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Jim Hightower | "Governor Supercuts" for President?
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08.17
Jim Hightower | "Governor Supercuts" for President?
http://www.truth-out.org/governor-supercuts-president/1313601078
Jim Hightower, Truthout: "GOP-land is all a twitter, now that Texas Gov. Rick Perry has announced that he's ready to ascend to the White House. Perry is an exuberant corporate Republican, unabashedly hugging any big business lobbyist bearing a campaign check and a wish list. Although he dresses alluringly for the right-wing extremists, the corporate powers are his true love - and vice versa."
Part Three: FEMA During the Bush Years (2001 - 2004)
http://www.truth-out.org/part-three-fema-during-bush-years-2001-2004/1312556826
Leo Bosner, Truthout: "The Midwest Floods, the Oklahoma City Bombing, the Northridge Earthquake, one hurricane after another, although not perfect (what ever is?), this eight-year period had shown that the federal government could do something right and it was FEMA's most effective era since its inception in 1979. What would come next?"
Is Capitalism Doomed?
http://www.truth-out.org/capitalism-doomed/1313598889
Nouriel Roubini, Project Syndicate: "So Karl Marx, it seems, was partly right in arguing that globalization, financial intermediation run amok, and redistribution of income and wealth from labor to capital could lead capitalism to self-destruct (though his view that socialism would be better has proven wrong). Firms are cutting jobs because there is not enough final demand. But cutting jobs reduces labor income, increases inequality and reduces final demand."
Pakistan Demands Veto on US Drone Strikes
http://www.truth-out.org/pakistan-demands-veto-us-drone-strikes/1313587845
Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "Pakistani civilian and military leaders are insisting on an effective veto over which targets U.S. drone strikes hit, according to well-informed Pakistani military sources here. The basic government-to-government agreement now being demanded would be followed, the sources said, by more detailed agreements between U.S. and Pakistani military leaders and intelligence agencies."
Two Wisconsin Democrats Retain Seats in Recall Elections
http://www.truth-out.org/two-wisconsin-democrats-retain-seats-recall-elections/1313587305
Staff, The New York Times News Service: "Two Democrats kept their seats in the Wisconsin State Senate on Tuesday, drawing an end to an unprecedented series of recall elections that had distracted the state all summer. Jim Holperin and Bob Wirch had been among the senators - the entire Democratic caucus - who left Wisconsin for weeks in an effort to block a measure to curtail collective bargaining rights for public workers."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: California Considering Single-Payer Health Care for Low-Income Residents, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann-california-considering-single-payer-health-care-low-income-residents-and-more/1-0
In today's On the News segment: Democrats successfully defended their Wisconsin state Senate seats yesterday, Perry's Texas Supreme Court sided with corporations in three out of four decisions, Arizona recall against author of SB1070 will go forward, Defense Department investigates how over five million pieces of critical body armor costing $3 billion may not meet safety standards, California considering single-payer health care for low-income residents, and more.
Brother Can You Spare Two Million Jobs? Emergency Jobs Bill Proposed
http://www.truth-out.org/brother-can-you-spare-2-million-jobs-emergency-jobs-bill-proposed/1313588117
Staff, Jobs with Justice: "Responding to the continuing massive jobs deficit, Chicago Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky proposed to create 2 million jobs, introducing the 'Emergency Jobs to Restore the American Dream Act.' Surrounded by Chicago JwJ coalition leaders and other groups, Schakowsky declared: 'Unlike the long disproven claims that more tax breaks for wealthy corporations will lead to more employment, I have a bill that will actually work. How can we guarantee this bill will get 2 million people back to work? By hiring them!'"
Perry Reveals Plan for Total US Anarchy
http://www.truth-out.org/perry-reveals-plan-total-us-anarchy/1313590579
Brad Johnson, ThinkProgress: "Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) issued the first policy position of his presidential campaign by asking the White House to issue a 'moratorium on regulations across this country'. Perry's 'moratorium on regulations' would mean a literal end to the rules of law in the United States. At least it would also mean that all of President George W. Bush's midnight regulations favoring polluters and industry abuses would also be lifted."
