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The National Debt and Our Children: How Dumb Does Washington Think
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t r u t h o u t | 10.15
The National Debt and Our Children: How Dumb Does Washington Think We Are?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12111-the-national-debt-and-our-children-how=
-dumb-does-washington-think-we-are
Dean Baker, Truthout: Do you know where your congressperson and political c=
andidates stand on proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare? The corpo=
rate media hasn't even bothered to ask.
Chris Hedges | Join the Blockade of the Keystone Pipeline
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12112-join-the-blockade-of-the-keystone-p=
ipeline
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: The 1,700-mile proposed pipeline would run through =
six states and would mean game over for the climate, according to a scienti=
st studying global warming.
Know Your Rights: Voter ID Laws Threaten Transgender Voters
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12088-know-your-rights-voter-id-laws-threate=
n-transgender-voters
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Many trans people are already struggling to obtain u=
pdated ID's that reflect their true identity, and in some states, that mean=
s legal barriers to their voting rights. Elsewhere, de facto discrimination=
is the problem.
Education Profiteering: Wall Street's Next Big Thing?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12117-education-profiteering-wall-streets-ne=
xt-big-thing=20
Jeff Faux, AlterNet: Wall Street's involvement in the charter school moveme=
nt is presented as an act of philanthropy, but it's really about greed.
Romney Appeals to White Tribalism in Ohio
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12123-romney-appeals-to-white-tribalism-in-o=
hio=20
Arun Gupta and Michelle Fawcett, The Progressive: How better to unite the e=
lite agenda with the concerns of a struggling working class than with coded=
comments subtly invoking the parasitic "other" as the ever-convenient scap=
egoat for the country's economic decline.
Fresh Recruits, More Arrests Begin Week Four in Texas Tar Sands Blockade
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12121-fresh-recruits-more-arrests-begin-week=
-four-in-texas-tar-sands-blockade
Candice Bernd, Truthout: As the Texas tar sands tree-sit enters its fourth =
week, activists re-enter the tree village to supply and defend members of t=
he Tar Sands Blockade. The arrests continue.
$950,000 Win for NYC Workers Invigorates Supply-Chain-Justice Movement
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12124-$950000-win-for-nyc-workers-invigorate=
s-supply-chain-justice-movement
Michelle Chen, In These Times: Even as unions decline, low-wage laborers ar=
e getting creative and winning major victories for working people.
Koch Brothers Among US Billionaires Pressuring Thousands of Employees to Vo=
te GOP on Election Day
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12122-koch-brothers-among-us-billionaires-pr=
essuring-thousands-of-employees-to-vote-gop-on-election-day
Amy Goodman, Democracy NOW!: Labor reporter Mike Elk's new expos=C3=A9 draw=
s on months of reporting and the herosim of three employees who risked thei=
r jobs to talk about Koch subsidiary Georgia-Pacific's practice of trying t=
o siphon off workers' political agency.
Sunrise and Sunset in Afghanistan
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12113-sunrise-and-sunset-in-afghanistan
David Smith-Ferri, War Is a Crime: An American activist shares what he lear=
ned in his conversations with the country's young grassroots leaders, who a=
re pressing for peace despite their intimate knowledge of corruption and th=
e challenge of building a future atop a history of trauma and loss.
