Obedience to Corporate-State Authority Makes Society Dangerous

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BuzzFlash The Buzzflash commentary for Truthout will return soon.   NSA Gathers Data on Social Connections of US Citizens Read the Article at The New York Times   Scahill and Greenwald Investigating NSA Role in US Assassination Program: "The Connections Between War and Surveillance Are Clear" Read the Article at the Associated Press   As Congress Fights Over the Budget, Agencies Go on Their "Use It or Lose It" Shopping Sprees Read the Article at The Washington Post   Soaring Number of Elderly US Women Live in Extreme Poverty Read the Article at The Raw Story   Children and Guns: The Hidden Toll Read the Article at The New York Times   Does Increasing the Minimum Wage Increase Unemployment? Sixty Years of Data Says "No" Read the Article at Addicting Info   Those Obamacare Myths That Just Won't Die Read the Article at Daily Kos     Obedience to Corporate-State Authority Makes Consumer Society Increasingly Dangerous Yosef Brody, Truthout: Fifty years after Stanley Milgram published the results of his ground-breaking experiment on the perils of obedience to authority, we need to understand that "thoughtful acts of nonviolent disobedience can not only deepen our democracy, they could very well ensure our species' survival." Read the Article  House Stands Firm Against Obamacare, Senate Won't Budge. Shutdown Looms. David Lightman and William Douglas, McClatchy Newspapers: Republicans rallied around a budget plan early Sunday to keep the government open but delay the new health care law for a year. A government shutdown looks increasingly likely when the current fiscal year ends Monday night. Read the Article  Senators Angle for Monsanto-Friendly FDA Voluntary GMO Labeling "Guidance" Katherine Paul and Alexis Baden-Mayer, Organic Consumers Association: Are Senators Warren and Udall simply misinformed on the merits of voluntary labeling versus mandatory labeling? Or have they joined the cast of lawmakers toiling behind the scenes on behalf of Monsanto, not consumers? Read the Article  One Year After Marikana: No Justice for the Poor in South Africa Nigel Gibson, Truthout: The media and government silence surrounding the murders of community activists from Abahlali baseMjondolo, an organization asserting housing rights for residents in South Africa, suggests that political violence against the independently organized poor has become acceptable to much of middle-class society there. Read the Article  Destabilization of Arctic Sea Ice Would Be "Game Over" for Climate Subhankar Banerjee, ClimateStoryTellers: A complete destabilization of the Arctic sea ice would be "game over" for the climate. Unfortunately, the Obama administration's National Strategy for the Arctic Region that was released in May is a disaster in the making. Read the Article  Argument for One-Year Delay of Health Reform Riddled With Flaws Robert Greenstein, Edwin Park and Paul N. Van de Water, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: We should see the push for a one-year delay for what it is: a core element of an effort to impede and ultimately dismember health reform so that it never comes to pass. Read the Article  Justice Department Awards Grants for Police Officers in Schools Lars Thorvaldsen, McClatchy Newspapers: In an attempt to keep schoolchildren safer, the Department of Justice said it was handing out $44 million in grants to help provide 356 school resource officers to 141 cities and counties around the country. Read the Article  The Impact and Echoes of the Walmart Discrimination Case Nina Martin, ProPublica: When the Supreme Court issued its decision in Walmart v. Dukes in 2011, no one needed a Richter scale to know it was a Big One. Two years later, it's clear how much the ruling has reshaped the legal landscape. Read the Article  California Pension-Cutting Ballot Initiative Revealed Gary Cohn, Frying Pan News: In a move to slash the retirement benefits of public employees in California, a group of mostly conservative policy advocates has been working behind the scenes on a possible 2014 ballot initiative. Read the Article  Sustainable Development Goals After 2015 Olivier De Schutter, Jochen Flasbarth and Dr. Hans R. Herren, Inter Press Service: Reducing the proportion of undernourished people by half until 2015 was one of the Millennium Development Goals that the international community set in 2000. It will not be reached. Here is a closer look at sustainable food security. Read the Article  This week in SpeakOut: Chris Williams proposes that the environmental movement engage in a broader political dialogue that connects individual battles instead of dividing them; in Quebec, the potential banning of religious symbols and garb like the hijab is causing an uproar among citizens; Dallas Darling explains how drone warfare reflects America's "geographical illiteracy and careless thinking" which in turn leads to its "extremely high civilian casualty rates as compared to conventional warfare"; and more. Read the Articles

