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Monsanto Spends Millions to Defeat Washington GMO Labeling
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t r u t h o u t | Monday, 16 September 2013
Monsanto Spends Millions to Defeat Washington GMO Labeling Initiative
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18801-monsanto-spends-millions-to-defeat-was=
hington-gmo-labeling-initiative
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Washington state will vote on a ballot initiative to=
label GMO food this fall. Monsanto, banking on repeating its California vi=
ctory, has given $4.6 million to the campaign to defeat it. But while fundr=
aising is 3-to-1 against it, the "Yes" campaign is confident savvy voters w=
ill stay strong in their 66 percent support during an an inevitable onslaug=
ht of advertising.
Yesterday's Internment Camp - Today's Labor Camp
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18770-yesterdays-internment-camp-todays-labo=
r-camp
David Bacon, Truthout: Today's labor camp migrant workers live near a WWII =
Japanese internment camp, and in not much different conditions, while Congr=
ess debates bills that expand the number of recruited workers, lower the le=
gally mandated wage they currently receive and eliminate the current - ofte=
n miserable - housing guarantee.
Chris Hedges, TruthDig | The Origins of Our Police State
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18853-the-origins-of-our-police-state
Chris Hedges, TruthDig: In the age of mass surveillance, if you want to und=
erstand what it is like to lose your civil rights, you need only talk to th=
e residents of low-income and over-policed areas. Unfortunately, if the res=
t of the country continues to ignore the constant dehumanization that these=
citizens endure, many more will soon share their fate.=20
Banksters Jack Up Your Gas Prices . . .
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18873-banksters-jack-up-your-gas-prices
The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: While "banking used to be boring=
," now it is a sordid affair of political and economic abuses tantamount to=
a soap opera. The latest of those abuses, involving the market price of et=
hanol, has everyday Americans paying at the pump for the mistakes of Wall S=
treet's biggest crooks. =20
Common Ground's Eighth Anniversary: A Model of Volunteer-Driven Rebuilding =
in New Orleans
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18772-common-grounds-eighth-anniversary-a-mo=
del-of-volunteer-driven-rebuilding-in-new-orleans
Don Paul, Truthout: The example of Common Ground offers a model of how volu=
nteers of goodwill working with affected communities can make a difference =
in an era in which "natural disasters" and failures of infrastructure occur=
ever more often.
On the News With Thom Hartmann: More Than 1,200 People Unaccounted For in t=
he Colorado Flooding, and More
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18874-on-the-news-with-thom-hartmann-more-th=
an-1200-people-unaccounted-for-in-the-colorado-flooding
In today's On the News segment: Currently, flood waters cover more than 2,0=
00 square miles in Colorado as half a year's worth of rain hit that region =
in a 24-hour period; the Washington State Department of Agriculture discove=
red genetically modified alfalfa in a non-GMO field; Japan's nuclear reacto=
rs have been shut off; and more.=20
Joy Arises, Rules Fall Apart: Thoughts for the Second Anniversary of Occupy=
Wall Street
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18861-joy-arises-rules-fall-apart-thought=
s-for-the-second-anniversary-of-occupy-wall-street=20
Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch: "On the second anniversary of that day in lowe=
r Manhattan when people first sat down in outrage and then stayed in dedica=
tion and solidarity and hope, remember them, remember how unpredictably the=
world changes. . . remember to hope, remember to build," writes Solnit.=20
The Simple Reason for the Long Downturn: Housing Bubble Burst
http://truth-out.org/news/item/18859-the-simple-reason-for-the-long-downtur=
n-housing-bubble-burst
Dean Baker, Truthout: Contrary to economic pundits who act as if the cause =
of the economic downturn is a mystery, the housing market reveals today, ju=
st as it did five years ago, the abuses that have plunged this country into=
disaster.=20
Ukraine's Gay Community Fears Russia's Pull
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18744-ukraines-gay-community-fears-russia=
s-pull
Josephine Simmons, Truthout: A geopolitical land grab that would force Ukra=
ine under Russian influence would have disastrous implications for Ukrainia=
n gay men and women.
