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William Rivers Pitt | Beneath the Bottom of the Barrel
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William Rivers Pitt | Beneath the Bottom of the Barrel
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10933-beneath-the-bottom-of-the-barrel
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "That the safety net they spent their lives paying for is under a full frontal assault from the Republican right should give anyone planning to live past the age of 65 more than a moment of pause. Mr. Lane thinks the elderly have it too good, an argument that is beyond contempt, but this is the thinking we are required to contend with in an age when people like Paul Ryan are actually taken seriously."
Ecuador Grants Assange Asylum, Respecting Human Rights, Despite Threats From UK
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10939-ecuador-grants-asylum-respecting-human-rights-despite-threats-from-uk
Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian UK: "If there were any remaining doubts about the motives behind the U.K./Swedish attempts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, they were dispelled last night. The U.K. government made an unprecedented threat to invade Ecuador's embassy if Assange is not handed over to them. Such an assault would be so extreme in violating international law and diplomatic conventions, that it is difficult to even find an example of a democratic government even making such a threat, let along carrying it out."
Section 8 Waitlists Don't Have to Be a Mile Long: Federal Housing Policy Should Stop Favoring Wealthier Homeowners
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10924-section-8-waitlists-dont-have-to-be-a-mile-long-federal-housing-policy-should-stop-favoring-wealthier-homeowners
Ben Kittelson and Dina Rasor, Truthout: "To achieve this more balanced approach, I recommend some changes to housing policy in the United States. First, I argue that the Section 8 housing vouchers should be expanded and available to more people. This is one of the most effective programs at aiding renters, but supply for the aid falls far below the demand and need."
Changing Wealth Ownership to Reduce Inequality
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10931-changing-wealth-ownership-to-reduce-inequality
Gar Alperovitz, Democracy Collaborative Press: "For two decades economists concerned with inequality have debated the precise role global competition, changing technologies, sectoral balances, and other strictly economic factors have played in generating the worsening trends. Whatever the final resolution of the technical debate over how much weight to assign different forces, the important truth, as Barry Bluestone points out, is that none shows 'the least sign of weakening.'"
Jim Hightower | Koch Brothers' Moonshine
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10937-koch-brothers-moonshine
Jim Hightower, Truthout: "Question: If you mix a cocktail of 'black liquor,' biofuels, diesel and a generous splash of tax subsidies - then have it shaken vigorously by a U.S. senator and served in a golden goblet by corporate lobbyists - what do you call it? Answer: Koch Brothers' Moonshine."
"We Are Prepared to Die": Workers in Colombia at General Motors Plant Sew Their Mouths Shut to Protest Backbreaking Labor Conditions
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10942-we-are-prepared-to-die-workers-in-colombia-at-general-motors-plant-sew-their-mouths-shut-to-protest-backbreaking-labor-conditions
Miriam Wells, AlterNet: "Parra and Ospina say more than 200 Colmotores employees have been injured while working at the automotive plant outside Colombia's capital city of Bogota. Herniated discs, severe carpal tunnel syndrome, lumbar scoliosis and chronic tendonitis are among the list of complaints they claim many have suffered after years spent doing repetitive, physical work making GM's car parts. Instead of providing medical care and changing the work patterns of injured employees, GM fires them, according to the protesters ..."
Israel's Iran War Talk Aims at Deal for Tougher US Policy
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10948-israel%E2%80%99s-iran-war-talk-aims-at-deal-for-tougher-us-policy
Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "Two recent interviews apparently given by Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak provide evidence that the new wave of reports in the Israeli press about a possible Israeli attack on Iran is a means by which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Barak hope to leverage a US shift toward Israel's red lines on Iran's nuclear program."
Seven Reasons Why Romney-Ryan's Desperate Attempts to Spin Medicare Won't Work
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10947-seven-reasons-why-romney-ryans-desperate-attempts-to-spin-medicare-wont-work
Joshua Holland, AlterNet: "In May, the Romney team promised a laser-like focus on the economy. But that was then and this is now. This week, Romney changed the conversation when he caved to his right flank and chose Paul Ryan as his running mate, a man known for a budget proposal that's so toxic voters in focus groups, 'simply refused to believe any politician would do such a thing.'"
A Guide to Disaster at Home and Abroad: How Not to Reconstruct Iraq, Afghanistan - or America
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10949-a-guide-to-disaster-at-home-and-abroad-how-not-to-reconstruct-iraq-afghanistan-or-america
Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch.com: "Failure in the strict sense of the word is not necessarily a problem for Washington. Our purpose is served by the appearance of reconstructing. We need to tell ourselves we tried, and those (dark, dirty, uneducated, Muslim, terrorist, heathen) people we just ran over with a tank actually screwed this up. And OK, sure, if a few well-connected contractors profit along the way, more power to them."
