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Hide the Ball: Romney's Long History of Hiding His Exorbitant, but
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t r u t h o u t | 07.26
Hide the Ball: Romney's Long History of Hiding His Exorbitant, but Questionable, Business Practices
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10542-hide-the-ball-romneys-long-history-of-hiding-his-exorbitant-but-legal-business-practices
Dina Rasor and Jason Leopold, Truthout: "How is it possible that, for two decades now, Mitt Romney has successfully avoided revealing any details about his vast wealth, has been able to manipulate and stash wealth overseas with no public accountability, has not been held to account for his complete lack of transparency, has painted himself as a creator of thousands of jobs even though the public record shows business decisions he presided over resulted in the loss of jobs because of mass wealth being scooped out of the assets of these same companies?"
To Protect Democracy, the House Should Act Against Michele Bachmann's Anti-Muslim McCarthyism
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10544-to-protect-democracy-the-house-should-act-against-michele-bachmanns-anti-muslim-mccarthyism
Robert Naiman, Truthout: "Rep. Michele Bachmann is using her position on the House Intelligence Committee to promote a conspiracy theory that government officials, including State Department official Huma Abedin, are part of a Muslim Brotherhood plot to infiltrate the US government. Bachmann also claimed that Rep. Keith Ellison is tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. Bachmann has refused to apologize or back down, even after prominent Republicans like Sen. John McCain demanded that she stop."
Q & A With Tom Morello: "I've Never Been Afraid of the Truth on My Records ..."
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10513-a-q-a-with-tom-morello-ive-never-been-afraid-of-the-truth-on-my-records
Jason Leopold, Truthout: "After Morello's second band, the multiplatinum, hard rock super group Audioslave, broke up in 2007 he started recording albums under the moniker 'The Nightwatchman' and reinvented himself as a 'black Woody Guthrie,' he told Truthout in an interview, armed only with an acoustic guitar and his deep baritone voice. He sang songs about corporate greed, class war and workers' rights. But on his fourth Nightwatchman album, 'World Wide Rebel Songs,' released last summer, Morello plugged back in. Supported by a full electric backing band called the Freedom Fighting Orchestra, Morello has described 'World Wide Rebel Songs' as 'troubled songs for troubled times.'"
How Abuse, Corruption and Silence at Penn State Perpetuate a Poisonous Culture
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10547-how-abuse-corruption-and-silence-at-penn-state-perpetuate-a-poisonous-culture
Kristin Rawls, AlterNet: "As an education journalist, I have watched Jerry Sandusky's downfall with a mixture of horror and fascination. But as a graduate school alumna of Penn State, it has been difficult to separate my own experiences as a student and instructor from what I am seeing in the news. Based on my own observations of abuse and misconduct while at Penn State - none of them related to the football program - I have every reason to suspect that the allegations released last November, and the punishments leveled just this week, mark only the beginning of a long and painful fall from grace for the institution as a whole. After all, Sandusky is just one man, but it took a proverbial village to hide three decades of overt abuse."
Militarization of London Olympics Shows One More Host Country's Fetish for Displays of Force
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10527-militarization-of-london-olympics-shows-one-more-host-countrys-fetish-for-displays-of-force
Brad Evans, Truthout: "So, the Olympic Games are finally upon us. Whether we perceive this global extravaganza to be a triumphant social gathering which reveals all that is remarkable about the human spirit or yet another corporate feast of plenty, it nevertheless provides us with a pertinent moment to evaluate the operations of power in contemporary liberal societies. Not only does it illustrate how our post-industrial lifestyles are increasingly defined by 'event-based' experiences, it also shows how terror has become normalized in the current historical conjuncture. As securitization policies become more visible, the corporate militarization of public space appears routine. It is even to be applauded as a reasoned and rational choice."
