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Overworked America: The Great Speedup
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t r u t h o u t | 06.30
Overworked America: The Great Speedup
http://www.truth-out.org/overworked-america-great-speedup/1309380350
Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery, Mother Jones: "Pundits across the political spectrum revel in the fact that US productivity (a.k.a. economic output per hour worked) consistently leads the world. Yes, year after year, Americans wring even more value out of each minute on the job than we did the year before. U-S-A! U-S-A! Except what's good for American business isn't necessarily good for Americans. We're not just working smarter, but harder. And harder. And harder, to the point where the driver is no longer American industriousness, but something much more predatory."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: TSA Agents Working With Radiation Machines Develop Cancer, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann-tsa-agents-working-radiation-machines-develop-cancer-and-more/1309449287
A group of 248 economist, six of whom are Nobel Prize winners, sent a letter to Congressional leaders demanding a clean vote to raise the debt-ceiling - arguing failure to do so could have, "a substantial negative impact on economic growth'; documents reveal some TSA agents working with airport scanner are getting cancer; a US military official confirmed yesterday that a drone attack was launched on two leaders of a Somalia militant group last week - bringing the total number of nations our military is bombing to six; over a million Ohioans sign a petition to repeal the new anti-union law in their state; Michele Bachmann suggests that minimum wage kills job growth and needs to be eliminated; and more.
New Jersey Lawmakers Vote to Ban Fracking
http://www.truth-out.org/new-jersey-lawmakers-vote-ban-fracking/1309452696
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "The New Jersey Legislature passed a bill on Wednesday that would place a statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial natural gas drilling technique commonly called 'fracking.' The bill passed the state Senate by 32-1 and the state Assembly by 56-11. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has not said if he would sign the bill into law. New Jersey is the first state to consider a ban on fracking, but a widespread grassroots movement has helped establish local bans and moratoriums in 63 municipalities across the country."
Michele Bachmann Advocates Abolishing Minimum Wage
http://www.truth-out.org/michele-bachmann-advocates-abolishing-minimum-wage/1309440840
Travis Waldron, ThinkProgress: "Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) formally kicked off her presidential campaign yesterday, painting herself as a Tea Party candidate who is ready to lead the country back to prosperity (even if her former chief of staff doesn't think so). Today, in classic Tea Party form, Bachmann reiterated her long-held belief that a federally mandated minimum wage is a job-killing federal regulation that may need to be abolished."
Haitians Challenge Monsanto's Influence
http://www.truth-out.org/haitians-challenge-monsantos-influence/1309446649
Beverly Bell, Other Worlds: "Last week, thousands of farmers and supporters of Haitian peasant agriculture marched for hours under the hot Caribbean sun to call for more government support for locally grown seeds and agriculture. The demonstration was organized by the Peasant Movement of Papay and other farmer associations, human rights and women's groups, and the Haitian Platform for Alternative Development (PAPDA), the Haitian online agency AlterPresse reported from the march. The official theme of the peaceful demonstration was 'Land Grabbing is Endangering Agricultural Sovereignty.'"
Senate to Skip July Recess to Work on Budget and Debt
http://www.truth-out.org/senate-skip-july-recess-work-budget/1309458955
David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers: "The Senate will work next week instead of taking a lengthy Fourth of July recess after President Barack Obama insisted that lawmakers should stay in Washington to try to resolve the impasse over how to reduce federal deficits and raise the debt ceiling. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., quickly responded with a plan of his own: He invited Obama to come to the Capitol this afternoon to meet with the Senate's 47 Republicans."
Nuclear Plant Inspections Find Flaws in Disaster Readiness
http://www.truth-out.org/nuke-plant-inspections-find-flaws-disaster-readiness/1309447895
John Sullivan, ProPublica: "A special inspection of US nuclear plants after the Fukushima disaster in Japan revealed problems with emergency equipment and disaster procedures that are far more pervasive than publicly described by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a review of inspection reports by ProPublica shows. While the deficiencies don't pose an immediate risk and are relatively easy to fix, critics say they could complicate the response to a major disaster and point to a weakness in NRC oversight."
