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William Rivers Pitt | Onward to Wall Street
http://www.truth-out.org/onward-wall-street/1317230850
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "In case you haven't heard, there is an ongoing protest taking place on Wall Street. There is no shame in being ignorant of the event; the 'mainstream' news media has gone out of its way to ignore what is happening down there, Yahoo's email service was recently busted for blocking messages having to do with the protest, and Twitter - that bastion of protest messaging for the people who organized the Arab Spring movements - has reportedly been quashing Wall Street protest-oriented tweets out of hand. If a tree falls in the forest and the 'mainstream' news doesn't report it, did it happen? Of course it did. Ask the tree."
Postal Service Employees Rally to End Manufactured Crisis
http://www.truth-out.org/postal-service-employees-protest-manufactured-crisis-aims-target-unions-and-privatize-service/131721
Rose Aguilar, Truthout: "The USPS says radical changes must be implemented in order to save the organization up to $3 billion a year. The plan is to eliminate 220,000 full-time jobs and shut down 3,700 post offices and 300 processing centers by 2015, scale back services and cut retirement benefits. Since 2007, the USPS has cut 110,000 jobs. Since January, 280 post offices have closed. Cliff Guffey, president of the American Postal Workers Union, which represents 220,000 employees in the clerk, maintenance and motor vehicle crafts, called the changes a 'reckless assault on the Postal Service and its employees.'"
The Revolution Begins at Home: Join the Wall Street Occupation
http://www.truth-out.org/revolution-begins-home-join-wall-street-occupation/1317230496
Arun Gupta, Truthout: "At some point, the number of people occupying Wall Street - whether that's five thousand, ten thousand or fifty thousand - will force the powers that be to offer concessions. No one can say how many people it will take or even how things will change exactly, but there is a real potential for bypassing a corrupt political process and to begin realizing a society based on human needs, not hedge fund profits. After all, who would have imagined a year ago that Tunisians and Egyptians would oust their dictators?"
The One Answer: Tax the Rich
http://www.truth-out.org/one-answer-tax-rich/1317216395
Robert Parry, Consortium News: "It is curious that the American Right, which waxes nostalgic for the happier days of the 1950s when the United States was supposedly more moral and more united, ignores one of the central reasons behind that middle-class era: very high taxes on the rich. Granted, some on the Right may love the Fifties because it was a time of racial segregation and second-class status for women. But what arguably made the era work was the fact that the U.S. tax structure 'disincentivized' greed by ensuring that excess wealth was mostly recycled back into the Treasury for use building the nation and supporting research and development."
The Department of Defense's Unending Nightmare: Pass an Audit by 2017?
http://www.truth-out.org/department-defenses-unending-nightmare-pass-audit-2017/1317146062
Dina Rasor, Truthout: "Don't count on it. The Department of Defense (DoD) still holds out hope that they will be able to pass a financial audit by 2017, but the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) testimony to Congress last Friday doesn't hold out much hope. In testimony entitled 'Improved Controls, Processes, and Systems Are Needed for Accurate and Reliable Financial Information,' the GAO paints a grim picture of the DoD's efforts to put in financial reporting systems to pass an audit and know where its money is going."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Anti-Immigrant Bill Targets Domestic Violence Victims for Deportation, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/authors-new-anti-immigrant-bill-aim-target-domestic-violence-victims-deportation/1317226369
In today's On the News segment: New bill would require deporting domestic violence victims if they are also undocumented immigrants, the government wants to know if Anonymous could hack the next election, nearly three-quarters of Americans want to raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, and more.
In a First, SEC Warns Rating Agency It May Bring Financial Crisis Lawsuit
http://www.truth-out.org/first-sec-warns-rating-agency-it-may-bring-financial-crisis-lawsuit/1317224268
Marian Wang, ProPublica: "Details on S&P's potential violations are still unclear. But last year's Senate investigation of the financial crisis may contain some hints. The report, which blamed inaccurate ratings as 'a key cause' of the financial crisis, said agencies failed to do due diligence in grading securities and too often bent to the wishes of the banks that paid them."
