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Can We Use Our Inherent "Inequity Aversion" to Topple the 1
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Date: Sun, 9 Sep 2012 16:18:28 -0400 (EDT)
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t r u t h o u t | 09.09
Primal Outrage: Can Homo Sapiens Use Our Inherent "Inequity Aversion" to To=
pple the 1 Percent?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11200-primal-outrage-can-homo-sapiens-use=
-our-inherent-inequity-aversion-to-topple-the-1-percent=20
Kelpie Wilson, Truthout: "Sometimes, when I feel my head exploding over the=
sorry state of our poor, overheated planet, I find it helps to step back f=
rom immersion in our species' affairs and assume the vantage point of the d=
isinterested alien or far-future anthropologist. An accurate analysis of t=
he extreme disfunctionality of human society and the wreckage of our planet=
is not possible from within the contemporary belief systems of capitalist-=
communist, christian-muslim, democrat-republican, etc. As alien-anthropolog=
ists, let's examine homo sapiens in 2012 and see what we find."=20
Debt Collectors Cashing In on Student Loan Roundup=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11427-debt-collectors-cashing-in-on-student-=
loan-roundup
Andrew Martin, The New York Times News Service: "As the number of people ta=
king out government-backed student loans has exploded, so has the number wh=
o have fallen at least 12 months behind in making payments - about 5.9 mill=
ion people nationwide, up about a third in the last five years.... To get t=
he money back, the Department of Education last fiscal year paid more than =
$1.4 billion to collection agencies and other groups to hunt down defaulter=
s. Hiding from the government is not easy."
John Pilger | The Liberal Way to Run the World - "Improve" or We'll Kill Yo=
u=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11410-the-liberal-way-to-run-the-world-impro=
ve-or-well-kill-you
John Pilger, Truthout: "What is the world's most powerful and violent 'ism'=
? The question will summon the usual demons such as Islamism, now that comm=
unism has left the stage. The answer, wrote Harold Pinter, is only 'superfi=
cially recorded, let alone documented, let alone acknowledged,' because onl=
y one ideology claims to be nonideological, neither left nor right, the sup=
reme way. This is liberalism."=20
California Spends More on Jails Than Higher Education=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11428-california-spends-more-on-jails-than-h=
igher-education
Nicole Flatow, ThinkProgress: "As California struggles to comply with a cou=
rt order to reduce its prison population, a new study finds that the state =
now spends more on its correctional system than on higher education. Since =
1980, the prison population has skyrocketed 436 percent, while spending on =
higher education has decreased by 13 percent adjusted for inflation, accord=
ing to the report by California Common Sense."
A Tale of Two Asylums: Assange, Palacio, and Media Hypocrisy=20
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11405-a-tale-of-two-asylums-assange-palac=
io-and-media-hypocrisy
Keane Bhatt, NACLA: "Every so often, world affairs offer us paired examples=
- two nearly identical instances through which we can better understand th=
e role of powerful institutions, like the media. So when Ecuador granted as=
ylum to Australian journalist Julian Assange in mid-August, and then, two w=
eeks later, the United States provided asylum to Ecuadorian journalist Emil=
io Palacio, the two cases laid bare the hypocrisy of the establishment pres=
s."
Economic Update: The Complexities of Capitalist "Success"=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11407-economic-update-the-complexities-of-ca=
pitalist-success
Richard D Wolff, Economic Update/Truthout: "Updates on Romney's economic pl=
an, French socialists' employment plan, Yale wealth growth, and wisdom of w=
orld's richest woman. Interview Max Fraad-Wolff on Apple Corp's mixed pictu=
re as capitalist 'success.' Response to question on financial speculation i=
n food products. On Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff, Wolff and=
guests will discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and glo=
bally in relation to the economic crisis. Wolff will focus on wages, jobs, =
taxes, and debts - and on interest rates, prices, and profits."
As Chicago Teachers Head Toward Strike, Democrats Turn on Their Union=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11419-as-chicago-teachers-head-toward-strike=
-democrats-turn-on-their-union
Theresa Moran, Labor Notes: "Have Democrats abandoned teacher unions in the=
ir pursuit of a corporate-backed education overhaul? From the looks of the =
Democratic National Convention, it would seem so. At the podium, speakers l=
ike Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt =
praised the Obama administration's willingness to embrace such change, sing=
ling out the controversial Race to the Top program for special attention."
Did Citigroup Defraud Billions from US Ally Abu Dhabi?=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11390-did-citigroup-defraud-billions-from-us=
-ally-abu-dhabi
Pam Martens, AlterNet: "According to a confidential cable published by Wiki=
leaks, the U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi sent a communication to the U.S. Secre=
tary of State and U.S. Treasury on December 22, 2009, alerting them to the =
fact that the investment arm of a U.S. ally, Abu Dhabi, believed it had bee=
n defrauded of $4 billion by Citigroup (Wall Street's serial miscreant and =
recent ward of the taxpayer)."
