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Dirty Money: Cities and States Addicted to Soliciting for Corporate
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t r u t h o u t | 09.15
Dirty Money: Cities and States Addicted to Soliciting for Corporate Favors
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11552-dirty-money-cities-and-states-addicted=
-to-soliciting-for-corporate-favors
Mike Alberti, Remapping Debate: "When executives from the European aircraft=
manufacturer Airbus announced their plans to build a new $600 million fact=
ory in Mobile, Alabama in early July, local politicians wasted no time in c=
ongratulating themselves=E2=80=A6. [But] Airbus wasn't coming to Mobile for=
free: state and local officials had offered the company an incentive packa=
ge worth more than $158 million for the plant.... [This] is representative =
of the way in which companies pit states and local governments against one =
another to see which will come up with the largest subsidy package."
Wisconsin Anti-Union Law Struck Down
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11558-wisconsin-anti-union-law-struck-down
Mike Elk, In These Times: "In a major labor victory, Wisconsin circuit cour=
t Judge Juan Colas, who immigrated to the United States from Colombia at ag=
e 5, has struck down key parts of Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union law. Colas=
' decision restores collective bargaining rights for city, county and schoo=
l-district employees, but still maintains the anti-collective bargaining la=
w for state and University of Wisconsin employees. Colas ruled that as it w=
as applied to municipal and school-district employees, the law violated bot=
h the United States Constitution and the Wisconsin State Constitution."
Dead Guantanamo Prisoner About Why He Gave Up on Life
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11551-dead-guantanamo-prisoner-on-why-he-gav=
e-up-on-life
John Knefel, AlterNet: "Adnan Latif was found dead in his cell on September=
10th, 2012, just a day before the eleventh anniversary of 9/11=E2=80=A6. H=
e suffered at the hands of the US government in ways that most people can't=
begin to comprehend, and his death should be a reminder that the national =
shame that is Guantanamo Bay lives on and now enjoys bipartisan support."
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Protests in the Middle East Are About a Twi=
sted Foreign Policy
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11553-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-protest=
s-in-the-middle-east-are-about-a-twisted-foreign-policy
Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program: In today's On the News segment: T=
he fallout from an anti-Islam film made here in the United States continues=
, as anti-western protests sweep across the Middle East, Asia, and North Af=
rica - including Malaysia, Bangladesh, and Iraq; a new report reveals just =
how damaging the financial crisis perpetrated by banksters on Wall Street w=
as to our economy; Labor unions in Greece have had enough of austerity - an=
d are calling for a general strike, and more.
Homeless and Hungry at College
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11556-homeless-and-hungry-at-college
Adam Turl, SocialistWorker.org: "Enough is enough. Education - including hi=
gher education - is a human right. Not only should tuition be paid in total=
, the living expenses of students should be subsidized. Until we win that g=
reater victory, we must meet every instance of cutbacks and tuition hikes w=
ith protest and action. Some of our fellow students' very lives are on the =
line."
Anti-Western Protests Flare Beyond the Mideast
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11554-anti-imperialism-protests-flare-beyond=
-the-mideast
Rick Gladstone, The New York Times News Service: "Anti-American rage that b=
egan this week over a video insult to Islam spread to nearly 20 countries a=
cross the Middle East and beyond on Friday, with violent and sometimes dead=
ly protests that convulsed the birthplaces of the Arab Spring revolutions, =
breached two more United States Embassies and targeted diplomatic propertie=
s of Germany and Britain. The broadening of the protests appeared to reflec=
t a pent-up resentment of Western powers in general."
Pressure Put on Manning to Implicate Assange
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11559-pressure-put-on-manning-to-implicate-a=
ssange
Paul Jay and Michael Ratner, The Real News Network: "Michael Ratner: Sweden=
's refusal to interview Assange in London suggests they are working with US=
towards extradition."
Chris Kluwe and the Greatest Political Statement by Any Athlete Ever
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11502-chris-kluwe-and-the-greatest-politi=
cal-statement-by-any-athlete-ever
Dave Zirin, The Nation: "Speaking out always holds the risk of a backlash: =
especially for pro athletes and especially when standing up for LGBT equali=
ty. The Baltimore Ravens' Brendan Ayanbadejo experienced that reality this =
week. For years, the 36-year-old Ayanbadejo has been outspoken in support o=
f Marriage Equality and LGBT rights. Now, Ayanbadejo is publicly supporting=
a November ballot initiative for Maryland to join the states that recogniz=
e same-sex marriage."
