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Dr. Brian Moench, Truthout: California s Proposition 37 enshrines the idea that we have a right to know what we eat. Most Californians favor this directive, while corporations spend millions to defeat it. The consequences will affect the lifelong health of every person who eats.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12020-california-food-fight-just-say-no-to-gmos



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Michael Meurer, Truthout: The neoliberal utopianism that caused the financial crisis has been repackaged for the 2012 election, where it masks a giant swindle that transfers wealth from low- and middle-income citizens to bankers, defense contractors, real estate speculators and the wealthiest 1%.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12044-blind-faith-as-profit-engine-how-free-market-worshipers-use-christian-utopianism-to-bilk-the-middle-class



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Mike Ludwig, Truthout: As weathered oil and dead marine life continue to wash up on Gulf shores, environmentalists worry that America has failed to heed the lessons of the summer of 2010, when an ocean of oil gushed from a broken pipe, and mesmerized a nation.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12084-bp-oil-spill-amnesia-life-and-death-after-the-spill-cam



BP to Shareholders: We Are Already Working With EPA to Lift Federal Contract Ban

Jason Leopold, Truthout: Despite a long history of ''egregious violations,'' the behemoth oil company s temporary suspension from obtaining lucrative government contracts may turn out to be much shorter than expected.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/13035-bp-to-shareholders-were-already-working-with-epa-to-lift-federal-contract-ban



''BP Stands for Bad People'': Film Brings Heartbreaking Stories From Residents of Louisiana Bayou

Eleanor Bader, Truthout: Bayou residents are critical not only of BP, but of government capitulation to the corporate giant.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/14790-bp-stands-for-bad-people-documentary-brings-heartbreaking-stories-from-residents-of-the-post-disaster-louisiana-bayou



BP s Silent Disaster

Dahr Jamail, Al Jazeera English: The 2010 BP oil spill has left a legacy of psychological and social problems among residents in the impact zone as the corporate juggernaut continues to deny compensation to victims.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/19463-bps-silent-disaster

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Released Docs Reveal Deadly Blow to Whales After BP Disaster
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/24

BP s Big Plan: Burn It. Burn It All
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/01/17



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/12-3

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Emails Prove JPMorgan Committed Massive Mortgage Fraud

Bloomberg reports

The court documents make clear that JPMorgan employees were well aware of these flaws and even exchanged emails about them. For example, after a review finding that at least 1,154 mortgages were delinquent, JPMorgan told investors that only 25 loans were delinquent.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34049.htm



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George Mason University has contended that the Congressional Budget Office, even in the age of supercomputers, just cannot keep up with the national debt. In other words, the growth of the national debt moves quicker than does the technology used to measure it.

http://is.gd/hwoHVZ



U.S. trade deficit widens as exports fall

The U.S. trade deficit widened in August, as U.S. goods exports fell for the fifth consecutive month, a government report showed on Thursday. The monthly trade gap increased to $44.2-billion, from an upwardly revised estimate of $42.5-billion in July, the Commerce Department said.

http://is.gd/u7mKZr


From Information Clearing House

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The End of Economic Growth?
http://www.realecontv.com/videos/deflation/the-end-of-economic-growth.html



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''We have one of the worst election processes in the world right here in the United States of America,'' he said, "and it's almost entirely because of the excessive influx of money.

http://americanfreepress.net/?p=6515



It s Been One Week Since The Debate

How Many Lies Has Romney Told Since? Five. The answer is five in seven days. Impressive.

http://is.gd/qrIqkS


From Information Clearing House

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Romney s pivot to the center hasn t worked (but it didn t need to)

The Monkey Cage
by John Sides

10/11/12

Three things are happening here. First, in the minds of voters, Obama and Romney have moved away from the average voter, but Romney has moved further. ... Second, perceptions of Romney s ideology did not change before and after the debate, even though the timing of the post-debate poll allowed respondents to hear two days of news coverage discussing Romney s pivot. ... Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Romney may not have needed this pivot to the center anyway...

http://tinyurl.com/9u3s7v9


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Romney: Americans Don t Die from Lack of Health Insurance
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/10/12-9

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Mitt Romney Lies to the World

Robert Parry, Consortium News: Mitt Romney gave a rousing speech about how his foreign policy would be much more muscular than President Obama s. But Romney displayed again his proclivity to lie on specifics and distort the broader reality, too.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12080-mitt-romney-lies-to-the-world



Advocate: New Constitutional Amendment Needed to Protect the Right to Vote

Khalil Abdullah, New America Media: Voting in the US is currently based on state and local law, but this can lead to voter disenfranchisement. Civil rights and racial justice activist Judith Browne Dianis makes the case for a new constitutional amendment guaranteeing the right to vote.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12093-advocate-new-constitutional-amendment-needed-to-protect-the-right-to-vote



Know Your Rights: Voter ID Laws Threaten Transgender Voters

Mike Ludwig, Truthout: Many trans people are already struggling to obtain updated ID s that reflect their true identity, and in some states, that means legal barriers to their voting rights. Elsewhere, de facto discrimination is the problem.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12088-know-your-rights-voter-id-laws-threaten-transgender-voters

