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2015 March Madness! The madness continues at the btv compound as The Brick TeeVee Crew just finished up last week's post on Friday Brick TeeVee Springs Forward in 2015! (nottobeconfusedwith Brick TeeVee Springs Forward! fromtheidesofmarch) Jam packed with links that will make you instantly smarter! That said, we got nuttin'. Yet. Stay tuned!
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Headlines Monday, March 23, 2015

• Iona Craig, a journalist who was based in Sana’a for four years as the Yemen correspondent for The Times of London Yemen in Crisis: U.S. Closes Key Drone Base & Withdraws Forces as U.N. Warns of Civil War
  
• Rory O'Connor, co-founder of the TV and film production company Globalvision with Danny Schechter & Anant Singh, a highly acclaimed South African filmmaker RIP Danny Schechter: Media Pioneer Who Covered Apartheid South Africa, Occupy & Kissinger
  

Headlines Tuesday, March 24, 2015

• Erin Evers, Iraq researcher for Human Rights Watch After Liberation Came Destruction: Iraqi Shiite Militias Accused of Looting, Burning Sunni Villages She co-wrote the new report, "After Liberation Came Destruction: Iraqi Militias and the Aftermath of Amerli.."
  
• Matthieu Aikins, award-winning foreign correspondent & Erin Evers "Inside Baghdad’s Brutal Battle Against ISIS": In Chaos of Post-Invasion Iraq, Militias Take Hold Aikin's latest article for Rolling Stone is " Inside Baghdad’s Brutal Battle Against ISIS ".
  
• Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the U.S. Campaign to End Israeli Occupation, Lisa Goldman, Israeli journalist & Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh, public health physician An Angry White House Vows to Confront Netanyahu, But Will It End Key U.S. Support for Occupation? Goldman's new article for Foreign Policy is "Never Trust Netanyahu"; Munayyer recently wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times headlined "Netanyahu’s Win is Good for Palestine".
  

Headlines Wednesday, March 25, 2015

• Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New Yorker magazine Seymour Hersh My Lai Revisited: 47 Years Later, Seymour Hersh Travels to Vietnam Site of U.S. Massacre He Exposed His article is "The Scene of the Crime: A Reporter’s Journey to My Lai and the Secrets of the Past."
  
• Barbara Hines, former director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas Law School & Renee Feltz, Democracy Now! producer and criminal justice correspondent Private Prisons for Immigrant Families Grow Despite Court Ruling Against "Detention as Deterrence" WEB EXCLUSIVE Part 2: Migrant Women Appear Via Video from Detention Centers in Asylum Cases Amid Harsh Conditions
  

Headlines Thursday, March 26, 2015

• Robert Gould, president of the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Hans Von Sponeck, former U.N. assistant secretary-general and U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Iraq & Brock McIntosh, co-founder and member of Iraq Veterans Against the War Endless War: As U.S. Strikes Tikrit & Delays Afghan Pullout, "War on Terror" Toll Tops 1.3 Million A new report has found the Iraq War has killed about one million people. The Nobel Prize-winning International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and other groups examined the toll from the so-called war on terror in three countries—Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. The investigators found the war has, directly or indirectly, killed around one million people in Iraq, 220,000 in Afghanistan and 80,000 in Pakistan, a total of about 1.3 million.
  
• Brock McIntosh Brutalized in Taliban Captivity After Fleeing War He Opposed, Bowe Bergdahl Charged with Desertion
  
• Beka Economopoulos, co-founder and director of the Natural History Museum & James Powell, is one of the scientists who signed the open letter Why Is Climate Denier David Koch on the Board of Top Science Museums? Letter Urges Cutting of Ties SEE An Open Letter to Museums from Members of the Scientific Community."
  

Headlines Friday, March 27, 2015

• Farea Al-Muslimi, visiting scholar at Carnegie Middle East Center Yemen Does Not Need Another War: Report from Sana’a as Saudi Attack Enters Second Day
  
• Brian Whitaker, former Middle East editor for The Guardian & Iona Craig, correspondent for The Times of London The Yemen Crisis: Could Domestic Conflict Grow into Protracted Regional War?
  
• Samir Amin, Egyptian political economist, renowned scholar and dissiden African Economist Samir Amin on the World Social Forum, Globalization & the Barbarism of Capitalism
  

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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

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. WE WON! Net Neutrality Victory February 26, 2015 – This morning the FCC voted to protect real Net Neutrality — marking the biggest victory for the public interest in the agency’s history. ....... This moment was more than 10 years in the making. The fight to protect the open Internet has united everyone — grassroots activists, technologists, new civil rights leaders, parents, teachers, students, musicians, artists and millions and millions of Internet users. We've proven that we're a force to be reckoned with in Washington. Know this: Now that we've won this huge victory for the Internet, the cable and phone companies will do everything they can to knock it down. But Free Press has never backed down from a fight. Whether in the courts or in Congress, the media or the streets, we will continue pushing, fighting and advocating for the strongest possible policies to protect the free and open Internet. Our message to the world is clear: Mess with the Internet, and you’ll lose. This isn’t the end. This is the start of something huge. ACTION! Stop Marsha Blackburn's Anti-Net Neutrality Bill H.R. 1212 This is what it looks like when members of Congress try to kill Net Neutrality. Rep. Marsha Blackburn has already lined up 31 co-sponsors for her new bill, which would destroy Net Neutrality and undo everything the FCC has done to protect the open Internet. It's easy to see why these particular co-sponsors signed on: They've received tons of campaign contributions from companies like Comcast and Verizon and from the National Cable and Telecommunications Association, an industry lobbying group. This bill goes against everything millions of people like you have fought for. We must stop this bill in its tracks and expose it for what it is: a betrayal of the open Internet. Tell Congress "This bill must be stopped in its tracks. I urge you to speak out in opposition to this legislation."

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 114th 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 Chelsea 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! Manning on torture in new Guardian op-ed AND PBS features Chelsea Manning art exhibit March 24, 2015. STATE OF THE ARTS features The United States vs. Chelsea Manning, a graphic novel illustrating Wikileaks whistleblower Manning's court-martial, currently on display at Rutgers University.........

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
  Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham 10 Moments That Illustrate The Right-Wing Radio Host's Fringe Viewpoints And Disdain For Civil Discourse - Ingraham has repeatedly engaged in inflammatory and hateful rhetoric, lobbing numerous attacks against everyone from President Obama to people who receive government assistance to her favorite target, immigrants. Here are 10 hateful moments from Ingraham in the past year...
  • former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley
  • Victoria Kennedy gives a behind-the-scenes look at the opening of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate.
  • ROUNDTABLE: ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, ABC News contributor and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria
  

  
  

• Face The Nation (CBS) Host Bob Schiefer
  • Opening of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate with Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), former Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and former Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine)
  • former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.
  • Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.
  • CBS News aviation consultant Capt. Sully Sullenberger
  • ROUNDTABLE: Dan Balz of the Washington Post, Manu Raju of Politico, Scott Conroy of the Huffington Post and CBS News Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes
  

  
  

• 60 Minutes (CBS)
  • The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'
  • CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise
  • Coming Up Sunday, March 29 at 7 p.m. ET/PT
  • Bashar al-Assad - Charlie Rose interviews the Syrian dictator as a four-year-old civil war drags on in which his regime has been accused of devastating attacks on civilians with chemical and "barrel bomb" weapons
  • Use polio to treat cancer? 60 Minutes follows cancer patients at Duke University in the first clinical trial, two of whom now show no signs of cancer
  

• Meet the Press (NBC) Host Chuck Todd
  • Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture 07/15/12 — 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.
  All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052
  • Victoria Kennedy
  • former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I.
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• State of the Union (CNN) CNN Correspondent Dana Bash hosts Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.
  • House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)
  • Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)
  • CNN's Kevin Madden and Ben LaBolt
  • Former NTSB investigators Charley Pereira and Dr. Alan Diehl
  

  
  

• 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 our Liberal community line at 304-658-3333. Email bob [at] headonradio [dot] com during the show!
  • FRONT PORCH FRIDAY!! featuring the Malloy-HeadOn chatters! Listen here NOW! Friday, March 27th, 2015 (mp3)! Amen to the White Rose Society! Bob's show archives at the White Rose HERE! Keep Bob on the air! 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' - March 26, 2015 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Lots of good and/or hysterical news today! Climate change denier Ted Cruz compares himself to Galileo; BP breaks up with ALEC; Texas town goes 100 percent renewable; PLUS: Florida official struggles with Gov. Scott's unwritten ban on the words 'climate change'....All that and more in today's Green News Report!! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): India to Rich World: Give us Cash and We’ll Cut Emissions Faster; Study shows acceleration in decline of Antarctic ice shelves; Has California’s mega-drought already begun?; Exxon Shareholder Climate Vote Blocked, Chevron's Approved by SEC; The hidden benefits of cutting coal pollution... PLUS: Shut Up and Dance: Should we stop talking about climate change and start dancing about it?... and much, MUCH more! ...
  • 'Green News Report' - March 17, 2015 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Another Category 5 storm wreaks devastation in the Pacific; Extreme weather is getting extremely expensive; Scientist warns California could soon run out of water; PLUS: Some good news: for the first time in history, the global economy grew, but carbon emissions did not....All that and more in today's Green News Report!
  • 'Green News Report' - March 24, 2015 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Get out your popcorn - Climate change-denying Sen. Ted Cruz is running for president...and Gov. Jerry Brown is unimpressed; Is mandatory water rationing in California's future?; PLUS: In Florida, don't say 'climate change' or you be sent to a mental hospital....All that and more in today's Green News Report!
  • BRADCAST! Was Netanyahu's Win Actually GOOD for Palestinians?:
  KPFK 'BradCast' That, and MUCH more in this week's show, with guests Estee Chandler and Ernie Canning... .
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! Right to NOT Vote (Or, Right to Vote for 'None of the Above') While it's less than clear that Obama really called for 'mandatory voting', as many reported, we'd be against the idea -- unless...
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! 'Impeach Mark Fuller' Radio Ads Target U.S. House Judiciary MembersWomen's rights group runs public service ads in 5 Congressional districts, demanding accountability for 'wife-beating' federal judge...
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! SCOTUS Declines WI Photo ID Law Challenge Constitutionality of 'discriminatory' voting restriction laws now unlikely to be determined by Supreme Court before 2016 elections, though some see 'blessing in disguise'....
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! 'Major Security Hole' Discovered in Australian Internet Voting System On eve of election in New South Wales, 'critical' vulnerability found in new 'iVote' system that would allow attackers to see, change votes...
  • BRADBLOG VIDEO! HILARIOUS: Full Video of FL Official Trying NOT to Say Words 'Climate Change' PLUS: Jon Stewart's take, as if the video isn't hysterical enough on its own...
  