Money-Laundering Inquiry Is Said to Aim at US Banks
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11557-money-laundering-inquiry-is-said-to-ai=
m-at-us-banks
Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Ben Protess, The New York Times News Service: =
"Federal and state authorities are investigating a handful of major America=
n banks for failing to monitor cash transactions in and out of their branch=
es, a lapse that may have enabled drug dealers and terrorists to launder ta=
inted money, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity=
. These officials say they are beginning one of the most aggressive crackdo=
wns on money-laundering in decades, intended to send a signal to the nation=
's biggest banks that weak compliance is unacceptable."
What Motivates Rejection of (Climate) Science?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11501-what-motivates-rejection-of-climate-sc=
ience
University of Western Australia Staff, The Universtiy of Western Australia:=
"The results showed that those who subscribed to one or more conspiracy th=
eories or who strongly supported a free market economy were more likely to =
reject the findings from climate science as well as other sciences. The res=
earchers, led by UWA School of Psychology Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, fo=
und that free-market ideology was an overwhelmingly strong determinant of t=
he rejection of climate science. It also predicted the rejection of the lin=
k between tobacco and lung cancer and between HIV and AIDS."
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
The BuzzFlash commentary for Truthout will return Monday, September 17th.
Cutting Government, Blindfolded
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/15/opinion/cutting-government-blindfolded.ht=
ml
Speaking at Values Voter Summit, Paul Ryan Gives Stamp of Approval to Bigot=
ry
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17505-speaking-at-values=
-voter-summit-paul-ryan-gives-stamp-of-approval-to-bigotry
Assange Gets an Aboriginal Passport
Read the Article at The Syndey Morning Herald
http://www.google.com/url?sa=3Dt&rct=3Dj&q=3D&esrc=3Ds&source=3Dweb&cd=3D3&=
cad=3Drja&ved=3D0CC0QqQIwAg&url=3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fm.smh.com.au%2Fnational%2Fas=
sange-gets-an-aboriginal-passport-20120915-25yrt.html&ei=3Dub1UUIbvO8jHswbl=
qoH4Bw&usg=3DAFQjCNEwTIPKgmKjbvmRAjNh_LSl-1yi5A&sig2=3DE-NJuNN5_gsMS9b1SO2i=
Ww
Fox News Censors All Their Polls
Read the Article at Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/09/14/1131881/-Fox-News-Banishes-Their-O=
wn-Polls-From-Fox-Nation
Producer of Anti-Islam Film Questioned by Federal Authorities
Read the Article at New York Magazine
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/09/producer-of-anti-islamic-film-question=
ed.html
Romney Campaign Busted Ripping off Obama Campaign Website
Read the Article at Mediaite
http://www.mediaite.com/online/mitt-romney-campaign-busted-ripping-off-obam=
a-campaign-website/
CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years
Read the Article at The Onion
http://www.theonion.com/articles/cia-realizes-its-been-using-black-highligh=
ters-all,1848/
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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>Speaking at Values Voter Summit, Paul Ryan Gives Stamp of Approval to Bigotry</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>Fox News Censors All Their Polls</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>Producer of Anti-Islam Film Questioned by Federal Authorities</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>Romney Campaign Busted Ripping off Obama Campaign Website</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>CIA Realizes It's Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years</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=SO1dTvLLy52E0wDT%2BZ3G6b%2BS26%2BWxh8L" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at The Onion</strong></a></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>Mike Alberti, Remapping Debate:</strong> "When executives from the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus announced their plans to build a new $600 million factory in Mobile, Alabama in early July, local politicians wasted no time in congratulating themselves…. [But] Airbus wasn’t coming to Mobile for free: state and local officials had offered the company an incentive package worth more than $158 million for the plant.... [This] is representative of the way in which companies pit states and local governments against one another to see which will come up with the largest subsidy package."</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=X4XKzDmIVHXuCG1fCt8bQb%2BS26%2BWxh8L" 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=skEP2xqjkW3x10fj6MIedr%2BS26%2BWxh8L"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Wisconsin Anti-Union Law Struck Down</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 Elk, In These Times:</strong> "In a major labor victory, Wisconsin circuit court Judge Juan Colas, who immigrated to the United States from Colombia at age 5, has struck down key parts of Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union law. Colas' decision restores collective bargaining rights for city, county and school-district employees, but still maintains the anti-collective bargaining law for state and University of Wisconsin employees. Colas ruled that as it was applied to municipal and school-district employees, the law violated both the United States Constitution and the Wisconsin State Constitution."