Read the Embarrassing Hacking Allegations That News Corp. Redacted
http://www.truth-out.org/read-embarrassing-hacking-allegations-news-corp-redacted/1313590675
Marian Wang, ProPublica: "New documents published today cast doubt on News Corporation's claims that top executives and editors at the now-defunct News of the World were unaware of widespread phone hacking at the paper. One of the documents had also been aggressively redacted by News Corp., which removed references that referred to top editors knowing about the hacking."
Pledge of Euro Unity May Not Be Enough to Satisfy Markets
http://www.truth-out.org/pledge-euro-unity-may-not-be-enough-satisfy-markets/1313607765
Steven Erlanger and Jack Ewing, The New York Times News Service: "The leaders of France and Germany on Tuesday promised to take concrete steps toward a closer political and economic union of the 17 countries that use the euro, but it was unclear whether their proposals would be sufficient, or come quickly enough, to satisfy markets anxious over Europe's debts and listless economies."
Texas Ranks Dead Last In Total Job Creation, Accounting For Labor Force Growth
http://www.truth-out.org/texas-ranks-dead-last-total-job-creation-accounting-labor-force-growth/1313595007
Staff, ThinkProgress: "Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), since he launched his presidential campaign on Saturday, has paraded around the stat that "since June of 2009, Texas is responsible for more than 40 percent of all of the new jobs created in America." 'Now think about that. We're home to less than 10 percent of the population in America, but 40 percent of all the new jobs were created in that state,' Perry says. This stat leaves out a lot of the story."
Why the Jobs Argument Against Military Cuts Is Bogus
http://www.truth-out.org/why-jobs-argument-against-military-cuts-bogus/1313598273
Robert Naiman, Truthout: "Just as the government cannot increase employment by building a bridge when the economy is at full employment, the government cannot increase employment by building bombs when the economy is at full employment. Likewise, if the economy is at full employment, then the government cannot decrease employment by building fewer bombs."
Robert Scheer | The Biggest Little Hypocrite in Texas
http://www.truth-out.org/biggest-little-hypocrite-texas/1313604529
Robert Scheer, Truthout: "It is unfathomable that yet another Texas blowhard governor has emerged as a front-runner for the GOP presidential nomination. The persistent appeal of the mythology of Texas as a model for the nation defies the lessons of logic and experience, and yet here we are with Rick Perry, a George W. Bush look-alike, as a prime contender to once again run our nation into the ground."
ACLU Sues Kansas Over Limits on Abortion Insurance
http://www.truth-out.org/aclu-sues-kansas-over-limits-abortion-insurance/1313604927
Brad Cooper, McClatchy Newspapers: "A new Kansas law that bans insurers from providing elective abortion coverage is the state's third abortion-related measure to draw a legal challenge in recent months. A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday by the American Civil Liberties Union contends the law is unconstitutional and discriminates against women because it doesn't apply similar insurance limits on men's health care needs."
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."
Robert Reich, Class of '68, Speaks at Dartmouth "Leading Voices" Summer Lecture Series (Video)
http://www.truth-out.org/robert-reich-68-speaks-dartmouth-leading-voices-summer-lecture-series/1313506492
Robert Reich, Dartmouth class of '68, speaks at his Alma Mater as part of the "Leading Voices in Politics and Policy" summer lecture series.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
How did Jesus go from being a socialist in the New Testament to a selfish Ayn Rand anarcho-capitalist in modern-day America? After all, one of the most well-known bible verses is from Mark 10:25: "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
Sociologist Gregory Paul stated the paradox clearly in an August 12 Washington Post op-ed: (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/guest-voices/post/from-jesus-socialism-to-capitalistic-christianity/2011/08/12/gIQAziaQBJ_blog.html?fb_ref=NetworkNews)
"Many conservative Christians, mostly Protestant but also a number of Catholics, have come to believe and proudly proclaim that the creator of the universe favors free wheeling, deregulated, union busting, minimal taxes especially for wealthy investors, plutocrat-boosting capitalism as the ideal earthly scheme for his human creations. And many of these Christian capitalists are ardent followers of Ayn Rand, who was one of - and many of whose followers are - the most hard-line anti-Christian atheists you can get. Meanwhile many Christians who support the capitalist policies associated with social Darwinistic strenuously denounce Darwin's evolutionary science because it supposedly leads to, well, social Darwinism!"
