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t r u t h o u t | 03.28
Let the Million Flowers Bloom
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8154-let-the-million-flowers-bloom
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "The Occupy protesters arrested in Zuccotti Park on March 17th were pressured to give retinal scans to the authorities - retinal scans! - by the same police that spied on and infiltrated peaceful liberal/progressive organizations, while the mayor broke bread with the worst of the Wall Street thieves.... The crushing of dissent, the official identification of dissenters, the vast expansion of federal power, and the hyper-arming of local authorities. Nothing to worry about, right?"
Matt Taibbi: Bank of America Is a "Raging Hurricane of Theft and Fraud"
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8145-matt-taibbi-bank-of-america-is-a-raging-hurricane-of-theft-and-fraud
Matt Taibbi, Foreclose the Banks: "There are two things every American needs to know about Bank of America. The first is that it's corrupt. This bank has systematically defrauded almost everyone with whom it has a significant business relationship ... It is a giant, raging hurricane of theft and fraud, spinning its way through America and leaving a massive trail of wiped-out retirees and foreclosed-upon families in its wake. The second is that all of us, as taxpayers, are keeping that hurricane raging."
Maddow Writes on America's Love Affair With War
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8128-drift-is-it-too-late-to-descope-this
Rachel Maddow, The Crown Publishing Group: "It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too. Nobody ever made an argument to the American people that the thing we ought to do in Afghanistan would be to build a brand-new neighborhood in that country's capital city full of narco-chic McMansions and buildings with giant sculptures of eagles on their roofs ... But that is what we built."
How the Koch Brothers Spent at Least $3.9 Million in Unreported Partisan Attack Efforts During the 2010 Election
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8152-how-the-koch-brothers-spent-at-least-$39-million-in-unreported-partisan-attack-efforts-during-the-2010-election
Lee Fang, Republic Report: "On the Federal Election Commission disclosure website, you won't find any big checks written to super PACs by David or Charles Koch. That's because the brothers prefer nonprofit 501(c) organizations to hide their donations and their political spending. By evading the spirit of campaign disclosure laws, the attacks go on with little accountability from the public."
Organized Money From Cities, Unions and Churches Moving Out of Big Banks
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8172-organized-money-from-cities-unions-and-churches-moving-out-of-big-banks
Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "A growing number of cities around the country have passed, introduced or drafted responsible banking ordinances that hit big financial institutions where it hurts most - the pocketbook.... The movement to divest from banking institutions continues to gain ground, as cities with large amount of capital join individuals, unions and congregations in pulling their money out of banks, or looking more carefully at the conditions a financial institution must meet to hold their money."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Newt Gingrich Campaign Is Sinking, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8173-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-the-newt-gingrich-campaign-is-sinking-and-more
In today's On the News segment: The Newt Gingrich campaign is sinking, austerity is hurting the British economy even more than previously thought, more bad news is coming out of Afghanistan, and more.
Can Health Care Win by Losing at Highest Court?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8153-can-healthcare-win-by-losing-at-highest-court
Michael Fitzgerald, Miller-McCune: "As day two of the U.S. Supreme Court's epic three-day examination of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act came to a close, the general consensus seems to be that the government's lawyer failed to convince any of the five right-of-center justices to uphold the individual mandate alongside the court's four left-of-center justices. So is it time for supporters of the healthcare overhaul to abandon hope and revisit the Government Accounting Office's comprehensive survey of experts for alternatives to the mandate for encouraging enrollment? Not necessarily."
Voter Suppression in 2012, Past Is Prologue
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8148-voter-suppression-in-2012-past-is-prologue
Dr. Wilmer J Leon III, Truthout: "After years of struggle in the courts, legislatures and the streets, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965 ... Today, this ugly part of America's past has once again become its present. As a result of Republicans taking control of statehouses after the 2010 mid-term elections, a number of states such as Alabama, South Carolina, Texas, Mississippi (sound familiar?), and others have enacted laws imposing new restrictions for voter ID, voter registration and early voting."
Worker Ownership for the 21st Century?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8169-worker-ownership-for-the-21st-century
Laura Flanders, The Nation: "On Monday, this country's largest industrial labor union teamed up with the world's largest worker-cooperative to present a plan that would put people to work in labor-driven enterprises that build worker power and communities, too. 'The union co-op model embraces the idea ... that treating workers well and with dignity and sustaining communities are just as important as business growth and profitability.' It might not sound like big news to members of their local food coop but it's revolutionary stuff in the context of industrial production."
