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Obama's Plan to Crack Down On Whistleblowers Leaked
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t r u t h o u t | 07.11
Obama's Plan to Crack Down on Whistleblowers Leaked
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17500-obamas-plan-to-crackdown-on-whistleblowers-leaked
Marisa Taylor and Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers: Experts and government documents show that President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling.
A Spoiled KBR Demands More and More From the Army
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17481-a-spoiled-kbr-demands-more-and-more-from-the-army
Charles M. Smith, Truthout: KBR's rejection of any fixed price to perform "close-out" activities for its Iraq contract is a classic example of defense contractors' entitled, childlike behavior: Every government concession is met with more demands.
House Bill 2 Passes Texas House as Abortion Rights Coalition Prepares for Senate
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17508-house-bill-2-passes-texas-house-as-abortion-rights-coalition-prepares-for-senate
Candice Bernd, Truthout: The Texas House passed the omnibus antiabortion bill in a 96-49 vote Wednesday. A coalition made up of grassroots activists, NGOs and Democrats are working together as the bill moves to the Senate floor. Can they stand a chance against Texas Republicans willing to break procedural rules to pass the legislation?
Watchdogs: Contractor on Keystone XL Review Lied About Conflict of Interest With TransCanada
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17497-watchdogs-contractor-on-keystone-xl-review-lied-about-conflict-of-interest-with-transcanada
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: In a signed conflict of interest disclosure form filed with the State Department in June 2012, ERM claimed it had "no existing contract or working relationship with TransCanada," the Canadian firm that wants to build the pipeline, in the past three years. Publicly available documents, however, show otherwise.
Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: Luis Esquivel
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17486-pelican-bay-profiles-luis-esquivel
Martha Esquivel, Truthout: Martha Esquivel, sister of Luis Esquivel, plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement, tells how confinement deprived her brother of any relationship with his family, even during the loss of their mother, sister and brother.
The Koch Brothers Are Waging War Against the Poor
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17520-the-koch-brothers-are-waging-war-against-the-poor
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: Taking wage policy advice from Charles Koch is like taking advice on how to run a neighborhood watch program from George Zimmerman.
Surveillance Surge on the Border: How to Turn the US-Mexican Border Into a War Zone
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17513-surveillance-surge-on-the-border-how-to-turn-the-us-mexican-border-into-a-war-zone
Todd Miller, TomDispatch: The $46 billion border security price tag in the immigration reform bill represents what may be the most intense concentration of the surveillance state in a single location ever witnessed.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: North Carolina Citizens Are Protesting Out-of-Control Republicans, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17523-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-north-carolina-citizens-are-protesting-out-of-control-republicans-and-more
In today's On the News segment: Over the past two months, citizens, activists and civil rights leaders have been protesting extreme right-wing policies in North Carolina; Senate Democrats tried to restore lower student loan interest rates, but couldn't get support for their proposal; and more.
John Pilger | Mandela's Greatness May Be Assured - But Not His Legacy
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17505-mandelas-greatness-may-be-assured-but-not-his-legacy
John Pilger, Truthout: "The sheer grace and charm of the man made you feel good," recalls John Pilger of his interview with President Nelson Mandela, noting that his turnaround after taking office explains why millions of South Africans will mourn his passing but not his "legacy."
Speaking of the Right to Keep Employees Isolated and Uninformed...
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17377-speaking-of-the-right-to-keep-employees-isolated-and-uninformed
Ann C. Hodges and Ellen Dannin, Truthout: In this latest installment of the Judicial Amendment Project series on the history of the National Labor Relations Act, the authors contextualize the recent court decisions that agreed with employer groups that the NLRB could not require employers to post a notice of employees' rights at their places of work.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Masked Semi-Automatic Rifle-Toting Paramilitary Unit Targets Environmental Protesters at Wisconsin Mining Site
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18080-masked-semi-automatic-rifle-toting-paramilitary-unit-targets-environmental-protesters-at-wisconsin-mining-site
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Due to a state licensing technicality, a contracted paramilitary unit has temporarily been removed from a mining site. The owners of the iron extraction pit, however, say that the camouflaged mercenaries will be back to protect against environmentalists.