NFL Concussion Deniers See a "Liberal Sports Media" Conspiracy
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/18857-nfl-concussion-deniers-see-a-libera=
l-sports-media-conspiracy
Joshua Holland, Moyers & Company: Joshua Holland takes a look at the histor=
y of concussions in the NFL and the legacy of injury denial that has caused=
so many former professional players their livelihoods.=20
This Week in SpeakOut:=20
http://truth-out.org/speakout=20
David Krieger discusses the upcoming 100-year anniversary of WWI and the us=
e of chemical weapons in the wake of Syria; Alison Lowe discusses the Carib=
bean's role in the turbulent drug war; Douglas Taylor suggests a series of =
questions to which Americans would like answers; journalist Mark Taylor-Can=
field talks with Mike Malloy about the FBI surveillance of Seattle environm=
ental activists; and more.
TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES
Financing the Destruction of Planet Earth Are the Same Banks That Cratered =
Our Economy
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18197-financing-the-dest=
ruction-of-planet-earth-are-the-same-banks-that-cratered-our-economy
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: It's a double toxic whammy! Not only a=
re the behemoth banks ongoing threats to our economy; they finance the dest=
ruction of planet Earth.
=EF=BB=BFA Free (Rigged) Market Is Good for Everyone Except 99% of American=
s
Read the Article at BuzzFlash
http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/item/18196-a-free-rigged-mark=
et-is-good-for-everyone-excerpt-99-of-americans
Larry Summer Resigns Due to Effective Opposition From Progressives
Read the Article at The Daily Beast
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/09/16/rising-left-in-the-democra=
tic-party-killed-larry-summer-s-fed-chair-chances.html
Is There a Media Blackout on the Fracking Flood Disaster in Colorado?
Read the Article at the Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/09/15/1238996/-Is-there-a-media-blackout=
-on-the-fracking-flood-disaster-in-Colorado
How the NYPD Trampled the Occupy Movement in New York
See the Video at Sparrow
http://www.sparrowmedia.net/2013/09/nypd-s17-occupy-wall-street-10-arrests/
NSA "Follow the Money" Branch Spied on Visa Customers, SWIFT Transactions=
=20
Read the Article at RT News
http://rt.com/news/nsa-spy-visa-swift-893/
Shooting Rampage Leaves Many Dead in DC Navy Yard
Read the Article at CNN
http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/16/us/dc-navy-yard-gunshots/index.html?hpt=3Dhp_=
t1
Obama to Boehner: No, I Won't Negotiate on the Debt Limit
Read the Article at Talking Points Memo
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/09/obama-boehner-debt-limit.php?ref=
=3Dfpb
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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>Financing the Destruction of Planet Earth Are the Same Banks That Cratered Our Economy </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>It's a double toxic whammy! Not only are the behemoth banks ongoing threats to our economy; they finance the destruction of planet Earth.</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=69%2BPyNC2Et673Q2rqXdavHPPcDam78ev" 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>A Free (Rigged) Market Is Good for Everyone Except 99% of Americans</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>Larry Summer Resigns Due to Effective Opposition From Progressives</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=ylrI1pAznks7TkkgdsgDhXPPcDam78ev" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at The Daily Beast</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Is There a Media Blackout on the Fracking Flood Disaster in Colorado?</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=nI7QERxpWgdJVbBFAlbgZnPPcDam78ev" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at the Daily Kos</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>How the NYPD Trampled the Occupy Movement in New York</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=5itdgipsdjd3P6VTlf9AUnPPcDam78ev" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>See the Video at Sparrow</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>NSA "Follow the Money" Branch Spied on Visa Customers, SWIFT Transactions</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=Iqi0UVSAy%2FN6eCfJPo8wE3PPcDam78ev" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at RT News</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Shooting Rampage Leaves Many Dead in DC Navy Yard</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=I9XubEs9l21cJi%2BAiHxj9XPPcDam78ev" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at CNN</strong></a></p>
 
