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GRIDLOCK SPECIAL The teabaggers have successfully thrown every kind of wrench their corporate masters thought would stick. None of them will ever become law but they feel compelled to try, to "represent their constituency". What constituency voted these cromagnons in anyhow? More on this later. First Common Dreams Staff Writer Jon Queally reports on this item in The Hindu newspaper 'Global Heat Maps' Reveal India a Hot Target of NSA Spying Joining nations in Europe, the Middle East, and South America, new reporting on Monday shows that India—one of the world's most populous nations and despite being considered one of the United States' closest global allies—has been the target of intense digital surveillance by the US National Security Agency in recent years. Citing documents provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden, The Hindu newspaper reveals that India ranks fifth overall in terms of the intensity of NSA scrutiny, with files showing how the NSA employs two of its most potent signature intelligence (or SIGNIT) spy programs to collect billions of pieces of internet and telephonic data in the country on a monthly basis. The first, called 'Boundless Informant' is a data-mining system that tracks and processes huge volumes of collected digital and telephonic metadata, and the second, called PRISM, which intercepts and collects actual content from the networks. The NSA operates both programs within the United States and around the globe. ...... See part of The Hindu's article there with a link to the original article! NEXT at the Guardian's Media Blog Lisa O'Carroll has Seymour Hersh on Obama, NSA and the 'pathetic' American media Seymour Hersh has got some extreme ideas on how to fix journalism – close down the news bureaus of NBC and ABC, sack 90% of editors in publishing and get back to the fundamental job of journalists which, he says, is to be an outsider. ....... Don't even get him started on the New York Times which, he says, spends "so much more time carrying water for Obama than I ever thought they would" – or the death of Osama bin Laden. "Nothing's been done about that story, it's one big lie, not one word of it is true," he says of the dramatic US Navy Seals raid in 2011. Hersh is writing a book about national security and has devoted a chapter to the bin Laden killing. He says a recent report put out by an "independent" Pakistani commission about life in the Abottabad compound in which Bin Laden was holed up would not stand up to scrutiny. "The Pakistanis put out a report, don't get me going on it. Let's put it this way, it was done with considerable American input. It's a bullshit report," he says hinting of revelations to come in his book. ............ "It's pathetic, they are more than obsequious, they are afraid to pick on this guy [Obama]," he declares in an interview with the Guardian. "It used to be when you were in a situation when something very dramatic happened, the president and the minions around the president had control of the narrative, you would pretty much know they would do the best they could to tell the story straight. Now that doesn't happen any more. Now they take advantage of something like that and they work out how to re-elect the president." ................. "Duncan Campbell [the British investigative journalist who broke the Zircon cover-up story], James Bamford [US journalist] and Julian Assange and me and the New Yorker, we've all written the notion there's constant surveillance, but he [Snowden] produced a document and that changed the whole nature of the debate, it's real now," Hersh says. "Editors love documents. Chicken-shit editors who wouldn't touch stories like that, they love documents, so he changed the whole ball game," he adds, before qualifying his remarks. "But I don't know if it's going to mean anything in the long [run] because the polls I see in America – the president can still say to voters 'al-Qaida, al-Qaida' and the public will vote two to one for this kind of surveillance, which is so idiotic," he says. ......... "I have this sort of heuristic view that journalism, we possibly offer hope because the world is clearly run by total nincompoops more than ever … Not that journalism is always wonderful, it's not, but at least we offer some way out, some integrity." ...... Read all of this there's so much more! And see this headline at Salon Sy Hersh on Osama bin Laden raid: “Not one word of it is true” “Our job [as journalists] is to find out ourselves, our job is not just to say – ‘here’s a debate’ our job is to go beyond the debate and find out who’s right and who’s wrong about issues,” Hersh said. “That doesn’t happen enough. It costs money, it costs time, it jeopardizes, it raises risks. There are some people – the New York Times still has investigative journalists but they do much more of carrying water for the president than I ever thought they would … it’s like you don’t dare be an outsider any more.” Ya think, Sy? BTV Correspondent MADDY notes The Senate Is Busy Creating a Privileged 1st Amendment Club for 'Official' Journalists at AlterNet by Carey Shenkman The Senate is skirting the substantial investigative role served by independent journalists, bloggers, and nontraditional media. On September 12, 2013, the U.S. Senate Judiciary committee narrowly defined who the law should consider to be a journalist, by amending the proposed Free Flow of Information Act (“FFIA”). The FFIA is a “shield law” that protects journalists from having to reveal their confidential sources when confronted with court subpoenas. The amendment changed the language of the bill from protecting the activity of journalism to protecting the profession. Journalists are now limited to those employed by, recently employed by, or substantially contributing to media organizations for certain minimum durations. This maneuver skirts the substantial investigative role served by independent journalists, bloggers, and nontraditional media, who are left unprotected by the statute. It also expressly excludes whistleblower organizations. By not extending protection to a vital segment of investigative newsgatherers, the amended FFIA falls short of providing real benefits. More fundamentally, the distinctions created by the bill reinforce a privileged club for journalists. In essence, the government is licensing the press, and treading down a path that courts have for decades cautioned “present[s] practical and conceptual difficulties of a high order.”..........Indeed, the whole FFIA amendment is permeated by an undertone of institutional elitism and a rejection of new media. ........... Biases of lawmakers should not become law. Courts, since decades before the advent of the Internet, have avoided creating classes for journalists. It creates unsustainable logical contradictions and is ultimately bad for investigative reporting. In the words of Professor Linda Berger, “[N]o patriot printer or colonial pamphleteer had a journalism degree. Certification by a government agency or by a professional group carries the possibility of de-certification based on value judgments or viewpoints.” Legislation like FFIA teeters this country closer to a future where journalism bears the government's stamp of approval. THIS IS HUGE. BTV reported earlier this month in our Smashing Hard Drives posts Eric Boehm of Watchdog.org reported a few weeks ago so-called Dem Diane Feinstein wants to limit who can be a journalist The most recent congressional threat to the free press in the United States comes from California Democrat U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein. Go read BOTH of these! NOW! With the farm bill now coming up for debate and renewal Willie Nelson, fresh off the Farm Aid 2013 Concert last Saturday (VIDEOS!) pens this item at Common Dreams It's Time to Stand Up With Family Farmers ...... There are good folks in Congress who are fighting for a family farm food system that benefits family farmers and all Americans. But they're blocked by a majority that lets corporate power, partisan politics and big money get in the way of progress. Their votes have reinforced a dominant, chemical-dependent food system that is harmful to our environment, our health and local economies, while cutting billions from nutrition and food programs for people who need food. In recent years the Good Food Movement has forged ahead, including some progress made in the last farm bill. This movement has created more opportunities to support and promote family farm agriculture. But without meaningful action now on farm policy, those gains and more will be lost. Without better farm policies, family farmers will not have the chance to compete in a fair marketplace and earn a living. Conservation programs, so crucial in a changing climate, will be compromised. New and beginning farmers will lose access to the credit, resources and land they need to start their farm businesses. Programs for underserved farmers will disappear. Innovations happening right now on the farm to grow renewable energy will be lost. And industrial ag stands to win if efforts to reform wasteful farm subsidy programs are ignored. Today, as the minutes tick down to another farm bill deadline, people in towns and cities everywhere are taking matters into their own hands. They're standing up with family farmers and insisting on food that is best for them and their families. They're seeking out food from family farms at farmers markets, grocery stores and restaurants. They are organizing to change the food served in schools, hospitals and public institutions. They're making their voice heard and voting for family farm food every way they can. Our message is hard to miss. America needs family farmers. Congress, can you hear us? Apparently not enough, Willie. Reuters has this Analysis: U.S. farm bill, a year overdue, still rolling on slow track by Charles Abbott The new U.S. farm bill, already a year behind schedule, is on the congressional equivalent of a slow freight train - rolling from acrimony to limbo with a layover in stalemate. And Washington's disputes over the federal budget and national debt could mean further delays. A stopgap extension of current law runs out on Monday. Negotiators from the House of Representatives and the Senate may take up the bill in the next week or two. Traditionally, this group reconciles disagreements and brings a compromise bill to a final vote. But analysts say the standoffs on the budget and debt limit are likely to delay consideration of the farm bill, as well as make the bill a target for cuts when budget savings are needed. Given the deep divisions between the Republican-controlled House and the Senate, where Democrats are in the majority, negotiators may arrive at the table with irreconcilable ideas of what to put into a final version of the bill. In the end, Congress could fast-track an alternative - such as an extension of the current law for a second straight year - if the farm bill goes off the rails or never builds enough steam to move ahead. ....... The overarching issue: food stamps for the poor, accounting for three-fourths of outlays forecast for $500 billion over five years. The Senate voted to pare food stamp spending by $4.5 billion over a decade through closure of a loophole on utility costs. But the House, in a party-line vote, called for food stamp cuts of $40 billion through tighter eligibility rules that end benefits for 10 percent of recipients in 2014. ............. The 2008 farm law expired a year ago and was extended in December through September 30. Crop insurance and crop subsidies, as well as food stamps, will continue to operate when the 2008 law expires for the second time. Crop insurance and food stamps are permanently authorized. Crop subsidies run through the end of the marketing year for 2013 crops, which is well into 2014. "I don't think the farm economy will even know that it's gone on October 1," said Bob Young, chief economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation. Patrick Westhoff, director of the think tank Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute, said January 1, 2014, would be a natural deadline for action. That's when dairy prices could double under a 1949 "permanent" farm law that would kick in. The policy crunch would come when 2014 crops are ready for harvest if the "dairy cliff" - the jump in milk prices - doesn't force action. All the hub-bub on Capitol Hill is about shutting down the government by passing the Continuing Resolution (H.J.RES.59) with a poison pill de-funding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). We go to Steve Benen at the MaddowBlog GOP ransom note has plenty of demands, not enough votes Yesterday's reports about House Republicans crafting a farcical debt-ceiling ransom note weren't just speculative. By mid-day, GOP leaders had put their proposal on paper and presented it to their rank-and-file members. It's as profoundly ridiculous as we'd been led to believe.
Republicans get:

• Delayed Obamacare implementation
  
• Keystone XL Pipeline
  
• Tax reform commitment
  
• Medicare means testing
  
• Medical libility reform
  
• Pension reforms for federal employees
  
• Changes to Dodd-Frank
  
• Easing EPA rules
  
• Restrictions on regulations
  
• More oil drilling
  
• Killing the CFPB
  
• Scrapping Net Neutrality

The Democrats get:

• ___________

As a legislative exercise, this is quite literally laughable, though the laundry list of far-right goodies does offer some important lessons. For one thing, House Republicans have gone bonkers to a degree the political establishment has yet to fully appreciate. For another, GOP leaders seem to believe they can use extortion to advance an entire agenda that was rejected by the American electorate less than a year ago in national elections. But take a closer look at the list and another realization comes into focus: Republicans used to maintain the pretense that fighting over the debt ceiling was an opportunity to tackle debt reduction, but as of this week, they've dropped the facade. As Josh Barro noted, "Republicans are out with a list of demands for raising the debt ceiling, many of which have little or no connection to the federal debt." If there are still some political observers who believe congressional Republicans are mature, responsible officials, serious about governing, I'd respectfully disagree. The nonsensical ransom note, however, isn't the funny part. ....... Yes, unhinged GOP leaders, hoping to placate an unhinged caucus, put together an unhinged wish list filled with practically everything an unhinged lawmaker could want -- and they still don't have the votes to pass the darn thing. Why in the world would House Republicans balk at a ridiculous debt-ceiling bill designed specifically to make them happy? A couple of reasons, actually........ Read on for the frightening realization: "It's a party that has simply lost control." But there is yet ANOTHER poison pill in there we've reported about before. For more information and to TAKE ACTION go to the Organic Consumers Association URGENT: Take Action Today to Stop the Monsanto Protection Act and also visit Stop the Monsanto Protection Act sponsored by Senator Jeff Merkley, Senator Bernie Sanders, Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema, and the Daily Kos community. UPDATE! David Rogers at Politico tells us the Senate CR to strip Monsanto rider A controversial legislative rider added by Monsanto to the Agriculture Department budget last spring will no longer be effective after Sept. 30 under a draft stopgap government funding bill being drafted by Senate Democrats. The provision touched off a storm last spring as critics accused Monsanto of “court-stripping” to protect its sales of the genetically modified seeds for which the St. Louis-based giant is a pioneer in commercializing. The continuing resolution approved by the House last week would extend the rider without comment for the first months of the new fiscal year. But the Senate substitute, to be unveiled Wednesday, will explicitly go back and make clear that that Monsanto-backed provision will end this month. “That provision will be gone,” said Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), confirming the change to POLITICO. The Center for Food Safety, a Washington-based non-profit, welcomed the decision as “a major victory for the food movement” and “sea change in a political climate that all too often allows corporate earmarks to slide through must-pass legislation.” “Short-term appropriations bills are not an excuse for Congress to grandfather in bad policy,” said Colin O’Neil, director of government affairs for the Center. The whole dispute has been overshadowed by the larger fight over Republican efforts to use the same CR to cut off funding needed by President Barack Obama to implement his health care reforms. But for many environmental and food safety groups, the so-called “Monsanto Protection Act” —as the rider was called—became a major cause last spring, generating a huge amount of Internet traffic and calls on Obama to veto the agriculture budget...... UPDATE! The Center for Food Safety now declares Victory! CFS and Allies Defeat "Monsanto Protection Act" in Congress Center for Food Safety applauds Senator Mikulski and Senate Leadership for removing the “Monsanto Protection Act” through an amendment filed to the Senate Continuing Resolution (CR). The House-passed bill would have extended the dangerous policy rider for another three months, outraging public interest and family farm groups. Center for Food Safety (CFS) has led the fight against the corporate earmark since it was first introduced in the summer of 2012, working with both lawmakers and the public to understand the rider’s consequences. Over the last year, CFS members have sent hundreds of thousands of emails and calls to Congress demanding the removal of “Monsanto Protection Act”. “The American people asked Congress to stand up against corporate interests and Senator Mikulski along with Senate leadership answered the call. We applaud their resolve during this contentious time on Capitol Hill, putting good policy over backdoor politics,” said Colin O’Neil, director of government affairs for Center for Food Safety. The "Monsanto Protection Act" represents a serious assault on the fundamental safeguards of our judicial system and would negatively impact farmers, the environment and public health across America. ........ “The ‘Monsanto Protection Act’ was bad policy and had no place in a short term spending bill. Removing it from the bill preserves the strength of our judicial review system and is a major win for the food movement. Center for Food Safety looks forward to working with Senator Mikulski and other legislators on strengthening the health and safety of our food system,” added O’Neil. ..... Keep those cards and letters coming! There's a reason for 10 Reasons Bank of America Is the Most Hated Bank in America. We now learn Bank of America to pay $2.2 million to black job applicants over racial discrimination Bank of America Corp has been ordered to pay $2.18 million to 1,147 black job applicants over racial discrimination in hiring that kept qualified candidates from getting jobs for over two decades. Back payments and interest would be given to former candidates for teller and entry-level administrative and clerical positions in the bank's hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina, between 1993 and 2005. The decision was made by administrative law judge at the Labor Department, Linda Chapman, the U.S. Department of Labor said yesterday. And then there's this from Nate Raymond at Reuters 'Massive fraud' at center of trial against BofA over U.S. mortgages Bank of America Corp's Countrywide unit placed profits over quality in a "massive fraud" selling shoddy mortgages to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a U.S. government lawyer said on Tuesday. The claim came at the start of the first case by the government to go to trial against a major bank over defective mortgage practices leading up to the 2008 financial crisis. Pierre Armand, a lawyer in the civil division of the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan, said Countrywide made $165 million selling loans that it promised were investment quality to Fannie and Freddie. "What documents and witnesses will show is that the promise of quality was largely a joke," Armand said. But Brendan Sullivan, a lawyer for Bank of America, said Countrywide had sought to ensure the loans it made were good and that no fraud occurred. "No fraud," he said. "Two words. That's the heart and soul and body of the defense. No fraud. And that's what the evidence will show." (Sure. No fraud. We buy that. Sure. -Admin) The case is U.S. ex rel. O'Donnell v. Bank of America Corp et al, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 12-01422. (Reporting by Nate Raymond; Editing by Lisa Shumaker) Read up on D-Day David Dayen The American Prospect Homeowners vs. Big Bad Banks Those defrauded by Bank of America aren’t allowed to file a collective complaint, thanks to a 2011 Supreme Court ruling. And more D-Day at the New Republic on Sequestration The Big Budget Battle the GOP Has Already Won The new fiscal year, which begins October 1, is the natural moment to assess the harm sequestration has wrought, and fix it to prevent more damage. But the extreme nature of the House Republican demands has made a “clean” budget resolution with spending cuts intact the compromise position in the debate. As a result, the deal that emerges from the process will likely total $967.4 billion in defense and non-defense discretionary spending on an annual basis, which includes the capped spending level for Fiscal Year 2014 ($1.058 trillion), minus $90.6 billion in sequestration cuts. ....... The longer sequestration remains in effect, the harder it will be to remove it. This is a terrifying scenario. Sequestration was never supposed to go into effect because it blindly takes a swing at the entire discretionary budget, whether the programs are worthwhile or wasteful. Combined with the spending caps, this austerity removes any flexibility to match federal spending to constituent needs. And though sequestration has fallen off the radar as a media concern, it has nonetheless hampered the economic recovery in significant ways, a point that most economists agree on. ...... And listen to D-Day on Sam's show 9/24/13 David Dayen: Courts Closed For Bank Fraud AND THIS JUST IN: Go read Matt Taibbi at The Rolling Stone Looting Public Pensions: A New Think-Tank Study and WATCH Matt Taibbi on How Wall Street Hedge Funds Are Looting the Pension Funds of Public Workers TAIBBI: "In a lot of cases what I’m finding is that the fees that states are paying for these new hedge funds and these new types of alternatives investments are actually roughly equal to the cuts that they are taking from workers". ...... "Look, pension funds are sort of the last great big unguarded piles of money in this country and there are going to be all sorts of operators who trying to get their hands on that money. " GOOD ITEM! Our BTV LAST WORD goes to RALPH NADER and his rebuttal to Senator Ted Cruz's 21-hour "waste of time" People Want Full Medicare for All ... After listening to his lengthy rant on the Senate Floor on Tuesday and Wednesday, one comes away with two distinct impressions. Ted Cruz cannot resist inserting himself here, there and everywhere. And nothing is too trivial for Senator Talkathon. He likes White Castle hamburgers, he loves pancakes; he talked about what he liked to read as a little boy, where he’s traveled, what clothes he wears and other trivia. You’d think he would have used his time to talk specifically about the suffering that uninsured people and their children are going through, especially in the Lone Star State. Or about what could replace Obamacare other than his repeated “free market” solution, which is to say the “pay or die” profiteering, tax-subsidized corporate system. ............ Single-payer, or full Medicare for all, with free choice of physician and hospital has been the majority choice of Americans for decades. Even a majority ofdoctors and nurses favor it. Single-payer’s advantage is that everybody is in, nobody is out. It is far more efficient, allows for better outcomes, saves lives, prevents injuries and illnesses, relieves people of severe anxieties and wasted time spent figuring out often fraud-ridden, inscrutable computerized bills and allows for the collection of pattern-detecting data to spot harmful trends. ........... So why the U.S. is the only Western country without some version of a single-payer system? Most concessionary Democrats, including Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, have said in the past that they prefer single-payer, but that the corporate forces against it cannot be overcome. (They use phrases like “single-payer is not practical.”) But with the Cruz crew in Congress going berserk against Obamacare, now is the time to press again for the far superior single-payer model. Or at least get single-payer into the public discussion. Unfortunately, even some of the major citizen groups organized for single-payer, behind H.R. 676, are keeping quiet, not wanting to undercut Obama and the Congressional Democrats. Go to Single Payer Action and connect with the movement that does not play debilitating politics and seeks your engagement. Thank you Mr. Nader. We didn't have time for the latest on the gruesome IPCC climate report so scroll down to the Green News Report for the latest! Much more below. Catch PAUL KRUGMAN on This Snafugopolis after BILL CLINTON's chuckle-up with George! TED CRUZ will pee himself on Meet the David. Then RAND PAUL will be defending Cruz (not really) on Face the Bob. And HOWARD DEAN takes on State of the Candy. Throw bricks at will at all those Beltway Bubalas! THE TRIBE IS IN THE PLAYOFFS! No matter what happens Sunday The Cleveland Indians will have to play SOMEBODY this week. Check TBS for these games and the Pirates-Reds "play-in" game on Tuesday! Tribe has WON THEIR LAST NINE GAMES to get here. GO TRIBE! BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!_©

Democracy Now's Iraq interactive timeline

Headlines Monday, Sept 16, 2013

• Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger Spilling the NSA’s Secrets: Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger on the Inside Story of Snowden Leaks
  

Headlines Tuesday, Sept 24, 2013

• Ricardo Patiño, Ecuador’s Foreign Minister Ecuador Takes on Chevron, Global Indifference in Controversial Fights to Protect Rainforest
  
• More Patiño Ecuadorean Foreign Minister on Latin American Resistance to NSA Spying & the Castro-Chávez Legacy
  
• Tzeporah Berman, a leading environmental activist & former co-director of Greenpeace International’s Climate Unit Corroding Our Democracy: Canada Silences Scientists, Targets Environmentalists in Tar Sands Push
  

Headlines Wednesday, Sept 25, 2013

• Narges Bajoghli, graduate student and documentary filmmaker at NYU Obama and Rouhani Welcome New Talks, Offering Hope to Iranians Suffering Under U.S.-Led Sanctions
  
• Jeremy Scahill Jeremy Scahill: Al-Shabab’s Nairobi Mall Rampage Tied to "Disastrous" U.S. Meddling in Somalia
  
• More Scahill The Empire President: Jeremy Scahill on Obama’s "Neo-Con" Doctrine of Military Force in U.N. Speech
  

Headlines Thursday, Sept 26, 2013

• Kumi Naidoo, Executive Director of Greenpeace International Protest or Piracy? Greenpeace Activists Remain Jailed in Russia After Boarding Arctic Oil Rig
  
• Kumi Naidoo & Jeff Masters, director of meteorology at the Weather Underground As IPCC Warns of Climate Disaster, Will Scientific Consensus Spark Action on Global Warming?
  
• Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi Matt Taibbi on How Wall Street Hedge Funds Are Looting the Pension Funds of Public Workers
  

Headlines Friday, Sept 27, 2013

• Elisabeth Benjamin, Vice President of Health Care Initiatives at the Community Service Society of New York Decoding Obamacare: A Guide to New Healthcare Marketplaces Designed to Help 48 Million Uninsured
  
• Anabel Hernández, Mexican investigative reporter Narcoland: Journalist Braves Death Threats to Reveal Ties Between Mexican Government & Drug Cartels
  

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The 1st Amendment is Our Permit Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment. Quickly sign the following statement which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country:

Our permit to occupy public squares and parks is in The First Amendment, which affirms "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." When people across the Middle East occupied public squares, leaders in Washington mostly cheered those protesters and warned Middle Eastern governments not to use force to clear them. Those other societies don’t have a First Amendment. Yet Washington affirmed the universal right to assembly and protest. We do have a First Amendment. The force being used to clear nonviolent protesters from public squares in our country is unacceptable. It must stop.

StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org! A bailout of the people by the people Rolling Jubilee is a Strike Debt project that buys debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, abolishes it. Together we can liberate debtors at random through a campaign of mutual support, good will, and collective refusal. Debt resistance is just the beginning. Join us as we imagine and create a new world based on the common good, not Wall Street profits. ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme

STOP the ACHE NEW WEBSITE! AcheAct.org and Appalachian Community HEALTH EMERGENCY Advocating for government action and protection of the public from the health crisis in mountain top removal communities. The A.C.H.E. Act Is Re-Introduced In The 113th Congress!

