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• This Washington Post Headline Says It All: "Light bulb factory closes; End of era for U.S. means more jobs overseas." Americans like the Tea Partiers don't realize yet the party is over and they have a hangover.
• Implications of a Pointless War, But This was $3 Trillion Worth of Pointless War and Tens of Thousands Dead -- Bob Koehler for BuzzFlash
• "Political Ties Shielded Bank in Afghanistan." Oh, Just Like in America! Tim Geithner Must be Giving Them Lessons.
• In Ohio, President Obama Puts on Some Boxing Gloves, Attacking Republicans and their House leader for advocating "the same philosophy that led to this mess in the first place."
• It’s Not Quite Khmer Rouge Time in America -- Yet. But the Whole Book Burning Thing Brings us One Step Closer. -- Stephen Pizzo for BuzzFlash
• A Truly Remarkable Series in the Atlantic Monthly on Recent Conversations with Fidel Castro: 'Cuban Model Doesn't Even Work For Us Anymore'
• Court Sides With C.I.A.and Obama Administration on Seizure of Terror Suspects
• Private Equity Doesn’t Care Much About Jobs. Only We Do. -- Brian Palatz for BuzzFlash
• Tim Wise: In all the rancor over whether or not one group of Muslims should be allowed to build a cultural center and worship space near the site of the 9/11 attacks -- which were committed by a separate and totally unrelated group of Muslims --there is one thing above all else that no one appears anxious to point out: namely, that for any white Christian to say "Ground Zero" is off limits to anyone is possibly the most deliciously and yet grotesquely ironic thing ever suggested.
• Two Reasons That Florida’s “Let’s Burn The Koran!” Pastor Need Not Be Taken Seriously -- Tony Peyser's Verse Case Scenario
• Brazilian Election: What Does South American Giant Want in Post-Lula Era?
• Jerry Lewis and America's Weepy Telethon Culture
• A former National Republican Congressional Committee treasurer has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $840,000 from several political committees, including more than $670,000 from the congressional committee.
• "Seeking to reassert American power in a more complex world, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton declared Wednesday that the United States was still the best hope for victims of natural disasters and political repression, and for old enemies wanting to make peace."
• Terry "Burn 'Em Korans" Jones Accused of “Spiritual Abuse” at German Church; “Conducted Brainwashing”
• Despite parents' allowing romantic sleepovers, the Netherlands has one of the lowest youth pregnancy rates
• The United States of Fear: 10 Examples
• Uh, How Dumb Do They Think We Are? Report by BP Finds Several Companies at Fault in Spill. Duh. How Many Weeks Late is This?
• This "Koran Burning" Reverend's just insane enough to become Fox News House Chaplain
• Mott’s Corporate Greed: Rotten to the Core
• Nate Silver: Democrats Aren’t Running From Health Care. But What Are They Running On?
• James Ridgeway on the End of Retirement
• President Obama will rule out on Wednesday any compromise that would extend the Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthy beyond this year. Finally, something decisive, fair and just.
• Are the Reports of the Democrats Demise Premature: Suddenly, Gallup Gap Closes to Toss-up in Congressional Preference
• CNN Contributor Erick Erickson Suggests Petraeus Is Folding ‘Like A Cheap Suit’ To Violent Islamists
• Congress lags in hiring female chiefs of staff, according to new research.
• Roger Shuler: "Nothing exemplifies the Obama administration's sorry record on justice issues quite like its mishandling of the U.S. attorney position in the Middle District of Alabama. A source tells Legal Schnauzer that the administration's bungling in Montgomery might be setting up Democrats for an "October surprise" just before the November elections."
• Report: Dispersants Can Make Chemicals from Oil Airborne ... Exposing Coastal Residents to Toxins
• Victory for Domestic Workers is a Victory for Women, Immigrants
• "North Korea's release of a fishing boat and its seven-man crew in exchange for humanitarian aid could bode well for North and South Korean reconciliation."
• After 40 years of continual declines, the smoking rate in the United States has stabilized for the last five years.