  

  
  

• The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!
  
  Listen at PeterBCollins.com!
  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.
  • Holiday Break and Website Changes
  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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  • 25 Mar 2015 PBC News & Comment: New House Bill Would Fully Repeal Patriot Act Reps. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduce Surveillance State Repeal Act, which could restore most 4th Amendment rights….
  • 26 Mar 2015 PBC News & Comment: Saudis, Emirates and Egypt Join the Fun in Yemen IEgypt, Saudis join clusterf#@k in Yemen as Iraqi Shiite militias under Iran’s direction refuse to fight in Tikrit, chaos grows….
  • 27 Mar 2015 PBC News & Comment: Bellicose Bolton Blares: “Bomb Iran!” Neocon John Bolton calls the tune, “Let’s Bomb Iran” in NY Times op-ed that links to contrary evidence from Iraq…
  • PBC Standard Podcast March 13, 2015 Prof. Peter Laufer Traces “Organic” Products Back to the Farm Shahid Buttar, attorney, activist, and executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, makes the provocative argument that Obama's proposal to equip all cops with body cameras won't solve the problems of police violence.
  • PBC Standard Podcast March 17, 2015 Rutgers Prof. Todd Wolfson and Pioneer Michael Eisenmenger on Indy Media Centers and the Cyber Left Todd Wolfson is an assistant professor of journalism and media at Rutgers University; Michael Eisenmenger formerly taught at Rutgers, and now manages the Community Media Center of Marin County. Both bring deep knowledge of the independent media movement to this conversation.
  

  
  

• Ring of Fire Radio
  
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/ hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder
  Ring of Fire Radio - GoLeft TV - Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, Sam Seder - Politics, Commentary, and News.
  • This Week on Ring of Fire March 27, 2015 Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern.
  »» Congressman Alan Grayson will be joining us to discuss his efforts to make sure that Congress doesn’t receive another blank check to start an endless war in the Middle East.
  »» Senator Sheldon Whitehouse will be here to talk about his efforts to bring climate science back into the conversations on climate change in the US Senate.
  »» And attorney Michael Burg will explain why California wineries have been pumping their products full of deadly arsenic.
  • This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV March 27, 2015 - Sundays at NOON! Posted on January 17, 2015 by Farron Cousins
  »» Howard Nations will explain why almost nothing has been done since the death of Michael Brown to reign in abusive police officers.
  »» David Haynes explains how binding arbitration agreements directed at soldiers are leaving our veterans without homes when they return from overseas combat.
  »» Michael Burg will tell us about the lawsuit taking place against California wineries, where it has been revealed they are pumping high levels of arsenic into cheap wines.
  »» Brendan Fischer, general counsel for the Center for Media and Democracy, will explain Wisconsin’s new Right To Work law.
  »» Watch at FSTV
  • 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
  • VIDEO! Israel Spied On America-Iran Talks Earlier this week, a bombshell news story erupted that claimed Israel leaked classified (and stolen) U.S. information to American lawmakers in an attempt to sabotage President Obama’s talks with Iran. Ring of Fire’s Sam Seder and Majority Report contributor Michael Brooks discusses this.
  • Wall Street Mob Threatens Elizabeth Warren with Dem Money Freeze by Joshua De Leon – Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) scares Wall Street to death. Since Warren has called for breaking up the big banks, Wall Street banksters have threatened to cease donating to Democratic senators, reported Reuters. Because Warren and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) so aggressively attack the banks, representatives of Citigroup, JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, and Bank of America have discussed this plan. In this desperate move, Wall Street is trying to bend the party to its will by cutting donations to Democratic senators. Each of the four banks threatened to cut $15,000 in total contributions to Democratic candidates, nothing truly substantial – but a shot over the bow.........
  • VIDEO! Papantonio: Obama Is An Oil President, Period. If you were to take 90 countries around the world (according to their GDP ranking) and compare the entire economies of those countries against the economy of Exxon, you’d find that Exxon would be more economically powerful than all of those 90 countries. Where do sales analysis of $30 billion a year leave a company like Exxon, Shell, or BP? The simple answer is: it leaves them with complete control of our lives. What does that kind of money buy? It buys presidents and the entire military industrial complex, all so big oil can become bigger oil. America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, discusses this with author and Rolling Stone contributor Antonia Juhasz.
  • VIDEO! Sen. Bernie Sanders: Since Citizens United, Politics is just Big Money — In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Sen. Bernie Sanders talked about one of the largest problems plaguing American liberal politics: Citizens United. According to Sanders, if we don’t overturn Citizens United, there’s little hope for progress values in the future of American politics.
  • Wikileaks Exposes How the TPP Will Harm Taxpayers by Joshua De Leon – Wikileaks exposed last night a portion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that illustrates how the trade deal, being orchestrated in secret, will harm taxpayers and help giant corporations. Writing for The Huffington Post, James P. Hoffa, General President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, noted some ominous language in the Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) chapter of the trade deal. This chapter expands companies’ rights to challenge limitations to intellectual property, including copyrights and patents. In short, major corporations can sue entire countries included in the deal if that corporation feels the country’s laws will undermine its projected profits. ..........
  • 4 States Where Solar is Under Attack by Koch-Funded Front Groups Reposted with permission from EcoWatch.
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  • TUESDAY 3/24/15 Barrett Brown: Explains Why He is In Prison For Doing His Job
  • WEDNESDAY 3/25/15 Mike Konczal: Free Trade Isn’t about Trade. It’s About Bureaucrats—and Guns
  • THURSDAY 3/26/15 Jeff Madrick: Why Economist Cling to Discredited Ideas
  • FRIDAY 3/27/15 Casual Friday: Guy Lawson
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  "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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  • 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)
  • On My Mind: Finance and Booksby Janet Tavakoli — ......According to the people quoted in the WSJ articles, no one saw it coming: lower oil prices, lower housing prices, currency risk. Almost seven years after a global financial crisis, bankers educated at Ivy League schools still just don’t know that kind of stuff. ........ Gerald Posner has a new book, God’s Bankers, currently in the top 100 on Amazon. I can also recommend an older, in some ways darker book, God’s Banker, by Rupert Cornwell, written more than thirty years ago, when the press was still calling Roberto Calvi’s murder a suicide. ....
  • EU and Greece Running Out of Time – As Bank Runs Intensify, Bail-Ins Likely by Mark O'Byrne —
  - EU and Greece running out of time as talks end “in disarray” – again
  - Greece warns Merkel of ‘impossible’ debt
  - Concerns Greece out of money by end of April
  - Friday’s “agreement” in Brussels falls apart hours later as protagonists fail to agree on specifics
  - Greece now insolvent – will run out of liquidity by end of April
  - Greek banks on verge of collapse as runs continue – €1.5 billion emptied out of banks last week alone
  - ‘Grexit’ could propel gold to over $2,000/oz
  - Cyprus style bail-ins look increasingly possible
  More here’ (goldcore.com)
  • California Water Wars: Another Form of Asset Stripping? by Ellen Brown — In California’s epic drought, wars over water rights continue, while innovative alternatives for increasing the available water supply go untapped. Wars over California’s limited water supply have been going on for at least a century. Water wars have been the subject of some vintage movies, including the 1958 hit The Big Country starring Gregory Peck, Clint Eastwood’s 1985 Pale Rider, 1995’s Waterworld with Kevin Costner, and the 2005 film Batman Begins. Most acclaimed was the 1975 Academy Award winner Chinatown with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, involving a plot between a corrupt Los Angeles politician and land speculators to fabricate the 1937 drought in order to force farmers to sell their land at low prices. The plot was rooted in historical fact, reflecting battles between Owens Valley farmers and Los Angeles urbanites over water rights. Today the water wars continue on a larger scale with new players. It’s no longer just the farmers against the ranchers or the urbanites. It’s the people against the new “water barons” – Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Monsanto, the Bush family, and their ilk – who are buying up water all over the world at an unprecedented pace. Read more here........
  • Risk of ‘World War’ between NATO and Russia on Ukraine as Yemen Bombed by Mark O'Byrne —
  - World sleep walking from ‘Cold War’ to ‘Hot War’ and new World War
  - U.S. resolution to supply Ukraine with lethal weaponry passed
  - Russia warns such moves would “explode the whole situation”
  - Minsk agreement remains intact – little justification for escalation and ignoring EU allies
  - US continues to act as only global superpower despite powerful Russia and China and new multi-polar world
  - Hubris could lead to a new World War
  More here..... (goldcore.com)
  • Meet the Overseas Contingency Operations Account – Washington D.C.’s Crony Capitalist War Slush Fund by Michael Krieger — Many people will read this post, and posts like it, and shrug their shoulders saying that there’s always going to be corruption. True; however, there are degrees of corruption. When empires such as the U.S. attain a certain level of corruption that reaches the point in which it becomes engrained within the fabric of society, and you couple that with zero accountability for the super rich and powerful, you have the ingredients for societal collapse. We are rapidly approaching this point, and I personally don’t think there’s any way to stop it. With all that in mind, I want to introduce readers to the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account, or what is being referred to as the “war slush fund.” You know something’s bad when even Crazy John McCain calls it a “gimmick.” Read more here...... (libertyblitzkrieg.com)
  • KEISER REPORT [KR735] Keiser Report: Capitalism Without Capital?! We discuss the French being able to work 20 percent less to produce the same amount the average worker in Britain produces. Just as oil frackers must pump faster and faster, harder and harder to keep current on their debt repayments, so too must an overly burdened UK household in a speculative economy producing less and less value. In the second half, Max interviews Aleksandar Vidovic of Salviol about the size of the financial fraud market and what his company is doing to shrink it.
  • KEISER REPORT [KR736] Keiser Report: Debtism vs Capitalism We warn against trusting bureaucrats bearing false economy as ‘shocking austerity’ and ‘bed blocking costs more than is allegedly saved. In the second half, Max interviews Daniel Hassan of the Robin Hood Minor Asset Management Cooperative hedge fund which rides the wave of trading whales with the best performance record. Having outperformed the S&P index regularly since its inception, profits are shared between the cooperative members and groups expanding the commons and the public domain.
  • KEISER REPORT [KR737] Keiser Report: Deadly Sales We discuss the hell (of a profit) to be made by killing a man – and his family – as Lockheed Martin assures analysts from Deutsche Bank there is enough fear of war to maintain its deadly sales. In the second half, Max interviews Swiss banker, Egon von Greyerz about QE, gold and the economic and financial disasters wrought by central banks.
  

