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Air Force Pulls Christian-Themed Ethics Training for Nuclear Missile Officers After Publication of Truthout Report
http://www.truth-out.org/air-force-pulls-christian-themed-ethics-training-missile-officers/1311972789
Jason Leopold, Truthout: "The Air Force, in response to a report published by Truthout earlier this week, has pulled a Christian-themed training session that used a quote from an ex-Nazi SS officer and numerous passages from the New and Old Testament to teach missile officers about the morals and ethics of launching nuclear weapons... David Smith, chief of public affairs of Air Education and Training Command at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas... said the ethics training has been in place for '20-plus years' and the decision to remove it was made on Wednesday after Truthout's report was published."
Senate Quickly Kills Boehner Debt Bill
http://www.truth-out.org/senate-quickly-kills-boehner-debt-bill/1312030751
Carl Hulse and Robert Pear, The New York Times News Service: "After a 24-hour delay and concessions to conservatives, the House on Friday narrowly approved a Republican fiscal plan that the Senate quickly rejected in a standoff over the federal debt ceiling that was keeping the government on a path to potential default. Despite a day of frenzied legislative maneuvering... the two parties made no visible progress in finding common ground, leaving Washington, Wall Street and much of the nation watching the clock toward a deadline of midnight Tuesday."
Mainstream Reporters: Too Close to the Field and Teams to Get the Debt Story
http://www.truth-out.org/mainstream-reporters-too-close-field-and-teams-get-debt-story/1312033901
Jeff Cohen, Truthout: "If you were a spectator in a sky box seat looking directly down on the Washington debt debate, you'd be seeing a contest both narrow and off to one edge of the field - like watching a football game being played entirely between the 10-yard line and the goal line. The big items that added trillions to the debt are not even on the field of debate. Because the two teams are not contesting them."
Recession Study Finds Hispanics Hit the Hardest
http://www.truth-out.org/recession-study-finds-hispanics-hit-hardest/1312034483
Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times News Service: "Hispanic families accounted for the largest single decline in wealth of any ethnic and racial group in the country during the recession, according to a study published Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. The study, which used data collected by the Census Bureau, found that the median wealth of Hispanic households fell by 66 percent from 2005 to 2009. By contrast, the median wealth of whites fell by just 16 percent over the same period. African Americans saw their wealth drop by 53 percent. Asians also saw a big decline, with household wealth dropping 54 percent."
World Reacts to Debt Ceiling Debacle: "Irresponsible," "Worst Kind of Absurd Theatrics"
http://www.truth-out.org/world-reacts-debt-ceiling-debacle-irresponsible-worst-kind-absurd-theatrics/1312035874
Ken Sofer, ThinkProgress: "From France and Germany to China and India, countries around the world are angry that American politicians play with the possibility of a U.S. default like a yo-yo with little regard for the international economic system that depends on American solvency... Even if Congress manages to forge a deal against the wishes of the Tea Party and deliver a bill to President Obama's desk raising the debt ceiling before default, the damage to our international standing has already been done."
Israel's Reaction to Palestinian Nonviolence Threatens Israeli Democracy
http://www.truth-out.org/palestinian-nonviolence-and-israels-reaction/1311859193
Joseph Dana, Truthout: "Since the fall of Mubarak's Egypt, reformulations of Palestinian nonviolent resistance to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have enjoyed renewed momentum... Israel's reaction to the demonstrations was violent as the Army killed 23 unarmed demonstrators and wounded hundreds with live bullets, tear gas canisters and sound grenades."
Turkey's Top Generals Quit En Masse Over Political Targeting
http://www.truth-out.org/turkeys-top-generals-quit-en-masse-over-political-targeting/1312040824
Gul Tuysuz and Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times News Service: "Turkey's top military commanders resigned en masse on Friday, a move without precedent in Turkish history that many analysts saw as a failed effort by a beleaguered institution to exert what is left of its dwindling political power... Turkey's top commander, Gen. Isik Kosaner, together with the leaders of the navy, army and air force, simultaneously resigned in protest over the sweeping arrests of dozens of generals as suspects in conspiracy investigations that many people in Turkey have come to see as a witch hunt."