Washington, DC – Today a group of U.S. House of Representatives lawmakers introduced the Appalachian Community Health Emergency Act (ACHE Act, H.R. 526) to protect Appalachian families and communities from the nation’s most extreme form of coal mining, mountaintop removal. The Appalachian Community Health Emergency Act’s leading sponsors are Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) and Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), joined by original cosponsors Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD), Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA), Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD), Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA), Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Rep. Michael Honda (D-CA), Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Rep. Janice Schakowksy (D-IL), Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), and Rep. Jared Polis (DCO).

Community-Wealth.org community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity. Featuring Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth Something important is happening in Cleveland. The Democracy Collaborative—the host of C-W.org—in partnership with the Cleveland Foundation, the Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Shorebank Enterprise Cleveland, the City of Cleveland, and the city's major hospitals and universities—is helping to implement a new model of large-scale worker-owned and community-benefiting businesses. The Evergreen Cooperative Initiative is beginning to build serious momentum in one of the cities most dramatically impacted by the nation's decaying economy. Increasingly, this model is being referred to nationally as The Cleveland Model. Initial planning is now underway to assist other cities in Ohio and nationwide to replicate and adapt this innovative approach to economic development, green job creation, and neighborhood stabilization. Find more many resources at Community-Wealth.org!

NET NEUTRALITY! SaveTheInternet.com Declaration of Internet Freedom Tired of fighting bad bills like SOPA, PIPA and CISPA? Want to stand up against those who are trying to control what we do and say online? It's time for something different. A group of more than 1,500 organizations, academics, startup founders and tech innovators has come together to produce a Declaration of Internet Freedom, a set of five principles that put forward a positive vision of the open Internet. Our goal: Get millions of Internet users to sign on to this Declaration. Build political power for Internet users to make sure that we get a seat at the table whenever, and wherever, the future of the Internet is being decided. It's time to stop playing defense and start going on the offensive. The open Internet is central to people’s freedom to communicate, share, advocate and innovate in the 21st century. But powerful interests want to censor free speech, block the sharing of information, hinder innovation and control how Internet users get online. And all too often, people in power are making political decisions behind closed doors about how the Internet should operate — and they're doing this without the involvement of actual Internet users. The result: policies that could close down the open Internet and destroy our freedom to connect. It’s time for us to reclaim the Internet for its users. Take action now and sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom. ACTION! Meet the New CISPA. Same as the Old CISPA. Last year, thanks to a public outcry, the effort to pass overreaching cybersecurity legislation stalled in the Senate. Now supporters have reintroduced the House version of that legislation — the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). The “new” version is in fact identical to the original CISPA — and poses the same threat to our digital civil liberties. If CISPA becomes law, it will be a major blow to our online privacy. But more than that, CISPA’s passage would have a chilling effect on our freedom to connect online. We won’t feel as free to state unpopular opinions, or to speak truth to power, if we know that Big Brother could get a feed of everything we say and do. This is not what the free and open Internet is about. We must tell Congress: Vote NO on CISPA and bury this bill for good.

NEW!!! Stop Media Consolidation! Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is trying to change the agency’s ownership rules to pave the way for Murdoch to get exactly what he wants. Worse, Genachowski and Murdoch are keeping this all very hush-hush, hoping you won't notice.3 These changes wouldn’t just benefit Murdoch. If the FCC proposal passes, one company could own the major daily newspaper, two TV stations and up to eight radio stations in your town. And that one company could be your Internet provider, too. What is the FCC thinking?!? We can still stop the agency from taking this perilous step — but we have less than a month to do it. By taking action, you’re joining a movement of millions who are working to stop big media from getting even bigger. Please take action today. Click HERE to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation!

CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: No more silent majority. The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the Center for Economic and Policy Research (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) to monitor the media’s coverage and representation of the American Majority views as they go into covering the big deficit fight. But we want to enlist YOU too. Send us accounts of unbalanced coverage in the national media and in your local newspapers and television. Call up reporters, editors, assignment people and tell them when they are under-representing the views of the American Majority. We should have at least half the experts, pundits, quotes and real people represented in their coverage. In a debate as important as the one we are going into, we can’t allow the media to ignore the American Majority. Much more at www.ourfuture.org

MOVE TO AMEND! www.movetoamend.org SIGN HERE NOW! And check out more actions on the Move to Amend Calendar for more! Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site www.savedemocracy.net GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at CongressmanWithGuts.com and check out his latest effort DontAttackSyria.com!

REPRESENT.US IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US. Represent.Us is a fresh campaign to pass the American Anti-Corruption Act: a law that would overhaul campaign finance, impose strict lobbying and conflict of interest laws, and end secret political money. We are mobilizing millions of Americans — conservatives and progressives, young and old, every issue group fighting K Street, online and offline — to join this campaign. Represent.Us is not just building a movement to pass the Act. The campaign will use hard-hitting accountability tactics to unseat politicians who fail to endorse the Act. If passed, the Act will completely reshape American politics and policy-making and give people a voice. See this Guest Blog at Greenpeace by Executive Director Josh Silver The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics for more information!

SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT See CourageToResist.org and Bradley Manning Support Network From the Bradley Manning Support Network Announcing the Private Manning Support Network! August 26, 2013, By attorney David Coombs and the Private Manning Support Network (formerly the Bradley Manning Support Network). Additional clarification on PVT Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning's request regarding her gender and name. With your continued support, our network will continue its advocacy efforts in support our heroic WikiLeaks whistle-blower through this new phase of her life. ....... UPDATE! Campaign's October 2013 newsletter PDF available September 24, 2013. Download, view, print and share our October 2013 campaign newsletter! Includes Pvt. Manning's letter to President Obama, reactions to the 35 year sentence from observers and Manning's family, and next steps for our campaign AND Update 9/23/13: Greenwald on Snowden and Manning About half way through this extensive interview with Glenn Greenwald regarding his work with Edward Showden with Haaretz, the discussion turns to Pvt. Manning's contributions as a whistle-blower as well. .....

DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION Help save lives. Donate your old & used iPhone, Blackberries, Droid and other phones to help the T.J. Martell Foundations fund life-saving cancer & AIDS research. For more information, go to www.tjmartellfoundation.org

CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at CellPhoneTaskForce.org The Cellular Phone Task Force is dedicated to halting the expansion of wireless technology because it cannot be made safe. We provide: education to the public concerning electromagnetic pollution (electrosmog); advocacy for an electromagnetically cleaner environment; support for individuals disabled by radiation from wireless technology and other sources. WATCH THIS MOVIE at Top Documentary Films Resonance: Beings of Frequency Now we live an an ocean of electromagnetic radiation. It’s all around us now, invisible, but we know it’s there. Every time you lift up your mobile phone you know it’s there. It is very hard to turn the clock back, in fact it is impossible, but we need to be aware of the adverse health effects so that we can have the choice of taking precautions against the exposures. How we could have possibly thought that putting microwaves to our brain was safe. We just don’t fully understand what we’re doing. "Resonance: Beings of Frequency" is the first documentary to investigate the actual mechanisms by which mobile phone technology can cause cancer. The film takes a deeper look at how humanity is reacting to the most profound environmental change the planet has ever seen. Read more HERE!!

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  • former President Bill Clinton
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  • ROUNDTABLE: ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, and New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.
  

  
  

• Face The Nation (CBS) Host Bob Schiefer
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  • wo key House members from the Budget Committee, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.
  • ROUNDTABLE: Wall Street Journal's Jerry Seib, Washington Post's David Ignatius, CBS News Foreign Correspondent Clarissa Ward, and CBS News Political Director John Dickerson.
  

  
  

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  • The Secretary of State - Scott Pelley interviews Secretary of State John Kerry at a critical time as he deals with chemical weapons in Syria, terrorism abroad and a potentially open relationship with a new president of Iran. Henry Schuster is the producer.
  • Imminent Danger - Steve Kroft examines America's mental health system, which many believe is failing those with severe mental illnesses like schizophrenia, the brain disease the Washington Navy Yard shooter and many other mass murderers showed symptoms of. Coleman Cowan and Graham Messick are the producers.
  • Killing Jesus - Bill O'Reilly talks about his latest effort to write another blockbuster book, "Killing Jesus," which he says was inspired by the Holy Spirit. Norah O'Donnell reports. Robert G. Anderson is the producer.
  

  
  

• Meet the Press (NBC) Host David Gregory
  • Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture NBC is buying Microsoft's 50 percent interest in the MSNBC website for an undisclosed amount. MSNBC.com will be rebranded as NBCNews.com, and readers who logged into MSNBC.com late Sunday were automatically redirected to NBCNews.com. Microsoft is preparing to launch its own news service this fall. Although he declined to provide many details about the operation general manager of MSN.com Bob Visse said the news staff will be about the same size as the roughly 100 people who created original content for the MSNBC.com. "There is no question that we are going to have more flexibility to make our own decisions," said Vivian Schiller, NBC News' chief digital officer. "This is really an amicable breakup. We think competition will make us better." Okay then.
  • Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz
  • ROUNDTABLE: Republican Congressman from Idaho Raul Labrador; former Republican Governor of Utah Jon Huntsman; former White House Press Secretary during the Clinton administration Dee Dee Myers; and author of the new book “Tip and The Gipper,” MSNBC’s Chris Matthews.
  

  
  

• State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN) At 9 AM ET, Candy talks to the power players: politicians, business leaders and international newsmakers who will make Monday morning's headlines.
  • Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers, one of Boehner’s top deputies,
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  • Former Vermont Governor and DNC Chief Howard Dean
  • ROUNDTABLE: former White House Chief of Staff John Podesta, Former U.S. Congressman Artur Davis, Washington Post Columnist Ruth Marcus, and CNN Commentator Ben Ferguson.
  

  
  

• HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid
  
  Headon Radio with Bob Kincaid 6 PM Eastern, 3 PM Pacific, 2300 GMT. Duration: 3 hrs. To be part of Conversation Radio call toll-free (877) 443-2366, or use our Liberal community line at 304-658-3333. Email bob [at] headonradio [dot] com during the show!
  • Front Porch Friday!! Bob wraps up the news of the week! Listen NOW HERE - Friday, September 27th, 2013 (mp3)! Keep Bob on the air HERE ya hear? Amen to the White Rose Society! Bob's show archives at the White Rose HERE! Donate to Head On HERE! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at www.crmw.net!
  

  
  

• YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!
  
  The Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen: 6 minutes of green news, politics, analysis & snarky comment! BOOKMARK greennews.bradblog.com NOW!
  • 'Green News Report' - September 26, 2013 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Preview of the latest UN climate report; GOP prepares new hostage crisis on behalf of fossil fuel industry; PLUS: Facing the challenges and the opportunities of climate change ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
  • IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): VIDEO: IPCC warns of climate disaster; Vive le carbon tax: France to tax fossil fuels; Physicist accuses Murdoch paper of lying; An illustrated bestiary of climate trolls; India to build world's largest solar plant; Chinese natural gas could 'wreak havoc' on markets; Bill Gates goes nuclear; Cost of renewable energy's variability is dwarfed by the savings; Idaho's phosphate problem; Latinos growing force in the fight for environmental issues ... PLUS: Good news! Around the world, mines, dams, and coal export terminals are losing ... and much, MUCH more! ...
  • 'Green News Report' - September 24, 2013 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: First-ever carbon pollution standards for new power plants; Colorado's flood disaster now an oil spill disaster; US coal plants 7th biggest polluter in the world (all by themselves!); Fracking industry study accidentally proves case for more regulation; PLUS: Al Gore says science denial should be socially unacceptable ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! EXCLUSIVE: Siegelman Brings 'The Hammer' Down AL's imprisoned former Dem governor issues blistering statement to The BRAD BLOG from prison on disgraced Republican Tom DeLay's acquittal and alleged $20m conspiracy with Rove, Abramoff, others, to defeat him...
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! Texas D.A. To Seek Review of DeLay's Partisan Acquittal Austin County prosecutor hopes to overturn questionable ruling that allowed Tom DeLay off the hook for money laundering, though former GOP Rep. may have little to worry about...
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! Brad: 'They Have Learned Next to Nothing' Brad intvw'd by OpEd News on SB 360, CA's new legislation to do away with federal and possibly even state testing for new e-voting systems in L.A. and beyond...
  • BRADCAST! KPFK 'BradCast': The GOP's Don Siegelman Prosecution Joseph Siegelman, the son of the imprisoned former Alabama Democratic Governor joins Brad to discuss the case, Tom DeLay's acquittal and the prospects of Presidential pardon for his dad; Plus MUCH MORE...
  