GOP National Labor Board Relations Member Passed Sensitive Information to Romney Campaign
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8163-gop-national-labor-board-relations-member-passed-sensitive-information-to-romney-campaign
Mike Elk, In These Times: "Congressman George Miller ... complained that House GOP members were blocking the release of a National Labor Board Relations Inspector General's report. The report shows that GOP NLRB Member Terence Flynn funneled sensitive information to Mitt Romney's labor policy co-chair - former GOP NLRB member Peter Schaumber, who left the independent federal agency 2010 - to be used in political attacks on the Board. And it recommends the Department of Justice investigate his actions."
Sgt. Robert Bales and the Trauma of Repeat Deployments (Video)
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8158-sergeant-robert-bales-and-the-trauma-of-repeat-deployments
Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: "Does Robert Bales, the army staff sergeant who allegedly killed 17 Afghan civilians on March 11, symbolize a larger problem in our military ranks? In this web-exclusive video, Vietnam veteran and military scholar Andrew Bacevich talks with Bill Moyers about Bales' accountability, the stress of repeated tours on soldiers, and how war itself 'compromises our humanity.' This weekend on public television, Moyers and Bacevich explore the futility of 'endless' wars, and provide a reality check on the rhetoric of American exceptionalism."
Health Care Jujitsu
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8165-healthcare-jujitsu
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "[The] Supreme Court argument over the so-called 'individual mandate' requiring everyone to buy health insurance revolved around epistemological niceties such as the meaning of a 'tax,' and the question of whether the issue is ripe for review. Behind this judicial foreplay is the brute political fact that if the Court decides the individual mandate is an unconstitutional extension of federal authority, the entire law starts unraveling.... Here's how."
The Truth About the US Postal Service
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/8166-the-truth-about-the-us-postal-service
Jim Hightower, Truthout: "Each day, six days a week, letter carriers traverse 4 million miles toting an average of 563 million pieces of mail, reaching the very doorsteps of our individual homes and workplaces in every single community in America ... The U.S. Postal Service literally delivers. All for 45 cents. The USPS is an unmatched bargain, a civic treasure, a genuine public good that links all people and communities into one nation. So, naturally, it must be destroyed."
David Bacon on US Policies and the Great Mexican Migration
http://truth-out.org/news/item/8167-david-bacon-on-us-policies-and-the-great-mexican-migration
Thorne Webb Dreyer, The Rag Blog: "Noted journalist, author, documentary photographer, and long-time labor organizer David Bacon ... Discussed the role of companies like Smithfield Foods in immigrant displacement, environmental abuse, and the struggle of oppressed workers fighting to overcome intolerable conditions - especially in the Perote Valley of the Mexican state of Veracruz, and in Smithfield's plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, the world's largest pork slaughterhouse. And he shows how the struggles in Veracruz and North Carolina are critically interrelated."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Don't Want Health Insurance? Then Sign "Let Me Die" Legal Document
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13406
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "It's really just common sense what Norris proposes: if a person doesn't want to pay for health insurance, they simply exercise his or her cherished freedom by signing a document that legally says (to paraphrase) 'let me die if I cannot afford to pay for my medical care. I, being of sound body and mind, promise that I will not become a financial burden on the state, charitable hospitals, or federal government.'"
Congressman Gets Kicked Off House Floor for Wearing Hoodie for Trayvon
Read the Article at ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/03/28/453744/bobby-rush-hoodi/
The New York Times: The Supreme Court's Momentous Test
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/opinion/the-supreme-courts-momentous-test.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
Farm Workers Get Beat Up in Florida Fields and the US Senate
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/03/farm-workers-get-beat-florida-fields-and-us-senate
Study: Four Hundred Afghan Women Jailed for "Moral Crimes"
Read the Article at The Associated Press
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57405658/study-400-afghan-women-jailed-for-moral-crimes/?tag=stack
Student: Congress, Don't Let My Loan Rates Double
Read the Article at Campus Progress
http://campusprogress.org/articles/student_congress_dont_let_my_loan_rates_double/
Katrina vanden Heuvel: Republicans Are Causing a Moral Crisis in America
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-are-causing-a-moral-crisis-in-america/2012/03/26/gIQACSM2dS_story.html
Report: Farming Must Intensify Sustainability, Cut Waste and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions for Sake of Future Generations
Read the Article at BBC
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17495031
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><p>Wednesday 28 March 2012 <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Let the Million Flowers Bloom</strong></font><br />
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "The Occupy protesters arrested in Zuccotti =
Park on March 17th were pressured to give retinal scans to the authorities =