  
  

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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 New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-2 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 LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-2 PM Eastern!
  • 3/12/15 Grant F. Smith: Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discusses the upcoming conference “The Israel Lobby: Is it Good for the US? Is it Good for Israel?” scheduled for April 10, 2015 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
  • 3/25/15 Seymour Hersh: Seymour Hersh, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and author, discusses how he broke the My Lai massacre story as a fledgling journalist in 1968, and his recent journey to Vietnam to revisit the scene of the crime 47 years later.
  • 3/26/15 Matthew Hoh:Matthew Hoh, a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy, discusses the military’s prosecution of Army sergeant Bowe Bergdahl for desertion, even though an Army investigation report seems to exonerate the former Taliban prisoner.
  • 3/26/15 Eric Margolis: Eric Margolis, an internationally syndicated columnist and author of American Raj, discusses Saudi Arabia’s pending invasion of Yemen, after the Shiite Houthi rebels captured the capital city Sanaa.
  • 3/27/15 John Feffer: John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, discusses how hardliners in Congress are working to undermine an Iranian nuclear deal, and how they previously sabotaged the Agreed Framework on North Korea’s nuclear program in 1994.
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2015 Spring Forward! We totally missed last week! We were busy getting ready for WRUW's Live From Cleveland's FIRST EVER LIVE REMOTE BROADCAST endeavor, a new station fundraiser we're calling "Live From Lakewood!" (like us on da facebuuk when ya click over). Last Saturday we scoped out the club and nailed down details like where we will set up, check the internet connection, how we interface with the house sound to send audio back to the station and more logistical details. Then we reconvened in Studio B on Sunday to cut our promo spot (amazing how a 1:30 spot can take 3 hours to produce!). The show will air LIVE on the 'net on WRUW.org/listen-live and on the FIFTEEN THOUSAND WATT WRUW-FM 91.1 radio in Cleveland on THURSDAY April 2nd from 8 pm et until 1 am et! Yours Truly will be engineering and producing the entire broadcast and even doing some interviews on-air too! See the station's events page "Live from Cleveland Presents: Live from Lakewood!" for more info! Mark yer calendars and tune in! Let's see if we can crash the WURW streaming server! haha! MEANWHILE IN the Wide Wide World of National and International News we're working on lots of STUFF from the last two weeks and we'll post more later today. In the meantime we've compiled stories from all our regulars for you to sift through plus this week's guests on the corporomedia's Sunday Talkies for you to throw bricks at! Feel free to comment below with your stories of corporate/government malfeasance and media manipulation of the masses! Tell yer peeps! And don't forget our side board with nuggets like The Rude Pundit's Tom Cotton Pleasures Himself in Front of the Senate! ...... Still silent, some would later say disturbingly so, he took the dildo, held it up for all to see, and then, with one hand, he inserted it into his asshole. The only indication on his face that he was pushing a hard plastic phallus into his sphincter was a determined stare and a couple of sudden intakes of air. Then he started his speech, one hand on the mic, the other manipulating the dildo, in, out, a twist every now and then. ..... You got that, right? Tom Cotton, the author of the letter from 47 GOP senators telling Iran not to trust the president on a deal to give up nuclear arms, is worried that the words of the president and his aides might have negative influence on Israel. No, wait. On Netanyahu. Because you can sure as hell bet that had the Zionist Union and Isaac Herzog had won, Cotton wouldn't have said a goddamned word. Cotton concluded with threats to the United Nations should it say mean things to Israel, too. And, without a hint of shame, his jizz on the ground in front of him, the dildo being moved slowly, delicately, even......... He went silent again and removed the dildo from his anus, pulling up his pants after. He took out an anti-bacterial cloth and wiped it down before carefully placing it back in the velvet and shutting the case. As he walked away, Lindsey Graham was heard telling an aide, "Find out where I can get one of those Bibi penises." Happy Sunday and Happy Spring to one and all! Check back later today for more news, comment and outrage!
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WISCONSIN RIGHT TO WORK FOR LESS: Sarah Jaffe at Salon.com explains how Scott Walker pushes through “right-to-work” law — and labor takes another hit In Madison, "right-to-work" protesters joined Black Lives Matter youth to take on Walker and a new police killing .............. As Jennifer Epps-Addison of Wisconsin Jobs Now tells Salon, “This generational poverty that is being inflicted, particularly on the black community in Milwaukee, is a form of state violence that desensitizes the rest of the Wisconsin community to these killings, and makes the rest of our state see a justification in these police murders.” And what we now call “right-to-work” laws were spread in part by racist rhetoric that exploited already-existing divisions in order to pass laws that took rights away from all working people. ...................... These laws are designed to defund unions, pure and simple. They don’t make organizing impossible — the history of the Culinary Workers, UNITE HERE Local 226 in Nevada, attests to that. But they drain the coffers of unions, limiting their ability to do other political work or engage in organizing workers who don’t yet have a union. The fact that we refer to these laws as “right-to-work” is one of the most successful branding operations the right has ever run, and labor has struggled to come up with an answer for it. Yet for years these laws were mostly limited to the South and Southwest, where race-baiting (and Red-baiting) had helped them succeed. Before they were “right-to-work” laws, the name was, if possible, even more Orwellian: “The American Plan,” as Mark Ames notes, not so subtly aligning unions with things un-American, Communist and not white. (Think of people shouting about Obama’s birth certificate, and you’ll get the gist.) But “right-to-work” was the name that stuck, giving a rights-conscious, progressive-sounding name to a bill sold with virulently racist campaigns that promised to uphold “the color line.” ...................... The movement, though, continues. On Wednesday, March 11, as part of a national “We Rise” day of action that is slated to include more than 20 events in 16 states, Wisconsin workers and their supporters, organized by groups including the Young, Gifted and Black Coalition, Ferguson to Madison, Youth Empowered in the Struggle, and Wisconsin Jobs Now, will come together to draw connections between attacks on union rights, growing poverty, mass incarceration and state violence. Jennifer Epps-Addison explains,

“This action was planned before the murder of Tony Robinson. The real goal for the action was to lift up the voices of young people, of people of color, of nonunion workers in this movement for economic and racial justice, particularly in light of right to work and the impact of right to work on those communities.”

The death of Tony Robinson has reminded Madison that even liberal cities are built on a history of segregation and denial of rights to their black residents. Wisconsin, Epps-Addison notes, has the highest incarceration rate for black men in the entire country. And, she points out, the systemic divestment from schools and services in communities of color is itself a form of state violence. That’s why Wednesday’s event, she emphasizes, will not just be a rally. It will include direct actions targeting employers engaged in wage theft and demanding the immediate release of people who are incarcerated simply because they cannot afford to pay fines. “Our march really is on both, on the institutions that perpetuate these systemic problems, the corporations that benefit from them, and Governor Walker himself,” she says.......... Here's the Advisory: We Rise National Day of Action to Put People and Planet First March 11 at National People's Action and also From the Frontlines: Thousands Join “We Rise” Actions in 16 States.
At LiveScience.com staff writer Tanya Lewis explains how Florida Isn't the Only State to 'Ban' Climate Change Florida, one of the states most susceptible to the effects of climate change and sea-level rise, verbally banned state environmental officials from using the term "climate change," an investigation revealed. But the Sunshine State isn't the only U.S. state that has attempted to "outlaw" climate science. North Carolina, Louisiana and Tennessee have all passed laws that attempt to cast doubt on established climate science in boardrooms and classrooms. The reality of climate change due to human activity has been widely accepted by climate scientists, and some experts worry that attempts to deny the science could prevent states from preparing for sea level rise, extreme weather and other effects of a warming planet. [6 Politicians Who Got the Science Wrong]
In an investigation published yesterday (March 8), the Florida Center for Investigative Reporting (FCIR) found evidence of an unwritten policy that banned officials at the state's Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) from using specific terms related to climate change in official communications, emails or reports. "We were instructed by our regional administrator that we were no longer allowed to use the terms 'global warming' or 'climate change,' or even 'sea-level rise,'" Kristina Trotta, a former DEP employee who worked in Miami, told the FCIR. "Sea-level rise was to be referred to as 'nuisance flooding,'" Trotta added. .................... But long before Florida unofficially banned these climate-related terms, other states passed laws attempting to limit the influence of climate change on land policies and education........... While yer there also see The Reality of Climate Change: 10 Myths Busted AND 8 Ways Global Warming Is Already Changing the World
The Brick TeeVee Crew is sad to report Abby Martin Leaving RT, “Breaking The Set” .............. Abby concludes the final episode by explaining why BTS has been such an important part of her life and why we should never stop Breaking the Set.