  
  

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  The Peter B. Collins Show covers American news and politics from the Left Coast. Veteran talk radio personality Peter B. Collins, based in San Francisco, delivers fresh interviews, commentary and analysis on a range of important topics, with views and voices you don’t often find in the corporate media.
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  To my valued listeners: We are making some changes to the website and our terms, effective in January. We will continue to offer free podcasts–my new daily news and commentary. Our in-depth interviews will be available for $1 per episode, or to subscribers who pay $5 per month or more. Loyal listeners who simply can’t afford it should send an email to peter@peterbcollins.com, as we will be offering a limited number of scholarships to our friends who are hurting during these tough times. More information will be posted as we complete the revisions. I’m grateful to each of you for listening and supporting this work, and hope that the new model will enable us to keep it going well into the future. All the best, -pbc
  • Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution
  • PBC Hosting Livestream Video Interview of Heidi Boghosian, October 2 6pm PDT Heidi Boghosian, author of Spying on Democracy and executive director of the National Lawyers Guild, will join me for a live video interview on Wednesday, October 2 at 6pm Pacific time. Full details, including a link to the livestream and how you can join the discussion are here.
  • PBC News & Comment Sept 26, 2013 PBC News & Comment: Sweet Little Lies from Spooks at Senate NSA Hearing Proven liars Clapper and Alexander mix truthiness with fear as they dodge Senators’ unfriendly questions, hit softballs over the fence…
  • PBC News & Comment Sept 27, 2013 PBC News & Comment: Breaking!! Seymour Hersh is Alive and Well, and He’s Pissed! Pulitzer-decorated master muckraker Sy Hersh resurfaces after 5-year silence and he’s got Obama’s number; NSA staffers spied on spouses, lovers….
  • PBC Standard Podcast Sept 25, 2013 Journalist Robert Parry Comments on Obama’s Evidence-Free Case that Assad Used Chemical Weapons
  • PBC Standard Podcast Sept 27, 2013Court Victory for Jason Leopold as Judge Orders Full Release of Gitmo Memo; Anti-NDAA Activist Dan Johnson is Making Progress; Durst Slams Ted Cruz
  

  
  

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  Ring of Fire Radio - GoLeft TV - Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, Sam Seder - Politics, Commentary, and News.
  This Weekend on Ring of Fire Radio! Sept 27, 2013 Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 7 pm Eastern.
  • Economics professor William Black will tell us why the Obama administration continues to push discredited and dangerous economic policies.
  • Author Michael Klare will be here to tell us why we haven’t seen a renewed push for renewable energy, even as our planet burns up.
  • Peter Beinart from The Daily Beast will discuss the emerging generation of progressives, and why they will change the face of American politics.
  • And investigative journalist David Dayen will tell us about the latest scams from the mortgage industry.
  • NEW! This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV! Sept 28, 2013 Sundays at NOON!
  »» Farron Cousins, executive editor of The Trial Lawyer Magazine and contributing writer at DeSmogBlog.com, will be filling in for Mike Papantonio this week.
  »» Investigative journalist Brad Friedman will give us an update on the status of electronic voting in America.
  »» Shane Farnan, co-host of Talking Left, joins us for a discussion on the future of the progressive movement, and we’ll find out whether sustainable change is possible.
  »» Attorney David TeSelle will discuss the former DC insiders who are now raking in big cash with the Affordable Care Act.
  »» Investigative journalist Steve Horn talks about a recently released report that shows fracking isn’t that bad, and exposes the corrupt players who sponsored the phony science.
  »» Attorney Howard Nations will tell us about the trillions of dollars being given in handouts to corporate America each year.
  »» Author Joshua Holland will tell us why the Tea Party thinks they’d be better off forming their own state.
  »» And attorney Matthew Edling will discuss the Supreme Court’s actions to limit our access to the court system.
  • VIDEO! THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio “Call us if you have a personal story about Fraud on Taxpayers or False Claims for Payment made by Corportations at 1-866-389-FIRE (3473) or contact us by email at info@ringoffireradio.com if you have evidence of fraud that robbed taxpayer dollars. If our government is paying too much due to fraud by a corporation, Ring of Fire wants to do a story on it.”
  • VIDEO! Seder: Tom Delay Off The Hook For Laundering Money (VIDEO) Ring of Fire’s Sam Seder and author Cliff Schecter discuss the recent dismissal of Tom Delay’s conviction.
  • VIDEO! Pap and Seder: N.Y. Times Ignores NSA/Israel Story – Not ‘Surprising’ Enough (VIDEO) Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder discuss a disturbing NSA story that the New York Times refused to cover, as the managing editor claimed the story was not “significant” or “surprising” enough.
  • Ring of Fire’s Weekly Rewind Sept. 27, 2013 featuring the top stories from Ring of Fire from the past week.
  • Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the "Podcast" tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up! Ring of Fire Radio Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts 7-10 et Sunday evenings on Chicago's Progressive Talk WCPT AM & FM and 4 pm et on Sirius/XM 167 featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."
  

  
  

• Majority Report with Sam Seder Streaming LIVE weekdays 12 NOON et @ Majority.fm!
  
  • MONDAY 9/23/13 Matt Duss: End of the Neocon Dream of War with Iran?
  • TUESDAY 9/24/13 David Dayen: Courts Closed For Bank Fraud
  • WEDNESDAY 9/25 /13 Tina Dupuy & Nicole Belle: Paying Journalists & Getting Them To do Their Jobs
  • THURSDAY 9/26/13 Laura Gottesdiener: A Dream Foreclosed
  • FRIDAY 9/27/13 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & Isabel Gillies
  • MORE Podcast Interviews at majorityfm.libsyn.com!
  

  
  

• KEISER REPORT Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
  
  "HI Y'ALL! Tell the people! Tell the people!"
  WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts "The Truth About Markets" on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s "People & Power" series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
  • VISIT PirateMyFilm.com!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!
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  • KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK STACY SUMMARY: For once and for all, here are our real Facebook pages, the other ones are fake. But if you feel like chatting to the fake ones, by all means, go ahead.
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  • The Federal Reserve 100th Anniversary Road Show Spectacular! by alexschaefer - Paint Provocateur Alex Schaefer wants to say “Happy Birthday, Federal Reserve!’ You made it to 100 years of conducting the nation’s monetary policy! Since mainstream media didn’t send a card, a painter, a protestor, a filmmaker, a freedom fighter and a mad crew are going on a road trip across the USA to visit all twelve of your branches to help you celebrate! Come rain or monkey shines, they are on a mission to throw the birthday party nightmares are made of. A party to highlight the historic END of the original 100 year charter the Federal Reserve Bank has with the U.S. Government December 23rd, 2013! CLICK HERE FOR THE CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN & HELP GET THE SHOW ON THE ROAD! Lots of great donation perks, all original works of art by Alex Schaefer and Cain Motter! This is a great way to collect some art AND help fund this amazing journey and film. It’s a win-win situation! Let’s some history and shake things up around here!
  • Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states by maxkeiser - READ What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones (guardian.co.uk)
  • US gov’t threatens market manipulation whistleblowers just like they threaten Snowden and Assange by MaxKeiser - READ The Shocking Truth About Secret Documents & The CFTC SNIP: "I would just like for KWN readers around the world to understand that the CFTC’s conclusion today that it cannot act regarding silver market rigging in no way discredits complaints of silver market manipulation. This, in all likelihood, means that the CFTC already knew or has recently discovered that the market rigging is being conducted by the US government. As such it is exempt from ordinary securities law.”
  • U.S. 5 Year Silver Market Investigation Ends – No LIBOR Style Manipulation by Mark O'Byrne - We continue to believe silver will rise to its real record high or inflation adjusted high of $140/oz in the coming years. It remains an important diversification for all looking to protect their wealth from “bail-ins” or deposit confiscation and currency devaluations...... Expectedly, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has closed the investigation that was publicly confirmed five years ago, in September 2008, concerning silver manipulation by Wall Street banks. ...... The CFTC statement said that “based upon the law and evidence as they exist at this time, there is not a viable basis to bring an enforcement action with respect to any firm or its employees related to our investigation of silver markets”.......
  • JP Morgan Sharholders: Three Years Ago I told You RMBS Settlement Would be Mega Billions by Stacy Herbert - READ JP Morgan Sharholders: Three Years Ago I told You RMBS Settlement Would be Mega Billions (TeriBuhl.com)
  • KEISER REPORT [KR501] Keiser Report: Banksters’ God Complex We discuss the US Federal Reserve Bank as ‘the greatest hedge fund’ in history and ask whether or not their quantitative easing policy is like trying to pass pork off as a prime cut of beef. In the second half, Max interviews precious metals trader, Andrew Maguire, about JPMorgan whistleblowers and the Federal Reserve Bank taper hoax. [UPDATE: Here is Turd Ferguson with more info on the JPM whistleblowers].
  • KEISER REPORT [KR502] Keiser Report: Trickle-Down Flamethrowers We discuss flamethrowers and jihadis in the world of banking. We also note that houses in London earn more per day than the average worker in London. In the second half, Max interviews Mitch Feierstein of PlanetPonzi.com about the Fed’s balance sheet, housing bubbles around the world and putting lipstick on pigs.
  • KEISER REPORT [KR503] Keiser Report: Lynching America We discuss whether banking bonus outrage is equivalent to the lynching of African Americans in the Deep South and the money, money, money, MONEY! of the ex-Presidents of the United States. In the second half, Max interviews George Galloway, a Member of Parliament, about his documentary film, The Killing of Tony Blair. They also discuss crowd funding democracy with Galloway’s run for Mayor of London.
  • THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS [TaM-1289] The Truth About Markets – 21 September 2013 Download show HERE (mp3)
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• The Scott Horton Radio Show
  