- retinal scans! - by the same police that spied on and infiltrated peacefu=
l liberal/progressive organizations, while the mayor broke bread with the w=
orst of the Wall Street thieves.... The crushing of dissent, the official i=
dentification of dissenters, the vast expansion of federal power, and the h=
yper-arming of local authorities. Nothing to worry about, right?" <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Di%2B5z=
ED4wbtWW7q7PCi%2Fa2SZlXtsSLTUK"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</f=
ont></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Matt Taibbi: Bank of America Is a "Raging Hurricane of Theft =
and Fraud"</strong></font><br />
Matt Taibbi, Foreclose the Banks: "There are two things every American need=
s to know about Bank of America. The first is that it's corrupt. This bank =
has systematically defrauded almost everyone with whom it has a significant=
business relationship ... It is a giant, raging hurricane of theft and fra=
ud, spinning its way through America and leaving a massive trail of wiped-o=
ut retirees and foreclosed-upon families in its wake. The second is that al=
l of us, as taxpayers, are keeping that hurricane raging." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DzF9zRj=
ckgbGf7KjchCJGBCZlXtsSLTUK"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Maddow Writes on America's Love Affair With War</strong></fon=
t><br />
Rachel Maddow, The Crown Publishing Group: "It's not just the small-potatoe=
s post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big=
-ticket stuff too. Nobody ever made an argument to the American people that=
the thing we ought to do in Afghanistan would be to build a brand-new neig=
hborhood in that country's capital city full of narco-chic McMansions and b=
uildings with giant sculptures of eagles on their roofs ... But that is wha=
t we built." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DlwmYE2=
Z6SIFPAuVj4njZniZlXtsSLTUK"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>How the Koch Brothers Spent at Least $3.9 Million in Unreport=
ed Partisan Attack Efforts During the 2010 Election</strong></font><br />
Lee Fang, Republic Report: "On the Federal Election Commission disclosure w=
ebsite, you won't find any big checks written to super PACs by David or Cha=
rles Koch. That's because the brothers prefer nonprofit 501(c) organization=
s to hide their donations and their political spending. By evading the spir=
it of campaign disclosure laws, the attacks go on with little accountabilit=
y from the public." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D2At5Lp=
0u%2B%2BPSodHgjDTWFyZlXtsSLTUK"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</f=
ont></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Organized Money From Cities, Unions and Churches Moving Out o=
f Big Banks</strong></font><br />
Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "A growing number of cities around the country ha=
ve passed, introduced or drafted responsible banking ordinances that hit bi=
g financial institutions where it hurts most - the pocketbook.... The movem=
ent to divest from banking institutions continues to gain ground, as cities=
with large amount of capital join individuals, unions and congregations in=
pulling their money out of banks, or looking more carefully at the conditi=
ons a financial institution must meet to hold their money." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DGwabRY=
5kdVP%2FYgoyIfEcfCZlXtsSLTUK"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: The Newt Gingrich Campaign Is=
Sinking, and More</strong></font><br />
In today's On the News segment: The Newt Gingrich campaign is sinking, aust=
erity is hurting the British economy even more than previously thought, mor=
e bad news is coming out of Afghanistan, and more. <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Dr1G2ba=
n43c6yCHbjeM%2FaziZlXtsSLTUK"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Watch the Video and R=
ead the Transcript</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Can Health Care Win by Losing at Highest Court?</strong></fon=
t><br />
Michael Fitzgerald, Miller-McCune: "As day two of the U.S. Supreme Court's =
epic three-day examination of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Ac=
t came to a close, the general consensus seems to be that the government's =
lawyer failed to convince any of the five right-of-center justices to uphol=
d the individual mandate alongside the court's four left-of-center justices=
. So is it time for supporters of the healthcare overhaul to abandon hope a=
nd revisit the Government Accounting Office's comprehensive survey of exper=
ts for alternatives to the mandate for encouraging enrollment? Not necessar=
ily." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DFhaLIY=
0tfTmYhYikPFYODSZlXtsSLTUK"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Voter Suppression in 2012, Past Is Prologue</strong></font><b=
r />
Dr. Wilmer J Leon III, Truthout: "After years of struggle in the courts, le=
gislatures and the streets, President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Righ=
ts Act of 1965 ... Today, this ugly part of America's past has once again b=
ecome its present. As a result of Republicans taking control of statehouses=
after the 2010 mid-term elections, a number of states such as Alabama, Sou=
th Carolina, Texas, Mississippi (sound familiar?), and others have enacted =
laws imposing new restrictions for voter ID, voter registration and early v=
oting."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Dp%2F%2=
Bd8mTA%2FE%2BimBuL38dptNsI1VUso1di"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Articl=
e</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Worker Ownership for the 21st Century?</strong></font><br />
Laura Flanders, The Nation: "On Monday, this country's largest industrial l=