Paul Krugman | Nobody Ever Wins a Game of Economic Calvinball
http://www.truth-out.org/nobody-ever-wins-game-economic-calvinball/1309444798
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "I was trying to come up with a way to describe Raghuram Rajan's latest argument on why interest rates should go up despite high unemployment and quiescent inflation - but Mike Konczal, a fellow with the Roosevelt Institute, saved me the trouble. As Mr. Konczal writes in his blog, Rortybomb, it's Calvinball - making up new rules on the fly to justify whatever you want."
The Militarized Surrealism of Barack Obama
http://www.truth-out.org/militarized-surrealism-barack-obama/1309442269
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: "It's already gone, having barely outlasted its moment - just long enough for the media to suggest that no one thought it added up to much. Okay, it was a little more than the military wanted, something less than Joe Biden would have liked, not enough for the growing crew of anti-war congressional types, but way too much for John McCain, Lindsey Graham, & Co. I'm talking about the 13 minutes of 'remarks' on 'the way forward in Afghanistan' that President Obama delivered in the East Room of the White House two Wednesday nights ago."
Twelve Charts That Will Make Your Blood Boil
http://www.truth-out.org/overworked-america-12-charts-will-make-your-blood-boil/1309378574
Dave Gilson, Mother Jones: "In the past 20 years, the US economy has grown nearly 60 percent. This huge increase in productivity is partly due to automation, the internet, and other improvements in efficiency. But it's also the result of Americans working harder - often without a big boost to their bottom lines. Oh, and meanwhile, corporate profits are up 20 percent."
Bad Teacher: Films as Teaching Tools
http://www.truth-out.org/bad-teacher-films-teaching-tools/1309454400
Tolu Olorunda, Dissident Voice: "Lately, it seems, Hollywood has been drilling deep for the bottom of the barrel of mediocrity. The official consensus goes: at the turn of the millennium, a new medium seized the hearts of today's youth, operating at a level and speed unlike anything ever before, and this medium effectively wiped clean the slate of existing templates, rendering everything before obsolete, setting new paradigms for all other media forms, whether the news, sitcoms, dramas, even movies. So of no surprise should it be that this past weekend's big release, 'Bad Teacher' (Sony), affords nothing of value to any film goer with interests above the carnal and caustic lusts of the stereotypical teenager."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Stereotyping groups and thus disregarding the opinions and characteristics of individuals within that group is what leads to wars and genocide. This is what happened in World War II and the Holocaust, what happened in Cambodia and what happened in Rwanda, to name but a few of the horrifying examples of unfathomable human nightmares.
Therefore, it is wrong of those Arabs who stereotype Israeli Jews (there are also Israeli Arabs) as evil - and it is equally detestable that some Israeli and American Jews view all Arabs and Palestinians as killers and murderers who want to destroy the Jewish State.
There certainly are groups of Muslims who are committed to eliminating Israel, but most Muslims go about their daily business - and Israel now has official diplomatic relationships with a number of Muslim and Arab nations, and back channel relationships to many more. In fact, Israel is tacitly seen as a stabilizing influence against Iran by many Arab nations that the US supports.
That is why it is a bit horrifying to see the State Department issue an "alert" to Americans who are now in Greece hoping to ride on a boat - named "The Audacity of Hope" - stocked with nonmilitary humanitarian aid to Gaza. The US State Department warned these American citizens, some of them proudly Jews, that they possibly faced death by trying to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza: (http://edition.cnn.com/2011/US/06/24/us.gaza.flotilla/)
"The U.S. State Department earlier this week issued a travel warning advising U.S. citizens 'against traveling to Gaza by any means, including via sea.'
'Previous attempts to enter Gaza by sea have been stopped by Israeli naval vessels and resulted in the injury, death, arrest, and deportation of U.S. citizens,' the State Department statement said. 'U.S. citizens participating in any effort to reach Gaza by sea should understand that they may face arrest, prosecution, and deportation by the government of Israel.'"
The role of the US State Department should be to prevent other governments from killing, arresting and prosecuting US citizens for humane acts, not sanctioning their possible deaths.
Furthermore, as noted by three of the ship's passengers from Illinois, their senator, Republican Mark Kirk, is actually encouraging the US to militarily assist Israel (http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12815) in attacks on boats such as The Audacity of Hope, which is sailing under the American flag. (http://www.military.com/news/article/senator-wants-us-israeli-op-against-flotilla.html)
This is a shocking US green light to have another sovereign state attack an American ship, with many Americans aboard (including US military veterans). It is, on a rational level, incomprehensible, like potentially committing an act of terrorism against US citizens by claiming to be preventing terrorism.
