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Democracy Now! Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz takes on Timothy Geithner and Larry Summers by calling for an immediate freeze on foreclosures and a second government stimulus package. On war, Stiglitz says Iraq and Afghanistan are "the first wars in America’s history financed totally on the credit card." He also comment...s about the austerity protests in Europe.

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Democracy Now! Wednesday, October 20, 2010

Pentagon Stops Enforcing Gay, Lesbian Military Ban Federal Investigators Probe Banks for Foreclosure Fraud Chicago-Area Sheriff Suspends Foreclosures CIA Officer Ignored Warnings Before Afghan Base Attack US Allowing Key Taliban Factions to Attend Peace Talks US Soldier... Detained for Death of Prisoner UN Convoy Attacked in Iraq Iran to Prosecute 2 Jailed Americans Britain Unveils Massive Spending Cuts O'Donnell Questions Separation of Church and State in Constitution Report: Drug Companies Fund Over 17,000 Doctors US, Native American Farmers Settle Discrimination Case

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When Banks Are the Robbers

The big banks that caused the collapse of the global finance market, and received tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded bailouts, have likely been engaging in wholesale fraud against homeowners and the courts. But in a promising development this week, attorneys... general from all 50 states announced a bipartisan joint investigation into foreclosure fraud.Bank of America, JPMorgan Chase, GMAC and other big mortgage lenders recently suspended most foreclosure proceedings, following...

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Published:2010-10-20 14:22:00 GMT

Democracy Now! Expert economist Joseph Stiglitz will be a guest on the show tomorrow. If you have a question for him, post it here and perhaps Amy will have a chance to ask it live on air. From foreclosure freeze to the protests against austerity measures in France, there will be a lot to talk about with him. Our last interview with ...Stiglitz was in February. Watch it at http://ow.ly/2W67T.

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BREAKING: Pentagon instructing recruiters to accept openly gay applicants

In a victory for gay rights advocate, the Pentagon is instructing military recruiters to accept the applications of gays and lesbians who wish to join the military. See all of our coverage of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell here

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Published:2010-10-19 20:48:00 GMT

Democracy Now! BREAKING NEWS: Military opens door to openly gay and lesbian recruits as Pentagon suspends "Don't Ask Don't Tell" rule for now. For recent Democracy Now! coverage, see http://ow.ly/2W5a0.

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Democracy Now! Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Bank of America, GMAC Lift Foreclosure Moratorium Employees at "Foreclosure Mill" Were Bribed to Alter Documents GOP Candidate in Alaska Defends Handcuffing of Reporter GOP-Linked Group Urges Latinos Not to Vote in Nov. Election Sharron Angle to Latino Students: "You Lo...ok a Little Asian" Jury Rejects Entrapment Defense and Convicts Newburgh 4 Militants Attack Chechen Parliament; At Least Six Dead Supreme Court to Decide Ashcroft Detention Case US Mistakenly Deports Mentally Ill US Citizen to Mexico AZ Senator: Strip Citizenship of US-Born Kids of Undocumented Parents Obama Admin Seeks Changes to Telecom Surveillance Laws Facebook Admits Major Breach of Privacy French Unions Stage Nationwide General Strike Video Shows Indonesian Soldiers Torturing West Papuans US to Announce $2 Billion in Military Aid for Pakistan Canadian Military Commander Pleads Guilty to Murder, Rape Charges NYC to Pay Critical Mass Bike Riders Nearly $1 Million in Settlement

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Angela Davis on the Prison Abolishment Movement, Frederick Douglass, the 40th Anniversary of Her Arrest and President Obama's First Two Years

For over four decades, Angela Davis has been one of most influential activists and intellectuals in the United States. An icon of the 1970s black liberation movement, her work around issues of gender, race, class and prisons has influenced critical thought and social mo...vements for years. She is a leading advocate for prison abolition, a position informed by her own experience as a fugitive on the FBI’s Top 10 most wanted...

