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Stay-Ca Special! We're back! Last Saturday we joined the WRUW Tech Crew and broadcast The Cleveland Museum's Fifth Annual "Summer Solstice" world music concert LIVE for FIVE HOURS! Happy Summer Solstice everybody! (If you'd like the mp3s of the show just post a comment below and we'll get them to you!) What a way to start the Brick TeeVee Crew's Stay-cation! NEXT we've been cleaning up parts of the BTV Compound, pulling weeds out of the "jungles" and planting grass seed in their place, fixing gutters, mowing lawns, putting in mulch in the flower gardens and you-name-it working in between the rain showers getting ready for a high school graduation party! We also took a trip to Athens OH for "freshman orientation" at Ohio University. Yes "Da Kid" made it through high school and is attending college! Whodathunk? So the Stay-Ca has been work work work, with ample amounts of adult beverages mixed in! We've been "off the grid" for most of the time so we have just a short list of items, partially left over from last week. PROGRAMMING NOTE: Tentatively the WRUW Tech Crew will be broadcasting LIVE from the Ohio City Stages Transformer Station THIS WEDNESDAY July 2nd for "Chicha Libre, the Brooklyn collective made up of French, American, Venezuelan and Mexican musicians". The broadcast will start at 7:30 pm et so TUNE IN for the show LIVE on 91.1 WRUW-FM's 128K Stream! Of course "LIVE From Cleveland " is every THURSDAY at 10 pm et (yours truly producing & mixing the band). And at 9 pm et FRIDAY JULY FOURTH I'll be hosting a Special Independence Day "Second British Invasion" radio show sandwiched in between Rich Lowe's "Night of the Living Dread" at 7 pm et and Jazzbo's "Down by the Cuyahoga" at 11 pm et. TUNE IN for British 70's Art Bands, Glam Rock, and more Album-Oriented-Rock (AOR) format on Independence Day! The British are coming! The British are coming! Haha!
So let's get on with it!

• A Superbug Resistant to 'Last-Resort' Antibiotics Has Made Its Way into the Food Supply
  
• Malloy Chatter Flavorave notes "The internet is now 4 zettabytes big. NSA has 5 Zettabytes stored in their data warehouse in Utah." VIDEO! NSA Utah Data Center Will Have 5 Zettabytes Of Memory, Equal To 312 Billion iPhones
  
• Former Steelers QB and FOX Sports NFL commentator Terry Bradshaw - international politics expert! Fox invites NFL analyst Terry Bradshaw on air to talk Benghazi Who knew?
  
• Mass surveillance of social media is permitted by law, says top UK official
  
• Ed Doc "Ivory Tower" Asks If College Is Worth It Although it's full of information, the documentary Ivory Tower at its core poses a question: Is the price of college worth it? PLUS Things You'll Learn About Colleges From Watching The 'Ivory Tower' Documentary AND Ivory Tower Homepage
  
• BP allowed commercial drones by US regulators in unprecedented decision What could possibly go wrong?
  
• Juan Cole - Informed Comment 7 Myths about the Radical Sunni Advance in Iraq
  
• John Amato, CrooksAndLiars Supreme Court Rules Anti-Abortion Group Can Sue Ohio For The Right To Lie
  
• Jim Wright StoneKettle.com "Warmongers tell me WHY we have to go back into Iraq" Absolutely Nothing First, I’m going to need somebody to explain to me exactly what it was that we were fighting for.
  
• Dennis Kucinich Stop Calling the Iraq War a 'Mistake' In fact, the truth about Iraq was widely available, but it was ignored. There were no WMD. Saddam Hussein had nothing to do with 9/11. The war wasn't about liberating the Iraqi people. I said this in Congress in 2002. Millions of people who marched in America in protest of the war knew the truth, but were maligned by members of both parties for opposing the president in a time of war -- and even leveled with the spurious charge of "not supporting the troops."
  I've written and spoken widely about this topic, so today I offer two ways we can begin to address our role.....
  