John Pilger: Blair, War, Olympic Deals and a Glimpse of Another Britain
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10428-blair-war-olympic-deals-and-a-glimpse-of-another-britain
John Pilger, Truthout: "This is a story of two letters and two Britains. The first letter was written by Sebastion Coe, the former athlete who chairs the London Olympics Organizing Committee. He is now called Lord Coe. In the New Statesman of 21 June, I reported an urgent appeal to Coe by the Vietnam Women's Union that he and his International Olympic Committee (IOC) colleagues reconsider their decision to accept sponsorship from Dow Chemical, one of the companies that manufactured dioxin, a poison used against the population of Vietnam."
Why Dark Money in Politics Is Bad for Women
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10535-why-dark-money-in-politics-is-bad-for-women
Jessica Mason Pieklo, RH Reality Check: "Republican lawmakers have a host of weapons at their disposal in the battle over women's reproductive rights, but no weapon may have as much impact as unlimited campaign spending. How do we know that dark money is a key to a Republican anti-woman, anti-family agenda? Just look how hard they are fighting to protect it."
The Nature of the US Military Presence in Africa
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10551-the-nature-of-the-us-military-presence-in-africa
Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse, TomDispatch: "On July 12th, TomDispatch posted the latest piece in Nick Turse's 'changing face of empire' series: 'Obama's Scramble for Africa.' It laid out in some detail the way in which the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has, in recent years, spread its influence across that continent, establishing bases and outposts, sending in special operations forces and drones, funding proxy forces on the continent, and so on. As last week ended, TomDispatch received a 'letter to the editor' from Colonel Tom Davis, director of the U.S. Africa Command Office of Public Affairs, disputing in some detail a number of Turse's points."
Labor and the New Media
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10500-labor-and-the-new-media
Dick Meister, Dick Meister's Blog: "The coming of the Internet has had a profound impact on media coverage of working people and their unions. No, the mainstream media have not expanded their generally limited and shallow labor reporting or their generally anti-labor editorial positions. But there now are dozens of non-mainstream websites and blogs that provide in-depth labor coverage. The print versions of union newspapers and newsletters could never reach the very much larger audience that's now available via the Internet."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Chicago Is Latest City to Approve Resolution to Overturn Citizens United; and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10556-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-chicago-is-latest-city-to-approve-resolution-to-overturn-citizens-united-and-more
In today's On the News segment: Yesterday, Senate Republicans dropped their filibuster and allowed an up or down vote on extending the Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans; a Japanese newspaper is reporting that plant operators still face a number of hurdles before they can decommission the Fukushima nuclear plant; President Obama spoke tough words on gun control Wednesday night in a speech at the Urban League in New Orleans; Chicago is now the latest city to approve a resolution to amend the Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision; and more.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Mitt Romney Turns a Deaf Ear to Pleas of Illinois Workers Whose Jobs Are Being Outsourced to China by Bain
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13631
"More than 170 workers in Freeport, Illinois, are about to lose their jobs, outsourced to China by the majority shareholder in their company: Bain Capital. Sensata is the name of the firm, and the soon-to-be-former employees sent a direct appeal to Mitt Romney to get his former colleagues to keep their plant in the United States, according to The Associated Press."
