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William Rivers Pitt | I Love the Smell of Murdoch in the Morning
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William Rivers Pitt | I Love the Smell of Murdoch in the Morning
http://www.truth-out.org/i-love-smell-murdoch-morning/1311096613
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "The sun rose on Tuesday to shine upon a fascinating spectacle: Rupert Murdoch and his son James, who rule the News Corp. media empire, were slated to sit before a British parliamentary committee to answer questions on the phone-hacking scandal that has blown up like a volcano in recent weeks. Ten arrests, including News Corp executive Rebekah Brooks, top British police resignations, and the sudden, unexplained death of the fellow who first blew the whistle on the whole sordid mess ... no, it has not been dull."
Are We Nearing the End of the Line for Edible Ocean Fish?
http://www.truth-out.org/are-we-nearing-end-line-edible-ocean-fish/1311088391
Mark Karlin, Truthout: "On July 16, The New York Times editorialized that the world's oceans are potentially on the verge of irreversible catastrophic collapse. Due to global warming and other factors, the marine ecosystems are being severely compromised. One of the factors contributing to the degradation of our oceans is massive, industrial, commercial overfishing. The Times cites a report that many species of fish are 'either vulnerable to extinction, endangered or critically endangered.' Journalist Charles Clover wrote the definitive book on overfishing, 'The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat.' Truthout recently interviewed him."
Latest BP Oil Spill Took Place at Facility Employee Warned Was "Operating in Unsafe Condition"
http://www.truth-out.org/latest-bp-oil-spill-took-place-facility-employee-said-was-operating-unsafe-condition/1311082418
Jason Leopold, Truthout: "A BP pipeline that ruptured over the weekend and spilled as much as 4,200 gallons of methanol and oily water into the Alaskan tundra took place at a facility that one of the company's employees said in an internal email 'was operating in [an] unsafe condition.' The email, obtained exclusively by Truthout and highlighted in an investigative report published a year ago, was written in January 2010 by an employee who works at the Lisburne Production Center, site of the Saturday's pipeline rupture."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: House Republicans Vote Today on Their Plan to Raise the Debt Limit, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann-republicans-house-vote-today-their-plan-raise-debt-limit/1311093899
In today's On the News segment: House Republicans to vote today on their plan to raise the debt limit, robo-signers return, Rupert Murdoch appeared before the UK Parliament today, President Obama nixes the idea of Elizabeth Warren heading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and more.
No Great Women Comics Artists?
http://www.truth-out.org/no-great-women-comics-artists/1311001778
In the latest installment of Truthout's comics column, Ladydrawers, Anne Elizabeth Moore and Christa Donner look beneath the myths surrounding gender and the comics scene.
Republican "Cut, Cap and Balance" Plan Would Require a 25 Percent Cut in Every Government Program
http://www.truth-out.org/republican-cut-cap-and-balance-plan-would-require-25-percent-cut-every-government-program/1311082327
Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: "House Republicans are planning to hold a vote tomorrow on the radical 'cut, cap, and balance' plan, which stipulates that the federal debt ceiling only be raised if a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution is sent to the states for ratification. As we've noted time and again, such an amendment is a phony solution to the nation's budget challenges, and would force the government into actively making economic downturns worse."
Are Chemicals Making Us Fat?
http://www.truth-out.org/obesitydiabetes-epidemic-rise-obesogens/1309380259
Dr. Brian Moench, Truthout: "Environmental contamination is emerging as a significant contributor to the obesity/diabetes epidemic. In a remarkable study of over 2,000 Americans those people with the highest blood levels of PCBs, dioxins and pesticides had a rate of diabetes 38 times higher than those with the lowest levels. Just as startling, in the group with the lowest levels of chemical pollutants there was no correlation between diabetes and obesity."
A British Spring?
http://www.truth-out.org/british-spring/1311096785
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: "British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced plans to hold an emergency session of Parliament on Wednesday to discuss the growing phone-hacking scandal that has threatened Rupert Murdoch's media empire and rocked the British government. On Sunday, British detectives arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Murdoch's British newspaper arm, on suspicion of intercepting communications and corruption. Hours later, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson resigned following criticism of the handling by police of the phone hacking scandal. We speak to Ian Katz, deputy editor of The Guardian, the British newspaper that has broken many of the Murdoch stories, and Sarah Smith, correspondent for Channel 4 News U.K., based in Washington, D.C."