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Published:2010-10-19 12:12:53 GMT

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- Savage Rhymes ‎40 hrs a week @ minimum wage = 160 dollars a week.. if U make under 50 k a year, you take home 5 bucks for every ten u make..Make over 50 k a year, you will only take home 3 bucks for every ten made..This will not pay for food, shelter and ur family. That means you just worked half your life for nothing.. Give me some incentive to work other wise Ill stay a drug dealer
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- Donna Marks
  An open letter to Angela Davis:
  
  Greetings, Ms. Davis. I have a question for you: one that has been nagging at me every since I began listening to the arguments of prison reform advocates.
  
  I just saw (a few days late) your interview on Democra...cy Now with Amy Goodman, Now, I notice that when you talk about prison abolition, decarceration, etc., you put it all in the context of the institutionalized classism and racism that what you call the “prison-industrial complex” feeds on. As such, what you don’t address are the reasons that people are in prison to begin with: and you set it up so that you don’t need to, because the aforementioned institutionalized flaws in the system create a de facto assumption that because the system needs to create prisoners in order to grow (according to it’s capitalist model), those prisoners by and large do not belong there to begin with.
  
  But what you don’t address is the fact that there is a difference between violent and non-violent offenders. Not just in the crime, but all too often in the nature of the Criminal him or herself. This is the elephant in the room that is so carefully avoided when discussing any aspect of the prison problem. And it’s the elephant in the room that you avoided in your discussion with Amy Goodman.
  
  The reason it’s important to make a distinction between violent and non-violent convicts is because, when we start talking about looking for solutions, the FIRST place to look is at how to get the people who don’t belong in prison OUT, and to keep any more from coming in. So yes; decarceration is part of it, but if you are going to envision social change that will ultimately lead toward prison abolition, then the first thing you have to do is deal with the laws and the system that puts people in prison who are breaking laws that should not exist to begin with.
  
  This means reforming the drug laws, this means decriminalizing all so-called “victimless” crimes, and this means finding alternate sentencing solutions for non-violent offenders, such as community service and other ways of *literally* working off a debt to help local municipalities’ budgets. All these things you and I both agree with. Only to be truthful and realistic about it, it also means that the plight of violent criminals in the system takes a back seat.
  
  And as for the argument that social conditions are what leads to people acting out violently; it is all well and good to advocate and be an activist to change those conditions and so make violence unnecessary. But to pretend that there are not – whatever it was that created them – violent people victimizing innocents in our free society, only hurts the cause. As much as we want to break the cycle, violence does exist now. Generally speaking, rapists do not become repeat offenders because the system failed them. They become repeat offenders because they are violent, brutal men who hate women.
  
  So: may I ask: why is it I never hear you address the distinction between those in prison for the wrong reasons, and those in prison because they have inflicted grievous psychological, emotional and physical harm on another human being?See More
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  Alright lets do some basic math based on an income of 100 dallars a month. Lets see if you can figure out how many dollars you end up with at the end of this simple math question..This math question is based on if you follow the law, and d...ont look for loopholes..That is to say you are 100 % sure that you would never break a law and are an outstanding citizen that would never cheat the system...Ok , so here goes..What percentage gets taken off the top of your paycheck if you make under 50 thousand a year..If you answered around 30% your right...Ok So lets do the math...YOu had 100 dollars and now you have 70 dollars left. Ok, 7 for every 10...Thats not so bad...Now take into account state tax...In california just about 10 %. New york just about 10 % Depending on where you live...So Now your left with 60 dollars for the month...Alright well they are leaving me more than half, right? Oh, wait a minute, I forgot to include property tax, alcohol tax, cell phone tax, highway tax, hot food tax, cigartette tax, water tax, gasoline tax, blah , blah , blah, ( it doesnt end ) ... Alright so Im going to safely say another 10 percent for taxes off of the initial 100 dallars...Well now your left with 5 dallars for every 10 you make...And if you make over 50 thousand dallars a year?, take off another 20 percent...Now your left with 3 dollars for every 10, that is to say if you dont look for loopholes in your taxes and claim 100 percent of your earnings... So heres the really sad part...Big bob offers little johny a job for 1o bucks an hour..But big bob says to little johny, Im going to take half of what you make each day...Little johny looks at bob and says with out hesitation, Hell no mister, your ripping me off...Keep in mind that little Johny is only 4 years old but he gets the theory already ...So why dont all these grown ups get it...Why arent they telling big brother that he is ripping us off....If you make the minumum wage on a 40 hour week, you will only take home 16o dollars a week or 640 dollars a month after all the taxes. That will not pay for a shelter and food.... .The really really sad part is that if you worked your whole life, half of it was for nothing...Now give me some incentive to work besides feeding my face and maybe I might not feel like being lazy anymore.. My conclusion, the government of the united states is not in the best interest of its people, nor does if care to be...They want to take more and more...Well, we have no more to give!!!! And when we get to old to work and cannot afford those property taxes and welfare and medicare taxes, well I guess we will just all live in the street and die...I dont see a brighter future..?????? Money is mind control! Welcome to a slave nation...The Lower class & middle class are now the slaves of the rich people and banks who own the money $=Mind Control....See More
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Democracy Now! Author & activist Angela Davis on tomorrow's show - 40 years after her landmark arrest. Send questions for her to stories@democracynow.org.