And Mark Kirk would have the US Navy participate in a military operation against his own constituents.
The Likud government in Israel could no doubt easily reach an agreement to peacefully board and search ships for arms and then let them be on their way, but that would be too reasonable. The Likud policy is to provide collective punishment to all the citizens of Gaza because of the relatively small minority who are actively fighting Israel.
But for the American State Department, and thus the White House, to be - in essence - condoning a Netanyahu government military attack on The Audacity of Hope and the Americans on board is a lethal precedent and threat to US citizens performing acts of humanity.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
Kansas to Shut Down All Abortion Clinics Friday
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/06/kansas-shut-down-all-abortion-clinics-friday
"War on Terror" Set to Surpass Cost of Second World War
Read the Article at The Independent UK
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/war-on-terror-set-to-surpass-cost-of-second-world-war-2304497.html
The Mindless Hysteria of Right-Wing Sheep
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2011/06/29/lyons_limbaugh&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%20Newsletter%20%28Not%20Premium%29_7_30_110
GOP Willing to Create Economic Catastrophe to Protect Tax Loopholes for CEO's Who Fly Corporate Jets
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12814
Massive Strikes in UK
Read the Article at CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2011/BUSINESS/06/30/uk.strike/index.html?hpt=hp_t1
When Gay Marriage Is All in the Family, Which It Is Becoming for Many Americans
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12813
The Economy Held Hostage for 25 Billionaire Hedge Fund Managers?
Read the Article at The Campaign for America's Future
http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011062629/only-25-people-and-nation-held-hostage-save-them-billions
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<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p>Thursday 30 June 2011</p>
<font><strong>Overworked America: The Great Speedup</strong></font><br />
Monika Bauerlein and Clara Jeffery, Mother Jones: "Pundits across the political spectrum revel in the fact that US productivity (a.k.a. economic output per hour worked) consistently leads the world. Yes, year after year, Americans wring even more value out of each minute on the job than we did the year before. U-S-A! U-S-A! Except what's good for American business isn't necessarily good for Americans. We're not just working smarter, but harder. And harder. And harder, to the point where the driver is no longer American industriousness, but something much more predatory."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6Sj8t7tmA%2Fl0lMQkfVOGoo6%2Bv4yTjD2W"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
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<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: TSA Agents Working With Radiation Machines Develop Cancer, and More</strong></font><br />
A group of 248 economist, six of whom are Nobel Prize winners, sent a letter to Congressional leaders demanding a clean vote to raise the debt-ceiling - arguing failure to do so could have, "a substantial negative impact on economic growth'; documents reveal some TSA agents working with airport scanner are getting cancer; a US military official confirmed yesterday that a drone attack was launched on two leaders of a Somalia militant group last week - bringing the total number of nations our military is bombing to six; over a million Ohioans sign a petition to repeal the new anti-union law in their state; Michele Bachmann suggests that minimum wage kills job growth and needs to be eliminated; and more.
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7E2qyM2p59t%2Bm8g5qYXMJ0bfnA5YwjX9"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article and Watch the Video</font></a>
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<font><strong>New Jersey Lawmakers Vote to Ban Fracking</strong></font><br />
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "The New Jersey Legislature passed a bill on Wednesday that would place a statewide ban on hydraulic fracturing, a controversial natural gas drilling technique commonly called 'fracking.' The bill passed the state Senate by 32-1 and the state Assembly by 56-11. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie has not said if he would sign the bill into law. New Jersey is the first state to consider a ban on fracking, but a widespread grassroots movement has helped establish local bans and moratoriums in 63 municipalities across the country."