• "For-profit colleges have increased their lobbying against proposed Education Department rules to cut off federal financial aid to programs whose students take on too much debt for training that provides little likelihood of leading to a well-paying job." The Profiteers are Now Pickpocketing Students.
• Voters Want Results, Not Promises
• Explosion Rocks Honeywell Uranium Facility Run by Scab Workers
• Chicago Without a Mayor Daley. What's Next?
• Paul Krugman: In Europe, a Lesson in Contrasts
• "Business lobbies want it all: investment tax breaks and income tax cuts for the wealthiest"
• Jonathan Westminster: The 15% Solution, Serialization, 8th Installment: Chapter Seven 2005: The Morality Amendment (31st) -- Guest Commentary
• States pressed to fix local water systems
• David Corn: Tony Blair's Big Lie of Omission
• Report: Taliban tries to stop the music in Afghanistan — again
• The $9.1 trillion bailout price tag – American households have lost $6.8 trillion in residential real estate values while mortgage debt has increased. The banking Stockholm Syndrome.
• Michael Moore Hammers Rahm Emanuel
• The Affordable Care Act implements comprehensive health insurance reforms that will guarantee more health care choices, make insurance plans work better, and enhance the quality of health care for all Americans. Learn More
• Thousands of People Along the Gulf Coast Suffer ‘BP Crud’
• President Obama to assail Republican vision in Ohio
• Chicago Faces a Future Without a Mayor Named Daley. Richard M. Daley Will Not Seek Re-election. Rahm Emanuel Has Indicated That He Would be Interested in Running. He'd Probably Sell the Naming Rights of the City to BP.
• "Glenn Beck's anti-gay army of God"
• New Survey Shows Consumers 'Mad As Hell' About Hidden Airline Fees
• Tracking Racism in the Tea Party
• Tea Party Express 'Moneybomb' For O'Donnell Includes Just One Delaware Donor
• Robert Scheer: This week’s proposals by the Obama administration to deal with the persistent economic crisis will be, as with previous plans that involved trillions of taxpayer dollars, little more than salt in the wounds.
• Is a White House Shakeup Ahead? One Can Only Hope So.
• Top Iowa GOP Candidates Back Unconstitutional Proposal To Deny Education To Immigrants
• The Republicans Want to Rule Rather Than Govern -- Barbara's Buzz From Atlanta
• Riveting: Atlantic Magazine Reported Invited to Talk With Castro Who Warns Iran to Stop Attacking the Jews. Remarkable Story.
• US Church Defiant Despite Condemnation of Koran Burning
• "A Republican political operative and candidate for state legislature has signed up homeless people and other drifters to run for statewide office on the Green Party ticket in Arizona—a move that the operative, Steve May, openly admits was to siphon away Democratic votes."
• Racialized Memories and Class Identities - Thinking About Glenn Beck's and Rush Limbaugh's America
• CNN Catches Bachmann Lying and Running Away
• "Despite soaring profits, high-tech companies have been slow to hire — a sign of just how difficult it will be to address persistently high joblessness."
• More Problems for Democrats Than the Bleak Job Picture -- Ann Davidow Exclusively for BuzzFlash/Truthout "Make no mistake, in addition to the bleak jobs picture, voters who are inspired by absolutely nutty propaganda pose a major problem for Democrats this fall."
• Florida's Quran-Burning Pastor
• Progressive Change Campaign Committee: "I will not support Rahm Emanuel in any future election for Congress, Mayor of Chicago, Governor, or other office. He sold us out on the public option and is a weak Democrat who caves instead of fighting conservatives and corporate power. We won't forget the choices you've made, Rahm."
• Sharron "Not Too Sharp" Angle hit with lawsuit
• Planned Quran-burning could endanger troops, Petraeus warns
• Net Neutrality: A Crucial Issue With a Lame Name
• Georgia Man Wants Tea Partiers To Join His 'Patriotic' Pyramid Scheme
• Elizabeth Drew: "It's time to retire the overused — and inaccurate — words "dysfunctional" and "paralysis" that have appeared in a recent spate of articles and commentary propagating the fashionable view that the current Congress has gotten little or even nothing done. In fact, this has been one of the most productive Congresses in decades."
