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Ralph Nader: Koch Brothers Led Fight to Defend Formaldehyde Despite Carcinogenic Evidence (Video)
http://www.truth-out.org/ralph-nader-koch-brothers-led-fight-defend-formaldehyde-despite-carcinogenic-evidence/1308070723
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez and Ralph Nader, Democracy Now!: "The government has added formaldehyde to a list of known carcinogens, despite years of lobbying by the chemical industry. Formaldehyde is found in plastics and often used in plywood, particle board, mortuaries and hair salons. The government also said Friday that styrene, which is used in boats, bathtubs and in disposable foam plastic cups and plates, may cause cancer. The conservative billionaire Koch brothers have led the lobbying effort against labeling formaldehyde as a carcinogen. Georgia-Pacific, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, is one of the country's top producers of formaldehyde. We get reaction from longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader."
US-Pakistani Relations: The Tail Still Wags the Dog
http://www.truth-out.org/us-pakistani-relations-tale-still-wags-dog/1307712432
Melvin A. Goodman, Truthout: "The US-Pakistani relationship is one of the most complicated bilateral relationships in the world. Since the start of the cold war, the United States has needed support from the Islamabad government and, as a result, has ignored Pakistani perfidy. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the United States needed secret bases in Pakistan for U-2 reconnaissance flights over the Soviet Union and, therefore, disregarded Pakistani military dictatorships. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the United States needed logistical support for its secret opening to China and overlooked human rights violations in Pakistan. In the 1980s, Pakistan served as a conduit for US assistance to the anti-Soviet mujihadeen forces and, therefore, ignored Pakistan's secret development of nuclear weapons."
Paul Krugman | Time to Challenge Convention at the IMF
http://www.truth-out.org/time-challenge-convention-imf/1308071780
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "I suspect that an endorsement from me may be the kiss of death - but, anyway, Stan Fischer, governor of the Bank of Israel, really would be the best choice to head the International Monetary Fund. The obvious disclosure: Mr. Fischer was my teacher and my colleague for many years, so of course I'm not objective. But personal ties aren't the issue. The point, instead, is that we're living in times that require creative, independent thinking. An I.M.F. managing director who serves as the front man or woman for the usual suspects, for conventional wisdom in unconventional times, is not what we need."
Bachmann Calls for Huge Corporate Tax Cut Alongside Tax Increase for the Working Poor
http://www.truth-out.org/bachmann-calls-huge-corporate-tax-cut-alongside-tax-increase-working-poor/1308073584
Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: "Several of the 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls have laid out economic platforms that would include huge cuts in the corporate tax rate. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) called for lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent, while former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) went a step further, calling for a cut to 15 percent. In an interview published today by the Wall Street Journal, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) decided to one-up both Romney and Pawlenty, calling for a reduction in the corporate tax rate to 9 percent. Adding insult to injury, Bachmann wants to pair that huge tax cut with giant tax reductions for the rich, as well as a tax increase on the working poor."
America Needs Taxes
http://www.truth-out.org/america-needs-taxes/1308079822
Carl Gibson, US Uncut: "Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said 'Taxes are the price we pay for civilized society.' Taxes have paid for everything from the interstate system to national parks, the moon landing and the liberation of France. In fact, Eisenhower, a Republican, presided over an era where corporate taxes accounted for a quarter of all federal tax receipts, and the richest Americans still enjoyed their wealth while paying a 90% top tax rate. Americans were never more prosperous as a whole than during that era. Now, loopholes and lobbying have lowered the top tax rate to its lowest point since the Truman era, and corporate tax dollars only count for 5-7% of all federal tax receipts. After the Great Depression, our leaders had a vision for America. They fought to see ours was a country where everyone was afforded the opportunity for free basic education, an affordable home, a steady income and free healthcare for the poor and the elderly."
Supreme Court Rejects Argument That Officials' Votes Are Protected Free Speech
http://www.truth-out.org/supreme-court-rejects-argument-officials-votes-are-protected-free-speech/1308061230
David G. Savage, The Denver Post: "The Supreme Court on Monday upheld ethics laws across the nation that forbid legislators and city council members from voting on matters in which they have a conflict of interest, rejecting the argument that governmental votes cast by elected officials are 'free speech' protected by the First Amendment. The issue arose when Michael Carrigan, a city councilman from Sparks, Nev., was censured by the Nevada Commission on Ethics because he had cast a vote in favor of a hotel and casino project that was backed by his campaign manager. The commission said that under the state ethics law, he was required to abstain from voting because of his close relationship with his campaign manager."
