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Obama Vows Veto if Deficit Plan Has No Tax Increases
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Sen. Bernie Sanders | Wall Street's Secret Oil Games
http://www.truth-out.org/wall-streets-secret-oil-games/1316442676
Sen. Bernie Sanders, sanders.senate.gov: "Why have oil prices spiked wildly? Some argue that the volatility is a result of supply-and-demand fundamentals. More and more observers, however, believe that excessive speculation in the oil futures market by investors is driving oil prices sky high."
Obama Vows Veto if Deficit Plan Has No Tax Increases
http://www.truth-out.org/obama-vows-veto-if-deficit-plan-has-no-tax-increases/1316452364
Helene Cooper, The New York Times News Service: "Mr. Obama's threat to veto any legislation that seeks to cut the deficit through spending cuts alone without raising taxes puts him on a collision course with the House speaker, John A. Boehner, who said last week that he would not support any revenue increases in the form of higher taxes. But the White House has compromised several times over the last year after making stern demands of Congress that were not met."
"Occupy Wall Street": Thousands March in New York City Financial District, Set Up Protest Encampment
http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-wall-street-thousands-march-nyc-financial-district-set-protest-encampment/1316446947
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: "Demonstrators are marching on Wall Street today on the third day of a campaign dubbed 'Occupy Wall Street,' which began on Saturday when thousands gathered in New York City's Financial District. Inspired by the massive public protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square and Madrid's Puerta del Sol Square, hundreds have slept outside near Wall Street for the past two nights."
How Change Is Going to Come in the Food System
http://www.truth-out.org/how-change-going-come-food-system/1316437939
Michael Pollan, The Nation: "The food movement has discovered that persuading the media, and even the president, that you are right on the merits does not necessarily translate into change, not when the forces arrayed against change are so strong. If change comes, it will come from other places: from the grassroots and, paradoxically, from powerful interests that stand to gain from it."
Is Social Security a Ponzi Scheme? Is The Washington Post a Criminal Enterprise?
http://www.truth-out.org/social-security-ponzi-scheme-washington-post-criminal-enterprise/1316439015
Dean Baker, Truthout: "Ever since Texas Gov. Rick Perry attacked Social Security as a Ponzi scheme as an opening gambit in his presidential campaign, we have been treated to a spirited debate in the media on the truth of this proposition. Those of us who consider this to be ill-informed nonsense that has the effect of misleading the public about the state of Social Security's finances were told to lighten up. After all, what is wrong with debating the topic? In this spirit of free and open debate, perhaps our attention should be devoted to the question of whether The Washington Post is a criminal enterprise."
Keystone XL Pipeline Safety Standards Not as Rigorous as They Seem
http://www.truth-out.org/keystone-xl-pipeline-safety-standards-not-rigorous-they-seem/1316453537
Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News: "TransCanada and the U.S. State Department have repeatedly touted safety standards for the proposed Keystone XL heavy crude pipeline as robust and unparalleled. As proof, they point to 57 'special conditions' that the Alberta-based pipeline operator has agreed to follow. But environmental watchdogs counter that those much-boasted-about claims are based on nothing more than smoke and mirrors. And they have compiled evidence to back up their accusations."
The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama's Fall From Grace
http://www.truth-out.org/rev-jeremiah-wright-recalls-obamas-fall-grace/1316441546
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "Barack Obama's politically expedient decision to betray and abandon his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, exposed his cowardice and moral bankruptcy. In that moment, playing the part of Judas, he surrendered the last shreds of his integrity. He became nothing more than a pawn of power, or as Cornel West says, 'a black mascot for Wall Street.'"
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama's "Buffett Rule" Would Increase Taxes for Millionaires and Billionaires, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/obamas-buffett-rule-would-increase-taxes-millionaires-and-billionaires-and-more/1316447830
In today's On the News segment: Obama proposes "Buffett Rule" to tax millionaires and billionaires, over a thousand demonstrators converged on Wall Street this weekend to protest bankster crime, Perry would bring more poverty to America, and more.