WAIT! There's more! Rig of Fire asks Who Invited These Guys Again? They Were Wrong About Iraq Then, And Will Be Now. Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Paul Bremer, and Doug Feith were the Bush-era, neocon cheerleaders architects that pushed the 2003 invasion of Iraq over the airwaves. Collectively, these guys swore that Saddam hussein was developing nuclear capabilities and that the regime had massive WMDs. Well, all of that turned out to be untrue. There were no WMDs and there were no nuclear capabilities to speak of in Iraq. Now that violence is flaring in Iraq once again, the mainstream media is asking these men what they think of the state of affairs in Iraq. What’s worse, these men are hardly being questioned or held accountable for their lies told over a decade ago. It’s as if everyone just forgot how badly they botched the Iraq situation. ......... [former undersecretary of defense Douglas] Feith is just one of the multiple pro-Iraq war neocons. Paul Bremer’s blunder was disbanding the Iraqi army at the very beginning of our occupation. The move displaced 400,000 Iraqi troops and resulted in a surge of sectarian violence and insurgent attacks. Bremer effectively caused the steady, resurging violence that took place in Iraq. He was discredited, but did the media decide to ignore him because he was wrong? Nope, it sure didn’t. Bremer was on “Morning Joe” just yesterday calling for “troops on the ground,” and the Wall Street Journal gave him a little space to talk about how the country needs to intervene in Iraq again. [Paul] Wolfowitz made predictions and assertions about the invasion that were not only untrue, but actually saw the exact opposite. He told Congress in 2003 that “it’s hard to conceive that it would take more forces to provide stability in post-Saddam Iraq than it would take to conduct the war itself and to secure the surrender of Saddam’s security forces.” The exact thing that Wolfowitz said couldn’t happen, in fact, happened. ............. [Bill] Kristol’s media appearance on ABC’s “This Week” is perhaps the most nauseating. He once declared that America had a “decisive and honorable victory” in Iraq, but then goes on to blame the violence on Obama’s “ridiculous and total withdrawal from Iraq.” Of course, he believes that everything that has gone wrong is completely Obama’s fault, even before he took office. This motley crew of failed officials and political blunders was proven wrong years ago. Their actions, alongside many others in the Bush administration have damaged our economy, destroyed our reputation on the international stage, and costs the lives of thousands of Americans and Iraqis. But, they still get airtime from news people who just need to have their opinions. They’re not experts. They’re morons. AND at ConsortiumNews.com Lawrence Davidson outlines Forgetting Who Messed Up Iraq ........ We can’t even be sure if Bush and his neoconservative allies believed in this radical goal of spreading democracy by the sword. Given that most of the regimes the U.S. has backed in the Middle East, including at one time that of Saddam Hussein, were autocracies of one sort or another, one can legitimately have doubts about the sincerity of the “democracy” claim. However, one thing we can be sure of: the Americans are not the only ones who can launch a crusade based on an age-old idea. Islamic radicals can do it too, as they seek to replicate the spread of Islam as it took place in the Seventh and Eighth centuries. And, thanks to Bush, who opened the fortress gates for them, these Islamist radicals are doing just that. Still, Bush and the neocons could not have created today’s disastrous dilemma in Iraq all by themselves. There had to be preconditions, and for that, one can look at Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship and his use of the Sunni-Shiite divide to further his power.......... As for ISIS, it’s hard to know what a political solution would mean. Like hard-core ideologues of all stripes, these jihadists are not compromising types. There is the second matter regarding Iraq’s violent chaos: how do we face up to American culpability? Pointing fingers at the current President might be politically convenient for Republicans and neocons, but it is thoroughly ahistorical. The Republican charge is based on the notion that Obama pulled U.S. troops out of Iraq too quickly when the Iraqi army wasn’t ready to stand on its own. In other words, the U.S. abandoned Iraq.But the charge is simply wrong. The Iraqi parliament voted against allowing American troops to stay in the country beyond the end of the so-called Status of Forces Agreement, signed by Bush and concluding in 2011. Obama wanted to leave