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The Pro-Hunger Lobby: GOP Frontrunners Fight Aid for Starving
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t r u t h o u t | 10.03
The Pro-Hunger Lobby: GOP Frontrunners Fight Aid for Starving Americans
http://www.truth-out.org/pro-hunger-lobby-gop-frontrunners-fight-aid-starving-americans/1317148242
Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, is one of the most efficient, effective, penny-pinching programs in today's government-scape. Food stamps have cushioned the recession's blow for the 45 million Americans that depend on them for daily meals. And we're not talking government-subsidized caviar: On average, food stamp recipients can expect an allotment of $30 per week. Plus, it's a dream of a stimulus - every $5 in SNAP benefits generates nearly double that in economic activity. However, as the race to 2012 builds and the crazies get crazier, the top GOP presidential hopefuls have turned on this all-star program with a vengeance."
Tax Rich More, Patriotic Millionaires Urge
http://www.truth-out.org/tax-rich-more-patriotic-millionaires-urge/1317647752
Joe Garofoli, The San Francisco Chronicle: "The Patriotic Millionaires contend that Americans with incomes over $1 million should shoulder a larger share of the tax burden to pay for Pell Grants, road improvements and training programs 'that made it possible for me to get to where I am,' as Edwards told Obama during the president's appearance last week at the Mountain View social networking company LinkedIn. Polls say most respondents agree that rich folks should pony up, as the effective tax rates for the wealthiest Americans - what people actually pay after deductions and exemptions - are at their lowest levels since 1960."
Bill Clinton Is Baaaaaaaaack!
http://www.truth-out.org/bill-clinton-baaaaaaaaack/1317648177
Dean Baker, Truthout: "The New York Times reported last week that former President Bill Clinton is working on a new book on economic policy to be released in time for next year's election. This is unfortunate, since Clinton stands alongside Alan Greenspan as one of the last people who should be giving the country and the world advice on economic policy."
There Are Many More Koch Brother Secret Sins (Video)
http://www.truth-out.org/there-are-many-more-koch-brother-secret-sins/1317648865
Robert Greenwald, AlterNet: "The Koch-supported candidates won and promptly began reversing the student assignment plan. They favored one that would lead to segregated schools. The Koch brothers' plan to resegregate schools hit a roadblock when students, parents, teachers, and civil rights leaders united to stop the return to Jim Crow."
Fox News Offers Wall Street Protester an Interview but Doesn't Air It After He Slams Fox
http://www.truth-out.org/fox-news-offers-wall-street-protester-interview-doesn%27t-air-it-after-he-slams-fox/1317671919
Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress: "LaGreca offered an eloquent defense of the protests and growing economic inequality in the United States, and scolded the Fox staffer for his network's role as a far-right 'propaganda machine.' LaGreca noted Fox's parent corporation was under investigation by the Department of Justice and that the network was 'wasting time' on subjects such as President Obama's birth certificate and Solyndra. The Fox producer promised LaGreca he would 'put any message you want out there, to give you fair coverage,' yet when the show was aired Wednesday, the footage was nowhere to be found."
It Could Be You: The Sad Story of Jose Padilla, Tortured and Denied Justice
http://www.truth-out.org/it-could-be-you-sad-story-jose-padilla-tortured-and-denied-justice/1317399537
Andy Worthington, Truthout: "For nine and a half years - almost as long as the 'war on terror' has been providing an excuse for paranoia about Muslims in general - the case of US citizen Jose Padilla has demonstrated, to those wiling to pay attention, that something has gone horribly wrong in the United States of America. A former gang member and a convert to Islam, Padilla was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, in connection with an alleged 'dirty bomb plot' that never existed.... "
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Department of Justice to Investigate Whether New Laws Disenfranchise Voters, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news-thom-hartmann-doj-investigate-whether-new-laws-disenfranchise-voters-and-more/1317660882
In today's On the News segment: Elizabeth Warren is in a statistical dead heat with the Massachusetts incumbent, the Department of Justice will investigate whether new laws will disenfranchise voters, a Koch brothers-owned subsidiary may have bribed foreign governments, and more.
