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7 Wisconsin Jobs Facts Every WI Voter Needs to Know

Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Kos - May. 25 (Fact Check) - Walker has been plastering TV's all over WI with a bald-faced lie that he created 30,000 jobs. Walker created fake job numbers than ran a million dollar ad campaign for them.

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"So Rich, So Poor": Peter Edelman on Ending US Poverty & Why He Left Clinton Admin over Welfare Law

Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 23 (News Analysis) - Census data shows nearly one in two Americans live in poverty, and now the Congressional Budget Office warns things could soon get worse if President Obama and Congress remain at an impasse over the 2013 fiscal budget. House Republicans are calling for cuts to food aid, healthcare and social services, while protecting funds for the Pentagon.

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Sea Shepherd Founder Paul Watson Fights Extradition to Costa Rica for 2002 Shark Defense

Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 22 (News Report) - Captain Paul Watson, founder of the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd, has been released on bail in Germany following his arrest for possible extradition to Costa Rica on decade-old charges stemming from a confrontation with shark fin poachers. Sea Shepherd continues to maintain that Watson's arrest was politically motivated and is calling on its supporters to come together in a day of action on Wednesday when the Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla visits Germany. Watson joins us from Frankfurt. “We’ve never injured anybody,” Watson says. “The most powerful weapon in the world as far as I'm concerned is the camera, so we go into battle armed with cameras...Right now 19 million sharks a year are being destroyed to feed the shark fin industry in Asia. And that means the fins are cut off of these animals and they’re thrown back into the ocean, and this is what we filmed off of Guatemala and this is what we intervened against -- a highly illegal operation.” [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Advocates: '12 Budget Dance Has Heavier Beat

Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

bkbureau.org - May. 21 (News) - After years of austerity, advocates say the annual ritual of protests against proposed cuts has taken on a more urgent tone.

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Mitt Romney Debt Speech Ignores Key Facts

Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Tom Raum - May. 16 (News Analysis) - When Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney decried the "prairie fire" of U.S. debt Tuesday, he ignored some of the sparks that set...

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Crony Capitalism: After Lobbying Against New Financial Regulations, JPMorgan Loses $2B in Risky Bet

Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - May. 15 (News Analysis) - The loss has renewed calls for tougher regulation of Wall Street, with critics saying JPMorgan could have avoided it under regulations the bank opposed.

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Obama says Romney would cut his own taxes while raising others’

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

PolitiFact - By Molly Moorhead - May. 13 (Fact Check) - President Barack Obama says Mitt Romney is the anti-Robin Hood. In a campaign speech in Columbus, Ohio, on May 5, 2012, Obama said the Romney's economic plan would raise taxes for millions of low-income Americans while cutting them for the wealthy.

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Mitt Romney's Dangerous Foreign Policy Team: Nostalgic for Bush, Hellbent on War with Iran

Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Alex Kane - May. 02 (News Analysis) - Romney’s persistent knocks on Obama’s foreign policy make clear that, while the economy will be the number-one issue this year, foreign policy will be a close runner-up. Behind Romney’s statements on world affairs is a group of close advisers whose views harken back to the Bush administration’s belligerent neoconservative brand of US foreign policy--not the best idea, considering how discredited it has become. “The most striking aspect of Romney's approach to foreign policy is its lack of creativity -- its brazen willingness to recycle Bush-era talking points, attitudes, and of course personnel,” said Peter Certo, a researcher at Right Web, a project of the Institute for Policy Studies.

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Republican Groups Fund Ads Attacking Obama With Misinformation

Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - By Lucia Graves - Apr. 30 (News Report) - Top Republican groups released web videos attacking President Barack Obama last week with an emphasis on the president's record on green-energy investments, particularly his use of stimulus dollars -- but the claims don't pass the Pinocchio test

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Is 'America Revealed'--or PBS?: Dow-sponsored public TV series tracks Dow's product lines

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

FAIR - Apr. 23 (Special Report) - Action Alert 4/23/12 The four-part series , airing on PBS stations this month, looks at big-picture economic issues, from agriculture to transportation to manufacturing. The series underwriter? The Dow Chemical Company, whose commercial interests closely

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Gulf Oil Spill: BP Execs Escape Punishment as Fallout From Disaster Continues To Impact Sea life

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Apr. 23 (Special Report) - Two years since the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history, we look at its impact on the Gulf of Mexico's residents and wildlife even as no BP officials have faced criminal prosecution for the disaster. Eleven workers died when the Deepwater Horizon well exploded and almost five million barrels of crude oil leaked into the ocean before the well was plugged after 51 days. BP maintains the Gulf is rapidly recovering thanks to the company's efforts, but Al Jazeera reporter Dahr Jamail describes how scientists say shrimp, fish and crabs in the Gulf of Mexico have been deformed by oil and chemicals released during the spill clean-up effort. Meanwhile, ProPublica’s environmental reporter Abrahm Lustgarten says the company failed to learn from past mistakes that could have helped avoid the explosion. He is the author of the new book, “Run to Failure: BP and the Making of the Deepwater Horizon Disaster.” [Transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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FreedomWorks, Koch Brothers Clash Over Cato Institute Takeover Bid

Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Apr. 12 (News Report) - Dick Armey, chairman of FreedomWorks, released a statement opposing the Koch brothers' attempt to take majority control of the Cato Institute. WASHINGTON -- A split is opening up between two forces that helped to launch the Tea Party in 2009. FreedomWork

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Wisconsin State Senator Says Money Is 'Less Important' To Women

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Think Progress - By Travis Waldron - Apr. 10 (News Report) - Repealing the law was a no-brainer for state Sen. Glenn Grothman (R), who led the effort because of his belief that pay discrimination is a myth driven by liberal women’s groups. Ignoring multiple studies showing that the pay gap exists, Grothman blamed females for prioritizing childrearing and homemaking instead of money, saying, “Money is more important for men,”

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Romney Fundraising Pitch Skews Stats

Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

FactCheck - By Ben Finley - Apr. 07 (News) - In a March fundraising letter to Floridians, Mitt Romney skews economic statistics under President Barack Obama. Among the letter’s claims: Romney says the numbers for unemployment, bankruptcies and foreclosures are “soaring.” That’s simply not true. They all started rising sharply under Bush, continued to rise for a time under Obama ...

