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Here's an opportunity to put your money where your mouth is. I think
you will get a bigger bang for your buck. Recalling the governor will
send a really huge message.<br>
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Tom<br>
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<td>Refocus, Re-Energize, Recall: Wisconsin's Mass Movement
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</i>Wednesday 16 March 2011 <br>
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<font><strong>Refocus, Re-Energize, Recall: Wisconsin's Mass
Movement Considers Next Steps</strong></font><br>
Ryan Harvey, Truthout: "I went back to Wisconsin this weekend to
participate in and document what is being considered the largest
demonstration in the state's history. On Saturday, March 12, up to
100,000 people marched in Madison against the passing of Gov. Scott
Walker's anti-union 'budget repair' bill. After almost a month of
deadlock, Republican senators introduced an edited version of the
controversial bill last week, removing economic language from the
original to maneuver around a Democrat strategy to block it." <br>
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<font><strong>Contractors Watching Contractors? Where Is the True
Oversight? (Part I)</strong></font><br>
Dina Rasor, Truthout: "This is the first part of a two part series
looking at the trend by the DoD to hire contractors to oversee other
DoD contractors instead of doing the management and oversight
themselves. Both Charles Smith and Robert Bauman are former DoD
oversight and investigative personnel and they will explain fundamental
and insidious problems with this new DoD fad, how and why it got
started, how it hurts our defense and troops and what to do to begin to
change it." <br>
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<font><strong>Last Defense at Troubled Reactors: Fifty Japanese
Workers</strong></font><br>
Keith Bradsher and Hiroko Tabuchi, The New York Times News Service: "A
small crew of technicians, braving radiation and fire, became the only
people remaining at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station on
Tuesday - and perhaps Japan's last chance of preventing a broader
nuclear catastrophe. They crawl through labyrinths of equipment in
utter darkness pierced only by their flashlights, listening for
periodic explosions as hydrogen gas escaping from crippled reactors
ignites on contact with air." <br>
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<font><strong>AT&T to Limit Internet Access and Charge
Overage Fees</strong></font><br>
Nadia Prupis, Truthout: "Starting May 2, AT&T will begin
implementing monthly usage limits for its U-Verse and DSL users and
charge $10 fees every time a customer exceeds the cap. According to
Broadband Reports, DSL customers will have a 150GB monthly usage limit,
while U-Verse subscribers will get 250GB. AT&T will impose the $10
fee for every 50GB over the limit a customer uses."<br>
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<font><strong>Fracking Debate Heats Up as New Jersey Seeks Ban</strong></font><br>
Mike Ludwig, Truthout: "New Jersey lawmakers advanced legislation last
week that would make their state the first to ban the controversial and
largely unregulated practice of hydraulic fracturing, aka 'fracking,'
used to drill for natural gas. The New Jersey Senate Environment
Committee approved the legislation amid a public debate over proposed
regulations for an estimated 10,000 fracking wells that could soon be
established in the Delaware River Basin." <br>
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<font><strong>Robert Reich | Safety on the Cheap</strong></font><br>
Robert Reich, Truthout: "Can we please agree that in the real world
corporations exist for one purpose, and one purpose only - to make as
much money as possible, which means cutting costs as much as possible?
The New York Times reports that G.E. marketed the Mark 1 boiling water
reactors, used in TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi plant, as cheaper to build
than other reactors because they used a comparatively smaller and less
expensive containment structure." <br>
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<font><strong>Nuclear Disarmament Is People's Work</strong></font><br>
Joe Copeland, YES! Magazine: "The people of Hiroshima live with the
devastating legacy of nuclear war, juxtaposed with the city's
dedication to working for world peace. A mindful American visitor to
Hiroshima can't avoid asking: Are people in the United States too
comfortable with the existence of nuclear weapons? How do you motivate
the public to care about the nuclear threat and instill the hope to
work toward change? At times it seems that a good jolt of fear might be
the answer. Maybe then we would finally wake from denial and do
something about the dangers of nuclear arms: the risk that one of the
nuclear powers may choose to use the ultimate weapon of mass
destruction, the bomb's distortion of power relationships among
nations, the potential for accident or terror to unleash some
catastrophe."<br>
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<font><strong>Study: Majority of Consumers Obtain News From
Online Sources</strong></font><br>
Nadia Prupis, Truthout: "For the first time, 21st century consumers are
reading the news online more than in print, according to the 'State of
the News Media 2011' report by the Pew Research Center Project for
Excellence in Journalism. Only television remains the most-used
resource for news among American adults, but the gap is closing. In
fact, most sectors of the American news industry began to recover in