Is Ryan a Desperate Romney Choice? (Video)
http://truth-out.org/video/item/10941-is-ryan-a-desperate-romney-choice
Paul Jay, The Real News Network: "Mark Karlin founded the first major progressive online news site in May of 2000: BuzzFlash.com. BuzzFlash is the winner of four project censored awards and has received widespread recognition over the years. In 2010, BuzzFlash was incorporated into Truthout.org, where Karlin now serves as editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Democratic Lawmakers Are Lobbing Serious Charges at Retail Giant Walmart, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10950-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-democratic-lawmakers-are-lobbing-serious-charges-at-retail-giant-walmart
In today's On the News segment: Julian Assange has been granted asylum by Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa; a growing number of Republicans are coming out in opposition to the 17th Amendment, the one that allows voters to directly elect United States senators; the Ninth Circuit has ruled that the right to own a machine gun is not protected under the Second Amendment; Democratic lawmakers are lobbing serious charges at retail giant Walmart; and more.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
"Paul Ryan Shrugged": Romney Running Mate Pens Sequel to Ayn Rand Book
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11679-paul-ryan-shrugged-romney-running-mate-pens-sequel-to-ayn-rand-book
"Reader Eric K. Johnson sent a proposal to BuzzFlash at Truthout for the Paul Ryan sequel to Ayn Rand's famous book, 'Atlas Shrugged.' The book encapsulates Rand's theory of 'objectivist' indifference to the 'parasites' of the earth, those who get in the way of the 'rational selfishness' of the masters of the universe. This is a philosophy avidly embraced by Ryan over the years."
Glenn Greenwald | The Sham "Terrorism Expert" Industry
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/15/the_sham_terrorism_expert_industry/
Romney, Ryan and Adelson: The GOP's Unholy Trinity
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truthout.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11676-romney-ryan-and-adelson-the-gop-s-unholy-trinity
The US Government Can Track Your Location at Any Time Without a Warrant
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/08/court-warrant-cellphone-gps-data
Under National Pressure, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted Calls for Uniform Early Voting Hours
Read the Article at The Cleveland Plain Dealer
http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2012/08/ohio_secretary_of_state_jon_hu_2.html
Mark Moford | Mitt Romney vs. Dead Potted Plant
Read the Article at The San Francisco Chronicle
http://blog.sfgate.com/morford/2012/08/14/mitt-romney-potted-plant/
Family Research Council Opposes Hate Crimes Law Under Which Shooter Could Be Prosecuted
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/family_research_council_shooting_hate_crimes.php?ref=fpb
Democrats Fight Back, Republicans and Their Media Friends Get the Vapors
Read the Article at Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/16/1120900/-Democrats-fight-back-Republicans-and-their-media-friends-get-the-vapors
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: normal;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.2"><strong>Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: </strong>"Reader Eric K. Johnson sent a proposal to BuzzFlash at Truthout for the Paul Ryan sequel to Ayn Rand's famous book, 'Atlas Shrugged.' The book encapsulates Rand's theory of 'objectivist' indifference to the 'parasites' of the earth, those who get in the way of the 'rational selfishness' of the masters of the universe. This is a philosophy avidly embraced by Ryan over the years."</p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=gR4wYoTBQVDnl9LbmB9BYnEDUVWDlPi%2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the BuzzFlash Commentary</strong></a></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Romney, Ryan and Adelson: The GOP's Unholy Trinity</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The US Government Can Track Your Location at Any Time Without a Warrant</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=eAHFmDqgyFVKJgjNllPj13EDUVWDlPi%2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Mother Jones</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Under National Pressure, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted Calls for Uniform Early Voting Hours</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7TGp3pifuM350XWnC7S3pnEDUVWDlPi%2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at The Cleveland Plain Dealer</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Mark Moford | Mitt Romney vs. Dead Potted Plant</strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Family Research Council Opposes Hate Crimes Law Under Which Shooter Could Be Prosecuted </strong></p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Democrats Fight Back, Republicans and Their Media Friends Get the Vapors</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GIC38DwNVfOEPc9jrRKMNXEDUVWDlPi%2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Daily Kos</strong></a></p>
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</table><p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=wG8k%2BpKL90PUenrUQKnRYXEDUVWDlPi%2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>William Rivers Pitt | Beneath the Bottom of the Barrel</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>William Rivers Pitt, Truthout:</strong> "That the safety net they spent their lives paying for is under a full frontal assault from the Republican right should give anyone planning to live past the age of 65 more than a moment of pause. Mr. Lane thinks the elderly have it too good, an argument that is beyond contempt, but this is the thinking we are required to contend with in an age when people like Paul Ryan are actually taken seriously."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=fjI70Td4WjCu5U26xbJAvXEDUVWDlPi%2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XXN7xRu8ob4680XXOIPckHEDUVWDlPi%2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Ecuador Grants Assange Asylum, Respecting Human Rights, Despite Threats From UK</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian UK:</strong> "If there were any remaining doubts about the motives behind the U.K./Swedish attempts to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, they were dispelled last night. The U.K. government made an unprecedented threat to invade Ecuador's embassy if Assange is not handed over to them. Such an assault would be so extreme in violating international law and diplomatic conventions, that it is difficult to even find an example of a democratic government even making such a threat, let along carrying it out."