Whitewashed: CIA's Murder of Gul Rehman=20
http://truth-out.org/op-ed/item/11426-featured-whitewashed-cias-murder-of-g=
ul-rehman
Asim Qureshi, CagePrisoners: "While Eric Holder may be satisfied with the o=
utcome of this investigation, he was very wrong when he said, 'I continue t=
o believe that our Nation will be better for it.' Such half-hearted attempt=
s at the apparent administration of justice only serve to highlight a hypoc=
risy endemic within the US justice system, where serious crimes and violati=
ons of the laws of war are either whitewashed completely, or result in seve=
rely disproportionate under-sentencing when it comes to holding authority t=
o account."
Goldcorp on Trial: First Ever People's Health Tribunal Shows Commonalities =
Throughout Mesoamerica=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11411-goldcorp-on-trial-first-ever-peoples-h=
ealth-tribunal-shows-commonalities-throughout-mesoamerica
Cyril Mychalejko, Toward Freedom: "The International Peoples' Health Tribun=
al (IPHT) took place on the second floor of the parish hall of San Miguel I=
xtahuac=C3=A1n, a municipality in Guatemala's Western Highlands of roughly =
60,000 people, a majority of whom are Maya-Mam. San Miguel Ixtahuac=C3=A1n =
is the main site of the Marlin mine, an open pit gold mine that is one of t=
he most important projects of Canadian gold mining giant Goldcorp Inc."
No Papers, No Fear: Undocumented Immigrant Activists Arrested Outside DNC=
=20
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11409-no-papers-no-fear-undocumented-immigra=
nt-activists-arrested-outside-dnc
John Knefel, AlterNet: "Ten undocumented immigrants were arrested on Tuesda=
y afternoon outside the Democratic National Convention, amid chants of 'Und=
ocumented, unafraid!' and 'No papers, no fear!' Around 3:30pm, several doze=
n activists marched to the corner of East 5th and College Street in Charlot=
te, North Carolina, just blocks from where the DNC was being held, and bloc=
ked the intersection to protest President Obama's deportation policy. They =
unfurled a banner that read "Sin Papeles, Sin Miedo" ("no papers, no fear")=
laid it on the street."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
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Convention Conclusion: Democrats Have a Deep Bench, While the Republicans H=
ave an Empty Chair and Two Empty Suits=20
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/11740-convention-conclus=
ion-democrats-have-a-deep-bench-while-the-republicans-have-an-empty-chair-a=
nd-two-empty-suits
Real Unemployment at 23 Percent - Dampening the Economy
Read the Article at OpEdNews
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Real-Unemployment-at-23--by-Michael-Collin=
s-120909-358.html
Defunding Planned Parenthood Caused Women's Services to Drop By 93 Percent =
in Tennessee County
Read the Article at ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/09/06/807061/defunding-planned-parenth=
ood-caused-womens-servicesto-drop-by-93-percent-in-tennessee-county/
The Poor Will Always Be With Us - Just Not on the TV News
Read the Article at FAIR
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3D3172
The Week in the War on Workers: Do Farm Workers Deserve the Same Protection=
s as Animals?
Read the Article at Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/08/1129034/-This-week-in-the-War-on-W=
orkers-Do-farm-workers-deserve-the-same-protections-as-animals=20
Check Out the Fraccidents Map
See the Map at Google
http://markcrispinmiller.com/2012/09/check-out-the-google-fraccidents-map/
Self-Censorship at CNN: Why the Network Didn't Run It's Documentary on Bahr=
ain's Arab Spring Repression
Read the Article at Guardian UK
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/sep/04/cnn-international-documentary-b=
ahrain-arab-spring-repression
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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>Self-Censorship at CNN: Why the Network Didn't Run It's Documentary on Bahrain's Arab Spring Repression</strong></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=yNsyyJ3zXqK8wjWe70lSFSqYTwn2O4VZ" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Primal Outrage: Can Homo Sapiens Use Our Inherent "Inequity Aversion" to Topple the 1 Percent?</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>Kelpie Wilson, Truthout:</strong> "Sometimes, when I feel my head exploding over the sorry state of our poor, overheated planet, I find it helps to step back from immersion in our species' affairs and assume the vantage point of the disinterested alien or far-future anthropologist. An accurate analysis of the extreme disfunctionality of human society and the wreckage of our planet is not possible from within the contemporary belief systems of capitalist-communist, christian-muslim, democrat-republican, etc. As alien-anthropologists, let's examine homo sapiens in 2012 and see what we find."</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=h1uxKOM5caMwvRyXVhwqLiqYTwn2O4VZ" 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=Kd%2Bh4TDZAFSv5rqgHA9UbCqYTwn2O4VZ" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Debt Collectors Cashing In on Student Loan Roundup</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>Andrew Martin, The New York Times News Service:</strong> "As the number of people taking out government-backed student loans has exploded, so has the number who have fallen at least 12 months behind in making payments - about 5.9 million people nationwide, up about a third in the last five years.... To get the money back, the Department of Education last fiscal year paid more than $1.4 billion to collection agencies and other groups to hunt down defaulters. Hiding from the government is not easy."