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<font><strong>Michele Bachmann Advocates Abolishing Minimum Wage</strong></font><br />
Travis Waldron, ThinkProgress: "Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) formally kicked off her presidential campaign yesterday, painting herself as a Tea Party candidate who is ready to lead the country back to prosperity (even if her former chief of staff doesn't think so). Today, in classic Tea Party form, Bachmann reiterated her long-held belief that a federally mandated minimum wage is a job-killing federal regulation that may need to be abolished."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=pp2AkiyDlMhkNyY0ppGkSY6%2Bv4yTjD2W"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Haitians Challenge Monsanto's Influence</strong></font><br />
Beverly Bell, Other Worlds: "Last week, thousands of farmers and supporters of Haitian peasant agriculture marched for hours under the hot Caribbean sun to call for more government support for locally grown seeds and agriculture. The demonstration was organized by the Peasant Movement of Papay and other farmer associations, human rights and women's groups, and the Haitian Platform for Alternative Development (PAPDA), the Haitian online agency AlterPresse reported from the march. The official theme of the peaceful demonstration was 'Land Grabbing is Endangering Agricultural Sovereignty.'"
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fhjMOfhM8iHxqy7dNYzRr46%2Bv4yTjD2W"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
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<font><strong>Senate to Skip July Recess to Work on Budget and Debt</strong></font><br />
David Lightman, McClatchy Newspapers: "The Senate will work next week instead of taking a lengthy Fourth of July recess after President Barack Obama insisted that lawmakers should stay in Washington to try to resolve the impasse over how to reduce federal deficits and raise the debt ceiling. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., quickly responded with a plan of his own: He invited Obama to come to the Capitol this afternoon to meet with the Senate's 47 Republicans."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=U%2F%2FutYV4Yh90Mn%2FK%2FL2YJkbfnA5YwjX9"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
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<font><strong>Nuclear Plant Inspections Find Flaws in Disaster Readiness</strong></font><br />
John Sullivan, ProPublica: "A special inspection of US nuclear plants after the Fukushima disaster in Japan revealed problems with emergency equipment and disaster procedures that are far more pervasive than publicly described by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, a review of inspection reports by ProPublica shows. While the deficiencies don't pose an immediate risk and are relatively easy to fix, critics say they could complicate the response to a major disaster and point to a weakness in NRC oversight."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=R%2FRi5vYTyDabfZ8wGvi1vUbfnA5YwjX9"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
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<font><strong>Paul Krugman | Nobody Ever Wins a Game of Economic Calvinball</strong></font><br />
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "I was trying to come up with a way to describe Raghuram Rajan's latest argument on why interest rates should go up despite high unemployment and quiescent inflation - but Mike Konczal, a fellow with the Roosevelt Institute, saved me the trouble. As Mr. Konczal writes in his blog, Rortybomb, it's Calvinball - making up new rules on the fly to justify whatever you want."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rV57GGQRkclK7dcmajsxvo6%2Bv4yTjD2W"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>The Militarized Surrealism of Barack Obama</strong></font><br />
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: "It's already gone, having barely outlasted its moment - just long enough for the media to suggest that no one thought it added up to much. Okay, it was a little more than the military wanted, something less than Joe Biden would have liked, not enough for the growing crew of anti-war congressional types, but way too much for John McCain, Lindsey Graham, & Co. I'm talking about the 13 minutes of 'remarks' on 'the way forward in Afghanistan' that President Obama delivered in the East Room of the White House two Wednesday nights ago."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=l7n7k%2BE1gmXIRj5K9iVkCY6%2Bv4yTjD2W"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
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<font><strong>Twelve Charts That Will Make Your Blood Boil</strong></font><br />
Dave Gilson, Mother Jones: "In the past 20 years, the US economy has grown nearly 60 percent. This huge increase in productivity is partly due to automation, the internet, and other improvements in efficiency. But it's also the result of Americans working harder - often without a big boost to their bottom lines. Oh, and meanwhile, corporate profits are up 20 percent."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AkRdB7V4hkH4ZshiIM4GdI6%2Bv4yTjD2W"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
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<font><strong>Bad Teacher: Films as Teaching Tools</strong></font><br />
Tolu Olorunda, Dissident Voice: "Lately, it seems, Hollywood has been drilling deep for the bottom of the barrel of mediocrity. The official consensus goes: at the turn of the millennium, a new medium seized the hearts of today's youth, operating at a level and speed unlike anything ever before, and this medium effectively wiped clean the slate of existing templates, rendering everything before obsolete, setting new paradigms for all other media forms, whether the news, sitcoms, dramas, even movies. So of no surprise should it be that this past weekend's big release, 'Bad Teacher' (Sony), affords nothing of value to any film goer with interests above the carnal and caustic lusts of the stereotypical teenager."
