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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>Baltimore Special</b> We've been swamped and backed up with so many stories these past few weeks we've just not been able to keep up! Of course unless you've been living in a cave (plotting how to destroy UhMerika from your portable dialysis machine haha) you should be up-to-speed on the situation in Baltimore Maryland. If you've only gotten info from the Lame Stream Media (LSM) you should visit <a href="http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bal-baltimore-sun-coverage-of-freddie-gray-20150420-storygallery.html#navtype=tertiarynavbar" target="_blank">The Baltimore Sun's Freddie Gray Coverage</a> which probebly will win many awards for their unique coverage of this tragic story. We'll have more in a bit on the Baltimore situation later so stay tuned! Of course today May 3rd is also <a href="http://internationalmayday.org/" target="_blank">International May Day</a> so if yer a worker go join a protest somewhere or start one! OR register and take part in this year's <a href="http://internationalmayday.org/#register" target="_blank">2015 MAY DAY ONLINE RALLY</a>!! Down with capitalism and imperialism! Unite the working class internationally against war, dictatorship and poverty! For peace, for equality, for socialism! And against this backdrop of the National Guard being deployed to LOCK DOWN BALTIMORE we cannot forget 45 years ago when Reepublican Ohio Governor James Rhodes sent Ohio Guard troops to Kent State in the midst of the Vietnam War protests who wound up killing FOUR INNOCENT STUDENTS. Please visit the <a href="http://www.may4.org/" target="_blank">Kent May 4 Center</a> for complete information and the 2015 Schedule of Events taking place Monday and all weekend. And April 30 also marked the 40th anniversary of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Saigon" target="_blank">The Fall of Saigon</a> Vietnam ending that conflict which was up to that point in history the U.S.'s longest running war (now outdistanced by the War in Afghanistan). So it seems the current and ongoing wars (though Congress hasn't declared "WAR" in over a half century — they call them "conflicts" now) and the Capitalist 0.001% declaring WAR on the planet and ALL OF US is coagulating into a huge socail global movement to STOP "austerity" and the pillaging of our ONE PLANET's resources. Surely many current police officers came out of the military from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq (where they kicked in doors, abused, arrested and killed people for no reason other than "looking for terriers" and certainly without a warrant) then took the civil service exam and went to "The Academy". Then, full of military training, our young cadet ends up in a police system rife with racism and deep deep corruption. Rolling Stone's Paul Solotaroff asks <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">Why Is This Man Still in Jail?</a> <font color=indigo><i>Half a lifetime ago, Philadelphia cops put Tony Wright away for a brutal crime he didn't commit. DNA tests have exonerated him. But he's still not free</i> ............ <b>Frank Rizzo may have been the most uncloaked racist to ever hold office in a Northeast city.</b> Snarling "Get their black asses!" while news cameras ran, he sicced hundreds of riot cops on school kids who were peacefully protesting, bludgeoning dozens of them. He ordered his men to raid the city's Black Panthers headquarters, drag them into the street and strip them butt-naked — then accused them of stripping themselves. <b>For nearly two decades, he dominated this city's ethos, first as police chief, then as the two-term mayor who tried to rewrite the statutes for a third term.</b> By the time he retired to a lucrative second career as a virulent radio host, he'd <b>thoroughly poisoned the well of race relations here and remade a department of 6,500 cops more or less permanently in his image.</b> One example among many: the highway patrol, a squad of cops in leather and crash helmets that functioned as "Rizzo's own private army," says Paul Conway, chief of the Special Defense and Homicide division at the public defender's office in Philadelphia. "They acted with extreme excessive force for many years. They brought in so many suspects, pretty much all black kids, with bloody head wounds that we called their bandages 'highway turbans.' Rizzo's mantra was, 'Get the confession by any and all means, and I'll back you if you go over the line.' " Bill Marimow, now editor-in-chief of The Philadelphia Inquirer, won a Pulitzer for uncovering dozens of cases in which suspects were taken to the basement of police headquarters, threatened with pistols or brutally beaten to sign confessions — some taken to emergency rooms with cracked skulls and broken jaws before being wheeled back to booking.<br />
Heads rolled at the department after the exposé ran in 1977, but <b>the culture Rizzo bred — corrupt, jackbooted, contemptuous of the Constitution — was immune to lasting changes.</b> New commissioners came and went, vowing reforms, but were so hamstrung by the union and its political pull that they couldn't get rid of even the most violent cops. Then crack blew in at the end of the 1980s and pumped the murder rate up just over 25 percent, causing a city whose taxpayers were fleeing to Bucks County to fear for its long-term survival. Pressure on the department was fierce and full-throated: Clear the clogged whiteboards of unsolved killings and bring the death toll down. For a rank and file weaned on Rizzo's bruised-knuckle ethos, this meant doubling down on the strong-arm stuff, and no worries if an innocent kid got swept up in the net. The jails, after all, were full of such cases. What did one more come to, for the greater good?...... </font> Read the rest! This same police culture exists today in cities across the country from New York, Los Angelis, Furgeson, Cleveland and now Baltimore. To Eric Holder's credit his Justice Department have opened many investigations of these police departments including here in CLE OH. At da peedee <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/court-ustice/index.ssf/2014/12/justice_department_recommends.html" target="_blank">Justice Department wants sweeping changes in Cleveland Police Department; report finds "systemic deficiencies" </a> for example.<br />
AND ADD TO THAT the $BILLIONS$ of OUR TAXPAYER MONEY being spent on "arming up" local police with war weaponry from the Department of Homeland Security! Does yer little hamlet really need riot gear and S.W.A.T. teams? Ask yer nearest Occupy peep who experienced the jackboot police-initiated violence first-hand. You can see where this is going.<br />
AND ALSO Tuesday is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinco_de_Mayo" target="_blank">Cinco De Mayo</a> when everybody in the U.S. becomes Mexican For A Day where everyone drinks cervezas and tequilla and eats tacos and burritos: "The date is observed to commemorate the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862, under the leadership of General Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín.[3][9] In the United States, Cinco de Mayo is sometimes mistaken to be Mexico's Independence Day—the most important national holiday in Mexico—which is celebrated on September 16." HOLA! <br />
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<p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/27/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, April 27, 2015</a> <ul><li>We broadcast live from The Hague, where over 1,000 female peace activists gathered from around the world 100 years ago this week to call for an end to war. The extraordinary meeting, known as the International Congress of Women, took place as World War I raged across the globe.<br />
<li><b>Mairead Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/27/no_to_violence_yes_to_dialogue" target="_blank">No to Violence, Yes to Dialogue: Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Mairead Maguire on Path to Peace Today</a> <br />
<li><b>Leymah Gbowee, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/27/liberian_nobel_peace_prize_laureate_leymah" target="_blank">Liberian Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Leymah Gbowee: How a Sex Strike Propelled Men to Refuse War</a> <br />
<li><b>Jody Williams, 1997 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/27/nobel_peace_prize_laureate_launches_campaign" target="_blank">Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Launches Campaign to Stop Killer Robots After Winning Ban on Landmines</a><br />
<li><b>Mairead Maguire, 1976 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/27/nobel_laureates_call_on_militaristic_united" target="_blank">Nobel Laureates Call on "Militaristic" United States to Renew Pledge to Protect Human Rights</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/28/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, April 28, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Jesse Jackson, civil rights leader, and president and founder of the Rainbow PUSH Coalition & Lawrence Bell, iformer Baltimore City Council president</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/28/national_guard_deployed_as_baltimore_erupts" target="_blank">National Guard Deployed as Baltimore Erupts After Years of Police Violence, Economic Neglect</a> <br />
<li><b>Matthieu Aikins, award-winning foreign correspondent & Erin Evers</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/24/inside_baghdads_brutal_battle_against_isis" target="_blank">"Inside Baghdad’s Brutal Battle Against ISIS": In Chaos of Post-Invasion Iraq, Militias Take Hold</a> Aikin's latest article for Rolling Stone is "<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-baghdads-brutal-battle-against-isis-20150313" target="_blank"> Inside Baghdad’s Brutal Battle Against ISIS </a>".<br />
<li><b>Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the U.S. Campaign to End Israeli Occupation, Lisa Goldman, Israeli journalist & Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh, public health physician</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/24/an_angry_white_house_vows_to" target="_blank">An Angry White House Vows to Confront Netanyahu, But Will It End Key U.S. Support for Occupation?</a> Goldman's new article for Foreign Policy is "<a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/19/never-trust-netanyahu-israel-election-obama/" target="_blank">Never Trust Netanyahu</a>"; Munayyer recently wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times headlined "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/opinion/netanyahus-win-is-good-for-palestine.html" target="_blank">Netanyahu’s Win is Good for Palestine</a>".<br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/29/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, April 29, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Aaron Maté, Democracy Now! producer reports from the streets of Baltimore</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/29/you_can_replace_property_you_cant" target="_blank">"You Can Replace Property, You Can’t Replace a Life": Voices of the Unheard in the Baltimore Streets</a> <br />
<li><b>Madeleine Rees, secretary general of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/29/womens_international_league_for_peace_and" target="_blank">Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom Marks 100th Anniversary as War Rages on Worldwide</a>.<br />
<li><b>Kozue Akibayashi, newly elected president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/29/japan_agrees_to_new_military_cooperation" target="_blank">Japan Agrees to New Military Cooperation Plan with United States Despite Its Pacifist Constitution</a><br />
<li><b>Hakima Abbas, director of programs for the Association for Women’s Rights in Development</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/29/from_police_violence_to_boko_haram" target="_blank">From Police Violence to Boko Haram, African Activist Says Fundamentalism Must Be Addressed Globally</a><br />
<li><b>Jineth Bedoya Lima, Colombian journalist and founder of Survivors for Action</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/29/colombian_journalist_wins_courage_award_after" target="_blank">Colombian Journalist Wins Courage Award After Kidnapping, Torture and Rape While Covering Arms Trade</a><br />
<li><b>Yanar Mohammed, president of the Organization of Women’s Freedom in Iraq</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/29/iraqi_activist_describes_massacres_left_and" target="_blank">Iraqi Activist Describes "Massacres Left and Right" as Civil Society Resists Takeover by ISIS</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/30/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, April 30, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Activist Tom Hayden</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/30/history_repeats_activist_tom_hayden_on" target="_blank">History Repeats? Activist Tom Hayden on Police Brutality Protests from the 1960s to Baltimore</a><br />
<li><b>Activist Tom Hayden</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/9/as_video_exposes_walter_scott_police" target="_blank">"History Is Finally Moving On": Tom Hayden on Thawing of U.S.-Cuba Relations Despite GOP Opposition</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/1/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, May 01, 2015</a><ul><li><b>Kunda Dixit, editor of the Nepali Times</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/1/massive_earthquake_leaves_trail_of_destruction" target="_blank">Massive Earthquake Leaves Trail of Destruction in Nepal, But Aid is Slow to Arrive</a><br />
<li><b>Cornell William Brooks, president and CEO of the NAACP</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/1/this_did_not_begin_with_freddie" target="_blank">"This Did Not Begin with Freddie Gray": As Baltimore Awaits Answers, A Call for Long-Term Solutions</a> <br />
<li><b>Ralph Nader</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/5/1/ralph_nader_on_bernie_sanders_the" target="_blank">Ralph Nader on Bernie Sanders, the TPP "Corporate Coup d’État" & Writing to the White House</a> <br />
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»»» <b>VIDEO OF THE WEEK</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?video=occupy-the-vatican-nathan-schneider-and-new-era-windows" target="_blank">Occupy the Vatican: Nathan Schneider and New Era Windows</a> Journalist Nathan Schneider was a part of Occupy Wall Street from the earliest planning stages. His journalism since has taken him from Nairobi to Spain to Ecuador to Detroit. In this Mayday special, Schneider reports on the people he's met, who are taking control of their livelihoods and Laura wonders whether she should convert to Catholicism. And in a GRITtv exclusive, Laura travels to Chicago to visit New Era windows, a worker-owned collective she's been following since its workers took over their factory back in 2008.</br >
»»» <b>The F-Word</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?commentary=high-stakes-testing-for-a-high-stakes-economy" target="_blank">The Missing Millions in Prison Aren’t Missing, We Are.</a> April 30th, 2015: ..... It’s becoming popular in the media to talk about the missing millions-- the 1.5 million African American men in their prime who are missing from civic life. Those millions, it’s explained, are mostly missing because they’ve died young or been locked up. There’s been a catastrophic rise of incarceration in the US over the past four decades. But missing from the missing men stories are the women whose rates of incarceration have risen fastest of all. In 2013, approximately 111,300 women were in US prisons, a 900 percent increase over 1977. ........
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<font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul></p><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i>
</p><p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>!
</p><p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <b>WE WON!</b> <a href="http://www.freepress.net/blog/2015/02/26/net-neutrality-victory" target="_blank">Net Neutrality Victory</a> 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. <font color=red> ACTION! <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">Stop Marsha Blackburn's Anti-Net Neutrality Bill H.R. 1212</a> 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."</font>
</p><p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW!
</p><p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org
</p><p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 114th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>!
</p><p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information!
</p><p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Chelsea Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/uncategorized/manning-on-torture-in-new-guardian-op-ed" target="_blank">Manning on torture in new Guardian op-ed</a> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/pbs-features-chelsea-manning-art-exhibit" target="_blank">PBS features Chelsea Manning art exhibit</a> <i>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.........</i>
</p><p><font size=3><b>DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION</b></font> <a href="http://tjmf.flipswap.com/" target="_blank">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. </a> For more information, go to <a href="http://www.tjmartellfoundation.org" target="_blank">www.tjmartellfoundation.org</a>
</p><p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!!
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<a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,357 US Military Dead as of April 30, 2015</a></br > <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br >
<font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br >
<font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br >
<font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br >
<font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><p><li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md.<br />
• Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.<br />
• Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: ABC News contributor and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, editor and publisher of The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel, and former Bush White House press secretary Dana Perino<br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• Cornell William Brooks, President of the NAACP<br />
• Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., chairman of the Ways and Means Committee<br />
• CBS News correspondent Seth Doane on the ground in Nepal<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Sherrilyn Ifill, director of the NAACP's Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Ramesh Ponnuru of National Review, Michele Norris of NPR, author and economist Dr. Julianne Malveaux, and Michael Gerson of the Washington Post.<br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• Coming Up Sunday, May 3 at 7 p.m. ET/PT<br />
• The Lesson of War<br />
• The All-American<br />
• Whisky Island<br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio<br />
• Former Gov. Martin O'Malley, D-Md<br />
• Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake of Baltimore<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: TBA<br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>State of the Union (CNN)</b> CNN Correspondent Dana Bash hosts Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md.<br />
• Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia <br />
• Mayor William Bell of Birmingham, Alabama<br />
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• FRONT PORCH FRIDAY! Bob wraps up the week with the H.O.R.N./Malloy chatters! Listen now <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(01-05-2015).mp3" target="_blank">Friday, May 1st, 2015</a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.CRMW.net</a>!<br />
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• <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11156" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - April 30, 2015</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Senator Bernie Sanders, climate hawk, enters the 2016 Presidential race; Thanks to fossil fuels, California still has the nation's dirtiest air; Study finds most extremely hot days caused by global warming; PLUS: Pope Francis wants to protect God's Creation, and the rightwing, fossil fuel-funded Heartland Institute wants him to knock it off... All that and more in today's Green News Report! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): Break-up of the century: U.S. emissions and economic growth are really, finally separating; New Survey Shows TV Weathercasters Increasingly Accept Climate Change (but not Fox News); Duke Energy to hand out bottled water in North Carolina after wells polluted; Bees Love Nicotine, Even Though It's Killing Them; Forest fire threatens Ukraine's Chernobyl nuclear zone... PLUS: Exposure to widespread diabetes drug feminizes male fish... and much, MUCH more! ...<br />
• <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11120" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - April 28, 2015</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Devastation and rescue in Nepal after massive earthquake; March 2015 the hottest March on record; Sardines crash in the Pacific; PLUS: Fighting climate change with the power of poo... All that and more in today's Green News Report! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): VIDEO: Obama Finally Gets Angry At Climate Science Deniers And It’s Hilarious; California goes nuts: the hedge-fund-fueled race to plant thirsty trees in a catastrophic drought; 7.4 Million Acres of Ecosystem Lost to Oil and Gas Boom; Will The Chilean Volcano Be Big Enough to Cool 2015?; FL legislature diverts funds from voter-approved conservation fund; NV's Lake Mead headed to new historic low... PLUS: A solar future isn't just likely — it's inevitable... and much, MUCH more! ...<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11148" target="_blank">The Daily Show With Brad Friedman!</a> Okay, it's not the Daily Show, but beginning Monday, April 27, we'll be producing The BradCast five days a week for a while... <br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11145" target="_blank">'BradCast': Un-Earth Day for RW 'Think Tank'; Judge Fuller News; Listener Calls & More</a> PLUS: Some important 'BradCast' programming news... <br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11150" target="_blank">Daniel Ellsberg on 'Obama's War on Whistleblowers':<br />
BradCast 4/27/15</a> The legendary 'Pentagon Papers' whistleblower joins us for a fascinating discussion; PLUS: Baltimore violence; Nepal earthquake; MORE..<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11152" target="_blank">Gyrocopter Guy and Why He Did It!; Baltimore Riots and Reason: 'BradCast' 4/28/15</a> Guest: Doug Hughes who landed his gyrocopter at the U.S. Capitol to bring attention to campaign finance reform... <br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11155" target="_blank">It's Not Just Baltimore & Bernie Jumps In:<br />
'BradCast' 4/29/15</a> And our listener callers have plenty to say about both on today's very lively show..<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11157" target="_blank">Rep. Alan Grayson Talks Sanders, Hillary, Democrats, TPP and Citizens United: 'BradCast' 4/30/15</a> And even Disneyland! Plus: breaking news out of Baltimore, NASA, Texas & more... <br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11159" target="_blank">The Man Who Punked Rush Limbaugh: 'BradCast' 5/1/15</a> Larry Pfeifer explains how he scammed the RW media into reporting his fake Harry Reid story; PLUS: Indictments in 'BridgeGate' and Baltimore and much more...<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11137" target="_blank">Ohio and ACLU Announce Legal Settlement to Restore Some Early Voting Hours</a> 'Far from perfect' deal may end years-long court battle to block GOP restrictions on access to state polling places... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11131" target="_blank">CA's Mandatory Restrictions on Urban Water Usage Won't Solve Drought Crisis</a> Cuts to agricultural and energy production usage, as well as increases in supply are needed immediately... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11147" target="_blank">Sunday Toons: Free Trade Edition</a> BRAD BLOG's toon curator 'PDiddie' wonders who's buying and who's selling? And so are a lot of this week's selected cartoonists... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11153" target="_blank">Bernie Sanders Versus the 'Democracy Deficit'</a> His candidacy may be a 'long shot', as it is marginalized by the corporate media, but populist support could overcome the odds to spark a 'democratic revolution'... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11158" target="_blank">Three Indictments, One Guilty Plea in Chris Christie's NJ 'BridgeGate' Scandal</a> Wildstein cooperating with investigation into 'conspiracy' to punish Fort Lee mayor; Two other top Christie aides also charged... <br />
• BRADBLOG VIDEO! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11107" target="_blank">When Cronkite Warned Us About Global Warming</a> That's the way it was. 35 years ago. And, yet, still no action on climate change by the U.S. Congress. WATCH this remarkable CBS News Evening News report from April 3, 1980..<br />
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The Peter B. Collins Show covers American news and politics from the Left Coast. Veteran talk radio personality Peter B. Collins, based in San Francisco, delivers fresh interviews, commentary and analysis on a range of important topics, with views and voices you don’t often find in the corporate media. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• 27 Apr 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-fbi-is-out-of-control-beyond-oversight/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: FBI is Out of Control, Beyond Oversight</a>Loretta Lynch sworn in as attorney general, as new evidence arises almost daily that FBI’s gone rogue, seems invulnerable to critics, reformers<br />
• 29 Apr 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-bernie-sanders-will-enter-democratic-presidential-race/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Bernie Sanders Will Enter Democratic Presidential Race</a> Vermont’s socialist senator will make it official, he’s running for president as a Democrat, offering strong challenge to Hillary Clinton... <br />
• 30 Apr 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-media-side-shows-distract-from-real-racial-problems-with-copsbaltimores-top-cop-reveals-undisclosed-stop-by-freddie-grays-paddy-wagon-as-mainstream-media-shifts/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Media Side Shows Distract from Real Racial Problems with Cops</a> Baltimore’s top cop reveals undisclosed stop by Freddie Gray’s paddy wagon as mainstream media shifts focus to side shows, distractions…. <br />
• 1 May 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-baltimore-prosecutor-moves-quickly-to-indict-cops/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Baltimore Prosecutor Moves Quickly to Indict Cops</a> Baltimore state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby files criminal charges against 6 cops, including murder and manslaughter for death of Freddie Gray...<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast April 24, 2015 <a href=http://www.peterbcollins.com/2015/04/24/psychiatrist-justin-frank-analyzes-the-fear-thats-used-to-control-us/" target="_blank">Psychiatrist Justin Frank Analyzes the Fear That’s Used to Control Us</a> Justin Frank, MD, author of Obama On the Couch, returns to discuss the role of manufactured fear in American life and politics.<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast April 27, 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2015/04/27/bill-of-rights-defender-shahid-buttar-on-new-attorney-general-patriot-act-renewal-and-his-recent-arrest/" target="_blank">Bill of Rights Defender Shahid Buttar on New Attorney General, Patriot Act Renewal, and His Recent Arrest</a> Shahid Buttar, executive director of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee, comments on our new Attorney General, the fight over renewal of the Patriot Act, and his recent arrest after a Senate hearing.<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast April 30, 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2015/04/30/brilliant-reporter-pepe-escobar-updates-the-yemen-war-and-much-more/" target="_blank">Brilliant Reporter Pepe Escobar Updates the Yemen War and Much More</a> Globetrotting journalist Pepe Escobar joins us from Paris, offering informed offshore perspectives on Mediterranean refugees, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran and more. <br />