Paul Krugman | Inflation Hawks Demand That Britain Leap Into Folly
http://www.truth-out.org/inflation-hawks-demand-britain-leap-folly/1311083844
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "The economist Adam Posen of the Bank of England gave a talk recently about British monetary policy that drives home a point I've been meaning to make: namely, that what's happening in Britain on the monetary front right now is very much a teachable moment about monetary policy more generally."
Reading the World in a Loaf of Bread
http://www.truth-out.org/reading-world-loaf-bread/1311087594
Christian Parenti, TomDispatch: "What can a humble loaf of bread tell us about the world? The answer is: far more than you might imagine. For one thing, that loaf can be 'read' as if it were a core sample extracted from the heart of a grim global economy. Looked at another way, it reveals some of the crucial fault lines of world politics, including the origins of the Arab spring that has now become a summer of discontent."
Dick Meister | Paid Sick Leave Is Good for Us All
http://www.truth-out.org/paid-sick-leave-good-us-all/1309443390
Dick Meister, Truthout: "The latest figures show that some 44 million workers in private employment - more than 40 percent of the private-sector workforce - do not have paid sick days that they could use to recover from illnesses, including contagious illnesses such as the flu, or worse. It should be of particular concern that those occupations which are currently least likely to provide paid sick days include occupations most likely to have regular contact with the public - most importantly and most disturbingly, food service and food preparation."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Cutting taxes doesn't mean lowering expenses for the middle class and the poor.
That's because, as BuzzFlash at Truthout has pointed out before, with declining income taxes and decreased state spending, the costs that used to be covered by government pop up elsewhere. In many cases, depending upon the needs of a family, the rise in costs and "user fees" - as two examples - outweigh the middle-class income tax decreases that were extended from the Bush years.
A July 17 San Francisco Chronicle article (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/07/17/MN1I1KA35S.DTL ) gets to the heart of the matter:
"With college tuition increasing again last week at the UC and CSU systems because of state budget cuts, many other Californians were crushed by the cumulative costs of daily life in a 'no new taxes' world. CSU's $1,032 tuition increase means that a family sending a child there will see its tax windfall evaporate all at once.
'It's politics,' Renwick said. 'They can say we had no new taxes but we really did. They just put it in a bunch of places we don't notice.'"
Public transportation users are being hit with repeated fare hikes across the country, not only resulting in a hidden "user tax," but also pushing America in the wrong direction on efficient fuel use for moving people from one place to another. This "user tax" also discourages the growth of mass transportation that would reduce global warming.
"You're starting to see the anger," one analyst told the Chronicle. "You can let your roads collapse, you close fire stations or watch your library permanently shut down."
The rich will always be able to afford the higher "user fees" and flat taxes that result from declining income and corporate taxes, but many "anti-tax" crusaders in the middle class don't realize that they are biting off their noses to spite their faces.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
Murdoch's Legal, Financial Woes Escalate
Read the Article at MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43802370/ns/business-us_business/
The GOP to the Working Class Is Like Colonel Sanders Promising a Good Life to Chickens
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12861
Ronald Reagan's Entire Presidency Would've Been Unconstitutional Under "Cut, Cap and Balance"
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/wonkbook-the-cut-cap-and-balance-distraction/2011/07/19/gIQAyukYNI_blog.html?hpid=z23
The Rich Do Increase Employment - for Wealthy Lawyers Who Find Them Tax Breaks
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12862
Republicans Are Signing Away the Right to Govern
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/19/opinion/19tue1.html?_r=1
Congress Choreographs Its Way to Debt Limit Compromise - So What Is It?
