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Raids, Harassment at Occupy Tent Cities Start Broader Conversation About Criminalizing Homelessness

Sarah Page, Truthout: ''How can the Occupy movement help those who are most vulnerable to the economic crisis and its attendant austerity measures, while advancing the fight against the 1%? According to [Housing is a Human Right co-founder Rachel] Falcone, 'Sometimes the conversation is very foreclosure focused, it is critical to connect it with the struggle against homelessness.'''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10782-raids-harassment-at-occupy-tent-cities-starts-broader-conversation-about-criminalizing-homelessness



Chicago s Quiet Home-Liberation Front

Laura Gottesdiener, Waging Nonviolence: ''Tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands, of vacant, bank-owned homes are ... so bad that Mayor Rahm Emanuel recently announced that he d spend $4 million just to tear some down. The only definition of these so-called assets that makes sense is their immediate capacity to serve as homes for families.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10980-chicagos-quiet-home-liberation-front

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Execution by Firing Squad

Police Shoot Homeless Man 46 Times

Video

Six officers shot a homeless man 46 times after he failed to follow their instructions in a parking lot.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32221.htm



Number of Homes Facing Foreclosure Rose in July

The number of homes that received an initial notice of default, the first step in the foreclosure process, increased 6 percent in July compared to the same month last year, foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday.

http://is.gd/avLmKK


From Information Clearing House

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Emanuel races Chicago s economy to bottom

Our Future
by Dave Johnson

12/19/12

Does a city 'save money' by outsourcing good-paying jobs to a company that pays crap wages? The people who had good-paying jobs are out of work, replaced by people in low-wage jobs, and the rest of us feel the downward pressure on our wages and benefits as the race to the bottom accelerates. The city tax base is reduced as wages drop and people can?t shop at local businesses. And to make matters even worse the newly-hired crap-wage employees make so little they are likely on public assistance just to get by...

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Reason
by Andrew P. Napolitano

08/16/12

We are in terrible straits this presidential election. We have a choice between a president who has posed more of a danger to personal freedom than any in the past 150 years and a Republican team that wants to return to Bush-style big government...

http://bit.ly/QFfGjY




Ryan a big government conservative

Orange County Register
by Tad DeHaven

08/17/12

Mitt Romney s selection of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate has been well received by the Republican faithful. Movement conservatives in particular have been energized with the pick given that, unlike Romney, Ryan is actually one of them. The enthusiasm from the Republican right is hardly surprising, these days a GOP candidate need only oppose a Democrat s expansion of government-provided healthcare, promise to protect the military-industrial complex, and talk a good game about free markets to win their support...

http://tinyurl.com/8rv2s9w



Who is Paul Ryan?

In These Times
by David Sirota

08/17/12

Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan admires Ayn Rand, and if you believe Republican Party mythology, Ryan is a messianic John Galt who will save America from a secret socialist conspiracy. Thus, in Rand fashion, it s worth asking: Who Is Paul Ryan? The answer is simple: the GOP s presumptive vice presidential nominee is the 21st century s flesh-and-blood embodiment of political deception and media obfuscation ... a Huge Government Republican who voted for (and in some cases, still defends) the biggest examples of corporate welfare in American history...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/13684/who_is_paul_ryan



Objectivists for Empire

The American Conservative
by Jordan Bloom

09/10/12

Curiously, though, Rand also wrote that there was no reason to distinguish between innocent civilians from military targets. For her, there was no such thing when it came to citizens of enemy countries. If by neglect, ignorance, or helplessness, they couldn t overthrow their bad government and establish a better one, then they must pay the price for the sins of their government, as we are all paying for the sins of ours. ... It is difficult to ignore that this is an even less persuasive version of Osama bin Laden s logic justifying killing innocent American citizens...

http://tinyurl.com/93lbh5n


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Paul Ryan and the Long War on Democracy

Danny Weil, Truthout: ''The reactionary Koch brothers, along with Tea Party advocates and gloves-off free-market capitalists have used the Citizens United decision to pressure Romney into selecting Ryan as his running mate.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10936-paul-ryan-and-the-long-war-on-democracy



