#PumpUpThaVolume: November 15, 2017
Media Monarchy plays Deer Tick, Julia Jacklin, Darling West and more on #PumpUpThaVolume for November 15, 2017. ♬
Media Monarchy plays Deer Tick, Julia Jacklin, Darling West and more on #PumpUpThaVolume for November 15, 2017. ♬
Gene Green is one of the worst Democrats in Congress-- very conservative and very corrupt, a pairing that you often find together. And he's retiring early. No realistic explanation why since he's been raising money hand over first all year. He raised $474,164 so far this year and has a campaign war-chest with $1,272,398 as of the September 30 FEC filing deadline.
By Robert Parry | Consortium News | November 14, 2107 A stark difference between today’s Washington and when I was here as a young Associated Press correspondent in the late 1970s and the early 1980s is that then – even as the old Cold War was heating up around the election of Ronald Reagan – […]
On Sunday, Defense Secretary James Mattis said in a press conference that the US military would remain in Syria for the long haul, “as long as there are ISIS who want to fight” he said. He falsely claimed that the US operates in Syria with UN permission. According to a blockbuster BBC report, however, the US government was part of a secret deal to allow thousands of ISIS fighters and their families safe passage from Raqqa — with their weapons! What’s going on here? Join us for today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:
By Jason Hirthler | Dissident Voice | November 15, 2017 In a recent piece published on Politico, former director of national intelligence James Clapper, that “crusty ex-cargo pilot,” makes us privy to another of his unnerving assessments of the world-at-large, “The Russians have succeeded beyond their wildest expectations.” The last time Mr. Clapper assured us […]
Exclusive: Tom Cruise’s portrayal of drug-smuggler-turned-government-informant Barry Seal is a fast-paced visit back to the Reagan era’s shadowy world of the CIA, cocaine and secret wars, writes James DiEugenio. By James DiEugenio Barry Seal’s life has become the stuff of legend. And…Read more →
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Digital pills, toxic swill and the ionized atmosphere + this day in history w/the Milli Vanilli scandal and our song of the day by Saintseneca on your Morning Monarchy for November 15, 2017.
by Anne Teoh for the Saker blog From the depths of despair, one can climb out to see blue sky and fields of flowers, hear birdsongs and the rivers flowing,
Liberalism is liberal. It is an emancipation philosophy and a joyous celebration of the creative energy of diverse peoples near and far. The liberal order is about a framework of rules that cultivates that creativity, and encourages the mutually beneficial interaction with others of great social distance – overcoming such issues as language, ethnicity, race, religion, and geography.
Bastiat is perhaps most famous for his caution that we should not merely consider the observable consequences of public policy, but the hidden and unintended consequences as well—what he called "what is seen and what is unseen."
Few areas of public policy better illustrate what he was talking about than the criminal justice system. After a generation of "tough-on-crime" policies, here are some examples of how what we see often obscures what we can't see.
Tom Secker joins me in the first hour to discuss the upcoming Netflix movie about Anders Behring Breivik and the Oslo and Utoya Island attacks. Tom and I talk about why the film is being made now and the state funding it is receiving from the Norwegian government. We then talk about the writer and director of this film Paul Greengrass. Tom explains his career as a government propagandist and focuses on his film United 93. We then talk about the aspects of the attack we anticipate Greengrass and Netflix will leave out of the film.
It wasn't until earlier this year that I became really concerned about Amazon. Sure, I had warned people previously of the dangers of an oligarch like Jeff Bezos owning a major national newspaper like The Washington Post, and I'd also highlighted Amazon's creepy $600 million contract with the CIA, but I didn't truly grasp the bigger picture until recently.
Kara Eastman (Democrat) and Brad Ashford ("ex"-GOP Blue Dog)Alixandria Lapp, a poster child for the DC Dem's revolving door problem worked for New Dem Adam Smith (WA) from 1997-2005 and then went to work for the DCCC. In 2007 she became executive director of the New Dems, the Republican wing of the Democratic Party.
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I periodically get hit with the argument that high tax rates don’t matter since America enjoyed a golden period of prosperity in the 1950s and early 1960s when the top tax rate was more than 90 percent. But the US experienced four recessions during the 1950s which were really a period of tepid growth. High tax rates are generally symbolic – at least from a revenue-raising perspective – since taxpayers arrange their financial affairs to avoid the tax.
A new tech startup allows people to fund employment training and careers advice to help homeless people in the UK
The post The digital platform using crowdfunding to help homeless people into new careers appeared first on Positive News.
BBC Tells “Raqqa’s Dirty Secret”Oh wow, did you know that the US, Britain and their Kurdish lackies conspired to transport "ISIS" safely out of Raqqa!?!? The BBC presents their report as if it's something shocking, but, necessary.
Josep María Antentas interviewed by Dan La Botz / Socialist Project.
Dan La Botz, a co-editor of New Politics, interviewed Josep María Antentas, teacher of Sociology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and anticapitalist activist. First published on New Politics website.
Two things in life are certain: death and taxes. So goes the saying. And yet despite that, the idea of the necessity of taxation is largely undisputed, “consent” to its use is, historically seen, new. How did it come about that tax evasion, first an act of protection against the abuse of government, is now frowned upon? Why is there such moral indignation, and why is tax avoidance such a big deal today when it was widespread centuries ago?
https://southfront.org/syria-war-report-november-15-2017-syrian-army-tu… If you’re able, and if you like our content and approach, please support the project. Our work wouldn’t be possible without your help: PayPal: southfront@list.ru or via: http://southfront.org/donate/ or via: https://www.patreon.com/southfront On November 14, the
Max Blumenthal, is a frequent guest on RT, says there is a double standard being applied: the Israel lobby, and organizations like AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee), promote war in Gaza, war in Lebanon and war in Iran, but are not required to register as a foreign agent. He says RT was targeted as it delivers news and views that are contrary to those aligned with the Pentagon and mainstream media. [...]