a contingent of U.S. advisers in Iraq but decided against it when the Iraqi government refused to grant the advisers legal immunity. There was also the fact that the U.S. withdrawal came as a response to the will of the majority of the American people. The fact that the Iraqi armed forces were not in good shape at the time of withdrawal was not Obama’s fault. After all, the U.S. military, its trainers and advisers, had been in Iraq for years under the Bush administration. And, it can be argued that even if U.S. advisers had stayed longer it would have made no difference. ....... HUH. NEXT Robert Parry reviews Reviving the ‘Successful Surge’ Myth A beloved myth of Official Washington – especially among Republicans, neocons and other supporters of the Iraq War – is the fable of the “successful surge,” how President George W. Bush’s heroic escalation of 30,000 troops in 2007 supposedly “won” that war; it then follows that the current Iraq disaster must be President Barack Obama’s fault. The appeal of this myth should be obvious. Nearly every “important” person in the U.S. foreign policy establishment and the mainstream media endorsed the illegal invasion of Iraq in 2003 — and such well-placed and well-paid people do not like to admit that their judgment was so bad that they should be disqualified from holding any responsible position forever. Further, since almost no one who promoted this criminal and bloody enterprise was held accountable after Mission Accomplished wasn’t, these opinion leaders were still around in 2007 at the time of the “surge” and thus in a position to cite any positive trends as proof of “success.” Many are still around voicing their august opinions – the likes of Sen. John McCain, former Vice President Dick Cheney and neocon theorist Robert Kagan – so they still get to tell the rest of us how really great their judgment was. .......... But the core of the neocon narrative is that the 2007 “surge” essentially “won” the war in Iraq and that an open-ended U.S. military occupation of Iraq would have kept a lid on the sectarian violence that has periodically ripped the country apart since Bush’s invasion overthrew Saddam Hussein in 2003. There is much wrong about this narrative, including that it was Bush who signed the timeline for total U.S. withdrawal in 2008 and that the Iraqi government insisted that U.S. troops depart under that schedule at the end of 2011. But the greatest fallacy is to pretend that it was Bush’s “surge” that achieved the temporary lull in the sectarian violence and that it achieved its principal goal of resolving the Sunni-Shiite divisions. Any serious analysis of what happened in Iraq in 2007-08 would trace the decline in Iraqi sectarian violence mostly to strategies that predated the “surge” and were implemented by the U.S. commanding generals in 2006, George Casey and John Abizaid, who wanted as small a U.S. “footprint” as possible to tamp down Iraqi nationalism. ......... Even author Bob Woodward, who had published best-sellers that praised Bush’s early war judgments, concluded that the “surge” was only one factor and possibly not even a major one in the declining violence. ........... As the neocons pushed this “successful surge” myth, they were aided by the mainstream news media, which also had promoted the ill-fated war and was looking for a way to bolster its standing with the public. Typical of this new conventional wisdom, Newsweek published a cover story on the “surge” under the title, “victory at last.” To say otherwise brought you harsh criticism for not giving credit to “the troops.” Thus, the myth grew that Bush’s “surge” had brought Iraqi violence under control and the United States to the brink of “victory.” ........... In the final accounting of the neocon adventure of conquering Iraq, nearly 4,500 American soldiers had died; some 30,000 were wounded; and an estimated $1 trillion was squandered. What was ultimately left behind was not only a devastated Iraqi nation but an authoritarian Shiite government (in place of Saddam Hussein’s authoritarian Sunni government) and an Iraq that had become a regional ally of Iran (rather than a bulwark against Iran). The hard truth is that the bloody folly of the Iraq War was not “salvaged” by the “surge” – despite that preferred Washington narrative. As thrilling as it might be to think back on the heroic President Bush and the brave neocons bucking the anti-war pressures in 2007 and saving the day, the harsh reality is that another 1,000 U.S. soldiers and many more Iraqis were sent to their deaths in the cause of creating a politically useful myth. Read all of this! Robert Parry is on-point totally. Here are more headlines from ConsortiumNews.com