• Norway, Kuwait, China Lose $5 Billion on BP Holdings After U.S. Oil Spill
• John McCain: Torture Helped al Qaeda Recruit
• Poor Thirst as Nile Taps Run Dry
• State Gains Would Give Redistricting Edge to G.O.P.
• Will Trader Joe’s Finally do Right by farmworkers?
• The BradBlog Green Report
• A major weeklong international water conference opened in the Swedish capital Monday with an ominous warning: time is running out faster than fresh water.
• The New York Crank: Filthy rich people behaving like swine—still more reasons for a 90 percent tax bracket
• In Germany, a strong social safety net keeps people from plunging into the abyss. Why are we so averse to having that security in the United States?
• David Axelrod: Republican Congress Could Be 'More Extreme' Than Bush
• The Longest War: Plan to Woo Taliban Foot Soldiers Stalls
• Chicago Tribune: The U.S. economy will eventually rebound from the Great Recession. Millions of American workers will not.
• Unemployment creates new role, and pain, for community colleges
• Giant Greenland Iceberg -- Largest in the Northern Hemisphere -- Enters Nares Strait
• Don't Let Experimental Genetically Engineered Salmon Reach Your Plate
• Polls Show Nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue for Democrats
• Blood Tests Show Elevated Level of Toxic Hydrocarbons in Gulf Residents
• Report: Afghan Mineral Deposits Could Completely Revolutionize Nation's System Of Corruption
• How Blanche Lincoln Fell So, So Far Behind In Arkansas
• State of the Union in Photos
• Mother Jones on Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum Triple XXX Problem
• Democrats Help to Bring Textile Industry Jobs Back to a Small Town
• Politicians debate the consequences of the budget deficit, but it's the trade deficit that accounts for meager American growth and employment.
• US Government Report Argues for Police Force for American Interventions Overseas
• "Republicans would despoil our country in pursuit of the oil and coal that are so profitable for their corporate sponsors, and so bad for our planetary climate."
• Desecrating 9/11
• Dee Dee Myers Becomes Another Big Time, Big Salary PR Flack
• Who Really Is Acting With Racist Motives in Alabama?

• Krugman: Some bleary-eyed thoughts from Japan on the reported administration proposal for $50 billion in new spending: 1. It’s a good idea 2. It’s much too small 3. It won’t pass anyway — which makes you wonder why the administration didn’t propose a bigger plan.
• Death penalty remains big issue in California's AG Race
• Tomgram: Engelhardt, The Pentagon Triumphant on the Media Battlefield
• Conservatives celebrate Labor Day by attacking organized labor
• Pre-existing health condition insurance premium too expensive for many
• Anthrax War—the Malaysian Connection
• Advocates Claim Politics Behind Closing of Louisiana Abortion Clinic
• Healthcare reforms don't go far enough. Many people are being forced into a tradeoff as insurance rates continue to rise.
• Skeeter Sanders: Furor Over N.Y. Islamic Center Renews Debate Over Federal Government Spying on Muslims
• More GOP-style WH "Economic Stimulus" for Corporations, no Main Street. Obama seeks biz equipment write-off. The new proposal would allow companies to write off 100 percent of their investments in new plants.
• GOP Control Of Federal Trial Courts Has Increased Since Obama Took Office
• "Wyoming applies for health reform-related grants despite 'lobbying from state tea party activities who fear accepting such grant money will undermine Wyoming's ability to fight the new health care law in court.'"
• Afghanistan: Words like "revolution" are cropping up in conversation, and democrats are angry that the U.S. has put its full force behind a single man, Hamid Karzai, instead of creating a sustainable and robust political system.
• Right Wing Fundamentalism Fuels Islamic Fundamentalism and Anti-U.S. Feelings. "Afghans protest U.S. church's plans to torch Koran."
• The Justice Department has finally uncovered emails written by John Yoo, the author of the so-called torture memos. But something's missing.
