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The 1 Percent and the 47 Percent
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09.24
The 1 Percent and the 47 Percent
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11734-the-1-and-the-47
Paul Street, ZCommunications: "If Romney and their ilk want to know why the rich bear such a large share of the nation's income tax burden to pay for 'big government' these days, they should look at how they influenced big government precisely to serve their interests to concentrate wealth and income in ever fewer hands, to downgrade the middle and working classes and to expand the ranks of the poor."
Inmates "Fly Kites" to the FCC Demanding Fair Phone Call Rates
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11690-flying-kites-to-the-fcc-demanding-fair-prison-phone-call-rates
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "Phone companies charge rates so high - as much as $15 for 15 minutes in some states - that many of America's roughly 2.3 million inmates and their families, who are often already struggling economically, simply cannot afford to stay in touch. This isn't just bad for inmates and struggling families; it's bad for society."
Journalist Arun Gupta and Organizer Marina Sitrin on Occupy's Anniversary
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11727-journalist-arun-gupta-and-lawyer-marina-sitrin-on-occupys-anniversary
Laura Flanders, Bill Moyers & Company: "A year ago, protestors took over a park in Lower Manhattan and sparked encampments across the states. Out of it came a slogan: 'We are the 99 percent,' and a new meaning to the verb 'occupy.' But what else? Some say Occupy Wall Street utterly changed their lives. Others say it changed nothing at all. How to assess Occupy Wall Street?"
CEOs and the Pay-'Em-or-Lose-'Em Myth
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11732-ceos-and-the-pay-em-or-lose-em-myth
Gretchen Morgenson, The New York Times News Service: "Importantly, the study disputes the notion that executive pay today is a result of an efficient bidding process for finding and retaining a scarce and valuable commodity: managerial talent. 'In essence, this process creates a model of a competitive market for executives where it otherwise does not exist,' the authors wrote."
Dean Baker | Debt Worries: Economists Fail Arithmetic, Again
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11725-debt-worries-economists-fail-arithmetic-again
Dean Baker, Truthout: "The story that the debt worriers have been pushing is that the ratio of debt to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the United States is rapidly approaching the point where it will seriously impinge on future growth.... In terms of the actual commitment of economic resources, it is the ratio of interest payments to GDP that will matter, not the debt."
The Dirty Business of Cleaning Cars
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11736-the-dirty-business-of-cleaning-cars
Eleanor J. Bader, The Brooklyn Rail: "Then there's something Valle Garcia calls 'jabon negro,' black soap. 'When it splashed on our skin it caused burns,' he says.... 'When the workers complained [the owner] ignored it, but when customers complained he finally made a change to green soap. The jabon verde burns less, but it still stings. We have never been trained in how to use it safely and have never been given safety gear like gloves or goggles.'"
New Law Will Make Birth Control Easier to Access in California
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11738-new-law-will-make-birth-control-easier-to-access-in-california
Robin Marty, RH Reality Check: "Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 2348 into law on September 22nd, granting registered nurses, certified nurse-midwives and physicians' assistants the power to dispense birth control, easing access for those who want to obtain the pill.... The move is expected to create shorter lines and wait periods at reproductive health clinics."
Iran Diplomat Says Iran Offered Deal to Halt 20 Percent Enrichment
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11726-iranian-diplomat-says-iran-offered-deal-to-halt-20-percent-enrichment
Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "Iran has again offered to halt its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent, which the United States has identified as its highest priority in the nuclear talks, in return for easing sanctions against Iran, according to Iran's permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)."
Obama Against the World: Forget Mitt Romney - Can the President Make It to November 7?
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/11729-obama-against-the-world-forget-mitt-romney-can-the-president-make-it-to-november-7
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: "So send Mitt to the Cayman Islands, stick Paul Ryan in a Swiss bank account and focus your attention instead on Obama versus the world.... It could prove to be the greatest show on earth, filled as it is with a stellar cast of Islamist extremists, Taliban militants, Afghan allies intent on blowing away their mentors, endangered American diplomats, an Israeli prime minister on the red-line express, sober central European bankers and a perturbed Chinese leadership ... "
On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Anti-Trust Suit Challenges Exclusion of Third Parties From Presidential Debates, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11741-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-new-anti-trust-suit-challenges-exclusion-of-third-parties-from-presidential-debates-and-more
In today's On the News segment: Shell files suit against Greenpeace to criminalize protests within 500 feet of Shell property; public distrust of media is at an all-time high, according to a new poll; France is calling on Germany to ease austerity demands on Greece, and more.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Making $100,000 a Year? Romney Wants to Raise Your Taxes
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17525-making-100-000-a-year-romney-wants-to-raise-your-taxes
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Ezra Klein writes that Romney's "going to have to raise taxes on the people he defines as the middle class."