Fighting Erupts for Second Day in Yemeni Capital
http://www.truth-out.org/fighting-erupts-second-day-yemeni-capital/1316438522
Laura Kasinof, The New York Times News Service: "Violence convulsed the streets of Yemen's capital for a second straight day on Monday as government security forces battled soldiers who have joined anti-government protesters in the worst violence since March. Medical officials in the capital said at least 19 people had been killed on Monday, pushing the death toll from two days of fighting in Sana, the capital, to more than 40."
Obama's Arc of Instability, Destabilizing the World One Region at a Time
http://www.truth-out.org/obamas-arc-instability-destabilizing-world-one-region-time/1316442192
Nick Turse, TomDispatch: "It's a story that should take your breath away: the destabilization of what, in the Bush years, used to be called 'the arc of instability.' It involves at least 97 countries, across the bulk of the global south, much of it coinciding with the oil heartlands of the planet. A startling number of these nations are now in turmoil, and in every single one of them - from Afghanistan and Algeria to Yemen and Zambia - Washington is militarily involved, overtly or covertly, in outright war or what passes for peace."
China and India Making Inroads Into Biotech Drugs
http://www.truth-out.org/china-and-india-making-inroads-biotech-drugs/1316440457
Gardiner Harris, The New York Times News Service: "These generic drug companies say they are on the verge of selling cheaper copies of such huge sellers as Herceptin for breast cancer, Avastin for colon cancer, Rituxan for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and Enbrel for rheumatoid arthritis. Their entry into the market in the next year - made possible by hundreds of millions of dollars invested in biotechnology plants - could not only transform the care of patients in much of the world but also ignite a counterattack by major pharmaceutical companies and diplomats from richer countries."
Five Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Solyndra
http://www.truth-out.org/five-biggest-right-wing-lies-about-solyndra/1316440538
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: "Oil-backed conservatives have been absolutely ecstatic over the collapse of American solar-power company Solyndra and the rise of China as the dominant country in green energy, because they think they can turn this into a story that makes President Obama and government look bad. It also gives them a bonus opportunity to attack alternatives to coal and oil. So is there really a 'scandal' behind what happened to Solyndra?"
Another Liberty Plaza Taken and Held Near Wall Street
http://www.truth-out.org/another-liberty-plaza-taken-and-held-near-wall-street/1316451716
Nathan Schneider, Waging Nonviolence: "When more than a thousand protesters marched on Saturday from Bowling Green, near the southern tip of Manhattan, toward the backup meeting point marked '2' on their maps, they thought they were going to a place called Zuccotti Park, several blocks north of Wall Street on Broadway. That's what it said on the map. It's now a private park, owned by Brookfield Properties, but it hasn't always been its name. Before being renamed after Brookfield's chairman, John Zuccotti, it was called Liberty Plaza."
Jim Hightower | A Perry Tale From the Prince of Privilege
http://www.truth-out.org/perry-tale-about-prince-privilege/1316438569
Jim Hightower, Other Words: "With his tea party hat carefully positioned atop his bounteous crop of perfectly coifed hair, Prince Rick warns the commoners that big government is bad, bad, bad - because it intrudes into their lives, forcing things like Social Security and Medicare on them. Strangely, this prancing prince of privilege would not be where he is without the steady 'intrusion' of big government into his life. From elementary school through college, his education was paid for by local, state, and federal taxpayers. Also, as cotton farmers, he and his family were supported with thousands of dollars in crop subsidies from the pockets of national taxpayers."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
President Obama has just declared that he will veto any deficit reduction bill that does not include taxes on the wealthy. (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/us/politics/obama-vows-veto-if-deficit-plan-has-no-tax-increases.html?_r=2&hp )
In response, the Republicans trotted out their main "Friday the 13th" talking point that they have used since the beginning of the Reagan era: "The president is engaging in class warfare."
Anticipating the GOP "round up the usual sound bite when it comes to the wealthy paying their fair share for democracy" strategy, Obama declared, "This is not class warfare: it's math." (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20108238-503544.html )
Given that the Republican Party - with an infrastructure of think tanks, lobbyists and corporate media supported by corporate America and the likes of the Koch brothers - has been conducting a war of attrition on the US middle class for years, it is hard to digest such brazen hypocrisy.
