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Days of Rage: The Quebec Student Protest Movement and the New
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08.28
Days of Rage: The Quebec Student Protest Movement and the New Social Awakening
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11040-the-quebec-student-protest-movement-and-the-power-of-the-radical-imagination
Henry A. Giroux, Truthout: "Unapologetic in its implementation of austerity measures that cause massive amounts of human hardship and suffering, neoliberal capitalism consolidates class power on the backs of young people, workers, and others marginalized by class, race, and ethnicity. Neoliberal capitalism appears to no longer need the legitimacy garnered through its false claim to democratic ideals such as free speech, individual liberty, or justice - however tepid these appeals have always been."
Medical Journal Cites Truthout, Raises Questions About Medical Abuse at Guantanamo
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11145-new-medical-journal-article-citing-truthouts-reporting-raises-questions-of-possible-abuse-of-antimalaria-drug-on-guantanamo-detainees
Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout: "A new medical journal article seriously questions the US government's rationale for use of the controversial antimalaria drug mefloquine on all detainees sent to the detention center at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base."
The 99% Take On the Republican National Convention
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11175-the-99-take-on-the-republican-national-convention
Arun Gupta, AlterNet: "Politics is an elaborate chess match, and in St, Petersburg one small strike was staged against the Republican National convention on Aug. 26 that revealed the thrust of President Obama's 2012 re-election strategy."
How to Safely Scale Down the Fiscal Cliff
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11159-how-to-safely-scale-down-the-fiscal-cliff
Salvatore Babones, Other Words: "Congress should act to extend the currently reduced Social Security tax rates for a year. For two years, it should delay cuts to the services that unemployed Americans rely on to make ends meet - by that time demand for them will have receded. But it should let the rest of the package take effect now. We should climb down the fiscal cliff slowly and carefully, with the clear goal of achieving a fairer, more balanced federal budget."
Tropical Storm Isaac Spares Tampa Ahead of RNC, but Massive Security Operation Has City on Lockdown
http://truth-out.org/video/item/11170-tropical-storm-isaac-spares-tampa-ahead-of-rnc-but-massive-security-operation-has-city-on-lockdown
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: "Day one of the Republican National Convention in Tampa Bay, Florida, has been essentially called off due to Tropical Storm Isaac. The city's police department received $50 million from Congress ahead of the convention, purchasing armored vehicles and high-tech surveillance cameras equipped with behavioral recognition software."
Evidence in Delhi Embassy Bombing Suggests Journalist Was Framed
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11178-evidence-in-delhi-embassy-bombing-suggests-journalist-was-framed
Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "New Delhi police officials have released hundreds of pages of documents from their investigation into the Feb. 13 bombing of an Israeli Embassy car. The documents aimed to show that a well-known Indian Muslim journalist aided an Iranian conspiracy to plan and carry out the bombing."
GOP Casino Baron Sheldon Adelson Pledges $500,000 to Buy a Single House Seat
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11161-gop-casino-baron-sheldon-adelson-pledges-500000-to-buy-a-single-house-seat
Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress: "Sheldon Adelson, the multi-billionaire casino mogul who already spent at least $5 million to help keep Republicans in control of the House next year, reportedly pledged $500,000 to just one House candidate, New Jersey Republican candidate Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. While half-a-million dollars sure sounds like a lot of money, it is chump change to Mr. Adelson."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Evidence of Global Climate Change Is Mounting, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11195-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-evidence-of-global-climate-change-is-mounting?tsk=adminpreview
In today's On the News segment: Adelson, who's already spent more money than any other oligarch this election so far, is promising to drop $500,000 in a New Jersey Congressional district; Tropical Storm Isaac is expected to reach hurricane strength before slamming into New Orleans; evidence of global climate change is mounting; and more.
From Voice of Freedom Park, Tampa, Florida: Interview With Food Not Bombs Activist Nathan Pim
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11163-from-voice-of-freedom-park-tampa-florida-interview-with-food-not-bombs-activist-nathan-pim
Lambert Strether, Naked Capitalism: "Nathan Pim of Food Not Bombs (twitter) contacted Naked Capitalism because of the convention coverage we've been doing, and I thought that Naked Capitalism readers might be interested in hearing from somebody directly on the ground with Occupy about what's going on in Tampa, so I arranged to interview him. Once again, Stephen Malagodi agreed to handle it, and The Unknown Transcriptionist agreed to transcribe."