How the Military and the Civilian Are Blurring in Washington
http://www.truth-out.org/how-military-and-civilian-are-blurring-washington/1308070995
William J. Astore, TomDispatch: "In 1997, Wall Street Journal Pentagon correspondent Tom Ricks typically worried about an all-volunteer military that saw civilians as privileged and flabby, increasingly considered itself a breed apart, and held the public it served in contempt. Concerned as well was Richard Kohn, former chief historian of the U.S. Air Force. In a special lecture to Air Force Academy cadets in 1999 on 'the erosion of civilian control of the military in the United States today,' Kohn worried about a military that openly disrespected President Bill Clinton, its commander-in-chief, even as it meddled in areas like policy-making for which it was not suited and from which it had been excluded by the Constitution. How times have changed. In the post-9/11 world, a far more insidious problem confronts us."
Robert Reich | The White House Needs a Real Jobs Plan
http://www.truth-out.org/white-house-needs-real-jobs-plan/1308074126
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Today the President met with business leaders on his 'jobs and competitiveness council,' who suggested more public-private partnerships to train workers, less government red-tape in obtaining permits, and more jobs in travel and tourism, among other things. The President then toured a manufacturing plant in North Carolina, and made an eloquent speech about the need for more jobs. Fluff. Doesn't the White House get it? The President has to have a bold jobs plan, with specifics. Why not exempt the first $20,000 of income from payroll taxes for the next year? Why not a new WPA for the long-term unemployed, and a Civilian Conservation Corps for the legions of young jobless Americans? Why not allow people to declare bankruptcy on their primary residences, and thereby reorganize their mortgage debt? Or a hundred other ways to boost demand."
Unions Save Lives
http://www.truth-out.org/unions-save-lives/1307714353
Dick Meister, Truthout: "A new study shows that unionization is a sure way to dramatically lessen the many deaths and serious injuries that have been all too common in the nation's coal mines. That's the unequivocal conclusion of the independent study of coal mining between 1993 and 2008 conducted by Stanford law Professor Allson Morantz and funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). There's no doubting it: Workers in unionized mines are far less likely to be killed or seriously injured than are workers in nonunion mines. The study indicates that the number of fatalities in individual nonunion mines can decline by one-third up to nearly three-fourths and serious injuries decline by as much as one-third if the mines unionize."
JP Morgan Records Largest Profit Ever, While Community Devastated by Its Predatory Lending Sheds 1,000 Workers
http://www.truth-out.org/jp-morgan-records-largest-profit-ever-while-community-devastated-its-predatory-lending-sheds-1000-wo
Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress: "One of the many tragic stories of the Great Recession involves Jefferson County, Alabama. As Matt Taibbi explained in an article in Rolling Stone last year, mega bank JP Morgan Chase used a predatory refinancing deal on sewer bonds to reap billions while the local area was financially devastated. Now, Jefferson County, still reeling from the effects of JP Morgan's dirty deals, is moving to place nearly 1,000 public workers on administrative leave without pay, as the state Legislature failed last week to come to the municipality's aid with any fiscal support. In doing so, the county hopes to save 'just over $12 million.' Yet while the public workers of Jefferson County will soon face the prospect of losing their wages and livelihoods through no fault of their own, JP Morgan Chase continues to rake in lavish profits."
Detroit Catholics Clergymen Defy Bishop, Turn Out for Liberal Mass
http://www.truth-out.org/detroit-catholics-clergymen-defy-bishop-turn-out-liberal-mass/1308063525
Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press: "Defying the Roman Catholic archbishop of Detroit, a priest led a Mass Sunday organized by the American Catholic Council, a controversial umbrella group of liberal Catholics. And dozens of Catholic priests and deacons from the Detroit diocese attended the Mass, said organizers. They participated despite a letter from Archbishop Allen Vigneron ordering priests and deacons to not take part in the Mass because it was led by groups considered heretical by the Catholic Church and could violate Church law. Vigneron warned in a letter that clergy could be punished and defrocked for participating. The Mass was part of a weekend conference of about 2,000 liberal Catholics who are upset at the rightward turn of the Catholic Church. They want lay people to have more say in church decision-making. Many also want discussion about women, gay, and married priests, and more accountability on the issue of child abuse by priests."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
When America's young people can't afford public colleges, the US is headed toward a third-rate future.