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<li type=square><b>Ring of Fire Radio</b><br />
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Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/ <b>hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder</b><br />
Ring of Fire Radio - GoLeft TV - Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, Sam Seder - Politics, Commentary, and News.<br />
• <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/04/this-weeks-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv-17/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire April 30, 2015</a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
»» David Pakman, host of The David Pakman Show, will tell us how Millenials are getting the short end of the stick thanks to short-sighted politicians.<br />
»» Mychal Denzel Smith will give us the details on the riots in Baltimore.<br />
»» And Bryce Covert from Think Progress will explain how income inequality is helping to breed civil unrest.<br />
• <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/04/this-week-on-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv-12/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV April 30, 2015</a> - Sundays at NOON! <br />
»» Howard Nations will tell us why Obama is so hellbent on passing the TPP, even though his party and the American voters are telling him it’s a horrible idea.<br />
»» David Pakman will explain how Millenials are becoming one of the most victimized generations in modern history, and how Congress is doing nothing to ease their suffering.<br />
»» Michael Burg will tell us why the US Chamber of Commerce is terrified of new transparency laws that would force companies to disclose political contributions to shareholders.<br />
»» And we’ll hear from The American Prospect’s Adele Stan on why Rand Paul will never win over the youth vote.<br />
»» Watch at <a href="https://www.freespeech.org/RingofFire" target="_blank">FSTV</a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/05/seder-bernie-sanders-will-slap-some-honesty-into-2016-contenders/" target="_blank">Seder: Bernie Sanders Will Slap Some Honesty Into 2016 Contenders</a> For the first time in the road headed into the 2016 election, we finally have true, honest candidate. Bernie Sanders is running for president, and progressives everywhere are on their feet alongside him. Along with Elizabeth Warren, Sanders has been a champion against economic injustice in the United States, and it is almost certain that he will essentially reshape Progressive politics going in to 2016. Ring of Fire’s Sam Seder and The Majority Report contributor Michael Brooks discuss this.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/05/aclu-launches-mobile-justice-app-to-record-and-secure-video-of-police/" target="_blank">ACLU Launches ‘Mobile Justice’ App to Record and Secure Video of Police</a> The American Civil Liberties Union recently released its Mobile Justice app, designed to record and secure video take of interactions with police, even if they try to delete it or confiscate the phone, San Diego’s ABC News 10 reported. The app records video and then immediately sends it to the ACLU. This prevents the video from somehow “disappearing.” Once the video has been sent, the user can then add information about the encounter. It also allows the user to send notifications alerting others to come to their location and act as additional witnesses. The app is free and is available on both Apple and Android devices. Watch News 10’s coverage of the app.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/05/meet-marilyn-mosby-the-states-attorney-who-gave-baltimore-hope-that-justice-will-be-served/" target="_blank">Meet Marilyn Mosby, the State's Attorney who Gave Baltimore Hope that Justice will be Served</a> ...... Mosby’s words and actions yesterday instilled in many in the city — and across the country — a hope that maybe, must maybe, the system can change. Maybe it can work for everyone and not only against some. Watch yesterday’s full press conference.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/05/papantonio-sanders-candidacy-will-force-conversation-on-real-issues/" target="_blank">Papantonio: Sanders’ Candidacy Will Force Conversation on REAL Issues</a> — Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, is without a doubt a hero among Progressives. When rumors began surfacing that Senator Sanders was considering a run for the White House in 2016, it stirred up genuine, if cautious, optimism. But now, Sanders is officially running for president. And this could redefine the 2016 election in a big way. America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, discusses the Sanders 2016 election big on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/05/papantonio-gray-autopsy-confirms-the-worst-time-to-prosecute-murderous-cops/" target="_blank">Papantonio: Gray Autopsy Confirms the Worst - Time to Prosecute Murderous Cops</a> — As Baltimore still reels after a week of violent protest, the six officers involved in the tragic death of Freddie Gray will now face criminal charges. Last night, Mike Papantonio examined the autopsy report and legal aspects of the case with The Big Picture’s Thom Hartmann.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/papantonio-duponts-polluted-history-has-poisoned-entire-communities/" target="_blank">Wikileaks Exposes How the TPP Will Harm Taxpayers</a> by Joshua De Leon – <a href="https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/WikiLeaks-TPP-Investment-Chapter.pdf" target="_blank">Wikileaks exposed</a> last night a portion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that illustrates how the trade deal, being orchestrated in secret, will harm taxpayers and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-p-hoffa/tpp-investor-language-wil_b_6948982.html" target="_blank">help giant corporations</a>. 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. ..........<br />
• Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the "Podcast" tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/blogengine/" target="_blank">Ring of Fire Radio</a> Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, <b>rebroadcasts 7-10 et Sunday evenings on <a href="http://www.chicagoprogressivetalk.com/listen/" target="_blank">Chicago's Progressive Talk WCPT AM & FM</a> and 4 pm et on Sirius/XM 167 featuring The PAP Attack! </b> "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week." <br />
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<li type=square><b>Majority Report with Sam Seder</b> Streaming LIVE weekdays 12 NOON et @ <a href="http://Majority.fm" target="_blank">Majority.fm</a>! <br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/42715-carmen-boullosa-mike-wallace-a-narco-history" target="_blank">4/27/15 Carmen Boullosa & Mike Wallace: A Narco History</a><br />
• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/42815-baltimore-erupts-marriage-equality-at-scotus" target="_blank">4/28/15 Baltimore Erupts & Marriage Equality At SCOTUS</a><br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/42915-mike-signorile-its-not-over-getting-beyond-tolerance-defeating-homophobia-and-winning-true-equality" target="_blank">4/29/15 Mike Signorile: It’s Not Over: Getting Beyond Tolerance, Defeating Homophobia, and Winning True Equality</a><br />
• THURSDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/43015-katha-pollitt-why-marriage-equality-is-winning-while-abortion-rights-are-losing" target="_blank">4/30/15 Katha Pollitt: Why Marriage Equality Is Winning, While Abortion Rights Are Losing</a><br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/5115-casual-friday-cliff-schecter-andy-kindler" target="_blank">5/1/15 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & Andy Kindler</a><br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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<li type=square><b>KEISER REPORT</b> Podcasts and more @ <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/" target="_blank">MaxKeiser.com</a>!<br />
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<b>"HI Y'ALL! Tell the people! Tell the people!"</b><br />
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 <a href="http://www.karmabanque.com/" target="_blank">KarmaBanque</a> a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. <br />
• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport" target="_blank">Keiser Report</a> <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/on-my-mind-finance-and-books//" target="_blank">[TAM1125] The Truth About Markets – 25 April 2015</a> by Stacy Herbert — <a href="https://ia601508.us.archive.org/5/items/TaM25042015/TaM-25042015.mp3" target="_blank">Download show here.</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/eu-and-greece-running-out-of-time-as-bank-runs-intensify-bail-ins-likely/" target="_blank">Baltimore as a Microcosm of America</a>by Michael Krieger — Baltimore, Maryland is in many ways the perfect microcosm for these United States of America. If you still don’t get that, you’ll be in for a rude awakening in the years ahead. A gradual erosion of the Constitution and the civl rights of the citizenry, the abuse of power by people in authority, perverse financial incentives that lead to horrible outcomes, zero accountability, and a ubiquitous surveillance state apparatus; Baltimore has it all. Yet all of these troubling traits have also come to characterize early 21st century America. As tends to be the case, the populations that have been victimized the longest and most systemically — in Baltimore and across the U.S. — are the poor, weak and disenfranchised. Like a cancer, corruption, theft, and blatant abuse of the citizenry by the powerful will spread and spread until it consumes everything unless the tumor is removed. It has now spread so deeply and so dangerously throughout American life, the general public will soon have no choice but to confront it and do something about it, or face a total extinction of opportunity and suffer the same desperate fate as the people out in the streets of Baltimore. More <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/04/30/baltimore-as-a-microcosm-of-america/#more-23609" target="_blank">here’</a> (libertyblitzkrieg.com)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/05/jp-morgan-cornering-silver-bullion-marketjp-morgan-cornering-silver-bullion-market/" target="_blank">JP Morgan Cornering Silver Bullion Market?</a> by Mark O'Byrne — <br />
- Why is JP Morgan accumulating the biggest stockpile of physical silver in history?<br />
- Legendary silver analyst Ted Butler believes JP Morgan are in a position to corner silver market<br />
- JP Morgan may be holding as much as 350 million ounces of physical silver<br />
- JP Morgan realises the value of owning physical silver bullion today<br />
- Silver at $16 today – Set to soar to over $50 again<br />
Read more <a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/jp-morgan-cornering-silver-bullion-market/" target="_blank">here</a>........<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/05/the-2014-elections-by-the-numbers-who-are-the-1-of-1-driving-american-politics/" target="_blank">The 2014 Elections by the Numbers – Who are the 1% of 1% Driving American Politics?</a> by Michael Krieger — ..... Several organizations are already doing such data mining, and one study that caught my eye yesterday is a joint analysis by the <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/04/the-political-one-percent-of-the-one-percent-in-2014-mega-donors-fuel-rising-cost-of-elections/" target="_blank">Center for Responsive Politics</a> and the <a href="http://sunlightfoundation.com/" target="_blank">Sunlight Foundation</a>. We should all be indebted to them for doing this, as the revelations and the wealth of information provided serves as an invaluable resource to anyone trying to avert multi-generational oligarch dictatorship.... Read more <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/05/01/the-2014-elections-by-the-numbers-who-are-the-1-of-1-driving-american-politics/" target="_blank">here</a>...... (libertyblitzkrieg.com)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/05/how-the-american-psychological-association-supported-and-provided-cover-for-the-c-i-a-torture-program/" target="_blank">How the American Psychological Association Supported and Provided Cover for the C.I.A. Torture Program</a> by Michael Krieger — In a story that sounds like it could’ve come straight from the archives of Nazi Germany, a new report has just been released claiming that the American Psychological Association (APA) collaborated with the George W. Bush administration to justify the C.I.A. torture program. Read more <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/05/02/how-the-american-psychological-association-supported-and-provided-cover-for-the-c-i-a-torture-program/" target="_blank">here</a>...... (libertyblitzkrieg.com)<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/04/kr750-keiser-report-bankers-marathon/" target="_blank">[KR750] Keiser Report: Bankers’ marathon</a> We discuss central bankers running marathons…perhaps not quite fast enough for a QE-induced revolution. We also discuss wars for oil market share in a zero-interest-rate world in which supply and demand no longer matter. In the second half, Max interviews crypto and crowdfunding expert Simon Dixon about his move to Hong Kong, regulatory issues on the crypto environment and his latest equity crowdfunding effort for Bitcoin Capital.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/04/kr751-keiser-report-fighting-algorithmic-bots/" target="_blank">[KR751] Keiser Report: Fighting Algorithmic Bots</a> We discuss cartels and trust-busting in these days of algorithms engaged in ‘horizontal collusion’ and ‘conscious parallelism.’ We look at the health care industry that is exempt from the Sherman Antitrust Act and what future it portends in a day of big data monopolies, oligopolies and cartels. In the second half, Max interviews activist and author, David DeGraw, about Russell Brand’s Revolution, the Occupy movement and about his new book, “Freedom in a time of mental slavery.”<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/05/kr572-keiser-report-never-ending-baltimores/" target="_blank">[KR572] Keiser Report: Never-ending Baltimores</a> We discuss the winter of our discontent as neoliberal policies and relentless fraud by banks results in never-ending Baltimores. In the second half, Max interviews Satyajit Das, author of Extreme Money, about how this debt addicted world could go the way of the Mayans.<br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>The Scott Horton Radio Show</b><br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-2 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> 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....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-2 PM Eastern!</b> <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/04/22/42215-nick-turse/" target="_blank">4/22/15 Nick Turse</a>: Nick Turse, associate editor of TomDispatch.com and author of <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/tomorrows-battlefield-nick-turse/1120450608?ean=9781608464630" target="_blank">Tomorrow’s Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa</a>, discusses the greatly increased US military presence on the African continent, and the <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175984/tomgram%3A_nick_turse%2C_africom_behaving_badly" target="_blank">bad behavior of military members stationed there</a>.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/04/23/42315-philip-giraldi/" target="_blank">4/23/15 Philip Giraldi</a>: Philip Giraldi, executive director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses the Republicans and evangelicals who put Israel’s interests ahead of America’s; and his article “<a href="http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/what-the-pope-says-about-turkey-and-should-do-about-america-and-israel/" target="_blank">The Pope Rebukes Turkey – and Should Challenge America and Israel</a>.”<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/04/27/42715-patrick-cockburn/" target="_blank">4/27/15 Patrick Cockburn</a>: Patrick Cockburn, a Middle East correspondent for The Independent, discusses Saudi Arabia’s bombing campaign in Yemen that is worsening the “extraordinary man-made disaster,” as 12 million Yemenis face starvation.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/04/30/43015-andrew-cockburn/" target="_blank">4/30/15 Andrew Cockburn</a>: Andrew Cockburn, author of <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/kill-chain-andrew-cockburn/1120792086?ean=9780805099263" target="_blank">Kill Chain: The Rise of the High-Tech Assassins</a>, discusses how US high-tech drones and flawed intelligence – often based on unreliable phone tracking – combine to <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">kill civilians and promote terrorism</a>.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/05/01/5115-will-grigg/" target="_blank">5/1/15 Will Grigg</a>: Will Grigg, a blogger and author of Liberty in Eclipse, discusses the <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2015/04/nickel-rides-houdini-suicides-and.html" target="_blank">Baltimore police killing of Freddie Gray</a>; the surprising announcement that six officers will be arrested and charged with serious crimes; and the immediate pushback by the Fraternal Order of Police and cop-apologists in the media.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>fauxnews </b><br />
• Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio<br />
• Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md.<br />
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We've posted the guest lists for this week's Sunday Funnies for your brick-throwing enjoyment below! And be sure to visit all our regulars! <ul><li type=square><b>Democracy NOW!</b> @ <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/" target="_blank">democracynow.org</a><br />
<li type=square><b>GritTV with Laura Flanders!</b> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">grittv.org</a><br />
<li type=square><b>HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid!</b> @ <a href="http://headon.headonradionetwork.com" target="_blank">HeadOnRadioNetwork.com</a><br />
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<li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b> @ <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a><br />
<li type=square><b>Majority Report with Sam Seder!</b> @ <a href="http://majority.fm" target="_blank">Majority.FM</a><br />
<li type=square><b>Ring of Fire Radio with Sam, Bobby & Pap!</b> @ <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/" target="_blank">ringoffireradio.com</a><br />
<li type=square><b>The Keiser Report!</b> @ <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/" target="_blank">MaxKeiser.com</a>! With Stacy Herbert!<br />
<li type=square><b>The Scott Horton Show!</b> @ <a href="http://scotthorton.org/" target="_blank">scotthorton.org</a><br />
</ul>And put some coin in their tip jars while yer there! These important news outlets cannot function without OUR support, especially <a href="https://www.freespeech.org/" target="_blank">Free Speech TV</a> home of Democracy NOW! We're certain you will find something that makes you instantly smarter! Haha! Warm up yer brick-throwing arms because you WILL find MANY brick targets on the Sunday Beltway Bubalas Talkies like the Belt Way Bubalas glossing themselves. It's all about their little "NERD PROM" this year hosted by SNL Cast Member Cecily Strong, where these so-called "inside the beltway" "journalists" throw themselves a party to celebrate just how good they are at spewing The Company Line and asking inane softball questions to inane hardline guests who spew lies at will without being called out AT ALL.Who remembers <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2015/03/29/3640297/indiana-governor-wont-say-religious-liberty-bill-will-used-discriminate/" target="_blank">Indiana Governor Mike Pence Becomes Frustrated When Asked If ‘Religious Liberty’ Law Will Be Used To Discriminate</a> on This Snafugopolis March 29th 2015? Who can forget David Gregory rapping with Karl Rove? And DIM SON looking for missing WMD getting lots of yucks? Haha! Good times good times. Chuck Toad said it best when he said on Meet The Toad <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2014/12/oops-chuck-todd-slips-admits-he-cant-do-tough-interviews-because-no-one-will-come-on-my-show/" target="_blank">“We all sit there because we know the first time we bark is the last time we do the show”.</a> See <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/2014/12/oops-chuck-todd-slips-admits-he-cant-do-tough-interviews-because-no-one-will-come-on-my-show/" target="_blank">RAW STORY: Oops: Chuck Todd slips, admits he can’t do tough interviews because ‘no one will come on’ my show</a> Thom Hartmann rants on how <a href="http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2014/12/chuck-todd-accidentally-tells-truth" target="_blank">Chuck Todd Accidentally Tells the Truth</a> <font color=navy> During a panel discussion about how and why Americans are so cynical about our corporate-owned media, Todd told comedian Lewis Black <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/12/oops-chuck-todd-slips-admits-he-cant-do-tough-interviews-because-no-one-will-come-on-my-show/" target="_blank">that if he “barks” at politicians</a> - AKA asks them tough questions - they won’t come back on his show............. </font> IF you haven't noticed yet these bubalas are NOT Journalists.They are career "newsy" teevee celebrities and their approach to news is pretty much to ignore it or have guests on to mock it, you know, the "liberal media" (dontgetusstarted) and the REAL STORY gets so obfuscated by The Echo Chamber of Lies it turns out NOBODY knows The Truth except for a small group of professors and experts (and YOU dear BTV reader) who are systematiccaly NOT ALLOWED on the corporomedia to explain issues, ANY issue in-depth. CRIPEE! We could go on-n-on but <a href="http://mediamatters.org/" target="_blank">MediaMatters</a>, <a href="http://bradblog.com/" target="_blank">BRADBLOG</a>, <a href="http://tvnewslies.org/tvnl/" target="_blank">TVNewsLies</a>, <a href="http://crooksandliars.com/" target="_blank">CrooksAndLiars</a> and <a href="http://therealnews.com/t2/latest-news" target="_blank">REALNEWSNETWORK</a> watch FAKE SNOOZE so we don't hafta! Haha! GO THERE! NOW! AND Don't forget to click on stories featured on our side-bar! Fabulous! Thanks for tuning in to Brick TeeVee! </font>
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• "author" Peter Schweizer discusses his new book, “Clinton Cash.” <br />
• Rep. John Delaney, D-Maryland, and former White House counterterrorism adviser and ABC News contributor Richard Clarke discuss the death of American hostage Warren Weinstein. <br />
• ROUNDTABLE: ABC News contributor Donna Brazile, CNN political commentator and former House speaker Newt Gingrich, and Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, managing editors of Bloomberg Politics and hosts of “With All Due Respect.” <br />
• Sunday Spotlight: All the highlights of this weekend’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington. <br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• Evan Wolfson, founder and president of Freedom to Marry<br />
• Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council<br />
• Ohio Gov. John Kasich<br />
• Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Maryland<br />
• New York Police Commissioner William Bratton<br />
• Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Peter Baker of The New York Times, Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post, Kim Strassel of The Wall Street Journal and CBS News Political Director John Dickerson, who will take over as host of 'Face The Nation' this summer.<br />
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<li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• Coming Up Sunday, April 26 at 7 p.m. ET/PT<br />
• Death in the Mediterranean: Syrian migrants say they have nothing to lose by making the dangerous trip across the Mediterranean that has killed so many<br />
• The Battle Above: U.S. and China locked in a high stakes contest over satellites that are critical to national security and everyday life<br />
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• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Sunday on MTP: America's Drone War<br />
• David Boies, Co-author, "Redeeming the Dream; The Case for Marriage Equality"<br />
• Ted Olson, Former U.S. Solicitor General; Co-author, "Redeeming the Dream; The Case for Marriage Equality"<br />
• Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R-AR)<br />
• THE WEEKEND OF "NERD PROM" - Full of journalists, government officials and celebrities, the audience at the annual White House Correspondents' Association Dinner is a tough crowd. Chuck will catch up with 'Saturday Night Live' cast member Cecily Strong immediately after the dinner for her reaction to how her speech fared.<br />
• Cecily Strong, Cast Member of 'Saturday Night Live'; Host of 2015 White House Correspondents' Association Dinner<br />
• DOONESBURY CREATOR Garry Trudeau: Pulitzer Prize-winning Doonesbury comic strip, recently made news with remarks that the work of those at Charlie Hebdo "wandered into the realm of hate speech."<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Matt Bai, National Political Columnist for Yahoo! News; Helene Cooper, Pentagon Correspondent for The New York Times; <br />
Doris Kearns Goodwin, American Biographer; Author of "The Bully Pulpit"<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union (CNN)</b> CNN Correspondent Jim Acosta hosts Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• An exclusive interview with singer John Legend on his Free America campaign<br />
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<li type=square><b>fauxnews </b><br />
• “Clinton Cash" "author" Peter Schweizer<br />
• former White House Special Counsel Lanny Davis<br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>Tax Day Cometh!</b> WHAT IF there was a check box on the IRS 1040 Form that asked "Check this box if you do not want your tax dollars to fund imperialistic global wars by the U.S. Government"? Would you check it? Go to <a href="https://www.warresisters.org/wartaxresistance" target="_blank">WarTaxResistance</a> WarResisters.org for more info! Wege hope you downloaded our "Live From Lakewood" broadcast from last week! But the WRUW Tech Crew never sleeps! We broadcast Cleveland's Dyngus Day Celebration LIVE from the corner of W. 58th & Detroit last Monday so get our archive feed now! We pre-empted these shows:<br />
<ul><li>Part One: <a href="http://wruw-stream.wruw.org/archives/128/max-and-teddy-in-the-morning.mp3" target="_blank">Max and Teddy in the Morning</a> <br />
<li>Part Two: <a href="http://wruw-stream.wruw.org/archives/128/astral-trash.mp3" target="_blank">Astral Trash</a> <br />
</ul>Featuring Andrew the Mailman and Dr. Polka! Downloads will be gone Monday 5 pm et so download now and Polka On! For more info see <a href="http://clevelanddyngus.com/" target="_blank">ClevelandDyngus.com</a>.
AND the Live From Cleveland Remote Broadcast Crew was back in action Saturday for a live broadcast of the <a href="http://www.clevelandart.org/events/music-and-performances/ocme-2015-04" target="_blank">Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble </a> under the baton of Tim Weiss hosted by WRUW's own classical music programmer <a href="http://music.case.edu/faculty/eric-charnofsky/" target="_blank">Eric Charnofsky</a>.