The World Fair Trade Organization has declared this week to be World Fair Trade Week. "Fair trade" is quite the buzzword in commerce these days and is generally associated with agricultural products. Chief among those is coffee. The popularity of fair trade coffee is undeniable. But what even is "fair trade" and what does it entail? How "fair" is it? Or is it just a marketing gimmick? James Harrigan and Antony Davies get into the nitty-gritty of this and more in this week's episode of Words and Numbers.
Stem Express used financial bonus incentives to obtain the maximum number of high value specimens to fetch top dollar when re-sold. Stem Express employees worked alongside abortionists in Planned Parenthood clinics to extract body parts which were shipped via FedEx to researchers. It is illegal to profit from the sale of human body parts. [...]
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The government has paid out $15 million on behalf of members of Congress who were sexual harassers. There is new legislation to change the current policy that requires victims to sign a non-disclosure agreement and then are denied representation by counsel. Most of the cost is passed to the taxpayers instead of being paid by the harassers. [...]
The rise in black market activity in North Korea led to the millennials of the nation being dubbed the ‘Jangmadang (장마당)’ generation, named after the Korean term meaning ‘market grounds’. Initially, these markets consisted of disorganized traders meeting in fields, facing seizure from police if they did not come up with a bribe.
Today, the jangmadang practice has led to fully-fledged markets, complete with stalls selling street food, smuggled electronics, ingredients, and clothes; certain markets allegedly grew to encompass upwards of a thousand stalls.
George Soros' funded Media Matters claims Sean Hannity was sympathetic when interviewing Judge Roy Moore over allegations of sexual misconduct, and it organized a boycott against Hannity - and eleven advertisers dropped his show. [...]
Soros recently poured $18 billion into his Open Societies Foundation that lobbies for open borders and a supranational government run by a bureaucracy of non-elected administrators. Farage calls for financial transparency, including the disclosure of payments from Soros to his 226 'reliable friends' in the European Parliament. If this is done, he thinks it will expose the largest case of political collusion in history. [...]
Courts Have Allowed Police To Murder The Constitution
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/07/twilight-of-the-american-courts/
Canadians protest in support of indigenous women Press TV – November 15, 2017 A senior Iranian diplomat has blasted Canada for proposing a “politically-motivated” UN resolution on the situation of human rights in Iran, while Ottawa, itself, has long been involved in a broad range of human rights abuses at home and elsewhere. Iran’s Deputy […]
Legend has it that tea became a thing 4,000 years ago in China when the god/emperor Shennong asked his servant for a cup of water and some tea leaves blew into his drink.
Exclusive: President Trump’s vow to “drain the swamp” was just one more empty promise as he adds to the muck with military contractors in key Pentagon jobs and other industry lobbyists at regulatory posts, says Jonathan Marshall. By Jonathan Marshall…Read more →
By Kathryn Shihadah | If Americans Knew | November 14, 2017 Washington D.C. was the site on October 29th – 31st for AIPAC’s annual matchmaking event, pairing up Israel and a fresh batch of American high school students. The 2017 Schusterman High School Summit treated 400 high schoolers from all over the US to three […]
Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” comment was surely a campaign gaffe, but she wasn’t wrong about Donald Trump’s exploitation of white grievances and other ugly attitudes, writes Lawrence Davidson. By Lawrence Davidson There is more to being civilized than being a citizen…Read more →
(SP) — The CIA contends WikiLeaks is not a media organization but rather a “non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia.” Response by the U.S. press to a report from The Atlantic on correspondence between WikiLeaks and Donald Trump Jr. wholly adopted the CIA’s narrative, even though the public still lacks proof of such cooperation.
There's a battle raging in Maine right now because, after the Trumpist governor of the state, Paul LePage, kept vetoing the legislature's Medicaid expansion, the citizens voted to expand it in a ballot initiative. LePage then announced he would "veto" that too!
Perhaps the most remarkable thing about cryptocurrency is that it unleashed competition without any reform of the system that still operates from the top down. No law was repealed, no plan was enacted, no new reforms were passed. It was as if a Maserati had sudden driven up alongside a fleet of Model Ts.
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[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2017-11-15%20Chuck%20Ochelli.mp3"][/audio]The squirt of JFK documents from the government archives that I reported on earlier became a veritable dump last week when 13,000 more documents were released. Joining us to sort through this mess is host of The Ochelli Effect, Chuck Ochelli, aka The Blind JFK Researcher.
MEMO | November 14, 2017 An air raid by the Saudi-led military coalition put the Ansarullah-controlled Yemeni airport in the capital Sana’a out of service today, jeopardising relief shipments to a country on the brink of famine, the state news agency SABA reported. The Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen’s Ansarullah movement said last week it had […]
Yikes. Over 15,000 scientists hailing from more than 180 countries just issued a dire warning to humanity: “Time is running out” to stop business as usual, as threats from rising greenhouse gases to biodiversity loss are pushing the biosphere to the brink. The new warning was published Monday in the international journal BioScience, and marks an update to the “World Scientists’ Warning to[Read More...]
United Front Against Austerity|Tax Wall Street Party American System Network|Tuesday, November 14, 2017 Death Agony of Republican Party Continues: Speaker Ryan Calls for Moore to Drop Out, While Ultra-Reactionary Groups Want Mitch McConnell to Resign; Both Should Quit!; Trump Stock Bubble on Borrowed Time As European Central Bank Announces 50% Cut in Quantitative Easing Starting [...]
Wondering how this overthrow fits into the grander scheme of things? Mugabe confined to his house:Robert Mugabe