Prop 34 Would End California Death Penalty
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11144-prop-34-would-end-california-death-penalty
Rene Ciria-Cruz, New American Media: "A perfect alignment of advantageous factors enabled opponents of capital punishment to place its abolition on the ballot for the first time in California. Among these elements, the release of a study exposing the exorbitant cost of maintaining capital punishment was key to ensuring that voters this November will get to decide whether to scrap the death penalty in favor of a life sentence without the possibility of parole."
How the Right Is Creating Voter Vigilantes
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11134-how-the-right-is-building-its-poll-watcher-network-for-november
Brentin Mock, The Nation: "Irregularities is not a common term in the True the Vote vocab. Usually, it's just called fraud. Seeing that the wording change has brought confusion to some of his audience's faces, Ouren offers an explanation. 'I use the word "irregularities" because we don't know if people did it intentionally or if they just didn't know better.' That kind of logic isn't normal for the group either, so he immediately adds, 'So for those people who say voter and election fraud doesn't exist, I've got 806 answers to that. It absolutely does in one election.'"
The New Rampage Mentality
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11148-the-new-rampage-mentality
Kirby Farrell, Truthout: "Yes, American life is saturated with guns and heroic stories about guns. Assault rifles, the personal equivalent of weapons of mass destruction, are readily available. And in the most extravagantly militarized country in history, about half of rampage killers have had military training - far more than ordinary murderers. Headline news and movies provide lavish models to follow. But why pull the trigger?"
Don't Pay Polluters
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11162-dont-pay-polluters
James Boyce, Triple Crisis: "The CDM pays large sums to coolant manufacturers in India, China and elsewhere to destroy the HFC-23 they produce. Indeed, these payments have become the largest single item in the CDM budget: this year, HFC-23 disposal is getting 50% more CDM money than wind power and 100 times more than solar energy. The rub is that paying firms not to pollute gives rise to a perverse incentive. A firm that threatens to pollute more gets paid more."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
The Republican and Democratic Party Conventions Are Just Television Ads
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11707-the-republican-and-democratic-party-conventions-are-just-television-ads
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "As far as the conventions themselves, both parties decided that no more 'messy surprises' would be allowed. The quadrennial conclaves would become theater to influence voters, just like a Coca-Cola ad."
Middle-Class Confusion About Class War
Read the Article at Waging Nonviolence
http://wagingnonviolence.org/2012/08/middle-class-confusion-about-class-war/
Election 2012: Romney/Ryan and Race Baiting
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11705-election-2012-romney-ryan-and-race-baiting
From Miami Beach to Tampa, 40 Years of Fearing and Loathing Democracy
Read the Article at The Philadelphia Inquirer
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/attytood/From-Miami-Beach-to-Tampa-40-years-of-fearing-and-loatrhing-democracy.html
Chris Matthews' Smackdown of Reince Priebus Should Be Taught in Journalism School
Read the Article at The Ostroy Report
http://www.ostroyreport.com/2012/08/chris-matthews-smackdown-of-reince.html
Last Week, Paul Ryan Referred to Rape as a "Method of Conception"
Read the Article at The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-slansky-/paul-ryan-said-something-_b_1832377.html
Accidental Truth: GOP Details Huge Medicare Change in Leaked Platform
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/republican-party-platform-medicare.php?ref=fpa
Court Clears Israeli Army Over Death of US Activist Rachel Corrie
Read the Article at Reuters
http://uk.reuters.com/article/2012/08/28/uk-palestinians-israel-corrie-verdict-idUKBRE87R06120120828
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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 Republican and Democratic Party Conventions Are Just Television Ads </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>"As far as the conventions themselves, both parties decided that no more 'messy surprises' would be allowed. The quadrennial conclaves would become theater to influence voters, just like a Coca-Cola ad."