Privacy, Security, Secrecy and Sanity: Our Deranged Balancing Act
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18079-privacy-security-secrecy-sanity
To End Abuses of Workers, the Senate Must End Abuses of the Filibuster
Read the Article at The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/blog/175202/end-abuses-workers-senate-must-end-abuses-filibuster#axzz2YkCZq11g
Matt Taibbi | Wall Street Rips Off "The Sting"
Read the Article at Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/wall-street-rips-off-the-sting-20130709
Bringing Back Jim Crow
Read the Article at Consortium News
http://consortiumnews.com/2013/07/10/bringing-back-jim-crow/
Fracking's Latest Scandal? Earthquake Swarms
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/03/does-fracking-cause-earthquakes-wastewater-dewatering
Japan Nuclear Watchdog Spots Fukushima Ocean Leak
Read the Article at Raw Story
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/10/japan-nuclear-watchdog-spots-fukushima-ocean-leak/
Johnny Depp Reportedly Interested in Buying Wounded Knee Land, Returning It to Tribe
Read the Article at The Omaha World Herald
http://www.omaha.com/article/20130711/NEWS/130719900/1685#johnny-depp-reportedly-interested-in-buying-wounded-knee-land-returning-it-to-tribe
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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>Due to a state licensing technicality, a contracted paramilitary unit has temporarily been removed from a mining site. The owners of the iron extraction pit, however, say that the camouflaged mercenaries will be back to protect against environmentalists.</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=HwBeKnWqxO2Tmrv6h0hO6aj1fYkNdxub" 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>Privacy, Security, Secrecy and Sanity: Our Deranged Balancing Act</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>To End Abuses of Workers, the Senate Must End Abuses of the Filibuster</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>Bringing Back Jim Crow</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>Fracking's Latest Scandal? Earthquake Swarms</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=wQh3%2Bi78v24WdhcMA1BMqKj1fYkNdxub" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><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>Japan Nuclear Watchdog Spots Fukushima Ocean Leak</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>Johnny Depp Reportedly Interested in Buying Wounded Knee Land, Returning It to Tribe</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=tdv67zxqghmMoXPmRhnIOpqNsEWr%2B6sL" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at The Omaha World Herald</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>Marisa Taylor and Jonathan S. Landay, McClatchy Newspapers:</strong> Experts and government documents show that President Barack Obama has ordered federal employees to report suspicious actions of their colleagues based on behavioral profiling.</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=StZH2H26EWFUAFyuqzIOeaj1fYkNdxub" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article and Watch the Video</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=J1RdyogjZpK4NtJ1Wc4x%2Fqj1fYkNdxub"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>A Spoiled KBR Demands More and More From the Army</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>Charles M. Smith, Truthout:</strong> KBR's rejection of any fixed price to perform "close-out" activities for its Iraq contract is a classic example of defense contractors' entitled, childlike behavior: Every government concession is met with more demands.</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=mn430kTR7V2MGeCYMgXRh6j1fYkNdxub" 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=TiSXQHlSYnPIpQeup5GPSaj1fYkNdxub"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>House Bill 2 Passes Texas House as Abortion Rights Coalition Prepares for Senate</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> The Texas House passed the omnibus antiabortion bill in a 96-49 vote Wednesday. A coalition made up of grassroots activists, NGOs and Democrats are working together as the bill moves to the Senate floor. Can they stand a chance against Texas Republicans willing to break procedural rules to pass the legislation?</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=8EilNVOvzdaKDh5MO04Tg6j1fYkNdxub" 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=FYpirGmq2lkaVGCFp7d6oKj1fYkNdxub"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Watchdogs: Contractor on Keystone XL Review Lied About Conflict of Interest With TransCanada</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> In a signed conflict of interest disclosure form filed with the State Department in June 2012, ERM claimed it had "no existing contract or working relationship with TransCanada," the Canadian firm that wants to build the pipeline, in the past three years. Publicly available documents, however, show otherwise.</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=FQPjIyozh4tZjuctQxPmEaj1fYkNdxub" 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=TQ59C8A5iaL2etZXAtJxqqj1fYkNdxub"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Pelican Bay Prison Hunger-Strikers: Luis Esquivel</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>Martha Esquivel, Truthout:</strong> Martha Esquivel, sister of Luis Esquivel, plaintiff in the Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit challenging long-term solitary confinement, tells how confinement deprived her brother of any relationship with his family, even during the loss of their mother, sister and brother.</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=MU5pCPR1p%2FnJ1PX8D9b84aj1fYkNdxub" 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=Xn4xJ8sd%2FP%2FPfs5bOMA9a6j1fYkNdxub"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>The Koch Brothers Are Waging War Against the Poor</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> Taking wage policy advice from Charles Koch is like taking advice on how to run a neighborhood watch program from George Zimmerman.</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=EyZRJsPiAlMHs5oLuyMkDqj1fYkNdxub" 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=rTRwCNV0qpYbc%2BiAsvc0Laj1fYkNdxub"style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Surveillance Surge on the Border: How to Turn the US-Mexican Border Into a War Zone</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>Todd Miller, TomDispatch:</strong> The $46 billion border security price tag in the immigration reform bill represents what may be the most intense concentration of the surveillance state in a single location ever witnessed.</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>In today's On the News segment:</strong> Over the past two months, citizens, activists and civil rights leaders have been protesting extreme right-wing policies in North Carolina; Senate Democrats tried to restore lower student loan interest rates, but couldn't get support for their proposal; and more.</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 Pilger, Truthout:</strong> "The sheer grace and charm of the man made you feel good," recalls John Pilger of his interview with President Nelson Mandela, noting that his turnaround after taking office explains why millions of South Africans will mourn his passing but not his "legacy."</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>Ann C. Hodges and Ellen Dannin, Truthout:</strong> In this latest installment of the Judicial Amendment Project series on the history of the National Labor Relations Act, the authors contextualize the recent court decisions that agreed with employer groups that the NLRB could not require employers to post a notice of employees' rights at their places of work.</p>
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