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Did the Koch Machine Put Romney Over the Top in Wisconsin?

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Adele M. Stan - Apr. 04 (News Report) - To celebrate, Romney delivered a speech that seemed tailored to the agenda crafted by Charles and David Koch, the billionaire principals of Koch Industries, decrying government regulation, so-called entitlements (code for Social Security) and labor unions. At the Grain Exchange in Milwaukee, Romney was introduced by Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., who has received over $65,000 in campaign contributions from Koch Industries PACs and its employees over the course of his career,

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Turning America Into a Giant Casino

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Robert Reich - Apr. 03 (News Analysis) - Organized gambling is a scam. And it particularly preys upon people with lower incomes - who assume they can't make it big any other way, who often find it hardest to assess the odds, and whose families can least afford to lose the money. Yet America is now opening the floodgates.' Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog

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SuperPAC Money Infecting Judicial Races

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

care2.com - By Jessica Pieklo - Apr. 03 (News Report) - These groups are also funneling unprecedented amounts of dark money into judicial races as well, and the impact the campaign cash has on the nation’s judicial system is not good.

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Obama Slams Ryan Budget: Social Darwinism

Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0700

AlterNet - By Sarah Seltzer - Apr. 03 (News Report) - President Obama came out swingin on economic issues today in a speech, in a preview of the showdown we're soon to see as the election heats up. A particular target of his rhetoric? GOP budgetary darling Paul Ryan, whose plans amount to "Social Darwinism," the President said.

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As Fukushima Worsens, US Approves New Nukes

Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

Common Dreams - Mar. 31 (News Report) - Despite reports this week that the Fukushima nuclear situation may be even worse than previously thought, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has given approval today for two combined licenses for two nuclear reactors in South Carolina, only the second time in the last three decades that new nuclear plants have been approved in the nation. read ...

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ALEC, Walmart and Trayvon Martin?

Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Lauren Feeney - Mar. 29 (News Analysis) - What does Walmart have to do with the tragic death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin? The answer starts with Florida’s 2005 Stand Your Ground law, promoted across the country as "model legislation" by the American Legislative Exchange Council, or ALEC — "a corporate-backed organization that has managed to keep a low profile even as it exerts vast influence," as Paul Krugman of The New York Times explains:

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Progressive Caucus Budget: The Fairest and Most Responsible Budget Proposal in Congress

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

ctj.org - Mar. 28 (News Report) - The CPC budget plan, which Citizens for Tax Justice and other organizations helped prepare, would also — end the tax preference for capital gains and stock dividends, — enact the higher income tax rates for millionaires that were proposed by Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, — enact the President’s proposal to limit the value of tax deductions and exclusions to 28 cents for each dollar deducted or excluded, — end the rule allowing corporations to “defer” U.S. taxes on their offshore profits, — close tax loopholes for oil and gas companies, — enact a financial crisis responsibility fee (a bank tax).

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Ryan Budget Plan Would Cut Income Taxes for Millionaires by at Least $187,000 Annually and Facilitate Corporate Tax Avoidance

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

ctj.org - Mar. 22 (News Analysis) - House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan has introduced a budget plan that, if implemented, would reduce revenues so significantly that they would be inadequate to pay for the federal spending under the Reagan administration, let alone the spending required in the years ahead. The Ryan budget would provide income tax cuts for millionaires averaging at least $187,000 in 2014. The plan would also reduce corporate income taxes and would increase the (already considerable) incentives for corporations to shift profits and jobs overseas.

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New from CTJ: How Corporate Tax Dodgers are Buying Tax Loopholes

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

ctj.org - Mar. 22 (Special Report) - Why the disconnect between public opinion and political action? Could it be because 98 percent of the sitting members of Congress have accepted campaign donations from the country’s most aggressive, successful tax avoiding corporations? Citizens for Tax Justice and U.S. PIRG’s new report Loopholes for Sale pursues the intersection of corporate campaign contributions to members of Congress and the absence of Congressional action to close corporate tax loopholes and raise additional revenue from corporate taxes.

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Pennsylvania Fracking Law Gags Physicians

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

readersupportednews.org - By Walter Brasch - Mar. 22 (News Report) - new Pennsylvania law endangers public health by forbidding health care professionals from sharing information they learn about certain chemicals and procedures used in high volume horizontal hydraulic fracturing. The procedure is commonly known as fracking

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iTax Dodger

Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:00 -0700

ctj.org - Mar. 22 (Special Report) - CTJ has estimated that Apple has paid a tax rate of just over three percent on this stash of “foreign” earnings, a clear indicator that much of this cash is likely parked in offshore tax havens and has never been taxed by any government. If Apple brought this cash back to the U.S., they’d likely pay something close to the 35 percent corporate tax rate that the law prescribes. The resulting $17 billion tax payment would be more than double the $8.3 billion in federal taxes that Apple has paid on its $83 billion in worldwide profits – over the last 11 years.

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