He is Edward “Ed” Mezvinsky, born January 17, 1937.
Then you’ll probably say, “Who is Ed Mezvinsky?”
Well, he is a former Democrat congressman who represented Iowa’s 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for two terms, from 1973 to 1977.
He sat on the House Judiciary Committee that decided the fate of Richard Nixon.
He was outspoken saying that Nixon was a crook and a disgrace to politics and the nation and should be impeached.
He and the Clintons were friends and very politically intertwined for many years.

The DCCC video above, narrated by the great John Lewis, tries to associate all the great achievements accomplished by progressives with the broken down den of corruption and corporate prostitution that the Democratic Party has degenerated into. Steve Israel unveiled it at the caucus retreat last week.

Bombers again struck Baghdad, but they also hit south of the capital in the Hilla area. Meanwhile fighting continued in Anbar and Salah ad Din provinces. In political news, Moqtada al-Sadr came out of retirement, and a U.S. soldier convicted of heinous acts in Iraq was found dead in prison. Overall, at least 142 people were killed and 163 more were wounded.

TweetHuge turmoil in Libya. Today the Zentan tribe (Berbers in western mountains) said that they no longer recognized the GNC (puppet government) and gave it 5 hours to dissolve. The Zentan said that they would protect the Libyan people. The response was a deafening silence and then there was a huge meeting of all Al Qaeda in Libya at the Mitiga airport home of Abdulhakem Belhaj (leader of Al Qaeda in Libya and John McCain's best friend). Joining them was none other than Ayman al-Zawahiri, head of al-Qaeda who arrived in Tripoli today.

1674 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.
1807 – Former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr is arrested for treason in Wakefield, Alabama and confined to Fort Stoddert.
1819 – British explorer William Smith discovers the South Shetland Islands, and claims them in the name of King George III.

I truly cannot understand how anyone with any intelligence cannot see the truth about the Sandy Hook operation, and how it was indeed a massive hoax...

Jack Blood of Deadlinelive.info joins us for this month’s edition of Film, Literature and the New World Order, where we discuss Tom Hansen’s 2013 novel, This Is What We Do. We talk about the themes raised in the book, including the idea of a global leaderless revolution. We also discuss the role of violence in revolution and why such a revolution hasn’t taken place yet.
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US attempts to influence situation in Ukraine are desire to take revenge for defeat in Syria – Pushkov

Ukraine’s president, opposition leader fails to produce breakthrough as death toll rises

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February 18, 2014
US naval ship runs aground in Black Sea: Pentagon

One of two US naval ships sent to the Black Sea as a security precaution for the Sochi Olympic games ran aground at a Turkish port, officials said Tuesday, AFP reported.
The frigate USS Taylor briefly ran ground last Wednesday as it was preparing to moor at Samsun, where it was due to refuel, Navy officials said.

With this winter being one of the coldest on record,  I am still surprised that there are a few nuts out there that are still promoting the Global Warming fraud.  It is shocking that some people are actually still gullible to believe the garbage spewing out of their mouths considering the fact that the planet is absolutely not heating at all, and in fact we are heading towards a long period of intense global cooling...But believe it or not, but the Global Warming lunatics will not quit, and I am shocked to present the following article that comes from the New Scientist website, at

I have been watching the alternative media news for the last while concerning the situation in Syria, and I am truly now believing that the damn criminal and psychotic state of Isra-Hell will get their American slave minions to attack that peaceful nation very soon... The so called "Geneva Peace Talks" were a farce to begin with, and were always destined to fail...

LibertyManiacs.comby KenI missed this story the last time around, in November, when our Washington Post "In the Loop" pal Al Kamen originally reported on the lawsuit filed by Public Citizen on behalf of a vendor who had dared to misappropriate its apparently sacred seal, and that of the Department of Homeland

Intelligence Director James Clapper says he regrets that NSA didn’t reveal domestic spying plans right after 9/11,  when fear ruled…..Click here for free audiobook download from Audible, and generate $15 to the PBC Podcast!
–Snowden’s newest:  NSA used British and Australian spy networks to spy on Americans while pretending it was legal;  Assange calls for special prosecutor to investigate
–like Clapper, Justice Dept. is caught in a lie that it denies, for using surveillance info in federal court trial in Oregon

Al-Akhbar | February 18, 2014

Israeli troops crossed the barrier separating Lebanon from Occupied Palestine on Tuesday, searching for parts of a crashed surveillance plane, the Lebanese National News Agency reported.