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<em><p>Stereotyping groups and thus disregarding the opinions and characteristics of individuals within that group is what leads to wars and genocide. This is what happened in World War II and the Holocaust, what happened in Cambodia and what happened in Rwanda, to name but a few of the horrifying examples of unfathomable human nightmares.</p>
<p>Therefore, it is wrong of those Arabs who stereotype Israeli Jews (there are also Israeli Arabs) as evil - and it is equally detestable that some Israeli and American Jews view all Arabs and Palestinians as killers and murderers who want to destroy the Jewish State.</p>
<p>There certainly are groups of Muslims who are committed to eliminating Israel, but most Muslims go about their daily business - and Israel now has official diplomatic relationships with a number of Muslim and Arab nations, and back channel relationships to many more. In fact, Israel is tacitly seen as a stabilizing influence against Iran by many Arab nations that the US supports.</p>
<p>That is why it is a bit horrifying to see the State Department issue an "alert" to Americans who are now in Greece hoping to ride on a boat - named "The Audacity of Hope" - stocked with nonmilitary humanitarian aid to Gaza. The US State Department warned these American citizens, some of them proudly Jews, that <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ozhjf5S6TmmcmZlY0fbVVY6%2Bv4yTjD2W"><font color="#cc0000">they possibly faced death by trying to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza</font></a>: </p>
<blockquote><p>The U.S. State Department earlier this week issued a travel warning advising U.S. citizens "against traveling to Gaza by any means, including via sea."</p>
<p>"Previous attempts to enter Gaza by sea have been stopped by Israeli naval vessels and resulted in the injury, death, arrest, and deportation of U.S. citizens," the State Department statement said. "U.S. citizens participating in any effort to reach Gaza by sea should understand that they may face arrest, prosecution, and deportation by the government of Israel."</p></blockquote>
<p>The role of the US State Department should be to prevent other governments from killing, arresting and prosecuting US citizens for humane acts, not sanctioning their possible deaths. </p>
<p>Furthermore, as noted by three of the ship's passengers from Illinois, their senator, Republican Mark Kirk, is actually <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KnGwZkZFrlvgxWUMgkF6c46%2Bv4yTjD2W"><font color="#cc0000">encouraging the US to militarily assist Israel in attacks</font></a> on boats such as <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=NHZTJBMCvfDT9t1cN4wSR46%2Bv4yTjD2W"><font color="#cc0000">The Audacity of Hope</font></a>, which is sailing under the American flag. </p>
<p>This is a shocking US green light to have another sovereign state attack an American ship, with many Americans aboard (including US military veterans). It is, on a rational level, incomprehensible, like potentially committing an act of terrorism against US citizens by claiming to be preventing terrorism.</p>
<p>And Mark Kirk would have the US Navy participate in a military operation against his own constituents. </p>
<p>The Likud government in Israel could no doubt easily reach an agreement to peacefully board and search ships for arms and then let them be on their way, but that would be too reasonable. The Likud policy is to provide collective punishment to all the citizens of Gaza because of the relatively small minority who are actively fighting Israel. </p>
<p>But for the American State Department, and thus the White House, to be - in essence - condoning a Netanyahu government military attack on The Audacity of Hope and the Americans on board is a lethal precedent and threat to US citizens performing acts of humanity. </p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p></em>
<p><strong>Kansas to Shut Down All Abortion Clinics Friday<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=nnXaFzAz5q48iBI2s2jsn46%2Bv4yTjD2W"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Mother Jones</font></a></p>
<p><strong>"War on Terror" Set to Surpass Cost of Second World War<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=j1%2BXrRu%2Bu%2F8BeNK7nZ0HQo6%2Bv4yTjD2W"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The Independent UK</font></a></p>
<p><strong>The Mindless Hysteria of Right-Wing Sheep<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BfAjCyoT6NEV77CJVeS2RkbfnA5YwjX9"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Salon</font></a></p>
<p><strong>GOP Willing to Create Economic Catastrophe to Protect Tax Loopholes for CEO's Who Fly Corporate Jets<br />
</strong><a target="_blank" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ofwygOSXqFMgn18Y2IMBXkbfnA5YwjX9"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Massive Strikes in UK<br />
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