Economists: Now is Wrong Time for Congress to Cut Spending
http://www.truth-out.org/economists-now-wrong-time-congress-cut-spending/1312039103
Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers: "Despite the weak growth, politicians aren't arguing about stimulating the economy; rather they're debating how quickly and how much to cut spending, thus shaving economic growth in the process... The U.S. economy grew at an anemic 1.3 percent rate from April to June, the Commerce Department reported Friday. It also revised downward the growth rate over the first three months of 2011 to just 0.4 percent."
A Future Without Coal: In New Mexico Supreme Court, Again
http://www.truth-out.org/future-without-coal-new-mexico-supreme-court-again/1312038090
Mariel Nanasi, Climate Story Tellers: "Everyday, tons upon tons of CO2, ozone, nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxides, particulate matter and mercury-all from coal, exact a staggering price in blood and sorrow... In my home state of New Mexico, the poison and devastation of coal has a name and that name is PNM (pronounced pee-en-em). New Mexico's largest utility is addicted to coal. Remember a moment ago I mentioned that half of the world's carbon pollution comes from coal. Well, half of New Mexico's carbon pollution comes from PNM."
Large Mortgage Service Filed False Documents in Foreclosure Bid
http://www.truth-out.org/large-mortgage-service-filed-false-documents-foreclosure-bid/1312042309
Paul Kiel, ProPublica: "GMAC, one of the nation's largest mortgage servicers... wanted to foreclose on a New York City homeowner but lacked the crucial paperwork needed to seize the property... Three months later, GMAC had an answer. Itfiled a document with New York City authorities that said the delinquent Ameriquest loan had been assigned to it 'effective of' August 2005. The documentwas dated July 7, 2010, three years after Ameriquest had ceased to exist... In New York, it's a felony to file a public record with 'intent to deceive.'"
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Iraq Deadlier Now Than a Year Ago
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Norway Unites to Bury Its Dead
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Legislation to Phase Out Private Military Contractors is Filed in Senate and House
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The Debt Ceiling Solution That Obama Dares Not Mention - Yet
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Cut Nuclear Power Subsidies Instead of Making Old People Live on Cat Food
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Why is GOP Hypocrisy So Brazen and Audacious? Take Dead Beat Tea-Party Dad Congressman Joe Walsh, For Example
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President's Twitter Campaign Urging Pressure on Republicans Backfires
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<font><strong>Air Force Pulls Christian-Themed Ethics Training for Nuclear Missile Officers After Publication of Truthout Report</strong></font><br />
Jason Leopold, Truthout: "The Air Force, in response to a report published by Truthout earlier this week, has pulled a Christian-themed training session that used a quote from an ex-Nazi SS officer and numerous passages from the New and Old Testament to teach missile officers about the morals and ethics of launching nuclear weapons... David Smith, chief of public affairs of Air Education and Training Command at Randolph Air Force Base in Texas... said the ethics training has been in place for '20-plus years' and the decision to remove it was made on Wednesday after Truthout's report was published."
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<font><strong>Senate Quickly Kills Boehner Debt Bill</strong></font><br />
Carl Hulse and Robert Pear, The New York Times News Service: "After a 24-hour delay and concessions to conservatives, the House on Friday narrowly approved a Republican fiscal plan that the Senate quickly rejected in a standoff over the federal debt ceiling that was keeping the government on a path to potential default. Despite a day of frenzied legislative maneuvering... the two parties made no visible progress in finding common ground, leaving Washington, Wall Street and much of the nation watching the clock toward a deadline of midnight Tuesday."
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<font><strong>Mainstream Reporters: Too Close to the Field and Teams to Get the Debt Story</strong></font><br />
Jeff Cohen, Truthout: "If you were a spectator in a sky box seat looking directly down on the Washington debt debate, you’d be seeing a contest both narrow and off to one edge of the field - like watching a football game being played entirely between the 10-yard line and the goal line. The big items that added trillions to the debt are not even on the field of debate. Because the two teams are not contesting them."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=61qFbrf0QewO9Jn%2B8IW%2BtjdwEk40sT2m"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
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<font><strong>Recession Study Finds Hispanics Hit the Hardest</strong></font><br />
Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times News Service: "Hispanic families accounted for the largest single decline in wealth of any ethnic and racial group in the country during the recession, according to a study published Tuesday by the Pew Research Center. The study, which used data collected by the Census Bureau, found that the median wealth of Hispanic households fell by 66 percent from 2005 to 2009. By contrast, the median wealth of whites fell by just 16 percent over the same period. African Americans saw their wealth drop by 53 percent. Asians also saw a big decline, with household wealth dropping 54 percent."