• Iraq’s Depleted Uranium Threat
  
• Reaping the Seeds of Iraqi Hatred The uproar in the mainstream U.S. news media over the barbarity of Islamic militants in Iraq downplays or ignores the brutality of the U.S. invasion and occupation that unleashed the ethnic and sectarian hatreds in the first place, as Danny Schechter notes.
  
• Who Violated Ukraine’s Sovereignty? Exclusive: The West has accused Russia of violating a 1994 pledge to respect Ukraine’s sovereignty in exchange for its surrender of Soviet-era nuclear weapons. But the West’s political and economic interference might also represent a violation, says ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern.
  
• NYT Revamps Its False Ukraine Narrative Exclusive: Official Washington’s Ukraine narrative has been that it was all Vladimir Putin’s fault, that the Russian president staged the crisis to restore the Russian empire, a storyline that never made sense and is now being rearranged to explain why Putin is seeking peace, writes Robert Parry.
  

Good items all! Click over and READ! NEXT Nobel Peace Prize Winner Obomber seeks funding more moderate rebel groups in Syria as The Telegraph's Raf Sanchez reports Barack Obama seeks $500m to fund moderate Syrian rebels The US looked set to significantly step up the country’s involvement in the Syrian civil war on Thursday after the White House urged Congress to approve $500 million (£293 million) to arm and train moderate rebels. While the CIA has been covertly training Syrian rebel groups for some time, the public programme would represent a major escalation of the US’s involvement in the country’s three-year civil war. Mr Obama's request for funds also comes as the US gropes for a strategy to confront Isis, the Sunni militant group that has long operated in Syria but has now seized controls of large swathes of Iraq. Following strong hints by Mr Obama in recent weeks, the White House said it intends to "ramp up US support to the moderate Syrian opposition." It proposed the funding for "vetted elements of the Syrian armed opposition to help defend the Syrian people, stabilise areas under opposition control, facilitate the provision of essential services, counter terrorist threats, and promote conditions for a negotiated settlement." .............. Okay then! Sure! Right. MOVING ON Alternet's Steven Rosenfeld explains these 7 Facts About the Lies, Distortions and Paranoia From the Right-Wing Cabal Defending Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Editor’s note: This article is based on reporting by Brendan Fischer and the Wisconsin-based Center for Media and Democracy. If you want further evidence of just how paranoid, partisan and ideologically twisted the defenders of Wisconsin’s union-busting Republican Governor Scott Walker are, consider the latest revelations from the campaign corruption probe that’s getting ready to squeeze a guilt plea from Walker. First and foremost, the police investigations into Walker’s campaign lawlessness have been led by several elected Republican prosecutors in five Wisconsin counties. That, of course, is exactly the opposite of the line peddled by the Walker-defending Wall Street Journal editorial page—until it turned on Walker this month after hearing his lawyers were seeking a legal settlement. At the heart of the vast right-wing propaganda tirade has been the claim that out-of-control government prosecutors have raided homes and conducted other civil liberty-crushing affronts to ensnare Walker. But as the seven following facts, taken from recent court documents reveal, those are not just paranoid accusations, they’re deliberate lies. ...... What a surprise! NOT. IF and WHEN Walker is CONVICTED will this lead to an impeachment? Or will Walker just step down? Stay tuned! See more about the shady Scott Walker shinanigans in our BradBlog section below! And read the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel Emails link Scott Walker to secret email system by Patrick Marley, Daniel Bice, Bill Glauber and Kevin Crowe of the Journal Sentinel. Yeah baby! HUGE! Jonathan Capehart at WaPo's "Post Partisan" section notes Boehner’s frivolous lawsuit against Obama with an incredible graph that shows "A History of Presidential Executive Orders" explaining The graphic … shows the frequency with which presidents have issued executive orders. Republicans are right: President Obama is absolutely unique … in how infrequently he issues them! The last president to issue executive orders at such a slow rate was Grover Cleveland who served from 1885-1889 & 1893-1897. What’s more, Republican complaints about President Obama’s use of such powers is a bit ironic, given historically Republican presidents use executive orders more frequently. This apparently doesn’t matter to Boehner. ...... Too bad the tea bagger who opposed Boner lost! Looks like Boner is grasping at straws as he saw his Number 2 Eric Cantor go down in flames as the GOPhers go further rightward toward tea-bag dillusion, incoherence, irrevelelence and ultimately political extintion despite their gerrymandering, voter suppression tactics, ALEC, Chamber of Commerce and CATO financial backing, Federalist-stacked courts and legions of bobbleheads and parrots in the Corporomedia. Jeez look at the time! Our BTV LAST WORD goes to Shamus Cooke at Counterpunch.org Syria Endgame Approaching Fast Too much to snip! READ IT ALL. Also one last one from ConsortiumNews.com Learning Little from World War I Looking back on the century of war and slaughter that has followed the start of World War I, one is reminded of Pete Seeger’s classic lyrics: “When will they ever learn?” Today, major world leaders behave with much the same thoughtless hubris as their forebears in 1914, as Gary G. Kohls recalls. And get active at ResetTheNet.org! See you all on WRUW this week Wednesday, Thursday and especially The Second British Invasion Independence Day Show Friday at 9 pm! Plenty more to check out below!

BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!_©

Headlines Monday, June 23, 2014

• Adel Fahmy, brother of Mohamed Fahmy, an Al Jazeera journalist imprisoned in Egypt & Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Democracy Now! correspondent based in Cairo, Egypt "Journalism in Egypt is a Crime": Global Outcry After 3 Al Jazeera Reporters Sentenced to 7-10 Years
  
• Patrick Cockburn, Middle East correspondent for The Independent "Baghdad is a Frightened City": As ISIS Gains Ground, Iraqi Capital Gripped by Fear & Uncertainty
  
• Dr. Nahida Gordon, professor emerita at Case Western Reserve University & Rabbi Alissa Wise, director of organizing at Jewish Voice for Peace Pressuring Israel, Presbyterian Church Divests from Firms Tied to Occupation of Palestinian Land
  

Headlines Tuesday, June 24, 2014

• Phyllis Bennis, senior fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies Should Obama Go to Tehran? How a U.S.-Iran "Grand Bargain" Could Help the Crisis in Iraq
  
• Hina Shamsi, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project Can the President Strike an American Anywhere in the World?: Drone Memo Raises Troubling Questions
  
• Maureen Taylor, state chair of the Michigan Welfare Rights Organization & Meera Karunananthan, international water campaigner for the Blue Planet Project, Water is a Human Right: Detroit Residents Seek U.N. Intervention as City Shuts Off Taps to Thousands
  

Headlines Wednesday, June 25, 2014

• Sue Turton, Al Jazeera correspondent charged in absentia #FreeAJStaff: Al Jazeera Reporter Sentenced in Absentia Decries Egypt’s Imprisonment of 3 Colleagues
  
• Pooja Gehi & Angie Milan-Cruz "Trans Healthcare Now!" Lawsuit Seeks End to Healthcare Discrimination for Transgender New Yorkers
  
• Jerry Redfern & Karen Coates, Co-authors of the book "Eternal Harvest: The Legacy of American Bombs in Laos" 50 Years After U.S. Launched Secret War on Laos, Unexploded Bombs Still Killing Civilians
  

Headlines Thursday, June 26, 2014

• Nathan Freed Wessler, staff attorney with the Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project at the American Civil Liberty Union Supreme Court Says Warrants Needed to Search Cellphones, But are "Stingrays" a Police Workaround?
  