Press TV – February 18, 2014

At least five anti-government protesters have died and scores of others injured in clashes with police outside the Ukrainian parliament building in central Kiev, opposition sources say.
Five protesters were shot dead near the parliament building during Kiev’s worst clashes for more than three weeks, said Oleh Musiy, a top medic for the protesters.

In the video above, the relationship between swarms of Oklahoma earthquakes and fracking, seems obvious. Koch brothers-protected fracking is starting to devastate a wide swathe of the middle of the country-- and Republicans are willfully oblivious to the dangers their ideological policy agenda is causing in red states like Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas and Kansas.

"♫Makin' a soundtrack for another planet to hear♫ on Episode098 - Watch Me Now which features brand new sounds from Sleepy Sun, Growl, Doug Paisley, Carper F

By Dina Jadallah-Taschler | Palestine Chronicle | February 28, 2009

Are North Carolina's Moral Mondays too far away for you to really get what they're about? Hint: they're not about anything Wendy Greuel will ever understand.Marianne Williamson isn't a political careerist. And political careerists-- and political careerists-in-the-making-- resent her for it. Many snicker that she's "just" a spiritual teacher or a guru of some kind, a put-down among political careerists.

Another extremely important article from The Intercept’s Glenn Greenwald and Ryan Gallagher reveals that “the National Security Agency and its British counterpart…targeted WikiLeaks and other activist groups with tactics ranging from covert surveillance to prosecution.”

It's laudable for Prince William to campaign to protect these endangered animals – at stake is nothing less than the survival of the African and Asian elephants – but his sincerity would ring a lot more true if he showed the same respect for other animals, instead of shooting and killing them without a second thought.The post Prince William should wake up to his double standards on animal protection appeared first on BSNEWS.

Saudi Arabia, the brutal authoritarian theocracy that the democracy-promoting Washington claims as one of its closest allies, has a bit of a history of pressuring the U.S. into Middle East wars. The 1991 First Gulf War to oust Saddam Hussein from Kuwait was fought largely in defense of Saudi Arabia. The Kingdom also encouraged the Bush administration to invade Iraq in 2003. And the Saudi king has repeatedly urged Washington to attack Iran to secure Saudi interests in the Sunni-Shia regional divide.

By Lee Fang | Republic Report | February 18, 2014

Officials tapped by the Obama administration to lead the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations have received multimillion dollar bonuses from CitiGroup and Bank of America, financial disclosures obtained by Republic Report show.

All too often, the details of Palestinian life under Israeli occupation are glossed over. But recently, during a Knesset speech by the German Speaker of the European Parliament, Martin Schultz, one detail of such a life came under increased scrutiny.

Guillermo Jimenez | In Mexico, for example, much of the truth has been lost in the crossfire of the drug war, along with the lives of many of those who attempt to report it. According to the nonprofit organization Reporters Without Borders, no fewer than 88 journalists were killed in Mexico from...

AP reporter George Jahn has an article up that is typical of the extreme bias of U.S. news media (the “respectable” kind, not Fox News) on the Iran nuclear talks. The headline seems intended to shock: “Iran at Talks: No Scrapping Any Nuclear Facility.”

Kiev up in smoke: Violence resumes in Ukraine capital LIVE
7 policemen among 18 killed in Ukraine riots as Kiev city center burns
Protesters, Police Clash in Kiev, 10 Deaths Confirmed

What is the probability that George Bush would make a call for a New World Order on 9-11-1990 exactly 11 years before the Israeli attack on America? What is the probability that the Project for a New American Century (PNAC) would call for a New Pearl Harbor on 9-11-2000 exactly one year before Israel took down World Trade Center Towers 1, 2 and 7 with controlled demolitions?
George Bush Sr. New World Order Live Speech Sept 11 1991

Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Siegfried Sassoon
At the Cenotaph

I saw the Prince of Darkness, with his Staff,
Standing bare-headed by the Cenotaph:
Unostentatious and respectful, there
He stood, and offered up the following prayer.
‘Make them forget, O Lord, what this Memorial

Al-Akhbar | February 18, 2014

Yesterday, the leader of the Free Patriotic Movement (FPM) MP Michel Aoun announced that he mediated between Hezbollah’s Secretary General, Hassan Nasrallah, and the leader of the Future Movement (FM), former Prime Minister Saad Hariri, which coincided with the restoration of security and political channels of communication between Hezbollah and the FM.

by Judith Curry This post discusses Workshop presentations on the utility of climate models for regional adaptation decisions. This post is a follow-on to the two previous posts: UK-US Workshop on Climate Science to Support Robust Adaptation Decisions UK-US Workshop … Continue reading →