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=UCvt6DJtCSX93mjjexOLo3EDUVWDlPi%2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ryn5tYlbeiSF8smOBtXgO3EDUVWDlPi%2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Section 8 Waitlists Don't Have to Be a Mile Long: Federal Housing Policy Should Stop Favoring Wealthier Homeowners</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Ben Kittelson and Dina Rasor, Truthout:</strong> "To achieve this more balanced approach, I recommend some changes to housing policy in the United States. First, I argue that the Section 8 housing vouchers should be expanded and available to more people. This is one of the most effective programs at aiding renters, but supply for the aid falls far below the demand and need."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=7RR5%2FdY37AKbhr4Wvl6vuHEDUVWDlPi%2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Ejis2nGrVOFYFXk2d4F56HEDUVWDlPi%2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Changing Wealth Ownership to Reduce Inequality</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Gar Alperovitz, Democracy Collaborative Press:</strong> "For two decades economists concerned with inequality have debated the precise role global competition, changing technologies, sectoral balances, and other strictly economic factors have played in generating the worsening trends. Whatever the final resolution of the technical debate over how much weight to assign different forces, the important truth, as Barry Bluestone points out, is that none shows 'the least sign of weakening.'"</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=45CZIr4ltw9e9QnlEpl1YHEDUVWDlPi%2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Excerpt</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=rJ9s45F3gAOTUnQhaOwbznEDUVWDlPi%2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Jim Hightower | Koch Brothers' Moonshine</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Jim Hightower, Truthout:</strong> "Question: If you mix a cocktail of 'black liquor,' biofuels, diesel and a generous splash of tax subsidies - then have it shaken vigorously by a U.S. senator and served in a golden goblet by corporate lobbyists - what do you call it? Answer: Koch Brothers' Moonshine."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Qp4n6TVJZAVmYig0EZyAvHEDUVWDlPi%2B" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article</strong></a> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2Z2iRoi0%2BYCP6QrUW%2FLGuHEDUVWDlPi%2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>"We Are Prepared to Die": Workers in Colombia at General Motors Plant Sew Their Mouths Shut to Protest Backbreaking Labor Conditions</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Miriam Wells, AlterNet:</strong> "Parra and Ospina say more than 200 Colmotores employees have been injured while working at the automotive plant outside Colombia's capital city of Bogota. Herniated discs, severe carpal tunnel syndrome, lumbar scoliosis and chronic tendonitis are among the list of complaints they claim many have suffered after years spent doing repetitive, physical work making GM's car parts. Instead of providing medical care and changing the work patterns of injured employees, GM fires them, according to the protesters ..."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service:</strong> "Two recent interviews apparently given by Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak provide evidence that the new wave of reports in the Israeli press about a possible Israeli attack on Iran is a means by which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Barak hope to leverage a US shift toward Israel's red lines on Iran's nuclear program."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Joshua Holland, AlterNet:</strong> "In May, the Romney team promised a laser-like focus on the economy. But that was then and this is now. This week, Romney changed the conversation when he caved to his right flank and chose Paul Ryan as his running mate, a man known for a budget proposal that's so toxic voters in focus groups, 'simply refused to believe any politician would do such a thing.'"</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Peter Van Buren, TomDispatch.com:</strong> "Failure in the strict sense of the word is not necessarily a problem for Washington. Our purpose is served by the appearance of reconstructing. We need to tell ourselves we tried, and those (dark, dirty, uneducated, Muslim, terrorist, heathen) people we just ran over with a tank actually screwed this up. And OK, sure, if a few well-connected contractors profit along the way, more power to them."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>Paul Jay, The Real News Network:</strong> "Mark Karlin founded the first major progressive online news site in May of 2000: BuzzFlash.com. BuzzFlash is the winner of four project censored awards and has received widespread recognition over the years. In 2010, BuzzFlash was incorporated into Truthout.org, where Karlin now serves as editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout."</p>
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<p style="margin: 0 0 0.2em;font-size: 110%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=3%2FxCY2aRd4M0lJWrFKUC6HEDUVWDlPi%2B"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Democratic Lawmakers Are Lobbing Serious Charges at Retail Giant Walmart, and More</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: 100%;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.1"><strong>In today's On the News segment:</strong> Julian Assange has been granted asylum by Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa; a growing number of Republicans are coming out in opposition to the 17th Amendment, the one that allows voters to directly elect United States senators; the Ninth Circuit has ruled that the right to own a machine gun is not protected under the Second Amendment; Democratic lawmakers are lobbing serious charges at retail giant Walmart; and more.</p>
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