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The Rise of the Police State and the Absence of Mass Opposition
Read the Article at Piazza Della Carina
http://piazzadcara.wordpress.com/2012/07/25/the-rise-of-the-police-state-and-the-absence-of-mass-opposition-by-james-petras-and-robin-eastman-abaya/
Forty Economists Say the GOP Has Abandoned Economic Reality
Read the Article at ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/07/25/584561/40-economists-republicans-reality/
The United States of Violent America
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13629
Some Good Anglo-Saxon Values for Mitt Romney
Read the Article at The Guardian UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/25/mitt-romney-anglo-saxon-values
A Guide to Mass Shootings in America
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/07/mass-shootings-map
New GOP-Backed Voter ID Law Could Keep 43 Percent of Philly Voters From Polls
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/pennsylvania_voter_id_law_could_keep_43_percent_of_philly_voters_from_polls.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
Majority of House GOP Caucus Wants to Shut Government Down Over Obama Health Care Law
Read the Article at DailyKos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/07/25/1113560/-Majority-of-House-GOP-caucus-wants-to-shut-government-down-over-Obamacare
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<h3 style="font-size: 14px; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.1">Mitt Romney Turns a Deaf Ear to Pleas of Illinois Workers Whose Jobs Are Being Outsourced to China by Bain
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<h3 style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 13px; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Rise of the Police State and the Absence of Mass Opposition</h3>
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<h3 style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 13px; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Forty Economists Say the GOP Has Abandoned Economic Reality</h3>
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<h3 style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 13px; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some Good Anglo-Saxon Values for Mitt Romney</h3>
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<h3 style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 13px; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A Guide to Mass Shootings in America</h3>
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<h3 style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 13px; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">New GOP-Backed Voter ID Law Could Keep 43 Percent of Philly Voters From Polls</h3>
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<h3 style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 13px; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Majority of House GOP Caucus Wants to Shut Government Down Over Obama Health Care Law</h3>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 11px;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Dina Rasor and Jason Leopold, Truthout: </strong>"How is it possible that, for two decades now, Mitt Romney has successfully avoided revealing any details about his vast wealth, has been able to manipulate and stash wealth overseas with no public accountability, has not been held to account for his complete lack of transparency, has painted himself as a creator of thousands of jobs even though the public record shows business decisions he presided over resulted in the loss of jobs because of mass wealth being scooped out of the assets of these same companies?"</p>
<h2 style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 12px;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=skcC%2BNq0m1uwVi%2FfSM3gBXD6PlIh9ub8" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000">Read the Article</a> </h2>
<h2 style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 14px;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HbxKKvLpRd%2FMff%2FYZ1iySwKqLKrgUJTp"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000">To Protect Democracy, the House Should Act Against Michele Bachmann's Anti-Muslim McCarthyism</a></h2>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 11px;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Robert Naiman, Truthout: </strong>"Rep. Michele Bachmann is using her position on the House Intelligence Committee to promote a conspiracy theory that government officials, including State Department official Huma Abedin, are part of a Muslim Brotherhood plot to infiltrate the US government. Bachmann also claimed that Rep. Keith Ellison is tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. Bachmann has refused to apologize or back down, even after prominent Republicans like Sen. John McCain demanded that she stop."</p>
<h2 style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 12px;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Wl6J%2B4I6BgevWTVqfp%2FmJwKqLKrgUJTp" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000">Read the Article</a> </h2>
<h2 style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 14px;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1Z1BJoi%2F3uf0UII7pEZI5leHl%2FsO%2FpXm"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000">Q & A With Tom Morello: "I've Never Been Afraid of the Truth on My Records ..."</a></h2>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 11px;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Jason Leopold, Truthout: </strong>"After Morello's second band, the multiplatinum, hard rock super group Audioslave, broke up in 2007 he started recording albums under the moniker 'The Nightwatchman' and reinvented himself as a 'black Woody Guthrie,' he told Truthout in an interview, armed only with an acoustic guitar and his deep baritone voice. He sang songs about corporate greed, class war and workers' rights. But on his fourth Nightwatchman album, 'World Wide Rebel Songs,' released last summer, Morello plugged back in. Supported by a full electric backing band called the Freedom Fighting Orchestra, Morello has described 'World Wide Rebel Songs' as 'troubled songs for troubled times.'"</p>
<h2 style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 12px;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QPZOVPjyhxn1B0KsI9A8HQKqLKrgUJTp" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000">Read the Article</a> </h2>
