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A Victory For Lee Rogers In CA-25, Is A Victory For Progressive Values Across America
If you missed me putting Buck McKeon's resignation from Congress into context for KPFK listeners yesterday, here's a short, abbreviated version above.
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Washington, the rebels, and Geneva II
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnLwa-Ic8pI&feature=youtu.beEric Draitser of StopImperialism.com appears on RT to discuss the latest remarks by Secretary of State Kerry in advance of the Geneva II negotiations on Syria. Draitser explains that the increasingly aggressive rhetoric from Washington is a product of the rapidly collapsing terrorist war and an attempt by the rebels and by the Obama administration to sabotage any prospects for a political settlement.
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Pro-gun ‘Stand Your Ground’ Sunday rallies set at all 50 state capitals
Watch out for Provocateurs…
From a previous rally sponsored but Gun Rights Across America.
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Major Hollywood Producer Vows to Make the NRA ‘Wish They Weren’t Alive’ With Upcoming ‘Big Movie’
The NRA protects gun rights about as well as a junkie protects your stash.
~ Jack Blood
The Blaze
Big-time movie producer Harvey Weinstein revealed Wednesday that he is making an anti-gun movie with actress Meryl Streep that is going to make the National Rifle Association “wish they weren’t alive.” -
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Last Night 26 Republican Senators Voted To Shut Down The Government Again
Last night 26 Senate Republicans-- basically, the hardcore lunatic fringe-- voted to shut down government operations.
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NFL (Pro Football) Just Realizing that Medical Marijuana better for Players Pain than Pills
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell open to the idea of players using medical marijuana in states where the drug is legal
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Foreign Intervention Still A Threat to Syria: Russian Foreign Minister
Russian Information Agency Novosti
January 17, 2014
Foreign Intervention Still a Threat to Syria – Lavrov
MOSCOW: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday that attempts are continuing to prepare the grounds for a military intervention in war-torn Syria. -
Inside the World’s Top Offshore Tax Shelter
The island has its own parliament, judiciary and treasury, which prints its own currency stamped with the queen's visage and pegged to the British pound. For purposes of free trade, Jersey is treated as part of the European Union and falls under many of the U.K.'s international treaties and compacts, but it has its own constitutional rights separate from the U.K., tracing back to the year 1204.The post Inside the World’s Top Offshore Tax Shelter appeared first on BSNEWS.
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TMR 057 : Interview : Tom Secker : 7/7 - The London Bombings
Writer, researcher and film-maker Tom Secker joins us for a detailed interview on 7/7 (the July 7th 2005 London bombings). Drawing upon his several years of research, Tom shares with us many of the problems with the official story, delves into the backstories behind the alleged suicide bombers, and uncovers layer upon layer of suspicious information suggesting that 7/7 may well have been a false-flag terror event instigated by British Intelligence.
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TMR 057 : Interview : Tom Secker : 7/7 - The London Bombings
Writer, researcher and film-maker Tom Secker joins us for a detailed interview on 7/7 (the July 7th 2005 London bombings). Drawing upon his several years of research, Tom shares with us many of the problems with the official story, delves into the backstories behind the alleged suicide bombers, and uncovers layer upon layer of suspicious information suggesting that 7/7 may well have been a false-flag terror event instigated by British Intelligence.
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The “Iron-fisted Kleptocratic Financial Oligarchy” 95% Income Growth Goes to the 1%
Michael Hudson sees a parasitic financial industry that looks only to determine how much wealth it can extract via fees, interest income, and tax breaks, rather than providing capital to increase.The post The “Iron-fisted Kleptocratic Financial Oligarchy” 95% Income Growth Goes to the 1% appeared first on BSNEWS.
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Abandon Hegemony in Asia-Pacific, Or Risk Catastrophic War
US Navy fleet in Asia-Pacific
Denny Roy, a Senior Fellow at the East-West Center, writes at The Diplomat that the crux of the tensions between the U.S. and China is a contest for power in the Asia-Pacific region. The squabbling over competing sovereignty claims of this or that island chain in the East and South China Seas, he writes, is peripheral to the real battle for regional hegemony. -
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Illegal Israeli Settlements Stoke Tensions in West Bank
Here’s a rare on the ground look the daily battles being fought between illegal Israeli settlers and Palestinians in the West Bank. From Al Jazeera America:
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The Normalization of Greed, Hustle, and Money-Centrism
New York Times “Room for Debate Question”: “Why We Like to Watch Rich People: Why do American television and movie audiences like to watch the antics and questionable behavior of the 1 percent?”