Renewed Tensions Over Oil in Southern Sudan
http://www.truth-out.org/renewed-tensions-over-oil-south-sudan/1317656964
Charlton Doki, Inter Press Service: "'One day the communities on the border may end up either facing genocide or there may be a very heavy war as the governments in both countries do not value the lives of the people but the resources they are sitting on. These resources will undermine the value of the lives of human beings,' Edmund Yakani, the coordinator for the local NGO Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO), told IPS."
Borrowed Hands
http://www.truth-out.org/borrowed-hands/1317654592
David Bacon, California Lawyer: "In Susanville, more than a thousand miles from the Mexican border, 'we were given documents to fill out and sign.... In addition, I was given a new copy of the employment contract,' Valle stated. 'There were significant differences between the information we received in Mexico when we were recruited and the employment contract we were forced to sign at that time.' The big difference was that workers had to meet a production quota: processing 1,025 plants per hour. 'I was told by Mr. Memmott,' Valle said, 'that the new provisions were [due to] clerical errors ... and that I had to sign the documents - otherwise I would be sent back to Mexico.'"
The Reign of the One Percenters: Income Inequality and the Death of Culture in New York City
http://www.truth-out.org/reign-one-percenters/1317665855
Christopher Ketcham, Orion Magazine: "For my daughter's benefit, so that she might know the enemy better, know what he looks like, where he nests, and when and where to throw eggs at his head, we start the tour at Wall Street."
Chickening Out in Iraq
http://www.truth-out.org/chickening-out-iraq/1317660329
Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch: "... I was sent to play a small part in the largest nation-building project since the post-World War II Marshall Plan: the reconstruction of Iraq following the American invasion of 2003. My contractor colleagues and I were told to spend money, lots of money, to rebuild water and sewage systems, fix up schools, and most of all, create an economic base so wonderful that Iraqis would turn away from terrorism for a shot at capitalism. Shopping bags full of affirmation would displace suicide vests."
Five Facts You Should Know About the Wealthiest One Percent of Americans
http://www.truth-out.org/5-facts-you-should-know-about-wealthiest-one-percent-americans/1317666609
Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress: "As the ongoing occupation of Wall Street by hundreds of protesters enters its third week - and as protests spread to other cities such as Boston and Los Angeles - demonstrators have endorsed a new slogan: 'We are the 99 percent.' This slogan refers an economic struggle between 99 percent of Americans and the richest one percent of Americans, who are increasingly accumulating a greater share of the national wealth to the detriment of the middle class. It may shock you exactly how wealthy this top 1 percent of Americans is. ThinkProgress has assembled five facts about this class of super-rich Americans:"
Turning Racism Into Education
http://www.truth-out.org/turning-racism-education/1316536642
Martha Sorren, Truthout: "Coming from Austin, Texas, to Arizona, Resas said she's never faced so much racism. 'Not in Flagstaff so much, but the attitude is different in the rest of Arizona. I'm eyeballed more and always searched thoroughly at border checkpoints.' Resas thinks the problem lies in people's lack of understanding, fed by SB1070."
How Big Is the Long-Term Debt Problem?
http://www.truth-out.org/how-big-long-term-debt-problem/1317649519
James Kwak, Baseline Scenario: "But looking at the numbers, it's not clear that the long-term picture is really that bad. Here I'll lay out the numbers, and then, as they say on Fox News, you can decide. The summary is the chart above; the details are below."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Of this you can be sure: the New York Police Department (NYPD), Mayor Bloomberg (who made his fortune on Wall Street), the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the White House are doing everything possible to keep the occupation of Wall Street from reaching an "Arab Spring" tipping point.
Populist uprisings are lauded overseas, but they are perceived as a threat to elite corporate governance in the US.
You can be sure that the governmental and law enforcement forces at the highest levels in the US are consulting with Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD on how to keep the Wall Street protest from bursting into a national movement.
If history is any guide, contingencies include infiltrators into the protest movement who will try to entrap supporters of Occupy Wall Street. This is such a common police and FBI tactic that it would take too long to list examples, but you might start with the compelling documentary, "Better This World" [http://betterthisworld.com/] It details how an FBI "informant" entrapped two young idealists from Texas into becoming prosecution targets, thus helping to portray all protesters at the 2008 Republican Convention in Minneapolis as being "radicals."
