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Pat Murphy (D-IA) Reminds Us Why We Care About Politics At All-- And Why It's Worth The Fight
A couple weeks ago we looked at the congressional race in Iowa's first district and have slowly and carefully come to the conclusion that state Rep. Pat Murphy is, by far, the best candidate for the seat. A strongly Democratic district-- PVI is D+5-- it is a perfect place for a strong and effective progressive leader.
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Spot the Whistleblowers: Follow the (Lack of) Money
CLICK HERE to continue watching the report on BoilingFrogsPost.com
by James Corbett
BoilingFrogsPost.com
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Romania: NATO’s Number 2 Helps Usher In Missile Deployment
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
October 28, 2013
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Afghan War: NATO AWACS Log 10,000 Flight Hours In Two Years
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
October 28, 2013
NATO AWACS marks 10,000 flight hours in support of Afghanistan mission
NATO’s fleet of E-3A Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft surpassed a significant milestone this past weekend after reaching 10,000 flight hours in support of the Alliance’s mission in Afghanistan. -
Brazil to press for local Internet data storage after NSA spying
RT | October 29, 2013
Brazil is urging a plan to introduce local data storage for Internet giants like Facebook and Google in order to keep the information they get from Brazilian users safe –as part of a complex of measures to oppose US spying.
The new law could impact Google, Facebook, Twitter and other Internet global companies that operate in Brazil, Latin America’s biggest country and one of the world’s largest telecommunications markets. -
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Oakland activist allegedly fired after police tracked him at protest, alerted his employer
RT | October 29, 2013
An Oakland, CA activist says local police officers sent surveillance footage of him participating in a protest last week to his employer, resulting in his firing Monday.
The activist, who goes by @Anon4Justice on Twitter, tweeted the details Monday morning in what appears to be police use of surveillance footage in combination with private and public records that identified @Anon4Justice and led to his employer. -
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Top Commander: NATO Key To U.S. Global Force Projection
United States European Command
October 28, 2013
European Partnerships Vital to Global Security, Breedlove Says
Claudette Roulo, American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON: It makes fiscal and strategic sense for the United States to continue to base troops in Europe, the officer who serves as NATO’s supreme allied commander for Europe and commander of U.S. European Command said today. -
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When Governments Cite Greenpeace
An Energy Minister who boasts that his decision is supported by Greenpeace is an Energy Minister spectacularly out-of-touch with ordinary voters.
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Georgia (Europe) : A Strategic Nation Dumps it's Pro-West Leadership
Switching gears.I would think we are going to be reading and/or hearing much more about Georgia in the near future.NATO is not going to stay hands off on this prime bit of global property. Key to destabilizing Russia. Leading towards a western goal of balkanization. Georgia is after all pipeline central. Pipelines for oil.
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Carol Shea-Porter And Mike Honda Make The Case For Not Balancing The Budget On The Backs Of Seniors
Many progressives fear that conservative Democrats are working with Boehner, McConnell and the Republicans to undermine the inviolability of Social Security-- the Third Rail aspect-- by including Chained CPI in a so-called "Grand Bargain" which would see the GOP give a tiny bit on taxes-- raising taxes on the rich slightly which could be easily lowered as soon as they regain power-- in return for forever decoupling Social Security from the Third Rail.
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Unprecedented(?) Arctic warming. Part II
by Marcia Wyatt UPDATE: Addendum from Marcia Wyatt UPDATE: Giff Miller responds Miller et al.’s 2013 paper – Unprecedented recent summer warmth in Arctic Canada – splashed into the public eye last week with the declaration that current average summer … Continue reading →
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Congressional Briefing on Drones: Watch the Video
Rafiq ur Rahman – a teacher at a primary school in North Waziristan, Pakistan – appeared at a briefing called by Representative Alan Grayson (FL-09), along with his children Nabila and Zubair, who were both injured in a drone attack in October 2012, Robert Greenwald, president of Brave New Foundation, and Jennifer Gibson, staff attorney with Reprieve. This event marked the first opportunity for Congress to hear from drone victim survivors.
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Brave New World
The first reports in early May of 1960 were that a U.S. weather plane, flying out of Turkey, had gone missing. A silent Moscow knew better. After letting the Americans crawl out on a limb, expatiating on their cover story, Russia sawed it off. Actually, said Nikita Khrushchev, we shot down a U.S. spy plane […]
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UN Will Censure Illegal Spying, But Not US
When the 193-member General Assembly adopts a resolution next month censuring the illegal electronic surveillance of governments and world leaders by the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA), the U.N.’s highest policy-making body will spare the United States from public condemnation despite its culpability in widespread wiretapping. A draft resolution currently in limited circulation – a […]
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Will The Republican Civil War Devastate The Tennessee GOP?