Download the shows here:
<ul><li>Part One: <a href="http://wruw-stream.wruw.org/archives/128/its-about-justice.mp3" target="_blank">Its About Justice</a> Cousin Jim went long on Roll Away The Dew before us so forward to about 0:20 in for the beginning of the broadcast featuring <a href="http://new.oberlin.edu/conservatory/faculty/faculty-detail.dot?id=7dc03968-8cee-47a5-854e-847feb1fb812" target="_blank">Jonathan Moyer</a>, playing the Gartner Auditorium's HUGE pipe organ! <br />
<li>Part Two: <a href="http://wruw-stream.wruw.org/archives/128/the-occasional-detour.mp3" target="_blank">The Occasional Detour</a> which is the first 1:30 of this show featuring Philip Cashian, Three Pieces for Chamber Orchestra (an EXCLUSIVE WRUW live radio American Premiere)<br />
</ul>We hope you enjoy these radio broadcasts! We did! Please don't forget us this week April 13-19 for our once-a-year <a href="https://telethon.wruw.org/CampaignForm/wruw/Telethon2015" target="_blank">WRUW Telethon 2015</a>! Be sure to mention yer generous donation goes to LIVE FROM CLEVELAND to keep LIVE MUSIC ALIVE on WRUW-FM 91.1 CLEVELAND. Stream us then with yers truly Filthy Rich on Saturday 10 pm et on Matt Night's ROCK FM and of course the Live From Cleveland broadcast Thursday 10 pm et on our <a href="http://wruw.org/listen/wruw128k.m3u" target="_blank">128K WRUW Live Stream</a>. Thank you so much for helping keep our 15,000-watt independent community FM broadcast station alive and thriving!</br >
<b>Yer national teevee broadcast this Sunday</b> will offer up quite a different fare with The White House Limo delivering Secretary of State John Kerry to Meet the Toad, Face the Bob and This Snafugopolis and Kerry's detractors Mike Hucksterbee & Mike Lee (UT-R) (snafugopolis), Rinse Probiscus (facethebob) and a host of Beltway Bubalas on the roundtables trying to figure it all out for you! Like Peter B Collins always sez "THINK FOR YOURSELF"! Also 1st Term Kentucky Senator RAND PAUL will grace the public (corporate) airwaves on Meet the Toad, Face the Bob & State of the DanaBash trying to hoodwink America by talking populist memes like Gummit Spying and "special interests" taking over Washington DC while NOT MENTIONING how he wants to ELIMINATE the FDA, FCC, EPA, Child Labor Laws, Medicare, Social Security and a host of other "gummint" programs that help and aid millions of taxpayers and citizens. Wadda train wreck this guy is! Don't buy this charlatain's smoke screen because he will cede all your governance to mega-corporations a la Kook Industries, Big Carbon and Big Pharma. And let's not forget Rand Paul is a favored <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Club_for_Growth" target="_blank">Club for Growth PAC Endorsed Candidate</a> who took in since 2009 a quick <a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/summary.php?cid=N00030836" target="_blank">$106,515</a> from Club for Growth. So which "special interests" is RP really after to "take our country back"? Thom Hartmann sez <a href="http://www.thomhartmann.com/blog/2015/04/beware-rand-paul%E2%80%99s-bait-and-switch" target="_blank">Beware Rand Paul’s Bait-And-Switch</a> <font color=navy>Rand Paul is running on the platform that he is not a <b>typical Republican...except that he is</b> with the <u>exception</u> of drugs, drones and spying. And that’s something all Americans, especially all progressives, need to remember heading into 2016. Here’s why.........</font> Yeah don't buy the snakeoil RP is selling. HOT BTV TIP: The LameStreamMedia (LSM) won't clue you in on RP's radical agenda. And the Big News on Sunday is HILLARY will announce her candicacy for POTUS (surprise!) so yer best bet for the early horserace talking points is State of the DanaBash with Dems former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee, Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) and Big Oil supporter loser Former Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)! YES! Gripping teevee! We know! Tune into this PBC News & Comment <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-as-hillary-launches-inevitable-2-0-surprise-challenger-surfaces/" target="_blank">As Hillary Launches Inevitable 2.0, Surprise Challenger Surfaces</a> <i>Lincoln Chafee, the moderate GOP Senator turned Independent Rhode Island Governor, morphs into Democratic presidential candidate, surprising just about everyone….</i> for background. Good on PBC! Good item! And you'll find many more PBC commentaries below as well as more info from all our regulars plus new stories on our sidebar over there ------->
Press yer F5 key to refresh the page to update The BTV Sidebar! Always great stories over there so click over and vist often and catch items like ZeroHedge <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-04-11/ge-resorts-financial-engineering-boost-stock-price" target="_blank">GE Resorts To Financial Engineering to Boost Stock Price</a> and WhoWhatWhy's <a href="http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/04/11/africoms-war-on-libya/" target="_blank">Africom’s War on Libya</a> plus News of the Restless <a href="http://www.sabinabecker.com/2015/04/summit-of-the-americas-venezuelan-fascists-and-ches-murderer-get-precedence-over-their-own-victims-families.html" target="_blank">Summit of the Americas: Venezuelan fascists and Che’s murderer get precedence over their own victims’ families</a> also The Rude One with <a href="http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2015/04/three-follow-up-questions-designed-to.html" target="_blank">Three Follow-Up Questions Designed to Piss Off Rand Paul</a> <i>As we've learned, it's very easy to make Sen. Rand Paul get as pissy as an aggravated 8th grade girl when he's questioned even slightly. So here's some quick follow-ups sure to push him over the edge.</i> See? Ya never know what ya can find on The BTV Sidebar unless you LOOK!
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<p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/6/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, April 06, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Anthony Ray Hinton, spent nearly 30 years on death row & Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/6/they_couldn_t_take_my_soul" target="_blank">"They Couldn’t Take My Soul": Anthony Ray Hinton on His Exoneration After 30 Years on Death Row</a> <br />
<li><b>Marty Stroud, lead prosecutor in the 1984 trial in which Glenn Ford was sentenced to death</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/6/louisiana_denies_compensation_to_dying_exonerated" target="_blank">Louisiana Denies Compensation to Dying Exonerated Death Row Prisoner as Former Prosecutor Apologizes</a> <br />
<li><b>Leonard Edloe, co-wrote the American Pharmacist Association’s new policy against supplying lethal injection drugs</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/6/american_pharmacists_association_urges_members_to" target="_blank">American Pharmacists Association Urges Members to Stop Providing Execution Drugs</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/7/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, April 07, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Safa Al Ahmad, journalist and documentary film maker</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/7/from_bad_to_worse_hundreds_dead" target="_blank">"From Bad to Worse": Hundreds Dead & 100,000 Displaced as Saudi Led-Strikes Push Yemen to the Brink</a> Her latest documentary is "<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/frontline-fight-for-yemen/" target="_blank">After Liberation Came Destruction: Iraqi Militias and the Aftermath of Amerli</a>" premieres on Frontline on PBS stations nationwide April 7. <br />
<li><b>Matthieu Aikins, award-winning foreign correspondent & Erin Evers</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/24/inside_baghdads_brutal_battle_against_isis" target="_blank">"Inside Baghdad’s Brutal Battle Against ISIS": In Chaos of Post-Invasion Iraq, Militias Take Hold</a> Aikin's latest article for Rolling Stone is "<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-baghdads-brutal-battle-against-isis-20150313" target="_blank"> Inside Baghdad’s Brutal Battle Against ISIS </a>".<br />
<li><b>Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the U.S. Campaign to End Israeli Occupation, Lisa Goldman, Israeli journalist & Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh, public health physician</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/24/an_angry_white_house_vows_to" target="_blank">An Angry White House Vows to Confront Netanyahu, But Will It End Key U.S. Support for Occupation?</a> Goldman's new article for Foreign Policy is "<a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/19/never-trust-netanyahu-israel-election-obama/" target="_blank">Never Trust Netanyahu</a>"; Munayyer recently wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times headlined "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/opinion/netanyahus-win-is-good-for-palestine.html" target="_blank">Netanyahu’s Win is Good for Palestine</a>".<br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/8/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, April 08, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Kevin Alexander Gray, longtime civil rights activist and community organizer in Columbia, South Carolina</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/8/what_if_there_was_no_video" target="_blank">What if There Was No Video? White SC Officer Charged With Murder of Fleeing African-American Man</a> <br />
<li><b>Patricia Bynes, Democratic committeewoman of Ferguson Township</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/8/change_in_ferguson_continues_as_record" target="_blank">Change in Ferguson Continues as Record Turnout Adds 2 Black Members to City Council</a>.<br />
<li><b>Rick Perlstein, a Chicago-based reporter</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/8/mayor_rahm_emanuel_wins_chicago_runoff" target="_blank">Mayor Rahm Emanuel Wins Chicago Runoff, But Progressives Show a Force That Can No Longer Be Ignored</a><br />
<li><b>Broadcaster Tavis Smiley</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/8/my_journey_with_maya_angelou_tavis" target="_blank">My Journey with Maya Angelou: Tavis Smiley Remembers Legendary Poet & Civil Rights Activist</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/9/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, April 09, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>James Rooney, president of Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty.</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/9/dzhokhar_tsarnaev_found_guilty_will_federal" target="_blank">Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Found Guilty: Will Federal Jury Impose Death Penalty in State that Bans It?</a><br />
<li><b>Lisa Mercado, Ramsey Orta’s aunt & William Aronin and Ken Perry, criminal defense attorneys representing Ramsey Orta</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/9/as_video_exposes_walter_scott_police" target="_blank">As Video Exposes Walter Scott Police Killing, Why is the Man Who Filmed Eric Garner’s Death in Jail?</a> <br />
<li><b>Jay Stanley, senior policy analyst with the Speech, Privacy and Technology Project at the American Civil Liberties Union</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/9/after_cops_shooting_of_unarmed_walter" target="_blank">After Cop’s Shooting of Unarmed Walter Scott Caught on Video, New Calls for Body Cameras on Police</a> SEE <a href="https://www.aclu.org/technology-and-liberty/police-body-mounted-cameras-right-policies-place-win-all" target="_blank">Police Body-Mounted Cameras: With Right Policies in Place, a Win For All</a>." <br />
<li><b>Mokhtar Alkhanshali, a San Francisco Bay area community activist</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/9/is_us_abandoning_americans_in_yemen" target="_blank">Is U.S. Abandoning Americans in Yemen? U.S. Citizen Recounts Harrowing Trip to Escape Saudi Attacks</a> <br />
</ul><a href="Headlines for April 10, 2015" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, April 10, 2015</a><ul><li><b>Imprisoned journalist and former Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/10/exclusive_mumia_abu_jamal_releases_new" target="_blank">Exclusive: Mumia Abu-Jamal Releases New Prison Radio Commentary on Walter Scott Shooting</a><br />
<li><b>Juan González, Democracy Now! co-host</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/10/juan_gonzalez_on_walter_scott_shooting" target="_blank">Juan González on Walter Scott Shooting: When Will the Police Killings of Black Males Stop?</a> <br />
<li><b>Samir Amin, Egyptian political economist, renowned scholar and dissiden</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/10/obama_faces_latin_american_opposition_to" target="_blank">Obama Faces Latin American Opposition to Venezuela Sanctions as Cuba Joins Summit of the Americas</a> <br />
<li><b>Antonio Tizapa, father of Jorge Antonio Tizapa Legideño, one of the 43 missing students in Mexico & Amado Tlatempa, cousin of Legideño</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/10/exclusive_father_of_1_of_missing" target="_blank">Exclusive: Father of 1 of Missing Mexican 43 on How Drug War Aid "Being Used to Annihilate Students"</a> <br />
<li><b>Brad Heath, investigative reporter at USA Today</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/4/10/blueprint_for_post_9_11_surveillance" target="_blank">Blueprint for Post-9/11 Surveillance: U.S. Began Bulk Collection of Phone Call Data in 1992</a> See Brad Heath's new report <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/04/07/dea-bulk-telephone-surveillance-operation/70808616/" target="_blank">U.S. Secretly Tracked Billions of Calls for Decades</a><br />
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»»» <b>VIDEO OF THE WEEK</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?video=kathleen-chalfant-learning-politics-and-cooperation-from-theater" target="_blank">Kathleen Chalfant: Learning Politics and Cooperation from Theater</a> Where do art and social justice meet? Kathleen Chalfant is one of the most acclaimed actresses in the US. She has also been an outspoken advocate on issues like Middle East peace and incarceration. This episode also looks at Stanley Cohen, a radical lawyer who has represented Hamas and other official US enemies. Cohen is going to jail in a case seen as payback from the US government for his unpopular cases.
»»» <b>The F-Word</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?commentary=high-stakes-testing-for-a-high-stakes-economy" target="_blank">High Stakes Testing for A High Stakes Economy</a> March 31st, 2015: .....Today’s high stakes economy favors high stakes testing. All those tests are a nifty profit center themselves (which is why so many profit driven folks are lobbying mightily for them) but polarizing testing also serves the needs of a polarized economy. ........
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</p><p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>!
</p><p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <b>WE WON!</b> <a href="http://www.freepress.net/blog/2015/02/26/net-neutrality-victory" target="_blank">Net Neutrality Victory</a> 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. <font color=red> ACTION! <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">Stop Marsha Blackburn's Anti-Net Neutrality Bill H.R. 1212</a> 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."</font>
</p><p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW!
</p><p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org
</p><p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 114th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>!
</p><p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information!
</p><p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Chelsea Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/uncategorized/manning-on-torture-in-new-guardian-op-ed" target="_blank">Manning on torture in new Guardian op-ed</a> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/pbs-features-chelsea-manning-art-exhibit" target="_blank">PBS features Chelsea Manning art exhibit</a> <i>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.........</i>
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</p><p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!!
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<font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br >
<font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><p><li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• the latest developments as former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton moves toward announcing her candidacy for president. <br />
• Secretary of State John Kerry <br />
• likely GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R)<br />
• Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: ABC News contributor and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, ABC News contributor and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, Republican strategist and pollster Kristen Soltis Anderson, and radio and television host Tavis Smiley, author of the new book, “My Journey with Maya.” <br />
• Sunday Spotlight: former First Lady Laura Bush<br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• 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)<br />
• Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)<br />
• chairman of the Republican National Committee Reince Priebus<br />
• Secretary of State John Kerry<br />
• Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal, John Heilieman of Bloomberg Politics, David Ignatius of the Washington Post, Susan Page of USA Today, and CBS News Political Director John Dickerson. <br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• Coming Up Sunday, April 12 at 7 p.m. ET/PT<br />
• The Attack on Sony<br />
• Ambassador Kennedy<br />
• Rush to Judgment<br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Bill de Blasio Mayor of New York City<br />
• Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)<br />
• Secretary of State John Kerry<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: David Brooks, Columnist, The New York Times; Hugh Hewitt, Host, "The Hugh Hewitt Show"; Maria Hinojosa, Host, NPR's "Latino USA"; Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Mayor of Baltimore City<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union (CNN)</b> CNN Correspondent Dana Bash hosts Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)<br />
• Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chafee (D)<br />
• Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)<br />
• Former Sen. Mary Landrieu (D-LA)<br />
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• PRAYER MEETIN' WEDNESDAY - Uber Pope/Imam/Rabbi Bob lets loose on the dangerous and often deranged Religious Right! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(08-04-2015).mp3" target="_blank">Wednesday, April 8th, 2015 </a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.CRMW.net</a>!<br />
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• <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11120" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - April 9, 2015</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Climate change-denier Sen. Rand Paul is running for President (and Brad is delighted about it!); Climate denial a looming problem for the GOP; Thawing permafrost a looming problem for the planet; PLUS: Greening the City of Angels: Mayor Garcetti's ambitious sustainability plan for L.A.....All that and more in today's Green News Report! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): The Arctic has melted so much that now people want to race yachts through it; Tea Party hires actors to feign indignation over plan to save Everglades; Plummeting sardine numbers could prompt U.S. West coast fishing ban; New York just quietly raided its climate program for cash; Michael Bloomberg puts up $30m to kill coal; Utility sales may drop by half as homes make their own power... PLUS: VIDEO: Is "Game of Thrones" Cli-Fi... and much, MUCH more! ...<br />
• <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11120" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - April 7, 2015</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Shell Oil returns to the Arctic (buckle up!); ALEC now pretending it never denied global warming; Kansas moves to restrict fracking after stunning increase in earthquakes; Big Oil pressured Oklahoma to downplay link between fracking and earthquakes; Texas moves to ban fracking bans; PLUS: Obama moves to train veterans for solar industry jobs....All that and more in today's Green News Report! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): When Cronkite warned America about global warming: The Way It Was; Climate activist Tim DeChristopher calls on churches to lead global warming fight; PA fracking study on water contamination now under ethics review; Duke Energy settles for $2.5m fine for 3rd largest chemical spill in US history; NTSB seeks stiffer standards for oil tank cars; Voters want next president to favor climate policies, poll finds; Spain got 47% of its electricity from renewables last month... PLUS: Keep showering, California. Just lay off the burgers and nuts... and much, MUCH more! ...<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11123" target="_blank">GOP Now Also Undermining U.S. in Global Climate Talks: KPFK 'BradCast'</a> GUEST: Physicist & former Clinton Admin official Joe Romm; PLUS: Rand, Jeb, Ohio voting, legalized pot & more!... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11121" target="_blank">Pre-Marked Ballots Reported in Chicago Mayoral Runoff</a> Election official dismisses reports as 'least effective conspiracy in history', and may have a good point. The reported results, however, are a different matter... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11117" target="_blank">OH GOP's New Anti-Voting Scheme Nixed by GOP Governor...Mostly...</a> Provision that would require out-of-state students to register car, get OH drivers license when registering to vote is vetoed, but... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11108" target="_blank">Occupy L.A. Demonstrators Win $2.5M Settlement For Brutal 2011 Police Crackdown</a> While so-called 'conservatives' cheered the Big Government crackdown on First Amendment rights, now it's costing tax-payers even more...Constitutionality of 'discriminatory' voting restriction laws now unlikely to be determined by Supreme Court before 2016 elections, though some see 'blessing in disguise'....<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11100" target="_blank">EXCLUSIVE: Judge Fuller's Attorney Says Wife Kelli Faked Beating During 911 Call</a> Describes her as 'drunk', 'hysterical' in email response to The BRAD BLOG... <br />
• BRADBLOG VIDEO! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11107" target="_blank">When Cronkite Warned Us About Global Warming</a> That's the way it was. 35 years ago. And, yet, still no action on climate change by the U.S. Congress. WATCH this remarkable CBS News Evening News report from April 3, 1980..<br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• 6 Apr 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-reducing-surveillance-to-dick-pics-john-oliver-interviews-ed-snowden/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Reducing Surveillance to Dick Pics, John Oliver Interviews Ed Snowden</a> John Oliver grills Ed Snowden in HBO interview, reducing complex issues of government surveillance to protection for our "dick pics".....<br />
• 7 Apr 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-in-california-drought-gov-brown-favors-frackers-and-corporate-farmers/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: In California Drought, Gov. Brown Favors Frackers and Corporate Farmers</a> As a little much-needed rain falls here, parched Californians challenge Gov. Moonbeam’s water priorities, favoring agribiz and frackers…. <br />
• 8 Apr 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-dea-exposed-sued-for-20-year-dragnet-of-phone-records/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: DEA Exposed, Sued for 20-year Dragnet of Phone Records</a> DEA’s War on Some Drugs first to use “warrantless” dragnet collection of millions of phone call records, started 1992…. <br />
• 9 Apr 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-iran-gets-squirrely-over-nuke-deal-war-in-yemen/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Iran Gets Squirrely Over Nuke Deal, War in Yemen</a> As Israel and AIPAC-controlled Congress meddle in Iran deal, the Ayatollah micromanages, trying to shift sanctions terms… <br />
• 10 Apr 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-as-hillary-launches-inevitable-2-0-surprise-challenger-surfaces/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: As Hillary Launches Inevitable 2.0, Surprise Challenger Surfaces</a> Lincoln Chafee, the moderate GOP Senator turned Independent Rhode Island Governor, morphs into Democratic presidential candidate, surprising just about everyone….<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast April 6, 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2015/04/02/a-frank-conversation-with-retired-congressman-barney-frank/" target="_blank">A Frank Conversation with Retired Congressman Barney Frank</a><br />
• PBC Standard Podcast April 6, 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2015/04/06/superlawyer-burt-neuborne-breaks-down-the-perfect-poetry-of-the-first-amendment/" target="_blank">Superlawyer Burt Neuborne Breaks Down the Perfect Poetry of the First Amendment</a> SProf. Burt Neuborne spent decades with ACLU, helped found Brennan Center and teaches law at NYU. He celebrates the First Amendment and critiques the Supreme Court in his brilliant new book, Madison's Music.<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast April 10, 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2015/04/10/reese-erlich-offers-commentary-on-iran-nuke-framework-yemen-war-cuba-and-more/" target="_blank">Reese Erlich Offers Commentary on Iran Nuke Framework, Yemen War, Cuba and more</a> Reese Erlich, the independent journalist and author who specializes in foreign policy, returns to talk about the unravelling nuclear framework deal with Iran, the expanding war in Yemen, and other matters including the opening with Cuba, sanctions on Venezuela, and a proposed trans-ocean canal in Nicaragua. <br />
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• <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/03/this-weeks-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv-17/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire March 27, 2015</a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
»» Investigative journalist David Dayen will tell us why President Obama refused to demand foreclosure relief from banks seeking a federal bailout.<br />
»» Richard Eskow, host of The Zero Hour, will tell us how privatization is crippling the states.<br />
»» Heather Digby Parton will explain why the GOP seems to be filled with hate towards doctors.<br />
»» Katie Valentine from Think Progress will give us the latest about the California drought.<br />
»» And author Ellen Brown will tell us how America became a true Oligarchy.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weeks-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv-30/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV March 27, 2015</a> - Sundays at NOON! Posted on January 17, 2015 by Farron Cousins<br />
»» Farron Cousins will be sitting in for Mike Papantonio this week.<br />
»» Howard Nations will tell us why the FDA is dragging its feet on a new rule that would force generic prescription drugs to carry the same warnings as their name brand counterparts – a delay that is costing people their lives.<br />
»» Matt Filipowicz, host of The Matthew Filipowicz Show, will tell us about the recent “religious liberty” laws that are designed to allow businesses to discriminate based on their religious beliefs.<br />
»» Progressive host David Pakman will explain President Obama’s proposal to provide two years of cost-free community college to American citizens.<br />
»» David TeSelle will tell us why Democrats are joining up with Wall Street to destroy public worker pensions.<br />
»» Attorney Charles Meltmar will explain how a lack of oversight for hospice care is literally killing senior citizens on a near-daily basis.<br />