• Solidarity with Bradley Manning
• "Obama assails GOP, promotes new jobs program"
• America's Empire and Endless Wars Are Destroying the World, and Ruining Our Great Country
• Labor: Don't blame us for Wall Street's recession
• Help Squash Glenn Beck on Facebook
• Linn Washington: Misery of Massive Unemployment Mocks Meaning of Labor Day
• Israel's World Listening Post
• New Jersey should filter its drinking water to remove hundreds of chemicals, most of which are unregulated, from its drinking water supply, according to a rulemaking petition filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).
• "No recession here: Election spending sets records"
• Poor Labor Day Gets No Respect. It’s the Rodney Dangerfield of Holidays. -- Will Durst for BuzzFlash
• Americans are Increasingly Frustrated by a Lack of Economic Progress, Dissatisfied With the Federal Government and Critical of Obama's Leadership, a New Washington Post-ABC News Poll Finds.
• Grim Labor Day: "Whenever companies start hiring freely again, job-seekers with specialized skills and education will have plenty of good opportunities. Others will face a choice: Take a job with low pay — or none at all." That is because America has fewer and fewer production jobs.
• Social Security and Medicare Don't Make Hard Times, Military Spending and Tax Cuts for the Rich Do -- Shirley Smith for BuzzFlash
• Paul Krugman: "I had hoped that we would do better this time. But it turns out that politicians and economists alike have spent decades unlearning the lessons of the 1930s, and are determined to repeat all the old mistakes. And it’s slightly sickening to realize that the big winners in the midterm elections are likely to be the very people who first got us into this mess, then did everything in their power to block action to get us out."
• Blair may cancel London appearance over protests
• Trumka: "Most Crucial Election in 75 Years"
• Nov. 2 Defend the Dream 12-week Plan
• Collapse of Kabul Bank Points to Fatal Corruption of Karzai Government
• Advocates Claim Atlanta Violating Safe Drinking Water Act
• 9 Years After 9/11, Public Safety Radio Is Not Ready
• U.S. Plays Catch-Up on High-Speed Rail
• How billionaires bagged the tea party
• Big Taxin' Michele Bachmann
• U.S. Combat Over in Iraq? Not so Fast, Silly. U.S. troops join Baghdad battle.
• Robert Parry: Blair Reveals Cheney's War Agenda
• Jim Hightower: A Labor Day Commitment to the Common Good
• "As anti-Muslim sentiment appears to be on the rise throughout the country, with high-profile protests against mosque construction and a handful of violent episodes against Muslims, Muslim groups are pushing back."
• UK: Detectives have asked the New York Times to hand over the transcript of an interview with Sean Hoare, a former reporter who claimed last week that Andy Coulson, the then-editor of the Sunday tabloid, personally asked him to eavesdrop on private phone calls.
• Finally, Obama calling for more infrastructure spending
• Coal ash is a national problem demanding a national response.
• France’s Anti-Sarkozy Season Begins With a Strong Showing In the Streets Against Racism and Xenophobia
• David Bacon | The Face of Labor in the Streets (Photo Essay)
• Peruvian President Fujimori's Right-Hand Man Was a Gun Runner and Drug Dealer -- and Employed by the U.S.
• Voice of America: Taliban Vows to Disrupt Afghan Elections
• Working Class Blues on Labor Day in 2010
• Scott Simon (NPR): On this Labor Day weekend, we might give some thought to what it's like to be without a job.
• Since Obama's election, the political action committees and employees of 126 businesses that had donated money to Senate Democrats in the 2008 campaign have switched all or most of their 2010 contributions to the Republicans, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission reports by the Houston Chronicle.
• Is BP Blackmailing the Feds? You Bet.
• Can Rick "Big Hair" Perry be Defeated in Texas? Maybe.
• Christine O'Donnell's campaign against masturbation was only the beginning of a lifelong assault on human well-being.
• "The 'war on terror' in the Middle East has nothing to do with combating terror, and everything to do with remaking that region's geopolitical situation to America's advantage."
• Reagan Revolution Contract on America Continues, Government Drowned in a Bathtub: Police and fire departments have begun to charge accident victims as a way to offset budget cuts. The wet dream of Grover Norquist. The end of public services for the common good as a government responsibility.