But Paul points out that the New Testament primarily promotes what would nowadays be called socialism:
"But to understand just how non-capitalistic Christianity is supposed to be we turn to the first chapter after the gospels, Acts, which describes the events of the early church. Chapters 2 and 4 state that all 'the believers were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and goods, they gave to anyone as he had need ... No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had.... There were no needy persons among them. From time to time those who owned lands or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles' feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need.'
Now folks, that's outright socialism of the type described millennia later by Marx - who likely got the general idea from the gospels."
Paul further notes that "we have Christian creationists like Jay Richards writing books titled 'Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Solution and Not the Problem.' Can a stranger amalgam of opposing opinions be devised?"
In essence, the modern prosperity theologians who dominate the right wing of the Republican Party are essentially heretics. They've grafted on a post-industrial-age emphasis on the acquisition of capital and material goods to the alleged son of God, Jesus, who was himself essentially the father of socialism (as recounted in the bible).
At the next Republican debate, we would like to see a test of faith. All the candidates should be required to thread a camel through the eye of a needle.
If they can't do it, they have to shut up about Jesus, Christianity and the bible.
Now that would be refreshing.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
The Late Molly Ivins on Governor "Goodhair" Perry
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/08/rick-perry-molly-ivins
Glenn Greenwald: The Misery of the Protracted Presidential Campaign Season
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2011/08/16/elections/index.html
US Government Giving Rich More Money Only Stimulates Demand for Prada and Yachts, as Main Street Closes Down
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12949
Price Gougers Hike Costs of Vital, Life-Saving Drugs During Shortage
Read the Article at MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44167386/
Bloomberg Is at Lowest Approval Ratings in Six Years: Money Can't Always Buy You Voter Love
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/17/nyregion/in-poll-lowest-marks-for-bloomberg-in-6-years.html?_r=2&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha29
Will This Obama Jobs Plan Have Any More Political Clout Than the Prior Ones?
Read the Article at MSNBC
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/08/17/7396064-first-thoughts-man-with-the-plan
Even Rupert Murdoch Is Afraid of Roger Ailes
Read the Article at The Guardian UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/10/roger-ailes-fox-news-murdoch
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<font><strong>Jim Hightower | "Governor Supercuts" for President?</strong><=
/font><br />
Jim Hightower, Truthout: "GOP-land is all a twitter, now that Texas Gov. Ri=
ck Perry has announced that he's ready to ascend to the White House. Perry =
is an exuberant corporate Republican, unabashedly hugging any big business =
lobbyist bearing a campaign check and a wish list. Although he dresses allu=
ringly for the right-wing extremists, the corporate powers are his true lov=
e - and vice versa."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DnGbYQY=
Xa09bnnxDw%2BZu%2F8gyvd3%2BMSwxF"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Part Three: FEMA During the Bush Years (2001 - 2004)</strong>=
</font><br />
Leo Bosner, Truthout: "The Midwest Floods, the Oklahoma City Bombing, the N=
orthridge Earthquake, one hurricane after another, although not perfect (wh=
at ever is?), this eight-year period had shown that the federal government =
could do something right and it was FEMA's most effective era since its inc=
eption in 1979. What would come next?"<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DZw%2F%=
2BlJ86rmQenzg9tgDIdQyvd3%2BMSwxF"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Is Capitalism Doomed?</strong></font><br />
Nouriel Roubini, Project Syndicate: "So Karl Marx, it seems, was partly rig=
ht in arguing that globalization, financial intermediation run amok, and re=
distribution of income and wealth from labor to capital could lead capitali=
sm to self-destruct (though his view that socialism would be better has pro=
ven wrong). Firms are cutting jobs because there is not enough final demand=
. But cutting jobs reduces labor income, increases inequality and reduces f=
inal demand."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DamQpAN=
3lYQYsPTcrpLSgBQyvd3%2BMSwxF"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Pakistan Demands Veto on US Drone Strikes</strong></font><br =
/>
Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "Pakistani civilian and military leader=
s are insisting on an effective veto over which targets U.S. drone strikes =
hit, according to well-informed Pakistani military sources here. The basic =