Jim Hightower | The GOP Congress Hates (Except When It Loves) Federal Spending
http://www.truth-out.org/gop-congress-hates-except-when-it-loves-federal-spending/1317206269
Jim Hightower, Truthout: "'You saw the House act,' Rep. Eric Cantor snapped to a reporter last Friday. Yeah, act like a petulant 4-year-old! The majority leader of the GOP-controlled House has long been a whiney ideological brat who stamps his tiny feet in peevish anger whenever he can't get his way on legislation."
Job-Based Insurance Premiums Rise Sharply
http://www.truth-out.org/job-based-insurance-premiums-rise-sharply/1317216698
Tony Pugh, McClatchy Newspapers: "For the estimated 150 million workers with employer-sponsored coverage, the average cost of family health insurance jumped 9 percent this year to $15,073, while the price of individual coverage rose 8 percent to $5,429. Both increases are the largest since 2005."
Gas Drilling Documentary, Hailed as "Indie" and "Balanced," Is Anything but
http://www.truth-out.org/exposed-new-documentary-about-gas-drilling-hailed-indie-and-balanced-heres-why-its-neither/131722937
Steve Horn, AlterNet: "While Haynesville was recently described in a story on Minnesota Public Radio as portraying 'both sides' of the natural gas battle royale, the film is actually much more one-sided than most people believe. A months-long investigation into the film has revealed that the film's director, Gregory Kallenberg, is actually a well-connected oil and natural gas man, with both a direct and familial financial stake in the ongoing domestic natural gas boom."
"Confidence Men" Author Ron Suskind Responds to Obama Administration's Fiery Denials About Financial Crisis (Video)
http://www.truth-out.org/confidence-men-author-ron-suskind-responds-obama-admin's-fiery-denials-about-financial-crisis/131721
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy NOW!: "An explosive new book that draws a searing portrait of the Obama administration's failings, and early management of the economic crisis, has been met with sharp objections from officials within and outside of the White House.'"
Kenyan Activist Faced Double Jeopardy as Woman, Environmentalist
http://www.truth-out.org/wangari-maathai-and-green-belt-movement-planting-seeds-peace/1317218288
Rob Nixon, CounterPunch: "The Kenyan activist, Wangari Maathai, is dead at 71. With her passing we have lost one of our era's great environmental visionaries. Maathai came from an impoverished, rural background; it was her belief in the environmentalism of the poor that propelled her life's work, as founder and exemplar of the Green Belt Movement."
African Debt: Funny Money and Stolen Lives
http://www.truth-out.org/african-debt-funny-money-and-stolen-lives/1317222967
James K. Boyce and Leonce Ndikumana, African Arguments: "In most financial crises, the victims lose their money. In Africa, some lose their lives."
In Post-Fukushima Reality, What Is the Future, and Who Is Winning It?
http://www.truth-out.org/post-fukushima-reality-what-future-and-who-winning-it/1317223691
Gregg Levine, Capitoillette: "Shouldn't the chief regulatory agency wait until its new, proposed regulations are in place before giving out licenses for another 20 years of potentially dangerous operation? Under a governmental system that draws its regulators from the industry it regulates and funds its two-party, first-past-the-post elections with money from that industry, it appears not."
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Economists: Obama Jobs Plan May Prevent 2012 Recession
Read the Article at Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-28/obama-jobs-plan-prevents-2012-recession-in-survey-of-economists.html
India Becomes First Country to Accuse Multinational Company (Monsanto) of "Bio-Piracy"
Read the Article at FRANCE 24
http://www.france24.com/en/20110921-india-monsanto-gmo-brinjal-bio-piracy-biopiracy-steal-seeds-terminator-cotton-onion-melon-debt-suicide
The New York Times: Governing by Crisis
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/28/opinion/governing-by-crisis-on-capitol-hill.html?_r=1
Glenn Greenwald: What's Behind the Scorn for the Wall Street Protests?