</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=8eQhs0dbn2FOt9YuWH5acCqYTwn2O4VZ" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>John Pilger | The Liberal Way to Run the World - "Improve" or We'll Kill You</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>John Pilger, Truthout:</strong> "What is the world's most powerful and violent 'ism'? The question will summon the usual demons such as Islamism, now that communism has left the stage. The answer, wrote Harold Pinter, is only 'superficially recorded, let alone documented, let alone acknowledged,' because only one ideology claims to be nonideological, neither left nor right, the supreme way. This is liberalism."</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=2jtTr%2FPFdazex7RljgYO1yqYTwn2O4VZ" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>California Spends More on Jails Than Higher Education</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>Nicole Flatow, ThinkProgress:</strong> "As California struggles to comply with a court order to reduce its prison population, a new study finds that the state now spends more on its correctional system than on higher education. Since 1980, the prison population has skyrocketed 436 percent, while spending on higher education has decreased by 13 percent adjusted for inflation, according to the report by California Common Sense."</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=xIAXlZWdk0Se%2BoA32aRflCqYTwn2O4VZ" 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=v7OhwLip1xhm%2BkTO9J16wCqYTwn2O4VZ" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>A Tale of Two Asylums: Assange, Palacio, and Media Hypocrisy </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>Keane Bhatt, NACLA:</strong> "Every so often, world affairs offer us paired examples - two nearly identical instances through which we can better understand the role of powerful institutions, like the media. So when Ecuador granted asylum to Australian journalist Julian Assange in mid-August, and then, two weeks later, the United States provided asylum to Ecuadorian journalist Emilio Palacio, the two cases laid bare the hypocrisy of the establishment press."</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>Richard D Wolff, Economic Update/Truthout:</strong> "Updates on Romney's economic plan, French socialists' employment plan, Yale wealth growth, and wisdom of world's richest woman. Interview Max Fraad-Wolff on Apple Corp's mixed picture as capitalist 'success.' Response to question on financial speculation in food products. On Economic Update with Professor Richard Wolff, Wolff and guests will discuss the current state of the economy, both locally and globally in relation to the economic crisis. Wolff will focus on wages, jobs, taxes, and debts - and on interest rates, prices, and profits."</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>Theresa Moran, Labor Notes:</strong> "Have Democrats abandoned teacher unions in their pursuit of a corporate-backed education overhaul? From the looks of the Democratic National Convention, it would seem so. At the podium, speakers like Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and former North Carolina Governor Jim Hunt praised the Obama administration's willingness to embrace such change, singling out the controversial Race to the Top program for special attention."</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>Pam Martens, AlterNet:</strong> "According to a confidential cable published by Wikileaks, the U.S. Embassy in Abu Dhabi sent a communication to the U.S. Secretary of State and U.S. Treasury on December 22, 2009, alerting them to the fact that the investment arm of a U.S. ally, Abu Dhabi, believed it had been defrauded of $4 billion by Citigroup (Wall Street's serial miscreant and recent ward of the taxpayer)."</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>Asim Qureshi, CagePrisoners:</strong> "While Eric Holder may be satisfied with the outcome of this investigation, he was very wrong when he said, 'I continue to believe that our Nation will be better for it.' Such half-hearted attempts at the apparent administration of justice only serve to highlight a hypocrisy endemic within the US justice system, where serious crimes and violations of the laws of war are either whitewashed completely, or result in severely disproportionate under-sentencing when it comes to holding authority to account."</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>Cyril Mychalejko, Toward Freedom:</strong> "The International Peoples' Health Tribunal (IPHT) took place on the second floor of the parish hall of San Miguel Ixtahuacán, a municipality in Guatemala's Western Highlands of roughly 60,000 people, a majority of whom are Maya-Mam. San Miguel Ixtahuacán is the main site of the Marlin mine, an open pit gold mine that is one of the most important projects of Canadian gold mining giant Goldcorp Inc."</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>John Knefel, AlterNet:</strong> "Ten undocumented immigrants were arrested on Tuesday afternoon outside the Democratic National Convention, amid chants of 'Undocumented, unafraid!' and 'No papers, no fear!' Around 3:30pm, several dozen activists marched to the corner of East 5th and College Street in Charlotte, North Carolina, just blocks from where the DNC was being held, and blocked the intersection to protest President Obama's deportation policy. They unfurled a banner that read "Sin Papeles, Sin Miedo" ("no papers, no fear") laid it on the street."</p>
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