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William Rivers Pitt | Romney, Ryan and Rape: A Todd Akin Special
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t r u t h o u t | A political figure who was key to the destruction of 40 percent of the wealth owned by citizens in the country that signed his paycheck should be ignored or exiled. But just today, Larry Summers was given prime billing in The Washington Post, with an op-ed whipping up fear of expanding social safety net costs. Instead of being a part of the media culture that allows people to fail upward, let's build a new one. Make a tax-deductible contribution to Truthout today - we don't get funding from the Wall Street mafia. Instead, we call them out.
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William Rivers Pitt | Romney, Ryan and Rape: A Todd Akin Special Delivery
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11006-romney-ryan-and-rape-a-todd-akin-special-delivery
William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Mitt Romney chose Paul Ryan as his running mate to shore up his standing with the GOP base. Fine and good, but now that he has donned the Tea Party mask, he owns everything Ryan brings with him, including Ryan's appalling partnership with Todd Akin, and their despicable attempt to legislate a new definition of rape as something other than rape."
The Finnish Alternative: Reclaiming Public Education From Corporate Reform
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10801-the-finnish-alternative-reclaiming-public-education-from-corporate-reform
Dan Archer and Adam Bessie, Truthout: "In our first two episodes of 'The Disaster Capitalism Curriculum,' we took readers to Washington, DC, and post-Katrina New Orleans, tracking how the spread of GERM - the Global Education Reform Movement - is transforming public education into private enterprise.... In our concluding episode, we take readers to Finland, in an extensive original interview with world-renowned education expert Pasi Sahlberg."
Official Statement by WikiLeaks' Julian Assange From the Ecuadorian Embassy
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11005-official-statement-by-wikileaks-julian-assange-from-the-ecuadorian-embassy
Julian Assange, WikiLeaks: "On Wednesday night after a threat was sent to this embassy and the police descended on the building, you came out in the middle of the night to watch over it and you brought the world's eyes with you. Inside the embassy, after dark, I could hear teams of police swarming into the building through the internal fire escape. But I knew that there would be witnesses."
The Government Can Track You by Your Cell Phone Without a Warrant
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10967-the-government-can-track-you-by-your-cell-phone-without-a-warrant
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "'If a tool used to transport contraband gives off a signal that can be tracked for location, certainly the police can track the signal,' the court wrote. Translation: because cell phones can be used to commit crimes, the Fourth Amendment does not protect cell phone privacy. The civil liberties groups disagree and worry that the judges, eager to catch an obvious criminal, have set a dangerous precedent for everyone else."
Chris Hedges | The United States' Clandestine Armies Plunge Us Deeper Into Violence
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10996-the-united-states-clandestine-armies-plunge-us-deeper-into-violence
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "There are now many thousands of clandestine operatives, nearly all of them armed and equipped with a license to kidnap, torture and kill, working overseas or domestically with little or no oversight and virtually no transparency. We have created a state within a state. A staggering 40 percent of the defense budget is secret, as is the budget of every intelligence agency."
What Wisconsin Journalists Want You to Know About Paul Ryan
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10998-what-wisconsin-journalists-want-you-to-know-about-paul-ryan
Joe Strupp, Media Matters: "Wisconsin reporters say the national media's scrutiny of Romney's running mate may miss his inside-the-Beltway focus, the high unemployment in his hometown, and his family connection to fracking."
Dean Baker | "Courage" in Washington Doesn't Have the Same Meaning
http://truth-out.org/news/item/10992-courage-in-washington-doesnt-have-the-same-meaning
Dean Baker, Truthout: "Last week, Vice President Joe Biden did a courageous thing: he promised an audience in southern Virginia that there will be no cuts whatsoever to Social Security in a second Obama administration.... Backing Social Security ... might just seem like cheap politics, which it may well be. However, Biden also lives in a city where calling for cuts to Social Security is the way to demonstrate your manhood."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Deepwater Drilling Reaches Historic Highs Despite Risks, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11010-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-deepwater-drilling-reaches-historic-highs-despite-risks-and-more
In today's On the News segment: Ohio Republicans admit eliminating weekend voting would make it harder for some African-Americans to make it to the polls; BP is looking for technology to drill even deeper, higher pressure oil wells; a dozen freshman Republican lawmakers reportedly had a drunken swim fest in the Sea of Galilee last summer; and more.
