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The Detroit Bail-In Template: Fleecing Pensioners to Save the Banks
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t r u t h o u t | 08.06
The Detroit Bail-In Template: Fleecing Pensioners to Save the Banks
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17996-the-detroit-bail-in-template-fleecing-pensioners-to-save-the-banks
Ellen Brown, Web of Debt: The Detroit bankruptcy is looking suspiciously like the bail-in template that exploded on the scene in Cyprus in 2013 and is now becoming the model globally.
The Continuing US War on the Darker Skinned
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17988-the-continuing-us-war-on-the-darker-skinned
Adam Hudson, Truthout: American militarism against darker-skinned peoples has a long and dishonorable history. Because of whom it oppresses - both at home and abroad, directly and via military contractors - US militarism is systematically racist. And the liberal media fail to connect the dots.
Obama Negotiates Cuts to Medicare as the Program Reaches Its 48th Anniversary
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18018-obama-negotiates-cuts-to-medicare-as-the-program-reaches-its-48th-anniversary
Candice Bernd, Truthout: Last week marked the 48th anniversary of the enactment of Medicare. Will President Obama cut the program as part of a "grand bargain" with Republicans as the fledgling Affordable Care Act struggles to be born? Economists and advocates say the solution is to not to cut the program but expand it.
ALEC Turns 40, But Who's Behind It?
http://www.truth-out.org/video/item/18003-alec-turns-40-but-whos-behind-it
Jessica Desvarieux, The Real News Network: Brendan Fisher speaks with Desvarieux about how corporate-funded ALEC continues to be filled with secrecy.
The Trials of Bradley Manning
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17999-the-trials-of-bradley-manning
Chase Madar, The Nation: It would take great powers of imagination to blame any part of our recent military debacles on leaks and whistleblowers, but it is Bradley Manning we have put on trial, not the impresarios of war, not the CIA torturers or their lawyers.
The Wall Street Ties of Larry Summers and Timothy Geithner
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/17997-the-wall-street-ties-of-larry-summers-and-timothy-geithner
Zaid Jilani, Moyers & Company: Larry Summers is under no legal requirement to disclose his most recent payments from corporations until he is officially nominated, and if he's nominated, he'll most likely be confirmed.
Bradley Manning and Government's Cheating Heart
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/18020-bradley-manning-governments-cheating-heart
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: While the US government is using Bradley Manning as a scapegoat for its own less-than-desirable actions, the mainstream media is letting them get away with it.
I Only Regret That I Have But One Life to Give for My Country: Yours
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18000-i-only-regret-that-i-have-but-one-life-to-give-for-my-country-yours
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: Those who run the new surveillance state have not the slightest hesitation about sacrificing Americans on the altar of their plans.
The Great American Do-It-Yourself Retirement Fraud, Brought to You By Big Finance & Co.
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18012-the-great-american-do-it-yourself-retirement-fraud-brought-to-you-by-big-finance-co
Helaine Olen, AlterNet: The United States is on the verge of a retirement crisis. The culprit is do-it-yourself retirement.
Eugene Robinson | The New Al-Qaeda Menace
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/17998-the-new-al-qaeda-menace
Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group: If the new, decentralized al-Qaeda is still a major threat that warrants the shuttering of 19 American embassies, consulates, then we have a decade of wrongheaded US policy to blame.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: Democrats in Congress Are Standing Up to the Supreme Court, and More
http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/18021-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-democrats-in-congress-are-standing-up-to-the-supreme-court-and-more
In today's On the News segment: The Tea Party is turning on Republicans; rising ocean temperatures around the globe are forcing marine life to migrate to cooler waters; Democrats in Congress are standing up to the Supreme Court; and more.
Mass Media Helps Keep Americans in the Dark About US Foreign Policy
http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/18010-mass-media-helps-keep-americans-in-the-dark-about-us-foreign-policy
Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian: If the US media was not shielding important facts about US foreign, military, and so-called "national security" policy, there would be a lot fewer corpses abroad and returning home.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Richmond CA Unshackles Ex-Prisoners to Find Jobs by Prohibiting Employer Blacklisting
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18130-richmond-ca-unshackles-ex-prisoners-to-find-jobs-by-prohibiting-employer-screening
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: Can the stigma of incarceration that prevents many ex-offenders from getting a job be removed? A feisty California city takes an important step in that direction.