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Part II..."Slavoj Zizek: Far Right and Anti-Immigrant Politicians on the Rise in Europe"

Slavoj Zizek is a Slovenian philosopher, psychoanalyst and cultural theorist. He is author of dozens of books, his latest one from Verso Books is called Living in the End Times.This is Part II of this conversation. Watch Part I here.

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Published:2010-10-18 17:07:00 GMT

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  Alright lets do some basic math based on an income of 100 dallars a month. Lets see if you can figure out how many dollars you end up with at the end of this simple math question..This math question is based on if you follow the law, and d...ont look for loopholes..That is to say you are 100 % sure that you would never break a law and are an outstanding citizen that would never cheat the system...Ok , so here goes..What percentage gets taken off the top of your paycheck if you make under 50 thousand a year..If you answered around 30% your right...Ok So lets do the math...YOu had 100 dollars and now you have 70 dollars left. Ok, 7 for every 10...Thats not so bad...Now take into account state tax...In california just about 10 %. New york just about 10 % Depending on where you live...So Now your left with 60 dollars for the month...Alright well they are leaving me more than half, right? Oh, wait a minute, I forgot to include property tax, alcohol tax, cell phone tax, highway tax, hot food tax, cigartette tax, water tax, gasoline tax, blah , blah , blah, ( it doesnt end ) ... Alright so Im going to safely say another 10 percent for taxes off of the initial 100 dallars...Well now your left with 5 dallars for every 10 you make...And if you make over 50 thousand dallars a year?, take off another 20 percent...Now your left with 3 dollars for every 10, that is to say if you dont look for loopholes in your taxes and claim 100 percent of your earnings... So heres the really sad part...Big bob offers little johny a job for 1o bucks an hour..But big bob says to little johny, Im going to take half of what you make each day...Little johny looks at bob and says with out hesitation, Hell no mister, your ripping me off...Keep in mind that little Johny is only 4 years old but he gets the theory already ...So why dont all these grown ups get it...Why arent they telling big brother that he is ripping us off....If you make the minumum wage on a 40 hour week, you will only take home 16o dollars a week or 640 dollars a month after all the taxes. That will not pay for a shelter and food.... .The really really sad part is that if you worked your whole life, half of it was for nothing...Now give me some incentive to work besides feeding my face and maybe I might not feel like being lazy anymore.. My conclusion, the government of the united states is not in the best interest of its people, nor does if care to be...They want to take more and more...Well, we have no more to give!!!! And when we get to old to work and cannot afford those property taxes and welfare and medicare taxes, well I guess we will just all live in the street and die...I dont see a brighter future..?????? Money is mind control! Welcome to a slave nation...The Lower class & middle class are now the slaves of the rich people and banks who own the money $=Mind Control....See More
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Democracy Now! Monday, October 18, 2010