  Scott Horton is host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles and KUCR 88.3 in Riverside, and the Scott Horton Show on No Agenda Radio. (You can listen live Monday through Friday, excluding Thursday, from 12-2 PM Eastern HERE.) Plenty of archives too!
  • Scott Horton Radio Show 9/26/13 Philip Giraldi: Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses why the mainstream media won’t cover the NSA’s habit of passing raw intelligence on Americans to Israel; a cost-benefit analysis of the US-Israel “special relationship;” the few barriers to making a deal on Iran’s nuclear program; and why Rand Paul is just an empty suit.
  • Scott Horton Radio Show 9/27/13 Joe Lauria: Joe Lauria, a New York-based independent foreign affairs correspondent, discusses Iranian President Rouhani’s press conference at the UN; the nearly-completed agreement on destroying Syria’s chemical weapons stocks; Iran’s eagerness to make a deal on their nuclear program to remedy the crippling effects of sanctions on their economy; and the Saudi and Israeli opposition to US-Iran rapprochement.
  • SCOTT HORTON July 5, 2012: Scott says goodbye to Antiwar.com. Scott Horton is the former host of Antiwar Radio. Visit his blog Stress. Due to budget cuts Scott lost his gig at AntiWarRadio.com! Whoa! See ScottHortonShow.com for archives! Send emails to Scott at scotthorton.org to help Scott keep his podcast going!
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AUTUMN EQUINOX SPECIAL In the wake of yet another mass shooting Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Howard Schultz lays out the new Starbucks Guns Policy: Coffee Chain Asks Patrons To Leave Weapons At Home (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Howard Schultz requested on Tuesday that the coffee chain's customers leave their firearms at home, shifting company policy amid an increasingly fractious debate over U.S. gun rights in the wake of multiple mass shootings. The request is being made in part because more people have been bringing guns into Starbucks over the last six months, prompting confusion and dismay among some patrons and employees, Schultz told Reuters in an interview. In an open letter to customers issued late Tuesday, the chief executive said: "Our stores exist to give every customer a safe and comfortable respite from the concerns of daily life." ...... Schultz underscored that Starbucks' new policy is not a ban - employees will continue to serve patrons with guns. The request also does not apply to authorized law enforcement personnel. "I don't want to put our people in a position of having to confront or enforce a policy (when) someone is holding a gun," Schultz told Reuters. A BTV Tip-o-da-cup to Schultz!
GOPher CANARD EXPOSED: At Salon Diane Ravitch: School privatization is a hoax, “reformers” aim to destroy public schools
Our public schools aren't in decline. And "reformers" with wild promises don't care about education — just profits. ..... The claim that the public schools are in decline is not new. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning book “Anti-intellectualism in American Life,” Richard Hofstadter characterized writing on education in the United States as “a literature of acid criticism and bitter complaint . . . The educational jeremiad is as much a feature of our literature as the jeremiad in the Puritan sermons.” From the 1820s to our own time, reformers have complained about low standards, ignorant teachers, and incompetent school boards. He noted that anyone longing for the “good old days” would have difficulty finding a time when critics were not bemoaning the quality of the public schools. ... Indifferent to history, today’s corporate reformers insist that the public schools are in an unprecedented crisis. They tell us that children must be able to “escape” their “failing public schools.” They claim they are “for the children,” unlike their teachers, who are not for the children. They would have the public believe that children and their teachers are in warring camps. They put “children first” or “students first.” Their policies, they say, will make us competitive and give us “great teachers” and “great schools” in every community. They say they know how to “close the achievement gap,” and they claim to be leading “the civil rights issue of our time.” Their policies, they say, will make our children into “global competitors.” They will protect our national security. They will make America strong again. The corporate reformers play to our anxieties, even rekindling dormant Cold War fears that we may be in jeopardy as a nation if we don’t buy what they are selling. The critics want the public to believe that our public schools are a clear and present danger to our society. Unless there is radical change, they say, our society will fall apart. Our economy will disappear. Our national security is in danger. The message is clear: public education threatens all that we hold dear. ....... Of equal importance are the topics that corporate reformers don’t talk about. Seldom do they protest budget cuts, no matter how massive they may be. They do not complain when governors and legislatures cut billions from the public schools while claiming to be reformers. They do not protest rising rates of child poverty. They do not complain about racial segregation. They see no harm in devoting more time and resources to standardized testing. They are not heard from when districts cut the arts, libraries, and physical education while spending more on testing. They do not complain when federal or state or city officials announce plans to test children in kindergarten or even pre-kindergarten. They do not complain about increased class size. They do not object to scripted curricula or teachers’ loss of professional autonomy. They do not object when experienced teachers are replaced by recruits who have only a few weeks of training. They close their eyes to evidence that charters enroll disproportionately small numbers of children with disabilities, or those from troubled homes, or English-language learners (in fact, they typically deny any such disparities, even when documented by state and federal data). They do not complain when for-profit corporations run charter schools or when educational services are outsourced to for-profit businesses. Indeed, they welcome entrepreneurs into the reform community as investors and partners. If the American public understood that reformers want to privatize their public schools and divert their taxes to pay profits to investors, it would be hard to sell the corporate idea of reform. ...... The leaders of the privatization movement call themselves reformers, but their premises are strikingly different from those of reformers in the past. .....
Send this to all yer peeps, especially your local Teachers Union. Go to the NEA's State Affiliates map and contact someone randomly from near you with this story!
These "refromers don't want an educated work force. They want a dummed-down passive work force. See John Timmer at arstechnica.com Texas still seeing attempts to limit evolution in school textbooks - Stop us if you've heard this before: one textbook reviewer suggests teaching creationism
Last week after we pointed out HISTORIC wealth inequality Dave Johnson at Campaign for America's Future points out
Government Hands $1 Trillion+ To Wealthy While Deficit Is $642 Billion ..... But a report out today from the National Priorities Project (NPP) shows that the country is handing more than $1 trillion to the already-wealthy. That’s right, the government is cutting services and laying off hundreds upon hundreds of thousands in the name of cutting deficits, while handing more than $1 trillion a year to the wealthiest. The rest of us pay taxes and suffer cuts in jobs and services to make up this lost money. According to the report, lots of 1%ers will pay no taxes at all this year, while the country cuts jobs and services in the name of cutting the deficit.

“Ten major tax breaks that together total more than $750 billion in tax savings in 2013 are tilted heavily in favor of the top income earners; according to the Congressional Budget Office, 17% of the benefits from these major tax breaks go to the top 1% of households. In fact, according to the Tax Policy Center, nearly 1.2 million taxpayers in the top 1% will owe no income tax at all in 2013, thanks in large part to tax breaks that help them reduce their tax liability down to zero.”

..... The country’s budget shortfall is not from “entitlements” (things We the People are entitled to as citizens in a prosperous democracy) and “government spending” (the things We the People do to make our lives and economy better). The deficit is down to $640 billion while $1 trillion in tax breaks goes to the 1%. (Actually mostly the 1% of the 1%.) ...... So why is the country terrified that budget deficits are going to eat us alive? ...... The reason is that there is a massively-funded PR campaign underway to convince people of these things. Much more at the link including a VIDEO and "What Can We Do About This?" Good Item!
From the Public Citizen blog Study: "Trade" Deal Would Mean a Pay Cut for 90% of U.S. Workers The verdict is in: most U.S. workers would see wage losses as a result of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a sweeping U.S. "free trade" deal under negotiation with 11 Pacific Rim countries. That's the conclusion of a report just released by the non-partisan Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR). TPP's corporate proponents have tried to sell the NAFTA-style deal to the U.S. public and policymakers by claiming that it will result in gains for the U.S. economy. They often cite a study from the Peterson Institute for International Economics that used sweeping assumptions to project a tiny benefit from the TPP. We brought that study down to size back in January, showing that, even if one accepts the pro-TPP authors' litany of optimistic assumptions, the much-touted "benefit" from the TPP would amount to an extra quarter per person per day. As this week's CEPR report points out, the pro-TPP study projected a meager 0.13 percent increase to U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) by 2025 if the controversial TPP would be signed, passed, and implemented. By comparison, economists have estimated that Apple's iPhone 5 contributed a 0.25 - 0.5 percent increase to U.S. GDP. That is, the TPP's total contribution to the U.S. economy is expected, by TPP proponents, to be about one half to one fourth of the contribution of the latest iPhone version. Well, you might say, a nearly invisible blip in GDP is better than no blip in GDP. (You might say this if you ignore the host of dubious assumptions used to project said blip, and ignore the TPP's expected threats to medicines affordability, environmental protections, food safety, Internet freedom, and financial stability.) But what would such a paltry GDP rise mean for your pocket? Read on!
The ACLU has a new report Unleashed and Unaccountable: The FBI's Unchecked Abuse of Authority The FBI remains widely admired on Capitol Hill and within the Obama administration, despite a record of extraordinary abuse—particularly targeting racial and religious minorities, immigrants, and protest groups under the guise of counterterrorism after 9/11. The abuse, enabled by a roll-back of post-Watergate intelligence reforms and encouraged by long-standing Justice Department and FBI practices, has subverted internal and external oversight by squelching whistleblowers, imposing and enforcing unnecessary secrecy, and actively misleading Congress and the American people. Unleashed and Unaccountable: The FBI's Unchecked Abuse of Authority documents this extraordinary expansion of FBI power over the last 12 years. As Comey's tenure begins at the FBI, Congress and the president should take this opportunity to conduct a comprehensive examination of the FBI's policies and practices to identify and curtail any activities that are unnecessary, ineffective, or misused. Otherwise, FBI officials and certain members of Congress will undoubtedly demand that the new director stay the course, no matter how disastrous it may be for American civil liberties and privacy rights. ..... Also see The 10 Most Disturbing Things You Should Know About the FBI Since 9/11 and this History of the FBI Timeline
GOPher FOOD STAMP CUT: At the Atlantic Wire Abby Ohlheiser and Philip Bump explain the House Republicans Vote to Cut $39 Billion From Food Stamps The House passed a bill on Thursday that would cut as many as 3.8 million Americans from food stamps, according to the Congressional Budget Office. The cuts would come from a combination of ending state waivers for able-bodied, unemployed adults, and from tightened eligibility requirements. Currently, experts estimate that 48 million Americans will participate in the program in 2014. The vote was close, at 217-210, with 15 Republicans siding with every Democrat in the House against the bill. .... Interestingly, the 15 Republicans who voted against the measure (largely from the Northeast) represented fewer food stamp households on average than their colleagues that voted for it. If the cuts pass the Senate and are signed into law, the government would save $39 billion over 10 years, or twice as much as the House Agriculture Committee recommended, and much more in cuts than the Senate has previously approved, Politico explains. The current bill is a result of an earlier decision to split off the food stamp discussion from the usually bipartisan farm bill, under which it's traditionally been passed in tandem with farm subsidies, popular with Republicans. The food stamp-only current plan comes from the House Republican leadership, led by Majority Leader Eric Cantor. But not all Republicans were on board with the plan, in part because their districts would be adversely affected by the cuts. The Atlantic Wire has a detailed breakdown of how the cuts would affect each representative's district. The White House has already vowed to veto the bill, saying in a statement that "these cuts would affect a broad array of Americans who are struggling to make ends meet, including working families with children, senior citizens, veterans, and adults who are still looking for work." But it's doubtful that the bill will make it as-is through the Democrat-controlled Senate, where it's expected to be rejoined with the farm subsidy portion of the measure into some sort of compromise plan. The current farm bill expires on September 30. A final bill has to make it through Congress by then. The Terre Haute Tribune-Star editorializes GOP embraces false images in attack on food stamps .....Often referred to as “food stamps” and now formally known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (or SNAP), it is too frequently characterized as a fraud-filled system of government handouts to those who don’t really need it. That is the image projected by the bill’s proponents, despite their public comments. “This bill is designed to give people a hand when they need it most, and most people don’t choose to be on food stamps. Most people want a job … they want what we want,” said Eric Cantor, leader of the House majority party, the Republicans, who produced all 217 “aye” votes. (Fifteen Republicans joined all 195 all Democrats in opposing the measure.) So, when the phrases “food stamps” or “SNAP program” get mentioned, what image likely pops into the minds of those 217 lawmakers? The elderly? The disabled? Kids? They comprise the vast majority of the nation’s 47 million SNAP recipients. Or is it the “surfer dude” in California who uses his SNAP benefits to buy sushi and lobster, as shown on Fox News? Or is it the 10 business owners in Baltimore indicted on charges of stealing more than $7 million from the SNAP program? Or is it drug-abusing, freeloading slackers unwilling to work? Fraud, waste and abuse in any government program absolutely should be briskly policed and eliminated. No question. The SNAP program, though, is not rampant with those vices, despite the poster-boy status of “surfer dude” or the Baltimore grocers accused of scamming the system. The level of fraud amounted to 1.3 percent of SNAP transactions in 2012, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. A provision in the House food-stamp measure would limit benefits to able-bodied adults to three months, and require those people to find work or enroll in a state jobs program; the bill’s backers emphasize that clause was included in the 1996 welfare reform law. The philosophical concept, provide work-get paid, is obvious, but that 1996 requirement was crafted in more robust economic times. The prospects of an unemployed adult finding a job paying enough money to avoid the need for food stamps are lower than in ’96. The July unemployment rate in Terre Haute was 10.5 percent. .... Read more at Occupy.com The Republican War on Food Stamps Is a Class War on America by Neil deMause (originally appearing on Al Jazeera America).
From Robert Reich's blog The Myth of the “Free Market” and How to Make the Economy Work for Us One of the most deceptive ideas continuously sounded by the Right (and its fathomless think tanks and media outlets) is that the “free market” is natural and inevitable, existing outside and beyond government. So whatever inequality or insecurity it generates is beyond our control. And whatever ways we might seek to reduce inequality or insecurity — to make the economy work for us — are unwarranted constraints on the market’s freedom, and will inevitably go wrong. By this view, if some people aren’t paid enough to live on, the market has determined they aren’t worth enough. If others rake in billions, they must be worth it. If millions of Americans remain unemployed or their paychecks are shrinking or they work two or three part-time jobs with no idea what they’ll earn next month or next week, that’s too bad; it’s just the outcome of the market. ....... In reality, the “free market” is a bunch of rules about (1) what can be owned and traded (the genome? slaves? nuclear materials? babies? votes?); (2) on what terms (equal access to the internet? the right to organize unions? corporate monopolies? the length of patent protections? ); (3) under what conditions (poisonous drugs? unsafe foods? deceptive Ponzi schemes? uninsured derivatives? dangerous workplaces?) (4) what’s private and what’s public (police? roads? clean air and clean water? healthcare? good schools? parks and playgrounds?); (5) how to pay for what (taxes, user fees, individual pricing?). And so on.
These rules don’t exist in nature; they are human creations. Governments don’t “intrude” on free markets; governments organize and maintain them. Markets aren’t “free” of rules; the rules define them. ....... Which brings us to the central political question: Who should decide on the rules, and their major purpose? If our democracy was working as it should, presumably our elected representatives, agency heads, and courts would be making the rules roughly according to what most of us want the rules to be. The economy would be working for us. Instead, the rules are being made mainly by those with the power and resources to buy the politicians, regulatory heads, and even the courts (and the lawyers who appear before them). As income and wealth have concentrated at the top, so has political clout. And the most important clout is determining the rules of the game. Not incidentally, these are the same people who want you and most others to believe in the fiction of an immutable “free market.” ...... Robert Reich's new film, “Inequality for All,” will be out September 27. If you missed this from last week see his hour-long interview with Amy Goodman Inequality for All: Robert Reich Warns Record Income Gap Is Undermining Our Democracy
Nobel Laureatte Paul Krugman explains how the GOPhers are Three Strikes And You’re, Well, Still Playing The Same Game Steve Benen notes that Republicans have been completely wrong about the U.S. economy three times in the past two decades — about Clinton, Bush, and Obama — but haven’t changed their doctrine a bit. I think it’s worth pointing out, however, that the third time was a bit different — although just as devastating — from the first two. ....... In round 3, Republicans predicted poor economic performance under Obama. And to be fair, the economy has not done particularly well. The crucial point, however, is the nature of the poor performance. Republicans confidently predicted Weimar 2.0 — soaring interest rates and inflation. They lambasted not just Obama but Bernanke — in fact, their attacks on Fed policy had more passion than their attacks on the stimulus, which after all didn’t last long. What actually happened, of course, was low inflation and low interest rates. Their faith in the crucial importance of not taxing rich people, not spending to help the less fortunate, and not printing money under any circumstances, remained unchanged. The thing is, there’s no accountability — and not just in the minds of the general public......
MORE KRUGMAN! The Crazy Party Early this year, Bobby Jindal, the governor of Louisiana, made headlines by telling his fellow Republicans that they needed to stop being the “stupid party.” Unfortunately, Mr. Jindal failed to offer any constructive suggestions about how they might do that. And, in the months that followed, he himself proceeded to say and do a number of things that were, shall we say, not especially smart. Nonetheless, Republicans did follow his advice. In recent months, the G.O.P. seems to have transitioned from being the stupid party to being the crazy party. I know, I’m being shrill. But as it grows increasingly hard to see how, in the face of Republican hysteria over health reform, we can avoid a government shutdown — and maybe the even more frightening prospect of a debt default — the time for euphemism is past. It helps, I think, to understand just how unprecedented today’s political climate really is.......
According to Citizens Responsible for Ethics in Washington's new website crewsmostcorrupt.org Michele "One L" Bachmann is the most corrupt Republican member of Congress: Michele Bachmann Rep. Bachmann's short-lived presidential campaign didn't launch her into the White House, but it launched a stunning number of ethics and criminal investigations. Rep. Bachmann appears to have improperly used her presidential campaign resources to promote her memoir, and the Department of Justice is investigating whether the Bachmann campaign illegally coordinated advertising with a super PAC. Meanwhile, a campaign aide turned whistleblower filed a Federal Election Commission (FEC) complaint alleging Rep. Bachmann improperly paid campaign staff from her leadership PAC. The campaign also allegedly withheld compensation from presidential campaign staffers who did not sign confidentiality agreements. Another former aide alleged the Bachmann campaign stole an email list, a theft that is still under investigation. Read about all the corrupt members of Congress at CREW's ninth report on congressional corruption names 17 members of Congress.
And at Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR.org) Steve Rendall asks and answers Inform the Public? Not My Job, Says Chuck Todd
....... It's sad that NBC's White House correspondent thinks his job is merely to convey politicians pronouncements, with no care about whether they are true or false. In fact, scrutinize claims, particularly those from powerful officials, is an essential part of journalism. It's embarrassing to have to cite elementary principles to one the nation's most influential reporters, but Todd should consider reviewing the Society of Professional Journalists' Code of Ethics, where, under the heading "Seek Truth and Report It," the very first tenet implores journalists to "test the accuracy of information from all sources." Todd isn't alone among influential journalists claiming that factchecking sources is outside their job purview. .....
Andrea Germanos, staff writer for CommonDreams.org reports Brazil's President Rousseff Cancels US Visit Over NSA Spying Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff has canceled her trip to the U.S. over spying by the National Security Agency. he news was first reported by O Globo on Tuesday and later confirmed in an official statement by the Brazilian government. Signs had emerged earlier this month that Rousseff would cancel the state visit scheduled for October 23, including a statement from one unnamed Brazilian official who said of the spying scandal, "This is a major, major crisis .... There needs to be an apology. It needs to be public. Without that, it's basically impossible for her to go to Washington in October." ...... The official statement called the "illegal practices" of the NSA an "assault on national sovereignty and individuals' rights." It adds that both presidents had decided to postpone the visit and that "once the matter was resolved adequately" a visit by Rousseff to the U.S. would take place. In a further sign of spying backlash, Rousseff is pushing legislative measures for her country to "divorce itself from the U.S.-centric Internet" by storing Internet data from Facebook and Google locally to keep it out of the reach of the NSA's prying eyes. .....
Then Umberto Pascali at GlobalResearch.ca lays out The BRICS “Independent Internet” Cable. In Defiance of the “US-Centric Internet” ...... President Dilma Rousseff has ordered a series of measures aimed at greater Brazilian online independence and security following revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency intercepted her communications, hacked into the state-owned Petrobras oil company’s network and spied on Brazilians who entrusted their personal data to U.S. tech companies such as Facebook and Google. BRICS Cable… a 34 000 km, 2 fibre pair, 12.8 Tbit/s capacity, fibre optic cable system. Go there to see the global BRICS internet map!
Here are some other stories of note you should read:

• Charles Arthur - The Guardian Academics criticise NSA and GCHQ for weakening online encryption
  
• Ray McGovern - ConsortiumNews.com How War on Syria Lost Its Way
  
• John Nichols - The Nation Blocking the Public’s Right to Know About ALEC
  
• Harvey Wasserman - Common Dreams The Crisis at Fukushima's Unit 4 Demands a Global Take-Over
  
• Brooke Jarvis - RollingStone.com Flooding and Fracking in Colorado: Double Disaster

The BTV LAST WORD goes to Prairie2 explaining Slightly better than guessing In a recent poll, only 27% of Americans could correctly identify the Federal Reserve program known as Quantitative Easing or QE3, even given five answers to choose from. If you stop and consider the math, 20% should have gotten the right answer just by guessing. It's hard to believe an $85b a month program that's run up over a $3t balance is that unknown, but I'll bet far more people have watched the latest Miley Cyrus video than actually even care what QE3 is. So in that context, it was big news today that the Fed money printing program will continue full speed, and not be 'tapered'. The pundits sing the song of 'taper' between the regular Federal Reserve Board meetings, you can bet it will be the focus of 'very serious' news articles again tomorrow. So this non-news was credited with the stock market setting a new record even though QE3 has nothing to do stocks. Okay, in theory people buy more stocks with bond interest being so low, but the stock market is really a Ponzi scheme intended to suck money from your 401(k), and doesn't attract the kind of people who buy bonds. ....... The House GOP is sending a laundry list of wack-a-doodle Tea Bag ideas over to the Senate tied to a bill increasing the debt ceiling. That would be the 'debt ceiling' that is flat unconstitutional, but that's something from the 14th amendment, and not found in the 2nd amendment, so it doesn't count. Even without the 14th amendment, the House already appropriated the money and this was made into law, so Constitutionally the President is required to write the checks. Obama isn't even pretending that he will negotiate with the Tea Baggers this time, he'll be around another three years, their terms end in 13 & a half months. He can simply ignore the debt ceiling and let them take him to court. Most likely they'll make a lot of noise and then simply give him what he wants. The Right has become enamored with the manliness of Vladimir Putin lately, and that's what he did when negotiating with Obama, made some noise and completely gave in. I hope the Baggers don't start imitating Putin too much and start taking their shirts off. If you missed any of the Beltway Bubalas you can see the lineups below and watch on the corporomedia's websites with yer bricks at the ready. And see all our regulars below for more news and comment. The Brick TeeVee crew took in some comp tickets for the Astros @ Tribe on Saturday and hung out at some of the fine Gateway neighborhood watering holes after the 4-1 win. And Sunday's 9-2 win gives the Tribe SIX 4-game sweeps on the season, last done in the majors by the '61 Yankees and the last time by a Tribe team since the '54 season! By this time next week we'll know if The Tribe is in or out of the playoffs. Go Tribe and see you next week! BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!_©

Democracy Now's Iraq interactive timeline

Headlines Monday, Sept 16, 2013

• Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Editor and publisher of The Nation & Andrew Bacevich, professor of history and international relations at Boston University Could Russia-U.S. Deal on Syria Chemical Weapons Lead To a Non-Imperial, New Internationalism?
  
• More Andrew Bacevich Andrew Bacevich on “Breach of Trust: How Americans Failed Their Soldiers and Their Country"
  
• Angela Davis at an event organized by the Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project at Northeastern University School of Law "Terrorism is Part of Our History": Angela Davis on ’63 Church Bombing, Growing up in "Bombingham"
  

Headlines Tuesday, Sept 17, 2013

• Matt Apuzzo & Adam Goldman, reporters for the Associated Press How Did D.C. Navy Yard Gunman Get Security Clearance While Being Treated by VA For Mental Illness?
  
• Apuzzo, Goldman & Linda Sarsour, director of the Arab American Association of New York From Mosques to Soccer Leagues: Inside the NYPD’s Secret Spy Unit Targeting Muslims, Activists
  
• Sarah Collins Rudolph, survived the bombing of the Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 15, 1963 "The Fifth Little Girl": Birmingham Church Bombing Survivor Still Seeks Compensation 50 Years On
  

Headlines Wednesday, Sept 18, 2013

• Jim Pullen, reporter and producer with public radio station KGNU in Boulder, Colorado & 350.org co-founder Bill McKibben The 1,000-Year Flood: Did Global Warming Worsen Colorado’s Unprecedented Rainfall?
  