The Republican Party, particularly the rabid Tea Party-influenced majority in the House, is embarked on a juggernaut to take the public out of everything it can in American life, including libraries, elementary and high schools, government workers, environmental protection, even parks and parking meters.
And the movement is fast succeeding at taking the public out of higher education by cutting - most noticeably at state levels - subsidies to state and community colleges to such an extent that tuition is no longer affordable to many young Americans and their families.
A column in CNNMoney (http://money.cnn.com/2011/06/13/news/economy/college_tuition_middle_class/index.htm?hpt=hp_t2 ) states it bluntly:
"As the out-of-pocket costs of a college education go up faster than incomes, it's pricing low and medium income families out of a college education," said Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of financial aid sites FinAid.org and FastWeb.com.
The numbers confirm what most middle class families already know - college is becoming so expensive, it's starting to hold them back.
The crux of the problem: Tuition and fees at public universities, according to the College Board, have surged almost 130% over the last 20 years - while middle class incomes have stagnated."
The combination of privatizing public services, and thus making them less affordable to the vast majority of Americans, and lowering the wage scale for workers fortunate to have a job is making this a two-class nation.
When an increasing number of young Americans can't afford higher education, it is grievously harming the nation's future. Remember that much of our corporate intellectual property is built upon public research (just think of the Internet, which grew out of a project at the University of Illinois).
All the poobahs in DC worry so much about a hyped crisis in elementary and high school education (which has more to do with poverty than teachers), but even if magically these schools were to improve, a great many of the graduating students couldn't afford college.
Even a second grader could figure that out.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
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<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p>Tuesday 14 June 2011</p>
<p><font><strong>Ralph Nader: Koch Brothers Led Fight to Defend Formaldehyde Despite Carcinogenic Evidence (Video)</strong></font><br />
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez and Ralph Nader, Democracy Now!: "The government has added formaldehyde to a list of known carcinogens, despite years of lobbying by the chemical industry. Formaldehyde is found in plastics and often used in plywood, particle board, mortuaries and hair salons. The government also said Friday that styrene, which is used in boats, bathtubs and in disposable foam plastic cups and plates, may cause cancer. The conservative billionaire Koch brothers have led the lobbying effort against labeling formaldehyde as a carcinogen. Georgia-Pacific, a subsidiary of Koch Industries, is one of the country's top producers of formaldehyde. We get reaction from longtime consumer advocate Ralph Nader." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=01IqEkOREqng6WaN4bZ4EjIAzPfXQ9cm"><font color="#cc0000">Watch the Video</font></a> <br />
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<font><strong>US-Pakistani Relations: The Tail Still Wags the Dog</strong></font><br />
Melvin A. Goodman, Truthout: "The US-Pakistani relationship is one of the most complicated bilateral relationships in the world. Since the start of the cold war, the United States has needed support from the Islamabad government and, as a result, has ignored Pakistani perfidy. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the United States needed secret bases in Pakistan for U-2 reconnaissance flights over the Soviet Union and, therefore, disregarded Pakistani military dictatorships. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the United States needed logistical support for its secret opening to China and overlooked human rights violations in Pakistan. In the 1980s, Pakistan served as a conduit for US assistance to the anti-Soviet mujihadeen forces and, therefore, ignored Pakistan's secret development of nuclear weapons."<br />
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<font><strong>Paul Krugman | Time to Challenge Convention at the IMF</strong></font><br />
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "I suspect that an endorsement from me may be the kiss of death - but, anyway, Stan Fischer, governor of the Bank of Israel, really would be the best choice to head the International Monetary Fund. The obvious disclosure: Mr. Fischer was my teacher and my colleague for many years, so of course I'm not objective. But personal ties aren't the issue. The point, instead, is that we're living in times that require creative, independent thinking. An I.M.F. managing director who serves as the front man or woman for the usual suspects, for conventional wisdom in unconventional times, is not what we need."<br />
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<font><strong>Bachmann Calls for Huge Corporate Tax Cut Alongside Tax Increase for the Working Poor</strong></font><br />
Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: "Several of the 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls have laid out economic platforms that would include huge cuts in the corporate tax rate. Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) called for lowering the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 25 percent, while former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) went a step further, calling for a cut to 15 percent. In an interview published today by the Wall Street Journal, Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) decided to one-up both Romney and Pawlenty, calling for a reduction in the corporate tax rate to 9 percent. Adding insult to injury, Bachmann wants to pair that huge tax cut with giant tax reductions for the rich, as well as a tax increase on the working poor."<br />
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<font><strong>America Needs Taxes</strong></font><br />
Carl Gibson, US Uncut: "Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. said 'Taxes are the price we pay for civilized society.' Taxes have paid for everything from the interstate system to national parks, the moon landing and the liberation of France. In fact, Eisenhower, a Republican, presided over an era where corporate taxes accounted for a quarter of all federal tax receipts, and the richest Americans still enjoyed their wealth while paying a 90% top tax rate. Americans were never more prosperous as a whole than during that era. Now, loopholes and lobbying have lowered the top tax rate to its lowest point since the Truman era, and corporate tax dollars only count for 5-7% of all federal tax receipts. After the Great Depression, our leaders had a vision for America. They fought to see ours was a country where everyone was afforded the opportunity for free basic education, an affordable home, a steady income and free healthcare for the poor and the elderly."<br />
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<font><strong>Supreme Court Rejects Argument That Officials' Votes Are Protected Free Speech</strong></font><br />
David G. Savage, The Denver Post: "The Supreme Court on Monday upheld ethics laws across the nation that forbid legislators and city council members from voting on matters in which they have a conflict of interest, rejecting the argument that governmental votes cast by elected officials are 'free speech' protected by the First Amendment. The issue arose when Michael Carrigan, a city councilman from Sparks, Nev., was censured by the Nevada Commission on Ethics because he had cast a vote in favor of a hotel and casino project that was backed by his campaign manager. The commission said that under the state ethics law, he was required to abstain from voting because of his close relationship with his campaign manager."<br />
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<br />
<font><strong>How the Military and the Civilian Are Blurring in Washington</strong></font><br />
William J. Astore, TomDispatch: "In 1997, Wall Street Journal Pentagon correspondent Tom Ricks typically worried about an all-volunteer military that saw civilians as privileged and flabby, increasingly considered itself a breed apart, and held the public it served in contempt. Concerned as well was Richard Kohn, former chief historian of the U.S. Air Force. In a special lecture to Air Force Academy cadets in 1999 on 'the erosion of civilian control of the military in the United States today,' Kohn worried about a military that openly disrespected President Bill Clinton, its commander-in-chief, even as it meddled in areas like policy-making for which it was not suited and from which it had been excluded by the Constitution. How times have changed. In the post-9/11 world, a far more insidious problem confronts us."<br />
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<font><strong>Robert Reich | The White House Needs a Real Jobs Plan</strong></font><br />
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "Today the President met with business leaders on his 'jobs and competitiveness council,' who suggested more public-private partnerships to train workers, less government red-tape in obtaining permits, and more jobs in travel and tourism, among other things. The President then toured a manufacturing plant in North Carolina, and made an eloquent speech about the need for more jobs. Fluff. Doesn't the White House get it? The President has to have a bold jobs plan, with specifics. Why not exempt the first $20,000 of income from payroll taxes for the next year? Why not a new WPA for the long-term unemployed, and a Civilian Conservation Corps for the legions of young jobless Americans? Why not allow people to declare bankruptcy on their primary residences, and thereby reorganize their mortgage debt? Or a hundred other ways to boost demand." <br />
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<font><strong>Unions Save Lives</strong></font><br />
Dick Meister, Truthout: "A new study shows that unionization is a sure way to dramatically lessen the many deaths and serious injuries that have been all too common in the nation's coal mines. That's the unequivocal conclusion of the independent study of coal mining between 1993 and 2008 conducted by Stanford law Professor Allson Morantz and funded by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). There's no doubting it: Workers in unionized mines are far less likely to be killed or seriously injured than are workers in nonunion mines. The study indicates that the number of fatalities in individual nonunion mines can decline by one-third up to nearly three-fourths and serious injuries decline by as much as one-third if the mines unionize." <br />