<p style="margin: 0 0 0.1em 0;font-size: 110%; color: #000000 !important;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Obama to Boehner: No, I Won't Negotiate on the Debt Limit</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=yAWc8vHCfX14p3p7c9BLhnPPcDam78ev" style="text-decoration: none; color: #910000"><strong>Read the Article at Talking Points Memo</strong></a></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 href="http://org2.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=1uMiM9u8mhMwldh52GfxyHPPcDam78ev" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Monsanto Spends Millions to Defeat Washington GMO Labeling Initiative</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> Washington state will vote on a ballot initiative to label GMO food this fall. Monsanto, banking on repeating its California victory, has given $4.6 million to the campaign to defeat it. But while fundraising is 3-to-1 against it, the "Yes" campaign is confident savvy voters will stay strong in their 66 percent support during an an inevitable onslaught of advertising.</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=gyZTyo53N2jf4M02gt1YcHPPcDam78ev" 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=JVLyvCTP0qM0UtsIQvPJVnPPcDam78ev" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Yesterday's Internment Camp - Today's Labor Camp</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 Bacon, Truthout:</strong> Today's labor camp migrant workers live near a WWII Japanese internment camp, and in not much different conditions, while Congress debates bills that expand the number of recruited workers, lower the legally mandated wage they currently receive and eliminate the current - often miserable - housing guarantee.</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=Jbs0RPBsPgE8lCcTjh24UHPPcDam78ev" 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=K3ftRpQR8bp2hQIWt0%2FhM3PPcDam78ev" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Chris Hedges | The Origins of Our Police State</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> In the age of mass surveillance, if you want to understand what it is like to lose your civil rights, you need only talk to the residents of low-income and over-policed areas. Unfortunately, if the rest of the country continues to ignore the constant dehumanization that these citizens endure, many more will soon share their fate.</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=186E6ZGx0SJTg4U5IfTN5HPPcDam78ev" 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=oOYbnhvXyWN5z38BmNVOAXPPcDam78ev" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Banksters Jack Up Your Gas Prices…</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 "banking used to be boring," now it is a sordid affair of political and economic abuses tantamount to a soap opera. The latest of those abuses, involving the market price of ethanol, has everyday Americans paying at the pump for the mistakes of Wall Street's biggest crooks.</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=hwOA3LASwgfKKESjJQLSj3PPcDam78ev" 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=4W%2B7zJ7vomYLBm%2FoEjnvpHPPcDam78ev" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>Common Ground's Eighth Anniversary: A Model of Volunteer-Driven Rebuilding in New Orleans</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>Don Paul, Truthout:</strong> The example of Common Ground offers a model of how volunteers of goodwill working with affected communities can make a difference in an era in which "natural disasters" and failures of infrastructure occur ever more often.</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=Wj%2F7K8GQ7ht%2Fye8DFE6No3PPcDam78ev" 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=tYD0ozgqgfRUn93yep0bbHPPcDam78ev" style="text-decoration: none; color: #570000"><strong>On the News With Thom Hartmann: More Than 1,200 People Unaccounted for in the Colorado Flooding, 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> Currently, flood waters cover more than 2,000 square miles in Colorado as half a year's worth of rain hit that region in a 24-hour period; the Washington State Department of Agriculture discovered genetically modified alfalfa in a non-GMO field; Japan's nuclear reactors have been shut off; 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>Rebecca Solnit, TomDispatch:</strong> "On the second anniversary of that day in lower Manhattan when people first sat down in outrage and then stayed in dedication and solidarity and hope, remember them, remember how unpredictably the world changes. . . remember to hope, remember to build," writes Solnit.</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> Contrary to economic pundits who act as if the cause of the economic downturn is a mystery, the housing market reveals today, just as it did five years ago, the abuses that have plunged this country into disaster.</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>Josephine Simmons, Truthout:</strong> A geopolitical land grab that would force Ukraine under Russian influence would have disastrous implications for Ukrainian gay men and women.</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>Joshua Holland, Moyers & Company:</strong> Joshua Holland takes a look at the history of concussions in the NFL and the legacy of injury denial that has caused so many former professional players their livelihoods.</p>
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