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Thom Hartmann | Unequal Regulation (for Corporations)
http://www.truth-out.org/unequal-regulation/1313495625
Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: "There's a side to regulation that most people don't think about, and it has far-reaching effects if representatives of corporations are writing the rules.... The regulatory rule essentially legalizes what a corporation is doing. In the best of worlds, this wouldn't be a problem. But in practice it means that business interests are often directly involved in writing the regulations that they themselves will have to obey."
Bachmann's Iowa Straw Poll Win Signals Early Tea Party Role in Shaping GOP Primary
http://www.truth-out.org/bachmanns-iowa-straw-poll-win-signals-early-tea-party-role-shaping-gop-primary/1313514473
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: "The race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination heated up this weekend as Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann won the Iowa straw poll and Texas Gov. Rick Perry formally announced his candidacy.... We speak with Sarah Posner, senior editor of Religion Dispatches, who spent the weekend covering the poll in Iowa for The Nation magazine. 'Bachmann is, much more than the rest of them, going to use the language, the sort of rhetoric and ideology that she learned at Oral Roberts [University] to meld the fiscal conservatism, small government message with her religious message,' Posner says."
BPing the Arctic, Again - Fast Tracking Shell's Dangerous Drilling
http://www.truth-out.org/bping-arctic-again-fast-tracking-shells-dangerous-drilling/1313506774
Subhankar Banerjee, Climate Story Tellers: "One of the riskiest and most destructive extreme energy oil exploration projects on the planet is moving toward implementation without scientific understanding or technical preparedness - Shell's oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean of Alaska. On August 4, the US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) conditionally approved Shell's plan to drill up to four exploratory wells in the Beaufort Sea of Arctic Alaska starting July 2012."
Eugene Robinson | Straw Poll Winner - Obama
http://www.truth-out.org/straw-poll-winner-obama/1313498730
Eugene Robinson, The Washington Post Writers Group: "The emergence of Bachmann and Perry as Romney's chief rivals has shifted the GOP contest sharply to the right. This may fire up the Republican base, but it may also turn off independents who have made clear their distaste for uncompromising partisanship."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The UK May Have Found the Smoking Gun in Rupert-Gate, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann/1313509879
In today's On the News segment: Rick Perry uses violent rhetoric in his campaign for president, World Bank warns of another food crisis, Democratic Congressmen Kucinich and Michaud try to rally members of Congress against a Free Trade deal with South Korea, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz boycotts political contributions to set an example for businesses to boost the economy, Republicans are ditching open town hall meetings with constituents for ones that charge for attendance, and more.
Wisconsin Votes on Recall of Two Democratic State Senators
http://www.truth-out.org/wisconsin-votes-recall-two-democratic-state-senators/1313517042
Michael Muskal, The Los Angeles Times: "Voters went to the polls Tuesday to decide two Wisconsin state Senate races, the latest battle in the national fight over curbing the role of unions representing public employees. The two special elections, seeking to recall two Democrats, are the final steps in the fierce fight over Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to limit collective bargaining rights for many public employees. Sens. Jim Holperin and Robert Wirch, were among the Democrats who fled the state for weeks earlier this year in an unsuccessful effort to prevent the Legislature from passing Walker's package of bills seen by their party as being anti-labor."
Disguised Member of Hacktivist Group "Anonymous" Defends Retaliatory Action Against BART
http://www.truth-out.org/disguised-member-hacktivist-group-anonymous-defends-retaliatory-action-against-bart/1313514747
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: "On Monday, officials with the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) were forced to close four train stations during the evening rush hour as free speech advocates attempted to disrupt the evening commute. The protest was called by the activist hacker group Anonymous in retaliation for BART's decision to shut down cell phone and mobile-internet service at four stations last week in an effort to disrupt a protest over the shooting of a homeless man."
Why Have There Been No Great Women Comics Artists? (Part 3)
http://www.truth-out.org/why-have-there-been-no-great-women-comics-artists/1313420504
Anne Elizabeth Moore and Christa Donner, Truthout: "The discussion raised lately by this column, shakeups in corporate comics and general ongoing frustrations in the world of lady drawers has hinged largely on why there have been no great female comics characters, and the ridiculous outfits they are often given to wear. But as in any form of media, comics are also a job for those select few with the talent, perseverance and luck to make it work. But those select few are a very homogenous group, and some are starting to ask why."
Is the Ballooning Military Budget Keeping You Safe?
http://www.truth-out.org/how-safe-are-you/1313501451
Chris Hellman, TomDispatch: "The killing of Osama Bin Laden did not put cuts in national security spending on the table, but the debt-ceiling debate finally did. And mild as those projected cuts might have been, last week newly minted Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was already digging in his heels and decrying the modest potential cost-cutting plans as a 'doomsday mechanism' for the military. Pentagon allies on Capitol Hill were similarly raising the alarm as they moved forward with this year's even larger military budget."