2010 after two difficult years - but technological advances present old
and new media alike with increasingly complex challenges."<br>
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<font><strong>This Modern World: The Flustercluck Doctrine</strong></font><br>
Award-winning editorial cartoonist Tom Tomorrow on President Obama's
consultation with "General Flustercluck." <br>
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<font><strong>Jim Hightower | America's True Crisis</strong></font><br>
Jim Hightower, Truthout: "The greatest problem our nation faces can be
summed up in one word: leadership. OK, make that three words: lack of
leadership. America's corporate, political, media, academic and other
leaders aren't. They're not leaders - because they refuse to stand
tall, be bold, offer vision, inspire and ... well, lead. We've got too
many 5-watt bulbs sitting in 100-watt sockets. They're squishing the
historic can-do spirit of the American people, reducing it to a
dispiriting ethic of surrender that says we-shouldn't-even-try." <br>
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<font><strong>Islamophobia Can Create Radicalization</strong></font><br>
James C. Zogby, Arab American Institute: "Let me state quite directly:
Islamophobia and those who promote it are a greater threat to the
United States of America than Anwar al Awlaqi and his rag-tag team of
terrorists. On one level, al Awlaqi, from his cave hide-out in Yemen,
can only prey off of alienation where it exists. Adopting the persona
of a latter-day Malcolm X (though he seems not to have read the last
chapters of the 'Autobiography' or learned the lessons of Malcolm's
ultimate conversion), he appears street-smart, brash, self-assured and
assertive - all of the assets needed to attract lost or wounded souls
looking for certainty and an outlet for their rage. Like some
parasites, al Awlaqi cannot create his own prey. He must wait for
others to create his opportunities, which until now have been isolated
and limited - a disturbed young man here, an increasingly deranged
soldier there."<br>
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<p><em>
<p>In the potential catastrophic disaster brewing in Japan, there
is a lesson to be learned.</p>
<p>The corporations that determine government policy, here and
abroad, put our lives and money on the line, not theirs.</p>
<p>Nuclear plants get subsidies in the US and elsewhere;
taxpayers subsidize GE, one of Obama's favorite companies - a business
that didn't even pay any US taxes in a recent year.</p>
<p>But when the nuclear sites melt down, don't expect Jeffrey
Immelt, CEO of GE, to be running in and exposing himself to likely
lethal radiation in a last-ditch effort to prevent a catastrophe with
potentially worldwide implications.</p>
<p>Fifty workers are shortening the lease on their lives by
trying to get just one of the four Japanese power plants in crisis
under control. <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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warning about the lethal dangers of nuclear power on BuzzFlash and
Truthout for years:</p>
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<p>The workers who do this are incomparably brave. They remind
us, tragically, of some 800,000 Chernobyl "Liquidators." These were
Soviet draftees who were sent into that seething ruin for 60 or 90
seconds each to quickly perform some menial task and then run out.</p>
<p>When I first read that number - 800,000 - I thought it was a
typographical error. But after attending that 1996 conference in Kiev,
I spoke in the Russian city of Kaliningrad and met with dozens of these
Chernobyl veterans. They tearfully assured me it was accurate. They
were angry beyond all measure. They had been promised they would not
encounter health problems. But now they were dying in droves.</p>
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<p>The CEOs get to run crisis PR for GE, defending an
indefensible design. The workers expose themselves to lethal radiation
to save Immelt's lifestyle and protect the rest of us. Who deserves the
greater pay?</p>
<p>But this is not just about con men who rake in billions,
export jobs and pay the least wages possible to workers.</p>
<p>No, this is about letting these people get away with risking
our lives, not just our money.</p>
<p>This is about potential negligence leading to the deaths of
hundreds of thousands of people, as it did at Chernobyl. This is about
enabling the entrenched elite playing a monopoly game with death, those
of the people of Japan and ours here in the US.</p>
<p>Mark Karlin<br>
Editor, BuzzFlash at Truthout</p>
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<p><strong>Harvey Wasserman: End Nuclear Power Before It Ends Us<br>
</strong><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<p><strong>EU Energy Chief Says Japan Reactor "Out of Control"<br>
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<p><strong>Pro-Labor Group Working America Recruits 20,000 New
Wisconsin Members in Wake of Budget Protests<br>
</strong><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Post</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Japan Earthquake: Japan Warned Over Nuclear Plants,
WikiLeaks Cables Show<br>
</strong><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Telegraph UK</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Japan Facing Biggest Catastrophe Since Dawn of Nuclear
Age<br>
</strong><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Now!</font></a></p>
<p><strong>Experts Had Long Criticized Potential Weakness in
Design of Stricken Reactor<br>
</strong><a moz-do-not-send="true"
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