»» Watch at <a href="http://www.freespeech.org/collection/ringoffire" target="_blank">FSTV</a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/04/thom-hartmann-all-the-chicken-hawks-need-to-just-shut-up/" target="_blank">Thom Hartmann: All the Chicken Hawks Need to Just Shut Up!</a> 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. <br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/04/only-watch-this-to-understand-how-poorly-the-average-cop-is-trained-violent-disturbing/" target="_blank">Only watch this to understand how poorly the average cop is trained; Violent, Disturbing</a> <br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/04/pap-and-thom-hartmann-why-the-gop-is-the-party-of-stupid/" target="_blank">Pap and Thom Hartmann: Why the GOP is the Party of Stupid</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/04/kochs-have-ordered-repugnant-govs-to-ban-discussion-of-climate-change/" target="_blank">Kochs Have Ordered Repugnant Govs to Ban Discussion of Climate Change</a> — April 10, 2015 Ring of Fire Staff<br />
• <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/04/us-fed-judge-completely-ignores-chevrons-sick-corruption-targets-lawyers-instead/" target="_blank">US Fed Judge Completely Ignores Chevron's Sick Corruption, Targets Lawyers Instead</a> — April 10, 2015 Ring of Fire Staff - ......The videos include footage of Chevron employees and consultants visiting former well sites, trying to find areas with uncontaminated soil and water to use for trial-judge-monitored site inspections. “The problem is they couldn’t do it,” said EcoWatch. “In the videos, the employees can be heard laughing about how they just can’t find a sample without crude oil in it.”<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/papantonio-duponts-polluted-history-has-poisoned-entire-communities/" target="_blank">Wikileaks Exposes How the TPP Will Harm Taxpayers</a> by Joshua De Leon – <a href="https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/WikiLeaks-TPP-Investment-Chapter.pdf" target="_blank">Wikileaks exposed</a> last night a portion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that illustrates how the trade deal, being orchestrated in secret, will harm taxpayers and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-p-hoffa/tpp-investor-language-wil_b_6948982.html" target="_blank">help giant corporations</a>. 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. ..........<br />
• Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the "Podcast" tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/blogengine/" target="_blank">Ring of Fire Radio</a> Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, <b>rebroadcasts 7-10 et Sunday evenings on <a href="http://www.chicagoprogressivetalk.com/listen/" target="_blank">Chicago's Progressive Talk WCPT AM & FM</a> and 4 pm et on Sirius/XM 167 featuring The PAP Attack! </b> "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week." <br />
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• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/4715-gerald-posner-gods-bankers-a-history-of-money-and-power-at-the-vatican" target="_blank">3/24/15 Barrett Brown: Explains Why He is In Prison For Doing His Job</a><br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/4815-ryan-cooper-how-your-local-jail-became-hell-for-members-only-aaron-mcgruder-patton-oswalt" target="_blank">4/8/15 Ryan Cooper: How Your Local Jail Became Hell & For Members Only! Aaron McGruder & Patton Oswalt</a><br />
• THURSDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/4915-joan-fitzgerald-why-markets-cant-price-the-priceless-adam-green-for-members-only-jose-rivera" target="_blank">4/9/15 Joan Fitzgerald: Why Markets Can't Price The Priceless & Adam Green & For Members Only! Jose Rivera</a><br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/41015-keith-wailoo-pain-a-political-history-for-members-only-colin-quinn" target="_blank">4/10/15 Keith Wailoo: Pain: A Political History & For Members Only Colin Quinn</a><br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport" target="_blank">Keiser Report</a> <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/on-my-mind-finance-and-books//" target="_blank">On My Mind: Finance and Books</a>by 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, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Bankers-History-Money-Vatican-ebook/dp/B00LD1S4FI/" target="_blank">God’s Bankers</a>, currently in the top 100 on Amazon. I can also recommend an older, in some ways darker book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gods-banker-Rupert-Cornwell/dp/0396082955/" target="_blank">God’s Banker</a>, by Rupert Cornwell, written more than thirty years ago, when the press was still calling Roberto Calvi’s murder a suicide. ....<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/eu-and-greece-running-out-of-time-as-bank-runs-intensify-bail-ins-likely/" target="_blank">EU and Greece Running Out of Time – As Bank Runs Intensify, Bail-Ins Likely</a> by Mark O'Byrne — <br />
- EU and Greece running out of time as talks end “in disarray” – again<br />
- Greece warns Merkel of ‘impossible’ debt<br />
- Concerns Greece out of money by end of April<br />
- Friday’s “agreement” in Brussels falls apart hours later as protagonists fail to agree on specifics<br />
- Greece now insolvent – will run out of liquidity by end of April<br />
- Greek banks on verge of collapse as runs continue – €1.5 billion emptied out of banks last week alone<br />
- ‘Grexit’ could propel gold to over $2,000/oz<br />
- Cyprus style bail-ins look increasingly possible<br />
More <a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/greece-and-eu-running-out-of-time-bank-runs-intensify-bail-ins-likely/" target="_blank">here’</a> (goldcore.com)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/california-water-wars-another-form-of-asset-stripping/" target="_blank">California Water Wars: Another Form of Asset Stripping?</a> 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 <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-new-water-barons-wall-street-mega-banks-are-buying-up-the-worlds-water/5383274" target="_blank">the new “water barons”</a> – 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 <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/california-water-wars-another-form-of-asset-stripping/#more-76865" target="_blank">here</a>........<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/risk-of-world-war-between-nato-and-russia-on-ukraine-as-yemen-bombed/" target="_blank">Risk of ‘World War’ between NATO and Russia on Ukraine as Yemen Bombed</a> by Mark O'Byrne — <br />
- World sleep walking from ‘Cold War’ to ‘Hot War’ and new World War<br />
- U.S. resolution to supply Ukraine with lethal weaponry passed<br />
- Russia warns such moves would “explode the whole situation”<br />
- Minsk agreement remains intact – little justification for escalation and ignoring EU allies<br />
- US continues to act as only global superpower despite powerful Russia and China and new multi-polar world<br />
- Hubris could lead to a new World War<br />
More <a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/risk-of-world-war-between-nato-and-russia-on-ukraine-as-yemen-bombed/" target="_blank">here</a>..... (goldcore.com)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/meet-the-overseas-contingency-operations-account-washington-d-c-s-crony-capitalist-war-slush-fund/" target="_blank">Meet the Overseas Contingency Operations Account – Washington D.C.’s Crony Capitalist War Slush Fund</a> 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 <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/03/27/meet-the-overseas-contingency-operations-account-washington-d-c-s-crony-capitalist-war-slush-fund/" target="_blank">here</a>...... (libertyblitzkrieg.com)<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/kr735-keiser-report-capitalism-without-capital/" target="_blank">[KR735] Keiser Report: Capitalism Without Capital?!</a> 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.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/kr736-keiser-report-debtism-vs-capitalism/" target="_blank">[KR736] Keiser Report: Debtism vs Capitalism</a> 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.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/kr737-keiser-report-deadly-sales/" target="_blank">[KR737] Keiser Report: Deadly Sales</a> 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.<br />
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<li type=square><b>The Scott Horton Radio Show</b><br />
<img src="http://scotthorton.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/header1200-3.png" height="100" alt="scotthorton" /> <br />
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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-2 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> 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....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-2 PM Eastern!</b> <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/03/12/31215-grant-f-smith/" target="_blank">3/12/15 Grant F. Smith</a>: Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discusses the upcoming conference “<a href="http://israellobbyus.org/" target="_blank">The Israel Lobby: Is it Good for the US? Is it Good for Israel?</a>” scheduled for April 10, 2015 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/03/25/32515-seymour-hersh/" target="_blank">3/25/15 Seymour Hersh</a>: 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 <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/the-scene-of-the-crime" target="_blank">recent journey to Vietnam</a> to revisit the scene of the crime 47 years later.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/03/26/32615-matthew-hoh/" target="_blank">3/26/15 Matthew Hoh</a>: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.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/03/26/32615-eric-margolis/" target="_blank">3/26/15 Eric Margolis</a>: 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.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/03/27/32715-john-feffer/" target="_blank">3/27/15 John Feffer</a>: John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, discusses how hardliners in Congress are working to <a href="http://www.lobelog.com/iran-north-korea-and-the-congress-that-says-no/" target="_blank">undermine an Iranian nuclear deal</a>, and how they previously sabotaged the Agreed Framework on North Korea’s nuclear program in 1994.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>fauxnews </b><br />
• Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) <br />
• former Massachusetts Governor and 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney <br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>Dyngus Day Special! </b> The first-ever Live From Cleveland remote broadcast "<a href="http://www.wruw.org/event/live-from-cleveland-presents-live-from-lakewood" target="_blank">Live from Cleveland Presents: Live from Lakewood!</a>" was a smash! A great time was had by all and the bands were excellent! Feel Free to download and listen to the entire broadcast (only available through this Thursday at 8 pm when this week's shows will overwrite them).<br />
<ul><li>Part One: <a href="http://wruw-stream.wruw.org/archives/128/laying-down-tracks.mp3" target="_blank">Laying Down Tracks</a> <br />
<li>Part Two: <a href="http://wruw-stream.wruw.org/archives/128/live-from-cleveland.mp3" target="_blank">Live From Cleveland</a> <br />
<li>Part Three: <a href="http://wruw-stream.wruw.org/archives/128/solitude.mp3" target="_blank">Solitude</a> <br />
</ul>Thanks to Cleveland bands Fake Species, Yosemight, ITEM and Teddy Boys plus Mahall's 20 Lanes for hosting (especially new papa Nick the Sound Man), hosts Mr. J.E.G., Rachel H & T Nick and the always indefatigable WRUW Tech Crew for the engineering and production expertise! The Tech Crew never sleeps as our next scheduled broadcast will be LIVE from Cleveland's <a href="http://clevelanddyngus.com/" target="_blank">2015 Dyngus Day Celebration</a> on Monday April 6th beginning at 5 pm et with Dr. Polka and Andrew The Mailman (ATM) from <a href="http://www.wruw.org/program/polka-changed-my-life-today" target="_blank">Polka Changed My Life Today</a>. However it seems there is an issue with our host Happy Dog's internet connection (and it may be neighborhood-wide). We're trying to secure another nearby internet feed on a different carrier while AT&T tries to figure it out so stay tuned! AND we also have scheduled another live broadcast of <a href="http://www.clevelandart.org/events/music-and-performances/ocme-2015-04" target="_blank">Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble </a> on Saturday April 11th about 2 pm et. Both will be available on the <a href="http://wruw.org/listen/wruw128k.m3u" target="_blank">128K WRUW Live Stream</a>! THEN on Monday April 13th WRUW begins their week-long once-a-year Telethon! Donations are accepted at our website WRUW.org and by calling 216.368.2208 all week 24-7! Operators will be standing by! If you find some sofa change to donate please specify "Live From Cleveland" for your donation. We have a unique limited-edition "Live From Cleveland - Volume 1" compilation of 16 cuts of 16 different bands who have graced the stage of LFC's Studio A over the last year as a "premium" gift for a donation of $25, only available during the 2015 WRUW Telethon! Get yers next week during our telethon! Thanks in advance for supporting Live From Cleveland and WRUW-FM 91.1! For those not familiar with the ethnic makeup of CLE OH we have a multitude of eastern European immigrant populations, including many folk who planted here after WWII, many from Croatia, Serbia, Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, Germany and more. And they brought their traditional music with them: POLKAS! We go to <a href="http://clevelanddyngus.com/" target="_blank">ClevelandDyngus.com</a> for this brief history: <font color=FireBrick>Dyngus Day, or Wet Monday (Polish Śmigus-Dingus or lany poniedziałek) is the name for Easter Monday. Historically a Polish tradition, Dyngus Day celebrates the end of the observance of Lent and the joy of Easter. Over the decades, Dyngus Day has become a wonderful holiday to celebrate Polish-American culture, heritage and traditions. In Cleveland specifically, our goal is to not only make this a Polish Cultural festival, we also want to celebrate our Polka Heritage as well as the other Eastern European cultures still thriving in Cleveland. 2015 marks the festival's 5th year anniversary here in Cleveland.</font> And more detailed info is at wiki's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Monday" target="_blank">Easter Monday</a> entry: <font color=purple>Śmigus-Dyngus (Polish Dyngus or lany poniedziałek, meaning Wet Monday) is the name for Easter Monday in Poland and the diaspora. In the Czech Republic it is called velikonoční pondělí. In Slovakia veľkonočný pondelok, also called Šibačka/Polievačka or Oblievačka. In Hungary Locsolkodás. All countries practice a unique custom on this day. In Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic[3] traditionally, early in the morning boys awake girls by pouring a bucket of water on their head and striking them about the legs with long thin twigs or switches made from willow, birch or decorated tree branches. Another related custom, unique to Poland, is that of sprinkling bowls (garce) of ashes on people (starts men on women) or houses, celebrated a few weeks earlier at the "półpoście." This custom is almost forgotten, but still practiced in the area around the borders of Mazuria and Masovia. In Germany, people go out into the fields early in the morning and hold Easter egg races.[4] For Roman Catholics, Easter Monday is also a Holy Day of Obligation in Germany.[5]</font> We can only guess it's called Wet Monday for all the beer consumed on Dyngus Day! Haha! All while dancing to accordion polkas and chowing down pierogi, kielbasa and paczki! Yum! Na Zdrowie everybody! We've posted the guest lists for this week's Sunday Funnies for your brick-throwing enjoyment below! And be sure to visit all our regulars! <ul><li type=square><b>Democracy NOW!</b> @ <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/" target="_blank">democracynow.org</a><br />
<li type=square><b>GritTV with Laura Flanders!</b> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">grittv.org</a><br />
<li type=square><b>HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid!</b> @ <a href="http://headon.headonradionetwork.com" target="_blank">HeadOnRadioNetwork.com</a><br />
<li type=square><b>The Green News Report!</b> @ <a href="http://greennews.bradblog.com/" target="_blank">greennews.bradblog.com</a> with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!<br />
<li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b> @ <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a><br />
<li type=square><b>Majority Report with Sam Seder!</b> @ <a href="http://majority.fm" target="_blank">Majority.FM</a><br />
<li type=square><b>Ring of Fire Radio with Sam, Bobby & Pap!</b> @ <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/" target="_blank">ringoffireradio.com</a><br />
<li type=square><b>The Keiser Report!</b> @ <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/" target="_blank">MaxKeiser.com</a>! With Stacy Herbert!<br />
<li type=square><b>The Scott Horton Show!</b> @ <a href="http://scotthorton.org/" target="_blank">scotthorton.org</a><br />
</ul>And put some coin in their tip jars while yer there! These important news outlets cannot function without OUR support, especially <a href="https://www.freespeech.org/" target="_blank">Free Speech TV</a> home of Democracy NOW! We're certain you will find something that makes you instantly smarter! Haha! Warm up your brick-throwing arm because you WILL find MANY brick targets on the Sunday Beltway Bubalas Talkies too! And don't forget to click on stories featured on our side-bar! Fabulous! We'll be back later with more stuff so check back! Thanks for tuning in to Brick TeeVee! And watch out for wabbits!</font> <center><p><img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/wabbit1.gif" alt="wabbit1.gif" /> <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/pancakebunny.gif" alt="pancakebunny.gif" /> <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/wabbit1.gif" alt="wabbit1.gif" /> </br > DOT - DEEJAY - DASH</p><img src="http://www.3drivers.com/upload/iblock/362/Easter_basket_c_01.jpg" height="180" alt="Easter_basket" /> </center><center><img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/gonzo-111x191.png" height="75"></center><center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br > <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick_teevee_test.jpg" alt="brick_teevee_test.jpg" /></br > The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br > THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br > Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,356 US Military Dead as of March 1, 2015</a> </br > <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br > <font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<br />
• California Gov. Jerry Brown (D)<br />
• Philadelphia Archbishop Charles Chaput<br />
• Major League Baseball commissioner emeritus Bud Selig and ESPN’s Keith Olbermann. <br />
• ROUNDTABLE: ABC News contributor and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, ABC News Chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl, and Associated Press Chief White House correspondent Julie Pace. <br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• 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)<br />
• U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz<br />
• Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.<br />
• Former Senator and presidential hopeful Rick Santorum<br />
• Sarah Warbelow, Legal Director for the Human Rights Campaign, the largest LGBT civil rights activist organization in the country<br />
• IRAN ROUNDTABLE: CBS News State Department Correspondent Margaret Brennan, who just returned from Lausanne, Switzerland, where the talks took place along with David Sanger of the New York Times and David Ignatius of the Washington Post. <br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post and Jeffrey Goldberg of the Atlantic.<br />
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<li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• Coming Up Sunday, April 5 at 7 p.m. ET/PT<br />
• Homeland Security<br />
• The Good Friday Agreement<br />
• Wikimania<br />
</p><li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<br />
• Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.<br />
• Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La<br />
• Rob Manfred, baseball's commissioner<br />
• Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union (CNN)</b> CNN Correspondent Jim Acosta hosts Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<br />
• Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), vice chair of the Intelligence Committee on the historic nuclear deal with Iran<br />
• Is the NCAA failing student athletes?<br />
• A conversation with four religious faith leaders<br />
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• Sen Bob Corker (R-TN), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.<br />
• Cardinal Donald Wuerl, archbishop of Washington<br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>2015 March Madness!</b> The madness continues at the btv compound as The Brick TeeVee Crew just finished up <i>last week's post</i> on Friday <a href="http://filthy-rich.blogspot.com/2015/03/brick-teevee-springs-forward-in-2015.html" target="_blank">Brick TeeVee Springs Forward in 2015!</a> (nottobeconfusedwith <a href="http://filthy-rich.blogspot.com/2015/03/brick-teevee-springs-forward.html" target="_blank">Brick TeeVee Springs Forward!</a> fromtheidesofmarch) Jam packed with links that will make you instantly smarter! That said, we got nuttin'. Yet. Stay tuned!<br />
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<p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font> <p><img src="http://www.democracynow.org/images/nav/dn_logo.png" height=100 alt="Democracy NOW!" /> <p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/23/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, March 23, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Iona Craig, a journalist who was based in Sana’a for four years as the Yemen correspondent for The Times of London</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/23/yemen_in_crisis_us_closes_key" target="_blank">Yemen in Crisis: U.S. Closes Key Drone Base & Withdraws Forces as U.N. Warns of Civil War</a> <br />
<li><b>Rory O'Connor, co-founder of the TV and film production company Globalvision with Danny Schechter & Anant Singh, a highly acclaimed South African filmmaker</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/23/rip_danny_schechter_media_pioneer_andt" target="_blank">RIP Danny Schechter: Media Pioneer Who Covered Apartheid South Africa, Occupy & Kissinger</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/24/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, March 24, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Erin Evers, Iraq researcher for Human Rights Watch</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/24/after_liberation_came_destruction_iraqi_shiite" target="_blank">After Liberation Came Destruction: Iraqi Shiite Militias Accused of Looting, Burning Sunni Villages</a> She co-wrote the new report, "<a href="http://www.hrw.org/reports/2015/03/18/after-liberation-came-destruction-0" target="_blank">After Liberation Came Destruction: Iraqi Militias and the Aftermath of Amerli.</a>." <br />
<li><b>Matthieu Aikins, award-winning foreign correspondent & Erin Evers</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/24/inside_baghdads_brutal_battle_against_isis" target="_blank">"Inside Baghdad’s Brutal Battle Against ISIS": In Chaos of Post-Invasion Iraq, Militias Take Hold</a> Aikin's latest article for Rolling Stone is "<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-baghdads-brutal-battle-against-isis-20150313" target="_blank"> Inside Baghdad’s Brutal Battle Against ISIS </a>".<br />
<li><b>Yousef Munayyer, executive director of the U.S. Campaign to End Israeli Occupation, Lisa Goldman, Israeli journalist & Dr. Hatim Kanaaneh, public health physician</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/24/an_angry_white_house_vows_to" target="_blank">An Angry White House Vows to Confront Netanyahu, But Will It End Key U.S. Support for Occupation?</a> Goldman's new article for Foreign Policy is "<a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/19/never-trust-netanyahu-israel-election-obama/" target="_blank">Never Trust Netanyahu</a>"; Munayyer recently wrote an opinion piece in The New York Times headlined "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/19/opinion/netanyahus-win-is-good-for-palestine.html" target="_blank">Netanyahu’s Win is Good for Palestine</a>".<br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/25/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, March 25, 2015</a> <ul><li><b> Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter for The New Yorker magazine Seymour Hersh</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/18/hedge_fund_backed_castellan_real_estate" target="_blank">My Lai Revisited: 47 Years Later, Seymour Hersh Travels to Vietnam Site of U.S. Massacre He Exposed</a> His article is "<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/the-scene-of-the-crime" target="_blank">The Scene of the Crime: A Reporter’s Journey to My Lai and the Secrets of the Past</a>."<br />
<li><b>Barbara Hines, former director of the Immigration Clinic at the University of Texas Law School & Renee Feltz, Democracy Now! producer and criminal justice correspondent</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/25/private_prisons_for_immigrant_families_grow" target="_blank">Private Prisons for Immigrant Families Grow Despite Court Ruling Against "Detention as Deterrence"</a> WEB EXCLUSIVE <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/3/25/part_2_migrant_women_appear_via" target="_blank">Part 2: Migrant Women Appear Via Video from Detention Centers in Asylum Cases Amid Harsh Conditions</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/26/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, March 26, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>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</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/26/endless_war_as_us_strikes_tikrit" target="_blank">Endless War: As U.S. Strikes Tikrit & Delays Afghan Pullout, "War on Terror" Toll Tops 1.3 Million</a> A new <a href="http://www.ippnw.de/commonFiles/pdfs/Frieden/Body_Count_first_international_edition_2015_final.pdf" target="_blank">report</a> 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.<br />
<li><b>Brock McIntosh</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/26/brutalized_in_taliban_captivity_after_fleeing" target="_blank">Brutalized in Taliban Captivity After Fleeing War He Opposed, Bowe Bergdahl Charged with Desertion</a> <br />
<li><b>Beka Economopoulos, co-founder and director of the Natural History Museum & James Powell, is one of the scientists who signed the open letter</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/26/why_is_climate_denier_david_koch" target="_blank">Why Is Climate Denier David Koch on the Board of Top Science Museums? Letter Urges Cutting of Ties</a> SEE <a href="http://thenaturalhistorymuseum.org/open-letter-to-museums-from-scientists/" target="_blank">An Open Letter to Museums from Members of the Scientific Community</a>." <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/27/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, March 27, 2015</a><ul><li><b>Farea Al-Muslimi, visiting scholar at Carnegie Middle East Center</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/27/yemen_does_not_need_another_war" target="_blank">Yemen Does Not Need Another War: Report from Sana’a as Saudi Attack Enters Second Day</a><br />
<li><b>Brian Whitaker, former Middle East editor for The Guardian & Iona Craig, correspondent for The Times of London</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/27/the_yemen_crisis_could_domestic_conflict" target="_blank">The Yemen Crisis: Could Domestic Conflict Grow into Protracted Regional War?</a> <br />
<li><b>Samir Amin, Egyptian political economist, renowned scholar and dissiden</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/27/african_economist_samir_amin_on_the" target="_blank">African Economist Samir Amin on the World Social Forum, Globalization & the Barbarism of Capitalism</a> <br />