Low Wages and High Unemployment Are Paralyzing the Global Economy
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12118-low-wages-and-high-unemployment-are-pa=
ralyzing-the-global-economy=20
Paul Jay, The Real News Network: An official with the UN Conference on Trad=
e and Development speaks with RNN from Geneva about how the misguided obses=
sion with competition sucks demand out of the economy.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Class-Action Lawsuit Alleges Rigging of Lib=
or Upped Homeowners' Mortgage Repayments, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/12125-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-class-a=
ction-lawsuit-alleges-libor-rigging-upped-homeowners-mortgage-repayments-an=
d-more
In today's On the News segment: New leftist party in Lithuania promising hi=
gher taxes on the rich and a higher minimum wage; libertarian candidate Gar=
y Johnson could be a spoiler for Mitt Romney as presidential race gets even=
tighter; Japanese company's looming acquisition of 70 percent of Sprint ex=
emplifies how free trade policies imperil the US economy on the telecommuni=
cations front, and more.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
If Being Governor Is a Test of Leadership, Romney is Getting His Ass Kicked=
in Massachusetts
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17575-if-being-governor-is-a=
-test-of-leadership-romney-is-getting-his-ass-kicked-in-massachusetts
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Constituents are best suited to evaluat=
e the promises and performances of politicians. According to polls, citizen=
s of the Bay State are rejecting Mitt Romney in landslide proportions.
George Lakoff | What Obama Has to Do in the Debate
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17572-moral-leadership-what-=
obama-has-to-show-tomorrow-in-the-debate-performance-and-for-real
Maya Angelou | There Is No Time for Complacency
Read the Article at the Winston-Salem Journal
http://www2.journalnow.com/news/opinion/2012/oct/15/maya-angelou-guest-colu=
mnist-says-theres-no-time-c-ar-2689178/
Paul Krugman | Death by Ideology
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/15/opinion/krugman-death-by-ideology.html?_r=
=3D0
The House Science Committee: A Multiple-Choice Disgrace
Read the Article at The Virginian-Pilot
http://hamptonroads.com/2012/10/multiplechoice-disgrace
Five Ways Deregulation Is Ripping America Apart
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17573-five-ways-deregulation=
-is-ripping-america-apart
Pennsylvania Fracking Law Opens Up Drilling on College Campuses
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/pennsylvania-fracking-law-opens=
-drilling-college-campuses
Mitt Romney: The Great Deformer
Read the Article at The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/10/14/david-stockman-mitt-romney=
-and-the-bain-drain.html?utm_medium=3Demail&utm_source=3Dnewsletter&utm_cam=
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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>If Being Governor Is a Test of Leadership, Romney is Getting His Ass Kicked in Massachusetts </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>Constituents are best suited to evaluate the promises and performances of politicians. According to polls, citizens of the Bay State are rejecting Mitt Romney in landslide proportions.</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=ZLOp0W7crZ61w2O9oSxfng2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><strong>Read the BuzzFlash Commentary</strong></a></p>
<p style="margin: 0;padding: 0;font-size: normal;color: #444 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;line-height: 1.3"> </p>
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>George Lakoff | What Obama Has to Do in the Debate</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=VeKEKgfe4EUhQxblxhg0LQ2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><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>Maya Angelou | There Is No Time for Complacency</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=life3kAi6EAqXsw%2FzcfAdw2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><strong>Read the Article at the Winston-Salem Journal</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 | Death by Ideology</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=6Si%2BuG6O5rw4FYNccnJE7mu6bbP1Y4E6"><strong>Read the Article at The New York Times</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>The House Science Committee: A Multiple-Choice Disgrace</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=be%2FO0j1BBbecACL1HvE10w2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><strong>Read the Article at The Virginian-Pilot</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Five Ways Deregulation Is Ripping America Apart</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=tI%2FkptGDj1ls8D3TXPvqbWu6bbP1Y4E6"><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>Pennsylvania Fracking Law Opens Up Drilling on College Campuses</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=Uz80NoCMKX6TrJF3F5qHtQ2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><strong>Read the Article at Mother Jones</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Mitt Romney: The Great Deformer</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=rc9axe88CzzL4cD38qYmGQ2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><strong>Read the Article at The Daily Beast</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>Dean Baker, Truthout:</strong> Do you know where your congressperson and political candidates stand on proposed cuts to Social Security and Medicare? The corporate media hasn't even bothered to ask.