Stop NATO
February 18, 2014
1) Russian Foreign Ministry: U.S. attempting to dictate its will in Ukraine
2) Ukrainian foreign minister urges West to condemn violent uprising
3) Tensions rise in Ukrainian capital as thugs assault ruling party headquarters
4) Kyiv: Thirty-seven law enforcement personnel wounded, at least one shot
5) Interior Ministry accuses opposition of using firearms
6) Insurgents hurl firebombs, seize Kyiv City State Administration
7) Defense Ministry urges mob to desist from provocations, vacate armed forces building

Rick and RoundsSouth Dakota isn't really a dependable red state. Sure, in presidential elections it is but the state has had a penchant for sending Democrats to the House and Senate in Washington. Two-thirds of the Senate contests since 1986 have been won by Democrats.

Press TV – February 18, 2014

Human rights concerns have risen again in Colombia after an online recording of a military chief revealed his solidarity with a colonel jailed for alleged extrajudicial killings.

A covert game is being played with protest groups in this country which requires that the general population (and media) readily believe the propaganda of establishment voices. This game has absolutely nothing to do with protecting the public and everything to do with protecting corporate profits.The post State Corruption – The Biggest Threat to Our Liberties appeared first on BSNEWS.

U.S. Revisits Options on Syria as Talks Stall- the Obama Administration Takes a Fresh Look at Expanding Training, No-Fly Zones

By David Swanson – February 17, 2014

I had a heck of a time making sense of the U.S. Navy’s new motto “A Global Force for Good” until I realized that it meant “We are a global force, and wherever we go we’re never leaving.”
For three years now people in the little island nation of Bahrain have been nonviolently protesting and demanding democratic reforms.

Britain’s rulers went to war, therefore, not to protect little Catholic Belgium, or so that small nations might be free, but in the selfish interests of a class that profited from privileges gained by governing an empire on which the sun was not supposed to set. In the process this class was entirely indifferent to the mass slaughter that inevitably ensued.The post An Irish view of the First World War appeared first on BSNEWS.

Why is the United States so reluctant to negotiate with other countries and so prone to leap immediately to the option of using force or chicanery in lieu of a more deliberative foreign policy? It might partly be because we Americans are not very good at the subtlety and give-and-take that diplomacy requires, but it […]

Fifty years ago, E.P. Thompson’s The Making of the English Working Class rescued the study of history from the powerful. Kings and queens, landowners, industrialists, politicians and imperialists had owned much of the public memory. In 1980, Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States also demonstrated that the freedoms and rights we enjoy […]

Those who are hoping that an agreement between the exogenous opposition and the Syrian government can bring an end to the civil war misunderstand the purpose of the Geneva communique and subsequent talks: the aim is to get foreign powers to stop exacerbating and perpetuating the crisis, principally the United States and its regional allies.

When I started one of the first punk rock record labels in America back in the late '70s, most rock radio stations laughed at our records and refused to play them. The first big station outside of the San Francisco Bay Area to play the 415 Records artists was WBCN in Boston. We went from being a label that measured sales in various Bay Area neighborhood stores to suddenly shipping boxes of albums to stores in Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire. And, because WBCN was such a huge and successful station, other stations around the country started playing the records as well.

A bombing spree took place across Baghdad today, leaving dozens dead or injured. Also, a northern city was retaken from the control of militants. At least 76 were killed and 116 were wounded.

Jack Blood of Deadlinelive.info joins us for this month’s edition of Film, Literature and the New World Order, where we discuss Tom Hansen’s 2013 novel, This Is What We Do. We talk about the themes raised in the book, including the idea of a global leaderless revolution. We also discuss the role of violence in revolution and why such a revolution hasn’t taken place yet.

"Comcast perfectly fits the old notion of monopolists as robber barons, so-called by analogy with medieval warlords who perched in their castles overlooking the Rhine, extracting tolls from all who passed.

RT | February 17, 2014

More than 450 Indian migrant workers in Qatar have died in the last two years, media revealed on Monday. Another upcoming report will show that 400 Nepalese have lost their lives scrambling to get the Gulf state ready for the 2022 World cup.

1478 – George, Duke of Clarence, convicted of treason against his older brother Edward IV of England, is executed in private at the Tower of London.
1516 – Mary I of England, Queen of England and Ireland (d. 1558) was born.
1546 – Martin Luther, German monk and priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation (b. 1483) died.
1564 – Michelangelo, Italian sculptor and painter (b. 1475) died.
1861 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.

by Judith Curry The science is unequivocal, and those who refuse to believe it are simply burying their heads in the sand. We don’t have time for a meeting anywhere of the Flat Earth Society.  And in a sense, climate change … Continue reading →