The lives of the outlandishly rich are so unreal and so bizarre for most of us that watching their self-indulgence, careless spending, and decadence can be an escape from the unpleasant reality of our own constant money worries. -
Greed and Hustle Have Become Virtues
New York Times “Room for Debate Question”: “Why We Like to Watch Rich People: Why do American television and movie audiences like to watch the antics and questionable behavior of the 1 percent?”
The lives of the outlandishly rich are so unreal and so bizarre for most of us that watching their self-indulgence, careless spending, and decadence can be an escape from the unpleasant reality of our own constant money worries. -
Cyprus: Last European State Falls To NATO
Cyprus News Agency
January 17, 2014
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Arnold Zweig: War’s brutality, folly and tyranny practiced even on its own
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Arnold Zweig: Selections on war
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Is Benjamin Netanyahu Covering Up For Mafioso Congressman Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm?
Pinto and Grimm-- two crooksBack in March of 2012 the NY Times looked into Staten Island Mafia congressman Michael "Mikey Suits" Grimm's connection with Panicos "Pete" Papanicolaou and Cypriot crime syndicates.
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Who’s to blame for the crisis, bankers or benefit claimants?
In crucial ways – the scale of its attacks on social security, service privatisation and falling living standards for the majority – Cameron's coalition has outdone even Margaret Thatcher. Its austerity programme halted recovery for four years and has cut most people's real terms pay deeper and over a longer period than at any time since the 19th century.
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Syria hands over plan for Aleppo ceasefire, readies for prisoner exchange
RT | January 17, 2014
The Syrian government is ready to negotiate a ceasefire agreement with opposition forces in the flashpoint city of Aleppo, Foreign Minister Walid Moallem has said. A list of rebel prisoners has also been drawn up in preparation for a proposed exchange.
Damascus has handed Moscow a plan for a ceasefire in the city of Aleppo, Moallem announced at a news conference with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, in Moscow on Friday. -
Gasland documents our race to extinction
I know that corporations are amoral, profit-driven entities that have no compunction about destroying the planet if they can make a quick buck first. I also know that our political systems have been almost entirely captured by these corporations.The post Gasland documents our race to extinction appeared first on BSNEWS.
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New analysis of rocket used in Syria chemical attack undercuts U.S. claims
A team of security and arms experts, meeting this week in Washington to discuss the matter, has concluded that the range of the rocket that delivered sarin in the largest attack that night was too short for the device to have been fired from the Syrian government positions where the Obama administration insists they originated.The post New analysis of rocket used in Syria chemical attack undercuts U.S. claims appeared first on BSNEWS.
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Thailand: "Men in Black" Terrorists Uncovered After Broad Daylight Grenade Attack
TIME reports regime's "pro-democracy" weapon caches yesterday, uncovered today after grenade attack. January 17, 2014 (ATN) - A grenade attack has left over 30 injured today, while Thaksin Shinawatra's "red shirts" confronted protesters in the north of Bangkok. Image: The "spoon" mechanism of the grenade thrown.
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A Note to My Readers
There’s no column today: looks like the flu has claimed yet another victim! But don’t worry: I’ll be back on Monday. Meanwhile, you can read this old column on Mexico’s “vigilante” movement, which the rest of the world is beginning to notice this week. Just remember: you read it here first! NOTES IN THE MARGIN […]
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Applied Rovian Denialism
In spite of the abundant revelations in the preceding year, 2014 in the Balkans seems to portend more of the same. Everyone is still in full-on reality denial mode. Or, rather, entrenched in the imperial belief that assertions can "create their own reality." Still a Lie In "Kosovo," a province of Serbia occupied by NATO […]
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Secret Wars and Black Ops Blowback
Originally posted at TomDispatch. These days, when I check out the latest news on Washington’s global war-making, I regularly find at least one story that fits a new category in my mind that I call: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Take last Saturday’s Washington Post report by Craig Whitlock on the stationing of less than […]
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63 Killed, 41 Wounded in Fresh Iraq Bloodshed
At least 63 people were killed and another 41 more were wounded in fresh bloodshed. As in recent days, the focus of the violence was in Anbar.