Egyptian Workers Labor on an Unfinished Revolution
http://www.truth-out.org/egyptian-workers-labor-unfinished-revolution/1313504239
Ari Paul, The Indypendent: "For 26 years, Mohammed Gharib Abdullah has been proud to be a mechanic at the Timsah Shipbuilding Company on the Suez Canal, a symbol of Egyptian economic and engineering might. He works in Ismailia, a desert city of 750,000 inhabitants near the midpoint of the 101-mile-long-canal that links the Mediterranean and Gulf of Suez. In early July, however, Abdullah stood outside the gates of his idled factory. He and 8,500 other ship and port infrastructure builders were on strike, claiming that a crony of ousted President Hosni Mubarak reneged on a wage increase they won a few months ago. 'Most of the laborers love their work,' he said. 'All that we dream of is to live at a basic level of dignity.'"
Concerns Grow Over Risk of US Nuclear Projects Post-Fukushima
http://www.truth-out.org/concerns-grow-over-risk-us-nuclear-projects-post-fukushima/1313505605
Sue Sturgis, Facing South: "The disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan is still unfolding five months later, with multiple meltdowns and significant radiation releases contaminating communities and farms downwind from the facility. Some nuclear experts are calling it 'the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind.' The Fukushima accident is also raising questions about the U.S. nuclear industry's current plans to build new reactors and re-license old ones."
Economic Update: Your Weekly Dose of Revolutionary Economics (Audio)
http://www.truth-out.org/economic-update-your-weekly-dose-revolutionary-economics/1310498361
Richard D. Wolff, Truthout: "If you want a society to have the qualities of liberty, equality and fraternity that we celebrate in the French Revolution, or a government by, of and for the people, that Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln talked about, then you're going to have to bite the bullet of changing an economic system that otherwise undermines and clashes with those values."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
While politicians argue about how to fix the US economy, many Americans don't even have enough money to fix their homes - and jobs for people who actually build real things (like houses and stores) continue to stagnate.
The evidence shows up in local stories like this one from The Chicago Sun-Times: "Elgin Lowe's store among seven closed." (http://couriernews.suntimes.com/business/7080639-418/elgin-lowes-store-among-seven-closed.html) More than 80 people in the Chicago suburb have lost their jobs after Lowe's - the second largest home improvement chain - abruptly shuttered seven stores nationally.
Several factors contributed to the closing in Elgin, including "unemployment among Elgin tradesmen [that] is about 50 percent." That is because people can't afford new homes - and in many cases are putting off hiring contractors to do home repairs.
But what might be most troubling is that many Americans, suffering economically, may be putting off doing many home repairs themselves because of the cost of supplies.
The myth that somehow businesses will generate more jobs with higher tax breaks for the rich is a fiction created to fatten the wallets of corporate CEOs and shareholders. If there is less money for consumers to spend, stores like Lowe's close and jobs are lost, not added.
As BuzzFlash at Truthout noted before, the profit motive does not create more employment if there is not increased purchasing power.
By giving wealthy people more money, nothing is done to stimulate demand, except maybe for Prada and yachts.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
Pony Up Big Dollars to Rick Perry and Get Big Benefits
Read the Article at The Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-perry-donors.eps-20110816,0,3603467.graphic
Rick Perry Thinks Texas Climate Scientists Are in a "Secular Carbon Cult"
Read the Article at Grist
http://www.grist.org/climate-skeptics/2011-08-15-rick-perry-thinks-texas-climate-scientists-secular-carbon-carbon
Declining Middle Class Pays for the Lavish, Gluttonous Lifestyles of America's Super Rich
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12946
HIV Budget Cuts Show Why US Health Care Is Broken
Read the Article at The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/life/archive/2011/08/hiv-budget-cuts-show-why-us-health-care-is-broken/243695/
Bill Berkowitz: "I'll Vote for You Next November, President Obama, but to Quote B.B. King, 'The Thrill Is Gone.'"