As Andy Ostroy, who is posted regularly on BuzzFlash at Truthout observes: (http://www.ostroyreport.com/2011/09/you-bet-its-class-warfare.html )
"It's time the rich stop whining about class warfare and start paying their fair share of taxes to pay for this country's essential services and to help reduce its debt. How about we borrow from Sen. John McCain and piggyback the millionaire's tax with the slogan, 'America First.' The nation's rich needs to stop thinking about their own pocketbooks for a second and show some concern for the country in which they've amassed their colossal wealth.
If the Obama administration is smart, it will hammer home this millionaire's tax rhetoric until it becomes the sort of highly effective propaganda Republicans have been successfully regurgitating for years."
Dividing up the middle and working classes based on appeals to race, ethnicity and social wedge issues has been a trademark of the Republican Party.
What they fear most is that the great masses of Americans who receive a stagnating hourly wage and more limited benefits each year will rise up and demand their share of the nation's wealth.
Class warfare has been waged on behalf of the wealthiest people and corporations in the US for decades - and on that battlefield, the richest Americans have thus far won.
As Ostroy asks, "To be sure, the rich have never been richer, and the poor have never been poorer. So what are Republicans constantly complaining about?"
What they are complaining about is the concept of workers being fairly compensated for their labor - and that the wealthiest Americans might have to buy one less yacht or home. That's class warfare to them.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
The Call to Occupy Wall Street Resonates Around the World
Read the Article at The Guardian UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/sep/19/occupy-wall-street-financial-system?CMP=twt_gu
Creating 2.2 Million Jobs Is Not a Dream. Schakowsky's Bill
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13020
Examples of Why Without an Increase in Consumer Demand, Tax Breaks Won't Help Small Businesses
Read the Article at the San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2011/09/19/MNLI1L5VPE.DTL
Poverty Grows in Rick Perry's Texas
Read the Article at CNN
http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/18/news/economy/poverty_perry_texas/index.htm
"I Refuse to Believe Corporations Are People Until Texas Executes One"
Read the Blog Entry at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13021
Thousands March Against Nuclear Power in Tokyo
Read the Article at The Associated Press
http://news.yahoo.com/thousands-march-against-nuclear-power-tokyo-071902414.html
Bill Clinton: Cheney Trying to Cause 2012 Mischief
Read the Article at The Associated Press
http://news.yahoo.com/bill-clinton-cheney-trying-cause-2012-mischief-162919244.html
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<font><strong>Obama Vows Veto if Deficit Plan Has No Tax Increases</strong>=
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without raising taxes puts him on a collision course with the House speaker=
, John A. Boehner, who said last week that he would not support any revenue=
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several times over the last year after making stern demands of Congress th=
at were not met." <br />
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<font><strong>"Occupy Wall Street": Thousands March in New York City Financ=
ial District, Set Up Protest Encampment</strong></font><br />
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now!: "Demonstrators are marching on Wall Street tod=
ay on the third day of a campaign dubbed 'Occupy Wall Street,' which began =
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Inspired by the massive public protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square and Madrid=
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the past two nights."<br />
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><br />
Michael Pollan, The Nation: "The food movement has discovered that persuadi=
ng the media, and even the president, that you are right on the merits does=
not necessarily translate into change, not when the forces arrayed against=
change are so strong. If change comes, it will come from other places: fro=
m the grassroots and, paradoxically, from powerful interests that stand to =
gain from it." <br />
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zk0QMgdJ2dbu3jviSjHFDtaTlo"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
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<font><strong>Is Social Security a Ponzi Scheme? Is The Washington Post a C=
riminal Enterprise?</strong></font><br />
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urity as a Ponzi scheme as an opening gambit in his presidential campaign, =
we have been treated to a spirited debate in the media on the truth of this=
proposition. Those of us who consider this to be ill-informed nonsense tha=
t has the effect of misleading the public about the state of Social Securit=
y's finances were told to lighten up. After all, what is wrong with debatin=
g the topic? In this spirit of free and open debate, perhaps our attention =
should be devoted to the question of whether The Washington Post is a crimi=
nal enterprise." <br />
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An65hIAg0Q7kOCeSSjHFDtaTlo"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