• Rev. Julia Chaney-Moss, Angela Lewis, is the daughter of civil rights activist James Chaney & David Goodman, brother of Andrew Goodman Mississippi Burning at 50: Relatives of Civil Rights Workers Look Back at Murders that Shaped an Era
  
• Jerry Mitchell, investigative reporter for The Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Mississippi 50 Years After Freedom Summer, U.S. Faces Greatest Curbs on Voting Rights Since Reconstruction
  
• Janet Redman, director of the Climate Policy Program at the Institute for Policy Studies EPA Moves to Cut Coal Pollution, But Critics Say Plan Falls Short on Real Emissions Reduction
  

Headlines Friday, June 27, 2014

• Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now! co-host and award-winning investigative reporter with the New York Daily News New York City Approves Municipal ID Cards for Undocumented Immigrants
  
• Allan Nairn, journalist and activist Journalist Allan Nairn Threatened for Exposing Indonesian Pres. Candidate’s Role in Mass Killings
  
• Gerald Horne, professor of history and African American studies at the University of Houston "Counter-Revolution of 1776": Was U.S. Independence War a Conservative Revolt in Favor of Slavery? He is the author of two new books: "The Counter-Revolution of 1776: Slave Resistance and the Origins of the United States of America" and "Race to Revolution: The U.S. and Cuba During Slavery and Jim Crow."
  

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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! Stop the FCC from Breaking the Internet The Federal Communications Commission is proposing rules that would kill — rather than protect — Net Neutrality and allow rampant discrimination online. Under these rules, telecom giants like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon would be able to pick winners and losers online and discriminate against online content and applications. And no one would be able to do anything about it. We must stop the FCC from moving forward with these rules, which would give the green light to ISPs eager to crush Net Neutrality. The agency can preserve Net Neutrality only by designating broadband as a telecommunications service under the law. Anything else is an attack on our rights to connect and communicate. Tell FCC Chairman Wheeler to throw out his proposed rules. Demand nothing less than real Net Neutrality. SIGN NOW at Stop the FCC from Breaking the Internet at freepress.net NOW. Join the Day of Action on May 15! The Internet will rise up online and take to the streets. SIGN UP HERE to learn more!

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. 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! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger! GO THERE NOW!

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! UPDATE! Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21 Move to Amend is thrilled to announce that the premiere of our mini documentary, Legalize Democracy, will be airing on Free Speech TV (FSTV) next week to coincide with the "anniversary" of Citizens United. Legalize Democracy is a 28 minute film by Dennis Trainor, Jr. about the movement to amend -- why it is needed, and how you can get involved. Watch live on our website here. 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 "Chelsea Manning Support Network" March 19, 2014. By CMSN. PVT Manning has filed to change her name legally to "Chelsea Elizabeth Manning" and to receive hormone therapy. To show our support in this struggle, we are renaming ourselves to the "Chelsea Manning Support Network." ..... UPDATE! New York Times publishes Chelsea Manning's op-ed Read the full text of Chelsea Manning's first op-ed since her imprisonment, published by the New York Times on Saturday, June 14th...... AND SF Pride's interview with Lauren McNamara, friend of Chelsea June 27, 2014. Lauren McNamara, Chelsea's representative at SF Pride, answers questions on her friendship with Chelsea and how we can continue to support her......

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  • 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.
  • exclusive one-on-one conversation with former President Bill Clinton at the 2014 CGI America conference in Denver, CO
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  • Highlights from this week’s 2014 CGI America panel on economic justice and social mobility Roundtable: former Pres. Bill Clinton, founding chairman of the Clinton Global Initiative; Carly Fiorina, Chairman and CEO of Carly Fiorina Enterprises and Chairman of Good360; Sara Horowitz, Founder and Executive Director of the Freelancers Union; Monty Moran, co-CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill; and Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation. PROGRAMMING NOTE: The extended CGI America panel discussion will air on MSNBC this Sunday at 3pm ET.
  