government-to-government agreement now being demanded would be followed, th=
e sources said, by more detailed agreements between U.S. and Pakistani mili=
tary leaders and intelligence agencies." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DXRF1yj=
oz%2FC7amPLIr64MaAyvd3%2BMSwxF"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</f=
ont></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Two Wisconsin Democrats Retain Seats in Recall Elections</str=
ong></font><br />
Staff, The New York Times News Service: "Two Democrats kept their seats in =
the Wisconsin State Senate on Tuesday, drawing an end to an unprecedented s=
eries of recall elections that had distracted the state all summer. Jim Hol=
perin and Bob Wirch had been among the senators - the entire Democratic cau=
cus - who left Wisconsin for weeks in an effort to block a measure to curta=
il collective bargaining rights for public workers."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DTnzhl5=
F1Lf4duL1zOLWB6Ayvd3%2BMSwxF"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: California Considering Single=
-Payer Health Care for Low-Income Residents, and More</strong></font><br />
In today's On the News segment: Democrats successfully defended their Wisco=
nsin state Senate seats yesterday, Perry's Texas Supreme Court sided with c=
orporations in three out of four decisions, Arizona recall against author o=
f SB1070 will go forward, Defense Department investigates how over five mil=
lion pieces of critical body armor costing $3 billion may not meet safety s=
tandards, California considering single-payer health care for low-income re=
sidents, and more.<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DIX%2BO=
3PCAG5LT0Lt39RW4vAyvd3%2BMSwxF"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Watch the Video and=
Read the Transcript</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Brother Can You Spare Two Million Jobs? Emergency Jobs Bill P=
roposed</strong></font><br />
Staff, Jobs with Justice: "Responding to the continuing massive jobs defici=
t, Chicago Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky proposed to create 2 million jobs, =
introducing the 'Emergency Jobs to Restore the American Dream Act.' Surroun=
ded by Chicago JwJ coalition leaders and other groups, Schakowsky declared:=
'Unlike the long disproven claims that more tax breaks for wealthy corpora=
tions will lead to more employment, I have a bill that will actually work. =
How can we guarantee this bill will get 2 million people back to work? By h=
iring them!'" <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DGLcJ6Q=
NVIeXXlMQxMlOL%2BGgsZ5lrDFDc"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Perry Reveals Plan for Total US Anarchy</strong></font><br />
Brad Johnson, ThinkProgress: "Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) issued the first polic=
y position of his presidential campaign by asking the White House to issue =
a 'moratorium on regulations across this country'. Perry's 'moratorium on r=
egulations' would mean a literal end to the rules of law in the United Stat=
es. At least it would also mean that all of President George W. Bush's midn=
ight regulations favoring polluters and industry abuses would also be lifte=
d."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DCQn%2F=
s8FeJwC1cIOXFFpEnQyvd3%2BMSwxF"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</f=
ont></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Read the Embarrassing Hacking Allegations That News Corp. Red=
acted</strong></font><br />
Marian Wang, ProPublica: "New documents published today cast doubt on News =
Corporation's claims that top executives and editors at the now-defunct New=
s of the World were unaware of widespread phone hacking at the paper. One o=
f the documents had also been aggressively redacted by News Corp., which re=
moved references that referred to top editors knowing about the hacking."<b=
r />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DxOxHBM=
Tj1LoKtJdsRycPLwyvd3%2BMSwxF"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Pledge of Euro Unity May Not Be Enough to Satisfy Markets</st=
rong></font><br />
Steven Erlanger and Jack Ewing, The New York Times News Service: "The leade=
rs of France and Germany on Tuesday promised to take concrete steps toward =
a closer political and economic union of the 17 countries that use the euro=
, but it was unclear whether their proposals would be sufficient, or come q=
uickly enough, to satisfy markets anxious over Europe's debts and listless =
economies."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DAmpg4x=
BonhoR4zGGbuXdFQyvd3%2BMSwxF"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Texas Ranks Dead Last In Total Job Creation, Accounting For L=
abor Force Growth</strong></font><br />
Staff, ThinkProgress: "Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), since he launched his presid=
ential campaign on Saturday, has paraded around the stat that “since =
June of 2009, Texas is responsible for more than 40 percent of all of the n=
ew jobs created in America.” 'Now think about that. We're home to les=
s than 10 percent of the population in America, but 40 percent of all the n=