• More Bill McKibben Bill McKibben: Obama Can Salvage His Climate Legacy by Rejecting Keystone XL Oil Pipeline
  
• Eric Schlosser, author “Fast Food Nation” and new book “Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety.” How the U.S. Narrowly Avoided a Nuclear Holocaust 33 Years Ago, and Still Risks Catastrophe Today
  

Headlines Thursday, Sept 19, 2013

• Tom Diaz, journalist and lawyer "What Kind of Society Are We Going To Be?": Ex-NRA Member on the Failure to Address Gun Violence
  
• Shundra Robinson & Tom Diaz "This is Genocide in America": Mother of Slain Chicago Teenager Condemns Gun Violence Epidemic
  
• Nathan Schneider, longtime chronicler of the Occupy movement & Nicole Carty, Actions Coordinator with The Other 98 Percent Two Years After Occupy Wall Street, a Network of Offshoots Continue Activism for the 99%
  

Headlines Friday, Sept 20, 2013

• Kimberly Davis, Troy Davis’ sister & Jen Marlowe, Co-authored "I Am Troy Davis," & Ben Jealous, Outgoing president and CEO of the NAACP "I Am Troy Davis": Supporters, Family of Georgian Man Executed in 2011 Push to End Death Penalty
  
• Ben Jealous, Outgoing president and CEO of the NAACP Benjamin Jealous on Why He Is Leaving the NAACP, Future Plans
  

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The 1st Amendment is Our Permit Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment. Quickly sign the following statement which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country:

Our permit to occupy public squares and parks is in The First Amendment, which affirms "the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." When people across the Middle East occupied public squares, leaders in Washington mostly cheered those protesters and warned Middle Eastern governments not to use force to clear them. Those other societies don’t have a First Amendment. Yet Washington affirmed the universal right to assembly and protest. We do have a First Amendment. The force being used to clear nonviolent protesters from public squares in our country is unacceptable. It must stop.

StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org! A bailout of the people by the people Rolling Jubilee is a Strike Debt project that buys debt for pennies on the dollar, but instead of collecting it, abolishes it. Together we can liberate debtors at random through a campaign of mutual support, good will, and collective refusal. Debt resistance is just the beginning. Join us as we imagine and create a new world based on the common good, not Wall Street profits. ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme

STOP the ACHE NEW WEBSITE! AcheAct.org and Appalachian Community HEALTH EMERGENCY Advocating for government action and protection of the public from the health crisis in mountain top removal communities. The A.C.H.E. Act Is Re-Introduced In The 113th Congress!

Washington, DC – Today a group of U.S. House of Representatives lawmakers introduced the Appalachian Community Health Emergency Act (ACHE Act, H.R. 526) to protect Appalachian families and communities from the nation’s most extreme form of coal mining, mountaintop removal. The Appalachian Community Health Emergency Act’s leading sponsors are Rep. John Yarmuth (D-KY) and Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), joined by original cosponsors Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), Rep. Rush Holt (D-NJ), Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), Rep. John Sarbanes (D-MD), Rep. Jim Moran (D-VA), Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD), Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA), Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA), Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA), Rep. Michael Honda (D-CA), Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Rep. Matt Cartwright (D-PA), Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-ME), Rep. Janice Schakowksy (D-IL), Rep. Jim McDermott (D-WA), Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), and Rep. Jared Polis (DCO).

Community-Wealth.org community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity. Featuring Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth Something important is happening in Cleveland. The Democracy Collaborative—the host of C-W.org—in partnership with the Cleveland Foundation, the Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Shorebank Enterprise Cleveland, the City of Cleveland, and the city's major hospitals and universities—is helping to implement a new model of large-scale worker-owned and community-benefiting businesses. The Evergreen Cooperative Initiative is beginning to build serious momentum in one of the cities most dramatically impacted by the nation's decaying economy. Increasingly, this model is being referred to nationally as The Cleveland Model. Initial planning is now underway to assist other cities in Ohio and nationwide to replicate and adapt this innovative approach to economic development, green job creation, and neighborhood stabilization. Find more many resources at Community-Wealth.org!

NET NEUTRALITY! SaveTheInternet.com Declaration of Internet Freedom Tired of fighting bad bills like SOPA, PIPA and CISPA? Want to stand up against those who are trying to control what we do and say online? It's time for something different. A group of more than 1,500 organizations, academics, startup founders and tech innovators has come together to produce a Declaration of Internet Freedom, a set of five principles that put forward a positive vision of the open Internet. Our goal: Get millions of Internet users to sign on to this Declaration. Build political power for Internet users to make sure that we get a seat at the table whenever, and wherever, the future of the Internet is being decided. It's time to stop playing defense and start going on the offensive. The open Internet is central to people’s freedom to communicate, share, advocate and innovate in the 21st century. But powerful interests want to censor free speech, block the sharing of information, hinder innovation and control how Internet users get online. And all too often, people in power are making political decisions behind closed doors about how the Internet should operate — and they're doing this without the involvement of actual Internet users. The result: policies that could close down the open Internet and destroy our freedom to connect. It’s time for us to reclaim the Internet for its users. Take action now and sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom. ACTION! Meet the New CISPA. Same as the Old CISPA. Last year, thanks to a public outcry, the effort to pass overreaching cybersecurity legislation stalled in the Senate. Now supporters have reintroduced the House version of that legislation — the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA). The “new” version is in fact identical to the original CISPA — and poses the same threat to our digital civil liberties. If CISPA becomes law, it will be a major blow to our online privacy. But more than that, CISPA’s passage would have a chilling effect on our freedom to connect online. We won’t feel as free to state unpopular opinions, or to speak truth to power, if we know that Big Brother could get a feed of everything we say and do. This is not what the free and open Internet is about. We must tell Congress: Vote NO on CISPA and bury this bill for good.

NEW!!! Stop Media Consolidation! Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is trying to change the agency’s ownership rules to pave the way for Murdoch to get exactly what he wants. Worse, Genachowski and Murdoch are keeping this all very hush-hush, hoping you won't notice.3 These changes wouldn’t just benefit Murdoch. If the FCC proposal passes, one company could own the major daily newspaper, two TV stations and up to eight radio stations in your town. And that one company could be your Internet provider, too. What is the FCC thinking?!? We can still stop the agency from taking this perilous step — but we have less than a month to do it. By taking action, you’re joining a movement of millions who are working to stop big media from getting even bigger. Please take action today. Click HERE to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation!

CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: No more silent majority. The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the Center for Economic and Policy Research (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) to monitor the media’s coverage and representation of the American Majority views as they go into covering the big deficit fight. But we want to enlist YOU too. Send us accounts of unbalanced coverage in the national media and in your local newspapers and television. Call up reporters, editors, assignment people and tell them when they are under-representing the views of the American Majority. We should have at least half the experts, pundits, quotes and real people represented in their coverage. In a debate as important as the one we are going into, we can’t allow the media to ignore the American Majority. Much more at www.ourfuture.org MOVE TO AMEND! www.movetoamend.org SIGN HERE NOW! And check out more actions on the Move to Amend Calendar for more! Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site www.savedemocracy.net GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at CongressmanWithGuts.com

REPRESENT.US IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US. Represent.Us is a fresh campaign to pass the American Anti-Corruption Act: a law that would overhaul campaign finance, impose strict lobbying and conflict of interest laws, and end secret political money. We are mobilizing millions of Americans — conservatives and progressives, young and old, every issue group fighting K Street, online and offline — to join this campaign. Represent.Us is not just building a movement to pass the Act. The campaign will use hard-hitting accountability tactics to unseat politicians who fail to endorse the Act. If passed, the Act will completely reshape American politics and policy-making and give people a voice. See this Guest Blog at Greenpeace by Executive Director Josh Silver The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics for more information!

SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT See CourageToResist.org and Bradley Manning Support Network From the Bradley Manning Support Network Announcing the Private Manning Support Network! August 26, 2013, By attorney David Coombs and the Private Manning Support Network (formerly the Bradley Manning Support Network). Additional clarification on PVT Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning's request regarding her gender and name. With your continued support, our network will continue its advocacy efforts in support our heroic WikiLeaks whistle-blower through this new phase of her life. ....... UPDATE! Video: David Coombs and Alexa O'Brien at the Sydney Opera House Watch the video of the Sydney Opera House panel discussion on “The War on Whistleblowers and Their Publishers” featuring Pvt. Chelsea Manning’s lawyer David Coombs, Guardian writer Glenn Greenwald, independent journalist Alexa O’Brien, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange AND Update 9/19/13: Manning’s leaks: Syria’s Chemical Weapon trove was no secret to Obama President Obama made a deal with Russia to convince Syria to hand over its chemical weapons and give up the program altogether;Artist Kyle Goen’s Pvt. Chelsea Manning piece will be showcased at the DUMBO Arts Festival in Brooklyn, New York. Titled “Who’s Chelsea Manning?” ; Slovenian philosopher and cultural critic Slavoj Zizek considers Edward Snowden, Pvt. Chelsea Manning, and Julian Assange our modern-day heroes. .....

DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION Help save lives. Donate your old & used iPhone, Blackberries, Droid and other phones to help the T.J. Martell Foundations fund life-saving cancer & AIDS research. For more information, go to www.tjmartellfoundation.org

CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at CellPhoneTaskForce.org The Cellular Phone Task Force is dedicated to halting the expansion of wireless technology because it cannot be made safe. We provide: education to the public concerning electromagnetic pollution (electrosmog); advocacy for an electromagnetically cleaner environment; support for individuals disabled by radiation from wireless technology and other sources. WATCH THIS MOVIE at Top Documentary Films Resonance: Beings of Frequency Now we live an an ocean of electromagnetic radiation. It’s all around us now, invisible, but we know it’s there. Every time you lift up your mobile phone you know it’s there. It is very hard to turn the clock back, in fact it is impossible, but we need to be aware of the adverse health effects so that we can have the choice of taking precautions against the exposures. How we could have possibly thought that putting microwaves to our brain was safe. We just don’t fully understand what we’re doing. "Resonance: Beings of Frequency" is the first documentary to investigate the actual mechanisms by which mobile phone technology can cause cancer. The film takes a deeper look at how humanity is reacting to the most profound environmental change the planet has ever seen. Read more HERE!!

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• This Week (ABC) Host George Stephanopoulos
  • Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.
  • Rep. Tom Graves, R-Ga.
  • ROUNDTABLE: CNN “Crossfire” co-host Newt Gingrich, University of California, Berkeley professor and former Clinton Labor secretary Robert Reich, PBS “NewsHour” co-anchor and managing editor Gwen Ifill, and ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl.
  

• Face The Nation (CBS) Host Bob Schiefer
  • Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va.
  • Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla
  • Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Ariz.
  • ROUNDTABLE: David Sanger, John Dickerson, Bobby Ghosh, and Nancy Gibbs
  

• 60 Minutes (CBS)
  • Due to late-afternoon NFL game coverage and the live broadcast of the 64th Primetime Emmy Awards on the CBS Television Network, 60 Minutes will be pre-empted on Sunday, Sept. 22, 2013.
  

• Meet the Press (NBC) Host David Gregory
  • Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture NBC is buying Microsoft's 50 percent interest in the MSNBC website for an undisclosed amount. MSNBC.com will be rebranded as NBCNews.com, and readers who logged into MSNBC.com late Sunday were automatically redirected to NBCNews.com. Microsoft is preparing to launch its own news service this fall. Although he declined to provide many details about the operation general manager of MSN.com Bob Visse said the news staff will be about the same size as the roughly 100 people who created original content for the MSNBC.com. "There is no question that we are going to have more flexibility to make our own decisions," said Vivian Schiller, NBC News' chief digital officer. "This is really an amicable breakup. We think competition will make us better." Okay then.
  • Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association
  • ROUNDTABLE: A Meet the Press panel examines the effect the battle over Obamacare will have on the Republican Party.
  • ROUNDTABLE II: A congressional roundtable discusses the potential of a government shutdown, with most lawmakers voicing confidence that such an outcome will be avoided.
  

• State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN) At 9 AM ET, Candy talks to the power players: politicians, business leaders and international newsmakers who will make Monday morning's headlines.
  • Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
  • New York Magazine writer Joe Hagan
  • ROUNDTABLE: Al Cardenas, Kevin Madden, Joe Lockhart and Donna Brazile discuss U.S. relations with Syria and Iran.
  

• HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid
  
  Headon Radio with Bob Kincaid 6 PM Eastern, 3 PM Pacific, 2300 GMT. Duration: 3 hrs. To be part of Conversation Radio call toll-free (877) 443-2366, or use our Liberal community line at 304-658-3333. Email bob [at] headonradio [dot] com during the show!
  • Church Night Wednesday!! Uber Pope/Imam/Rabbi Bob exposes the Religious Right! Listen NOW HERE - Wednesday, September 18th, 2013 (mp3)! Keep Bob on the air HERE ya hear? Amen to the White Rose Society! Bob's show archives at the White Rose HERE! Donate to Head On HERE! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at www.crmw.net!
  

• YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!
  
  The Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen: 6 minutes of green news, politics, analysis & snarky comment! BOOKMARK greennews.bradblog.com NOW!
  • 'Green News Report' - September 19, 2013 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Climate science denial on display in US House in advance of new UN report as DOE, EPA defend climate action; Mexico reeling from simultaneous twin hurricanes; Arctic sea ice 6th lowest on record; PLUS: Confirmed: toxic oil and gas leaks in CO floodwaters ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
  • IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): Researchers struggle to project how fast, how high and how far sea levels will rise; Utilities shocked as more big companies self-generate power; E-waste a 'global time bomb'; Solar Decathlon heads to CA; Japan balked at steps to control Fukushima water in 2011; Clean energy less costly than fossil fuels; USDA guts public organic review process to limit synthetics ... PLUS: California wins right to clamp down on carbon ... and much, MUCH more!
  • 'Green News Report' - September 17, 2013 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Rescue turns to recovery and rebuilding amidst Colorado's "biblical" flooding, while concerns grow after floodwaters swamp oil & gas fields; It's official: August 2013 was the 4th hottest on record; PLUS: Here's to Alaska! Mining giant pulls out of controversial Pebble Mine project ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! DELAY ACQUITTED, SIEGELMAN STILL IN PRISONTexas' former Republican Congressman gets off scot-free for actual crimes, as Alabama's former Democratic Governor still serving years in prison for a 'crime' that was never considered one until he was convicted of it...
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! Texas D.A. To Seek Review of DeLay's Partisan Acquittal Austin County prosecutor hopes to overturn questionable ruling that allowed Tom DeLay off the hook for money laundering, though former GOP Rep. may have little to worry about...
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! Padilla Still Misleading About CA's Dangerous Election Bill As bill waits for Guv's signature, state Sen. tells media SB 360 needed to allow public ownership of e-vote systems (which is already allowed), doesn't mention it also radically curtails testing of new systems...
  • BRADCAST! KPFK 'BradCast': MSM Failure on Syria Weapons Questions and Climate Change Reality FAIR's Jim Naureckas on media's lack of skepticism on Syria; Slate's Phil Plait from Boulder, CO on their 'biblical' floods and climate denialists ramping up before new UN report...
  

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  The Peter B. Collins Show covers American news and politics from the Left Coast. Veteran talk radio personality Peter B. Collins, based in San Francisco, delivers fresh interviews, commentary and analysis on a range of important topics, with views and voices you don’t often find in the corporate media.
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  To my valued listeners: We are making some changes to the website and our terms, effective in January. We will continue to offer free podcasts–my new daily news and commentary. Our in-depth interviews will be available for $1 per episode, or to subscribers who pay $5 per month or more. Loyal listeners who simply can’t afford it should send an email to peter@peterbcollins.com, as we will be offering a limited number of scholarships to our friends who are hurting during these tough times. More information will be posted as we complete the revisions. I’m grateful to each of you for listening and supporting this work, and hope that the new model will enable us to keep it going well into the future. All the best, -pbc
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  • PBC News & Comment Sept 19, 2013 PBC News & Comment: Courts Let Tom DeLay and Halliburton “Off the Hook” We open with Rolling Stones’ “Off the Hook”, as courts overturn DeLay’s conviction and fine Halliburton for blowout’s evidence destruction…
  • PBC News & Comment Sept 20, 2013 PBC News & Comment: Scrooge Arrives Early as GOP Radicals Cut Food Stamps In first of Tea Party salvos, GOP-run House cuts food stamps and bans lottery winners from receiving them–RU kidding?…..
  • PBC Standard Podcast Sept 12, 2013 Boiling Frogs: Pepe Escobar on the US Threat to Strike Syria: False Flags, Big Lies and the Role of Bandar Bush
  • PBC Standard Podcast Sept 17, 2013Grassroots Organizer and Activist Sam Daley-Harris Offers Advice and Inspiration for Fighting Hunger, Poverty, Climate Change
  

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  This Weekend on Ring of Fire Radio! Sept 20, 2013 Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 7 pm Eastern.
  • Liz Kennedy from Demos.org will tell us why we need to act soon to stop the Supreme Court from demolishing campaign spending limits.
  • Author David Kirby will discuss the ethical implications of keeping killer whales in captivity.
  • John Nichols from The Nation will tell us how progressive uprisings are changing American politics from the bottom up.
  • And author Sasha Abramsky will be here to talk about his new book “The American Way of Poverty.”
  • NEW! This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV! Sept 21, 2013 Sundays at NOON!
  »» TV and radio host Thom Hartmann talks about the events that led to our economic collapse 5 years ago, and what we can do to prevent the next big crash.
  »» Attorney Mike Burg tells us how America is quickly beginning to resemble a third world banana republic.
  »» Author Cliff Schecter talks about the insurance industry-funded groups that are trying to dismantle Obamacare.
  »» Attorney Howard Nations will tell us about the disastrous effects of the GOP’s budget cutting.
  »» Linda Lipsen, the CEO of the AAJ, will discuss the latest round of victories for the makers of deadly chemicals.
  • VIDEO! THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio “Call us if you have a personal story about Fraud on Taxpayers or False Claims for Payment made by Corportations at 1-866-389-FIRE (3473) or contact us by email at info@ringoffireradio.com if you have evidence of fraud that robbed taxpayer dollars. If our government is paying too much due to fraud by a corporation, Ring of Fire wants to do a story on it.”
  • VIDEO! Papantonio: Progressive Movement Finally Coming Together (VIDEO) Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio speaks to David Pakman about recent developments within the Progressive movement, and how the movement is seemingly becoming increasingly unified.
  • VIDEO! Pap and Seder: Are We Becoming Numb To Gun Violence? (VIDEO) Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder discuss the horrific shooting that occurred in a Washington, D.C. Navy yard this past Monday, which left 13 people dead, including the gunman.
  • Ring of Fire’s Weekly Rewind Sept. 21, 2013 featuring the top stories from Ring of Fire from the past week.
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• Majority Report with Sam Seder Streaming LIVE weekdays 12 NOON et @ Majority.fm!
  
  • MONDAY 9/16/13 Allison Kilkenny: Occupy's New Fight
  • TUESDAY 9/17/13 Occupy Wall Street Best of Show, Fran Lebowitz
  • WEDNESDAY 9/18/13 David Neiwert: Crossing the Dark Side of the American Border
  • THURSDAY 9/19/13 Mike Konczal: What we get wrong when we talk about ‘the financial crisis’
  • FRIDAY 8/20/13 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & Dean Obeidallah
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• KEISER REPORT Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
  
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  WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts "The Truth About Markets" on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s "People & Power" series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
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  • KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK STACY SUMMARY: For once and for all, here are our real Facebook pages, the other ones are fake. But if you feel like chatting to the fake ones, by all means, go ahead.
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  • The Federal Reserve 100th Anniversary Road Show Spectacular! by alexschaefer - Paint Provocateur Alex Schaefer wants to say “Happy Birthday, Federal Reserve!’ You made it to 100 years of conducting the nation’s monetary policy! Since mainstream media didn’t send a card, a painter, a protestor, a filmmaker, a freedom fighter and a mad crew are going on a road trip across the USA to visit all twelve of your branches to help you celebrate! Come rain or monkey shines, they are on a mission to throw the birthday party nightmares are made of. A party to highlight the historic END of the original 100 year charter the Federal Reserve Bank has with the U.S. Government December 23rd, 2013! CLICK HERE FOR THE CROWDFUNDING CAMPAIGN & HELP GET THE SHOW ON THE ROAD! Lots of great donation perks, all original works of art by Alex Schaefer and Cain Motter! This is a great way to collect some art AND help fund this amazing journey and film. It’s a win-win situation! Let’s some history and shake things up around here!
  • Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states by maxkeiser - READ What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones (guardian.co.uk)
  • Obama’s Nixon moment … invoking the exact image which he is trying to avoid. by MaxKeiser - READ This is the United States of America — we’re not some banana republic, this is not a deadbeat nation, we don’t run out on our tab.
  • Mortgages, Eminent domain and Richmond – - YES, it’s illegal by Stacy Herbert: Stacy Summary: We were probably the first to cover this story when the idea was first floated to to use eminent domain to seize PERFORMING mortgage contracts. READ Mortgages, Eminent domain and Richmond VIDEO! And here is one of the pieces we did on the use of eminent domain to seize mortgages, in this case it was being floated in San Bernardino.....
  • Hackers For Government Hire: A Growing and Deeply Disturbing Industry Submitted by Michael Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg - Wikileaks recently continued the release of what they refer to as the “Spy Files.” These files provide a look into some of the companies behind the rapid commercialization of the spy equipment industry, who’s clients include repressive governments and dictatorial regimes around the world. In a press release announcing these files Wikileaks states: Across the world, mass surveillance contractors are helping intelligence agencies spy on individuals and ‘communities of interest’ on an industrial scale…
  • KEISER REPORT [KR498] Keiser Report: CIA, NSA & Economic Espionage We discuss economic espionage and, perhaps, sabotage by the NSA against the corporations and innovators of competitor nations. In the second half, Max interviews author, journalist and filmmaker, Greg Palast of GregPalast.com, about the Larry Summers’ secret ‘End Game’ memo and the decriminalization of what were once financial crimes.
  • KEISER REPORT Keiser Report: Housing Bubble Ponzi and Icarus Economics We discuss the triangle of fraud in the housing sector and the policy of Icarus economics in which banks can’t crash soon enough because then they can get their bailouts from the taxpayer. In the second half, Max interviews Simon Rose of SaveOurSavers.co.uk about the George Osborne’s ‘New Deal’ of putting estate agents to work as flocks of pigs fly across the London sky. They also discuss the five years of unintended consequences, including that which has led to the idea being floated of a government cap on house price rises to correct the problem of government intervention in the mortgage market.
  • KEISER REPORT [KR500] Keiser Report: Crimes & Cracks of Capitalism We discuss what the economy and financial sector look like five hundred episodes later. They find an economy where the wealth and income gap is the highest ever, median income has collapsed and the mainstream media alleges the government is ‘assaulting’ JP Morgan with all the fines for the bank’s many criminal activities. In the second half, Max interviews Professor Steve Keen about banking and leverage five years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers.
  • THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS [TaM-1289] The Truth About Markets – 21 September 2013 Download show HERE (mp3)
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• The Scott Horton Radio Show
  
  Scott Horton is host of Antiwar Radio on Pacifica 90.7 FM KPFK in Los Angeles and KUCR 88.3 in Riverside, and the Scott Horton Show on No Agenda Radio. (You can listen live Monday through Friday, excluding Thursday, from 12-2 PM Eastern HERE.) Plenty of archives too!
  • Scott Horton Radio Show 9/17/13 Adam Morrow: IPS News journalist Adam Morrow discusses Egypt’s counterrevolution; the Muslim Brotherhood officials in jail or in hiding; how Iran’s secular progressives have discredited themselves by backing the antidemocratic military coup; and Israel’s long-held desire to repossess the Sinai Peninsula.
  • Scott Horton Radio Show 9/20/13 John Glaser: John Glaser, a writer for Antiwar.com and The Huffington Post, discusses how US obsession with regime change is ruining any chance for a deal on Iran’s nuclear program; how US foreign policy became completely disconnected from the national interest; learning from Libya, Iraq and N. Korea that nuclear weapons are indeed deterrents to invasion/regime change; and why Obama needed a terrorism waiver to arm Syrian rebels.
  • SCOTT HORTON July 5, 2012: Scott says goodbye to Antiwar.com. Scott Horton is the former host of Antiwar Radio. Visit his blog Stress. Due to budget cuts Scott lost his gig at AntiWarRadio.com! Whoa! See ScottHortonShow.com for archives! Send emails to Scott at scotthorton.org to help Scott keep his podcast going!
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