• Congressional Charities Are Pulling In Corporate Cash. At least two dozen charities that lawmakers or their families helped create or run routinely accept donations from businesses seeking to influence them.
• Will Wal-Mart End up with the Georgia O'Keefe Collection Because Fisk University is on the Verge of Bankruptcy?
• In Defense of Barack Obama
• Tea Party: Pawns in the Bankster Game
• A decade ago Portugal took a radical new approach to illegal drugs by treating users as people with social problems rather than as criminals
• “The administration made a bet that a rising economy would solve the housing problem and now they are out of chips,” said Howard Glaser, a former Clinton administration housing official with close ties to policy makers in the administration. “They are deeply worried and don’t really know what to do.”
• Glenn Greenwald: AP refuses to use WH/NBC propaganda terms for Iraq. Combat is Not Over in Iraq.
• Richard Power: Dissed and Marginalized by POTUS' Inept Inner Circle, Progressives Must Rally (Again) to Save POTUS & the Democrats? Yes.
• Chris Hedges: They Kill Alex
• David Corn: Tea Party Takeover of GOP: It’s Worse Than You Think
• Sarah Palin's NRA Dream: Wolf killings set to expand
• A climate warning from the deep. The dispersal of tiny sea creatures in Antarctica has alerted scientists to the vulnerability of Earth's ice sheets.
• Taking A Page From Gingrich, McCain And Graham Each Call For A New ‘Contract On America’
• Anna Burger dedicated her life to building the labor movement, but it has nonetheless grown smaller, even during this time of stagnating wages.
• Corporate Mainstream Media Complicity in Financial Crimes -- Danny Schecter for BuzzFlash
• Corruption Unlimited Sponsored by U.S. Bribes. The Longest War Goes On: Armed police in pick-up trucks have been stationed outside the main branch of Kabul Bank as customers continue to withdraw money amid fears the Afghan bank may collapse.
• Assault on Baghdad military headquarters kills 12
• Talk About the Kentucky Blues: Rand Paul extends lead over Jack Conway in Bluegrass Poll
• Fundamentalists in Iran Need a Moral Overhaul and Need to Stop Persecuting and Punishing Women: Women Sentenced to be Stoned to Death Now Also Faces 99 Lashes for Misunderstanding About Photo. These Religious Hardliners in Iran Make the Tea Party Look Sane.
• Twenty years after northern spotted owls were protected under the Endangered Species Act, their numbers continue to decline
• For Partners in Health, Good Health Means Justice and Rights
• What Labor is Fighting for This Labor Day
• It's Deja Vu All Over Again: Settlements remain obstacle in Mideast peace talks
• U.S. troops have left $324 million in back pay unclaimed
• Report: Democrats Plan Political Triage to Retain House
• Health Inequality: Gates Foundation Bans Abortion
• Consumer Watchdog took its crusade against Google to new heights Thursday, running ads in New York's Times Square blasting CEO Eric Schmidt on privacy issues.
• Mitch McConnell, John Boehner And The Republicans' Blood Oath Against America -- Richard Stitt for BuzzFlash
• When You Vote for a Liar, You Get a Republican -- Barbara's Buzz from Atlanta
• Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 153: It's Not About the Mosque: When do the Muslim Roundups Begin? -- Steven Jonas for BuzzFlash
• Hammering, Slamming, and Pounding the President Has Become a Cottage Right Wing Industry -- Will Durst for BuzzFlash
• Learning About Reality from Fiction, "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" -- Thom Hartmann's Exclusive August "Independent Thinker" Review for BuzzFlash/Truthout
• Dr. J.’s BF Commentary No. 152: Tipping Points, Are We Headed Toward Theocratic Fascism? -- Steven Jonas for BuzzFlash
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  THE LIGHTER SIDE:
• These are Ironic Times
• Borowitz: Rabid Dog Briefly Mistaken for Tea Party Candidate
• Mark Morford: Burn a Bible, Save a Kitten
• Glenn Beck's Lincoln Memorial Rally Even Disgraces Forrest Gump
• Sarah Palin and Second Hand Rose Tea
• The Hunchback of Hate Radio