Never Stop Breaking the Set: RT has given me opportunities I will be eternally thankful for and hosting Breaking the Set has been the best and most invaluable experience of my life. I never imagined the kind of support the show would generate, proving how many people are hungry for raw truth and systemic change. Throughout the course of the show, I’m most proud of the stories we’ve done on the road – Pine Ridge, Detroit, Gulf Coast, Guantanamo Bay and soon to be released Cuba. As such, after almost three years of reporting from the studio I’ve decided to focus on investigative field reporting. Please note I’m not stopping or going anywhere. If I can’t find a network to host my new show vision with the same editorial freedom, I will turn to crowdsourcing. And until I establish my next venture I’ll be writing daily, producing video shorts, podcasting and doing talks around the world. Please follow me on facebook, youtube and twitter to stay tuned to my next move. I’m excited to put all my heart into the last two weeks of the show and celebrate a great run, all of which wouldn’t have been possible without you. Much love and appreciation to everyone for supporting me and my future endeavors. Never stop Breaking the Set. -Abby

Click on the link to watch Abby's last show. Abby is a true original coming out of the Occupy Movement and making big important waves against the corporomedia that suppress so much fact and real news in context. We at Brick TeeVee relish her return whenever and wherever she sprouts up on our airwaves again! As trite as as it may sound we say YOU GO GIRL! OCCUPY SOMETHING SOMEWHERE! And SOON!
Writing at MondoWeiss.com Phillip Weiss profiles the Senator who spearheaded letter to Iran got $1 million from Kristol’s ‘Emergency C’tee for Israel’ AND
Lee Fang at The Intercept discovers Immediately After Launching Effort to Scuttle Iran Deal, Senator Tom Cotton To Meet with Defense Contractors Can you beleive it? OF course you can! Also at The Nation reporting fellow with the Investigative Fund at the Nation Institute Ali Gharib tells us to Meet Tom Cotton, the Senator Behind the Republicans’ Letter to Iran
And Susie Madrak at CrooksAndLiars.com has a good summary You Will Be Shocked To Know Who's Been Grooming Tehran Tom. PLUS at Democracy NOW! watch
Ex-U.S. Official: With Iran Letter, "Reckless" GOP Places Middle East Hegemony over Security featuring Hillary Mann Leverett who "served as National Security Council—in the National Security Council under Presidents Clinton and Bush. From 2001 to '03, she was a U.S. negotiator with Iran on Afghanistan, al-Qaeda and Iraq, in which capacity she negotiated directly with Iran's present foreign minister, Javad Zarif" and also Ali Gharib.
SHOCKING "NEWS": The Nation's Bill Greider proclaims now It’s Official: The Pentagon Finally Admitted That Israel Has Nuclear Weapons, Too
YES for all these DECADES Israel has NOT joined The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, commonly known as the Non-Proliferation Treaty or NPT for the SOLE REASON that THEY HAD NO NUKES! So that means no U.N. nuclear inspections are needed, RIGHT? Yet Israel is continually bashing on the nuclear program run by IRAN who IS a member of the NTP and HAS HAD U.N. Inspectors in-country for years to monitor their PEACEFUL use of nuclear materials. Consider Iran is SURROUNDED by NUKES from Israel, India and Pakistan and have consistantly declared nuclear weapons as a ‘great sin’. And Israel has been predicting "Iran will have nuclear capability within months" FOR YEARS people! WHAT ARE THE CHANCES Israel will now allow U.N. Nuclear Weapons Inspectors in to monitor THEIR nuclear stockpile? Eh? The same way the U.N. did in 2003 in IRAQ before Dim Son ordered them out after they found NOTHING despite Condosleeza's "mushroon cloud"? Or join the NTP? EH?
Here's Grant Smith's article at AntiWar.com US Confirmed Existence of Israeli H-Bomb Program in 1987. READ BOTH OF THESE to understand the FULL IMPACT of this INCREDIBLE REVELATION and follow all the imbedded links to grasp the entirety of WHAT THIS MEANS to our Global Survival. Oh yeah and let's not forget Despite his pledge to seek nuclear disarmament, Obama is investing big in the nuclear complex (Greg Mello, Foreign Policy in Focus, Feb 2010) AND Obama's Nuclear Giveaway (Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones, Feb 2010) PLUS one of Obomber's BIG contributors has been midwest nuclear operator EXELON Energy sector donations fuel Obama campaign (Darren Samuel Sohn, Politico, May 2012). YOU do the math.
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• At truthdig.com The Long War of Foreverness By Mark Fiore In Mark Fiore's latest animation, President Obama speaks to the "Obama of yesterday" and urges him to "get with the program" when it comes to continuing George W. Bush's legacy of eternal war-waging. Watch "The Long War of Foreverness" and read the animator's thoughts on Obama's Authorization for the Use of Military Force below the video.
  
• Pay2Play PAY 2 PLAY follows filmmaker John Ennis’ quest to find a way out from under the Pay 2 Play System, where Politicians reward their donors with even larger sums from the public treasury -- through contracts, tax cuts, and deregulation. Along the way, he journeys through high drama on the Ohio campaign trail, uncovers the secret history of the game Monopoly, and explores the underworld of L.A. street art on a humorous odyssey that reveals how much of a difference one person can make. PAY 2 PLAY: Democracy’s High Stakes is the layman’s guidebook to taking back our democracy. A MUST WATCH for anybody who remembers and lived through Tom Noe and Ohio's "Coingate" scandal!
  

At CommonDreams.org Sarah Lazare tells us a federal Judge Orders US Government to Stop Suppressing Evidence of Torture and Abuse Ruling on Friday is latest development in years-long legal battle, in which the ACLU has argued the photos 'are crucial to the public record' – A federal judge on Friday ordered the U.S. government to release more than 2,000 photographs showing abuse and torture of people detained by the American military in Iraq and Afghanistan. .............Many of the concealed photographs were taken by U.S. military service members and collected during more than 200 military investigations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Some could be on par with, or worse than, those released from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. U.S. district judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled (pdf) that the government "is required to disclose each and all of the photographs" in response to a Freedom of Information Act Request from the ACLU. In the order, Hellerstein argued that the government did not adequately prove that "disclosure would endanger Americans." The decision gives the Solicitor General two months to decide whether to appeal. The ACLU has pressed for the release of records relating to torture and extrajudicial killings of prisoners in U.S. custody around the world since 2003. The administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama have vigorously fought to keep these photographs suppressed, and in 2009, the White House collaborated with Congress to secretly change FOIA law to enable the concealment of the images, arguing it is necessary to protect national security................... SATURDAY pi day! piday.org Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “pi”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. 5 Trillion Digits of Pi - New World Record By Alexander J. Yee & Shigeru Kondo (Last updated: February 23, 2013) Pushing the limits of personal computing... How much further can we go?

For anyone who is interested, this was recently the topic of a Stack Overflow question that I answered. October 17, 2011: The record has been improved to 10 trillion digits. This is a followup to our previous announcement of our computation of 5 trillion digits of Pi. This article details some of the methods that were used for the computation as well as the hardware and the full timeline of the computation. Some of you knew this was coming... It was just a matter of when. (and how many digits) Although we were very quiet about this computation while it was running, anyone who followed my website or my XtremeSystems thread between February and May would have easily guessed that we were attempting a world record. . . . . . . . . .

HOW ABOUT let's make a WHOLE NEW CALENDAR revolving around 3-14-15? The Perfect Circle. The Earth will not see another 3-14-15 for a hundred years and we'll all be dead by then so let's start NOW! BTV contributor bluemooon shows us the power of the March 20th March Solar Eclipse- Total Reboot Tomorrow's powerful supermoon - solar eclipse - spring equinox marks the beginning of a new 19-year cycle, a fresh start. Maybe this explains the mysterious surge of energy I've been experiencing this week to complete tasks that I've had on hold for months. Reboot? Sounds great. Bring it on! If you’ve been looking for a change the universe is about to deliver. On March 20th, 2015, a powerful Solar Eclipse ignites a major turning point and beginning into our lives. A new 19 year cycle is in the process of being born and many of us could feel a total system reboot as a result of this intense and energizing energy....... READ ON! Get yer energy boost NOW and get into the new groove NOW! It's all around us! Tap in to the power! Make things happen NOW to affect the future! This event is truly COSMIC! THINK. BE. DO. There is more of US than there is of THEM. WE ARE THE PEEPS WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR. Go read Tomgram: Engelhardt, Is a New Political System Emerging in This Country? Reporting from TechDirt.com's BOOM! dept Editor Mike Masnick is all over Wikimedia Sues NSA Over Its Mass Surveillance Program This is big news. Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, has announced that it is suing the NSA (with help from the ACLU) over its mass surveillance program. While the full lawsuit hasn't yet been posted, the lawsuit targets the "upstream" collection under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. Because this gets confusing if you're not spending a lot of time with this, let's break out some of the different surveillance programs:

• Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act: Under this program the NSA is collecting all the phone metadata on calls in the US.
  
• Executive Order 12333: This is what enables the NSA to hack into pretty much anything overseas -- including things like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft's data centers.
  
• PRISM: Actually part of Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act. Allows for (slightly) targeted collections of information via a court order from the FISA Court, demanding specific types of information (rather than "all" information).
  
• Upstream collection: Also under Section 702, but this is the program that lets the NSA tap into backbone fiber optic cables, such as from AT&T and others, and slurp up all traffic in case there's anything "interesting" happening that it can classify as "foreign intelligence information."

