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Chris Hedges | The Best Among Us
http://www.truth-out.org/best-among-us/1317389455
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil. Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy. Either you are a rebel or a slave."
Occupy Wall Street Day 12 - Poised To Take Off
http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-wall-street-day-12-poised-take/1317390200
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: "This is what happens when people have had it. The 'Occupy Wall Street' crowd has been there for almost 2 weeks, camping out, saying they're fed up and are going to stay until American democracy is restored."
Weighing the Cost, Building Resistance
http://www.truth-out.org/weighing-cost-building-resistance/1314827572
Nancy Murray and Kade Crockford, Truthout and ACLU Massachusetts: "What does it mean to 'feel American' these days? After a decade of the relentless drumbeat warning us to be alert to the terrorist threat, the refrain that this is 'the land of the free, home of the brave' is ringing increasingly hollow.... Have we entirely lost sight of the notion that 'national security' should include securing those attributes that we have long claimed define us as a people, including the fundamental rights and protections of our constitutional system?"
Transnational Peoples Movements Form to Respond to Transnational Injustice
http://www.truth-out.org/transnational-peoples-movements-form-respond-transnational-corporations-and-linked-international-sec
Matthew Cappiello and Kevin Zeese, Truthout: "Transnational citizens' movements are developing to respond to transnational political and economic elites. Some of the most famous American voices for peace and justice have signed a solidarity statement with top Egyptian activists, in order to affirm common goals and principles required to bring real change on both sides of the globe."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Occupy Wall Street Movement Is Picking Up Some Crucial Support, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann-occupy-wall-street-movement-picking-some-crucial-support-and-more/1317398918
Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program: In today's On the News segment: The Occupy Wall Street movement is picking up some crucial support, Bernanke issues a warning to Congress, a top al-Qaeda leader was killed, CEOs are still collecting massive severance packages, Clarence Thomas' gig may be up, a Perry presidency would mean fewer teachers, and more.
The Ideal Capital Gains Tax Reform
http://www.truth-out.org/ideal-capital-gains-tax-reform/1316199494
Gerald E. Scorse, Truthout: "Advocates of tax breaks on capital gains claim that investments in the stock market grow jobs and grow the economy. For all but a trace amount of the billions of shares that change hands every day, that's patently untrue. Almost none of the money that flows through Wall Street goes to companies or grows jobs; it simply grows portfolios. Except for the exceptions. Small companies with big dreams use initial public offerings (IPOs) to help make those dreams take root and flourish."
Montana Governor Schweitzer Wants to Design His Own Universal Health Care System
http://www.truth-out.org/montana-gov-schweitzer-wants-design-his-own-universal-health-care-system/1317392484
Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress: "Another governor is looking to take advantage of flexibility in Obama's health care law in order to establish a single payer system. Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D-MT) announced yesterday that he will be seeking a waiver to set up his own universal health care system in his state modeled after the single payer Canadian health care system that began in the province of Saskatchewan."
The "People's Microphone"
http://www.truth-out.org/peoples-microphone/1317322576
Pablo Ouziel, Truthout: "Wall Street is now occupied, and global indignation against plutocratic rule has reached its climax: it has come face to face with its source. Where things will go from here, nobody can predict. That is the wonderful thing about civil disobedience: once its praxis enters the realm of actuality, it takes up a position in the social space, and it brings to life a dormant public domain, such that a multiplicity of voices dialogically determine collective creative actions and directions."
Ellen Brown | Sheared by the Shorts: How Short Sellers Fleece Investors
http://www.truth-out.org/sheared-shorts-how-short-sellers-fleece-investors/1317326458
Ellen Brown, Truthout: "Why did gold and silver stocks just get hammered, at a time when commodities are considered a safe haven against widespread global uncertainty? The answer, according to Bill Murphy's newsletter LeMetropoleCafe.com, is that the sector has been the target of massive short selling.... The stock market has been plagued by these speculative attacks ever since the four-year industry-wide bear raid called the Great Depression, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average was reduced to 10 percent of its former value."
Banks Successfully Lobbied for Weaker Bailout Repayment Rules so They Could Pay Bonuses
http://www.truth-out.org/banks-successfully-lobbied-weaker-bailout-repayment-rules-so-they-could-pay-bonuses/1317402018
Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: "As a new report from the Special Inspector General for TARP shows, even these restrictions were too much for some of the nation's biggest banks - including Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and PNC - who lobbied for easier payback requirements so that they could be freed from restrictions on paying bonuses."