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A big step or a big stumble? Obamacare becomes a reality on Tuesday | The Raw Story

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A big step or a big stumble? Obamacare becomes a reality on Tuesday | The Raw Story

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Algae farm-in-a-balloon could silence algae biofuel naysayers | The Raw Story

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A Tale of a Whale

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BuzzFlash The Buzzflash commentary for Truthout will return soon.   Dianne Feinstein Accidentally Confirms That NSA Tapped The Internet Backbone Read the Article at TechDirt   Sanders' Epic Senate Rant Shames "Right-Wing Extremists" for Shutdown Threat Read the Article at The Raw Story   Five Reasons Food Stamps Work Just Fine Read the Article at The American Prospect   U.N. Security Council Unanimously Passes Syria Chemical Weapons Resolution Read the Article at The Washington Post   Matt Taibi | Looting Public Pensions Read the Article at The Rolling Stone   The Four Eras of the American Right Read the Article at Consortium News   How the Syrian Revolution Went Wrong Read the Article at In These Times     A Tale of a Whale Randy Malamud, Truthout: Gabriella Cowperthwaite 's documentary Blackfish, about a "killer whale" who killed, reminds Malamud of the "catastrophic ecological blowback that awaits us if we continue to treat our earthmates like slaves, freaks, and fools." Read the Article  No Fisticuffs, but Senate Divide Over Health Care, Budget Getting Personal Curtis Tate, McClatchy Newspapers: With the threat of the government shutdown looming overhead, personal tensions in the Senate have boiled over, making a "much more contentious and hostile" environment than in the past. Read the Article  Let's Take Diplomacy on Syria to a Regional Level L. Michael Hager, Truthout: The two stated obstacles to a nuclear-arms-free zone in the Middle East - a broad Arab-Israeli peace and an Iranian commitment to curb its nuclear program - are being substantively addressed in international fora. This opens the way for regional level interdiction of WMD. Read the Article  Does Christianity Continue to Stifle Indigenous Political Will? Four Arrows, Truthout: Indigenous peoples must consciously confront and oppose the hegemony of the Christian worldview that informs the forces of economic oppression and ecological destruction, says Four Arrows. Read the Article  India's New Food Security Bill Makes Right to Food a Law Paromita Pain, Occupy.com: A new National Security Food Bill in India promises heavily subsidized wheat and rice for those who live below the poverty line, which is about 67 percent of the population. Read the Article  "The Other Keystone": Seattle Gears Up for Direct Action Against Coal Export Plan Rachael Stoeve, Yes! Magazine: "The climate movement is focused on Keystone XL, but the outcome of events in Seattle, where multiple fights converge, also holds implications for the movement's future and strategy," writes Stoeve. Read the Article  No "Cake Walk" for Kenya in Somalia David Zarembka, Foreign Policy in Focus: When Kenya invaded Somalia in 2011, it overturned a 48-year-old policy of not involving itself in the armed conflicts of its neighbors—and now innocent Kenyans are paying the price. Read the Article  Finally, Respect: Calif. Domestic Workers Win OT Pay Brad Wong, Equal Voice: New legislation in California demands overtime pay for domestic workers, finally gaining genuine compensation for one of the most undervalued professions. Read the Article  Women Rising 23: Via Campesina Staff, Making Contact National Radio Project: Making Contact takes a look at the women of La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement celebrating 20 years of grassroots activism, for sustainable farming, land rights and social justice. Read the Article  On the News With Thom Hartmann: Secretary of State John Kerry Talks With Iran's Foreign Minister for the First Time in Decades, and More On today's On the News segment: Secretary of State John Kerry met with Iran's Foreign Minister, for the first substantive talks in a generation; Almost four out of every ten Americans are living paycheck to paycheck; German researchers have broken another world record in solar efficiency; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript

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Climate change? Try catastrophic climate breakdown | The Raw Story

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Robert Reich documentary ‘Inequality for All’ is a compelling class lecture on the U.S. economy | The Raw Story

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Robert Reich documentary ‘Inequality for All’ is a compelling class lecture on the U.S. economy | The Raw Story

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Climate change? Try catastrophic climate breakdown | The Raw Story

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William Rivers Pitt | Green Eggs and Derp

