Wednesday picks

Written by: Gerry L on Oct 15, 2008 8:03 AM EDT

Wednesday~

***************round of articles about our domestic ‘issues’ ~ October 15th,  2008

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Professor Juan Cole:

The Great Reagan Pyramid Scheme Comes Crashing Down

The Republican Party that Nixon invented melded the moneyed classes of the Northeast with the white evangelicals of the South. This odd couple went on to simultaneously steal from and oppress the rest of us. The moneyed classes were happy to let the New Puritans impose their stringent morality, since they could always just buy any licentiousness they wanted, regardless of the law. And the New Puritans were so consumed with cultural issues such as homosexuality, abortion, school prayer and (yes) fighting school desegregation that they were happy to let the northeastern Money Men waltz off with a lion's share of the country's resources, consigning most Americans to stagnant wages and increasing debt. The Reagan revolution consolidated this alliance and brought some conservative Catholic workers into it.  ~more

http://www.juancole.com/

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Hank Paulson and His Wall Street Cronies Move to Plan B

By Nomi Prins, The Nation
http://www.alternet.org/story/103004/

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Greg Palast and Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: "Steal Back Your Vote!"

http://www.truthout.org/101408R

 

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Court Orders Ohio to Verify New Voters

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/15/us/politics/15ohio.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

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GOP working hard to restrict the vote in OHIO-thanks to John for staying right on top of this one…
Federal appeals court rules against Brunner
---- John (DFC & Midwest Media Trust) wrote:
> Just when you thought it couldn¹t get any crazier, the full 6th Circuit
> threw out its 3-judge panel¹s ruling from last Friday. Brunner¹s to
> magically re-configure the Statewide Voter Registration Database (SVRD) to
> the wishes of a particular party whose name begins with R. SCOTUS, anyone?
> ~~ I have as yet been unable to obtain the opinion. Jon Craig reports at
> Cincinnati.com.  > --John

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=blog02&plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogScript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3aec38bb2b-982e-46ba-819a-da01a547e8eaPost%3aaa6e2418-c63c-4859-bc3f-14bc61efb049&plckCommentSortOrder=TimeStampAscending&sid=sitelife.cincinnati.com

 

(included is an UPDATE from Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner and a link for the

Report, when it comes available, I think)

 

If not, here’s an ..Answer from Jo:

John, try again Wed. at 10 at ca6.uscourts.gov The website now says only:
The Court issued an Order in Case No. 08-4322, Ohio Republican Party v. Jennifer Brunner, which can be viewed on the case docket through pacer and accessed from our website on October 15, 2008.

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A Dose of Reality on the ACORN Hysteria

http://www.truthout.org/101408VA

and

The ACORN Controversy: A Tough Nut to Crack

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/10/10289_the_acorn_controversy.html

for additional articles on the votig issues…

http://www.motherjones.com/

 

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Thanks to Maddi in Dayton for this one….

October Surprise Update: What McCain May Be Planning and What Obama Can Do to Ruin It

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/october-surprise-update-w_b_134327.html

 

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Amusing, but Not Funny

By Bob Herbert

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/14/opinion/14herbert.html?em

 

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Alaska's Largest Paper Labels Palin "Orwellian"

John Nichols

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/372079

 

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Christopher Buckley Resigns From National Review After Obama Endorsement

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/christopher-buckley-resig_n_134628.html

 

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US Journalists & War Crimes Guilt

Six decades ago, the Nurenberg Tribunals established that propagandists shared in the guilt for crimes against humanity, but today, U.S. journalists casually advocate for war crimes, Peter Dyer notes.

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/101408d.html

 

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University Student To Plead Not Guilty To Terrorism Charges

by Jon Collins and Alex Robinson

 

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My Depression -- or Ours?

by Tom Engelhardt

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/14

 

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The Green Collar Economy

http://www.greencollareconomy.com/

yesterday’s Laura Flander’s GRITtv on The Green Economy:

http://lauraflanders.firedoglake.com/2008/10/13/sarah-palins-populism-the-green-collar-economy-and-the-congressional-landscape/

and

Van Jones’Book:  The Green Collar Economy

http://www.vanjones.net/page.php?pageid=2

 

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The Empire Strikes Out

Interview: Soldier-scholar Andrew Bacevich talks about his hot new foreign policy book, a less-costly Afghanistan strategy, and why he's disappointed with both McCain and Obama.

By Michael Mechanic

http://www.motherjones.com/interview/2008/10/andrew-bacevich.html

 

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James Bamford:  “THE SHADOW FACTORY”

The Ultra-Secret NSA…from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America

From Democracy Now

The Bush administration’s wiretapping program has come under new scrutiny this week. Two influential congressional committees have opened probes into allegations US intelligence spied on the phone calls of American military personnel, journalists and aid workers in Iraq. We speak to James Bamford about the NSA’s spying on Americans, the agency’s failings pre-9/11 and the ties between NSA and the nation’s telecommunications companies. [includes rush transcript]

http://i1.democracynow.org/2008/10/14/james_bamford_the_shadow_factory_the

 

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from and about ‘over there’

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Storm over Big Brother database

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/exclusive-storm-over-big-brother-database-961388.html

 

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Rupert Cornwell: A spectacular volte-face in the spiritual home of capitalism

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/rupert-cornwell/rupert-cornwell-a-spectacular-volteface-in-the-spiritual-home-of-capitalism-961395.html

 

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Georgia, Russia hold direct talks

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7670897.stm

 

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Turkish minister apologises after 'tortured' activist dies in prison

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/15/turkey-humanrights

 

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Pentagon Challenge: Ask Iraqis How Many Have Died

by Robert Naiman

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2008/10/14-1

 

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Lacking an Accord On Troops, U.S. and Iraq Seek a Plan B

by Karen DeYoung-Washington Post

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/36860

 

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Association of Muslim Scholars Issues Fatwa Prohibiting Long-term Pact
By Aswat al-Iraq

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21008.htm

 

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PART III: Detention Has a Wide, Destructive Impact in Iraq - Forced Entry Into the Mind

http://www.truthout.org/101408T

 

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Peace and Solidarity

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In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Attributed to George Orwell

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