</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=bvXYy%2FOoaXFRq5%2B2JlqL5o07ei0hO6dg"><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>Middle-Class Confusion About Class War</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=DKE9nphB74IOpeKyZ7MyEI07ei0hO6dg"><strong>Read the Article at Waging Nonviolence</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Election 2012: Romney/Ryan and Race Baiting</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=N2PCGLwi3umjkI95pYu6VI07ei0hO6dg"><strong>Read the Article at BuzzFlash</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>From Miami Beach to Tampa, 40 Years of Fearing and Loathing Democracy</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=Pq7xhw89lbanZGD22d1GFI07ei0hO6dg"><strong>Read the Article at The Philadelphia Inquirer</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Chris Matthews' Smackdown of Reince Priebus Should Be Taught in Journalism School</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=sdFGtwR%2B8q%2FUT1Q0Odo%2FgI07ei0hO6dg"><strong>Read the Article at The Ostroy Report</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Last Week, Paul Ryan Referred to Rape as a "Method of Conception"</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=vHjl2TtWf2mHs5lDLsTuJo07ei0hO6dg"><strong>Read the Article at The Huffington 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>Accidental Truth: GOP Details Huge Medicare Change in Leaked Platform</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=ii2GM01iO2aAKihAFRcNkwLuuals3i78"><strong>Read the Article at Talking Points Memo</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Court Clears Israeli Army Over Death of US Activist Rachel Corrie</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=vvxelyvFwObxRBp2H0jQVI07ei0hO6dg"><strong>Read the Article at Reuters</strong></a></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=WI9q6mDKOiPZVcZF3fhKaI07ei0hO6dg"><strong>Days of Rage: The Quebec Student Protest Movement and the New Social Awakening</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>Henry A. Giroux, Truthout:</strong> "Unapologetic in its implementation of austerity measures that cause massive amounts of human hardship and suffering, neoliberal capitalism consolidates class power on the backs of young people, workers, and others marginalized by class, race, and ethnicity. Neoliberal capitalism appears to no longer need the legitimacy garnered through its false claim to democratic ideals such as free speech, individual liberty, or justice - however tepid these appeals have always been."</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=LununJG4EaONpgF2Su0WOI07ei0hO6dg"><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=pKSyBtw00jfWt2iDy0q8PY07ei0hO6dg"><strong>Medical Journal Cites Truthout, Raises Questions About Medical Abuse at Guantanamo</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>Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout:</strong> "A new medical journal article seriously questions the US government's rationale for use of the controversial antimalaria drug mefloquine on all detainees sent to the detention center at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay US Naval Base."</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=mw%2BSimXBv0NezPhnZmWJBo07ei0hO6dg"><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=Y%2FXgZ0eP%2BUjvxZkUVE1JUY07ei0hO6dg"><strong>The 99% Take On the Republican National Convention</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>Arun Gupta, AlterNet:</strong> "Politics is an elaborate chess match, and in St, Petersburg one small strike was staged against the Republican National convention on Aug. 26 that revealed the thrust of President Obama's 2012 re-election strategy."</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=cjfBFhdv8skwyRDz1bFNN407ei0hO6dg"><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=3Ch%2B1ifFtZj%2BB5v%2FwfLVfY07ei0hO6dg"><strong>How to Safely Scale Down the Fiscal Cliff</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>Salvatore Babones, Other Words:</strong> "Congress should act to extend the currently reduced Social Security tax rates for a year. For two years, it should delay cuts to the services that unemployed Americans rely on to make ends meet - by that time demand for them will have receded. But it should let the rest of the package take effect now. We should climb down the fiscal cliff slowly and carefully, with the clear goal of achieving a fairer, more balanced federal budget."</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=e8K3%2B5i3xWaFqfSGFtZuDI07ei0hO6dg"><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=g4OHKGDeMlM4g2%2Fg5gMjQI07ei0hO6dg"><strong>Tropical Storm Isaac Spares Tampa Ahead of RNC, but Massive Security Operation Has City on Lockdown</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>Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!:</strong> "Day one of the Republican National Convention in Tampa Bay, Florida, has been essentially called off due to Tropical Storm Isaac. The city's police department received $50 million from Congress ahead of the convention, purchasing armored vehicles and high-tech surveillance cameras equipped with behavioral recognition software."</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=KKGne5W99XxYWHgnr15en407ei0hO6dg"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</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=5E7dqCGpnQaRP5azrDPR7407ei0hO6dg"><strong>Evidence in Delhi Embassy Bombing Suggests Journalist Was Framed</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>Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service:</strong> "New Delhi police officials have released hundreds of pages of documents from their investigation into the Feb. 13 bombing of an Israeli Embassy car. The documents aimed to show that a well-known Indian Muslim journalist aided an Iranian conspiracy to plan and carry out the bombing."