Elizabeth Drew: If GOP Can't Buy the Election, They Will Steal It
Read the Article at The New York Review of Books
http://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2012/sep/21/voting-wrongs/
Mitt Romney's People Problem
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/mitt-romneys-people-problem-highlighted-on-video/2012/09/18/ad613ede-01ad-11e2-b257-e1c2b3548a4a_story.html
Riot Closes China Foxconn Factory
Read the Article at Al Jazeera
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2012/09/20129248119140129.html
Mormons Want to Excommunicate Romney Critic
Read the Article at The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/09/21/mormons-want-to-excommunicate-romney-critic.html
Obama Is Winning in Swing States, Bill Clinton Says
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/09/23/obama-is-winning-in-swing-states-bill-clinton-says/?wpisrc=nl_politics
Fox News Misleads Audience on Climate Change
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/09/breaking-news-corp-misleads-audience-climate-change
Saturday Night Live: Ann Romney Defends Mitt on Weekend Update
Watch the Video at The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/23/ann-romney-weekend-update-snl-video_n_1907175.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
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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>Ezra Klein writes that Romney's "going to have to raise taxes on the people he defines as the middle class."</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>Elizabeth Drew: If GOP Can't Buy the Election, They Will Steal It</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>Mitt Romney's People Problem</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>Riot Closes China Foxconn Factory</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>Mormons Want to Excommunicate Romney Critic</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>Obama Is Winning in Swing States, Bill Clinton Says</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 Misleads Audience on Climate Change</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>Saturday Night Live: Ann Romney Defends Mitt on Weekend Update</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>Paul Street, ZCommunications:</strong> "If Romney and their ilk want to know why the rich bear such a large share of the nation's income tax burden to pay for 'big government' these days, they should look at how they influenced big government precisely to serve their interests to concentrate wealth and income in ever fewer hands, to downgrade the middle and working classes and to expand the ranks of the poor."</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 Ludwig, Truthout:</strong> "Phone companies charge rates so high - as much as $15 for 15 minutes in some states - that many of America's roughly 2.3 million inmates and their families, who are often already struggling economically, simply cannot afford to stay in touch. This isn't just bad for inmates and struggling families; it's bad for society."</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=38fNyLVnsX8c2P%2F2%2F35hkNYx29kU%2BGmq"><strong>Journalist Arun Gupta and Organizer Marina Sitrin on Occupy's Anniversary</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>Laura Flanders, Bill Moyers & Company:</strong> "A year ago, protestors took over a park in Lower Manhattan and sparked encampments across the states. Out of it came a slogan: 'We are the 99 percent,' and a new meaning to the verb 'occupy.' But what else? Some say Occupy Wall Street utterly changed their lives. Others say it changed nothing at all. How to assess Occupy Wall Street?"</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>Gretchen Morgenson, The New York Times News Service:</strong> "Importantly, the study disputes the notion that executive pay today is a result of an efficient bidding process for finding and retaining a scarce and valuable commodity: managerial talent. 'In essence, this process creates a model of a competitive market for executives where it otherwise does not exist,' the authors wrote."</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=agFsQix1krrrnxbbaPs81tYx29kU%2BGmq"><strong>Dean Baker | Debt Worries: Economists Fail Arithmetic, Again</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> "The story that the debt worriers have been pushing is that the ratio of debt to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the United States is rapidly approaching the point where it will seriously impinge on future growth.... In terms of the actual commitment of economic resources, it is the ratio of interest payments to GDP that will matter, not the debt."</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=gv9JLX0kB3rSLVmlumUJDdYx29kU%2BGmq"><strong>The Dirty Business of Cleaning Cars</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>Eleanor J. Bader, The Brooklyn Rail:</strong> "Then there's something Valle Garcia calls 'jabon negro,' black soap. 'When it splashed on our skin it caused burns,' he says.... 'When the workers complained [the owner] ignored it, but when customers complained he finally made a change to green soap. The jabon verde burns less, but it still stings. We have never been trained in how to use it safely and have never been given safety gear like gloves or goggles.'"</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=zsT8Wg3sbx5MBmeVjHjR7tYx29kU%2BGmq"><strong>New Law Will Make Birth Control Easier to Access in California</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>Robin Marty, RH Reality Check:</strong> "Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 2348 into law on September 22nd, granting registered nurses, certified nurse-midwives and physicians' assistants the power to dispense birth control, easing access for those who want to obtain the pill.... The move is expected to create shorter lines and wait periods at reproductive health clinics."</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=AB%2FUsJ73lyd3JGgcm7CjWtYx29kU%2BGmq"><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=tuaLO%2BJc6U4O9ogmQj%2F7EdYx29kU%2BGmq"><strong>Iran Diplomat Says Iran Offered Deal to Halt 20 Percent Enrichment</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> "Iran has again offered to halt its enrichment of uranium to 20 percent, which the United States has identified as its highest priority in the nuclear talks, in return for easing sanctions against Iran, according to Iran's permanent representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)."</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=tKElWEsetGq0Cd8EjGPlsdYx29kU%2BGmq"><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=U1b%2FbEnFY13s6ugPgEh1Z9Yx29kU%2BGmq"><strong>Obama Against the World: Forget Mitt Romney - Can the President Make It to November 7?</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>Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch:</strong> "So send Mitt to the Cayman Islands, stick Paul Ryan in a Swiss bank account and focus your attention instead on Obama versus the world.... It could prove to be the greatest show on earth, filled as it is with a stellar cast of Islamist extremists, Taliban militants, Afghan allies intent on blowing away their mentors, endangered American diplomats, an Israeli prime minister on the red-line express, sober central European bankers and a perturbed Chinese leadership ... "</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=gsBHs40gp5rMCsGyfK3grdYx29kU%2BGmq"><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=DEXjgMrMU%2Bsi1eWuumMxddYx29kU%2BGmq"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: New Anti-Trust Suit Challenges Exclusion of Third Parties From Presidential Debates, 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> Shell files suit against Greenpeace to criminalize protests within 500 feet of Shell property; public distrust of media is at an all-time high, according to a new poll; France is calling on Germany to ease austerity demands on Greece, and more.</p>
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