Teabaggers are running wild, encouraged by all the media coverage Ted Cruz's infantile nihilism and extremism is getting.
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Bombs, Clashes, Kill 27 Iraqis, Wound 28 More
At least 26 people were killed and 27 were wounded in today's violence. One of the fatalities was a Syrian gunman.
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For the Sandy anniversary, those within reach of the afflicted NY-NJ-CT coastal area are invited to "Light up the shore!"
Blacked-out lower Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, looking northeast, with the tower of the Empire State Building poking up in the backgroundby KenIt's an anniversary that has been looming ominously for, well, going on a year.As it happened, yesterday I was in New Jersey's "Mile-Square City" of Hoboken, on the mostly flatland lip of land below the southern end of the bluffs that rise above the state's Hudson River shoreline, on a wonderful 5½-hour
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NIMH Director Rethinks Standard Psychiatric Treatment for Schizophrenia
The director of the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) now recognizes what treatment reform activists have been talking about for years—people diagnosed with schizophrenia and other psychoses are a diverse group who need diverse approaches. NIMH director Thomas Insel recently acknowledged:
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Thought cop Cass Sunstein “reviewing" the NSA for Obama
The White House Intelligence Review Will Come by Year's End By Matt Vasilogambros | The National Journal October 28, 2013The United States is reviewing the way it gathers intelligence. This has now become a tired and oft-repeated phrase coming from the Obama administration, as disclosures continue to reveal the far-reaching extent to which the U.S. spies on its allies....While U.S.
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JFK Expert Joan Mellen Proves Key Role of CIA Networks in Kennedy Assassination, Officially Denied After 50 Years; Senate Must Probe Fascist Billionaires, Recalcitrant State Officials, Hostile Spooks in Sabotage of Obamacare Website Launch
Webster G. Tarpley, Ph.D. TARPLEY.net – World Crisis Radio October 28, 2013 [download audio]
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The IPCC: Looking 95% Foolish
As the gap between its models and reality has grown, the IPCC has become more adamant that its conclusions are correct - rather than more cautious.
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A Cold Thanksgiving And Christmas Season-- But Just For Poor Families, So Our Congress Of Multimillionaires Doesn't Give A Rat's Ass
The Ted Cruz/Koch brothers-inspired government shutdown cost the American taxpayers an unfocused and gratuitous $24 billion. Conservatives in Congress can at least tell them selves they're recouping part of that loss by cutting back on food stamps.
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The IPCC Southern Hemisphere Reconstructions
A question for readers: which of the following proxies are used to reconstruct past Southern Hemisphere temperature in the IPCC’s graphic (Figure 5.7b) showing SH reconstructions:
1. Graybill’s California strip-bark bristlecone chronologies
2. upside down and contaminated Finnish lake sediments
3. European instrumental temperature data
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Long Green
By Willis Eschenbach | Watts Up With That? | October 27, 2013
The US has some of the world’s most boring looking money—it’s all green. So we have terms like “greenbacks” for dollars, and “long green”, meaning lots of money.
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That’s Embarrassing…America, Her Allies, and Global Executions
In U.S. foreign policy, there are bogeymen and allies. Bogeymen are evil tyrants who oppose freedom. Allies are stable international partners. What one realizes (once they stop watching cable news) is that whether the U.S. considers you a bogeyman or an ally is entirely independent of how those regimes treat their own people.
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Nice Try, But Ron Paul’s Foreign Policy Views Haven’t Changed
David Adesnik over at the hawkish conservative think tank AEI asks, ”why has the isolationism of Ron Paul and his admirers taken such a sharp turn toward amoral realism?”
I cannot, for the life of me, yet again explain to a right wing hawk the difference between isolationism and non-interventionism, so we’ll leave that to the side. -
‘Unlimited’ funds to AIPAC block ME peace: Jack Straw
Press TV – October 28, 2013
Former British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw has reportedly described the “unlimited” funds available to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) as the main obstacle to Middle East peace.
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America Needs More Women Like Eloise Reyes In Congress
I can picture DCCC Chairman Steve Israel, an "ex"-Blue Dog from Princesses: Long Island, drooling when he saw the MoveOn/PPP survey a couple weeks ago for CA-31, the new Inland Empire district southeast of L.A.