</ul><p><img src="http://grittv.org/wp-content/themes/grit/images/logo.gif" height=100 alt="GRITtv" /> <a href="http://www.lauraflanders.com/grittv/" target="_blank">GRITtv</a> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">www.grittv.org</a> with Laura Flanders - New Episode Every Monday at TELESUR </br > »»» <b>VIDEO OF THE WEEK</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?video=building-movements-without-shedding-differences" target="_blank">Building Movements Without Shedding Differences</a> Alicia Garza is the co-creator of Black Lives Matter, and also Special Projects Director for the National Domestic Workers Alliance. She helped start "Black Lives Matter" as a call to action for Black people after the killing of 17 year old Trayvon Martin »»» <b>The F-Word</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?commentary=the-costly-police-gender-gap" target="_blank">The Costly Police Gender Gap</a> March 24th, 2015: Women’s History Month is drawing to a close and as if on cue, we saw another example of why paying attention to gender matters, and how for the most part we still don’t do it. ........ <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE SPORT!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></b></font></font> </br > »»» <b>NASCAR on FOX</b> NASCAR Sprint Cup at Martinsville Speedway 1:13:30: Start of the STP 500 (500 laps, 263 miles). </br > »»» <b>NCAA MARCH MADNESS</b> Congrats to the Wisconsin Badgers and the Kentucky Wildcats moving on to the Final Four! Two more Elite Eight games March 28 on CBS 2:20 pm et E No.7 Michigan St. vs. E No.4 Louisville then 5:05 pm et S No.2 Gonzaga vs. S No.1 Duke </br > »»» <b>TNT TUESDAY NBA DOUBLEHEADER</b> </br > Spurs @ Heats 8:00 pm et THEN Warriors @ Clippers 10:30 pm et </br > »»» <b>7 DAYS until MLB Opening Day!</b> </br > <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ACTION!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font></br > <font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i> <p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>! <p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <b>WE WON!</b> <a href="http://www.freepress.net/blog/2015/02/26/net-neutrality-victory" target="_blank">Net Neutrality Victory</a> 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. <font color=red> ACTION! <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">Stop Marsha Blackburn's Anti-Net Neutrality Bill H.R. 1212</a> 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."</font> <p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW! <p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org <p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 114th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>! <p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information! <p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Chelsea Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/uncategorized/manning-on-torture-in-new-guardian-op-ed" target="_blank">Manning on torture in new Guardian op-ed</a> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/pbs-features-chelsea-manning-art-exhibit" target="_blank">PBS features Chelsea Manning art exhibit</a> <i>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.........</i> <p><font size=3><b>DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION</b></font> <a href="http://tjmf.flipswap.com/" target="_blank">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. </a> For more information, go to <a href="http://www.tjmartellfoundation.org" target="_blank">www.tjmartellfoundation.org</a> <p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!! <center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br > <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick_teevee_test.jpg" alt="brick_teevee_test.jpg" /></br > The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br > THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br > Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,356 US Military Dead as of March 1, 2015</a></br > <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br > <font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><p>
<li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley<br />
• Victoria Kennedy gives a behind-the-scenes look at the opening of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate. <br />
• 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<br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• 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)<br />
• former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark.<br />
• Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif.<br />
• CBS News aviation consultant Capt. Sully Sullenberger<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Dan Balz of the Washington Post, Manu Raju of Politico, Scott Conroy of the Huffington Post and CBS News Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes<br />
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<li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• Coming Up Sunday, March 29 at 7 p.m. ET/PT<br />
• 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<br />
• 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<br />
</p><li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Victoria Kennedy<br />
• former Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I.<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: tba<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union (CNN)</b> CNN Correspondent Dana Bash hosts Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)<br />
• Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX)<br />
• CNN's Kevin Madden and Ben LaBolt<br />
• Former NTSB investigators Charley Pereira and Dr. Alan Diehl<br />
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<li type=square><b>HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid</b><br />
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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!<br />
• FRONT PORCH FRIDAY!! featuring the Malloy-HeadOn chatters! Listen here NOW! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(27-03-2015).mp3" target="_blank">Friday, March 27th, 2015 </a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.CRMW.net</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT</b> With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!<br />
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<b> The Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen:</b> 6 minutes of green news, politics, analysis & snarky comment! BOOKMARK <a href="http://greennews.bradblog.com/" target="_blank">greennews.bradblog.com</a> NOW!<br />
• <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11097" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - March 26, 2015</a> 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! ...<br />
• <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11080" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - March 17, 2015</a> 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!<br />
• <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11092" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - March 24, 2015</a> 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!<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11094" target="_blank">Was Netanyahu's Win Actually GOOD for Palestinians?:<br />
KPFK 'BradCast'</a> That, and MUCH more in this week's show, with guests Estee Chandler and Ernie Canning... . <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11089" target="_blank">Right to NOT Vote (Or, Right to Vote for 'None of the Above')</a> While it's less than clear that Obama really called for 'mandatory voting', as many reported, we'd be against the idea -- unless...<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11093" target="_blank">'Impeach Mark Fuller' Radio Ads Target U.S. House Judiciary Members</a>Women's rights group runs public service ads in 5 Congressional districts, demanding accountability for 'wife-beating' federal judge...<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11091" target="_blank">SCOTUS Declines WI Photo ID Law Challenge</a> Constitutionality of 'discriminatory' voting restriction laws now unlikely to be determined by Supreme Court before 2016 elections, though some see 'blessing in disguise'....<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11090" target="_blank">'Major Security Hole' Discovered in Australian Internet Voting System</a> On eve of election in New South Wales, 'critical' vulnerability found in new 'iVote' system that would allow attackers to see, change votes... <br />
• BRADBLOG VIDEO! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11098" target="_blank">HILARIOUS: Full Video of FL Official Trying NOT to Say Words 'Climate Change'</a> PLUS: Jon Stewart's take, as if the video isn't hysterical enough on its own... <br />
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<li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b><br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• 25 Mar 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-new-house-bill-would-fully-repeal-patriot-act/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: New House Bill Would Fully Repeal Patriot Act</a> Reps. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) introduce Surveillance State Repeal Act, which could restore most 4th Amendment rights….<br />
• 26 Mar 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-saudis-emirates-and-egypt-join-the-fun-in-yemen/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Saudis, Emirates and Egypt Join the Fun in Yemen</a> IEgypt, Saudis join clusterf#@k in Yemen as Iraqi Shiite militias under Iran’s direction refuse to fight in Tikrit, chaos grows….<br />
• 27 Mar 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-bellicose-bolton-blares-bomb-iran/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Bellicose Bolton Blares: “Bomb Iran!”</a> Neocon John Bolton calls the tune, “Let’s Bomb Iran” in NY Times op-ed that links to contrary evidence from Iraq… <br />
• PBC Standard Podcast March 13, 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2015/03/13/prof-peter-laufer-traces-organic-products-back-to-the-farm//" target="_blank">Prof. Peter Laufer Traces “Organic” Products Back to the Farm</a> 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. <br />
• PBC Standard Podcast March 17, 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2015/03/17/rutgers-prof-todd-wolfson-and-pioneer-michael-eisenmenger-on-indy-media-centers-and-the-cyber-left/" target="_blank">Rutgers Prof. Todd Wolfson and Pioneer Michael Eisenmenger on Indy Media Centers and the Cyber Left</a> 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. <br />
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<li type=square><b>Ring of Fire Radio</b><br />
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Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/ <b>hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder</b><br />
Ring of Fire Radio - GoLeft TV - Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, Sam Seder - Politics, Commentary, and News.<br />
• <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/03/this-weeks-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv-17/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire March 27, 2015</a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
»» 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.<br />
»» 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.<br />
»» And attorney Michael Burg will explain why California wineries have been pumping their products full of deadly arsenic.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weeks-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv-30/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV March 27, 2015</a> - Sundays at NOON! Posted on January 17, 2015 by Farron Cousins<br />
»» Howard Nations will explain why almost nothing has been done since the death of Michael Brown to reign in abusive police officers.<br />
»» David Haynes explains how binding arbitration agreements directed at soldiers are leaving our veterans without homes when they return from overseas combat.<br />
»» 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.<br />
»» Brendan Fischer, general counsel for the Center for Media and Democracy, will explain Wisconsin’s new Right To Work law.<br />
»» Watch at <a href="http://www.freespeech.org/collection/ringoffire" target="_blank">FSTV</a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/03/israel-spied-on-america-iran-talks/" target="_blank">Israel Spied On America-Iran Talks</a> 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. <br />
• <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/03/wall-street-mob-threatens-elizabeth-warren-with-dem-money-freeze/" target="_blank">Wall Street Mob Threatens Elizabeth Warren with Dem Money Freeze</a> 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, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/27/us-usa-election-banks-idUSKBN0MN0BV20150327" target="_blank">reported Reuters</a>. 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.........<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/03/papantonio-obama-is-an-oil-president-period/" target="_blank">Papantonio: Obama Is An Oil President, Period.</a> 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.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/03/sen-bernie-sanders-since-citizens-united-politics-is-just-big-money/" target="_blank">Sen. Bernie Sanders: Since Citizens United, Politics is just Big Money</a> — 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.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/papantonio-duponts-polluted-history-has-poisoned-entire-communities/" target="_blank">Wikileaks Exposes How the TPP Will Harm Taxpayers</a> by Joshua De Leon – <a href="https://wikileaks.org/tpp-investment/WikiLeaks-TPP-Investment-Chapter.pdf" target="_blank">Wikileaks exposed</a> last night a portion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) that illustrates how the trade deal, being orchestrated in secret, will harm taxpayers and <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-p-hoffa/tpp-investor-language-wil_b_6948982.html" target="_blank">help giant corporations</a>. 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. ..........<br />
• <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/03/4-states-where-solar-is-under-attack-by-koch-funded-front-groups/" target="_blank">4 States Where Solar is Under Attack by Koch-Funded Front Groups</a> Reposted with permission from EcoWatch.<br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/32315-ali-gharib-close-to-a-deal-with-iran-the-crazy-people-trying-to-stop-it-from-happening" target="_blank">3/23/15 Ali Gharib: Close To a Deal With Iran? & The Crazy People Trying to Stop It From Happening</a> <br />
• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/32415-barrett-brown-explains-why-he-is-in-prison-for-doing-his-job" target="_blank">3/24/15 Barrett Brown: Explains Why He is In Prison For Doing His Job</a><br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/32515-mike-konczal-free-trade-isnt-about-trade-its-about-bureaucratsand-guns" target="_blank"> 3/25/15 Mike Konczal: Free Trade Isn’t about Trade. It’s About Bureaucrats—and Guns </a><br />
• THURSDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/32615-jeff-madrick-why-economist-cling-to-discredited-ideas" target="_blank"> 3/26/15 Jeff Madrick: Why Economist Cling to Discredited Ideas </a><br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/32715-casual-friday-guy-lawson" target="_blank">3/27/15 Casual Friday: Guy Lawson</a><br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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<li type=square><b>KEISER REPORT</b> Podcasts and more @ <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/" target="_blank">MaxKeiser.com</a>!<br />
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<b>"HI Y'ALL! Tell the people! Tell the people!"</b><br />
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 <a href="http://www.karmabanque.com/" target="_blank">KarmaBanque</a> a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. <br />
• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport" target="_blank">Keiser Report</a> <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/on-my-mind-finance-and-books//" target="_blank">On My Mind: Finance and Books</a>by 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, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gods-Bankers-History-Money-Vatican-ebook/dp/B00LD1S4FI/" target="_blank">God’s Bankers</a>, currently in the top 100 on Amazon. I can also recommend an older, in some ways darker book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Gods-banker-Rupert-Cornwell/dp/0396082955/" target="_blank">God’s Banker</a>, by Rupert Cornwell, written more than thirty years ago, when the press was still calling Roberto Calvi’s murder a suicide. ....<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/eu-and-greece-running-out-of-time-as-bank-runs-intensify-bail-ins-likely/" target="_blank">EU and Greece Running Out of Time – As Bank Runs Intensify, Bail-Ins Likely</a> by Mark O'Byrne — <br />
- EU and Greece running out of time as talks end “in disarray” – again<br />
- Greece warns Merkel of ‘impossible’ debt<br />
- Concerns Greece out of money by end of April<br />
- Friday’s “agreement” in Brussels falls apart hours later as protagonists fail to agree on specifics<br />
- Greece now insolvent – will run out of liquidity by end of April<br />
- Greek banks on verge of collapse as runs continue – €1.5 billion emptied out of banks last week alone<br />
- ‘Grexit’ could propel gold to over $2,000/oz<br />
- Cyprus style bail-ins look increasingly possible<br />
More <a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/greece-and-eu-running-out-of-time-bank-runs-intensify-bail-ins-likely/" target="_blank">here’</a> (goldcore.com)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/california-water-wars-another-form-of-asset-stripping/" target="_blank">California Water Wars: Another Form of Asset Stripping?</a> 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 <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-new-water-barons-wall-street-mega-banks-are-buying-up-the-worlds-water/5383274" target="_blank">the new “water barons”</a> – 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 <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/california-water-wars-another-form-of-asset-stripping/#more-76865" target="_blank">here</a>........<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/risk-of-world-war-between-nato-and-russia-on-ukraine-as-yemen-bombed/" target="_blank">Risk of ‘World War’ between NATO and Russia on Ukraine as Yemen Bombed</a> by Mark O'Byrne — <br />
- World sleep walking from ‘Cold War’ to ‘Hot War’ and new World War<br />
- U.S. resolution to supply Ukraine with lethal weaponry passed<br />
- Russia warns such moves would “explode the whole situation”<br />
- Minsk agreement remains intact – little justification for escalation and ignoring EU allies<br />
- US continues to act as only global superpower despite powerful Russia and China and new multi-polar world<br />
- Hubris could lead to a new World War<br />
More <a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/risk-of-world-war-between-nato-and-russia-on-ukraine-as-yemen-bombed/" target="_blank">here</a>..... (goldcore.com)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/meet-the-overseas-contingency-operations-account-washington-d-c-s-crony-capitalist-war-slush-fund/" target="_blank">Meet the Overseas Contingency Operations Account – Washington D.C.’s Crony Capitalist War Slush Fund</a> 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 <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/03/27/meet-the-overseas-contingency-operations-account-washington-d-c-s-crony-capitalist-war-slush-fund/" target="_blank">here</a>...... (libertyblitzkrieg.com)<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/kr735-keiser-report-capitalism-without-capital/" target="_blank">[KR735] Keiser Report: Capitalism Without Capital?!</a> 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.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/kr736-keiser-report-debtism-vs-capitalism/" target="_blank">[KR736] Keiser Report: Debtism vs Capitalism</a> 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.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/kr737-keiser-report-deadly-sales/" target="_blank">[KR737] Keiser Report: Deadly Sales</a> 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.<br />
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<li type=square><b>The Scott Horton Radio Show</b><br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-2 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> 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....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-2 PM Eastern!</b> <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/03/12/31215-grant-f-smith/" target="_blank">3/12/15 Grant F. Smith</a>: Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discusses the upcoming conference “<a href="http://israellobbyus.org/" target="_blank">The Israel Lobby: Is it Good for the US? Is it Good for Israel?</a>” scheduled for April 10, 2015 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/03/25/32515-seymour-hersh/" target="_blank">3/25/15 Seymour Hersh</a>: 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 <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/the-scene-of-the-crime" target="_blank">recent journey to Vietnam</a> to revisit the scene of the crime 47 years later.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/03/26/32615-matthew-hoh/" target="_blank">3/26/15 Matthew Hoh</a>: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.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/03/26/32615-eric-margolis/" target="_blank">3/26/15 Eric Margolis</a>: 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.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/03/27/32715-john-feffer/" target="_blank">3/27/15 John Feffer</a>: John Feffer, director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies, discusses how hardliners in Congress are working to <a href="http://www.lobelog.com/iran-north-korea-and-the-congress-that-says-no/" target="_blank">undermine an Iranian nuclear deal</a>, and how they previously sabotaged the Agreed Framework on North Korea’s nuclear program in 1994.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>fauxnews </b><br />
• retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency<br />
• former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina<br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>2015 Spring Forward!</b> We totally missed last week! We were busy getting ready for WRUW's <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LiveFromClevelandRadio" target="_blank">Live From Cleveland</a>'s FIRST EVER LIVE REMOTE BROADCAST endeavor, a new station fundraiser we're calling "<a href="https://www.facebook.com/LiveFromClevelandRadio/posts/388583487992004" target="_blank">Live From Lakewood</a>!" (<i>like us</i> 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 <a href="http://www.wruw.org/listen-live/" target="_blank">WRUW.org/listen-live</a> 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 "<a href="http://www.wruw.org/event/live-from-cleveland-presents-live-from-lakewood" target="_blank">Live from Cleveland Presents: Live from Lakewood!</a>" 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 <a href="http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2015/03/tom-cotton-pleasures-himself-in-front.html" target="_blank">Tom Cotton Pleasures Himself in Front of the Senate</a>! <font color=purple> ...... 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." </font> Happy Sunday and Happy Spring to one and all! Check back later today for more news, comment and outrage! <br />
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WISCONSIN RIGHT TO WORK FOR LESS: Sarah Jaffe at Salon.com explains how <a href="http://www.salon.com/2015/03/10/scott_walker_pushes_through_right_to_work_law_and_labor_takes_another_hit/" target="_blank">Scott Walker pushes through “right-to-work” law — and labor takes another hit </a> <font color=purple>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 <a href="http://wisconsinjobsnow.org/" target="_blank">Wisconsin Jobs Now</a> 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. ...................... <b>These laws are designed to defund unions, pure and simple.</b> They don’t make organizing impossible — the <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/the-ed-show/life-after-right-work-how-one-union-flo" target="_blank">history of the Culinary Workers, UNITE HERE Local 226 in Nevada</a>, 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, <a href="https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/right-to-work/" target="_blank">not so subtly aligning unions with things un-American, Communist and not white</a>. (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, <ul>“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.”</ul>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.......... </font> Here's the <a href="http://npa-us.org/news/2015/advisory-we-rise-national-day-action-put-people-and-planet-first-march-11" target="_blank">Advisory: We Rise National Day of Action to Put People and Planet First March 11</a> at National People's Action and also <a href="http://npa-us.org/from-the-frontlines" target="_blank">From the Frontlines: Thousands Join “We Rise” Actions in 16 States</a>. <br />
At LiveScience.com staff writer Tanya Lewis explains how <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">Florida Isn't the Only State to 'Ban' Climate Change</a> <font color=maroon> 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 <a href="http://www.livescience.com/41380-climate-change-places-at-risk.html" target="_blank">reality of climate change</a> 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. [<a href="http://www.livescience.com/22640-politicians-science-wrong.html" target="_blank">6 Politicians Who Got the Science Wrong</a>]<br />
In an <a href="http://fcir.org/2015/03/08/in-florida-officials-ban-term-climate-change/" target="_blank">investigation published yesterday</a> (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 <a href="http://www.livescience.com/45896-global-warming-scarier-climate-change.html" target="_blank">'global warming' or 'climate change,'</a> 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...........</font> While yer there also see <a href="http://www.livescience.com/19466-climate-change-myths-busted.html" target="_blank">The Reality of Climate Change: 10 Myths Busted</a> AND <a href="http://www.livescience.com/23026-global-warming-changing-world.html" target="_blank">8 Ways Global Warming Is Already Changing the World</a> <br />
The Brick TeeVee Crew is sad to report <a href="https://deusnexus.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/abby-martin-leaving-rt/" target="_blank">Abby Martin Leaving RT, “Breaking The Set” </a> <font color=darkblue> .............. 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.<br />
<ul><a href="http://www.mediaroots.org/never-stop-breaking-the-set/" target="_blank">Never Stop Breaking the Set</a>: 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. <i>-Abby</i></font></ul>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! <br />
Writing at MondoWeiss.com Phillip Weiss profiles the <a href="http://mondoweiss.net/2015/03/israel-fingerprints-republican" target="_blank">Senator who spearheaded letter to Iran got $1 million from Kristol’s ‘Emergency C’tee for Israel’</a> AND <br />
Lee Fang at The Intercept discovers <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/09/upon-launching-effort-scuttle-iran-deal-senator-tom-cotton-meets-defense-contractors/" target="_blank">Immediately After Launching Effort to Scuttle Iran Deal, Senator Tom Cotton To Meet with Defense Contractors</a> 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 <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/200993/meet-tom-cotton-senator-behind-republicans-letter-iran" target="_blank">Meet Tom Cotton, the Senator Behind the Republicans’ Letter to Iran</a><br />
And Susie Madrak at CrooksAndLiars.com has a good summary <a href="http://crooksandliars.com/2015/03/you-will-be-shocked-know-whos-been" target="_blank">You Will Be Shocked To Know Who's Been Grooming Tehran Tom</a>. PLUS at Democracy NOW! watch <br />
<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/12/ex_us_official_with_iran_letter" target="_blank">Ex-U.S. Official: With Iran Letter, "Reckless" GOP Places Middle East Hegemony over Security</a> 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. <br />
SHOCKING "NEWS": The Nation's Bill Greider proclaims now <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/202129/its-official-pentagon-finally-admitted-israel-has-nuclear-weapons-too" target="_blank">It’s Official: The Pentagon Finally Admitted That Israel Has Nuclear Weapons, Too</a> <br />
YES for all these DECADES Israel has NOT joined <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_Non-Proliferation_Treaty" target="_blank">The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons</a>, 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 ‘<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/29/world/middleeast/iran-calls-for-negotiations-on-treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons.html?_r=0" target="_blank">great sin</a>’. 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? <br />