GOP Gains Fundraising Advantage Ahead of Midterm Election President Obama and First Lady Michelle Campaign in Ohio Alaskan Journalist Detained & Handcuffed by Private Guards for GOP Candidate Ex-Countrywide CEO to Pay $67 Million Settlement 1,500 French Gas Stations Run... Out of Fuel as Labor Protests Intensify Hundreds of Hilton Hotel Workers Go on Strike Scores of Stimulus Opponents Sought Money out of Public View Al-Maliki Visits Iran to Meet Ahmadinejad Soldier to Face Court-Martial over "Kill Team" Charges Tides Foundation CEO Urges Advertisers to Boycott Fox News EPA Official: Reject Permit for Mountaintop Removal Mine in WV US Accuses China of Illegally Subsidizing Clean Energy Projects China Demonized in Dozens of US Campaign Ads Burma Bars Foreign Observers and Reporters from Election Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award Honors Activists

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  Alright lets do some basic math based on an income of 100 dallars a month. Lets see if you can figure out how many dollars you end up with at the end of this simple math question..This math question is based on if you follow the law, and d......ont look for loopholes..That is to say you are 100 % sure that you would never break a law and are an outstanding citizen that would never cheat the system...Ok , so here goes..What percentage gets taken off the top of your paycheck if you make under 50 thousand a year..If you answered around 30% your right...Ok So lets do the math...YOu had 100 dollars and now you have 70 dollars left. Ok, 7 for every 10...Thats not so bad...Now take into account state tax...In california just about 10 %. New york just about 10 % Depending on where you live...So Now your left with 60 dollars for the month...Alright well they are leaving me more than half, right? Oh, wait a minute, I forgot to include property tax, alcohol tax, cell phone tax, highway tax, hot food tax, cigartette tax, water tax, gasoline tax, blah , blah , blah, ( it doesnt end ) ... Alright so Im going to safely say another 10 percent for taxes off of the initial 100 dallars...Well now your left with 5 dallars for every 10 you make...And if you make over 50 thousand dallars a year?, take off another 20 percent...Now your left with 3 dollars for every 10, that is to say if you dont look for loopholes in your taxes and claim 100 percent of your earnings... So heres the really sad part...Big bob offers little johny a job for 1o bucks an hour..But big bob says to little johny, Im going to take half of what you make each day...Little johny looks at bob and says with out hesitation, Hell no mister, your ripping me off...Keep in mind that little Johny is only 4 years old but he gets the theory already ...So why dont all these grown ups get it...Why arent they telling big brother that he is ripping us off....If you make the minumum wage on a 40 hour week, you will only take home 16o dollars a week or 640 dollars a month after all the taxes. That will not pay for a shelter and food.... .The really really sad part is that if you worked your whole life, half of it was for nothing...Now give me some incentive to work besides feeding my face and maybe I might not feel like being lazy anymore.. My conclusion, the government of the united states is not in the best interest of its people, nor does if care to be...They want to take more and more...Well, we have no more to give!!!! And when we get to old to work and cannot afford those property taxes and welfare and medicare taxes, well I guess we will just all live in the street and die...I dont see a brighter future..?????? Money is mind control! Welcome to a slave nation...The Lower class & middle class are now the slaves of the rich people and banks who own the money $=Mind Control....See More
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Slavoj Zizek: Far Right and Anti-Immigrant Politicians on the Rise In Europe

We turn now to Europe where many are concerned about the growing acceptability of anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies. Far from just being expressed by the extreme right wing, the anti-immigrant trend has entered the mainstream. German Chancellor Angela Merkel told a g...athering of young members of her conservative Christian Democratic Union party this weekend that multiculturalism has utterly failed....

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Published:2010-10-18 12:41:55 GMT

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Democracy Now! BREAKING NEWS: Military opens door to openly gay and lesbian recruits as Pentagon suspends "Don't Ask Don't Tell" rule for now. For recent Democracy Now! coverage, see http://ow.ly/2W5a0.

Democracy Now! Great questions! Thank you to everyone who took time to post and give us a thumb's up this morning. Unfortunately we only had time for one question, posted by Daniel Chard. We plan to ask listeners to chime in live during the show more often, so stay tuned.

Democracy Now! Streaming Now: Amy Goodman interviews Angela Davis. Watch it live at http://www.democracynow.org/. Post questions for Angela here.

Democracy Now! Author & activist Angela Davis on tomorrow's show - 40 years after her landmark arrest. Send questions for her to stories@democracynow.org.