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NEWS: The news the corporate media won't tell you.
After a (somewhat arbitrary) time, some news stories were shifted
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POSTED 09/01/10
The Secret Killers: Covert Assassins Charged With Hunting Down and
Killing Afghans | Pratap Chatterjee. "Capture/kill teams leave
a trail of dead civilian bodies and recrimination in their wake,
undermining any goodwill created by U.S. reconstruction projects."
alternet.org/module/printversion/148012
Ninth Circuit: The Government Can Use GPS to Track Your Moves (without
a Warrant) | Adam Cohen. "Government agents can sneak onto
your property in the middle of the night, put a GPS device on the
bottom of your car and keep track of everywhere you go. This doesn't
violate your Fourth Amendment rights, because you do not have any
reasonable expectation of privacy in your own driveway ... "
commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/27-2
The Billionaires Bankrolling the Tea Party | Frank Rich. The Koch
brothers and their oil money and a slew of other products. This
is an op-ed based on research reported on by Jane Mayer in The New
Yorker. newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer
Rich in the NY Times: nytimes.com/2010/08/29/opinion/29rich.html
The UK Guardian: Climate change: The facts of life. One very Strong
statement carried by the British media, of course. guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/31/climate-change-bjorn-lomborg
Climate Currency | Janet Redman. "If the recent record-breaking
temperatures and freak thunderstorms in Washington were nature's
way of telling Congress that climate change is real, it's here,
and it's time to do something about it--it didn't work." Redman
outlines on new approach in the wake of the Senate throwing in the
towel before Summer recess. commondreams.org/print/59835
5 Things the Corporate Media and Government Don't Want You to Know
About Marijuana | Paul Armentano. "News outlets continue to
ignore research that belies government anti-pot propaganda."
alternet.org/module/printversion/148013
Why Wall St. Is Deserting Obama | Andrew Ross Sorkin. How even very
moderate reform can earn you enemies on Wall Street.
nytimes.com/2010/08/31/business/31sorkin.html
POSTED 08/29/10
Alan Simpson [co-chair of the "deficit commission"]: Social
Security Is 'A Milk Cow With 310 Million Tits'. commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/25
Now Here's a Jobs Plan: Apply the FICA Tax to All Income Including
Investment Income and Lower the Retirement Age | David Lindorff.
"It’s time for us progressives to stop playing defense
on Social Security." With high unemployment, " ... the
last thing we should be doing as a nation is forcing older workers
stay on the job against their will, keeping those positions filled
and unavailable for younger workers." /pdamerica.org/articles/news/2010-08-26-00-45-55-news.php
Hightower: Wall Street Bankers Pull Off Another Regulatory Heist.
"The financial giants hired away nearly 150 regulators, luring
them with fat salaries to switch sides and become industry lobbyists."
alternet.org/module/printversion/147975
Two on the TSA and the full-body scanners. Mother Jones says that
the scanners can be declined, but that means a new more groping
pat-down.
/motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/08/tsas-new-gropey-pat-downs.
Much more potentially invasive, Van-mounted body scanners coming
to a street near you? "US law enforcement agencies are among
the customers of a Massachusetts-based company that is selling full-body
scanners to be mounted inside vans and used on streets, says a report
from Forbes."
rawstory.com/rs/2010/0825/van-mounted-body-scanners-streets/
As Five States Hold Primaries, a Look at the Role of Money in Politics.
Democracy Now interview of Charles Lewis founder of the Center for
Public Integrity. The last part of it is about the Koch brothers,
a pair using their oil money (primarily) to remake the US in what
they see as their interests. democracynow.org/2010/8/25/as_five_states_hold_
primaries_a
Military Computer Attack Confirmed | Brian Knowlton. "A top
Pentagon official has confirmed a previously classified incident
that he describes as “the most significant breach of U.S. military
computers ever,” a 2008 episode in which a foreign intelligence
agent used a flash drive to infect computers, including those used
by the Central Command in overseeing combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan."
nytimes.com/2010/08/26/technology/26cyber.html
POSTED 08/25/10
Democracy Now takes on the egg recall, by interviewing "Patty
Lovera, assistant director of the food safety group Food & Water
Watch" and "David Kirby, journalist and author of the
book Animal Factory: The Looming Threat of Industrial Pig, Dairy
and Poultry Farms on Humans and the Environment." democracynow.org/
2010/8/24/largest_egg_recall_in_us_history
Egg Recall Drives Worried Customers to Farmers Markets. Small egg
farms across the U.S. report selling out as recall grows. | JoNel
Aleccia. (For "small" read non-factory farms, avoiding
the horrific sanitary conditions that go with the factory farms.)
commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/24
Auto Union Joins Labor, Green Groups on Climate Bill Push | Ben
German. "The United Auto Workers is the latest union to join
the BlueGreen Alliance, which unites labor and environmental groups
pushing for greenhouse gas limits and other policies to create "green"
jobs."
commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/24-6
Grist takes on urban agriculture in Detroit: From Motown to Growtown:
The greening of Detroit | Tom Philpott. There are many unmentioned
people in this shortened story and some of it seems stuck back in
the nineties, but what the heck. grist.org/article/food-from-motown-to-growtown-the-greening-of-detroit/P1.
Another version is here.
Unprecedented Food Stamp Cuts Highlight Difficult Tradeoffs | Yana
Kunichoff. Forget the trade-offs and the complexities of the dates
when things are supposed to take place, is a period of economic
hardship a good time to cut food stamps in the first place?
truth-out.org/unprecedented-food-stamp-cuts-highlight-difficult-tradeoffs62596
Support Builds for Boycotts Against Israel, Activists Say | Farah
Stockman. The boycott, divestment, and sanctions movement is growing.
(BDS for short.) commondreams.org/headline/2010/08/22
Social Security Cuts Weighed by Panel | Laura Meckler, Wall Street
Journal. This indicates the range of options that are currently
considered to be "on the table." A few of them are somewhat
surprising. /pdamerica.org/articles/news/2010-08-22-04-29-54-news.php
Bernie Sanders on saving Social Security A Way to Make Social Security
Solvent for the Next 75 Years. /pdamerica.org/articles/news/2010-08-22-04-40-40-news.php
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