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Opting Out of Wall Street and Building Sustainable, Resilient
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t r u t h o u t | 03.08
Opting Out of Wall Street and Building Sustainable, Resilient Communities: Remaking Finance, Part III
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16233-opting-out-of-wall-street-and-building-sustainable-resilient-communities-remaking-finance-part-iii
Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Truthout: Community time banks and local currencies are an effective means to escape the corrupt extractive finance system and create finance that builds dignity.
Chained CPI Is a Real Cut
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16230-chained-cpi-is-a-real-cut
Claire Glass, Truthout: Protesters delivering 1,400 pages of signatures from Illinois residents who prefer cutting the Pentagon budget to cutting Social Security through the deceptively named chained CPI rallied outside the offices of Sens. Mark Kirk and Dick Durbin last week.
In the Wake of West, Texas: 1,000 Toxic Chemical Accidents You Have Not Heard Of
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16254-in-the-wake-of-west-texas-1000-toxic-chemical-accidents-you-have-not-heard-of
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: According to data recently compiled by the Center for Effective Government (CEF), during the past 15 years, 1,000 accidents have occurred nationwide at chemical facilities that hold large quantities of the deadly element anhydrous ammonia.
Hang Together or Hang Separately: The Battle Against Austerity
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16242-hang-together-or-hang-separately-the-battle-against-austerity
Staff, Center for Effective Government: The piecemeal fight against shrink-the-government policies is unworkable; we need comprehensive solutions to achieve prosperity for all.
Greg Palast | FBI Spiked Chechen Jihadi Investigation
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16244-fbi-spiked-chechen-jihadi-investigation
Greg Palast, Greg Palast's Web Site: It's unlikely the Boston bombers were on the CIA payroll, but it's more than likely the elder brother's connections in Central Asia could be traced back to US-protected killers of years past.
Tamms Is Torture: The Campaign to Close an Illinois Supermax Prison
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16241-tamms-is-torture-the-campaign-to-close-an-illinois-supermax-prison
Laurie Jo Reynolds and Stephen F. Eisenman, Creative Time Reports: In 1998, Illinois opened Tamms Supermax prison. It was designed for just one purpose: sensory deprivation. A decade after the prison opened, Tamms Year Ten launched a campaign to challenge the prison's solitary confinement policy.
One Hospital Charges $8,000 ... Another Charges $38,000?
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16256-one-hospital-charges-8000another-38000
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a database that reveals a very nonsensical US health care system, where prices for the same exact treatments vary wildly at hospitals sometime just a few blocks from each other.
Obama's Patronage System: Pritzker Nomination for Commerce Department, Limp-Wristed Dodd Frank
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16247-obamas-patronage-system-pritzker-nomination-for-commerce-department-limp-wristed-dodd-frank
Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism: Obama supports the interests of the FIRE sector (finance, insurance, and real estate). Dodd-Frank is failing because it was designed to fail.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: 11 States Have Affirmed That Gay Rights Are Civil Rights, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16261-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-eleven-states-have-affirmed-that-gay-rights-are-civil-rights-and-more
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Eleven states have affirmed that gay rights are civil rights; President Obama will have to fight the GOP to raise our debt ceiling; the Louisiana Supreme Court voted to protect our public education system, and more.
Pollin Responds to Reinhart and Rogoff; Cuts Deepen and Stock Market Soars
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/16253-pollin-responds-to-reinhart-and-rogoff-cuts-deepen-and-stock-market-soars
Paul Jay, The Real News Network: Founder and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute Bob Pollin says the theoretical basis for austerity has been exposed, yet massive cuts in public spending continue.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Expanded Surveillance State Likely to Increase Internet Wiretapping Capabilities, Stifling Web Freedom, Advocacy and Anonymity
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17957-expanded-surveillance-state-likely-to-increase-internet-wiretapping-capabilities-stifling-web-freedom-advocacy-and-anonymity
Mark Karlin, Editor of BuzzFlash at Truthout: Between the federal government and commercialism, freedom on the Internet is incrementally being strangled.