It's the upstream collection that Wikimedia is challenging in this lawsuit, arguing (among other things) that it violates both the First and Fourth Amendments. That upstream program is the one that was first disclosed by Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician who wandered into the EFF's offices a decade ago with the evidence. This resulted in a lawsuit -- Hepting v. AT&T -- that AT&T was able to get out of thanks to Congress passing a law granting the telcos retroactive immunity for helping the NSA. The EFF has a long-running similar case against the NSA over the upstream collection -- Jewel v. NSA -- which recently suffered a setback, in that the judges claimed there wasn't evidence for "standing." That is, the plaintiffs need to be able to prove that they were spied on -- which is a fairly tough barrier. ......................... Wikimedia thinks that it has a chance to get past this "standing" hurdle, thanks to the following NSA slide that was leaked in the Ed Snowden revelations: Click over to Techdirt for the rest! Incredible! And like Masnick says This is big news. But wait! there's more! Glyn Moody from the confession-time dept finds UK Government Admits Intelligence Services Allowed To Break Into Any System, Anywhere, For Any Reason Recently, Techdirt noted that the FBI may soon have permission to break into computers anywhere on the planet. It will come as no surprise to learn that the US's partner in crime, the UK, granted similar powers to its own intelligence services some time back. What's more unexpected is that it has now publicly said as much, as Privacy International explains: The British Government has admitted its intelligence services have the broad power to hack into personal phones, computers, and communications networks, and claims they are legally justifed to hack anyone, anywhere in the world, even if the target is not a threat to national security nor suspected of any crime. That important admission was made in what the UK government calls its "Open Response" to court cases started last year against GCHQ. Here's what it reveals, according to Privacy International: Buried deep within the document, Government lawyers claim that while the intelligence services require authorisation to hack into the computer and mobile phones of "intelligence targets", GCHQ is equally permitted to break into computers anywhere in the world even if they are not connected to a crime or a threat to national security.............. Don't you feel safer already? NEXT comes Karl Bode from the nontransparent-puppeteering dept who finds Congressional Opponents Of Net Neutrality Try To Shame FCC Boss For Standing Up To ISPs Now that our shiny new net neutrality rules are on the sixty-day march toward formal approval, there's of course only two real ways neutrality opponents can overturn them: either a lawsuit or a 2016 party change. Since they're legislatively impotent on the matter for the time being, net neutrality opponents in Congress have decided the next best thing is to publicly shame FCC boss Tom Wheeler -- for literally weeks on end. As such, Wheeler faces at least five hearings over the next two weeks all with one goal: publicly punishing him for standing up to giant ISPs and supporting net neutrality. The primary talking point being used against Wheeler is that he was "improperly" influenced by the White House. .................. Still, this week's hearing and "fact finding mission" before the House Oversight Committee (again, the first of five over the next few weeks) focused almost entirely on transparency, and how the White House somehow bullied an independent agency into approving tougher net neutrality rules. In Wheeler's testimony (pdf), he again denies he was pressured, stating that he only came to embrace Title II after countless legal experts made it clear it was the most legally defensible platform for the rules to stand on............... Of course, this doesn't help propagate the narrative that Obama is forcing the FCC to destroy the Internet because he's the devil and hates jobs. As such, Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz handed out a packet of e-mails (pdf) to hearing attendees he claimed indisputably prove undue White House influence on the FCC. Except if you bother to actually read them, they don't actually show anything of the sort........ Go there for all the evidence of GOPher shinanigans! BTV HOMEWORK! Go to OpenSecrets.org and dig through their databases to find out just HOW MUCH COIN the Telecom Industry is buying of donating to said GOPhers on these committees to derail any net-neutrality rules and laws! REPORT YER FINDINGS HERE NEXT WEEK! MEANWHILE Jeremy Kirk at Network World finds out To avoid NSA, Cisco gear gets delivered to strange addresses ......... And it appears some Cisco Systems customers have since taken steps to prevent NSA tampering. The company has shipped equipment to addresses that are unrelated to a customer, said John Stewart, Cisco’s chief security and trust officer, on Wednesday during a panel session at the Cisco Live conference in Melbourne. In theory, that makes it harder for the NSA to target an individual company and scoop up their package. But supply chains are tough to secure, Stewart said, and once a piece of equipment is handed from Cisco to DHL or FedEx, it’s gone. Still, the risk of such tampering is pretty low for most customers. Cisco has been working on better ways for customers to verify the integrity of the systems it ships, but there will always be certain amount of risk that can’t be mitigated, Stewart said. “If a truly dedicated team is coming after you, and they’re coming after you for a very long period of time, then the probability of them succeeding at least once does go up,” Stewart said. “And its because they’ve got patience, they’ve got capacity and more often than not, they’ve got capability.” One of the leaked Snowden documents, dated June 2010, has two photos of an NSA interdiction operation, with a box that said Cisco on the side. The document, labeled top secret, goes on to say that supply-chain interdiction operations “are some of the most productive operations in TAO, because they pre-position access points into hard target networks around the world.” In May 2014, Cisco CEO John Chambers sent a letter to President Barack Obama, arguing that the NSA’s alleged actions undermine trust with its customers and more broadly hurt the U.S. technology industry. Cisco also asserted that it does not work with any government to intentionally weaken its products. ............ inuddawoids that is.... yernotreallyparanoidiftheyreallyareouttagetcha. Reuters via HuffPoAOL Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton report Obama Declares Venezuela A Threat To U.S. National Security WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) - The United States declared Venezuela a national security threat on Monday and ordered sanctions against seven officials from the oil-rich country in the worst bilateral diplomatic dispute since socialist President Nicolas Maduro took office in 2013. U.S. President Barack Obama signed and issued the executive order, which senior administration officials said did not target Venezuela's energy sector or broader economy. But the move stokes tensions between Washington and Caracas just as U.S. relations with Cuba, a longtime U.S. foe in Latin America and key ally to Venezuela, are set to be normalized. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro denounced the sanctions as an attempt to topple his government. At the end of a thundering two-hour speech, Maduro said he would seek decree powers to counter the "imperialist" threat, and appointed one of the sanctioned officials as the new interior minister. Declaring any country a threat to national security is the first step in starting a U.S. sanctions program. The same process has been followed with countries such as Iran and Syria, U.S. officials said. ................ Venezuela called home its charge d'affaires in Washington for consultations, and Maduro accused Obama of a "colossal mistake" and "imperialist arrogance" similar to his predecessors Richard Nixon and George W. Bush. "President Barack Obama ... has personally decided to take on the task of defeating my government and intervening in Venezuela to control it," Maduro said in a televised address........... At DN! Is Venezuela Really an "Extraordinary Threat"? U.S. Sanctions Top Officials as Tensions Grow featuring Miguel Tinker Salas, professor at Pomona College and author of the forthcoming book, "Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know" including this exchange:

• REPORTER: President Maduro last night went on the air and said that they had arrested multiple people who were allegedly behind a coup that was backed by the United States. What is your response?
  
• JEN PSAKI: These latest accusations, like all previous such accusations, are ludicrous. As a matter of long-standing policy, the United States does not support political transitions by nonconstitutional means........
  
• MATT LEE: Sorry. The U.S. has—whoa, whoa, whoa—the U.S. has a long-standing practice of not promoting—what did you say? How long-standing is that? I would—in particular in South and Latin America, that is not a long-standing practice.
  
• JEN PSAKI: Well, my point here, Matt, without getting into history —is that we do not support, we have no involvement with, and these are ludicrous accusations.
  
• REPORTER: Recently in Kiev, whatever we say about Ukraine, whatever, the change of government in the beginning of last year was unconstitutional, and yet you supported it. The Constitution was not—
  
• JEN PSAKI: That is also ludicrous.

MIGUEL TINKER SALAS: I would have loved if that kind of exchange would have got broader diffusion in the U.S. press, but the fact is that it hasn’t. And we continue to have the belief that the U.S. does not—is not involved in unconstitutional change in Latin America. And as a historian, the record speaks just the opposite, from ’53 in Guatemala to the Dominican Republic, to Chile in ’73, and through the support of the Argentine military dictatorships and Brazil, and, if we want to go even closer, to 2002 in Venezuela, when the U.S. actually did support a coup against the democratically elected Hugo Chávez, the shortest coup in the world, and the coup that brought Chávez back to power, and then again in Honduras in 2009, and, not shortly thereafter, in Paraguay with Lugo, where they said it was a democratic transition, when in fact it was an unconstitutional shift in power. So, again, the notion that the U.S. has not supported both military coups directly or through what they call soft power is really ludicrous. And, in fact, we should turn the question around. If they want to support democracy, I think the best thing the U.S. can do in the case of Venezuela and other countries is to pull back and let things develop on their own....... Agreed! The absolute arrogance and hubris of this U.S. State Department spokesperson is astonishing. It is a well-known and established fact the U.S. through its CIA and USAID operatives and others have undermined governments all around the world, most recently in Ukraine last year (see ConsortiumNews.com Neocons and the Ukraine Coup and also TRUTHDIG A/V BOOTH Vladimir Putin Not Responsible for Ukrainian Civil War, Expert Says Through a careful review of recent history, Russia and Soviet scholar Paul Robinson debunks the claim that the Russian president is directing the rebels fighting in Ukraine’s eastern region. ), in Honduras in 2009 (see Workers World Manuel Zelaya to return to Honduras) and the failed coup in Venezuela in 2002 (see The Guardian Venezuela coup linked to Bush team. How stupid does Jen Psaki think we all are? Peter Maass at The Intercept tells us After Petraeus Plea Deal, Lawyer Demands Release of Stephen Kim The lawyer for imprisoned leaker Stephen Kim has asked the Department of Justice to immediately release him from jail, accusing the government of a “profound double standard” in its treatment of leakers following a comparatively lenient plea deal for former Gen. David Petraeus. Petraeus avoided prison time for disclosing a trove of classified information to his lover and lying to the FBI about it. Kim, meanwhile, was sentenced to 13 months in prison for violating the Espionage Act by talking to a Fox News reporter about a single classified report on North Korea. ........................ Kim’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, noted in a scathing letter to the DOJ that Petraeus, in his plea deal, admitted leaking a range of highly sensitive material “at least as serious and damaging to national security as anything involved in Mr. Kim’s case” to Paula Broadwell, his lover and authorized biographer. Petraeus also acknowledged that when he was director of the CIA he lied to the FBI about leaking to Broadwell, as well as about keeping classified information at his home. Yet while Kim, a former State Department official, was prosecuted under a draconian law against leaking — even though he merely discussed a single document that a government official later described in court filings as a “nothing burger” — Petraeus was allowed to plead guilty to a misdemeanor offense of mishandling classified information, and he was not charged at all for the felony of lying to the FBI. Under the deal, he is expected to be placed on probation for two years and pay a fine of $40,000. “The decision to permit General Petraeus to plead guilty to a misdemeanor demonstrates more clearly than ever the profound double standard that applies when prosecuting so-called ‘leakers’ and those accused of disclosing classified information for their own purposes,” Lowell wrote in his two-page letter, which was dated March 6, just three days after the Petraeus plea deal was announced. “As we said at the time of Mr. Kim’s sentencing, lower-level employees like Mr. Kim are prosecuted under the Espionage Act because they are easy targets and lack the resources and political connections to fight back. High-level officials (such as General Petraeus and, earlier, Leon Panetta), leak classified information to forward their own agendas (or to impress their mistresses) with virtual impunity.” ............... EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT MARK KARLIN nails Koch Brothers' greenwashing activities! Koch Brothers Are Endangering the Planet by Funding Climate Change Denial .............. Notice how the Koch Brothers attorney stresses "first amendment rights" for Koch Industries. This claim of corporate personhood echoes the plutocratic majority opinion in Citizens United: the opinion that companies have the same rights as individuals in elections. Only in this case, the notion of businesses being persons is applied to the funding of propaganda to elevate climate denial into a scientific theory. Greenpeace is one step ahead of the Democratic senators seeking information about the climate-denial funding: The organization did an analysis of the Koch brothers' financial backing of climate-denial front groups and spokespersons:

Billionaire oilman David Koch used to joke that Koch Industries was "the biggest company you've never heard of." Now the shroud of secrecy has thankfully been lifted, revealing the $67 million [from 1997 to 2011] that he and his brother Charles have quietly funneled to climate-denial front groups that are working to delay policies and regulations aimed at stopping global warming, most of which are part of the State Policy Network.