Why You Shouldn't Underestimate Elizabeth Warren
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2013/08/06/why-you-shouldnt-underestimate-elizabeth-warren/
Climate Change Pushing Marine Life Toward the Poles, Says Study
Read the Article at the Guardian UK
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2013/aug/05/climate-change-pushing-marine-species-to-poles
Robert Scheer | A Statement of Peace, or an Epitaph
Read the Article at Truthdig
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/a_statement_of_peace_or_an_epitaph_20130806/
Voting Rights Act in Peril on 48th Anniversary
Read the Article at The Nation
http://www.thenation.com/blog/175618/voting-rights-act-peril-48th-anniversary#axzz2bC8ECQsu
Wendy Davis, Hero of Texas Abortion Bill Filibuster, May Run for Governor
Read the Article at The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/06/us/politics/celebrated-texas-state-senator-says-bid-for-governor-is-possible.html?hp
The Seven Craziest Obamacare Conspiracy Theories
Read the Article at Mother Jones
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/08/7-obamacare-conspiracy-theory
Supreme Court's Marriage Ruling Extends Benefits, Changes Lives
Read the Article at Labor Notes
http://www.labornotes.org/2013/08/supreme-court%E2%80%99s-marriage-ruling-extends-benefits-changes-lives
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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>Can the stigma of incarceration that prevents many ex-offenders from getting a job be removed? A feisty California city takes an important step in that direction.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=5jzA44z0%2FIeWIZXclj7PbNBIxqWCy6Gf"><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>Climate Change Pushing Marine Life Toward the Poles, Says Study</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>Robert Scheer | A Statement of Peace, or an Epitaph</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>Voting Rights Act in Peril on 48th Anniversary</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>Wendy Davis, Hero of Texas Abortion Bill Filibuster, May Run for Governor</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>The Seven Craziest Obamacare Conspiracy Theories</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>Supreme Court's Marriage Ruling Extends Benefits, Changes Lives</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>Ellen Brown, Web of Debt:</strong> The Detroit bankruptcy is looking suspiciously like the bail-in template that exploded on the scene in Cyprus in 2013 and is now becoming the model globally.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=QWoXtwni%2FepFsMZl3uEwoNBIxqWCy6Gf"><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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=j08l8yG8iDMDCfaV65ouFtBIxqWCy6Gf"><strong>The Continuing US War on the Darker Skinned</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 Hudson, Truthout:</strong> American militarism against darker-skinned peoples has a long and dishonorable history. Because of whom it oppresses - both at home and abroad, directly and via military contractors - US militarism is systematically racist. And the liberal media fail to connect the dots.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=LI0JkEj83A5PBVVqxXUs%2FtBIxqWCy6Gf"><strong>Read the Article</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>Candice Bernd, Truthout:</strong> Last week marked the 48th anniversary of the enactment of Medicare. Will President Obama cut the program as part of a "grand bargain" with Republicans as the fledgling Affordable Care Act struggles to be born? Economists and advocates say the solution is to not to cut the program but expand it.</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>Chase Madar, The Nation:</strong> It would take great powers of imagination to blame any part of our recent military debacles on leaks and whistleblowers, but it is Bradley Manning we have put on trial, not the impresarios of war, not the CIA torturers or their lawyers.</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>Zaid Jilani, Moyers & Company:</strong> Larry Summers is under no legal requirement to disclose his most recent payments from corporations until he is officially nominated, and if he's nominated, he'll most likely be confirmed.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=APiv16auyUXdtbwHAuwEldBIxqWCy6Gf"><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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=YlaK3sS2ZeR%2Bb2mlNkaHk9BIxqWCy6Gf"><strong>Bradley Manning and Government's Cheating Heart</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> While the US government is using Bradley Manning as a scapegoat for its own less-than-desirable actions, the mainstream media is letting them get away with it.</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>Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch:</strong> Those who run the new surveillance state have not the slightest hesitation about sacrificing Americans on the altar of their plans.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mN875ywAphJDjg00aC7cttBIxqWCy6Gf"><strong>The Great American Do-It-Yourself Retirement Fraud, Brought to You By Big Finance & Co.</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>Helaine Olen, AlterNet:</strong> The United States is on the verge of a retirement crisis. The culprit is do-it-yourself retirement.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=HLktMjfSHfTrHsPzTsJcstBIxqWCy6Gf"><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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=%2BmRmrHH53bTNRhs4LkdxidBIxqWCy6Gf"><strong>Eugene Robinson | The New Al-Qaeda Menace</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>Eugene Robinson, Washington Post Writers Group:</strong> If the new, decentralized al-Qaeda is still a major threat that warrants the shuttering of 19 American embassies, consulates, then we have a decade of wrongheaded US policy to blame.</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.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=r%2Fnnqf5MsX78WNqSU%2BTu7qbFGrgsDque"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: Democrats in Congress Are Standing Up to the Supreme Court, 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> The Tea Party is turning on Republicans; rising ocean temperatures around the globe are forcing marine life to migrate to cooler waters; Democrats in Congress are standing up to the Supreme Court; 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>Mark Weisbrot, The Guardian:</strong> If the US media was not shielding important facts about US foreign, military, and so-called "national security" policy, there would be a lot fewer corpses abroad and returning home.</p>
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