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Ted Cruz Read the Article at The Washington Post   Poachers Poison 90 Elephants With Cyanide in Zimbabwe Wildlife Park Read the Article at NBC News     Truthout operates on a much smaller budget than most media outlets, we've never sold out to corporate advertisers, and we don't believe in pushing salacious non-stories just to get attention. If you believe in the importance of this kind of journalism, please support us with a tax-deductible donation now! We still need to raise over $17,000 by the end of today, and we can only do that if you take part. Click here to donate. (Truthout is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. EIN: 20-0031641) You can also donate by check, made payable to: Truthout, P.O. Box 276414, Sacramento, CA 95827 (Please include your email address on your check.) Or call in your donation: 213.489.1971 William Rivers Pitt | Green Eggs and Derp William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: It is not every day that the troll under the bridge broaches the broad daylight and sprays his derangement into the air for all to see and hear, but there was Ted Cruz with his bare face hanging out, giving a clinic on just how preposterous the modern Republican Party has allowed itself to become. Read the Article  Tim DeChristopher Talks With Truthout About the Government's Failure to Silence Him Mark Karlin, Truthout: Tim DeChristopher speaks with Truthout's Mark Karlin about the power of activism and the injustices of his trial. Read the Interview  In Depth: The Debate Over the EPA's New Carbon Capture Climate Scheme Mike Ludwig, Truthout: The EPA's new rules to address climate change rely on a relatively new "clean coal" technology that the industry says is not yet viable and some environmentalists fear will only feed the nation's addiction to fossil fuels. Read the Article  Republicans Want All Americans to Be Greedy Shills The Daily Take, The Thom Hartmann Program: It's frankly astounding how the Republican Party has officially given up even the pretense of caring about average Americans. It is now proudly the party of the billionaires and the transnational corporations. Read the Article  Climate Change Movement Shifts to Convey Urgency Britney Schultz, Truthout: The climate justice movement is at a crossroads, and leaders in the movement say it is time to start effectively leveraging activists' commitment against the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced. Read the Article  Lockup Quotas Help For-Profit Prison Companies Keep Profits High and Prisons Full Brendan Fischer, PR Watch: Given the longstanding, cozy relationships between for-profit prison companies and legislators, questions have long been raised about their role in promoting policies that put more people behind bars and create more demand for prisons. Read the Article  Bragging Rights: Eight Exceptional(ly Dumb) American Achievements of the 21st Century Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: President Barack Obama is only the latest in a crowd of public figures who has jumped on the "American exceptionalism" bandwagon. This particularly American aptitude for doing good forcibly, by killing others, is considered an incontestable fact of earthly life needing no proof. Read the Article  Obama's Justice Department: Trumpeting a New Victory in War on Freedom of the Press Norman Solomon, Norman Solomon's Blog: While mouthing platitudes about respecting press freedom, the president has overseen methodical actions to undermine it. Read the Article  Economic Update: Economic Downturns Richard D. Wolff, Economic Update / Truthout: Updates on buying politics, an adjunct's story, women in the US economy, and cutting mental health spending. Major discussions of "debt ceiling" maneuvers in Washington and meaning of Bangladesh workers' demonstrations. Listen to the Radio Segment  Paul Krugman | Japan: Don't Ruin a Good Thing Paul Krugman, Krugman & Co.: Maybe Japan can sustain growth in the face of this tax increase. But maybe not. Paul Krugman examines Japan's economy. Read the Article  On the News With Thom Hartmann: A Government Shutdown Is Right Around the Corner, and More In today's On the News segment: Congress hasn't yet prevented one potential government shutdown, and the next one is right around the corner; a bipartisan group of four senators has teamed up to put an end to phone data collection; 35,000 part-time Walmart employees will soon be moved to full-time and will have access to full health care benefits; and more. Watch the Video and Read the Transcript

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Wind Power Falling Behind Solar; Could Renewables Save Utilities Billions?