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<font><strong>Keystone XL Pipeline Safety Standards Not as Rigorous as They=
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rtment have repeatedly touted safety standards for the proposed Keystone XL=
heavy crude pipeline as robust and unparalleled. As proof, they point to 5=
7 'special conditions' that the Alberta-based pipeline operator has agreed =
to follow. But environmental watchdogs counter that those much-boasted-abou=
t claims are based on nothing more than smoke and mirrors. And they have co=
mpiled evidence to back up their accusations." <br />
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<font><strong>The Rev. Jeremiah Wright Recalls Obama's Fall From Grace</str=
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etray and abandon his pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, exposed his cowardi=
ce and moral bankruptcy. In that moment, playing the part of Judas, he surr=
endered the last shreds of his integrity. He became nothing more than a paw=
n of power, or as Cornel West says, 'a black mascot for Wall Street.'" <br =
/>
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<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Obama's "Buffett Rule" Would =
Increase Taxes for Millionaires and Billionaires, and More</strong></font><=
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In today's On the News segment: Obama proposes "Buffett Rule" to tax millio=
naires and billionaires, over a thousand demonstrators converged on Wall St=
reet this weekend to protest bankster crime, Perry would bring more poverty=
to America, and more. <br />
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ecurity forces battled soldiers who have joined anti-government protesters =
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least 19 people had been killed on Monday, pushing the death toll from two=
days of fighting in Sana, the capital, to more than 40."<br />
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<font><strong>Obama's Arc of Instability, Destabilizing the World One Regio=
n at a Time</strong></font><br />
Nick Turse, TomDispatch: "It's a story that should take your breath away: t=
he destabilization of what, in the Bush years, used to be called 'the arc o=
f instability.' It involves at least 97 countries, across the bulk of the g=
lobal south, much of it coinciding with the oil heartlands of the planet. A=
startling number of these nations are now in turmoil, and in every single =
one of them - from Afghanistan and Algeria to Yemen and Zambia - Washington=
is militarily involved, overtly or covertly, in outright war or what passe=
s for peace."<br />
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<font><strong>China and India Making Inroads Into Biotech Drugs</strong></f=
ont><br />
Gardiner Harris, The New York Times News Service: "These generic drug compa=
nies say they are on the verge of selling cheaper copies of such huge selle=
rs as Herceptin for breast cancer, Avastin for colon cancer, Rituxan for no=
n-Hodgkin's lymphoma and Enbrel for rheumatoid arthritis. Their entry into =
the market in the next year - made possible by hundreds of millions of doll=
ars invested in biotechnology plants - could not only transform the care of=
patients in much of the world but also ignite a counterattack by major pha=
rmaceutical companies and diplomats from richer countries."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Dcw%2Bw=
lifOS0ab%2F27wWno7KCSjHFDtaTlo"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</f=
ont></a> <br />
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<font><strong>Five Biggest Right-Wing Lies About Solyndra</strong></font><b=
r />
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: "Oil-backed conservatives have=
been absolutely ecstatic over the collapse of American solar-power company=
Solyndra and the rise of China as the dominant country in green energy, be=
cause they think they can turn this into a story that makes President Obama=
and government look bad. It also gives them a bonus opportunity to attack =
alternatives to coal and oil. So is there really a 'scandal' behind what ha=
ppened to Solyndra?" <br />
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t></a> <br />
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<font><strong>Another Liberty Plaza Taken and Held Near Wall Street</strong=
></font><br />
Nathan Schneider, Waging Nonviolence: "When more than a thousand protesters=
marched on Saturday from Bowling Green, near the southern tip of Manhattan=
, toward the backup meeting point marked '2' on their maps, they thought th=
ey were going to a place called Zuccotti Park, several blocks north of Wall=
Street on Broadway. That's what it said on the map. It's now a private par=
k, owned by Brookfield Properties, but it hasn't always been its name. Befo=
re being renamed after Brookfield's chairman, John Zuccotti, it was called =
Liberty Plaza."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DRe5%2F=
CvObUQSDxpyTh0fhNSSjHFDtaTlo"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Jim Hightower | A Perry Tale From the Prince of Privilege</st=
rong></font><br />
Jim Hightower, Other Words: "With his tea party hat carefully positioned at=
op his bounteous crop of perfectly coifed hair, Prince Rick warns the commo=
ners that big government is bad, bad, bad - because it intrudes into their =