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  • Chairman of the House Oversight Committee and a lead investigator of the IRS scandal, Congressman Darrell Issa (R-California)
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  • 'Green News Report' - June 26, 2014 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: The gloves are off - President Obama now just openly mocking climate change deniers; Pesticides linked to autism (again) and death of beneficial insects (again); Extreme weather kicks the FIFA World Cup in Brazil; PLUS: Shocker: Fox 'News' says the globe is cooling. They are wrong. (Again.)... All that and more in today's Green News Report! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see links at site): Is Congress lifting US crude oil export ban? No, not really.; If you think US climate politics are crazy, wait'll you see what just happened in Australia; Detroit shutting off water to thousands; Next-gen GMO crops are here and will increase use of pesticides; Doctors fail to instruct pregnant moms on toxic chemical risks; New study proves air pollution regulations save lives.... PLUS: 1 In 10 U.S. beaches too polluted for swimming ... and much, MUCH more! ...
  • 'Green News Report' - June 24, 2014 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: U.S. Supreme Court upholds EPA authority on greenhouse gas emissions --- again; It's official - May 2014 was the hottest May on record; Canada's First Nations vote to fight the other tar sands pipeline; PLUS: Titans of Wall Street warn climate change is really, really expensive ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
  • BRADCAST! KPFK 'BradCast': Keep on Iraqin' Me, Baby Brad takes on Cheney's epic trolling and the MSM'samnesia on Iraq; Plus: Great callers; good voting news in OH and MUCH MORE...
  • BRADCAST! Walker Case MUCH Bigger Than Walker: KPFK 'BradCast' Brendan Fischer of Center for Media and Democracy joins Brad to discuss this very important case for the entire country; Plus much, much, MUCH more...
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! Prosecutors 'Targeting' Christie, Walker New reports on criminal conspiracy probes in WI and NJ suggest two GOP Governors and 2016 hopefuls could end up in the 'Big House' rather than the White House...
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! Shadowy Photo ID Voting Initiative Fails in CA A ballot measure slated for the November election has failed to qualify, but who is really behind the scheme to disenfranchise California's otherwise-legal voters?...
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! 'Most Prolific Multiple Voter in Memory': More Republican Voter Fraud in WI GOP voter charged with 13 felony counts for illegal voting in Scott Walker recall election, others; Undeterred by Photo ID restrictions...
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! SCOTUS Declares 'Open Season on Reproductive Healthcare Clinics' Activist and clinic escort, Katie Klabusich responds to the U.S. Supreme Court's disturbing 'buffer zone' decision...
  

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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 On Vacation, Returning July 7 Your humble host has left his post for a fact-finding mission in his own backyard, northern California. I’ll be off the grid (except when I’m not) recharging body and mind with grape-based beverages, campfire cooking and good friends. I’m hosting my friends from Brazil, Alberto and Heloisa, on a tour of the Mendocino coast, Mt. Shasta, and Lake Tahoe. I will break radio silence to post a few pix on Facebook, find me there as Peter B. Collins Show. While I’m away, browse below and catch up on some of my recent juicy interviews on many topics that get short shrift in the corporate media. And make my day by taking out a new subscription…it provides me with revenue and validation!
  • PBC News & Comment 18 Jun 2014 PBC News & Comment: Obama Continues “Star Wars” Missile Defense Boondoggle LA Times publishes comprehensive review of US missile defense program, as Obama continues to fund program that fails rigged tests…
  • PBC News & Comment 19 Jun 2014 PBC News & Comment: Roger Shuler Subject to Imminent Arrest in Alabama In aftermath of 5-month jail stretch on bogus defamation and contempt charges, journalist Roger Shuler faces arrest for being broke…
  • PBC Standard Podcast June 18, 2014 “15Now” Activists Pass $15 Minimum Wage in Seattle, Next Target is Oakland SJesse Lessinger is National Organizer for 15Now.org and just won a campaign in Seattle to raise the minimum wage to $15. We talk about the needs of working families and the failure of Democrats to champion those needs.
  • PBC Standard Podcast June 13, 2014 Filmmaker Brian Knappenberger Talks About New Aaron Swartz Documentary The Internet’s Own Boy is a great new film about the internet prodigy Aaron Swartz. We talk with filmmaker Brian Knappenberger about the impressive contributions of the young man who ended his life in January, 2013 while facing heavy-handed prosecution for a minor offense.
  

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  This Weekend on Ring of Fire Radio! June 27, 2014 Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern.
  • This week on The Best of Ring of Fire Radio: Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig will tell us his plan to get corporate money out of our elections.
  • Author CJ Werleman will discuss the dangers of America’s political ignorance.
  • Elliot Fineman from the Gun Victims Action Network will join us to discuss the absurdity of open carry gun laws.
  • Mike Burg will explain why the Department of Justice continues to fail to protect consumers from financial fraud.
  • Ruth Conniff, editor of The Progressive magazine will explain the latest happenings in the Scott Walker criminal investigation.
  • Howard Nations will discuss the growing threat of 18-wheelers, and a recent Congressional action that will make the roads even less safe.
  • Lauren Windsor will tell us what happened at the recent Koch brothers’ retreat.
  • And Progressive Voices’ political director David Bender will give us his take on Thad Cochran’s narrow primary victory this past week.
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  • Ring of Fire’s Weekly Rewind Posted on June 28, 2014 by Joshua De Leon - Ring of Fire’s top stories from the past week.
  • 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.” Also see Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4
  • Ring of Fire’s Weekly Rewind Posted on June 7, 2014 by Joshua De Leon
  • Sam Seder On Progressive Voices Our friend, Ed Schultz, will no longer be doing his regularly scheduled radio program. Thom Hartmann will be moving to Ed’s weekday spot from noon to 3 p.m. from his usual 3 – 6 p.m. slot. Sam Seder is taking the Ring of Fire radio show live weekday afternoons from 3-6 PM East and Noon – 3 PM West on radio stations nationwide, and The Progressive Voices Network on TuneIn. Listeners can also expect Mike Papantonio and Bobby Kennedy to drop by regularly. .........
  • VIDEO! Papantonio: Illegal Money Kept Walker in Office (VIDEO) Posted on June 26, 2014 by Gary Bentley
  Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio appears on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann to discuss the latest...
  • 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."
  