Read the Article at Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/index.html
Florida State Lawmaker Introduces Bill to End Death Penalty
Read the Article at The American Independent
http://www.americanindependent.com/196113/florida-state-lawmaker-introduces-bill-to-end-death-penalty
Supreme Court Ruling on Marijuana Could Provide Legal Support for Obama's Health Care Law, Retired Justice Stevens Says
Read the Article at Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-28/health-care-law-has-precedent-retired-justice-stevens-says.html
Free Bradley Manning Campaign: Obama's Rhetoric on Whistleblowers Doesn't Match Reality
Read Article at Free Bradley Manning
http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/obama-rhetoric-on-whistleblowers-doesnt-match-reality
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<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p>Wednesday 28 September 2011 <br />
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<font><strong>William Rivers Pitt | Onward to Wall Street</strong></font><br />
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "In case you haven't heard, there is an ongoing protest taking place on Wall Street. There is no shame in being ignorant of the event; the 'mainstream' news media has gone out of its way to ignore what is happening down there, Yahoo's email service was recently busted for blocking messages having to do with the protest, and Twitter - that bastion of protest messaging for the people who organized the Arab Spring movements - has reportedly been quashing Wall Street protest-oriented tweets out of hand. If a tree falls in the forest and the 'mainstream' news doesn't report it, did it happen? Of course it did. Ask the tree."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Sqn63B8irAU%2BHNbRezfhzQJ%2F8NMCZ2L5"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Postal Service Employees Rally to End Manufactured Crisis</strong></font><br />
Rose Aguilar, Truthout: "The USPS says radical changes must be implemented in order to save the organization up to $3 billion a year. The plan is to eliminate 220,000 full-time jobs and shut down 3,700 post offices and 300 processing centers by 2015, scale back services and cut retirement benefits. Since 2007, the USPS has cut 110,000 jobs. Since January, 280 post offices have closed. Cliff Guffey, president of the American Postal Workers Union, which represents 220,000 employees in the clerk, maintenance and motor vehicle crafts, called the changes a 'reckless assault on the Postal Service and its employees.'"<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rVG2knUzkPeVizOtdNoFhQJ%2F8NMCZ2L5"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>The Revolution Begins at Home: Join the Wall Street Occupation</strong></font><br />
Arun Gupta, Truthout: "At some point, the number of people occupying Wall Street - whether that's five thousand, ten thousand or fifty thousand - will force the powers that be to offer concessions. No one can say how many people it will take or even how things will change exactly, but there is a real potential for bypassing a corrupt political process and to begin realizing a society based on human needs, not hedge fund profits. After all, who would have imagined a year ago that Tunisians and Egyptians would oust their dictators?" <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2FBLSJ%2Blj6VgCqdWBVQpt7AJ%2F8NMCZ2L5"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>The One Answer: Tax the Rich</strong></font><br />
Robert Parry, Consortium News: "It is curious that the American Right, which waxes nostalgic for the happier days of the 1950s when the United States was supposedly more moral and more united, ignores one of the central reasons behind that middle-class era: very high taxes on the rich. Granted, some on the Right may love the Fifties because it was a time of racial segregation and second-class status for women. But what arguably made the era work was the fact that the U.S. tax structure 'disincentivized' greed by ensuring that excess wealth was mostly recycled back into the Treasury for use building the nation and supporting research and development."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=6q2AglbJtEBuzVa2pWKd9wJ%2F8NMCZ2L5"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>The Department of Defense's Unending Nightmare: Pass an Audit by 2017?</strong></font><br />
Dina Rasor, Truthout: "Don't count on it. The Department of Defense (DoD) still holds out hope that they will be able to pass a financial audit by 2017, but the Government Accountability Office's (GAO) testimony to Congress last Friday doesn't hold out much hope. In testimony entitled 'Improved Controls, Processes, and Systems Are Needed for Accurate and Reliable Financial Information,' the GAO paints a grim picture of the DoD's efforts to put in financial reporting systems to pass an audit and know where its money is going." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=PZdngbBdjm0Vn%2BGH9x%2FRiwJ%2F8NMCZ2L5"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Anti-Immigrant Bill Targets Domestic Violence Victims for Deportation, and More</strong></font><br />