The Greenpeace estimate of Koch financial backing for climate science denial cannot, of course, be entirely precise, because given the refusal of the Koch brothers to voluntarily reveal their financing, it is not possible to verify the full extent of their funding. Dahr Jamail and other Truthout reporters have been reporting on the devastation of global warming in real time, in an ongoing environmental feature, "Planet or Profit." The revelations in the articles are indisputable and alarming. If the Koch brothers believe in free enterprise and the unfettered accumulation of personal wealth, why should they be so secretive about their funding of political campaigns, organizations and projects that benefit their personal wealth? .......... READ ON! NETENYAHOO "they're bussing them (the arabs) out" Nick Gass at politico.com caught this one Netanyahu: 'Arab voters are coming out in droves' Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sounded alarm Tuesday over high voter turnout among Arabs in the country’s Knesset election, urging supporters to get their friends and families to vote for his Likud party. “The right-wing government is in danger. Arab voters are coming out in droves to the polls. Left-wing organizations are busing them out,” Netanyahu said in a 28-second video in Hebrew posted on his Facebook page, according to a translation by Haaretz . “Get out to vote, bring your friends and family, vote Likud in order to close the gap between us and ‘Labor.’” NO SHIT! Maybe voters had to take busses because that's how far away they are from where you put the polling places? Who can forget Election 2004 at Kenyon College that had only TWO voting machines and had to stay open way past midnight to let everyone in line vote? (see No One Should Have to Stand in Line for 10 Hours to Vote.) And right here in Da Cleve on Election Day 2004 watch No Umbrella This game is not new. NEXT Common Dreams staff writer Sarah Lazare reports UN Commission: Israeli Occupation Imposes 'Grave Situation' on Palestinian Women Motion condemns Israel's 50-day military assault on Gaza late last summer, which killed at least 2,194 Palestinians, including hundreds of women and girls – The United Nations Commission on the Status of Women passed a resolution on Friday condemning the Israeli occupation as imposing a "grave situation" on Palestinian women. The motion (pdf) from the 45 member commission notes that "the Israeli occupation remains the major obstacle for Palestinian women with regard to their advancement, self-reliance and integration in the development of their society." Further, the resolution condemns Israel's 50-day military assault on Gaza late last summer, which killed at least 2,194 Palestinians, at least 75 percent of them civilians and over 500 of them children. Sponsored by the Palestinian and South African delegates, the motion passed 27 to two, with the U.S. and Israel voting against and 13 European Union members abstaining. .......... Look for more of this as Netanyahoo begins his fourth term. At WallStreetOnParade.com Pam Martens posits The Clintons and the Fed Are Gasping Over the April Issue of Harper’s ............ the April issue of Harper’s Magazine is focusing gasp-worthy attention on the “loan-sharking” business that Bill Clinton, as President, assisted in transforming into the too-big-to-fail Citigroup that played a leading role in bringing the country to the brink of financial collapse in 2008. Janet Yellen’s Fed can’t be too happy either about the revelations. The Fed just gave Citigroup a clean bill of health last week under its so-called rigorous stress tests and is allowing the bank to spend like a drunken sailor, raising its dividend 400 percent with permission to buy back as much as $7.8 billion of its own stock. ............... Harper’s six-page article jolts the reader with nugget after nugget unearthed from Citigroup’s unseemly history – facts that both the Clintons and the Fed would no doubt prefer to stay buried. This epistle to greed and excess and regulatory hubris is written by Andrew Cockburn, Harper’s Washington Editor and a man well credentialed to do it justice. Cockburn and his wife, Leslie Cockburn, co-produced the documentary, American Casino, which provided an in-depth look at the players behind the 2008 financial collapse. .................. Cockburn prints an excerpt from an affidavit that [Tonanwanda NY assistant sales manager Gail] Kubiniec eventually filed with the Federal Trade Commission in 2001 about the practices of Commercial Credit, which had by then changed its name to CitiFinancial:

“I and other employees would often determine how much insurance could be sold to a borrower based on the borrower’s occupation, race, age, and education level. If someone appeared uneducated, inarticulate, was a minority, or was particularly old or young, I would try to include all the coverages CitiFinancial offered. The more gullible the consumer appeared, the more coverages I would try to include in the loan.”

If Kubiniec’s story has a ring of familiarity, it’s likely because you read Alayne Fleischmann’s allegations against JPMorgan Chase concerning the subprime housing bust in Matt Taibbi’s investigative report in the November issue of Rolling Stone. ................. Read all of this synopsis and if you have a Harper's subscription you can get into Andrew Cockburn’s Letter From Washington Saving the Whale, Again - The catastrophic incompetence of Citigroup. For those not getting 'The Whale' reference go read Matt Taibbi's Live-Blogging the Senate Hearing on J.P. Morgan Chase and the Infamous 'London Whale' Episode at Rolling Stone from two years ago almost to the day! Murtaza Hussain at The Intercept looks at the Strange World of ex-U.K. PM Tony Blair in Tony Blair Is Terrible at Promoting Human Rights, Great at Enriching Himself After serving nearly eight years as special peace envoy for the “Quartet” powers mediating the Israel-Palestine conflict, Tony Blair is resigning, reportedly “over his poor relations with senior Palestinian Authority figures and [his] sprawling business interests.” After almost a decade as envoy, it’s hard to see anything Blair has done to bring Israelis and Palestinians any closer to peace. .............. But although he failed to broker peace, Blair did manage during his time as special envoy to transform himself into a well-paid and outspoken apologist for some of the most brutal autocracies in the world. The former prime minister, who once positioned himself as a principled supporter of democracy, even famously waging a war to bring democracy to Iraq, now leads a consulting firm that has reportedly received tens of millions of dollars doing advisory work for dictatorial governments in the Middle East and Central Asia. Last year, leaked documents obtained by Britain’s The Telegraph revealed Blair advising the dictatorial government of Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Nuzarbayev on how to best spin a 2011 massacre of unarmed protestors by his regime — a massacre that occurred just a few weeks after Blair began working for the regime, which had ostensibly hired his firm to advise it on BTVgood governance issues like judicial reform, corruption, free press and the rule of law. While Blair worked for Nazarbayev, however, human rights actually deteriorated in Kazakhstan, according to various sources. ................... Whatever his other failures, Blair has undeniably succeeded in creating a lucrative career for himself as a globetrotting “consultant” for tyrannical governments across the world. While his financial dealings are opaque, some estimates of his personal wealth have run as high as £100 million (over $148 million USD) — a figure Blair has denied, saying, un-mathematically, “I’m not worth 100 million, a half of it, a third of it, a quarter of it or a fifth of it or really a fraction.” ............. Does Bush's Poodle really have brass balls that big? Sure he does! Read on! But wait! there's more! MORE PATRICK COCKBURN Tony Blair joins a strange and exclusive club of political leaders whose careers have been blighted by the Middle East Blair is a member of a strange but exclusive club consisting of British and American political leaders whose careers have been blighted or terminated over the past century by calamitous involvement in the Middle East. On the British side members include Winston Churchill, David Lloyd George and Anthony Eden, and among the Americans are Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George W Bush. Do the different crises in the Middle East with which these six men failed to cope successfully have anything in common? Were similar mistakes made, and why has the region become such a graveyard for political reputations? READ ALL OF THIS! THEN WATCH THIS VIDEO! Interview with Patrick Cockburn at StopMakingSense.org Who Is Bankrolling the Islamic State? And get his NEW BOOK! The Jihadis Return: ISIS AND THE NEW SUNNI UPRISING Professor of History at the University of Michigan Juan Cole at his Informed Comment explains Israel apologist Tom Friedman & funding ISIL: Israel/Iran Derangement Syndrome Being a liberal Zionist was always a tough thing to pull off, but it is becoming increasingly just impossible. The intrinsic contradiction between wanting social justice and equity at home and supporting a militaristic and Apartheid Israel abroad produces what psychologists call cognitive dissonance. It is hard to believe two opposite ideologies at the same time. And the effort seems to have driven the New York Times‘s Tom Friedman bonkers. Many otherwise sensible people who are strong supporters of Israel have concluded that Iran is so dire threat to it that extraordinary measures against Tehran are in order. Friedman seems to have abruptly joined this group (he used to be more measured on Iran). Now he seems to suggest that if the choice is between a US grand coalition against Daesh (ISIL or ISIS) that includes a de facto alliance with Iran, or a grand coalition against Iran that might include Daesh/ISIL, he actually favors the latter. Well, he sidesteps his support by wondering why no one takes this position; but what else could he mean? His rationale is that the US has removed Iran’s enemies twice before, overthrowing the Taliban in Afghanistan and then Saddam Hussein in Iraq, and making Iran into a regional hegemon. If, he seems to say, the US crushes ISIL, it will be consolidating Iranian regional power. He doesn’t bring up Israel, but his commitment to it must be driving this bizarre calculation that leads him to want to arm the beheaders and ethnic cleansers and traffickers of young girls. (He doesn’t bring up that he was all for overthrowing Saddam Hussein in Iraq, which means he was part of the problem he is now describing). Iran is not a strategic threat to the United States. It has a small underfunded regular military and the neighborhood volunteers of the Basij that are counted by Iranophobes in their armed forces are not trained soldiers. US intelligence has dropped Iran and Lebanon’s Hizbullah as terrorist threats this year, making the opposite calculation of Friedman, that if the choice is between letting ISIL run wild or de facto allying with Iran and its Lebanese ally, the latter is far preferable. Digby takes Friedman and Marco Rubio and others who have engaged in this reasoning apart here. But Friedman is not a Rubio. What accounts for him being in this category of Daesh-supporters when he is not a conservative (in the American political sense of conservative)? It is his Zionism. .................. Much more! Click over to see the related VIDEO with The Young Turks: “Defense Industry Whores Release Nuclear Iran Ad To Scare America”. And lastly we mourn the passing of Danny Schechter, News Dissector who we've featured many times in Brick TeeVee. The thing about Danny was that he ALWAYS examined every story he covered from the lens of how the so-called "main stream media" in this country either twisted the story or gave complete indifference to it. And then went on to tell the REAL story of what was happening. The Brick TeeVee Crew has always strived to bring you stories and contexts the Lame Stream Media tend to distort or ignore and The News Dissector is one of our heroes in exposing and telling about the BIG ISSUES the-powers-that-be explicitly or implicitly want you to ignore or just suck up and believe their spin. Although our crappy little blog can never hold a candle to the monumental work and truth-telling The News Dissector covered in his five-plus decades we will strive to emulate the same intensity he brought to journalism. Rest in peace, Danny. The torch you lit will carry on, here and everywhere people seek out truths amid the corporate lies, half-truths, misdirections and spin. From the Common Dreams archive: Where Is the American Spring? (or Sunshine on a Cloudy Day) by Danny Schechter [CD Editor's Note: While we mourn Thursday's passing of our friend and longtime contributor Danny Schechter, we celebrate his life and work today by offering this selection as a testimony to the power of his masterful ability to cut through current events with a wisdom honed by the past and an optimistic commitment to the future. If time allows in your day, dear reader, take the time to go through the scores of Schechter's other columns in our archive to see just a small portion of the wider body of work to which he dedicated his life. From his peristent role as a both a producer and critic of media to his commitment to peace and justice, Danny offered all of us an uncanny window into the mind of a person who chronicled the late 20th- and early 21st Century with equal shares of reverence for craft, rebelliousness of spirit, and deep caring for others. The following selection was originally published on March 30, 2014.] Please click over to Common Dreams and read Danny's spot-on analysis of our country and our world R.I.P. Danny Schechter