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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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  • 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)
  • A Cast of Creepy Characters: U.S. Authorities Target Barclay’s “Dark Pool” by Mark O'Byrne — New York’s State Attorney, Eric Schneiderman, a quasi political position, announced his lawsuit yesterday as part of his investigation into abuses by the “High Frequency Trading” industry, where certain participants may have received unfair market access and or knowledge of trade flow and thus profited by positioning themselves accordingly.........
  • Massachusetts SWAT teams claim they’re private corporations by Stacy Herbert — Stacy Summary: Bizarrely, many Americans will find this comforting as they think that private corporations are better than government. But, as you see, private corporations also have rights to trade secrets and do not need to answer to the communities in which they operate. Personally, I find this corporatism/fascism terrifying. Looks like the unaccountable, capricious tyranny many claim they would fight against were it ever to happen. READ Massachusetts SWAT teams claim they’re private corporations, immune from open records laws (WaPo)• The Pitchforks are Coming…– A Dire Warning from a Member of the 0.01% by Michael Krieger — Over the past several years, I have been extremely critical of the 0.01% as a socio-economic class, often referring to them as criminal oligarchs. This has nothing to do with the incredible sums of money they have amassed. I’m simply not interested in chasing that kind of wealth, nor am I an envious person. I don’t care how much money anyone has. What I do care about is the kind of power that such money can buy, and how that power can is then abused to purchase politicians and run roughshod over entire societies. I have also been disgusted with the fact that the 0.01% as a class seem self-absorbed, apathetic and delusional when it comes to the catastrophe the current economic and financial system is reaping upon the planet. So busy are they patting themselves on the back and scrambling to acquire that next billion to see what is rapidly unfolding beyond their moats. READ more here .....
  • KEISER REPORT [KR618] Keiser Report: Wall Street Jihadists We discuss the fact that neoliberal capitalism has become terrorism and that the ‘terrorists’ don’t see themselves as any different than Halliburton or Chevron, producing glossy prospectuses filled with gory facts for prospective investors. In the second half, Max interviews Luke Rudkowski of WeAreChange.org about crowdfunding, cryptos, independent media and mass protests in Berlin against the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank.
  • KEISER REPORT [KR619] Keiser Report: Tax Dodging Deals We discuss American corporations fleeing the USA for lower tax, higher wage areas abroad – like Ireland and the UK. We discuss the one single ton of aluminum that could be the collateral for tens of millions of pounds worth of properties and passports in the UK [SH: since recording this episode, this story re: falsified gold collateral]. When the banks go to collect on the collateral, all they will find is a pair of crickets in the corner. In the second half, Max interviews Ronnie Moas of PhilanthropyAndPhilosophy.com about blacklisting and boycotting ‘bad’ companies.
  • KEISER REPORT [KR620] Keiser Report: Russell Brand talks revolution with Max & Stacy We are joined in the first half by Russell Brand to talk about the austerity headlines. We chat about the UK government’s expanding debt and growing deficit, despite the alleged austerity and GDP expanding thanks to heroin addiction and prostitution. Russell learns about the water cannons bought for use against anti-austerity protests which the government itself will stoke. Finally, we talk about the people revolting as they must do when the social contract has been broken: and crypto currencies are one of the most visible revolts. In the second half, Max interviews Russell Brand further about his independent media outlet – The Trews; they discuss revolution and spiritual journeys.
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  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 from 3-5 PM Eastern HERE.) Plenty of archives too!
  • Scott Horton Radio Show Progress Report: All right, yall, welcome back to the show to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It’s been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show’s important milestones, as well as preview some of the exciting projects to look for in the near future. ........ The show on Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A., still called Antiwar Radio, has now moved to join their Sunday morning public affairs line up (8:30 am pt - http://kpfk.org), and remains the largest source of listeners, with 15,000-20,000 people tuning in weekly. The future: Liberty Express Radio is growing and bringing me along for the ride. The great Charles Goyette hooked me up with Alan Butler and the Liberty Express earlier this year, and what has been the daily replay there from 3-5 eastern time has become my best listened-to show. And now they’re adding my friend Tom Woods to the lineup from 2-3 PM. That does it. I’m making the switch! Starting Monday, October 14, the live show is moving to 3-5 PM Eastern time on LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-3 PM Eastern!