The corporate mass media that has virtually ignored the protests in lower Manhattan - although the same media will give endless coverage to a couple of Tea Party advocates with misspelled signs blathering on a street corner - will blare sensational headlines if the protesters are perceived as committing even one act of violence, such as throwing a brick through a window.
But imagine if an NYPD or FBI informant, acting as an infiltrator, bombs a Bank of America branch office at night. The entire movement to expose corporate America as legal thieves would be discredited.
Right now, the NYPD - and the FBI - are engaged in low intensity corralling of the protesters. They are playing a waiting game, hoping that the protest will exhaust itself.
But if the participants grow - as appears to be the case with the increasing support of unions and the enhanced credibility of the movement - watch for a law enforcement "false flag" operation.
You'll know about it instantly, because it will probably be the first time you'll see any serious interest in the Wall Street protests on TV. The revolution won't be televised; but the government takedown of democracy and peaceful assembly will be.
Mark Karlin
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout
Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz Joins Wall Street Protest
Read the Article at The NHK World
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/03_16.html
Rick Perry's Family Ranch Was Nicknamed the "N" Word for a Long, Long Time
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/rick-perry-familys-hunting-camp-still-known-to-many-by-old-racially-charged-name/2011/10/01/gIQAOhY5DL_story.html?wpisrc=nl_politics
Is JP Morgan Getting a Good Return on $4.6 Million "Gift" to New York City Police?
Read the Article at Naked Capitalism
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2011/10/is-jp-morgan-getting-a-good-return-on-4-6-million-gift-to-nyc-police-like-special-protection-from-occupywallstreet.html
A Conservative Multimillionaire Has Taken Control in North Carolina
Read the Article at The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/10/10/111010fa_fact_mayer
Michele Bachmann: "Obama Caused the Arab Spring"
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13047
Adbusters on Occupy Wall Street
Read the Articles at Adbusters
http://www.adbusters.org/
The Five Most Bizarre Terror Plots Hatched on the FBI's Watch: Entrapment?
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/10/the_five_most_bizarre_terror_plots_hatched_under_the_fbis_watch.php
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<font><strong>The Pro-Hunger Lobby: GOP Frontrunners Fight Aid for Starving Americans</strong></font><br />
Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), otherwise known as food stamps, is one of the most efficient, effective, penny-pinching programs in today's government-scape. Food stamps have cushioned the recession's blow for the 45 million Americans that depend on them for daily meals. And we're not talking government-subsidized caviar: On average, food stamp recipients can expect an allotment of $30 per week. Plus, it's a dream of a stimulus - every $5 in SNAP benefits generates nearly double that in economic activity. However, as the race to 2012 builds and the crazies get crazier, the top GOP presidential hopefuls have turned on this all-star program with a vengeance." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AvH52OPs6DmJi%2FEefdElIaeWVT%2BRpr0f"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
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<font><strong>Tax Rich More, Patriotic Millionaires Urge</strong></font><br />
Joe Garofoli, The San Francisco Chronicle: "The Patriotic Millionaires contend that Americans with incomes over $1 million should shoulder a larger share of the tax burden to pay for Pell Grants, road improvements and training programs 'that made it possible for me to get to where I am,' as Edwards told Obama during the president's appearance last week at the Mountain View social networking company LinkedIn. Polls say most respondents agree that rich folks should pony up, as the effective tax rates for the wealthiest Americans - what people actually pay after deductions and exemptions - are at their lowest levels since 1960." <br />
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<font><strong>Bill Clinton Is Baaaaaaaaack!</strong></font><br />
Dean Baker, Truthout: "The New York Times reported last week that former President Bill Clinton is working on a new book on economic policy to be released in time for next year's election. This is unfortunate, since Clinton stands alongside Alan Greenspan as one of the last people who should be giving the country and the world advice on economic policy." <br />
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<br />
<font><strong>There Are Many More Koch Brother Secret Sins (Video)</strong></font><br />
Robert Greenwald, AlterNet: "The Koch-supported candidates won and promptly began reversing the student assignment plan. They favored one that would lead to segregated schools. The Koch brothers' plan to resegregate schools hit a roadblock when students, parents, teachers, and civil rights leaders united to stop the return to Jim Crow." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=lNPiffIShg2RIgXv5BVZxKeWVT%2BRpr0f"><font color="#cc0000">Watch the Video</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Fox News Offers Wall Street Protester an Interview but Doesn't Air It After He Slams Fox</strong></font><br />
Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress: "LaGreca offered an eloquent defense of the protests and growing economic inequality in the United States, and scolded the Fox staffer for his network's role as a far-right 'propaganda machine.' LaGreca noted Fox's parent corporation was under investigation by the Department of Justice and that the network was 'wasting time' on subjects such as President Obama's birth certificate and Solyndra. The Fox producer promised LaGreca he would 'put any message you want out there, to give you fair coverage,' yet when the show was aired Wednesday, the footage was nowhere to be found." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=kiZFwMEFIauDyMQ%2Fz47THqeWVT%2BRpr0f"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>It Could Be You: The Sad Story of Jose Padilla, Tortured and Denied Justice</strong></font><br />
Andy Worthington, Truthout: "For nine and a half years - almost as long as the 'war on terror' has been providing an excuse for paranoia about Muslims in general - the case of US citizen Jose Padilla has demonstrated, to those wiling to pay attention, that something has gone horribly wrong in the United States of America. A former gang member and a convert to Islam, Padilla was arrested at Chicago's O'Hare Airport, in connection with an alleged 'dirty bomb plot' that never existed.... "<br />
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<br />
<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Department of Justice to Investigate Whether New Laws Disenfranchise Voters, and More</strong></font><br />
In today's On the News segment: Elizabeth Warren is in a statistical dead heat with the Massachusetts incumbent, the Department of Justice will investigate whether new laws will disenfranchise voters, a Koch brothers-owned subsidiary may have bribed foreign governments, and more. <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2BGtQhGJNnYGVgAVn9XwnK%2FjEd7W1KE66"><font color="#cc0000">Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Renewed Tensions Over Oil in Southern Sudan</strong></font><br />
Charlton Doki, Inter Press Service: "'One day the communities on the border may end up either facing genocide or there may be a very heavy war as the governments in both countries do not value the lives of the people but the resources they are sitting on. These resources will undermine the value of the lives of human beings,' Edmund Yakani, the coordinator for the local NGO Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO), told IPS." <br />
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<br />
<font><strong>Borrowed Hands</strong></font><br />
David Bacon, California Lawyer: "In Susanville, more than a thousand miles from the Mexican border, 'we were given documents to fill out and sign.... In addition, I was given a new copy of the employment contract,' Valle stated. 'There were significant differences between the information we received in Mexico when we were recruited and the employment contract we were forced to sign at that time.' The big difference was that workers had to meet a production quota: processing 1,025 plants per hour. 'I was told by Mr. Memmott,' Valle said, 'that the new provisions were [due to] clerical errors ... and that I had to sign the documents - otherwise I would be sent back to Mexico.'" <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YzMtZzGyrSroUSkPTmWuMqeWVT%2BRpr0f"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>The Reign of the One Percenters: Income Inequality and the Death of Culture in New York City</strong></font><br />
Christopher Ketcham, Orion Magazine: "For my daughter's benefit, so that she might know the enemy better, know what he looks like, where he nests, and when and where to throw eggs at his head, we start the tour at Wall Street." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UXx4BS%2B4K88MAabQaJGXnfjEd7W1KE66"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Chickening Out in Iraq</strong></font><br />
Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch: "... I was sent to play a small part in the largest nation-building project since the post-World War II Marshall Plan: the reconstruction of Iraq following the American invasion of 2003. My contractor colleagues and I were told to spend money, lots of money, to rebuild water and sewage systems, fix up schools, and most of all, create an economic base so wonderful that Iraqis would turn away from terrorism for a shot at capitalism. Shopping bags full of affirmation would displace suicide vests." <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=yUso1Ij5Gj%2FiyOAdWmOraaeWVT%2BRpr0f"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
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<font><strong>Five Facts You Should Know About the Wealthiest One Percent of Americans</strong></font><br />