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The Crucial Issue of This Election
http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1208.html



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The arrests relate to an incident in Afghanistan in 2011. The incident followed an engagement with an insurgent: there were no civilians involved.

http://is.gd/j6W4Jb


From Information Clearing House



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By Brian J. Foley

It s a sign of our lame-brained, select-a-fact times that our leaders never have to face serious questioning, even when they threaten to get us into another war.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32717.htm

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The U.S. of Terrorism
http://lewrockwell.com/orig11/edmonds-s3.1.1.html



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http://lewrockwell.com/buchanan/buchanan271.html

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Who s Advising Mitt Romney on Foreign Policy?

By Chris Good and Shushannah Walshe

Romney keeps a large group of foreign-policy advisers, eight of whom participated in the early neoconservative group Project for a New American Century.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32712.htm



The Liar s Master Class

By Lawrence Davidson

Romney s lying is so pervasive, so ever-present, that one starts to wonder if it is pathological.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32719.htm



Obama s Been Dumped by the Money Men

By Dave Lindorff

Romney is awash in Wall Street money, and his donations are even bigger than the donations Obama received from the industry back in 2008.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32724.htm



Memo to Joe, Re: Debate

By Robert Reich

Paul Ryan is a rightwing zealot. And nothing he says or believes is reasonable, neither logical nor reflecting the values of the great majority of Americans.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32714.htm



Syria, Turkey, Israel and a Greater Middle East Energy War

By F. William Engdahl

Why would Israel want to get rid of the ''enemy she knows,'' Bashar al-Assad, for a regime controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood?

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32742.htm

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Will Paul Ryan raise a bloody al Qaeda flag?

The Nation Blog
by Robert Dreyfuss

10/11/12

It s ironic, and perhaps a sign of desperation on the part of the Republican party, that eleven years after 9/11 it is still trying to scare Americans with the specter of Al Qaeda. Let s see, tonight, in the vice presidential debate, whether foreign policy know-nothing Paul Ryan tries it. By and large, in 2012, US voters have no appetite at all for foreign military entanglements and wars. President Obama, who yesterday named yet another new commander for the failed war in Afghanistan, did so after saying (in a Monday campaign speech that was blasted by the reliably pro-war Wall Street Journal in an editorial) that 'al Qaeda is on its heels and Osama bin Laden is no more'...

http://tinyurl.com/96k2ujv



Biden and Ryan: The foreign policy gap

The Nation
by Robert Dreyfuss

10/12/12

Last night, Vice President Joe Biden managed, on Afghanistan at least, to sound like a peacenik. Not so, Ryan. ... Of course, neither Biden nor Ryan dealt with the complexity of the war, with the likelihood that the insurgency will continue past 2014, with Pakistan s infernal meddling, or with the vast, unfathomable corruption of the government of President Karzai. But give Biden credit for stating unequivocally that in 2014, we are gone. Ryan, on the other hand, was all over the place...

http://www.thenation.com/blog/170537/biden-and-ryan-foreign-policy-gap


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Big Joe and the Joyful Noise

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: The ultimate impact and import of what went down during Thursday s vice presidential debate won t be immediately known, but the simple fact is beyond dispute: Joe Biden owned the night, and owned Paul Ryan, in a way rarely seen in modern debate history.

http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/12075-big-joe-and-the-joyful-noise



At the Vice Presidential Debate: Ryan Told 24 Myths in 40 Minutes

Igor Volsky, ThinkProgress: Just as Romney did during the presidential debate, Paul Ryan told his own ''facts'' during the vice presidential debate against Joe Biden. He stretched the truth on everything from health care to taxes to Iranian nuclear ambitions.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12076-at-the-vice-presidential-debate-ryan-told-24-myths-in-40-minutes



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Mark Karlin, Truthout: For many Americans, drones seem like a distant concern. However, their potential for blowback as their technology becomes available to other nations, and likely terrorist groups, may have a profound impact on making the planet less secure in the coming years.

http://truth-out.org/progressivepicks/item/12050-will-blow-back-from-drone-warfare-end-up-killing-americans



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2012/10/11

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The elements of empire

C4SS Center for a Stateless Society
by David D'Amato

10/15/12

The commitments of the U.N. are widely considered to be products of careful and measured deliberation, to account for the complexities and interrelationships of regional and global security. The process, it is thought, gives legitimacy to sweeping actions like, for instance, military intervention and regime change. But the process is a mere simulation from the start, enthralled to the overriding interests of the American Empire and its satellites, lacking in all legitimacy...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Why Peace?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski290.html



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und zwingt eine syrische Passagiermaschine zur Landung

Während das Pentagon die Anwesenheit von US-Soldaten in Jordanien bestätigt, scheint die Türkei durch den Rückhalt der Nato den Konflikt mit Syrien weiter zu schüren.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/37/37792/1.html



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