lives, forcing things like Social Security and Medicare on them. Strangely,=
this prancing prince of privilege would not be where he is without the ste=
ady 'intrusion' of big government into his life. From elementary school thr=
ough college, his education was paid for by local, state, and federal taxpa=
yers. Also, as cotton farmers, he and his family were supported with thousa=
nds of dollars in crop subsidies from the pockets of national taxpayers."<b=
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<p>President Obama <a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.j=
sp?v=3D2&c=3DSCo%2Fl4pZ6j6WU9ghiggbGCSjHFDtaTlo"><font color=3D"#cc0000">ha=
s just declared</font></a> that he will veto any deficit reduction bill tha=
t does not include taxes on the wealthy.</p>
<p>In response, the Republicans trotted out their main "Friday the 13th" ta=
lking point that they have used since the beginning of the Reagan era: "The=
president is engaging in class warfare."</p>
<p>Anticipating the GOP "round up the usual sound bite when it comes to the=
wealthy paying their fair share for democracy" strategy, Obama declared, <=
a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DW81tzek=
mFnOwEP0%2Buo0zdiSjHFDtaTlo"><font color=3D"#cc0000">"This is not class war=
fare: it's math."</font></a></p>
<p>Given that the Republican Party - with an infrastructure of think tanks,=
lobbyists and corporate media supported by corporate America and the likes=
of the Koch brothers - has been conducting a war of attrition on the US mi=
ddle class for years, it is hard to digest such brazen hypocrisy.</p>
<p>As Andy Ostroy, who is posted regularly on BuzzFlash at Truthout <a href=
=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Dd19I%2FL6zmFU=
d0IVyD232JuSIdAkFvWcP"><font color=3D"#cc0000">observes</font></a>:</p>
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<p>It's time the rich stop whining about class warfare and start paying the=
ir fair share of taxes to pay for this country's essential services and to =
help reduce its debt. How about we borrow from Sen. John McCain and piggyba=
ck the millionaire's tax with the slogan, "America First." The nation's ric=
h needs to stop thinking about their own pocketbooks for a second and show =
some concern for the country in which they've amassed their colossal wealth=
.</p>
<p>If the Obama administration is smart, it will hammer home this millionai=
re's tax rhetoric until it becomes the sort of highly effective propaganda =
Republicans have been successfully regurgitating for years.</p>
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<p>Dividing up the middle and working classes based on appeals to race, eth=
nicity and social wedge issues has been a trademark of the Republican Party=
.</p>
<p>What they fear most is that the great masses of Americans who receive a =
stagnating hourly wage and more limited benefits each year will rise up and=
demand their share of the nation's wealth.</p>
<p>Class warfare has been waged on behalf of the wealthiest people and corp=
orations in the US for decades - and on that battlefield, the richest Ameri=
cans have thus far won.</p>
<p>As Ostroy asks, "To be sure, the rich have never been richer, and the po=
or have never been poorer. So what are Republicans constantly complaining a=
bout?"</p>
<p>What they are complaining about is the concept of workers being fairly c=
ompensated for their labor - and that the wealthiest Americans might have t=
o buy one less yacht or home. That's class warfare to them.</p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p>
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<p><strong>The Call to Occupy Wall Street Resonates Around the World<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
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00">Read the Article at The Guardian UK</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Creating 2.2 Million Jobs Is Not a Dream. Schakowsky's Bill<br /=
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cc0000">Read the Article at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Examples of Why Without an Increase in Consumer Demand, Tax Brea=
ks Won't Help Small Businesses<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
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00">Read the Article at the San Francisco Chronicle</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Poverty Grows in Rick Perry's Texas<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3DTywD3jDTOpTBrp%2FzVWAQ7SSjHFDtaTlo" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#cc=
0000">Read the Article at CNN</font></a></p>
<p><strong>"I Refuse to Believe Corporations Are People Until Texas Execute=
s One"<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
=3DdiETPHbJeUcJeQOej02i8CSjHFDtaTlo" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#cc00=
00">Read the Blog Entry at BuzzFlash</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Thousands March Against Nuclear Power in Tokyo<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
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00">Read the Article at The Associated Press</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Bill Clinton: Cheney Trying to Cause 2012 Mischief<br />
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=3DAjX%2FyVVdml1G3dj0s%2BOZLCSjHFDtaTlo" target=3D"_blank"><font color=3D"#=
cc0000">Read the Article at The Associated Press</font></a></p>
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