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Democrats Want Probe of Justice Thomas as Health Law Ruling Looms
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Watch Out, Democrats: A New Silicon Valley-Funded Group Is Preparing to Rock the Conservative Christian Vote
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13045
Paul Krugman: Phony Fear Factor
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http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/opinion/krugman-phony-fear-factor.html?_r=3
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's Chief of Staff Keith Gilkes Resigns
Read the Article at The Appleton Post-Crescent
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Euro Crisis: The Biggest Story in American Politics and Nobody's Talking About It
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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/09/euro-crisis-the-biggest-story-in-american-politics-and-nobodys-talking-about-it.php?ref=fpa
Formerly Imprisoned American Hikers Teach Us That It's Time to Move Beyond Borders
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13044
The Truth About Voter Suppression
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<!-- TemplateBeginEditable name="content" --><p>Friday 30 September 2011</p>
<font><strong>Chris Hedges | The Best Among Us</strong></font><br />
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "There are no excuses left. Either you join the revolt taking place on Wall Street and in the financial districts of other cities across the country or you stand on the wrong side of history. Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil. Either you taste, feel and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy. Either you are a rebel or a slave."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HPdFGRts6G1PucWcZtFklYvnfP2yPLNS"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Occupy Wall Street Day 12 - Poised To Take Off</strong></font><br />
Dave Johnson, Campaign for America's Future: "This is what happens when people have had it. The 'Occupy Wall Street' crowd has been there for almost 2 weeks, camping out, saying they're fed up and are going to stay until American democracy is restored."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=usV9fPoDIJ6PFAweUSl6fovnfP2yPLNS"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Weighing the Cost, Building Resistance</strong></font><br />
Nancy Murray and Kade Crockford, Truthout and ACLU Massachusetts: "What does it mean to 'feel American' these days? After a decade of the relentless drumbeat warning us to be alert to the terrorist threat, the refrain that this is 'the land of the free, home of the brave' is ringing increasingly hollow.... Have we entirely lost sight of the notion that 'national security' should include securing those attributes that we have long claimed define us as a people, including the fundamental rights and protections of our constitutional system?"
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2Bq%2Fs9TRnhAxWAkNBsUZI%2BYvnfP2yPLNS"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Transnational Peoples Movements Form to Respond to Transnational Injustice</strong></font><br />
Matthew Cappiello and Kevin Zeese, Truthout: "Transnational citizens' movements are developing to respond to transnational political and economic elites. Some of the most famous American voices for peace and justice have signed a solidarity statement with top Egyptian activists, in order to affirm common goals and principles required to bring real change on both sides of the globe."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qm4h5Avb6ZzFBCIJqSxy8ovnfP2yPLNS"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Occupy Wall Street Movement Is Picking Up Some Crucial Support, and More</strong></font><br />
Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program: In today's On the News segment: The Occupy Wall Street movement is picking up some crucial support, Bernanke issues a warning to Congress, a top al-Qaeda leader was killed, CEOs are still collecting massive severance packages, Clarence Thomas' gig may be up, a Perry presidency would mean fewer teachers, and more.
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7%2BhTa%2Bn8e3d6OYaWesDVEovnfP2yPLNS"><font color="#cc0000">Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>The Ideal Capital Gains Tax Reform</strong></font><br />
Gerald E. Scorse, Truthout: "Advocates of tax breaks on capital gains claim that investments in the stock market grow jobs and grow the economy. For all but a trace amount of the billions of shares that change hands every day, that's patently untrue. Almost none of the money that flows through Wall Street goes to companies or grows jobs; it simply grows portfolios. Except for the exceptions. Small companies with big dreams use initial public offerings (IPOs) to help make those dreams take root and flourish."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FqKIxcv27cF5qGV18tkocovnfP2yPLNS"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Montana Governor Schweitzer Wants to Design His Own Universal Health Care System</strong></font><br />
Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress: "Another governor is looking to take advantage of flexibility in Obama's health care law in order to establish a single payer system. Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D-MT) announced yesterday that he will be seeking a waiver to set up his own universal health care system in his state modeled after the single payer Canadian health care system that began in the province of Saskatchewan."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JnMiHlZhcH6n1BL7P2j4QIvnfP2yPLNS"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>The "People's Microphone"</strong></font><br />
Pablo Ouziel, Truthout: "Wall Street is now occupied, and global indignation against plutocratic rule has reached its climax: it has come face to face with its source. Where things will go from here, nobody can predict. That is the wonderful thing about civil disobedience: once its praxis enters the realm of actuality, it takes up a position in the social space, and it brings to life a dormant public domain, such that a multiplicity of voices dialogically determine collective creative actions and directions."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=t5pcqSR%2B9%2BHZ0Wq98I56jYvnfP2yPLNS"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Ellen Brown | Sheared by the Shorts: How Short Sellers Fleece Investors</strong></font><br />
Ellen Brown, Truthout: "Why did gold and silver stocks just get hammered, at a time when commodities are considered a safe haven against widespread global uncertainty? The answer, according to Bill Murphy's newsletter LeMetropoleCafe.com, is that the sector has been the target of massive short selling.... The stock market has been plagued by these speculative attacks ever since the four-year industry-wide bear raid called the Great Depression, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average was reduced to 10 percent of its former value."
<br /><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9M%2Bqrfb3nWMhyahCky4kqIvnfP2yPLNS"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a>
<br /><br />
<font><strong>Banks Successfully Lobbied for Weaker Bailout Repayment Rules so They Could Pay Bonuses</strong></font><br />
Pat Garofalo, ThinkProgress: "As a new report from the Special Inspector General for TARP shows, even these restrictions were too much for some of the nation's biggest banks - including Bank of America, Wells Fargo, and PNC - who lobbied for easier payback requirements so that they could be freed from restrictions on paying bonuses."
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