</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=5vxJG8HPXv7z%2BkDwY7QjAwLuuals3i78"><strong>GOP Casino Baron Sheldon Adelson Pledges $500,000 to Buy a Single House Seat</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>Ian Millhiser, ThinkProgress:</strong> "Sheldon Adelson, the multi-billionaire casino mogul who already spent at least $5 million to help keep Republicans in control of the House next year, reportedly pledged $500,000 to just one House candidate, New Jersey Republican candidate Rabbi Shmuley Boteach. While half-a-million dollars sure sounds like a lot of money, it is chump change to Mr. Adelson."</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=T7pumICk4Dgw0kCzM8KwsY07ei0hO6dg"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Evidence of Global Climate Change Is Mounting, 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> Adelson, who's already spent more money than any other oligarch this election so far, is promising to drop $500,000 in a New Jersey Congressional district; Tropical Storm Isaac is expected to reach hurricane strength before slamming into New Orleans; evidence of global climate change is mounting; 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=4gJfRh7jnup6Q7u3UXqLgI07ei0hO6dg"><strong>From Voice of Freedom Park, Tampa, Florida: Interview With Food Not Bombs Activist Nathan Pim</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>Lambert Strether, Naked Capitalism:</strong> "Nathan Pim of Food Not Bombs (twitter) contacted Naked Capitalism because of the convention coverage we've been doing, and I thought that Naked Capitalism readers might be interested in hearing from somebody directly on the ground with Occupy about what's going on in Tampa, so I arranged to interview him. Once again, Stephen Malagodi agreed to handle it, and The Unknown Transcriptionist agreed to transcribe."</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=o8g53cj8gPeNLB%2BLP7H0fo07ei0hO6dg"><strong>Prop 34 Would End California Death Penalty</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>Rene Ciria-Cruz, New American Media:</strong> "A perfect alignment of advantageous factors enabled opponents of capital punishment to place its abolition on the ballot for the first time in California. Among these elements, the release of a study exposing the exorbitant cost of maintaining capital punishment was key to ensuring that voters this November will get to decide whether to scrap the death penalty in favor of a life sentence without the possibility of parole."</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=3P4Yg7OlXJrR%2FcHEk7c0fo07ei0hO6dg"><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=RDSfGPd6%2BVPDJcU5iB6M3407ei0hO6dg"><strong>How the Right Is Creating Voter Vigilantes</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>Brentin Mock, The Nation:</strong> "Irregularities is not a common term in the True the Vote vocab. Usually, it's just called fraud. Seeing that the wording change has brought confusion to some of his audience's faces, Ouren offers an explanation. 'I use the word "irregularities" because we don't know if people did it intentionally or if they just didn't know better.' That kind of logic isn't normal for the group either, so he immediately adds, 'So for those people who say voter and election fraud doesn't exist, I've got 806 answers to that. It absolutely does in one election.'"</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=aVAAdSJLvEDgL4YdA2kJ1Y07ei0hO6dg"><strong>The New Rampage Mentality</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>Kirby Farrell, Truthout:</strong> "Yes, American life is saturated with guns and heroic stories about guns. Assault rifles, the personal equivalent of weapons of mass destruction, are readily available. And in the most extravagantly militarized country in history, about half of rampage killers have had military training - far more than ordinary murderers. Headline news and movies provide lavish models to follow. But why pull the trigger?"</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=Eyf2PMYH%2FpeknRLFl4y%2BT407ei0hO6dg"><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=h5QOi3VQYJV6b5SBs9LopI07ei0hO6dg"><strong>Don't Pay Polluters</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>James Boyce, Triple Crisis:</strong> "The CDM pays large sums to coolant manufacturers in India, China and elsewhere to destroy the HFC-23 they produce. Indeed, these payments have become the largest single item in the CDM budget: this year, HFC-23 disposal is getting 50% more CDM money than wind power and 100 times more than solar energy. The rub is that paying firms not to pollute gives rise to a perverse incentive. A firm that threatens to pollute more gets paid more."</p>
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