Here's Grant Smith's article at AntiWar.com <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/smith-grant/2015/02/13/us-confirmed-existence-of-israeli-h-bomb-program-in-1987/" target="_blank">US Confirmed Existence of Israeli H-Bomb Program in 1987</a>. 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 <a href="http://fpif.org/obama_boosts_nukes/" target="_blank">Despite his pledge to seek nuclear disarmament, Obama is investing big in the nuclear complex</a> (Greg Mello, Foreign Policy in Focus, Feb 2010) AND <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2010/02/obamas-nuclear-giveaway" target="_blank">Obama's Nuclear Giveaway</a> (Kate Sheppard, Mother Jones, Feb 2010) PLUS one of Obomber's BIG contributors has been midwest nuclear operator EXELON <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0512/76283.html" target="_blank">Energy sector donations fuel Obama campaign</a> (Darren Samuel Sohn, Politico, May 2012). YOU do the math. <br />
VIDEOS! <ul><li>Johann Hari & Naomi Klein: <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/3/11/johann_hari_naomi_klein_does_capitalism" target="_blank">Does Capitalism Drive Drug Addiction?</a><br />
<li>At truthdig.com <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/the_long_war_of_foreverness_20150219" target="_blank">The Long War of Foreverness</a> By Mark Fiore <i>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. </i><br />
<li> <a href="http://www.pay2play.tv/watch_now?splash=1" target="_blank">Pay2Play</a> <i>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.</i> A MUST WATCH for anybody who remembers and lived through Tom Noe and Ohio's "Coingate" scandal!<br />
</ul>At CommonDreams.org Sarah Lazare tells us a federal <a href="http://commondreams.org/news/2015/03/21/judge-orders-us-government-stop-suppressing-evidence-torture-and-abuse" target="_blank">Judge Orders US Government to Stop Suppressing Evidence of Torture and Abuse</a> <font color=blue>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 <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/obama-administration-ordered-explain-withholding-2100-iraq-afghanistan-torture-photos-hold-1471251" target="_blank">worse than</a>, those released from Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. U.S. district judge Alvin Hellerstein ruled (<a href="http://commondreams.org/news/2015/03/21/images.politico.com/global/2015/03/20/abusephotoshellersteinord.pdf" target="_blank">pdf</a>) 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. <b>The administrations of George W. Bush and Barack Obama have vigorously fought to keep these photographs suppressed</b>, and in 2009, the White House <a href="https://news.vice.com/article/a-judge-just-ordered-the-us-government-to-release-thousands-of-detainee-abuse-photos" target="_blank">collaborated</a> with Congress to secretly change FOIA law to enable the concealment of the images, arguing it is necessary to protect national security...................</font> <b>SATURDAY pi day!</b> <a href="http://www.piday.org/" target="_blank">piday.org</a> 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. <a href="http://www.numberworld.org/misc_runs/pi-5t/details.html" target="_blank">5 Trillion Digits of Pi - New World Record</a> By Alexander J. Yee & Shigeru Kondo (Last updated: February 23, 2013) <font color=indigo>Pushing the limits of personal computing... How much further can we go? <ul>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. . . . . . . . . . </ul></font> 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 <font color=blue>bluemooon</font> shows us the power of the March 20th <a href="http://www.elephantjournal.com/2015/03/march-solar-eclipse-total-system-reboot/" target="_blank">March Solar Eclipse- Total Reboot</a> <font color=DarkSlateGray> 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....... </font> 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 <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175970/tomgram%3A_engelhardt%2C_is_a_new_political_system_emerging_in_this_country/" target="_blank">Tomgram: Engelhardt, Is a New Political System Emerging in This Country?</a> Reporting from TechDirt.com's <i>BOOM!</i> dept Editor Mike Masnick is all over <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150310/04065330265/wikimedia-sues-nsa-over-its-mass-surveillance-program.shtml" target="_blank">Wikimedia Sues NSA Over Its Mass Surveillance Program</a> <font color=FireBrick><b>This is big news.</b> Wikimedia Foundation, the organization behind Wikipedia, has announced that it is <a href="http://blog.wikimedia.org/2015/03/10/wikimedia-v-nsa/" target="_blank">suing the NSA</a> (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: <ul><li> Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act: Under this program the NSA is collecting all the phone metadata on calls in the US.<br />
<li>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.<br />
<li>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).<br />
<li>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." </ul>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 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Klein" target="_blank">Mark Klein</a>, 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 <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111230/00522317232/retroactive-immunity-govt-warrantless-wiretapping-deemed-constitutional-suit-against-govt-lives.shtml" target="_blank">get out of</a> 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 -- <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/blog/?tag=jewel+v.+nsa" target="_blank">Jewel v. NSA</a> -- which recently <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150210/15070229979/court-rejects-effs-arguments-over-nsa-internet-surveillance.shtml" target="_blank">suffered a setback</a>, 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: </font> Click over to Techdirt for the rest! Incredible! And like Masnick says <b>This is big news.</b> But wait! there's more! Glyn Moody from the <i>confession-time</i> dept finds <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150320/04052830372/uk-government-admits-intelligence-services-allowed-to-break-into-any-system-anywhere-any-reason.shtml" target="_blank">UK Government Admits Intelligence Services Allowed To Break Into Any System, Anywhere, For Any Reason</a> <font color=Brown>Recently, Techdirt noted that the FBI may soon have permission to <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150317/07440430342/judicial-committee-gives-fbi-first-ok-it-needs-to-hack-any-computer-anywhere-planet.shtml" target="_blank">break</a> 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<a href="https://www.privacyinternational.org/?q=node/545" target="_blank"> it has now publicly said as much</a>, as Privacy International explains: <i>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.</i> That important admission was made in what the UK government calls its "<a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">Open Response</a>" to <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">court cases</a> started last year against GCHQ. Here's what it reveals, according to Privacy International: <i> 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.</i>............. </font> Don't you feel safer already? NEXT comes Karl Bode from the <i>nontransparent-puppeteering</i> dept who finds <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150318/05252530351/gauntlet-house-hearings-feebly-try-to-shame-fcc-boss-standing-up-to-isps-supporting-net-neutrality.sht" target="_blank">Congressional Opponents Of Net Neutrality Try To Shame FCC Boss For Standing Up To ISPs</a> <font color=maroon>Now that our <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/blog/netneutrality/articles/20150311/13560830292/fcc-net-neutrality-rules-finally-released-cue-isp-lawsuits-hyperbole.shtml" target="_blank">shiny new net neutrality rules</a> 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. <b>The primary talking point being used against Wheeler is that he was "improperly" influenced by the White House.</b> .................. 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 (<a href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-wheeler-committee-oversight-and-govt-reform" target="_blank">pdf</a>), 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 <i>he's the devil and hates jobs</i>. As such, Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz handed out a packet of e-mails (<a href="https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/1688389/fcc-hearing-packet.pdf" target="_blank">pdf</a>) to hearing attendees he claimed <i>indisputably prove</i> undue White House influence on the FCC. Except if you bother to actually read them, they don't actually show anything of the sort........ </font> Go there for all the evidence of GOPher shinanigans! <b>BTV HOMEWORK!</b> Go to <a href="http://OpenSecrets.org" target="_blank">OpenSecrets.org</a> and dig through their databases to find out just HOW MUCH COIN the Telecom Industry is <s>buying of</s> 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 <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/article/2899853/to-avoid-nsa-cisco-gear-gets-delivered-to-strange-addresses.html" target="_blank">To avoid NSA, Cisco gear gets delivered to strange addresses</a> <font color=brown>......... 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. <b>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.</b> 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. <b>“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.</b> “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, <a href="https://www.eff.org/files/2015/01/27/20150117-spiegel-supply-chain_interdiction_-_stealthy_techniques_can_crack_some_of_sigints_hardest_targets.pdf" target="_blank">dated June 2010</a>, 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 <a href="http://blogs.cisco.com/news/internet-security-necessary-for-global-technology-economy" target="_blank">asserted</a> that it does not work with any government to intentionally weaken its products. ............</font> inuddawoids that is.... yernotreallyparanoidiftheyreallyareouttagetcha. Reuters via HuffPoAOL Jeff Mason and Roberta Rampton report <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/03/09/obama-venezuela_n_6831890.html" target="_blank">Obama Declares Venezuela A Threat To U.S. National Security</a> <font color=peru>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...........</font> At DN! <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/11/is_venezuela_really_an_extraordinary_threat" target="_blank">Is Venezuela Really an "Extraordinary Threat"? U.S. Sanctions Top Officials as Tensions Grow</a> featuring Miguel Tinker Salas, professor at Pomona College and author of the forthcoming book, "Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know" including this exchange: <font color=maroon> <ul><li>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?<br />
<li>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........<br />
<li>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.<br />
<li>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.<br />
<li>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—<br />
<li>JEN PSAKI: That is also ludicrous.</ul>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. <b>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.</b> 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.......</font> 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 <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2014/02/23/neocons-and-the-ukraine-coup/" target="_blank"> Neocons and the Ukraine Coup</a> and also TRUTHDIG A/V BOOTH <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/vladimir_putin_is_not_responsible_for_the_ukrainian_civil_war_20150321/" target="_blank">Vladimir Putin Not Responsible for Ukrainian Civil War, Expert Says</a> <i>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. </i>), in Honduras in 2009 (see Workers World <a href="http://www.workers.org/2011/world/honduras_0602/" target="_blank">Manuel Zelaya to return to Honduras</a>) and the failed coup in Venezuela in 2002 (see The Guardian <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2002/apr/21/usa.venezuela" target="_blank">Venezuela coup linked to Bush team</a>. How stupid does Jen Psaki think we all are? Peter Maass at The Intercept tells us <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/16/petraeus-plea-deal-lawyer-demands-release-stephen-kim/" target="_blank">After Petraeus Plea Deal, Lawyer Demands Release of Stephen Kim </a> <font color=indigo>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 <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/03/petraeus-plea-deal-reveals-two-tier-justice-system-leaks/" target="_blank">lenient plea deal</a> 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 <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1687035-lowell-letter-on-kim-and-petraeus.html" target="_blank">scathing letter</a> 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.” ...............</font> EDITOR OF BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT MARK KARLIN nails Koch Brothers' greenwashing activities! <a href="http://truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/koch-brothers-are-endangering-the-planet-by-funding-climate-change-denial/19209-koch-brothers-are-endangering-the-planet-by-funding-climate-change-denial?tmpl=component&print=1" target="_blank">Koch Brothers Are Endangering the Planet by Funding Climate Change Denial </a> <font color=DarkSlateGray>.............. 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 <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/" target="_blank">one step ahead</a> of the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/mar/13/koch-industries-refuses-senators-climate-investigation" target="_blank">Democratic senators seeking information about the climate-denial funding</a>: The organization did an analysis of the Koch brothers' financial backing of climate-denial front groups and spokespersons: <ul>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 <a href="http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/state-policy-network-spn/" target="_blank">State Policy Network</a>.</ul>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, "<a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/22419-planet-or-profit" target="_blank">Planet or Profit</a>." 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? ..........</font> READ ON! <b>NETENYAHOO "they're bussing them (the arabs) out" </b> Nick Gass at politico.com caught this one <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/benjamin-netanyahu-arab-voter-turnout-116142.html" target="_blank">Netanyahu: 'Arab voters are coming out in droves'</a> <font color=DarkMagenta>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 <a href="https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152778935532076&set=vb.268108602075&type=2&theater" target="_blank">28-second video</a> in Hebrew posted on his Facebook page, according to a translation by <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/israel-election-2015/1.647304" target="_blank">Haaretz</a> . “Get out to vote, bring your friends and family, vote Likud in order to close the gap between us and ‘Labor.’”</font> 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 <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/opinion/26tue4.html" target="_blank">No One Should Have to Stand in Line for 10 Hours to Vote</a>.) And right here in Da Cleve on Election Day 2004 watch <a href="http://noumbrella.org/" target="_blank">No Umbrella</a> This game is not new. NEXT Common Dreams staff writer Sarah Lazare reports <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/21/un-commission-israeli-occupation-imposes-grave-situation-palestinian-women" target="_blank">UN Commission: Israeli Occupation Imposes 'Grave Situation' on Palestinian Women</a> <font color=navy>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 <a href="http://hosted2.ap.org/txdam/54828a5e8d9d48b7ba8b94ba38a9ef22/Article_2015-03-20-UN--United%20Nations-Palestinian%20Women/id-a47973b747ec4bfe9d09534362f9b477" target="_blank">passed</a> a resolution on Friday condemning the Israeli occupation as imposing a "grave situation" on Palestinian women. The motion (<a href="http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=E/CN.6/2015/L.2" target="_blank">pdf</a>) 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. .......... </font> Look for more of this as Netanyahoo begins his fourth term. At WallStreetOnParade.com Pam Martens posits <a href="wallstreetonparade.com/2015/03/the-clintons-and-the-fed-are-gasping-over-the-april-issue-of-harpers/" target="_blank">The Clintons and the Fed Are Gasping Over the April Issue of Harper’s</a> <font color=purple>............ 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, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKKvMJeBBSA" target="_blank">American Casino</a>, 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: <ul>“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.”</ul>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 <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witness-20141106" target="_blank">Matt Taibbi’s investigative report</a> in the November issue of Rolling Stone. .................</font> Read all of this synopsis and if you have a Harper's subscription you can get into Andrew Cockburn’s Letter From Washington <a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2015/04/saving-the-whale-again/" target="_blank">Saving the Whale, Again - The catastrophic incompetence of Citigroup</a>. For those not getting 'The Whale' reference go read Matt Taibbi's <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/live-blogging-the-senate-hearing-on-j-p-morgan-chase-and-the-infamous-london-whale-episode-20130315" target="_blank">Live-Blogging the Senate Hearing on J.P. Morgan Chase and the Infamous 'London Whale' Episode</a> 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 <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/17/strange-world-tony-blair/" target="_blank">Tony Blair Is Terrible at Promoting Human Rights, Great at Enriching Himself</a> <font color=darkblue>After serving nearly eight years as special peace envoy for the “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartet_on_the_Middle_East" target="_blank">Quartet</a>” powers mediating the Israel-Palestine conflict, Tony Blair is resigning, <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/8104fbbe-cb31-11e4-bac3-00144feab7de.html#slide0" target="_blank">reportedly</a> “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 <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2261133/Tony-Blair-Hes-taken-millions-dictators-cosied-warlords.html" target="_blank">tens of millions of dollars</a> 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 <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/11052965/Tony-Blair-gives-Kazakhstans-autocratic-president-tips-on-how-to-defend-a-massacre.html" target="_blank">how to best spin a 2011 massacre</a> 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 <a href="http://www.tonyblairoffice.org/news/entry/tony-blair-urges-kazakhstan-to-evolve-and-reform-as-it-moves-to-the-next-le/" target="_blank">BTV</a>good governance issues like judicial reform, corruption, free press and the rule of law. While Blair worked for Nazarbayev, however, human rights <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/nov/08/tony-blair-kazakhstan-human-rights-role" target="_blank">actually deteriorated</a> 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 <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/tony-blair/10551183/Tony-Blairs-fortune-boosted-13m-by-bumper-year.html" target="_blank">financial dealings</a> are opaque, some estimates of his personal wealth have run as high as £100 million (over $148 million USD) — a figure Blair has denied, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/16/world/europe/tony-blair-defined-by-his-support-of-president-bush-and-the-invasion-of-iraq.html" target="_blank">saying</a>, 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.” .............</font> Does Bush's Poodle really have brass balls that big? Sure he does! Read on! But wait! there's more! MORE PATRICK COCKBURN <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/tony-blair-joins-a-strange-and-exclusive-club-of-political-leaders-whose-careers-have-been-blighted-by-the-middle-east-10125170.html" target="_blank">Tony Blair joins a strange and exclusive club of political leaders whose careers have been blighted by the Middle East </a> <font color=navy>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?</font> READ ALL OF THIS! THEN WATCH THIS VIDEO! Interview with Patrick Cockburn at StopMakingSense.org <a href="http://stopmakingsense.org/2015/03/07/who-is-bankrolling-the-islamic-state-interview-with-patrick-cockburn/" target="_blank">Who Is Bankrolling the Islamic State? </a> And get his NEW BOOK! <a href="http://www.orbooks.com/catalog/jihadis-return/" target="_blank">The Jihadis Return: ISIS AND THE NEW SUNNI UPRISING</a> Professor of History at the University of Michigan Juan Cole at his Informed Comment explains Israel apologist <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2015/03/friedman-israeliran-derangement.html" target="_blank">Tom Friedman & funding ISIL: Israel/Iran Derangement Syndrome</a> <font color=maroon>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, <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/18/opinion/go-ahead-ruin-my-day.html?smid=re-share&_r=0" target="_blank">he actually favors the latter</a>. 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. <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/americas/17579-us-removes-iran-and-hezbollah-from-list-of-terror-threats" target="_blank">US intelligence has dropped Iran and Lebanon’s Hizbullah</a> 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. <a href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/objectively-pro-isis.html" target="_blank">Digby takes Friedman and Marco Rubio and others who have engaged in this reasoning apart here</a>. 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. .................. </font> 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: <font color=blue> <a href="http://commondreams.org/views/2015/03/20/where-american-spring-or-sunshine-cloudy-day" target="_blank">Where Is the American Spring? (or Sunshine on a Cloudy Day) </a> by Danny Schechter [CD Editor's Note: While we mourn <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2015/03/20/progressive-community-celebrates-life-work-danny-schechter-1942-2015" target="_blank">Thursday's passing of our friend and longtime contributor Danny Schechter</a>, 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 <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/author/danny-schechter" target="_blank"> the scores of Schechter's other columns in our archive</a> 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 <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2011/03/25/our-theaters-absurd" t.arget="_blank">originally published</a> on March 30, 2014.]</font> Please click over to Common Dreams and read Danny's spot-on analysis of our country and our world </font> <font face=arial size=4> <center>R.I.P. Danny Schechter</br > <img src="http://www.closeupfilmcentre.com/index.php/download_file/view_inline/1810/" height=200 alt="Danny Schechter" /> <img src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_NSAQjsCzwcE/TEwvue5OgCI/AAAAAAAAAq8/Yg7ummFF8X0/s320/danny-schechter-with-nelson-mandela.jpg" height=200 alt="Danny Schechter" /> <img src="http://schema-root.org/people/career/journalists/danny_schechter/danny_schechter.gif" height=200 alt="Danny Schechter" /> <img src="http://www.indymedia.org.uk/images/2015/03/520010.jpg" height=200 alt="Danny Schechter" /> <img src="http://www.democracynow.org/images/blog_posts/80/27180/splash/Danny_Schechter_DN_1.jpg?201503121638" height=200 alt="Danny Schechter" /> <img src="http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/images/resized_images/706x410q70Danny-Schechter-main-photo.jpg" height=200 alt="Danny Schechter" /> </br > Daniel Issac "Danny" Schechter </br > June 27, 1942 – March 19, 2015</br > </center></font> <center><img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/gonzo-111x191.png" height="75"></center><p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font> <p><img src="http://www.democracynow.org/images/nav/dn_logo.png" height=100 alt="Democracy NOW!" /> <p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/16/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, March 17, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Alex Mathieson, former Oxfam Vanuatu country director</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/16/vanuatu_blames_global_warming_as_cyclone" target="_blank">Vanuatu Blames Global Warming as Cyclone Causes Nation’s Worst Climate Disaster in Recent Memory</a> <br />
<li><b>Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org.</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/16/as_un_backs_fossil_fuel_divestment" target="_blank">As U.N. Backs Fossil Fuel Divestment, Bill McKibben on Vanuatu, Oxford Vote, California Water Crisis</a> <br />
<li><b>Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Right</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/16/after_swedish_prosecutors_back_down_is" target="_blank">After Swedish Prosecutors Back Down, Is WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange Close to Freedom?</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/17/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, March 17, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Jesselyn Radack, National Security & Human Rights director at the Government Accountability Project</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/17/a_double_standard_on_leaks_as" target="_blank">A Double Standard on Leaks? As Whistleblowers Jailed, Petraeus Escapes Prison & Advises White House</a> She recently wrote an article for Foreign Policy magazine, "<a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2015/03/04/petraeus-snowden-and-the-department-of-two-tiered-justice/" target="_blank">Petraeus, Snowden, and the Department of Two-Tiered Justice</a>." <br />
<li><b>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</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/17/a_deadly_u_turn_did_miriam" target="_blank">A Deadly U-Turn: Did Miriam Carey Need to Die After Wrong Car Move at White House Checkpoint?</a> Web Exclusive! <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/3/17/part_2_did_miriam_carey_need" target="_blank">Part 2: Did Miriam Carey Need to Die After Wrong Car Move at White House Checkpoint?</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/18/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, March 18, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Juan González, Democracy Now! co-host and award-winning columnist for the New York Daily News</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/18/hedge_fund_backed_castellan_real_estate" target="_blank">Hedge Fund-Backed Castellan Real Estate Group Intimidates NYC Tenants to Vacate Rent-Stabilized Apts</a> His article is "<a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-real-estate-group-forces-tenants-jacks-rent-article-1.2153178" target="_blank">Castellan real estate group pushes tenants out and jack up rents, despite Cuomo-ordered independent monitor</a>."<br />
<li><b>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</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/18/after_netanyahu_wins_israel_vote_with" target="_blank">After Netanyahu Wins Israel Vote with Racism & Vow of Permanent Occupation, How Will World Respond?</a> <br />
<li><b>Pardiss Kebriaei, senior staff attorney with Center for Constitutional Rights</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/18/a_family_broken_up_freed_after" target="_blank">A Family Broken Up: Freed After 8 Years at Guantánamo, a Father & Son Are Still Kept Apart</a> She has represented Abdul Nasser Khantumani and his son, Muhammed, since 2008. Her article for Harper’s is "<a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2015/04/life-after-guantanamo/" target="_blank">Life After Guantánamo: A Father and Son’s Story</a>."<br />