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European Drone War
By CHRIS COLE | CounterPunch | October 25, 2013
While there is rightly much media attention on the US drone war in Pakistan and Yemen, there is a very different but over-looked “drone war” taking place in Europe right now. In parliamentary committee rooms, in company boardrooms, and in packed public meetings, arguments rage about whether Europe should embrace or reject the use of armed drones.
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Christian Zionists Plan to Open University in Nazareth
By Richard Edmondson | Fig Trees and Vineyards | October 27, 2013
Christian Zionists are apparently planning to bring “enlightenment” to the poor, benighted indigenous inhabitants of Occupied Palestine. Governor Rick Perry of Texas, with help and assistance from John Haggee of Christians United for Israel, has struck a deal whereby Texas A&M University will open a branch campus in Israel.
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Meet Noam Chomsky, Academic Gatekeeper (video)
Is Noam Chomsky an anarcho-syndicalist or proponent of the Federal Reserve? A fearless political crusader or defender of the Warren Commission JFK orthodoxy? A tireless campaigner for justice or someone who doesn’t care who did 9/11? Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we examine some of the subjects that Chomsky would prefer you didn’t think about.
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Israel and the NSA: Partners in Crime
Israel and the NSA: Partners in Crime
Israel and the NSA: Partners in Crime
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NSA Chief is Frustrated By Journalism
NSA chief General Keith Alexander’s comments last week that he wants to “make it stop,” where “it” is the journalism resulting from Edward Snowden’s leaks, were widely reported and commented on. Here is the actual video clip of him saying it.
Alexander is very frustrated, it seems, that journalism is protected unequivocally by the First Amendment. The point is lost on him that this was precisely the point of the First Amendment: to frustrate and hamstring those in power.
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NATO Readies Article Five War Games In The Baltic
Russian Information Agency Novosti
October 28, 2013
Estonia Sends Over 130 Servicemen to NATO Drills in Poland
TALLINN, October 28 (RIA Novosti) – More than 130 Estonian servicemen flew to Poland Monday morning to take part in a NATO exercise, Estonia’s defense high command said. -
Rob Zerban Announces A Rematch Against Paul Ryan In Wisconsin
Last year, with no help from the DCCC (unless you want to consider negative help of Steve Israel calling wealthy donors and telling them to not "waste" their money on Rob Zerban), Rob Zerban came closer to defeating Paul Ryan than any Democrat had before. Ryan represents a swing district in southeast Wisconsin, WI-01 (Kenosha, Racine, Janesville, Muskego, Elkhorn and southern Milwaukee suburbs like Oak Creek and Greendale.
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France To Assume Command Of NATO Global Strike Force Land Component
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
October 25, 2013
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Arnold Zweig: War of all against all, jaded multitudes of death
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Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Arnold Zweig: Selections on war
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Israeli soldiers blocking the entrances of Ni’lin village
Ni’lin Village | October 28, 2013
Ni’lin, Occupied Palestine – Since last week the village of Ni’lin is being targeted daily by midnight raids from the Israeli occupation forces. The soldiers have been shooting tear gas into people’s homes while they are sleeping. Only two people have been arrested but ten houses have been invaded by the soldiers.
The arrested are Naha Nafi, 21, and Tariq Kawaja, 24. Another three young men were sought but could not be found. -
Taking Big Brother to Task
There was a definite "BS" and "AS" order to things at the major Stop Watching Us rally against government surveillance in Washington, DC, on Saturday. That’s Before Snowden and After Snowden, and though it doesn’t matter really which is which, it helps when charting the evolution of a protest movement, especially one that seems to […]
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Israel and the NSA: Partners in Crime
It wasn’t the US government breaking into the private communications of former French President Nicolas Sarkozy, according to top secret documents unearthed by Edward Snowden and published in Le Monde – it was the Israelis. A four-page internal précis regarding a visit to Washington by two top French intelligence officials denies the NSA or any […]
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Not All The Bad News In North Carolina Comes From Republicans
A young member of Congress, Don Young (R-AK), mostly senile these daysWhen Valerie Foushee replaced Ellie Kinnnaird in the North Carolina state Senate, she gave up her District 50 state House seat (Orange and Durham counties), Thursday, a 4 person selection committee, two Democrats from each county) voted to replace her with Graig Meyer.
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