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12948
Obama's Gallup Numbers Show 12 States in Play in 2012
Read the Article at The Los Angeles Times
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-inside-gallup-20110815,0,2201869.story
Long-Term Unemployment Wreaks Mental Toll on Jobless
Read the Article at McClatchy
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2011/08/15/120763/long-term-unemployment-wreaks.html#storylink=omni_popular
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<font><strong>Thom Hartmann | Unequal Regulation (for Corporations)</strong=
></font><br />
Thom Hartmann, Berrett-Koehler Publishers: "There's a side to regulation th=
at most people don't think about, and it has far-reaching effects if repres=
entatives of corporations are writing the rules.... The regulatory rule ess=
entially legalizes what a corporation is doing. In the best of worlds, this=
wouldn't be a problem. But in practice it means that business interests ar=
e often directly involved in writing the regulations that they themselves w=
ill have to obey."<br />
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<font><strong>Bachmann's Iowa Straw Poll Win Signals Early Tea Party Role i=
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Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: "The race for the 2012 Republican presidential=
nomination heated up this weekend as Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann won t=
he Iowa straw poll and Texas Gov. Rick Perry formally announced his candida=
cy.... We speak with Sarah Posner, senior editor of Religion Dispatches, wh=
o spent the weekend covering the poll in Iowa for The Nation magazine. 'Bac=
hmann is, much more than the rest of them, going to use the language, the s=
ort of rhetoric and ideology that she learned at Oral Roberts [University] =
to meld the fiscal conservatism, small government message with her religiou=
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<font><strong>BPing the Arctic, Again - Fast Tracking Shell's Dangerous Dri=
lling</strong></font><br />
Subhankar Banerjee, Climate Story Tellers: "One of the riskiest and most de=
structive extreme energy oil exploration projects on the planet is moving t=
oward implementation without scientific understanding or technical prepared=
ness - Shell's oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean of Alaska. On August 4, the=
US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement (BOEMRE) =
conditionally approved Shell's plan to drill up to four exploratory wells i=
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fight over curbing the role of unions representing public employees. The t=
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argaining rights for many public employees. Sens. Jim Holperin and Robert W=
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rush hour as free speech advocates attempted to disrupt the evening commute=
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at four stations last week in an effort to disrupt a protest over the shoo=
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trations in the world of lady drawers has hinged largely on why there have =
been no great female comics characters, and the ridiculous outfits they are=
often given to wear. But as in any form of media, comics are also a job fo=
r those select few with the talent, perseverance and luck to make it work. =
But those select few are a very homogenous group, and some are starting to =
ask why."<br />
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s in national security spending on the table, but the debt-ceiling debate f=
inally did. And mild as those projected cuts might have been, last week new=
ly minted Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta was already digging in his heel=
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<font><strong>Egyptian Workers Labor on an Unfinished Revolution</strong></=
font><br />
Ari Paul, The Indypendent: "For 26 years, Mohammed Gharib Abdullah has been=
proud to be a mechanic at the Timsah Shipbuilding Company on the Suez Cana=
l, a symbol of Egyptian economic and engineering might. He works in Ismaili=
a, a desert city of 750,000 inhabitants near the midpoint of the 101-mile-l=
ong-canal that links the Mediterranean and Gulf of Suez. In early July, how=
ever, Abdullah stood outside the gates of his idled factory. He and 8,500 o=
ther ship and port infrastructure builders were on strike, claiming that a =
crony of ousted President Hosni Mubarak reneged on a wage increase they won=
a few months ago. 'Most of the laborers love their work,' he said. 'All th=
at we dream of is to live at a basic level of dignity.'"<br />
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lant in Japan is still unfolding five months later, with multiple meltdowns=
and significant radiation releases contaminating communities and farms dow=
nwind from the facility. Some nuclear experts are calling it 'the biggest i=
ndustrial catastrophe in the history of mankind.' The Fukushima accident is=
also raising questions about the U.S. nuclear industry's current plans to =
build new reactors and re-license old ones."<br />
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n, or a government by, of and for the people, that Thomas Jefferson and Abr=
aham Lincoln talked about, then you're going to have to bite the bullet of =
changing an economic system that otherwise undermines and clashes with thos=
e values."<br />
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<p>While politicians argue about how to fix the US economy, many Americans =
don't even have enough money to fix their homes - and jobs for people who a=
ctually build real things (like houses and stores) continue to stagnate.</p=
>
<p>The evidence shows up in local stories like this one from The Chicago Su=
n-Times: <a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3Dvd9c6nTMRsY%2FR5fAcP%2FtYD%2BcyDXv%2BrrM"><font color=3D"#cc0000">"Elgin=
Lowe's store among seven closed."</font></a> More than 80 people in the Ch=
icago suburb have lost their jobs after Lowe's - the second largest home im=
provement chain - abruptly shuttered seven stores nationally.</p>
<p>Several factors contributed to the closing in Elgin, including "unemploy=
ment among Elgin tradesmen [that] is about 50 percent." That is because peo=
ple can't afford new homes - and in many cases are putting off hiring contr=
actors to do home repairs.</p>
<p>But what might be most troubling is that many Americans, suffering econo=
mically, may be putting off doing many home repairs themselves because of t=
he cost of supplies.</p>
<p>The myth that somehow businesses will generate more jobs with higher tax=
breaks for the rich is a fiction created to fatten the wallets of corporat=
e CEOs and shareholders. If there is less money for consumers to spend, sto=
res like Lowe's close and jobs are lost, not added.</p>
<p>As BuzzFlash at Truthout noted before, the profit motive does not create=
more employment if there is not increased purchasing power.</p>
<p>By giving wealthy people more money, nothing is done to stimulate demand=
, except maybe for Prada and yachts.</p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p>
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</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
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