<li><b>Venezuela, Media Analysis</b>Web Exclusive! <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/3/18/state_department_announces_new_long_standing" target="_blank">State Department Announces New "Long-standing" Policy Against Backing Coups</a> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/11/is_venezuela_really_an_extraordinary_threat" target="_blank">Click here</a> to watch our full discussion about Venezuela with Pomona College professor Miguel Tinker Salas, author of <i>The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela</i> and the forthcoming book, <i>Venezuela: What Everyone Needs to Know.</i><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/19/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, March 19, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Tadzio Mueller, German climate justice activist who took part in the Blockupy protest.</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/19/blockupy_thousands_protest_in_frankfurt_calling" target="_blank">Blockupy: Thousands Protest in Frankfurt Calling on Eurozone to Dismantle "Laboratory for Austerity"</a> <br />
<li><b>Amna Guellali, director of the Tunisian office of Human Rights Watch</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/19/deadly_shooting_rampage_at_tunisian_national" target="_blank">Deadly Shooting Rampage at Tunisian National Museum Leaves Birthplace of Arab Spring on Edge</a> <br />
<li><b>Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/19/obama_seeks_fast_track_for_tpp" target="_blank">Obama Seeks Fast Track for TPP, Trade Deal that Could Thwart "Almost Any Progressive Policy or Goal</a> <br />
<li><b>Trevor Aaronson, contributing writer at The Intercept and executive director of the nonprofit Florida Center for Investigative Reporting</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/19/how_the_fbi_created_a_terrorist" target="_blank">"How the FBI Created a Terrorist": Agency Accused of Entrapping Mentally Ill Man in Florida</a> His most recent article for The Intercept is "<a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/03/16/howthefbicreatedaterrorist/" target="_blank">The Sting: How the FBI Created a Terrorist</a>." Web Exclusive! <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/3/19/part_two_how_the_fbi_created" target="_blank">PART 2: "How the FBI Created a Terrorist" by Entrapping Mentally Ill Man in Florida</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/20/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, March 20, 2015</a><ul><li><b>Ricardo Patiño, foreign minister of Ecuador.</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/20/ecuadorean_foreign_minister_the_united_states" target="_blank">Ecuadorean Foreign Minister: The United States is the Real Threat in the Americas, Not Venezuela</a> AND <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/20/ecuador_why_did_it_take_sweden" target="_blank">Ecuador: Why Did It Take Sweden 1,000 Days to Agree to Question Julian Assange in Our U.K. Embassy?</a> PLUS <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/20/ecuadorean_foreign_minister_ricardo_patino_on" target="_blank">Ecuadorean Foreign Minister Ricardo Patiño on Press Freedom, Anti-Correa Protests & Chevron Case</a> <br />
<li><b>Bob Hennelly, political analyst and investigative reporter for WBGO, Newark’s NPR station</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/20/a_gift_to_exxonmobil_chris_christie" target="_blank">A Gift to ExxonMobil? Chris Christie Criticized over Settlement to Clean Up Century of Contamination</a> <br />
<li><b>Danny Schechter, author, filmmaker and media reform activist</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/3/20/remembering_danny_schechter_the_news_dissector" target="_blank">Remembering Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector": Pioneering Journalist, Filmmaker & Activist</a> 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! <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/3/20/rip_danny_schechter_the_news_dissector" target="_blank">RIP Danny Schechter, "The News Dissector," Author, TV Producer, Made Six Films on Nelson Mandela</a><br />
</ul><p><img src="http://grittv.org/wp-content/themes/grit/images/logo.gif" height=100 alt="GRITtv" /> <a href="http://www.lauraflanders.com/grittv/" target="_blank">GRITtv</a> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">www.grittv.org</a> with Laura Flanders - New Episode Every Monday at TELESUR </br > »»» <b>VIDEO OF THE WEEK</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?video=judy-wicks-what-is-an-activist-entrepreneur" target="_blank">Judy Wicks: What is an Activist Entrepreneur?</a> Are the identities of activist and entrepreneur compatible? Judy Wicks is an entrepreneur and author who’s work has taken her from the Zapatistas in Mexico to neighborhood activism in Philadelphia. She co-founded the Free People's Store, which later became Urban Outfitters, and is the author of Good Morning Beautiful Business: the Unexpected Journey of an Activist Entrepreneur and Local Economy Pioneer. Also, activist and movement theorist Gopal Dayaneni takes us on a journey through critical economic analysis and how to resist capitalism. And in this week's commentary on Hungary and the arrival of Starbucks. »»» <b>The F-Word</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?commentary=whats-the-economy-for-community-or-control-lessons-from-hungary" target="_blank">What’s the Economy For? Community or Control? Lessons from Hungary</a> March 17, 2015 <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE SPORT!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></b></font></font> </br > »»» <b>NASCAR on FOX</b> NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at California Auto Club Speedway 3:30 pm et </br > »»» <b>NCAA MARCH MADNESS</b> Sweet Sixteen games March 26,27; Elite Eight Match 28,29! Check your local listings! </br > »»» <b>TUESDAY NBA DOUBLEHEADER on TNT</b> </br > Lakers @ Thunder OR Spurs @ Mavericks 8:00 pm et THEN Warriors @ Trailblazers 10:30 pm et </br > »»» <b>15 DAYS until MLB Opening Day!</b> </br > <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ACTION!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font></br > <font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i> <p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>! <p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <font color=red><b>ACTION! <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell the FCC: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> 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. </b> SIGN NOW at <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell Chairman Wheeler: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> at freepress.net NOW. </font> <p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW! <p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org <p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 114th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>! <p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information! <p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Chelsea Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/uncategorized/manning-on-torture-in-new-guardian-op-ed" target="_blank">Manning on torture in new Guardian op-ed</a> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/chelsea-mannings-next-chapter" target="_blank">Chelsea Manning’s Next Chapter</a> <i>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...........</i> <p><font size=3><b>DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION</b></font> <a href="http://tjmf.flipswap.com/" target="_blank">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. </a> For more information, go to <a href="http://www.tjmartellfoundation.org" target="_blank">www.tjmartellfoundation.org</a> <p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!! <center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br > <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick_teevee_test.jpg" alt="brick_teevee_test.jpg" /></br > The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br > THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br > Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,356 US Military Dead as of March 1, 2015</a></br > <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br > <font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><p>
<li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• Homeland Security Committee chair Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas<br />
• Yahoo’s Katie Couric speaks with former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney<br />
• 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. <br />
• 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.<br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, the California congressman who is now the second most powerful Republican in the House<br />
• Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee<br />
• Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii<br />
• 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<br />
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<li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• Coming Up Sunday, March 22 at 7 p.m. ET/PT<br />
• Preview: Iraq's Christians<br />
• Preview: Rare Earth Elements<br />
• Preview: Starstruck<br />
</p><li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Ron Dermer, Israeli Ambassador to the United States<br />
• Dr. Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations<br />
• Gov. Jerry Brown (D-CA)<br />
• 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<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union (CNN)</b> CNN Correspondent Gloria Borger hosts Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)<br />
• Barney Frank, the outspoken former congressman<br />
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• FRONT PORCH FRIDAY!! featuring the Malloy-HeadOn chatters! Listen here NOW! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(20-03-2015).mp3" target="_blank">Friday, March 20th, 2015 </a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.CRMW.net</a>!<br />
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• <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11084" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - March 19, 2015</a> 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! ...<br />
• <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11080" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - March 17, 2015</a> 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!<br />
• <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11004" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - January 13, 2015</a> 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!<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11006" target="_blank">KPFK 'BradCast': Update on Judge Fuller 'Wife-Beating' Case w/ Exclusive Audio</a> Plus NEW comment in response from Fuller's attorney and MUCH more from Tunisia to Israel to Phoenix to Oregon to Donald Trump... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=110750" target="_blank">GOP Senate's Iran Letter More Embarrassing Than You Think</a> Freshman Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) wrote it, but 46 other Repub U.S. Senators have some explaining to do... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11082" target="_blank">About Israel's Election...</a> A few cursory thoughts and responses to those asking us about concerns over Israel's voting system and the apparent disparities between the Exit Polls and reported final results...<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=110812" target="_blank">Oregon Gov. Signs Bill for Universal Voter Registration!</a> Finally, some common sense legislation to improve, rather than degrade, democracy. UPDATED to note the one other state that already has 'Universal Registration'... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11010" target="_blank">NASA, NOAA Confirm 2014 Hottest Year on Record</a> Yet another climate change denial myth is scuttled, but here's how the fossil-fueled scammers have been getting away with their "no warming over the past decade!" hoax... <br />
• BRADBLOG VIDEO! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11087" target="_blank">CA Lt. Governor Calls for Mandatory Water Rationing</a> Speaking on MSNBC amidst state's worst drought on historic record, Gavin Newsom calls CA climate crisis 'code red', says its 'time to lead' no matter the political cost... <br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• 12 Mar 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-ayatollah-replies-to-senate-backstabbers/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Ayatollah Replies to Senate “Backstabbers”</a> --Ayatollah Khamenei hammers GOP senators as “backstabbers” with “declining political ethics” in response to their condescending letter about nuke negotiations.... <br />
• 13 Mar 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-recapping-a-very-weird-week/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Recapping a Very Weird Week</a> In compelling analysis, journalist Gareth Porter offers the real story behind the letter from 47 GOP senators to the Ayatollah...<br />
• 17 Mar 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-netanyahu-stoops-to-racism-forgery-in-tight-election//" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Netanyahu Stoops to Racism, Forgery in Tight Election</a> As Israelis vote, stench lingers from Netanyahu’s racist comments about Arab citizens, exposure of faked endorsement from minor party’s leader….<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast March 13, 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2015/03/13/prof-peter-laufer-traces-organic-products-back-to-the-farm//" target="_blank">Prof. Peter Laufer Traces “Organic” Products Back to the Farm</a> 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. <br />
• PBC Standard Podcast March 17, 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2015/03/17/rutgers-prof-todd-wolfson-and-pioneer-michael-eisenmenger-on-indy-media-centers-and-the-cyber-left/" target="_blank">Rutgers Prof. Todd Wolfson and Pioneer Michael Eisenmenger on Indy Media Centers and the Cyber Left</a> 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. <br />
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• <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/03/this-weeks-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv-17/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire March 20, 2015</a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
»» 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.<br />
»» Brendan Fischer from the Center for Media and Democracy will be here to give us the latest on Scott Walker’s destruction of Wisconsin.<br />
»» And Nation Magazine contributor Ali Gharib will tell us about the conservatives’ push for war with Iran.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weeks-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv-30/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV March 20, 2015</a> - Sundays at NOON! Posted on January 17, 2015 by Farron Cousins<br />
»» Farron Cousins will be sitting in for Mike Papantonio this week.<br />
»» 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.<br />
»» David TeSelle will discuss the new CFPB report that explains why mandatory arbitration is destroying the rights of consumers.<br />
»» Will Atkinson will explain how tort reform efforts have destroyed state economies, as well as the lives of consumers living in tort reform states.<br />
»» 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.<br />
»» 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.<br />
»» Watch at <a href="http://www.freespeech.org/collection/ringoffire" target="_blank">FSTV</a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/thom-hartmann-will-anyone-stop-the-tpp/" target="_blank">Thom Hartmann: Will Anyone Stop the TPP?</a> 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.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/poor-little-sociopath-dimon-says-bankers-are-under-assault/" target="_blank">Poor Little Sociopath Dimon Says Bankers are “Under Assault”</a> by Joshua De Leon<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/03/pap-and-seder-the-worst-choices-for-2016-jeb-and-hillary/" target="_blank">Pap and Seder: The Worst Choices for 2016 - Jeb and Hillary</a> <br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/papantonio-duponts-polluted-history-has-poisoned-entire-communities/" target="_blank">UBS Just Blew Your Retirement Fund</a> — 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.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/papantonio-duponts-polluted-history-has-poisoned-entire-communities/" target="_blank">Bernie Sanders: The American People are 'Profoundly Disgusted' with Our Political System</a> — 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.<br />
• <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/03/climate-change-advocate-bill-gates-foundation-has-over-1-billion-invested-in-fossil-fuel-industry/" target="_blank">Climate Change Advocate Bill Gates' Foundation has Over $1 Billion Invested in Fossil Fuel Industry</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/03/arctic-sea-ice-hits-all-time-low-when-will-everyone-start-paying-attention/" target="_blank">Arctic Sea Ice Hits All-Time Low. When Will Everyone Start Paying Attention to Climate Change?</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/2015/03/economist-paul-krugman-gop-is-fiscally-dishonest-its-budget-is-an-enormous-destructive-con-job/" target="_blank">Economist Paul Krugman: GOP is 'Fiscally Dishonest,' Its Budget is an 'Enormous, Destructive Con Job'</a><br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/31615-eric-alterman-inequality-and-one-city" target="_blank">3/16/15 Eric Alterman: Inequality and One City</a> <br />
• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/31715-john-mcdonough-death-of-single-payer-more-healthcare-youre-afraid-to-ask" target="_blank">3/17/15 John McDonough: Death of Single Payer? & More Healthcare You’re Afraid to Ask </a><br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/31815-lisa-goldman-the-grim-results-of-israels-election" target="_blank">3/18/15 Lisa Goldman: The Grim Results of Israel's Election </a><br />
• THURSDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/31915-sarah-halpern-meekin-its-not-like-im-poor" target="_blank">3/19/15 Sarah Halpern Meekin: It’s Not Like I’m Poor</a><br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/32015-casual-friday-cliff-schecter-david-feldman" target="_blank">3/20/15 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & David Feldman </a><br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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<li type=square><b>KEISER REPORT</b> Podcasts and more @ <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/" target="_blank">MaxKeiser.com</a>!<br />
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<b>"HI Y'ALL! Tell the people! Tell the people!"</b><br />
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 <a href="http://www.karmabanque.com/" target="_blank">KarmaBanque</a> a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. <br />
• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport" target="_blank">Keiser Report</a> <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/fbi-moves-to-broaden-hacking-authority-google-says-it-poses-monumental-constitutional-concern/" target="_blank">FBI Moves to Broaden Hacking Authority – Google Says it Poses “Monumental Constitutional Concern”</a> 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 <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/03/18/fbi-moves-to-broaden-hacking-authority-google-says-it-poses-monumental-constitutional-concern/" target="_blank">here</a>......... (libertyblitzkrieg.com)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/clinton-foundations-deep-financial-ties-to-ukrainian-oligarch-who-pushed-for-closer-ties-to-eu-revealed/" target="_blank">Gold Downside $850/oz; Upside Jump to $2,000/oz on ‘Grexit’</a> by Mark O'Byrne — <br />
-Capital Economics chart-based analysis sees gold ending year higher at $1,400 per ounce<br />
-Sees a remote possibility of gold falling to $850 per ounce <br />
-A “Grexit” may cause gold to surge to $2,000 per ounce <br />
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 <a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/gold-downside-850oz-upside-jump-to-2000oz-on-grexit/" target="_blank">Gold Downside $850/oz; Upside Jump to $2,000/oz on ‘Grexit’</a> (goldcore.com)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/clinton-foundations-deep-financial-ties-to-ukrainian-oligarch-who-pushed-for-closer-ties-to-eu-revealed/" target="_blank">Clinton Foundation’s Deep Financial Ties to Ukrainian Oligarch Who Pushed for Closer Ties to EU Revealed</a> 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: <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">Hillary Clinton Exposed Part 2 – Clinton Foundation Took Millions From Countries That Also Fund ISIS</a>. 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 <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/03/20/clinton-foundations-deep-financial-ties-to-ukrainian-oligarch-who-pushed-for-closer-ties-to-eu-revealed/" target="_blank">here</a>......... (libertyblitzkrieg.com)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/the-tax-justice-network-podcast-march-2015/" target="_blank">The Tax Justice Network Podcast (March 2015)</a> 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.<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/swiss-national-bank-masters-of-the-game//" target="_blank">Swiss National Bank: Masters of the Game</a> by Janet Tavakoli — This is the Swiss National Bank’s idea of “further measures”. Read …READ <a href="http://www.tavakolistructuredfinance.com/2015/01/swiss-franc-foreign-exchange-rates/" target="_blank">more</a>...... (tavakolistructuredfinance.com)<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/kr732-keiser-report-fracking-flop/" target="_blank">[KR732] Keiser Report: Fracking Flop</a> 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.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/kr733-keiser-report-let-the-rage-out/" target="_blank">[KR733] Keiser Report: Let the Rage Out!</a> 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.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/03/kr734-keiser-report-whop-whop-ponzi-style/" target="_blank">[KR734] Keiser Report: Whop, Whop, Ponzi Style!</a> 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. <br />
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<li type=square><b>The Scott Horton Radio Show</b><br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-2 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> 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....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-2 PM Eastern!</b> <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/03/12/31215-grant-f-smith/" target="_blank">3/12/15 Grant F. Smith</a>: Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discusses the upcoming conference “<a href="http://israellobbyus.org/" target="_blank">The Israel Lobby: Is it Good for the US? Is it Good for Israel?</a>” scheduled for April 10, 2015 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/03/15/31515-gareth-porter/" target="_blank">3/15/15 Gareth Porter</a>: 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.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/03/16/31615-ray-mcgovern/" target="_blank">3/16/15 Ray McGovern</a>: Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst and co-founder of Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), discusses <a href="http://original.antiwar.com/mcgovern/2015/03/15/guiding-obama-into-global-make-believe/" target="_blank">President Obama’s foreign policy advisers</a> 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.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/03/18/31815-philip-giraldi/" target="_blank">3/18/15 Philip Giraldi</a>: Philip Giraldi, a former CIA officer and Executive Director of <a href="http://www.councilforthenationalinterest.org/new/whoweare/" target="_blank">The Council for the National Interest</a>, 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.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/03/19/31915-eric-margolis/" target="_blank">3/19/15 Eric Margolis</a>: Eric Margolis, an internationally syndicated columnist and author of <i>American Raj</i>, discusses Israeli Prime Minister <a href="http://news.antiwar.com/2015/03/19/election-over-netanyahu-claims-hes-back-to-supporting-two-state-solution/" target="_blank">Benjamin Netanyahu’s change of mind on a two-state solution</a> – after he completely ruled out a Palestinian state during re-election campaigning, earning a rebuke from the White House.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>Spring Forward!</b> The Brick TeeVee Crew had yet another tumultuous week as <a href="http://www.tribtoday.com/page/content.detail/id/801988/Cleveland-shivers-through-coldest-February-on-record.html?isap=1&nav=5031" target="_blank">Cleveland shivers through coldest February on record</a> <font color=SteelBlue>Cleveland-area residents can say they survived <b>the coldest February in recorded weather history and the second-coldest month ever.</b> Northeast Ohio Media Group (http://bit.ly/1EYehjK ) reports that Cleveland set records for the average daily low temperature in February at 5.2 degrees and the lowest average daily high temperature at 23.4 degrees. The average daily temperature overall in Cleveland was more than 16 degrees below normal. Weather records date back to 1871. Cleveland also set a record for the most days with temperatures below zero at 10, including a record minus 9 degrees on Saturday. The coldest day of the month was minus 17 on Feb. 20.</font> Meanwhile on the other side of the continent <a href="http://www.adn.com/article/20150223/february-heat-wave-sets-more-alaska-temperature-records" target="_blank">February heat wave sets more Alaska temperature records</a> and Joe Romm reports at the ClimateProgress blog <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/02/20/3625194/climate-change-records/" target="_blank">In January, U.S. Saw Vastly More Daily Warm Records Than Cold Records. February, Too.</a> <font color=DarkSlateGray>The U.S. had the 24th warmest January in the 1895-2015 temperature record, <a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/summary-info/national/2015/1" target="_blank">NOAA reported</a> this week. And we saw four times as many daily warm temperature records as daily cold records. Globally it was the <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/02/17/3623575/hottest-12-months-record/" target="_blank">second-hottest January</a> on record. Yes, those of us on the East Coast were cold, but the West Coast was sizzling, as seen in the chart above. NOAA explains that seven Western states — California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming — “had a top 10 warm January.” But while “parts of the Southern Plains and Northeast were cooler than average… no state had a top 10 cool January.” A new 2015 study links this bifurcated weather pattern to climate change (see below). Global warming of 1°F since 1950 <a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/print.php?r=54" target="_blank">doesn’t mean</a> the end of winter or the end of record daily low temperatures. It’s still going to be much, much colder on average in January than July — and one of the most iconic indicators of winter for many Americans, northeastern blizzards, is actually going to get worse for the foreseeable future, as climatologists have <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/26/3615330/blizzards-climate-scientists/" target="_blank">long explained</a>. As for daily temperature fluctuations, they are so large at the local level that we will be seeing daily cold records — lowest daily minimum temperature and lowest daily maximum temperature — for a long, long time. That’s why climatologists prefer to look at the statistical aggregation across the country over an extended period of time, since it gets us beyond the oft-repeated point that you can’t pin any one single, local temperature record on global warming......................... Interestingly, NOAA also reports the hot and cold records for the month of February <a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/cdo-web/datatools/records" target="_blank">through the 18th</a>. It is more than 4800 to 1500, over 3 to 1. Again, cool East Coast, hot West Coast. <b>As you may recall, in spring 2014, a <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/04/15/3426810/california-drought-climate-change/" target="_blank">NASA-funded study</a> directly connected both the cool east and hot west to the same weather “dipole” pattern — and then connected that dipole pattern to global warming pollution.</b> The <a href="http://news.cisc.gmu.edu/doc/CA_drought_research.pdf" target="_blank">news release</a> for that study explained that the research provides “evidence connecting the amplified wind patterns, consisting of a strong high pressure in the West and a deep low pressure in the East [labeled a ‘dipole’], to global warming.” Researchers have “uncovered evidence that can trace the amplification of the dipole to human influences.” (In September, <a href="http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=132709&WT.mc_id=USNSF_52&WT.mc_ev=click" target="_blank">NSF-funded research</a> also found that the Western high pressure ridge was “very likely linked to human-caused climate change.” ...........)</font> Do read on and see all the pertinent graphs Joe Romm gathered! YOIKES! And once again most of us in the U.S. will be turning our clocks AHEAD by one hour. To find out about the history of DST go read <a href="http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/" target="_blank">webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/</a> <font color=indigo>Daylight Saving Time gives us the opportunity to enjoy sunny summer evenings by moving our clocks an hour forward in the spring. Yet, the implementation of Daylight Saving Time has been fraught with controversy since Benjamin Franklin conceived of the idea. Even today, regions and countries routinely change their approaches to Daylight Saving Time. Here, you can learn about the history of daylight saving (or as some may say, daylight shifting), the standardization of time, and when regions around the globe spring ahead and fall back. Enjoy!</font> We have a radical idea: let's split the diff and move the clocks 30 minutes ONE TIME and BE DONE with this ridiculous one-hour twice-a-year time change nonsense! WOW! Look at the time! It's 2 o'clock — er, um 3 o'clock! Funny thing is many colleges are having Spring Break while it's officially still WINTER (Spring Equinox isn't until March 20, at 22:45 UTC). When colleges were on the Quarter System there was a very defined End of Winter Quarter, Spring Break, and Spring Quarter. Now that most colleges have adopted the Semester System the calendar for the traditional Spring Break is all over the map! (Confusingly there are THREE semesters when including Summer "Semester" so the definition and word origin of "semester" <i>1827, from German Semester "half-year course in a university," from Latin semestris, in cursus semestris "course of six months," from semestris, semenstris "of six months, lasting six months, half-yearly, semi-annual," from sex "six" (see six) + mensis "month" (see moon (n.)</i> is turned on its head!) We'll be making the trek to OU on Sunday to take Da Kid back from his "Spring" Break. So we're "saving time" for our Stories of The Week until next week. Nevertheless we've posted the guest lists for this week's Sunday Funnies for your brick-throwing enjoyment below! And be sure to visit all our regulars! <br />