</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=Oa0ODQVPOBAhn76InHjQfg2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><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=wiUm5mmbAFxxJbYcBxiKTA2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><strong>Chris Hedges | Join the Blockade of the Keystone Pipeline</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> The 1,700-mile proposed pipeline would run through six states and would mean game over for the climate, according to a scientist studying global warming.</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=sagI9NE9H0WEqOKgav16ng2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><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=ayQvtfrc0MVNIltIaOTg2Q2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><strong>Know Your Rights: Voter ID Laws Threaten Transgender Voters</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> Many trans people are already struggling to obtain updated ID's that reflect their true identity, and in some states, that means legal barriers to their voting rights. Elsewhere, de facto discrimination is the problem.</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=eHhiTyi0YwIckpvFiWWSuQ2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><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=nD%2FqvXl%2F8guOn9%2FOvdtikw2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><strong>Education Profiteering: Wall Street's Next Big Thing?</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>Jeff Faux, AlterNet:</strong> Wall Street's involvement in the charter school movement is presented as an act of philanthropy, but it's really about greed.</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=nVJtqaMUIEpvI6i1Er%2FsJA2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><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=Tg2kU1I3dBngmD77DrUY9g2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><strong>Romney Appeals to White Tribalism in Ohio</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 and Michelle Fawcett, The Progressive:</strong> How better to unite the elite agenda with the concerns of a struggling working class than with coded comments subtly invoking the parasitic "other" as the ever-convenient scapegoat for the country's economic decline.</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=PVbahKbtXYZbRDNdNk3xcw2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><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=mYip0KJWjZyxncMLkRB7wQ2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><strong>Fresh Recruits, More Arrests Begin Week Four in Texas Tar Sands Blockade</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>Candice Bernd, Truthout:</strong> As the Texas tar sands tree-sit enters its fourth week, activists re-enter the tree village to supply and defend members of the Tar Sands Blockade. The arrests continue.</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=7jTPVKC7Z1pvmIMdju8qvQ2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><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=mLvRI29OpDsvQe95lbrB2OdE0Qgr8JMu"><strong>$950,000 Win for NYC Workers Invigorates Supply-Chain-Justice Movement</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>Michelle Chen, In These Times:</strong> Even as unions decline, low-wage laborers are getting creative and winning major victories for working people.</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=MpZzOtN5cbnvId1c%2FyOEYA2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><strong>Koch Brothers Among US Billionaires Pressuring Thousands of Employees to Vote GOP on Election Day</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> Labor reporter Mike Elk's new exposé draws on months of reporting and the herosim of three employees who risked their jobs to talk about Koch subsidiary Georgia-Pacific's practice of trying to siphon off workers' political agency.</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=wYxXM0Gp4KDIyZcLdLaEYQ2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><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=1GM3NW4LpO0%2FcgNxgRXiP2u6bbP1Y4E6"><strong>Sunrise and Sunset in Afghanistan</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>David Smith-Ferri, War Is a Crime:</strong> An American activist shares what he learned in his conversations with the country's young grassroots leaders, who are pressing for peace despite their intimate knowledge of corruption and the challenge of building a future atop a history of trauma and loss.</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=4aa%2BQhEUUzznXJwv5rjcCA2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><strong>Low Wages and High Unemployment Are Paralyzing the Global Economy</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, The Real News Network:</strong> An official with the UN Conference on Trade and Development speaks with RNN from Geneva about how the misguided obsession with competition sucks demand out of the economy.</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=BnuKJPhHIEh28AOgCv4yz2u6bbP1Y4E6"><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=aeSblCAx%2BbrQYpcIONpGVQ2TWZo%2Fhs0n"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Class-Action Lawsuit Alleges Rigging of Libor Upped Homeowners' Mortgage Repayments, 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> New leftist party in Lithuania promising higher taxes on the rich and a higher minimum wage; libertarian candidate Gary Johnson could be a spoiler for Mitt Romney as presidential race gets even tighter; Japanese company's looming acquisition of 70 percent of Sprint exemplifies how free trade policies imperil the US economy on the telecommunications front, and more.</p>
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