</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=8FuU7%2FALItEw9CwQ1MeAqb%2BS26%2BWxh8L" 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=1BG%2ByH59wH3ShKSfXi7Be7%2BS26%2BWxh8L"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Dead Guantanamo Prisoner About Why He Gave Up on Life</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 Knefel, AlterNet:</strong> "Adnan Latif was found dead in his cell on September 10th, 2012, just a day before the eleventh anniversary of 9/11…. He suffered at the hands of the US government in ways that most people can't begin to comprehend, and his death should be a reminder that the national shame that is Guantanamo Bay lives on and now enjoys bipartisan support."</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=vQfdgy1aV3fWrBLkfT8kLr%2BS26%2BWxh8L" 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=gT3o5vwxjhzs%2FOzMLPunP7%2BS26%2BWxh8L"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Protests in the Middle East Are About a Twisted Foreign Policy</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>Thom Hartmann, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> In today's On the News segment: The fallout from an anti-Islam film made here in the United States continues, as anti-western protests sweep across the Middle East, Asia, and North Africa - including Malaysia, Bangladesh, and Iraq; a new report reveals just how damaging the financial crisis perpetrated by banksters on Wall Street was to our economy; Labor unions in Greece have had enough of austerity - and are calling for a general strike, and more.</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=BRwK5OswxJrCtRi1uL9Vxb%2BS26%2BWxh8L" 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=aGEhwScK4BFCPZUHoh2fVr%2BS26%2BWxh8L"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Homeless and Hungry at College</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>Adam Turl, SocialistWorker.org:</strong> "Enough is enough. Education - including higher education - is a human right. Not only should tuition be paid in total, the living expenses of students should be subsidized. Until we win that greater victory, we must meet every instance of cutbacks and tuition hikes with protest and action. Some of our fellow students' very lives are on the line."</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=%2FhSDe9vns444p3UQi7eYtr%2BS26%2BWxh8L" 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=hvPXHz%2F89HAEvuUtYfV767%2BS26%2BWxh8L"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Anti-Western Protests Flare Beyond the Mideast</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>Rick Gladstone, The New York Times News Service:</strong> "Anti-American rage that began this week over a video insult to Islam spread to nearly 20 countries across the Middle East and beyond on Friday, with violent and sometimes deadly protests that convulsed the birthplaces of the Arab Spring revolutions, breached two more United States Embassies and targeted diplomatic properties of Germany and Britain. The broadening of the protests appeared to reflect a pent-up resentment of Western powers in general."</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=hxMGm7YP5Hv0vRTKQ0z%2BaL%2BS26%2BWxh8L"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Pressure Put on Manning to Implicate Assange</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>Paul Jay and Michael Ratner, The Real News Network:</strong> "Michael Ratner: Sweden's refusal to interview Assange in London suggests they are working with US towards extradition."</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=1Pw3rxgK59eqP1SuiaWWyL%2BS26%2BWxh8L"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Chris Kluwe and the Greatest Political Statement by Any Athlete Ever</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>Dave Zirin, The Nation:</strong> "Speaking out always holds the risk of a backlash: especially for pro athletes and especially when standing up for LGBT equality. The Baltimore Ravens' Brendan Ayanbadejo experienced that reality this week. For years, the 36-year-old Ayanbadejo has been outspoken in support of Marriage Equality and LGBT rights. Now, Ayanbadejo is publicly supporting a November ballot initiative for Maryland to join the states that recognize same-sex marriage."</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=5CiyKYFU7fqIK3D283U0Ur%2BS26%2BWxh8L"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Money-Laundering Inquiry Is Said to Aim at US Banks</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>Jessica Silver-Greenberg and Ben Protess, The New York Times News Service:</strong> "Federal and state authorities are investigating a handful of major American banks for failing to monitor cash transactions in and out of their branches, a lapse that may have enabled drug dealers and terrorists to launder tainted money, according to officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. These officials say they are beginning one of the most aggressive crackdowns on money-laundering in decades, intended to send a signal to the nation's biggest banks that weak compliance is unacceptable."</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=ofYl5Z7xo486FVoX7GHwCL%2BS26%2BWxh8L"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>What Motivates Rejection of (Climate) Science?</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>University of Western Australia Staff, The Universtiy of Western Australia:</strong> "The results showed that those who subscribed to one or more conspiracy theories or who strongly supported a free market economy were more likely to reject the findings from climate science as well as other sciences. The researchers, led by UWA School of Psychology Professor Stephan Lewandowsky, found that free-market ideology was an overwhelmingly strong determinant of the rejection of climate science. It also predicted the rejection of the link between tobacco and lung cancer and between HIV and AIDS."</p>
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