  • Scott Horton Radio Show 06/25/14 Marcy Wheeler: Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses the US Supreme Court’s unanimous decision that cops need a warrant to search phone data, and the possible legal problems facing the NSA’s phone dragnet if the SCOTUS decision is applied to them as well.
  • Scott Horton Radio Show 06/26/14 Patrick Cockburn: Patrick Cockburn, an award-winning journalist with The Independent, discusses why a unity government in Iraq is very unlikely to succeed; why the Sunni rebellion will be very sorry they enlisted the help of radical jihadist shock troops; and how the new Iraqi civil war, as bad as it is, could get much worse.
  • Scott Horton Radio Show 06/27/14 Kara Dansky: Kara Dansky, Senior Counsel with the ACLU’s Center for Justice, discusses the ACLU’s report on police militarization; why multi-juristictional task forces think they are above the law and not subject to public records requests; and the “threat matrix” automated decision making for SWAT deployments.
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Can't wait 'til they find a way to frack that. BOB KINCAID from Head On Radio has this to say Why the New EPA CO2 Regs Are Meaningless In Mountaintop Removal Country Over at ZeroHedge.com Washington's Blog has this Guest Post with Russel Tice NSA Whistleblower: Snowden Never Had Access to the JUICIEST Documents Also at ZeroHedge.com Tyler Durden has this Iraq Update: Kurds Take Kirkuk, Al Qaeda Surges Toward Baghdad Now that 25 year old math PhD HFT programmers have finally figured out what this thing called Iraq is, and why headlines around it should factor into algo trading signals - especially those of crude oil - here, for their benefit is a summary of the latest events in Iraq, and also for everyone else confused why crude is back to levels not seen since last summer. ....... Reuters adds that "The whole of Kirkuk has fallen into the hands of peshmerga," citing Jabbar Yawar. "No Iraqi army remains in Kirkuk now." This in turn has put the output of the key Kirkuk-Ceyhan pipeline, with a 1.6MM bbls/day capacity, at risk. ............ However, as we showed yesterday, the final ISIS target is none other than the city of Baghdad, and the overthrow of the Iraq government entirely. ............. In Tikrit, militants have set up military councils to run the towns they captured, residents said. “They came in hundreds to my town and said they are not here for blood or revenge but they seek reforms and to impose justice. They picked a retired general to run the town,” said a tribal figure from the town of Alam, north of Tikrit. “'Our final destination will be Baghdad, the decisive battle will be there,' that’s what their leader of the militants group kept repeating," the tribal figure said. The powerful Shiite leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, urged his followers on Wednesday to form military units to defend the two cities, which along with Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia are considered sacred by Shiites. ....... * * * ..... The Kurdish capture of Kirkuk instantly overturns the fragile balance of power that has held Iraq together as a state since Saddam's fall. Iraq's Kurds have done well since 2003, running their own affairs while being given a fixed percentage of the country's overall oil revenue. But with full control of Kirkuk - and the vast oil deposits beneath it - they could earn more on their own, eliminating the incentive to remain part of a failing Iraq. ........... And while all of the above explains oil's spike today, now that the world has yet another geopolitical hotzone to follow, following the China-Japan naval conflict, the China-Vietnam escalation, the Thailand martial law, the Ukraine civil war and now the Iraq collapse, expect the USDJPY rigging crew to ignite enough momentum to send the S&P 500 to fresh all time highs. Professor Juan Cole calls out John McCain Dear Sen. McCain: No, the Taliban Prisoners didn’t Carry out 9/11; but you Supported Muslim Radicals at Informed Comment Sen. John McCain on Sunday maintained that President Obama, in releasing the five officials who had served in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in the 1990s and until 2001, had released people who were “hard core al-Qaeda who were responsible for 9/11.” I am shocked and dismayed that the knowledgeable Sen. McCain should confuse the Taliban and al-Qaeda and should blame Afghans for 9/11. The Taliban regime did host al-Qaeda and they were allies within Afghanistan against the Northern Alliance. The Taliban did also allow al-Qaeda to train fighters at training camps, who were known to have an interest in carrying out attacks in Indian Kashmir, Uzbekistan, etc. However, I know of no documentary evidence that the officials of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan helped plan, or even knew about, the 9/11 attacks on the US until they occurred. No Afghans were directly involved in those attacks or in the money trail for funding them. ....... The League of Conservation Voters has this National Environmental Scorecard for soon-to-be new House Majority Leader Rep. Kevin McCarthy R-CA23 2013 Score: 0%. Lifetime Score: 3% including these 2013 "NO" votes on:

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