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The Sacramento Municipal Utility District sued Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and 45 other financial firms Thursday in Sacramento federal court for allegedly rigging bids in bond-derivatives markets and defrauding the utility.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/251/story/78873.html

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The Ghost of Jesse Helms Haunts Health Care Debate

by: Scott Galindez, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed

http://www.truthout.org/1113095

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Forwarding with thanks to John (DFC) for this..

Senators Joe Lieberman (I-CT) and Evan Bayh (D-IN) may filibuster a public health insurance option that is popular among their constituents.

Each senator takes vast sums from insurance interests -- and also has personal financial ties to the insurance industry. Glenn Greenwald of Salon.com calls it "clear corruption." Is it?

I made another video episode of the "Change Congress Chronicles" featuring Lieberman and Bayh -- watch it here.

Then please share with others, and ask them to join our movement for reform at Change-Congress.org.

Thank you. Lawrence Lessig

http://change-congress.org/

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Tea Party Group To Burn Rep. Perriello In Effigy

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/11/tea-party-group-to-get-fired-up-for-freedom-burn-rep-perriello-in-effigy.php?ref=fpb

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Alleging Unconstitutional Targeting, ACORN Sues US Gov't Over Defunding Vote

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/13/acorn

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A Response From UFW to Marc Cooper

By Marc Grossman —

I’m “the heavy-handed UFW press relations chief who had to quietly resign,” the one to whom Marc Cooper refers in his latest attack on Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers (“Marc Cooper on the Fate of Cesar Chavez’s Dream,” Truthdig, Nov. 13). Like most of the rest of his article, this claim is false.

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091113_response_from_ufw_to_marc_cooper/

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**************Closer to ‘home’ items…(Ohio/Indiana/Kentucky area)

Please take a few moments to find an item to rapid respond to today..

Check your local paper’s website…your progressive comment is needed…

Health bill unconstitutional
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Charles Krauthammer

A medical excuse for mass murder?

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One of the most commented upon

John Boehner: Health-care bill is DOA

http://news.cincinnati.com/opinion

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Politics & Government

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?Category=NEWS

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Strickland appoints Municipal Court judge to Hamilton County Common Pleas Court…

http://glasscityjungle.com/wordpress/?p=10646

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My Letter to Rep. John Boccieri, a pro-Stupak and anti-Health Care Bill Dem

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/11/13/804180/-My-Letter-to-Rep.-John-Boccieri,-a-pro-Stupak-and-anti-Health-Care-Bill-Dem

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Send Ben Chandler a coat hanger

http://barefootandprogressive.blogspot.com/2009/11/send-ben-chandler-coat-hanger.html

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Why die for Karzai?

Does U.S. support for the Afghan president really make sense?

By Tom Hayden

http://freedomsyndicate.com/fair0000/latimes00056.html

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Army Sends Infant to Protective Services, Mom to Afghanistan
By Dahr Jamail
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article23962.htm

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Passing along a warning from Gibbons…

CounterPunch Diary

A Man in a Hundred

By ALEXANDER COCKBURN

http://www.counterpunch.org/

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From Juan Cole: Informed Comment

The Only Anchor

~~~Let us listen not to John Boehner of Ohio but to

a Founding Father, Thomas Jefferson:

http://www.juancole.com/

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9/11 suspects to face civil trial in New York
Barbara Ferguson | Arab News

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4&section=0&article=128433&d=14&m=11&y=2009

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Alleged 9/11 Mastermind and 4 Other Gitmo Prisoners to Stand Trial in NY Federal Court

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/13/gitmo

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Detainees to Get 'The-State-Always-Wins' System of 'Justice'

by Glenn Greenwald

http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/11/13-4

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This Day in Infamy: Gitmo’s Birthday

Feliz cumpleaños, Gitmo: Eight years ago Friday, then-President George W. Bush signed what we now refer to as Military Order No. 1, thus paving the way for the creation of the Guantanamo Bay prison and for the creative adaptations of international justice codes that supported it.

http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/20091113_this_day_in_infamy_gitmos_birthday/

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CAIR: US Seizure of 4 Mosques over Alleged Iran Ties Threatens Religious Freedom

http://www.democracynow.org/2009/11/13/mosques

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from and about ‘over there’

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Turtles Are Casualties of Warming in Costa Rica

By Elisabeth Rosenthal

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/science/earth/14turtles.html?ref=world

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Turkey Plans to Ease Restrictions on Kurds and Help End Decades of Conflict

By ebnem Arsu

The plan to let the Kurdish language be used in the media and political campaigns will be debated by Parliament, but the fact that it is being discussed at all is considered to be a landmark.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/world/europe/14kurds.html?ref=world

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Obama, in Japan, Says U.S. Will Study Status of a Marine Base on Okinawa

By HELENE COOPER and MARTIN FACKLER

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/world/asia/14japan.html?ref=world

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How Could This End Well?

Short Cuts in Afghanistan

By TARIQ ALI

http://www.counterpunch.org/tariq11132009.html

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Did Big Oil Win the War in Iraq?