Study: Raising the Minimum Wage Especially Benefits Women
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11002-study-raising-the-minimum-wage-especially-benefits-women
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress: "The impact on women varies by state, ranging from the highest percentage of affected women in Mississippi - where 64.4 percent of the low-wage workers who would benefit from a minimum wage hike are female - to 49.3 percent in both California and Nevada. However, California and Nevada are the only states where women do not make up the majority of the low-income workers who would be positively affected by a higher wage."
Rebecca Solnit | Men Explain Things to Me: Facts Didn't Get in Their Way
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10994-men-explain-things-to-me-facts-didnt-get-in-their-way
Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch: "One evening over dinner, I began to joke, as I often had before, about writing an essay called 'Men Explain Things to Me.' Every writer has a stable of ideas that never make it to the racetrack, and I'd been trotting this pony out recreationally every once in a while. My houseguest, the brilliant theorist and activist Marina Sitrin, insisted that I had to write it down because people like her younger sister Sam needed to read it."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Romney Said He Paid 13 Percent in Taxes, but He Strategically Avoided Saying Income Taxes
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11687-romney-said-he-paid-13-in-taxes-but-he-strategically-avoided-saying-income-taxes
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "But what is clear, contrary to the mass corporate media putting words into the mouths of the Romneys, is that neither Mitt nor Ann claimed to pay about 13 percent (extraordinarily low for a couple of their wealth) in income taxes. They never used that phrase. Mitt only claimed to pay 13 percent in unspecified taxes."
Missouri GOP Senate Candidate Who Made Horrifying Remarks on Rape Stays in Race
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/with-todd-akins-rape-comments-abortion-is-back-in-the-campaign-spotlight/2012/08/20/c497bae4-eac7-11e1-a80b-9f898562d010_story.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics
Paul Buchheit: How About Changing "Entitlements" to "Earned Benefits"?
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11686-paul-bucheitt-how-about-changing-entitlements-to-earned-benefits
GOP Lawmakers Reprimanded for Drinking, Skinny-Dipping in Israel
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/2chambers/post/report-gop-lawmakers-reprimanded-for-drinking-skinny-dipping-in-israel/2012/08/19/e9139e42-ea5e-11e1-9ddc-340d5efb1e9c_blog.html?wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics
Paul Krugman on Paul Ryan: An Unserious Man
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/opinion/krugman-an-unserious-man.html
"Mission Impossible": GOP Packaging Seeks to Reveal a Warm Romney
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/20/us/politics/romney-campaign-works-feverishly-to-project-relaxed-image.html?_r=2&ref=todayspaper
US Intends to Chase Assange, Cables Show
Read the Article at the Sydney Morning Herald
http://www.smh.com.au/national/us-intends-to-chase-assange-cables-show-20120817-24e1l.html
Nate Silver's Electoral Forecast
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
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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 Said He Paid 13 Percent in Taxes, but He Strategically Avoided Saying Income Taxes </strong></p>
<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>"But what is clear, contrary to the mass corporate media putting words into the mouths of the Romneys, is that neither Mitt nor Ann claimed to pay about 13 percent (extraordinarily low for a couple of their wealth) in income taxes. They never used that phrase. Mitt only claimed to pay 13 percent in unspecified taxes."</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>Missouri GOP Senate Candidate Who Made Horrifying Remarks on Rape Stays in Race</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2Fo52FjwyethwTqQ4kQO5xGAGLz03zedl"><strong>Read the Article at The Washington Post</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Paul Buchheit: How About Changing "Entitlements" to "Earned Benefits"?</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>GOP Lawmakers Reprimanded for Drinking, Skinny-Dipping in Israel</strong></p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=y0OE3MwX1Y9yNnvdGqWdHGAGLz03zedl"><strong>Read the Article at The Washington Post</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Paul Krugman on Paul Ryan: An Unserious Man</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>"Mission Impossible": GOP Packaging Seeks to Reveal a Warm Romney</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>US Intends to Chase Assange, Cables Show</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>Nate Silver's Electoral Forecast</strong></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>William Rivers Pitt, Truthout:</strong> "Mitt Romney chose Paul Ryan as his running mate to shore up his standing with the GOP base. Fine and good, but now that he has donned the Tea Party mask, he owns everything Ryan brings with him, including Ryan's appalling partnership with Todd Akin, and their despicable attempt to legislate a new definition of rape as something other than rape."</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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=2Io2AJhMTeHwxjjr%2FGjEVmAGLz03zedl"><strong>The Finnish Alternative: Reclaiming Public Education From Corporate Reform</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>Dan Archer and Adam Bessie, Truthout:</strong> "In our first two episodes of 'The Disaster Capitalism Curriculum,' we took readers to Washington, DC, and post-Katrina New Orleans, tracking how the spread of GERM - the Global Education Reform Movement - is transforming public education into private enterprise.... In our concluding episode, we take readers to Finland, in an extensive original interview with world-renowned education expert Pasi Sahlberg."