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Monday 11 June 2012

Why Do House Republicans Want to Keep Super PAC TV Ad Files Offline?
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "A new federal rule would give the public online access to detailed information on who is paying how much for political ads in the nation's top TV markets as the 2012 election season heats up. Supporters say such information is crucial for tracking independent campaign spending in the post-Citizens United age of super PACs, but House Republicans want those records to stay where they are: buried as hard copies in broadcast station offices where they are only available to those who show up in person to dig them up."
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This Next Generation Will Be Left Behind in the Land of No Opportunity
Salvatore Babones, Truthout: "There are places in the world where the majority of people are doomed to live no better than their parents and grandparents did. Places where a poor child from the slums might as well dream of being an astronaut as dream of having a decent middle-class job. Places where the children of the rich get even richer while the children of the poor stay poor. Places like Burma and Kenya and the United States."
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How the Wisconsin Uprising Got Hijacked
Andy Kroll, TomDispatch: "The revelers watched in stunned disbelief, cocktails in hand, dressed for a night to remember. On the big-screen TV a headline screamed in crimson red: 'Projected Winner: Scott Walker.' ... At the election night party for Walker's opponent, Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett, supporters talked and cried and ordered more drinks. Barrett soon took the stage to concede, then waded into the crowd where a distraught woman slapped him in the face."
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Chris Hedges | Daniel Berrigan, America's Street Priest, Stands With Occupy
Chris Hedges, Truthdig: "In a culture that lacks many authentic heroes, that continues to preach that military service is the highest good, Berrigan is a potent reminder of what we must seek to become. His is a life of constant agitation, constant defiance, constant disobedience to systems of power, a life of radical obedience to God. His embrace of what has been called 'Christian anarchism,' because of its persistent alienation and hostility to all forms of power, is the most effective form of resistance."
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Dear Bank of America, We're Not Leaving Our Homes
Amy Dean, YES! Magazine: "Since the real estate bubble burst, conditions for a national fight against foreclosures and evictions have seemed ideal ... Overall, more than 4 million homes were lost due to foreclosure between 2006 and 2011. Yet ... no broad-scale movement to address the foreclosure crisis had captured the public spotlight. That changed with the dramatic emergence of the Occupy movement this past fall."
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Secretive Group Suppressing Voting in Maine Partly Funded by Wisconsin Businesses
Lee Fang, Republic Report: "Republic Report has found some of the money going into [American Justice Partnership], the group that tried to prevent same-day voter registration in Maine. And it's a surprising source: Wisconsin. Tax forms from the Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce Issues Mobilization Council Inc. show that the group, which is run by corporations like the Boldt Company and Wausau Paper, provided at least $865,000 to the group."
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On the News With Thom Hartmann: Spain Will Be Fourth Euro Zone Nation to Take a Bailout, and More
In today's On the News segment: The American Civil Liberties Union joins the fight against the voter purge in Florida, GOP subcommittee nixes new FCC guideline requiring major TV stations to disclose online who funds political ads they air, civil rights commission to study evidence of racial bias in "shoot first" laws, and more.
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Bob Pollin: America Has an Industrial Policy - It's Run by the Pentagon (Video)
Paul Jay, Real News Network: "… [T]he U.S. economy certainly needs to thrive on having some type of planning, investment in research and development, and, crucially, when we have new technologies emerging, having guaranteed markets for them through the government, which is what the Pentagon has done for its technologies. Again, the most obvious case in point is the internet … An obvious case in point now is the green economy."
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Changes at Parchin Suggest an Iranian Bargaining Ploy
Gareth Porter, Inter Press Service: "The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and Western governments acted this week to escalate their accusations that Iran has 'sanitised' a site at its Parchin military complex to hide evidence of nuclear weapons work ... The nature of the changes depicted in the images and the circumstances surrounding them suggest, however, that Iran made them to gain leverage in its negotiations with the IAEA rather than to hide past nuclear experiments."
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Why the Public's Growing Disdain for the Supreme Court May Help Obamacare
Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog: "The immediate question is whether the Chief Justice, John Roberts, understands the tenuous position of the Court he now runs. If he does, he'll do whatever he can to avoid another 5-4 split on the upcoming decision over the constitutionality of the Obama healthcare law. My guess is he'll try to get Anthony Kennedy to join with him and with the four Democratic appointees to uphold the law's constitutionality ..."
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Election Countdown 2012: Florida Voters File Lawsuit to Stop New Attempt to Purge Voter Rolls, and More
Lambert Strether, Naked Capitalism: "In today's Election Countdown 2012 news: a Florida-based voting rights organization and two Florida voters filed a lawsuit to prevent the Secretary of State from a new attempt at purging the voter rolls, Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad joined a lawsuit seeking to overturn a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rule, and more."
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At the Mercy of a One World, Global Elite Financial System
Mark Karlin, BuzzFlash at Truthout: "The financial rule of the world has moved elsewhere to the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, Davos, Bilderberg etc. The world is being carved up by the global elites into trade and low-wage manufacturing zones that benefit the wealthiest of the earth."
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Paul Krugman: Another Bailout for Banks and Not the Unemployed
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Stakes High for Consumers and Industry as Court Weighs Health Law
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War or Revolution Every 75 Years. It's Time Again
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Student Graduates From High School in US, Braces for Deportation
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Joseph Stiglitz: Spain Bank Bailout "Not Going to Work"
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Meet the Former Christian Neo-Fundamentalist Who Gave Up the "Culture War" in Favor of "Civil Dialogue"
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The Second Term: What Would Obama Do if Re-Elected?
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