[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: The Financial Instrument That Could Save the Economy - and Why It Hasn't]

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Subject: The Financial Instrument That Could Save the Economy - and Why It
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From:    "t r u t h o u t" <messenger at truthout.org>
Date:    Sun, February 24, 2013 1:20 pm
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t r u t h o u t | 02.24

The Financial Instrument That Could Save the Economy - and Why It Hasn't
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14728-how-qe-could-save-the-economy-and-why-it-hasnt
Ellen Brown, Truthout: Quantitative easing as practiced today is not
designed to serve the real economy. It is designed to serve bankers who
create money as debt and rent it out for a fee. The money power needs to
be restored to the people and the government.

Food and Land at the Service of People: an Interview With Peter Rosset
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14749-food-and-land-at-the-service-of-people-an-interview-with-peter-rosset
Beverley Bell and Tory Field, Other Worlds: Via Campesina and allied
social movements have all gathered together under the banner of food
sovereignty. This is the collective banner of struggle.

Major Banks Aid Behind the Scenes in Payday Loans Banned by States
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14753-major-banks-aid-behind-the-scenes-in-payday-loans-banned-by-states
Jessica Silver-Greenberg, The New York Times News Service: Major banks
have quickly become behind-the-scenes allies of Internet-based payday
lenders, who have set up online operations in more hospitable states or
far-flung locales like Belize, Malta and the West Indies to more easily
evade statewide caps on interest rates.

Amazon's Thuggish Security Force in Germany Shows How Corporations Get
Their Way
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14752-amazons-thuggish-security-force-in-germany-shows-how-corporations-get-their-way
Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism: Businesses can get too powerful and inflict
violence to get its way. But you'll never hear that from libertarians.

Journalism byâ€“and forâ€“the Sponsors
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14754-journalism-by%E2%80%93and-for%E2%80%93the-sponsors
Peter Hart, FAIR: Sponsored stories like Salon's Scientology article are
becoming ever more common, and will soon be the usual in the corporate
media world. These kinds of arrangements happen all the time.

New Report Outlines the Horrors, Potential Solutions for Guest Worker
Programs
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14756-new-report-outlines-the-horrors-potential-solutions-for-guest-worker-programs
Chaz Bolte, We Party Patriots: Those who wish to expand the current system
of bringing temporary workers to the United States via guest worker
programs might want to heed the warnings of The Southern Poverty Law
Center (SPLC) and their new report, "Close To Slavery."

Exactly Why Is President Obama Going to Israel?
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14758-exactly-why-is-president-obama-going-to-israel
Carl Bloice, Foreign Policy in Focus: Both Israel and the United States
seek to quash expectations that the visit will jump-start the
Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

Strategizing to Defeat Control Unit Prisons and Solitary Confinement: An
Interview With Author/Activist Nancy Kurshan
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14757-strategizing-to-defeat-control-unit-prisons-and-solitary-confinement-an-interview-with-author-activist-nancy-kurshan
Staff, Angola 3: "I think it's important for people to keep pushing. Don't
lay back and expect the politicians to stick their necks out with no
backup. They will not. But when you find an ally, work them him or her.
Allies like that don't come along that often."

Congress: End Endless War and Stop Becoming "the Evil That We Deplore"
http://truth-out.org/news/item/14755-congress-end-endless-war-and-stop-becoming-the-evil-that-we-deplore
Norman Solomon, NormanSolomon.com: Repealing the Authorization for Use of
Military Force will be very hard. Revoking the power to combine lovely
rhetoric with pernicious militarism will be even more difficult.

This week in SpeakOut: Jill S. Schneiderman discusses how her students are
combating bigotry with community service; Dennis Trainor Jr. interviews
Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA) to discuss money in politics, corporate
personhood, overturning citizens united; Ten years after the initial
invasion of Iraq, a community of like-minded peace activists wish  to see
an end to the ongoing war in the middle east; Lee R. Haven returns to his
open discussion of racism in America with "Tipping Point 2;" PR Watch and
ALECexposed.org bring you new information on Pete Peterson's hypocritical
"Fix the Debt" campaign; and more.
http://truth-out.org/speakout

TRUTHOUT'S BUZZFLASH DAILY HEADLINES

The BuzzFlash commentary will return soon.

Is Senator Ted Cruz Our New McCarthy?
Read the Article at The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/02/ted-cruz-sees-red-not-crimson-at-harvard.html?mbid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true

Meet the Woman Paying for Wall Street's Sins
Read the Article at Salon
http://www.salon.com/2013/02/24/shes_paying_for_wall_streets_sins/?source=newsletter

Alex Kotlowitz: the Price for Public Violence
Read the Article at The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/opinion/sunday/the-price-of-public-violence.html

The For-Profit Immigration Imprisonment Racket
Read the Article at Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-for-profit-immigration-imprisonment-racket-20130222

Oklahoma May Deny Women Affordable Birth Control Because it "Poisons Their
Bodies"
Read the Article at ThinkProgress
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/02/22/1627441/oklahoma-birth-control-poison/

Pro-Gun Radio Ads to be Paid for by Taxpayers
Read the Article at The Political Carnival
http://thepoliticalcarnival.net/2013/02/23/sheriffs-pro-gun-radio-ads-to-be-paid-by-taxpayers-this-has-nothing-to-do-with-public-safety-and-everything-to-do-with-self-promotion/

Obama's New Political Group to Lure Unlimited Donations
Read the Article at The Washington Post
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obamas-electoral-engine-harnessed-by-group-collecting-corporate-donations/2013/02/23/7a0c9820-7d19-11e2-9a75-dab0201670da_story.html

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