In today's On the News segment: New bill would require deporting domestic violence victims if they are also undocumented immigrants, the government wants to know if Anonymous could hack the next election, nearly three-quarters of Americans want to raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires, and more. <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=L0j94uHrESk%2F%2FBq54cebIwJ%2F8NMCZ2L5"><font color="#cc0000">Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>In a First, SEC Warns Rating Agency It May Bring Financial Crisis Lawsuit</strong></font><br />
Marian Wang, ProPublica: "Details on S&P's potential violations are still unclear. But last year's Senate investigation of the financial crisis may contain some hints. The report, which blamed inaccurate ratings as 'a key cause' of the financial crisis, said agencies failed to do due diligence in grading securities and too often bent to the wishes of the banks that paid them." <br />
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<br />
<font><strong>Jim Hightower | The GOP Congress Hates (Except When It Loves) Federal Spending</strong></font><br />
Jim Hightower, Truthout: "'You saw the House act,' Rep. Eric Cantor snapped to a reporter last Friday. Yeah, act like a petulant 4-year-old! The majority leader of the GOP-controlled House has long been a whiney ideological brat who stamps his tiny feet in peevish anger whenever he can't get his way on legislation." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=yDzK0ZIHJ%2BeZ7ZpYeu0SpQJ%2F8NMCZ2L5"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Job-Based Insurance Premiums Rise Sharply</strong></font><br />
Tony Pugh, McClatchy Newspapers: "For the estimated 150 million workers with employer-sponsored coverage, the average cost of family health insurance jumped 9 percent this year to $15,073, while the price of individual coverage rose 8 percent to $5,429. Both increases are the largest since 2005."<br />
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<br />
<font><strong>Gas Drilling Documentary, Hailed as "Indie" and "Balanced," Is Anything but</strong></font><br />
Steve Horn, AlterNet: "While Haynesville was recently described in a story on Minnesota Public Radio as portraying 'both sides' of the natural gas battle royale, the film is actually much more one-sided than most people believe. A months-long investigation into the film has revealed that the film's director, Gregory Kallenberg, is actually a well-connected oil and natural gas man, with both a direct and familial financial stake in the ongoing domestic natural gas boom." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5kSVpnVguSkyp8jbBo8m2wJ%2F8NMCZ2L5"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>"Confidence Men" Author Ron Suskind Responds to Obama Administration's Fiery Denials About Financial Crisis (Video)</strong></font><br />
Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, Democracy NOW!: "An explosive new book that draws a searing portrait of the Obama administration's failings, and early management of the economic crisis, has been met with sharp objections from officials within and outside of the White House.'"<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WJH05pHBKZbba5dZi6s%2BoAJ%2F8NMCZ2L5's-fiery-denials-about-financial-crisis/131721"><font color="#cc0000">Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Kenyan Activist Faced Double Jeopardy as Woman, Environmentalist</strong></font><br />
Rob Nixon, CounterPunch: "The Kenyan activist, Wangari Maathai, is dead at 71. With her passing we have lost one of our era's great environmental visionaries. Maathai came from an impoverished, rural background; it was her belief in the environmentalism of the poor that propelled her life's work, as founder and exemplar of the Green Belt Movement."<br />
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<br />
<font><strong>African Debt: Funny Money and Stolen Lives</strong></font><br />
James K. Boyce and Leonce Ndikumana, African Arguments: "In most financial crises, the victims lose their money. In Africa, some lose their lives."<br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=i2OOj5tfsk%2FMr61yecFaU0u04hqJyZkp"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>In Post-Fukushima Reality, What Is the Future, and Who Is Winning It?</strong></font><br />
Gregg Levine, Capitoillette: "Shouldn't the chief regulatory agency wait until its new, proposed regulations are in place before giving out licenses for another 20 years of potentially dangerous operation? Under a governmental system that draws its regulators from the industry it regulates and funds its two-party, first-past-the-post elections with money from that industry, it appears not."<br />
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