6Gb5%2B6WKKaA4haOXTOmg9m%2FxJWF"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Groups Want Congress to Stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership, 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> A coalition of public interest groups wants Congress to stop the Trans-Pacific Partnership; the cost of Tea Party obstruction keeps getting bigger; Bank of America was found liable for mortgage fraud, but don't expect any banksters to go to jail; 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=9wCUtUWXVABQUvi%2FsjQNBjOmg9m%2FxJWF"><strong>Why Snowden's Passport Matters</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> The cancellation of Edward Snowden's passport wasn't just an effort to prevent the whistleblower from getting to a country that might grant political asylum. It was also a declaration that the US government can nullify the right to travel just as surely as it can nullify the right to privacy.</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=0fPt66hxkdyBKJz1zlAt%2FjOmg9m%2FxJWF"><strong>Economic Update: Worker Enterprises in Bolivia, New Party in Spain</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> Wolff discusses the important economic events in Bolivia (workers taking over enterprises), Spain (indignados forming a new political Party X) and China (raising the value of the yuan to change China's and the world's economy).</p>
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