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<font><strong>JP Morgan Records Largest Profit Ever, While Community Devastated by Its Predatory Lending Sheds 1,000 Workers</strong></font><br />
Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress: "One of the many tragic stories of the Great Recession involves Jefferson County, Alabama. As Matt Taibbi explained in an article in Rolling Stone last year, mega bank JP Morgan Chase used a predatory refinancing deal on sewer bonds to reap billions while the local area was financially devastated. Now, Jefferson County, still reeling from the effects of JP Morgan's dirty deals, is moving to place nearly 1,000 public workers on administrative leave without pay, as the state Legislature failed last week to come to the municipality's aid with any fiscal support. In doing so, the county hopes to save 'just over $12 million.' Yet while the public workers of Jefferson County will soon face the prospect of losing their wages and livelihoods through no fault of their own, JP Morgan Chase continues to rake in lavish profits." <br />
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<font><strong>Detroit Catholics Clergymen Defy Bishop, Turn Out for Liberal Mass</strong></font><br />
Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press: "Defying the Roman Catholic archbishop of Detroit, a priest led a Mass Sunday organized by the American Catholic Council, a controversial umbrella group of liberal Catholics. And dozens of Catholic priests and deacons from the Detroit diocese attended the Mass, said organizers. They participated despite a letter from Archbishop Allen Vigneron ordering priests and deacons to not take part in the Mass because it was led by groups considered heretical by the Catholic Church and could violate Church law. Vigneron warned in a letter that clergy could be punished and defrocked for participating. The Mass was part of a weekend conference of about 2,000 liberal Catholics who are upset at the rightward turn of the Catholic Church. They want lay people to have more say in church decision-making. Many also want discussion about women, gay, and married priests, and more accountability on the issue of child abuse by priests." <br />
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<p><i>When America's young people can't afford public colleges, the US is headed toward a third-rate future.</i></p>
<p><i>The Republican Party, particularly the rabid Tea Party-influenced majority in the House, is embarked on a juggernaut to take the public out of everything it can in American life, including libraries, elementary and high schools, government workers, environmental protection, even parks and parking meters.</i></p>
<p><i>And the movement is fast succeeding at taking the public out of higher education by cutting - most noticeably at state levels - subsidies to state and community colleges to such an extent that tuition is no longer affordable to many young Americans and their families.</i></p>
<p><i>A <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HMSiNiAjkNEPnzeGmWzHxjIAzPfXQ9cm" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">column in CNNMoney</font></a> states it bluntly: </i></p>
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<blockquote><i>"As the out-of-pocket costs of a college education go up faster than incomes, it's pricing low and medium income families out of a college education," said Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of financial aid sites FinAid.org and FastWeb.com.</i>
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<p><i>The numbers confirm what most middle class families already know - college is becoming so expensive, it's starting to hold them back.</i></p>
<p><i>The crux of the problem: Tuition and fees at public universities, according to the College Board, have surged almost 130% over the last 20 years - while middle class incomes have stagnated. [/indent]</i></p>
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<p><i>The combination of privatizing public services, and thus making them less affordable to the vast majority of Americans, and lowering the wage scale for workers fortunate to have a job is making this a two-class nation.</i></p>
<p><i>When an increasing number of young Americans can't afford higher education, it is grievously harming the nation's future. Remember that much of our corporate intellectual property is built upon public research (just think of the Internet, which grew out of a project at the University of Illinois).</i></p>
<p><i> </i></p>
<p><i>All the poobahs in DC worry so much about a hyped crisis in elementary and high school education (which has more to do with poverty than teachers), but even if magically these schools were to improve, a great many of the graduating students couldn't afford college.</i></p>
<p><i>Even a second grader could figure that out.</i></p>
<p><i>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</i></p>
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<p><strong>What Paul Ryan Won't Tell You: Private Insurance Rations Health Care<br />
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