<h2 style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 14px;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vUY39WPYtCnsv57%2FpS1DLwKqLKrgUJTp"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000">How Abuse, Corruption and Silence at Penn State Perpetuate a Poisonous Culture</a></h2>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 11px;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Kristin Rawls, AlterNet: </strong>"As an education journalist, I have watched Jerry Sandusky's downfall with a mixture of horror and fascination. But as a graduate school alumna of Penn State, it has been difficult to separate my own experiences as a student and instructor from what I am seeing in the news. Based on my own observations of abuse and misconduct while at Penn State - none of them related to the football program - I have every reason to suspect that the allegations released last November, and the punishments leveled just this week, mark only the beginning of a long and painful fall from grace for the institution as a whole. After all, Sandusky is just one man, but it took a proverbial village to hide three decades of overt abuse."</p>
<h2 style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 12px;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YGPJcYVQee5yC%2FhqigW3CgKqLKrgUJTp" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000">Read the Article</a> </h2>
<h2 style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 14px;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UJ1cYPHVjHhl1mA0UkJadAKqLKrgUJTp"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000">Militarization of London Olympics Shows One More Host Country's Fetish for Displays of Force</a></h2>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 11px;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Brad Evans, Truthout: </strong>"So, the Olympic Games are finally upon us. Whether we perceive this global extravaganza to be a triumphant social gathering which reveals all that is remarkable about the human spirit or yet another corporate feast of plenty, it nevertheless provides us with a pertinent moment to evaluate the operations of power in contemporary liberal societies. Not only does it illustrate how our post-industrial lifestyles are increasingly defined by 'event-based' experiences, it also shows how terror has become normalized in the current historical conjuncture. As securitization policies become more visible, the corporate militarization of public space appears routine. It is even to be applauded as a reasoned and rational choice."</p>
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<h2 style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 14px;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2BfOIG1jnbd4tdUaYCtlRwKqLKrgUJTp"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000">John Pilger: Blair, War, Olympic Deals and a Glimpse of Another Britain</a></h2>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 11px;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>John Pilger, Truthout: </strong>"This is a story of two letters and two Britains. The first letter was written by Sebastion Coe, the former athlete who chairs the London Olympics Organizing Committee. He is now called Lord Coe. In the New Statesman of 21 June, I reported an urgent appeal to Coe by the Vietnam Women's Union that he and his International Olympic Committee (IOC) colleagues reconsider their decision to accept sponsorship from Dow Chemical, one of the companies that manufactured dioxin, a poison used against the population of Vietnam."</p>
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<h2 style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 14px;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=CFZQDKc%2FN25ZE7BDGpyv5leHl%2FsO%2FpXm"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000">Why Dark Money in Politics Is Bad for Women</a></h2>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 11px;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Jessica Mason Pieklo, RH Reality Check: </strong>"Republican lawmakers have a host of weapons at their disposal in the battle over women's reproductive rights, but no weapon may have as much impact as unlimited campaign spending. How do we know that dark money is a key to a Republican anti-woman, anti-family agenda? Just look how hard they are fighting to protect it."</p>
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<h2 style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 14px;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1Z1BJoi%2F3udpJTP0newm9leHl%2FsO%2FpXm"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000">The Nature of the US Military Presence in Africa</a></h2>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 11px;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Tom Engelhardt and Nick Turse, TomDispatch: </strong>"On July 12th, TomDispatch posted the latest piece in Nick Turse's 'changing face of empire' series: 'Obama's Scramble for Africa.' It laid out in some detail the way in which the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) has, in recent years, spread its influence across that continent, establishing bases and outposts, sending in special operations forces and drones, funding proxy forces on the continent, and so on. As last week ended, TomDispatch received a 'letter to the editor' from Colonel Tom Davis, director of the U.S. Africa Command Office of Public Affairs, disputing in some detail a number of Turse's points."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 11px;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Dick Meister, Dick Meister's Blog: </strong>"The coming of the Internet has had a profound impact on media coverage of working people and their unions. No, the mainstream media have not expanded their generally limited and shallow labor reporting or their generally anti-labor editorial positions. But there now are dozens of non-mainstream websites and blogs that provide in-depth labor coverage. The print versions of union newspapers and newsletters could never reach the very much larger audience that's now available via the Internet."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 11px;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>In today's On the News segment: </strong>Yesterday, Senate Republicans dropped their filibuster and allowed an up or down vote on extending the Bush tax cuts for 98 percent of Americans; a Japanese newspaper is reporting that plant operators still face a number of hurdles before they can decommission the Fukushima nuclear plant; President Obama spoke tough words on gun control Wednesday night in a speech at the Urban League in New Orleans; Chicago is now the latest city to approve a resolution to amend the Constitution to overturn the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision; and more.</p>
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