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Could Renewable Energy Save Utilities Billions? on 26 Sep 2013 by Joseph Bebon Incorporating high levels of wind and solar power into the Western Interconnection grid, which includes 13 U.S. states and some parts of Canada and Mexico, could ultimately save utilities billions of dollars per year in fuel costs and reduce carbon emissions by one-third, finds a new report from the National [read more] Market Slowdown Will Cause Wind To Fall Behind Solar For The First Time on 26 Sep 2013 by NAW Staff This year is set to be the first in which solar has added more megawatts of capacity than wind, according to a new report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF). The report predicts that 33.8 GW of new onshore wind farms, plus 1.7 GW of offshore wind, will be added [read more]
EDPR North America Drops 300 MW Wind Project In Oregon on 26 Sep 2013 by NAW Staff EDP Renewables North America (EDPR) has asked regulators to withdraw its siting application for the Antelope Ridge wind farm, a 300 MW project the company had proposed in Oregon. According to a report in The Oregonian, EDPR's Antelope project manager, Sam Littlefield, said the move was a business decision due [read more] Vestas Supplying 400 MW To Two Duke Energy Wind Projects In Texas on 26 Sep 2013 by NAW Staff Duke Energy Renewables, a commercial business unit of Duke Energy, has announced it will build two large-scale wind power facilities in South Texas totaling 400 MW. Vestas will supply 200 V110-2.0 MW turbines for the projects, representing the company's largest turbine order globally since 2010. Duke Energy Renewables will build, [read more] Sempra U.S. Gas & Power Buys 75 MW Nebraska Wind Project on 26 Sep 2013 by NAW Staff Sempra U.S. Gas & Power has acquired and will develop the 75 MW Broken Bow 2 wind farm, located in Custer County, Neb. The company has also executed an agreement to purchase 43 1.7-MW General Electric wind turbines for the project. Construction is slated to begin in December, with commercial [read more] EDPR Canada, Timberlands Company Plan 300 MW Of Wind Projects on 26 Sep 2013 by NAW Staff TimberWest Forest Corp., a British Columbia-based timberlands company, and EDP Renewables Canada Ltd. (EDPR Canada) have entered into a partnership and propose to develop, build, and operate large-scale wind projects on southern Vancouver Island. The companies say the proposed projects present a unique opportunity to build power generation capacity on [read more] CIT Arranges $36M Financing To 26 MW Project Constructed By Gestamp Wind on 26 Sep 2013 by NAW Staff CIT Group Inc., a provider of financing and advisory services to small businesses and middle market companies, notes that it arranged a $36 million senior secured credit facility to Punta Lima LLC, owner of the 26 MW Punta Lima Wind Farm in Puerto Rico. The financing was structured through a [read more] Wind Industry Makes Its Case At Ohio Statehouse on 25 Sep 2013 by NAW Staff At the Ohio Statehouse on Tuesday, representatives from Vestas, Iberdrola Renewables, the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) and Calvert Investments held a gathering to lay out the economic case for encouraging further renewable energy business development in Ohio, as lawmakers prepare to enter their last session for the year. They [read more] IHS Report: Why Full-Power Wind Converters Aren't Overtaking The Market Yet on 25 Sep 2013 by NAW Staff The global market for utility-scale onshore wind converters continues to be led by doubly fed (DFIG) converters, according to a new report from IHS Inc. DFIG converters are forecast to outpace full-conversion products by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 1.6% from 2012 to 2017, reaching more than 9,900 [read more] Blade Manufacturer LM Wind Power To Expand Into South Africa on 25 Sep 2013 by NAW Staff Wind turbine blade maker LM Wind Power has announced intentions to expand its manufacturing base to the African continent. In 2011, LM Wind Power signed a cooperation agreement with Industrial Development Corp. to jointly work to establish local manufacturing of blades in Africa. The company says it now has confirmed [read more] Company Announces New Tech For Small Wind Turbines on 25 Sep 2013 by NAW Staff Windtech Inc., a Minnesota-based wind power generation equipment company, has announced exclusive rights to patented Zero Contact Transmission (ZCT) drive technology for small wind (<250 kW) power generation applications. The company says applying ZCT technology in wind turbines helps overcome production limitations of direct-drives and gearbox issues. "Because the ZCT [read more] NextEra Energy Canada Completes 124.4 MW Wind Farm In Ontario on 25 Sep 2013 by NAW Staff NextEra Energy Canada has announced that subsidiary Summerhaven Wind LP has achieved commercial operation at its 124.4 MW Summerhaven Wind Energy Centre. The wind farm, located in Haldimand County, Ontario, comprises 56 turbines. Development on the Summerhaven Wind Energy Centre began in 2006, and the project received a Renewable Energy [read more] EPA Honors 24 Organizations For Green Power Efforts on 25 Sep 2013 by NAW Staff The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has presented its 13th annual Green Power Leadership Awards to 21 Green Power Partners and three suppliers for their achievements in advancing the nation's renewable electricity market. The EPA defines green power as electricity that is generated from renewable resources, such as solar, wind, [read more] Blattner Energy - Project Manager To place an ad within WindJobs, contact Bill O'Connor at 1-203-262-4670 ext. 235, oconnor@nawindpower.com or Christina Stanevich at 1-203-262-4670 ext. 237, cstanevich@nawindpower.com
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