abor union teamed up with the world's largest worker-cooperative to present=
a plan that would put people to work in labor-driven enterprises that buil=
d worker power and communities, too. 'The union co-op model embraces the id=
ea ... that treating workers well and with dignity and sustaining communiti=
es are just as important as business growth and profitability.' It might no=
t sound like big news to members of their local food coop but it's revoluti=
onary stuff in the context of industrial production."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3D2WP1pz=
Ps5Y2l32hXmkU3viZlXtsSLTUK"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>GOP National Labor Board Relations Member Passed Sensitive In=
formation to Romney Campaign</strong></font><br />
Mike Elk, In These Times: "Congressman George Miller ... complained that Ho=
use GOP members were blocking the release of a National Labor Board Relatio=
ns Inspector General's report. The report shows that GOP NLRB Member Terenc=
e Flynn funneled sensitive information to Mitt Romney's labor policy co-cha=
ir - former GOP NLRB member Peter Schaumber, who left the independent feder=
al agency 2010 - to be used in political attacks on the Board. And it recom=
mends the Department of Justice investigate his actions." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Db0s6ve=
Lt1sdbTy0%2B8Zq1PSZlXtsSLTUK"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</fon=
t></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Sgt. Robert Bales and the Trauma of Repeat Deployments (Video=
)</strong></font><br />
Bill Moyers, Moyers & Co.: "Does Robert Bales, the army staff sergeant =
who allegedly killed 17 Afghan civilians on March 11, symbolize a larger pr=
oblem in our military ranks? In this web-exclusive video, Vietnam veteran a=
nd military scholar Andrew Bacevich talks with Bill Moyers about Bales' acc=
ountability, the stress of repeated tours on soldiers, and how war itself '=
compromises our humanity.' This weekend on public television, Moyers and Ba=
cevich explore the futility of 'endless' wars, and provide a reality check =
on the rhetoric of American exceptionalism." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DMA%2Fg=
ntbtIkQeCJVjnneqmiZlXtsSLTUK"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Watch the Video and R=
ead the Transcript</font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>Health Care Jujitsu</strong></font><br />
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "[The] Supreme Court argument over the s=
o-called 'individual mandate' requiring everyone to buy health insurance re=
volved around epistemological niceties such as the meaning of a 'tax,' and =
the question of whether the issue is ripe for review. Behind this judicial =
foreplay is the brute political fact that if the Court decides the individu=
al mandate is an unconstitutional extension of federal authority, the entir=
e law starts unraveling.... Here's how." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DkKaQmX=
f1JVMUn9pNztFcNiZlXtsSLTUK"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article</font>=
</a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>The Truth About the US Postal Service</strong></font><br />
Jim Hightower, Truthout: "Each day, six days a week, letter carriers traver=
se 4 million miles toting an average of 563 million pieces of mail, reachin=
g the very doorsteps of our individual homes and workplaces in every single=
community in America ... The U.S. Postal Service literally delivers. All f=
or 45 cents. The USPS is an unmatched bargain, a civic treasure, a genuine =
public good that links all people and communities into one nation. So, natu=
rally, it must be destroyed."<br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3Ddmd2Ia=
%2BtX%2BzrxA%2BYRkFG2yZlXtsSLTUK"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article<=
/font></a> <br />
<br />
<font><strong>David Bacon on US Policies and the Great Mexican Migration</s=
trong></font><br />
Thorne Webb Dreyer, The Rag Blog: "Noted journalist, author, documentary ph=
otographer, and long-time labor organizer David Bacon ... Discussed the rol=
e of companies like Smithfield Foods in immigrant displacement, environment=
al abuse, and the struggle of oppressed workers fighting to overcome intole=
rable conditions - especially in the Perote Valley of the Mexican state of =
Veracruz, and in Smithfield's plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, the world'=
s largest pork slaughterhouse. And he shows how the struggles in Veracruz a=
nd North Carolina are critically interrelated." <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DUlAHei=
t4EVfG8bz6zgr44iZlXtsSLTUK"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the Article and Li=
sten to the Radio Show</font></a> </p>
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<p><font><strong>Don't Want Health Insurance? Then Sign "Let Me Die" Legal =
Document</strong></font><br />
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "It's really just common sense what Nor=
ris proposes: if a person doesn't want to pay for health insurance, they si=
mply exercise his or her cherished freedom by signing a document that legal=
ly says (to paraphrase) 'let me die if I cannot afford to pay for my medica=
l care. I, being of sound body and mind, promise that I will not become a f=
inancial burden on the state, charitable hospitals, or federal government.'=
" <br />
<a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=3DP8OQhE=
8MLhMRothHqMSnWiZlXtsSLTUK"><font color=3D"#cc0000">Read the BuzzFlash Comm=
entary</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Congressman Gets Kicked Off House Floor for Wearing Hoodie for T=
rayvon<br />
</strong><a href=3D"http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=3D2&c=
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