Daniel Issac "Danny" Schechter
June 27, 1942 – March 19, 2015

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Headlines Monday, March 17, 2015

• Alex Mathieson, former Oxfam Vanuatu country director Vanuatu Blames Global Warming as Cyclone Causes Nation’s Worst Climate Disaster in Recent Memory
  
• Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org. As U.N. Backs Fossil Fuel Divestment, Bill McKibben on Vanuatu, Oxford Vote, California Water Crisis
  
• Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Right After Swedish Prosecutors Back Down, Is WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Close to Freedom?
  

Headlines Tuesday, March 17, 2015

• Jesselyn Radack, National Security & Human Rights director at the Government Accountability Project A Double Standard on Leaks? As Whistleblowers Jailed, Petraeus Escapes Prison & Advises White House She recently wrote an article for Foreign Policy magazine, "Petraeus, Snowden, and the Department of Two-Tiered Justice."
  
• Valerie Carey, sister of Miriam Carey, an unarmed African-American mother killed in Washington, D.C., on October 3, 2013, Eric Sanders, civil rights lawyer and retired New York City police officer & David Montgomery, staff reporter for The Washington Post A Deadly U-Turn: Did Miriam Carey Need to Die After Wrong Car Move at White House Checkpoint? Web Exclusive! Part 2: Did Miriam Carey Need to Die After Wrong Car Move at White House Checkpoint?
  

Headlines Wednesday, March 18, 2015

• Juan González, Democracy Now! co-host and award-winning columnist for the New York Daily News Hedge Fund-Backed Castellan Real Estate Group Intimidates NYC Tenants to Vacate Rent-Stabilized Apts His article is "Castellan real estate group pushes tenants out and jack up rents, despite Cuomo-ordered independent monitor."
  
• Amira Hass, Ha’aretz correspondent for the occupied Palestinian territories, based in Ramallah & Jamal Zahalka, Arab member of the Israeli Knesset and chair of Balad party, which is part of the Joint List of Arab parties After Netanyahu Wins Israel Vote with Racism & Vow of Permanent Occupation, How Will World Respond?
  
• Pardiss Kebriaei, senior staff attorney with Center for Constitutional Rights A Family Broken Up: Freed After 8 Years at Guantánamo, a Father & Son Are Still Kept Apart She has represented Abdul Nasser Khantumani and his son, Muhammed, since 2008. Her article for Harper’s is "Life After Guantánamo: A Father and Son’s Story."
  
• Venezuela, Media AnalysisWeb Exclusive! State Department Announces New "Long-standing" Policy Against Backing Coups Click here to watch our full discussion about Venezuela with Pomona College professor Miguel Tinker Salas, author of The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela and the forthcoming book, Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know.
  

Headlines Thursday, March 19, 2015

• Tadzio Mueller, German climate justice activist who took part in the Blockupy protest. Blockupy: Thousands Protest in Frankfurt Calling on Eurozone to Dismantle "Laboratory for Austerity"
  
• Amna Guellali, director of the Tunisian office of Human Rights Watch Deadly Shooting Rampage at Tunisian National Museum Leaves Birthplace of Arab Spring on Edge
  
• Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch Obama Seeks Fast Track for TPP, Trade Deal that Could Thwart "Almost Any Progressive Policy or Goal
  
• Trevor Aaronson, contributing writer at The Intercept and executive director of the nonprofit Florida Center for Investigative Reporting "How the FBI Created a Terrorist": Agency Accused of Entrapping Mentally Ill Man in Florida His most recent article for The Intercept is "The Sting: How the FBI Created a Terrorist." Web Exclusive! PART 2: "How the FBI Created a Terrorist" by Entrapping Mentally Ill Man in Florida
  

Headlines Friday, March 20, 2015

• Ricardo Patiño, foreign minister of Ecuador. Ecuadorean Foreign Minister: The United States is the Real Threat in the Americas, Not Venezuela AND Ecuador: Why Did It Take Sweden 1,000 Days to Agree to Question Julian Assange in Our U.K. Embassy? PLUS Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño on Press Freedom, Anti-Correa Protests & Chevron Case
  
• Bob Hennelly, political analyst and investigative reporter for WBGO, Newark’s NPR station A Gift to ExxonMobil? Chris Christie Criticized over Settlement to Clean Up Century of Contamination
  
• Danny Schechter, author, filmmaker and media reform activist Remembering Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector": Pioneering Journalist, Filmmaker & Activist The author, filmmaker and media reform activist Danny Schechter has died of pancreatic cancer at the age of 72. Danny Schechter rose to prominence as the "The News Dissector" on Boston’s WBCN radio in the 1970s. He went on to work as a television producer at ABC’s 20/20, where he won two Emmy Awards, and at the newly launched CNN. But he left corporate media to lead MediaChannel.org and Global Vision. Schechter wrote 12 books, including "The More You Watch, the Less You Know," and was a leading activist and journalist against apartheid in South Africa, making six nonfiction films about Nelson Mandela. He was a frequent guest on Democracy Now! over the years. The last time he was on the program, he discussed the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela. We wrap up today’s broadcast with a remembrance. Web Exclusive! RIP Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector," Author, TV Producer, Made Six Films on Nelson Mandela
  

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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

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! Tell the FCC: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality The FCC is considering a new plan that has the same big problems we’ve been protesting against all year. Tell the agency we’ll accept nothing less than REAL Net Neutrality. Just how bad is it? This new proposal: • Would allow broadband providers to cut specialized deals with companies to reach Internet users. • Still gives us slow lanes and gives users no real protection against discrimination from Internet service providers. • Rests on shaky legal arguments that won’t stand up in court. This isn't what millions of us have been fighting for. SIGN NOW at Tell Chairman Wheeler: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality at freepress.net NOW.

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 114th 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 Chelsea 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! Manning on torture in new Guardian op-ed AND Chelsea Manning’s Next Chapter March 13, 2015. Bloomberg Politics' March 10th article on Wikileaks whistleblower Chelsea Manning: her court-martial, her NYT & Guardian op-eds, trans justice, and her upcoming legal appeals...........

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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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  • ROUNDTABLE: Democratic strategist and CNN political commentator Van Jones, Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, host of NPR’s “Morning Edition” Steve Inskeep, and ABC News’ Cokie Roberts.
  • Astronaut twins Mark and Scott Kelly tell us how they’re preparing for a pioneering space study launching next week. And NASA administrator Charles Bolden and former astronaut Buzz Aldrin discuss why the Kelly study could get us closer to a manned mission to Mars.
  

