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Today’s Top 10

12/17/2013 Nativegrl77

By CAP Action War Room

Today’s Must Reads

Here’s ten items, including some under-the radar-stories, that you should not miss:

Federal Court Rules Bulk Collection Of Phone Records By NSA Likely Violates Constitution: Founding Fathers ‘Would Be Aghast’: A federal judge has ruled that the “wholesale collection of the phone record metadata” of all U.S. citizens — a program exposed by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden — likely violates the 4th Amendment and is unconstitutional.

The Four Questions ’60 Minutes’ Forgot To Ask The NSA: Reporter John Miller gets slammed by social media for not asking NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander these kinds of tough questions.

U.S. Transfers Two Detainees In Step Towards An Empty Guantanamo: Two more transfers drop the total number being held at the facility to 160.

Church Leaders Shame Catholic University For Accepting Koch Dollars: “The Koch brothers are billionaire industrialists who fund organizations that advance public policies that directly contradict Catholic teaching on a range of moral issues from economic justice to environmental stewardship,” the group writes.

Pennsylvania School Tries To Kick Out Two Students After Their Families Became Homeless: After two students and their family lost their house to foreclosure and were forced to live at a campground on the edge of town, the school district no longer considers them to be residents of the school district.

How The Sports World Remembered Newtown: Multiple athletes marked the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook school shooting this weekend.

The ThinkProgress Year In Culture: The Best — And Worst — Books Of 2013: The biggest lightning rods, most revealing non-fiction, smartest young adult novel, and worst book of 2013.

What Megyn Kelly Did — And Didn’t — Learn From The Reaction To Her White Santa Segment: At least now she knows that Jesus isn’t white. But Megyn Kelly’s defensive response to her critics suggests a profound and ongoing racial insecurity.

Is The GOP Becoming Gentler And Kinder Ahead Of The 2014 Elections?: Their rhetoric may be less incendiary, but the policy is just as extreme.

Alps Warming At Double The Average Global Rate, New Study Confirms: Glaciologists have found a 2,600-year-old leaf that offers further evidence of the rapid climactic changes taking place in areas of high elevation that have been frozen for millennia.

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a message from kathy of UCS …

08/27/2013 Nativegrl77

I’m writing because we had a big win since then—after an enormous outcry from UCS and other concerned citizens and groups, the Koch brothers have dropped their attempt to buy up eight major newspapers.

This is a huge victory, but we know the Kochs aren’t going away yet. Along with funding climate-denying front groups, they’re still trying to buy up media (a Koch spokesman said “Koch continues to have an interest in the media business and we’re exploring a broad range of opportunities…”). We’ll continue to keep a sharp eye on the Kochs’ activities and defend climate science at every step. But we need your help and continued involvement. If you’d like to support our efforts, you can make a special gift to UCS now >>

—Kathy

What do you do when you’re a billionaire and scientific facts about climate change can hurt your bottom line? You fund a massive network of disinformation. And if that doesn’t work, you try to buy some newspapers.

Oil tycoons Charles and David Koch are behind nearly every major effort to stall climate progress in the United States. They bankroll anti-science “think tanks”, pay “experts” to publish faulty reports—and now they’re trying to buy a chain of eight major newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times.¹

UCS members are fighting back—exposing Koch-funded “authorities” and sending thousands of letters to newspaper owners asking them not to sell to these ideologues. Our campaign has reached a fever pitch. Will you help?

Stand up for science and fight the Koch machine—donate today >>

It’s tough to even track all the ways Koch money permeates America’s dialogue on clean energy and climate change. But no one out there is doing a better job than UCS. And we’re not just tracking it. We’re doing something about it:

*The Koch Brothers stop at nothing to undermine climate science and clean energy…*	~~ UCS members stop at nothing to defend them… ~~
Koch-funded campaigns attack progress on renewable energy in state after state—opposing solar development in Georgia and wind power in Ohio through misinformation campaigns, citing inaccurate statistics.²	~~ UCS members give lawmakers the facts. Just this year, you’ve sent tens of thousands of letters that make the case for renewable energy—and we’re winning in state after state, including the Kochs’ home state of Kansas.^{3 ~~}
The Koch Brothers bankroll anti-science “think tanks” like the Heartland Institute, infamous for its billboard campaign equating climate scientists with Osama bin Laden and the Unabomber.⁴	~~ UCS exposes the money behind these groups—and publishes science-based reports, trusted by policymakers, that answer tough questions on global warming, extreme weather, nuclear safety, and agriculture.~~
They hire “experts” to distort science to protect their bottom line. A Koch-owned company was just taken to task for planting misinformation in scientific journals to hide a product’s cancer-causing risk.⁵	~~ Our experts stand up for science in the media, in statehouses, and on Capitol Hill, correcting distorted science through interviews and testimony. ~~
They go after big media. The Kochs are looking to buy eight trusted papers, including the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, where their influence could distort the truth about climate change and energy policy.⁶	~~ UCS members hold a spotlight up to disinformation in the media. Together, we’ve exposed Fox News and The Wall Street Journal for their distorted coverage of climate science, and uncovered media outlets that fail to warn readers about conflicts of interest.^{7 ~~}

The Koch Brothers will keep fighting until there’s no fight left. That’s how they operate.

There’s only one way to respond. When they distort the facts, we say so and tell the truth. When they lobby lawmakers, we flood offices with constituent calls and letters. When they try to hide their trail of influence and money, we shine a spotlight. When others duck, UCS members stand up, stand together, and fight back—with science on our side.

This fight needs your support right now. Make a special gift today.

There’s no time to waste.

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Health Care for America Now … Melinda …healthcareforamericanow.org

11/03/2011 Nativegrl77

GOP extremist presidential candidate Herman Cain has teamed up with the
nefarious Koch brothers to turn the American Dream into a real life
nightmare for middle-class families. This Friday, Nov. 4^th, the Koch brothers’ front group Americans for Prosperity is
hosting a gala dinner as part of a conference in Washington, D.C., that
has been cynically titled “Defend the American Dream.” We won’t let the
Kochs’ extremist ploy go unanswered.

Join the 99% for Occupy the Kochs: Guerrilla Drive-In, a fun counter-event featuring edgy videos that expose the Koch brothers’ plot to buy our government in the name of the 1%.

Yes, I will be there at 7 p.m. Friday, at 1025 7th St. NW, in Washington, D.C.

Sorry I can’t make it, but I will chip in $9.99 and buy a drive-in movie ticket for a friend.

The Koch brothers and their cronies plan to increase income inequality, protect Wall Street banks, subsidize Big Oil and eliminate vital programs for America’s
families like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security. Now is the time
to show up and stop the greedy Koch brothers in their tracks.

Yes, I will be there on Friday.

No, I can’t make it but I will donate $9.99 to fight the Koch-Cain nightmare.

The Occupy Wall Street movement continues to gain strength across the
country. For more than a month, people of all ages and backgrounds have
been on the streets expressing their rejection of corporate money in
politics at Occupy events as well as at a variety of other struggles and
actions.

The Occupy the Kochs: Guerrilla Drive-In will bring the message of the 99% straight to the door of some of our most well-funded and despicable opponents.

In Solidarity,

Melinda Gibson

Health Care for America Now

P.S. Join us in Washington DC on November 4^th for the Occupy the Kochs: Guerrilla Drive-In.