ew jobs were created in that state,' Perry says. This stat leaves out a lot=
of the story."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Dzy4WUE=
XvCkBiF3nNVf2JjQyvd3%2BMSwxF"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Why the Jobs Argument Against Military Cuts Is Bogus</strong>=
</font><br />
Robert Naiman, Truthout: "Just as the government cannot increase employment=
by building a bridge when the economy is at full employment, the governmen=
t cannot increase employment by building bombs when the economy is at full =
employment. Likewise, if the economy is at full employment, then the govern=
ment cannot decrease employment by building fewer bombs."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DgXpEFU=
%2B9taZk2UpRc%2Frh5Qyvd3%2BMSwxF"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Robert Scheer | The Biggest Little Hypocrite in Texas</strong=
></font><br />
Robert Scheer, Truthout: "It is unfathomable that yet another Texas blowhar=
d governor has emerged as a front-runner for the GOP presidential nominatio=
n. The persistent appeal of the mythology of Texas as a model for the natio=
n defies the lessons of logic and experience, and yet here we are with Rick=
Perry, a George W. Bush look-alike, as a prime contender to once again run=
our nation into the ground."<br />
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<p>How did Jesus go from being a socialist in the New Testament to a selfis=
h Ayn Rand anarcho-capitalist in modern-day America? After all, one of the =
most well-known bible verses is from Mark 10:25: "It is easier for a camel =
to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom =
of God."</p>
<p>Sociologist Gregory Paul stated the paradox clearly in an <a href=3D"htt=
p://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DPBYCl8uxWzlcHDwkARbI=
jQyvd3%2BMSwxF"><font color=3D"#cc0000">August 12 Washington Post op-ed:</f=
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<p>Many conservative Christians, mostly Protestant but also a number of Cat=
holics, have come to believe and proudly proclaim that the creator of the u=
niverse favors free wheeling, deregulated, union busting, minimal taxes esp=
ecially for wealthy investors, plutocrat-boosting capitalism as the ideal e=
arthly scheme for his human creations. And many of these Christian capitali=
sts are ardent followers of Ayn Rand, who was one of - and many of whose fo=
llowers are - the most hard-line anti-Christian atheists you can get. Meanw=
hile many Christians who support the capitalist policies associated with so=
cial Darwinistic strenuously denounce Darwin's evolutionary science because=
it supposedly leads to, well, social Darwinism!</p>
</blockquote>
<p>But Paul points out that the New Testament primarily promotes what would=
nowadays be called socialism:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>But to understand just how non-capitalistic Christianity is supposed to =
be we turn to the first chapter after the gospels, Acts, which describes th=
e events of the early church. Chapters 2 and 4 state that all "the believer=
s were together and had everything in common. Selling their possessions and=
goods, they gave to anyone as he had need ... No one claimed that any of h=
is possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had.... There w=
ere no needy persons among them. From time to time those who owned lands or=
houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apost=
les' feet, and it was distributed to anyone as he had need."</p>
<p>Now folks, that's outright socialism of the type described millennia lat=
er by Marx - who likely got the general idea from the gospels.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>Paul further notes that "we have Christian creationists like Jay Richard=
s writing books titled 'Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism Is the Soluti=
on and Not the Problem.' Can a stranger amalgam of opposing opinions be dev=
ised?"</p>
<p>In essence, the modern prosperity theologians who dominate the right win=
g of the Republican Party are essentially heretics. They've grafted on a po=
st-industrial-age emphasis on the acquisition of capital and material goods=
to the alleged son of God, Jesus, who was himself essentially the father o=
f socialism (as recounted in the bible).</p>
<p>At the next Republican debate, we would like to see a test of faith. All=
the candidates should be required to thread a camel through the eye of a n=
eedle.</p>
<p>If they can't do it, they have to shut up about Jesus, Christianity and =
the bible.</p>
<p>Now that would be refreshing.</p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p>
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cc0000">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
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tage<br />
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cc0000">Read the Article at MSNBC</font></a></p>
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t Always Buy You Voter Love<br />
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Prior Ones?<br />
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