  
  

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  • ROUNDTABLE: CBS News Contributor and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, Michael Gerson of the Washington Post, Michael Crowley of Politico and CBS News State Department Correspondent Margaret Brennan, who has been traveling with John Kerry
  

  
  

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  • Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture 07/15/12 — 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.
  All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052
  • Ron Dermer, Israeli Ambassador to the United States
  • Dr. Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations
  • Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA)
  • ROUNDTABLE: Helene Cooper, Pentagon Correspondent, The New York Times; Jane Harman, President, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; Rich Lowry, Editor, The National Review; John Stanton, Washington Bureau Chief, Buzzfeed
  

  
  

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  • 'Green News Report' - March 19, 2015 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: No more Mr. Nice Guy: Obama calls out 'shills', takes more new action on climate change; New rules for fossil fuels on public lands; It's official: Winter 2015 the warmest winter on record; PLUS: Solar-powered Germany says its ready for a major solar eclipse....All that and more in today's Green News Report! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): California: $1B drought relief package just the beginning; US has grown a pipeline network by almost a quarter; Chemical lobbyist exposed as author of new bill to regulate industry; US and Chinese companies dominate list of most-polluting coal plants; Rate of climate change to soar by 2020... PLUS: A Texas city pulls plug on fossil fuels with shift to renewables... and much, MUCH more! ...
  • 'Green News Report' - March 17, 2015 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Another Category 5 storm wreaks devastation in the Pacific; Extreme weather is getting extremely expensive; Scientist warns California could soon run out of water; PLUS: Some good news: for the first time in history, the global economy grew, but carbon emissions did not....All that and more in today's Green News Report!
  • 'Green News Report' - January 13, 2015 Keystone XL pipeline clears Nebraska court hurdle, moves to US Senate; Canada's tar sands and Arctic oil must remain in the ground, study warns; Fracking country braces for oil bust; PLUS: Denmark breaks world record for wind energy generation... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
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  • PBC Standard Podcast March 13, 2015 Prof. Peter Laufer Traces “Organic” Products Back to the Farm Shahid Buttar, attorney, activist, and executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, makes the provocative argument that Obama's proposal to equip all cops with body cameras won't solve the problems of police violence.
  • PBC Standard Podcast March 17, 2015 Rutgers Prof. Todd Wolfson and Pioneer Michael Eisenmenger on Indy Media Centers and the Cyber Left Todd Wolfson is an assistant professor of journalism and media at Rutgers University; Michael Eisenmenger formerly taught at Rutgers, and now manages the Community Media Center of Marin County. Both bring deep knowledge of the independent media movement to this conversation.
  

  
  

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  • This Week on Ring of Fire March 20, 2015 Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern.
  »» Author Mark Crispin Miller will tell us about the new Forbidden Bookshelf series that is bringing new life to literature that the powerful elite don’t want you to read.
  »» Brendan Fischer from the Center for Media and Democracy will be here to give us the latest on Scott Walker’s destruction of Wisconsin.
  »» And Nation Magazine contributor Ali Gharib will tell us about the conservatives’ push for war with Iran.
  • This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV March 20, 2015 - Sundays at NOON! Posted on January 17, 2015 by Farron Cousins
  »» Farron Cousins will be sitting in for Mike Papantonio this week.
  »» Howard Nations will tell us about the letter that 47 Republicans sent to Iranian officials trying to undermine president Obama, and the push for ground troops to fight ISIS.
  »» David TeSelle will discuss the new CFPB report that explains why mandatory arbitration is destroying the rights of consumers.
  »» Will Atkinson will explain how tort reform efforts have destroyed state economies, as well as the lives of consumers living in tort reform states.
  »» DeSmogBlog contributor Justin Mikulka will tell us about the continuing dangers of big oil’s “bomb trains” and why so little is being done about the growing threat.
  »» And journalist Amanda Marcotte will tell us why conservatives are getting scammed by Super PACs, and how their favorite Tea Party candidates are bleeding them dry.
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  • 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
  • VIDEO! Thom Hartmann: Will Anyone Stop the TPP? by Amy Eddings - A bipartisan group of legislators is attempting to give President Obama the power to push the Trans-Pacific Partnership through Congress with no real debate on the disastrous trade agreement. Thom Hartmann sat down with Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL) to discuss the TPP, it’s effects on America, and if anyone can stop it.
  • Poor Little Sociopath Dimon Says Bankers are “Under Assault” by Joshua De Leon
  • VIDEO! Pap and Seder: The Worst Choices for 2016 - Jeb and Hillary
  • VIDEO! UBS Just Blew Your Retirement Fund — March 20, 2015:Swiss banking giant UBS has been in the spotlight for all the wrong reasons in recent years – from their practice of teaching the 1% how to hide their money offshore to avoid paying taxes, to their collusion with drug cartels – it seems like UBS can’t stop breaking the law. And the latest scam that’s been uncovered could be one of the most disgusting to date. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins and attorney Peter Mougey tell us about it.
  • VIDEO! Bernie Sanders: The American People are 'Profoundly Disgusted' with Our Political System — March 21, 2015: During a hearing on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) brought forth an amendment that would establish a deficit-neutral reserve fund to allow for a Constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United. .............. Watch the discussion and vote from Thursday’s hearing.
  • Climate Change Advocate Bill Gates' Foundation has Over $1 Billion Invested in Fossil Fuel Industry
  • Arctic Sea Ice Hits All-Time Low. When Will Everyone Start Paying Attention to Climate Change?
  • Economist Paul Krugman: GOP is 'Fiscally Dishonest,' Its Budget is an 'Enormous, Destructive Con Job'
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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)
  • FBI Moves to Broaden Hacking Authority – Google Says it Poses “Monumental Constitutional Concern” by Michael Krieger — A judicial advisory panel Monday quietly approved a rule change that will broaden the FBI’s hacking authority despite fears raised by Google that the amended language represents a “monumental” constitutional concern. The FBI wants the expanded authority, which would allow it to more easily infiltrate computer networks to install malicious tracking software. If we’ve learned anything about the FBI over the past several years, it’s that the agency is extraordinarily skilled at finding mentally ill, dead-broke young Muslims and convincing them to become terrorists and by taking part in FBI created and funded terrorist plots… Read more here......... (libertyblitzkrieg.com)
  • Gold Downside $850/oz; Upside Jump to $2,000/oz on ‘Grexit’ by Mark O'Byrne —
  -Capital Economics chart-based analysis sees gold ending year higher at $1,400 per ounce
  -Sees a remote possibility of gold falling to $850 per ounce
  -A “Grexit” may cause gold to surge to $2,000 per ounce
  Julian Jessop from Capital Economics has written an interesting short piece on the company’s expectation for gold prices. It analyses golds performance, in four charts, against the US dollar, US treasury yields and expectations by investors for a Eurozone break-up.... More at Gold Downside $850/oz; Upside Jump to $2,000/oz on ‘Grexit’ (goldcore.com)
  • Clinton Foundation’s Deep Financial Ties to Ukrainian Oligarch Who Pushed for Closer Ties to EU Revealed by Michael Krieger — When I first came across the title to this article, I didn’t think much of it. In fact, I almost didn’t even click the link thinking it was just a repeat of a prior expose I highlighted in the post: Hillary Clinton Exposed Part 2 – Clinton Foundation Took Millions From Countries That Also Fund ISIS. Fortunately, I did decide to take a look and pretty soon my jaw absolutely hit the floor. Although the Wall Street Journal didn’t play up the connection, I was stunned to see that of all the oligarchs connected to foreign governments who donated to the Clinton Foundation while she was Secretary of State, Ukraine was at the very top. I thought this to be strange, but as I read on I just couldn’t believe how connected the main donor was to the current regime in power. Considering this is the main geopolitical hotspot on earth right now, many, many questions need to be asked… Read more here......... (libertyblitzkrieg.com)
  • The Tax Justice Network Podcast (March 2015) by Naomi Fowler — Democracy for sale: how our politics are heavily reliant on tax haven-friendly donors. Also, we ask: why is HSBC shutting down offshore accounts in Jersey? Are we in the final few years of the corporate income tax? Is Australia’s exempting of big companies from new transparency rules a joke? Plus more scandal and analysis you won’t find anywhere else.
  • Swiss National Bank: Masters of the Game by Janet Tavakoli — This is the Swiss National Bank’s idea of “further measures”. Read …READ more...... (tavakolistructuredfinance.com)
  • KEISER REPORT [KR732] Keiser Report: Fracking Flop We discuss the infinitude of private debt as the world continues mega bailouts and terrifyingly large bond buying programs to stave off the inevitable. In the second half, Max interviews Steven Sprague of Rivetz.com about his BitAngel winning technology. They discuss Apple Pay fraud problems and other online payments systems.
  • KEISER REPORT [KR733] Keiser Report: Let the Rage Out! We discuss being a bankster in this economy means to be abandoning ship as Americans ‘mysteriously’ stop spending and the dollar keeps surging as if a ‘colossal financial event’ were around the corner. In the second half, Max interviews radio show host and crowdfunded documentary filmmaker, Tariq Nasheed, who is in London from America to discuss the economics of white supremacy and how to fight for civil rights, not politically but financially.
  • KEISER REPORT [KR734] Keiser Report: Whop, Whop, Ponzi Style! We discuss nations joining the anti-dollar alliance as those on the hamster wheel of debt grow tired of working, working, working to pay the interest to those in early on the global debt pyramid scheme. In the second half, Max interviews former Goldman Sachs banker, Nomi Prins, author of All the Presidents’ Bankers about the Cold War – Wall Street nexus of World Bank and NATO style institutions designed to enforce US hegemony.
  

  
  

• 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 New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-2 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 LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-2 PM Eastern!
  • 3/12/15 Grant F. Smith: Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discusses the upcoming conference “The Israel Lobby: Is it Good for the US? Is it Good for Israel?” scheduled for April 10, 2015 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
  • 3/15/15 Gareth Porter: Gareth Porter, an award-winning independent journalist, discusses the remaining obstacles to an Iranian nuclear deal; why Israel’s Likud government and its supporters are trying so hard to sabotage a deal; and the history of bad intelligence assessments about Iran’s (non-existent) nuclear weapons program.
  • 3/16/15 Ray McGovern: Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), discusses President Obama’s foreign policy advisers who are actively trying to sabotage the ceasefire in eastern Ukraine; and why the media can’t seem to remember that Victoria Nuland orchestrated the Ukrainian coup.
  • 3/18/15 Philip Giraldi: Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses the Israeli government’s shift to the far right after elections, during which Benjamin Netanyahu denounced a two-state solution and shamelessly pandered to racists.
  • 3/19/15 Eric Margolis: Eric Margolis, an internationally syndicated columnist and author of American Raj, discusses Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s change of mind on a two-state solution – after he completely ruled out a Palestinian state during re-election campaigning, earning a rebuke from the White House.
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