{"id":36580,"date":"2013-07-16T09:54:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/?p=36580"},"modified":"2013-07-16T09:54:24","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T16:54:24","slug":"daily-news-flash-for-july-16-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/2013\/07\/16\/daily-news-flash-for-july-16-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily News Flash for July 16, 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130716Uprising\/2013_07_16_newsflash_jensen.mp3\">Listen to this segment <\/a><\/li><\/ul><ul class=\"inline-playlist playlist\" title=\"\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/20130716Uprising\/2013_07_16_uprising.mp3\">Listen to the entire program<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=right width=50% src=\"\/home\/graphics\/dailynewsflash.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Uprising\u2019s Tuesday guest expert Robert Jensen, Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today\u2019s news headlines: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/headline\/2013\/07\/16\">Greek workers launched a general strike this morning against a new set of austerity measures that could include mass layoffs and salary cuts. Two major unions representing millions of Greeks are joining in to shut down major cities and their infrastructure, including airports and train service. This is the fourth such strike this year.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2013\/07\/16\/19502641-senate-heads-toward-nuclear-showdown-on-filibuster-rules?lite\">Senate majority leader Harry Reid is leading an effort to reform the way the US Senate does its business, in particular the dreaded filibuster, who\u2019s mere threat is often used to shut down debate. The proposed rule changes, being voted on today, are so contentious that they are being described as the coming \u201cnuclear\u201d showdown. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-zimmerman-protests-arrests-20130716,0,412940.story \">A group of breakaway protesters here in Los Angeles against the Not Guilty verdict of George Zimmerman last night broke store windows and attacked two members of the press. Fourteen people were arrested. Similar actions reflecting widespread frustration with the verdict have been happening in dozens of cities around the country.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uprising\u2019s Tuesday guest expert Robert Jensen, Professor of Journalism at the University of Texas at Austin, analyzes today\u2019s news headlines: Greek workers launched a general strike this morning against a new set of austerity measures that could include mass layoffs and salary cuts. Two major unions representing millions of Greeks are joining in to shut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-news-flash"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36595,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36580\/revisions\/36595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uprisingradio.org\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}