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/congress-choreographs-its-way-to-debt-limit-compromise----so-what-is-it.php
Rupert Murdoch's Watergate: The Troubling Parallels
Read the Article at The Verdict
http://verdict.justia.com/2011/07/14/rupert-murdochs-watergate/
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<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p>Monday 19 July 2011 <br />
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<font><strong>William Rivers Pitt | I Love the Smell of Murdoch in the Morning</strong></font><br />
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "The sun rose on Tuesday to shine upon a fascinating spectacle: Rupert Murdoch and his son James, who rule the News Corp. media empire, were slated to sit before a British parliamentary committee to answer questions on the phone-hacking scandal that has blown up like a volcano in recent weeks. Ten arrests, including News Corp executive Rebekah Brooks, top British police resignations, and the sudden, unexplained death of the fellow who first blew the whistle on the whole sordid mess ... no, it has not been dull."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QSv5yD0YfUUhGpdZ8UKOlMNyeTmU4Miy"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Are We Nearing the End of the Line for Edible Ocean Fish?</strong></font><br />
Mark Karlin, Truthout: "On July 16, The New York Times editorialized that the world's oceans are potentially on the verge of irreversible catastrophic collapse. Due to global warming and other factors, the marine ecosystems are being severely compromised. One of the factors contributing to the degradation of our oceans is massive, industrial, commercial overfishing. The Times cites a report that many species of fish are 'either vulnerable to extinction, endangered or critically endangered.' Journalist Charles Clover wrote the definitive book on overfishing, 'The End of the Line: How Overfishing Is Changing the World and What We Eat.' Truthout recently interviewed him."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=j4hghNCXdK3gm%2Bs3EUf8l8NyeTmU4Miy"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Latest BP Oil Spill Took Place at Facility Employee Warned Was "Operating in Unsafe Condition"</strong></font><br />
Jason Leopold, Truthout: "A BP pipeline that ruptured over the weekend and spilled as much as 4,200 gallons of methanol and oily water into the Alaskan tundra took place at a facility that one of the company's employees said in an internal email 'was operating in [an] unsafe condition.' The email, obtained exclusively by Truthout and highlighted in an investigative report published a year ago, was written in January 2010 by an employee who works at the Lisburne Production Center, site of the Saturday's pipeline rupture." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=dGX0tcV6qCUgNlh7ld9yrMNyeTmU4Miy"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: House Republicans Vote Today on Their Plan to Raise the Debt Limit, and More</strong></font><br />
In today's On the News segment: House Republicans to vote today on their plan to raise the debt limit, robo-signers return, Rupert Murdoch appeared before the UK Parliament today, President Obama nixes the idea of Elizabeth Warren heading the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and more. <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jVbEp9y8sYLFfEjgsOnsssNyeTmU4Miy"><font color="#cc0000">Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>No Great Women Comics Artists?</strong></font><br />
In the latest installment of Truthout's comics column, Ladydrawers, Anne Elizabeth Moore and Christa Donner look beneath the myths surrounding gender and the comics scene. <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FqAwYWvLE17sDxoES3Nc%2FMNyeTmU4Miy"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Comic</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Republican "Cut, Cap and Balance" Plan Would Require a 25 Percent Cut in Every Government Program</strong></font><br />
Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: "House Republicans are planning to hold a vote tomorrow on the radical 'cut, cap, and balance' plan, which stipulates that the federal debt ceiling only be raised if a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution is sent to the states for ratification. As we've noted time and again, such an amendment is a phony solution to the nation's budget challenges, and would force the government into actively making economic downturns worse."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ygnEc9QwBJtfSsHJb3GU7IWfSILk1aKK"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Are Chemicals Making Us Fat?</strong></font><br />
Dr. Brian Moench, Truthout: "Environmental contamination is emerging as a significant contributor to the obesity/diabetes epidemic. In a remarkable study of over 2,000 Americans those people with the highest blood levels of PCBs, dioxins and pesticides had a rate of diabetes 38 times higher than those with the lowest levels. Just as startling, in the group with the lowest levels of chemical pollutants there was no correlation between diabetes and obesity." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gtdh2rr07yFdAOu2TtFFQ8NyeTmU4Miy"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>A British Spring?</strong></font><br />
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: "British Prime Minister David Cameron has announced plans to hold an emergency session of Parliament on Wednesday to discuss the growing phone-hacking scandal that has threatened Rupert Murdoch's media empire and rocked the British government. On Sunday, British detectives arrested Rebekah Brooks, the former head of Murdoch's British newspaper arm, on suspicion of intercepting communications and corruption. Hours later, Metropolitan Police Commissioner Paul Stephenson resigned following criticism of the handling by police of the phone hacking scandal. We speak to Ian Katz, deputy editor of The Guardian, the British newspaper that has broken many of the Murdoch stories, and Sarah Smith, correspondent for Channel 4 News U.K., based in Washington, D.C."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kX9%2BMucoLPI5wTE1E%2FHGjsNyeTmU4Miy"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Paul Krugman | Inflation Hawks Demand That Britain Leap Into Folly</strong></font><br />
Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: "The economist Adam Posen of the Bank of England gave a talk recently about British monetary policy that drives home a point I've been meaning to make: namely, that what's happening in Britain on the monetary front right now is very much a teachable moment about monetary policy more generally."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2VVF2qPg07m4cH0F0KcEMsNyeTmU4Miy"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Reading the World in a Loaf of Bread </strong></font><br />
Christian Parenti, TomDispatch: "What can a humble loaf of bread tell us about the world? The answer is: far more than you might imagine. For one thing, that loaf can be 'read' as if it were a core sample extracted from the heart of a grim global economy. Looked at another way, it reveals some of the crucial fault lines of world politics, including the origins of the Arab spring that has now become a summer of discontent."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YarVunMTg7csTpfbMyfhBMNyeTmU4Miy"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Dick Meister | Paid Sick Leave Is Good for Us All</strong></font><br />
Dick Meister, Truthout: "The latest figures show that some 44 million workers in private employment - more than 40 percent of the private-sector workforce - do not have paid sick days that they could use to recover from illnesses, including contagious illnesses such as the flu, or worse. It should be of particular concern that those occupations which are currently least likely to provide paid sick days include occupations most likely to have regular contact with the public - most importantly and most disturbingly, food service and food preparation."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=w9EBmSYrzbumbba2G01yVIWfSILk1aKK"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> </p>
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<p>Cutting taxes doesn't mean lowering expenses for the middle class and the poor.</p>
<p>That's because, as BuzzFlash at Truthout has pointed out before, with declining income taxes and decreased state spending, the costs that used to be covered by government pop up elsewhere. In many cases, depending upon the needs of a family, the rise in costs and "user fees" - as two examples - outweigh the middle-class income tax decreases that were extended from the Bush years.</p>
<p>A July 17 <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JC7S6SCjaTPKU2j6YrNEIsNyeTmU4Miy"><font color="#cc0000">San Francisco Chronicle article</font></a> gets to the heart of the matter:</p>
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<p>With college tuition increasing again last week at the UC and CSU systems because of state budget cuts, many other Californians were crushed by the cumulative costs of daily life in a "no new taxes" world. CSU's $1,032 tuition increase means that a family sending a child there will see its tax windfall evaporate all at once.</p>
<p>"It's politics," Renwick said. "They can say we had no new taxes but we really did. They just put it in a bunch of places we don't notice."</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Public transportation users are being hit with repeated fare hikes across the country, not only resulting in a hidden "user tax," but also pushing America in the wrong direction on efficient fuel use for moving people from one place to another. This "user tax" also discourages the growth of mass transportation that would reduce global warming.</p>
<p>"You're starting to see the anger," one analyst told the Chronicle. "You can let your roads collapse, you close fire stations or watch your library permanently shut down."</p>
<p>The rich will always be able to afford the higher "user fees" and flat taxes that result from declining income and corporate taxes, but many "anti-tax" crusaders in the middle class don't realize that they are biting off their noses to spite their faces.</p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p>
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<p><strong>Murdoch's Legal, Financial Woes Escalate<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YWcOX3T12m7QlK0BX4HkE8NyeTmU4Miy" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at MSNBC</font></a></p>
<p><strong>The GOP to the Working Class Is Like Colonel Sanders Promising a Good Life to Chickens<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=91SxNqHZuy6G5L2SsWzBesNyeTmU4Miy" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Ronald Reagan's Entire Presidency Would've Been Unconstitutional Under "Cut, Cap and Balance"<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bSkesWEKzyYofbhnQSY8CcNyeTmU4Miy" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The Washington Post</font></a></p>
<p><strong>The Rich Do Increase Employment - for Wealthy Lawyers Who Find Them Tax Breaks<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Enlwo4%2BjamzCw45soQL9Q8NyeTmU4Miy" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Republicans Are Signing Away the Right to Govern<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=v4wd3S3qmS9gAoKUUp5MLsNyeTmU4Miy" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The New York Times</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Congress Choreographs Its Way to Debt Limit Compromise - So What Is It?<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=G7%2FaUdaW7LQ%2FXYCNE0sNu8NyeTmU4Miy" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Talking Points Memo</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Rupert Murdoch's Watergate: The Troubling Parallels<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GBJZ5VbrW9e%2BKSZ%2BZsaC%2BcNyeTmU4Miy" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The Verdict</font></a></p>
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