Republicans and the Benghazi Hearings: They Didn't Complain About Bush and All the Terrorist Attacks on Diplomats Under His Watch
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/17956-republicans-and-benghazi
The Truly Worrying Thing About Mark Sanford's Win
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2013/05/08/the_truly_worrying_thing_about_the_mark_sanford_win/
Judge Compares Denying Access to Emergency Contraception to Voter Suppression Efforts
Read the Article at RH Reality Check
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2013/05/07/denying-access-to-emergency-contraception-akin-to-voter-suppression-says-u-s-district-court-judge/
Maureen Dowd: America's Military Injustice
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/opinion/dowd-americas-military-injustice.html?_r=0
Delaware Legalizes Gay Marriage
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/05/07/delaware-to-legalize-gay-marriage/
Austerity Has Cost The US Economy 2.2 Million Jobs
Read the Article at The Huffington Post
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/06/austerity-jobs_n_3224762.html?utm_hp_ref=business
Ohio's Corporate Junta Takes a Hit From the Labor Left
Read the Article at OpEd News
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Ohio-s-corporate-junta-tak-by-Bob-Fitrakis-130508-184.html
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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>Between the federal government and commercialism, freedom on the Internet is incrementally being strangled.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5fBgJ%2Bmblqo%2Bt5z5nq1dYTN59Rul9L0g" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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>Republicans and the Benghazi Hearings: They Didn't Complain About Bush and All the Terrorist Attacks on Diplomats Under His Watch</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=U0uhK6useQlcjIoxnKKqwaS9yxu%2F87Mp" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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>The Truly Worrying Thing About Mark Sanford's Win</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=RCNa1oBAj%2BKU8kypmll%2FqTN59Rul9L0g" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Salon</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Judge Compares Denying Access to Emergency Contraception to Voter Suppression Efforts</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1jvjKJCmzrlg6AnLFo%2B9ITN59Rul9L0g" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at RH Reality Check</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Maureen Dowd: America's Military Injustice</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=TG%2BpWJHDntv17%2FDF7XShcDN59Rul9L0g" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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>Delaware Legalizes Gay Marriage</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qQzLSGKLj0mKQ2L0Qxn4yDN59Rul9L0g" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at The Washington 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>Austerity Has Cost The US Economy 2.2 Million Jobs</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aupj0SwNAevVVmBuSBlWaqS9yxu%2F87Mp" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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>Ohio's Corporate Junta Takes a Hit From the Labor Left</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=MgR4fuxYdnjxtN8OkfGV2DN59Rul9L0g" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at OpEd News </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>Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, Truthout:</strong> Community time banks and local currencies are an effective means to escape the corrupt extractive finance system and create finance that builds dignity.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=61IslEcNbCV38OzpaQyPUzN59Rul9L0g" 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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GEkHXYCcVNllZh7VKv0iGzN59Rul9L0g" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Chained CPI Is a Real Cut</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>Claire Glass, Truthout:</strong> Protesters delivering 1,400 pages of signatures from Illinois residents who prefer cutting the Pentagon budget to cutting Social Security through the deceptively named chained CPI rallied outside the offices of Sens. Mark Kirk and Dick Durbin last week.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=eghnC8f5%2FavIzrRJe15qKjN59Rul9L0g" 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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=F2nSvkIdOUQND%2BLZ8WjmajN59Rul9L0g" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>In the Wake of West, Texas: 1,000 Toxic Chemical Accidents You Have Not Heard Of</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> According to data recently compiled by the Center for Effective Government (CEF), during the past 15 years, 1,000 accidents have occurred nationwide at chemical facilities that hold large quantities of the deadly element anhydrous ammonia.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=jcEgRL%2BPtLabzQaguS2AmDN59Rul9L0g" 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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XIARhjLDRP7Gng5cQYzCBTN59Rul9L0g" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Hang Together or Hang Separately: The Battle Against Austerity</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>Staff, Center for Effective Government:</strong> The piecemeal fight against shrink-the-government policies is unworkable; we need comprehensive solutions to achieve prosperity for all.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=r05dxQGNMLbv1hSVIoLuVjN59Rul9L0g" 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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qTHygXyfS%2BhsXl2BOln2vqS9yxu%2F87Mp" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Greg Palast | FBI Spiked Chechen Jihadi Investigation</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>Greg Palast, Greg Palast's Web Site:</strong> It's unlikely the Boston bombers were on the CIA payroll, but it's more than likely the elder brother's connections in Central Asia could be traced back to US-protected killers of years past.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QsvqwfSBKJJ9bCcQny31UzN59Rul9L0g" 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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=eaHbU7OSiJbfdxXcP11SHjN59Rul9L0g" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Tamms Is Torture: The Campaign to Close an Illinois Supermax Prison</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>Laurie Jo Reynolds and Stephen F. Eisenman, Creative Time Reports:</strong> In 1998, Illinois opened Tamms Supermax prison. It was designed for just one purpose: sensory deprivation. A decade after the prison opened, Tamms Year Ten launched a campaign to challenge the prison's solitary confinement policy.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=XqmQfPjrinYYsex7i%2BvoFTN59Rul9L0g" 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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=9uiaXi4hjpfdUXB2Kla%2FUzN59Rul9L0g" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>One Hospital Charges $8,000 ... Another Charges $38,000?</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>The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program:</strong> The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released a database that reveals a very nonsensical US health care system, where prices for the same exact treatments vary wildly at hospitals sometime just a few blocks from each other.</p>
<p style="margin: .2em 0 1em 2em;font-size: 90%;color: #454242 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2B1wbi4HUzsI2cZW96aLIKjN59Rul9L0g" 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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=0620c%2FAcNJ%2BMXyLHQpVOYTN59Rul9L0g" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Obama's Patronage System: Pritzker Nomination for Commerce Department, Limp-Wristed Dodd Frank</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>Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism:</strong> Obama supports the interests of the FIRE sector (finance, insurance, and real estate). Dodd-Frank is failing because it was designed to fail.</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>On the News With Thom Hartmann:</strong> Eleven states have affirmed that gay rights are civil rights; President Obama will have to fight the GOP to raise our debt ceiling; the Louisiana Supreme Court voted to protect our public education system, 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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=JvoHbQ5sl3lf8uEHUH8wk6S9yxu%2F87Mp" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Watch the Video and Read the Transcript</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>Paul Jay, The Real News Network:</strong> Founder and co-director of the Political Economy Research Institute Bob Pollin says the theoretical basis for austerity has been exposed, yet massive cuts in public spending continue.</p>
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