</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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=BOfl5Dvoc0nx%2FOZJshdAUWAGLz03zedl"><strong>Official Statement by WikiLeaks' Julian Assange From the Ecuadorian Embassy</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>Julian Assange, WikiLeaks:</strong> "On Wednesday night after a threat was sent to this embassy and the police descended on the building, you came out in the middle of the night to watch over it and you brought the world's eyes with you. Inside the embassy, after dark, I could hear teams of police swarming into the building through the internal fire escape. But I knew that there would be witnesses."</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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YN4%2B3Nep73T2APIeMgJOiGAGLz03zedl"><strong>The Government Can Track You by Your Cell Phone Without a Warrant</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>Mike Ludwig, Truthout:</strong> "'If a tool used to transport contraband gives off a signal that can be tracked for location, certainly the police can track the signal,' the court wrote. Translation: because cell phones can be used to commit crimes, the Fourth Amendment does not protect cell phone privacy. The civil liberties groups disagree and worry that the judges, eager to catch an obvious criminal, have set a dangerous precedent for everyone else."</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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1LjVp1s163AYOE4cpCOtpmAGLz03zedl"><strong>Chris Hedges | The United States' Clandestine Armies Plunge Us Deeper Into Violence</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>Chris Hedges, Truthdig:</strong> "There are now many thousands of clandestine operatives, nearly all of them armed and equipped with a license to kidnap, torture and kill, working overseas or domestically with little or no oversight and virtually no transparency. We have created a state within a state. A staggering 40 percent of the defense budget is secret, as is the budget of every intelligence agency."</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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=DIBVps0koG9ITz6vN8El6GAGLz03zedl"><strong>What Wisconsin Journalists Want You to Know About Paul Ryan</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>Joe Strupp, Media Matters:</strong> "Wisconsin reporters say the national media's scrutiny of Romney's running mate may miss his inside-the-Beltway focus, the high unemployment in his hometown, and his family connection to fracking."</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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ROkgPlIlNJVR1dxeVLofYGAGLz03zedl"><strong>Dean Baker | "Courage" in Washington Doesn't Have the Same Meaning</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>Dean Baker, Truthout:</strong> "Last week, Vice President Joe Biden did a courageous thing: he promised an audience in southern Virginia that there will be no cuts whatsoever to Social Security in a second Obama administration.... Backing Social Security ... might just seem like cheap politics, which it may well be. However, Biden also lives in a city where calling for cuts to Social Security is the way to demonstrate your manhood."</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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=DPJ15uv3Aw97ELDL0uPta2AGLz03zedl"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Deepwater Drilling Reaches Historic Highs Despite Risks, 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> Ohio Republicans admit eliminating weekend voting would make it harder for some African-Americans to make it to the polls; BP is looking for technology to drill even deeper, higher pressure oil wells; a dozen freshman Republican lawmakers reportedly had a drunken swim fest in the Sea of Galilee last summer; and more.</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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JENYIl8MOfiZZf0wGoL50mAGLz03zedl"><strong>Study: Raising the Minimum Wage Especially Benefits Women</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>Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress:</strong> "The impact on women varies by state, ranging from the highest percentage of affected women in Mississippi - where 64.4 percent of the low-wage workers who would benefit from a minimum wage hike are female - to 49.3 percent in both California and Nevada. However, California and Nevada are the only states where women do not make up the majority of the low-income workers who would be positively affected by a higher wage."</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=sLAkIRRxUEFRD4IyD%2F9owGAGLz03zedl"><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 style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000" href="http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=Q%2FPXgb3Q1Aqct6eyW8gjAWAGLz03zedl"><strong>Rebecca Solnit | Men Explain Things to Me: Facts Didn't Get in Their Way</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>Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch:</strong> "One evening over dinner, I began to joke, as I often had before, about writing an essay called 'Men Explain Things to Me.' Every writer has a stable of ideas that never make it to the racetrack, and I'd been trotting this pony out recreationally every once in a while. My houseguest, the brilliant theorist and activist Marina Sitrin, insisted that I had to write it down because people like her younger sister Sam needed to read it."</p>
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