Why Romney s Choice of Ryan Won t Help America Debate the Big Issues

Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: ''Romney s choice of Ryan won t usher in a 'real debate' about much of anything except, perhaps, the danger to our democracy of billionaires like casino-magnate Sheldon Adelson (whose blessing Ryan immediately sought this week) who are pouring tens of millions of dollars into negative advertising.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10962-why-romneys-choice-of-ryan-wont-help-america-debate-the-big-issues



Mitt s 13 Percent Tax

Robert Reich, Robert Reich s Blog: ''Romney admits to an income of over $20 million a year for the last several decades. Which makes his 13 percent, or even 20 percent [in taxes], violate the principle of equal sacrifice that lies at the core of our notion of tax fairness.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10973-robert-reich-mitts-13-percent-tax



VP Role for Paul Ryan Has His Former Parish Priest Worried

Jonathan Rosenblum, PRWatch: ''Ryan s leadership as chair of the House Budget Committee and author of the ?Path to Prosperity? Republican budget blueprint and the FY 2013 House Budget Resolution has become a lightning rod for criticism by other Catholic bishops, ecumenical groups, and lay leaders.''

http://truth-out.org/news/item/10977-vp-role-for-paul-ryan-has-his-former-parish-priest-worried

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Ryan s Budget: Right in Your Face, America!

By Ralph Nader

The Ryan budget plan is a Koch brothers' dream and the American peoples' nightmare.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32209.htm



Have Obama and Romney Forgotten Afghanistan?

Op-Ed

How s this for a conspiracy of silence? With less than three months to go until Election Day, President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have successfully avoided saying almost anything about America s war in Afghanistan. Remember that war? You will at some point, however little the two candidates talk about it.

http://is.gd/hk6NmD



What Ayn Rand Taught Paul Ryan

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''I grew up reading Ayn Rand, and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are and what my beliefs are. It s inspired me so much that it s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff.'': U.S. Representative Paul Ryan

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32268.htm


From Information Clearing House

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Republicans Hope, but Don t Change
http://lewrockwell.com/schiff/schiff175.html

The Sociology of the Ayn Rand Cult
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Reason
by Ed Krayewski

08/16/12

Obama and Romney try to create rhetorical differences where substantive ones may not exist...

http://bit.ly/Ntml5W



Worst Congress ever?

Competitive Enterprise Institute
by Iain Murray and Marc Scribner

08/16/12

It s no surprise that 60 percent of Americans, according to a new poll from Public Policy Polling for the leftist Daily Kos website, think that the current Congress is the worst ever. Of course, we don t expect the Daily Kos to note that most of the problem comes from an obstructionist Senate leadership that refuses to put anything passed by the House to a vote. However, when Congress does act in a bipartisan fashion it tends just to make things worse (with rare exceptions like the recent JOBS Act)...

http://cei.org/op-eds-articles/worst-congress-ever


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Seattle Times

08/16/12

Suicides among active-duty soldiers in July more than doubled from June, accelerating a trend throughout the military this year that has prompted Pentagon leaders to redouble efforts to solve a puzzling problem. The Army, which is the only branch of the military that issues monthly press statements on suicides, said 26 active-duty soldiers killed themselves in July, compared with 12 in June...

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Gar Alperovitz, Democracy Collaborative Press: ''For two decades economists concerned with inequality have debated the precise role global competition, changing technologies, sectoral balances, and other strictly economic factors have played in generating the worsening trends. Whatever the final resolution of the technical debate over how much weight to assign different forces, the important truth, as Barry Bluestone points out, is that none shows 'the least sign of weakening.'''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10931-changing-wealth-ownership-to-reduce-inequality



Koch Brothers' Moonshine

Jim Hightower, Truthout: ''Question: ''If you mix a cocktail of 'black liquor,' biofuels, diesel and a generous splash of tax subsidies, then have it shaken vigorously by a U.S. senator and served in a golden goblet by corporate lobbyists, what do you call it? Answer: Koch Brothers' Moonshine.''

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/10937-koch-brothers-moonshine



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Altmaiers 10-Punkte Plan ist für den weiteren Ausbau der Erneuerbaren äußerst gefährlich

Bundesumweltminister Altmaier arbeitet schon jetzt an der Abschaffung der Einspeisevergütung, dem wichtigsten Fundament für den Ausbau des Ökostroms und dem Gelingen der Energiewende.

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