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Jason Erb discusses the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom on the Korelin Economics Report, January 14, 2014
I made a brief appearance on the Korelin Economics Report on January 14, 2014 to discuss the Heritage Foundation’s 2014 Index of Economic Freedom, with Canada holding its 6th place finish out of 178, and the U.S. slipping to 12th place.
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@PumpUpThaVolume: Episode093 - Promised Land
"♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode093 - Promised Land which features brand new sounds from Static Jacks, Title Fight, Glen Hansard,
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"Be inspired by the beleaguered but unintimidated reporters of Chris Christie's New Jersey" (Rachel Maddow)
I think Murray Kempton would have approvedof Rachel's WaPo column."It's annoying to pay for information -- I know. But if you don't subscribe to your local paper or pony up to get behind its online paywall, who's going to pay reporters to cover the news where you live? A free press isn't that kind of "free." An accountable democracy doesn't work without real information, gathered from the ground up, about people in power, everywhere.
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New World Next Week: Episode177 - GMO-free Cheerios, NSA Catalog, Celeb Shilling
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode177 - GMO-free Cheerios, NSA Catalog, Celeb Shilling Welcome to New World Next Week - the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news.
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PBC News & Comment: New Poll Shows Solid Majority Favoring NSA Reform
As Obama finalizes his Friday speech outlining modest NSA reforms, new poll shows most Americans don’t trust government or Obama….Click here for free audiobook download from Audible that generates $15 to PBC Podcast!
–Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) proposes bill called “Big Brother is Not Watching You Act of 2014″ to enact all 46 recommendations from review panel -
PBC News & Comment: Poll Shows 59% of Americans Want NSA Reform
Obama is expected to propose minor reforms to surveillance in speech, as strong majorities express distrust of government and Obama….Click here for free audiobook downlaod from Audible, and generate $15 to the PBC Podcast!
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Obama, Drones And The National Surveillance State-- Speech Mañana
Just over a week ago, we presented a post featuring JFK ruing the day he had ever decided to keep Allen Dulles as head of the CIA. NOt just that-- JFK was ruing the day he had ever gotten into business with the CIA at all. Incredibly incompetent and determined to run its own unaccountable proto-fascist foreign policy, the CIA, Kennedy came to realize, was the center of evil in American politics.
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Germany: NATO Maps Out Strategic Planning For Next 30 Years
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Allied Command Transformation
January 15, 2014
NATO Defence Leaders Meet, Plan for Future Security Challenges
Senior Chief Mass Communication Specialist Hendrick L. Dickson
Members of the NATO Defence and Planning team and other NATO leaders met at the NATO School in Oberammergau, Germany, January 14-16 at the annual NATO Defence Planning Symposium (DPS). -
Senate EPW Hearing on the President’s Climate Action Plan
by Judith Curry The hearing is now concluded, I’m on a plane flying back to Atlanta. The testimony from each of the witnesses is now online [here]. The link for my testimony is [here]. The content of my verbal remarks … Continue reading →
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Thailand: Regime Threatens Terrorism If Elections "Delayed"
Wall Street-backed Thaksin regime plans to use armed militants if elections are "delayed." January 16, 2014 (ATN) - Even as the Washington Post calls peaceful protesters "anti-democracy militants," Thaksin Shinawatra's regime openly admits it will use armed violence if upcoming sham elections are delayed.
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U.S. Air Force Enters Second Year In Mali Conflict
Stars and Stripes
January 16, 2014
No end in sight for 1-year-old Air Force mission over Mali
By Adam L. Mathis
RAF MILDENHALL, England: The yearlong U.S. Air Force operation over Mali in support of the French mission there is set to continue for the immediate future, officials said.
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