Zaid Jilani, ThinkProgress: "As the ongoing occupation of Wall Street by hundreds of protesters enters its third week - and as protests spread to other cities such as Boston and Los Angeles - demonstrators have endorsed a new slogan: 'We are the 99 percent.' This slogan refers an economic struggle between 99 percent of Americans and the richest one percent of Americans, who are increasingly accumulating a greater share of the national wealth to the detriment of the middle class. It may shock you exactly how wealthy this top 1 percent of Americans is. ThinkProgress has assembled five facts about this class of super-rich Americans:" <br />
<a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ShUNlSXJssZ3qs6I5VCbWKeWVT%2BRpr0f"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article</font></a> <br />
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<font><strong>Turning Racism Into Education</strong></font><br />
Martha Sorren, Truthout: "Coming from Austin, Texas, to Arizona, Resas said she's never faced so much racism. 'Not in Flagstaff so much, but the attitude is different in the rest of Arizona. I'm eyeballed more and always searched thoroughly at border checkpoints.' Resas thinks the problem lies in people's lack of understanding, fed by SB1070." <br />
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<br />
<font><strong>How Big Is the Long-Term Debt Problem?</strong></font><br />
James Kwak, Baseline Scenario: "But looking at the numbers, it's not clear that the long-term picture is really that bad. Here I'll lay out the numbers, and then, as they say on Fox News, you can decide. The summary is the chart above; the details are below." <br />
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<p>Of this you can be sure: the New York Police Department (NYPD), Mayor Bloomberg (who made his fortune on Wall Street), the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the White House are doing everything possible to keep the occupation of Wall Street from reaching an "Arab Spring" tipping point.</p>
<p>Populist uprisings are lauded overseas, but they are perceived as a threat to elite corporate governance in the US.</p>
<p>You can be sure that the governmental and law enforcement forces at the highest levels in the US are consulting with Mayor Bloomberg and the NYPD on how to keep the Wall Street protest from bursting into a national movement.</p>
<p>If history is any guide, contingencies include infiltrators into the protest movement who will try to entrap supporters of Occupy Wall Street. This is such a common police and FBI tactic that it would take too long to list examples, but you might start with the compelling documentary, <a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=LT2DDVHQdmZU4ZhcjwOaRaeWVT%2BRpr0f"><font color="#cc0000">"Better This World."</font></a> It details how an FBI "informant" entrapped two young idealists from Texas into becoming prosecution targets, thus helping to portray all protesters at the 2008 Republican Convention in Minneapolis as being "radicals."</p>
<p>The corporate mass media that has virtually ignored the protests in lower Manhattan - although the same media will give endless coverage to a couple of Tea Party advocates with misspelled signs blathering on a street corner - will blare sensational headlines if the protesters are perceived as committing even one act of violence, such as throwing a brick through a window.</p>
<p>But imagine if an NYPD or FBI informant, acting as an infiltrator, bombs a Bank of America branch office at night. The entire movement to expose corporate America as legal thieves would be discredited.</p>
<p>Right now, the NYPD - and the FBI - are engaged in low intensity corralling of the protesters. They are playing a waiting game, hoping that the protest will exhaust itself.</p>
<p>But if the participants grow - as appears to be the case with the increasing support of unions and the enhanced credibility of the movement - watch for a law enforcement "false flag" operation.</p>
<p>You'll know about it instantly, because it will probably be the first time you'll see any serious interest in the Wall Street protests on TV. The revolution won't be televised; but the government takedown of democracy and peaceful assembly will be.</p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br />
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p>
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<p><strong>Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Stiglitz Joins Wall Street Protest<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=09gFqS4lQKsqQv2QTOedyKeWVT%2BRpr0f" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The NHK World</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Rick Perry's Family Ranch Was Nicknamed the "N" Word for a Long, Long Time<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1KjxSOEZWX1wVq2cnbTih6eWVT%2BRpr0f" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at The Washington Post</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Is JP Morgan Getting a Good Return on $4.6 Million "Gift" to New York City Police?<br />
</strong><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rmP0YHIGvJ1URbwe7gqU%2BKeWVT%2BRpr0f" target="_blank"><font color="#cc0000">Read the Article at Naked Capitalism</font></a></p>
<p><strong>A Conservative Multimillionaire Has Taken Control in North Carolina<br />
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