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<font><strong>World Reacts to Debt Ceiling Debacle: "Irresponsible," "Worst Kind of Absurd Theatrics"</strong></font><br />
Ken Sofer, ThinkProgress: "From France and Germany to China and India, countries around the world are angry that American politicians play with the possibility of a U.S. default like a yo-yo with little regard for the international economic system that depends on American solvency... Even if Congress manages to forge a deal against the wishes of the Tea Party and deliver a bill to President Obama's desk raising the debt ceiling before default, the damage to our international standing has already been done."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=cC4Tc%2Fjb8aWFkY4JSZiPpDdwEk40sT2m"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
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<font><strong>Israel’s Reaction to Palestinian Nonviolence Threatens Israeli Democracy</strong></font><br />
Joseph Dana, Truthout: "Since the fall of Mubarak's Egypt, reformulations of Palestinian nonviolent resistance to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip have enjoyed renewed momentum... Israel's reaction to the demonstrations was violent as the Army killed 23 unarmed demonstrators and wounded hundreds with live bullets, tear gas canisters and sound grenades."
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<font><strong>Turkey's Top Generals Quit En Masse Over Political Targeting</strong></font><br />
Gul Tuysuz and Sabrina Tavernise, The New York Times News Service: "Turkey’s top military commanders resigned en masse on Friday, a move without precedent in Turkish history that many analysts saw as a failed effort by a beleaguered institution to exert what is left of its dwindling political power... Turkey’s top commander, Gen. Isik Kosaner, together with the leaders of the navy, army and air force, simultaneously resigned in protest over the sweeping arrests of dozens of generals as suspects in conspiracy investigations that many people in Turkey have come to see as a witch hunt."
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<font><strong>Economists: Now is Wrong Time for Congress to Cut Spending</strong></font><br />
Kevin G. Hall, McClatchy Newspapers: "Despite the weak growth, politicians aren't arguing about stimulating the economy; rather they're debating how quickly and how much to cut spending, thus shaving economic growth in the process... The U.S. economy grew at an anemic 1.3 percent rate from April to June, the Commerce Department reported Friday. It also revised downward the growth rate over the first three months of 2011 to just 0.4 percent."
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<font><strong>A Future Without Coal: In New Mexico Supreme Court, Again</strong></font><br />
Mariel Nanasi, Climate Story Tellers: "Everyday, tons upon tons of CO2, ozone, nitrous oxides, sulfur dioxides, particulate matter and mercury—all from coal, exact a staggering price in blood and sorrow... In my home state of New Mexico, the poison and devastation of coal has a name and that name is PNM (pronounced pee-en-em). New Mexico’s largest utility is addicted to coal. Remember a moment ago I mentioned that half of the world’s carbon pollution comes from coal. Well, half of New Mexico’s carbon pollution comes from PNM."
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<font><strong>Large Mortgage Service Filed False Documents in Foreclosure Bid</strong></font><br />
Paul Kiel, ProPublica: "GMAC, one of the nation's largest mortgage servicers... wanted to foreclose on a New York City homeowner but lacked the crucial paperwork needed to seize the property... Three months later, GMAC had an answer. Itfiled a document with New York City authorities that said the delinquent Ameriquest loan had been assigned to it 'effective of' August 2005. The documentwas dated July 7, 2010, three years after Ameriquest had ceased to exist... In New York, it's a felony to file a public record with 'intent to deceive.'"
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<p><strong>The Debt Ceiling Solution That Obama Dares Not Mention - Yet<br />
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<p><strong>Cut Nuclear Power Subsidies Instead of Making Old People Live on Cat Food<br />
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<p><strong>Why is GOP Hypocrisy So Brazen and Audacious? Take Dead Beat Tea-Party Dad Congressman Joe Walsh, For Example<br />
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<p><strong>President's Twitter Campaign Urging Pressure on Republicans Backfires<br />
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