<ul><li type=square><b>Democracy NOW!</b> @ <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/" target="_blank">democracynow.org</a><br />
<li type=square><b>GritTV with Laura Flanders!</b> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">grittv.org</a><br />
<li type=square><b>HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid!</b> @ <a href="http://headon.headonradionetwork.com" target="_blank">HeadOnRadioNetwork.com</a><br />
<li type=square><b>The Green News Report!</b> @ <a href="http://greennews.bradblog.com/" target="_blank">greennews.bradblog.com</a> with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!<br />
<li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b> @ <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a><br />
<li type=square><b>Majority Report with Sam Seder!</b> @ <a href="http://majority.fm" target="_blank">Majority.FM</a><br />
<li type=square><b>Ring of Fire Radio with Sam, Bobby & Pap!</b> @ <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/" target="_blank">ringoffireradio.com</a><br />
<li type=square><b>The Keiser Report!</b> @ <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/" target="_blank">MaxKeiser.com</a>! With Stacy Herbert!<br />
<li type=square><b>The Scott Horton Show!</b> @ <a href="http://scotthorton.org/" target="_blank">scotthorton.org</a><br />
</ul>And put some coin in their tip jars while yer there! These important news outlets cannot function without OUR support, especially <a href="https://www.freespeech.org/" target="_blank">Free Speech TV</a> home of Democracy NOW! Be sure to watch/listen/read great interviews with world-renowned political dissident, linguist, author & professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology <a href="http://chomsky.info/" target="_blank">NOAM CHOMSKY</a> and MICHELLE ALEXANDER, author of <a href="http://newjimcrow.com/about-the-author" target="_blank">The New Jim Crow</a>, an absolute MUST-READ! Sam Seder was also LIVE in D.C. for the Supreme Court hearing on the challenge to the Affordable Care Act from the <a href="http://familiesusa.org/health-action-2015" target="_blank">Families USA Conference 2015</a> Radio Row held across the street from the SCOTUS. We're certain you will find something that makes you instantly smarter! Haha! Warm up your brick-throwing arm because you WILL find MANY brick targets on the Sunday Beltway Bubalas Talkies too! And don't forget to click on stories featured on our side-bar! Fabulous! We'll see you next Sunday with more stuff! Thanks for tuning in to Brick TeeVee! </font> <center><img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/gonzo-111x191.png" height="75"></center><center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br > <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick_teevee_test.jpg" alt="brick_teevee_test.jpg" /></br > The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br > THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br > Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,356 US Military Dead as of March 1, 2015</a> </br > <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br > <font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• Former Secretary of State Colin Powell<br />
• Ferguson Mayor James Knowles<br />
• ABC News Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Martha Raddatz reports with exclusive access on the front lines in the fight against ISIS in Iraq, including a rare interview with Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi. <br />
• ROUNDTABLE: ABC News contributor and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, managing editors of Bloomberg Politics and hosts of “With All Due Respect,” and former Bush White House communications director and “The View” co-host Nicolle Wallace. <br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)<br />
• Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.<br />
• Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.<br />
• Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C.<br />
• Benjamin Crump, the attorney for Trayvon Martin's and Michael Brown's families<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post, Gerald Seib of The Wall Street Journal, April Ryan of the American Urban Radio Networks and CBS News State Department correspondent Margaret Brennan.<br />
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<li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• Coming Up Sunday, March 8 at 7 p.m. ET/PT<br />
• Who Killed the Prosecutor?<br />
• Coming Home<br />
• The Maestro<br />
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<li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)<br />
• Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)<br />
• Rep. John Lewis (D-GA)<br />
• Former Major League Baseball Pitcher Curt Schilling<br />
• Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO)<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Jonathan Martin, National Political Correspondent, The New York Times; Kathleen Parker, Columnist, The Washington Post; Manu Raju, Senior Congressional Reporter, POLITICO; Amy Walter, National Editor, The Cook Political Report<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union (CNN)</b> CNN Correspondent Michael Smerconish hosts Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• Former U.S. Ambassador Scott Gration<br />
• Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)<br />
• Lanny Davis and S.E. Cupp<br />
• Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and LZ Granderson<br />
• Former Senator and Vietnam veteran Bob Kerrey and author David Maraniss<br />
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<li type=square><b>fauxnews </b><br />
• former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R)<br />
• former White House Special Counsel during the Clinton administration, Lanny Davis<br />
• Sen Ron Johnson (R-WI), the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations<br />
• Sen Bill Nelson (D-FL), member of the Senate Armed Services Committee<br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>February 2015 Roundup</b> It's been an uneven month for the Brick TeeVee Crew with a February CLE OH cold spell challenging the records of February 1963 and lots of snow to deal with plus too-many-to-mention Real Life issues too. So we decided to post up all the stories of note we've accumulated over the past month to get you and us caught up! Click anything and be instantly smarter! <br />
<b>»» Week ending 2-8-15</b><br />
<ul><li> Kevin Gosztola, firedoglake.com: <a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2015/02/04/cia-whistleblower-john-kiriakou-released-from-prison-heres-his-final-letter-from-loretto/" target="_blank">CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou Released from Prison: Here’s His Final ‘Letter from Loretto’</a><br />
<li> Electronic Frontier Foundation: <a href="https://act.eff.org/action/tell-obama-stop-mass-surveillance-under-executive-order-12333" target="_blank">Tell Obama: Stop Mass Surveillance Under Executive Order 12333</a><br />
<li> Zacarias Moussaoui 911 testimony - LARRY NEUMEISTER, Associated Press: <a href="http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/425418cbe4224e689ba48bee57f1d58a/lawyers-evidence-shows-saudi-arabia-aided-911-hijackers" target="_blank">Lawyers: Evidence shows Saudi Arabia aided 9/11 hijackers </a><br />
<li> Robert Reich, alternet.org: <a href="http://www.alternet.org/robert-reich-why-work-turning-nightmare" target="_blank">Robert Reich: Why Work Is Turning Into a Nightmare</a><br />
<li>Lame Stream Media coverage of TPP, mediamatters: <a href="http://mediamatters.org/research/2015/02/04/study-tv-news-shows-largely-ignore-historic-tra/202403" target="_blank">STUDY: TV News Shows Largely Ignore Historic Trade Negotiations </a> Trans-Pacific Partnership Barely Noticed By Weeknight News Over The Past 18 Months <br />
</ul><b>»» Week ending 2-15-15</b> <ul><li> BBC's David Leigh, James Ball, Juliette Garside and David Pegg: <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/13/hsbc-files-rona-fairhead-declines-answer-queries-activities-swiss-subsidiary" target="_blank">HSBC files: Rona Fairhead declines to answer queries about activities at Swiss bank</a> Chair of BBC Trust has been a director of HSBC since 2004 and headed its audit and risk committee from May 2007, covering some of the period detailed in files<br />
<li> ASSAD INTERVIEW BBC: <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-31327153" target="_blank">Syria conflict: BBC exclusive interview with President Bashar al-Assad</a><br />
<li> Stephanie Mencimer, motherjones.com: <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/02/competitive-enterprise-institute-king-burwell-obamacare-pharma" target="_blank">Why Is Big Pharma Financing a Conservative Group Trying to Destroy Obamacare?</a><br />
<li> Democracy NOW! <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/2/9/exclusive_freed_cia_whistleblower_john_kiriakou" target="_blank">Exclusive: Freed CIA Whistleblower John Kiriakou Says "I Would Do It All Again" to Expose Torture</a><br />
<li> David Ferguson, rawstory.com: <a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/demoted-catholic-cardinal-radical-feminists-are-to-blame-for-pedophile-priests/" target="_blank">Demoted Catholic cardinal: ‘Radical feminists’ are to blame for pedophile priests</a> RELATED: Mariah Blake, motherjones.com <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/warren-farrell-mens-rights-movement-feminism-misogyny-trolls" target="_blank">Mad Men: Inside the Men's Rights Movement—and the Army of Misogynists and Trolls It Spawned</a><br />
<li> Jennifer Bendery, huffingtonpost.com: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/11/obama-aumf-congress-isis_n_6660208.html" target="_blank">Obama Sends Congress Draft War Authorization</a> What the hell is "LETHAL defensive weapons"? Like "Military Intelligence"? or even "Collateral Damage"?<br />
<li> Democracy NOW! <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/2/10/playing_with_fire_a_debate_on" target="_blank">Playing with Fire? A Debate on U.S. Arming Ukraine & NATO Expansion to Russia’s Border</a> ALSO John Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/09/opinion/dont-arm-ukraine.html" target="_blank">Don’t Arm Ukraine</a> published in The New York Times AND General Charles Wald, retired four-star Air Force general, former deputy commander of U.S. European Command, co-author of a new report titled <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2015/02/ukraine-independence-russian-aggression" target="_blank">Preserving Ukraine’s Independence, Resisting Russian Aggression: What the United States and NATO Must Do</a> at brookings.edu. QUOTE: GEN. CHARLES WALD: <i>Well, here’s the point to that. Here’s the answer to that. First of all, you’re mixing up the situation again. The United States is not going to occupy the Ukraine. NATO is not going to occupy the Ukraine. NATO has said the Ukraine is not going to be part of NATO.</i><br />
<li> Six months since Mike Brown & jails more packed - Democracy NOW! <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/2/10/ferguson_residents_challenge_modern_debtors_prison" target="_blank">Ferguson Residents Challenge "Modern Debtors’ Prison Scheme" Targeting Blacks with Fines, Arrests</a><br />
<li>AUMF ISIS Jennifer Bendery, huffingtonpost.com <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/11/obama-aumf-congress-isis_n_6660208.html" target="_blank">Obama Sends Congress Draft War Authorization</a><br />
<li> Nick Meyer, althealthworks.com: <a href="http://althealthworks.com/5079/moms-crash-monsanto-shareholder-meeting-im-imploring-you-to-choose-a-new-direction-stop-poisoning-our-children/" target="_blank">Moms Crash Monsanto Shareholder Meeting: “I’m Imploring You to Choose a New Direction…Stop Poisoning Our Children”</a> EXCERPT: <i>“Glyphosate is a DNA mutagen and cell disintegrator, allowing toxins into the brain (8). Glyphosate is a chelator, causing vitamin and mineral deficiency. Without certain minerals our bodies cannot fight cancer (9). Glyphosate is an endocrine disruptor, causing infertility, sterility, miscarriages and birth defects (10).”<br />
Honeycutt also stated that she was submitting hundreds of testimonials from mothers describing what Monsanto products are doing to their children and showing how their children get better when they avoid GMOs and eat organic. She then submitted hundreds of pages of studies and papers today showing how glyphosate impacts the gut-brain connection (11), leading to birth defects (12), liver and kidney disease (13), Parkinson’s (14), Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma (15), Alzheimer’s, Celiac’s, Autism (15) and Cancer (16). “According to the current rate of diagnosis we can expect, in 20 years, 50% of our children born will get autism (17),” she noted. </i> Human guinea pigs.<br />
Everyone. It's in yer meat. yer tofu. it's in yer freakin Froot Loops! And yer urine, blood and other bodily excrement. BTV's Number One Grandson was taken off crap-food at four and every one of his allergies went away. ALL of them. He's a happy 2nd grader now! <br />
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<b>www.BankruptMonsanto.net only $9.99!</b> Read THIS From 2013 at corante.com <a href="http://pipeline.corante.com/archives/2013/04/30/is_glyphosate_poisoning_everyone.php" target="_blank">Is Glyphosate Poisoning Everyone? </a> AND watch THIS <a href="http://http://geneticroulettemovie.com/#trailer" target="_blank">Genetic Roulette -The Gamble of Our Lives</a> A film by Jeffrey M. Smith – Narrated by Lisa Oz <br />
<li> Warren Cornwall, slate.com <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2014/01/monarch_butterfly_decline_monsanto_s_roundup_is_killing_milkweed.html" target="_blank">The Missing Monarchs</a><i> Monsanto’s Roundup and genetically modified crops are harming everybody’s favorite butterfly.</i><br />
</ul><b>»» Week ending 2-22-15</b> <ul><li>NTY OP-ED Greece's Yanis Varoufakis: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/17/opinion/yanis-varoufakis-no-time-for-games-in-europe.html" target="_blank">Yanis Varoufakis: No Time for Games in Europe</a><br />
<li> Renee Maltezou and Jan Strupczewski, Reuters via HufPoAOL: <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/16/greek-debt-talks_n_6693548.html" target="_blank">Greek Debt Talks Break Down</a><br />
<li> JOHN RABY, AP: <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/e5be02a14f1e48dd8aca566b5606d4b0/wva-oil-train-derailment-was-1-3-safer-tank-cars" target="_blank">Fire smolders a 3rd day from W.Va. oil train derailment </a><br />
<li>BOB KINCAID MSNBC VIDEO <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/train-carrying-crude-oil-explodes-in-wv-400655939701" target="_blank">Train carrying crude oil explodes in WV </a> TRANSCRIPT <a href="http://www.today.com/id/56990309/ns/msnbc-all_in_with_chris_hayes/t/all-chris-hayes-tuesday-february-th/#.VPKbQi6DuBk" target="_blank">All In With Chris Hayes, Tuesday, February 17th, 2015 </a><br />
<li>BOB KINCAID Radio Or Not with Nicole Sanders <a href="http://radioornot.com/blog/2-18-15-nicole-sandler-show-bomb-trains-other-21st-century-realities/" target="_blank">2-18-15 Nicole Sandler Show – Bomb Trains & Other 21st Century Realities</a> <br />
<li>BOB KINCAID SONALI UPRISING Wed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UJaZmmatUA" target="_blank">Uprising Excerpt of Bob Kincaid on a West Virginia Major Oil Spill from a Train Derailment </a><br />
<li> Bryan Logan and Reuters, businessinsider.com <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/cbs-newsman-bob-simon-killed-in-a-car-crash-2015-2?op=1" target="_blank">CBS newsman Bob Simon killed in a car crash</a><br />
<li> Eva Golinger, TELESUR <a href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Venezuela-Coup-in-Real-Time-20150201-0015.html" target="_blank">Venezuela: Coup in Real Time</a> <i>U.S. media is increasing its systematic negative coverage of Venezuela.</i><br />
<li> Meghashyam Mali, thehill.com <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/233293-us-denies-backing-venezuela-coup-attempt" target="_blank">US denies backing Venezuela coup attempt</a> <i>"The United States is not promoting unrest in Venezuela, nor are we attempting to undermine Venezuela’s economy or its government," spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.</i><br />
<li>William Greider, The Nation: <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/198193/why-no-one-talking-about-gops-plan-send-millions-disabled-americans-poverty" target="_blank">Why Is No One Talking About the GOP’s Plan to Send Millions of Disabled Americans Into Poverty?</a> <i>McConnell-Boehner Republicans are now reviving <b>the Gipper’s big lie</b>, claiming the Social Security system is in crisis because of swollen disability benefits. Allegedly to save the system, these so-called fiscal conservatives intend to cut benefits and throw out those supposedly able-bodied slackers. Once again, their facts are bogus. Never mind, their story line is concocted to arouse anti-government resentment among people who are themselves strapped for income.</i><br />
<li> Natasha Lomas, techcrunch.com <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/16/pi-did-brits-spy/?ncid=rss#89V5Ba:T0l" target="_blank">Find Out If U.K. Spied On You Illegally Via NSA’s Prism, Upstream</a> <i> Following a landmark <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/06/ipt-nsa-gchq-ruling/" target="_blank">legal ruling earlier this month</a> that, prior to December 2014, the U.K.’s spy agency GCHQ acted illegally by receiving data from the NSA’s surveillance dragnets, privacy advocacy organization Privacy International has set up an <a href="https://privacyinternational.org/illegalspying" target="_blank">online form</a> where people can submit a request to be informed whether they were spied on in the past.</i><br />
<li>BBC VIDEO <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-31433363" target="_blank">Ukraine conflict: What happened in Kiev's Maidan square?</a> AND BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-31359021" target="_blank">The untold story of the Maidan massacre</a> <i>A day of bloodshed on Kiev's main square, nearly a year ago, marked the end of a winter of protest against the government of president Viktor Yanukovych, who soon afterwards fled the country. More than 50 protesters and three policemen died. But how did the shooting begin? Protest organisers have always denied any involvement - but one man told the BBC a different story. </i><br />
<li> Jeremy Scahill and Josh Begley, The//Intercept: <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/" target="_blank">The Great SIM Heist - How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle</a><br />
<li> Christopher Soghoian, privacy researcher and activist on Democracy NOW! <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/2/20/nsa_british_gchq_hacked_sim_card" target="_blank">NSA & British GCHQ Hacked SIM Card Maker to Steal Encryption Keys to Spy on Billions of Cellphones</a> Watch Part 2 of the interview: <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2015/2/20/part_2_security_researcher_christopher_soghoian" target="_blank">Security Researcher Christopher Soghoian on How to Use a Cellphone Without Being Spied On</a><br />
<li> Dominic Rushe in New York, theguardian.com <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/19/nsa-gchq-sim-card-billions-cellphones-hacking" target="_blank">Sim card database hack gave US and UK spies access to billions of cellphones </a><br />
<li> DAVID E. SANGER and NICOLE PERLROTH , NYT: <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/world/bank-hackers-steal-millions-via-malware.html?_r=0#story-continues-1" target="_blank">Bank Hackers Steal Millions via Malware</a><br />
<li> Submitted by GoldCore, zerohedge.com: <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-17/nsa-trojan-firmware-widespread-us-international-tech-reputation-may-suffer-tech-priv" target="_blank">NSA Trojan Firmware Widespread, U.S. International Tech Reputation May Suffer. Tech Privacy Has Been a Myth.</a> <i>Reuters reports: Kaspersky's reconstructions of the spying programs show that they could work in disk drives sold by more than a dozen companies, comprising essentially the entire market. They include Western Digital Corp, Seagate Technology Plc, Toshiba Corp, IBM, Micron Technology Inc and Samsung Electronics Co LTD</i><br />
<li> Submitted by Dave, newstartdesigns.co.uk: <a href="https://newstartdesigns.co.uk/wordpress/2015/02/kaspersky-fingers-nsa-style-equation-group-for-hard-drive-backdoor-epidemic/" target="_blank">Kaspersky fingers NSA-style Equation Group for hard drive backdoor epidemic</a> <i>Kaspersky doesn’t name a likely source, but finds a lot of links to Stuxnet, which is often linked to the NSA. “There are solid links indicating that the Equation group has interacted with other powerful groups, such as the Stuxnet and Flame operators, generally from a position of superiority,” adds Kaspersky.</i><br />
<li> Peter Maass, The//Intercept: : <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/18/destroyed-by-the-espionage-act/" target="_blank">Stephen Kim Destroyed by the Espionage Act</a><br />
<li>Peter Maass on Democracy NOW! <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">Jailed for Speaking to the Press: How the Obama Admin Ruined Life of State Dept Expert Stephen Kim</a><br />
</ul>WOW! Unless you've been living in a cave (with yer own personal dialysis machine maybe) or <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/21/fox-news-viewers-less-informed-people-fairleigh-dickinson_n_1106305.html" target="_blank">watching foxsnooze fake news</a> you may have heard of SOME of these stories but if yer source was Fake Snooze or the Lame Stream Media you certainly didn't get a FULL PICTURE of what really is happening (often with yer tax dollars "at work"). <ul><font color=navy>"The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents. There is no safe deposit for these but with the people themselves, nor can they be safe with them without information. Where the press is free, and every man able to read, all is safe." </br > <b>--Thomas Jefferson to Charles Yancey, 1816. ME 14:384 </b></font></ul>The problem we face is Western media, now being wholly owned-and-operated by global media moguls, directed by various governments to keep the inner workings of their deals opaque to their constituents, grasping for influence and opinion of the huddled masses. One needs only to see the backlash and personal destruction they can and will inflict, from <a href="http://www.focusfeatures.com/kill_the_messenger/" target="_blank">Gary Webb and Iran-Contra</a> to <a href="https://wikileaks.org/" target="_blank">wikileaks</a> to <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/internet-own-boy-story-aaron-swartz/http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">Aaron Swartz</a>, and the incredible number of "leakers" the Obomber Administration has prosecuted and persecuted that we've alerted you to over the years of BTV posts. <b>The dystopia of <i>1984</i> is now here.</b> Every IP address is logged. Every phone is potentially tapped including <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/cover-story-how-nsa-spied-on-merkel-cell-phone-from-berlin-embassy-a-930205.html" target="_blank">German Chancellor Angela Merkel</a> to name one. All your email is stored and potentially sifted through in "the cloud" of Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL and Google servers (like this blog). Heck <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/11/04/germany-is-only-now-exposing-many-stasi-spies-this-film-shows-what-thats-doing-to-the-country/" target="_blank">The East German STASI</a> never had it this good! And as far as the Lame Stream Media is concerned Mark Twain said it best when he said "A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." And Third Riech über-propagandist Joseph Goebbels proclaimed "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it." If you watch any teevee at all you will see these two dynamics being played out in every 30-second spot and so-called "news" broadcast. Chris Hedges explains the history of The Press being used to shape Public Opinion as far back as WWI in <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/death-of-the-liberal-class-chris-hedges/1100380942?ean=9781568586793" target="_blank">Death of the Liberal Class</a> GOOD ITEM! In our absence all our regulars have been producing amazing stories, commentaries and FACTS missing from The Lame Stream Media. Check them out! <ul><li type=square><b>Democracy NOW!</b> @ <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/" target="_blank">democracynow.org</a><br />
<li type=square><b>GritTV with Laura Flanders!</b> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">grittv.org</a><br />
<li type=square><b>HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid!</b> @ <a href="http://headon.headonradionetwork.com" target="_blank">HeadOnRadioNetwork.com</a><br />
<li type=square><b>The Green News Report!</b> @ <a href="http://greennews.bradblog.com/" target="_blank">greennews.bradblog.com</a> with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!<br />
<li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b> @ <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a><br />
<li type=square><b>Majority Report with Sam Seder!</b> @ <a href="http://majority.fm" target="_blank">Majority.FM</a><br />
<li type=square><b>Ring of Fire Radio with Sam, Bobby & Pap!</b> @ <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/" target="_blank">ringoffireradio.com</a><br />
<li type=square><b>The Keiser Report!</b> @ <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/" target="_blank">MaxKeiser.com</a>! With Stacy Herbert!<br />
<li type=square><b>The Scott Horton Show!</b> @ <a href="http://scotthorton.org/" target="_blank">scotthorton.org</a><br />
</ul>And put some coin in their tip jars while yer there! We're certain you will find something that makes you instantly smarter! Haha! Warm up your brick-throwing arm because you WILL find MANY brick targets on the Sunday Beltway Bubalas Talkies too! We'll have to try to post an off-schedule post this week featuring <b><a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/blog/2015/02/26/net-neutrality-victory" target="_blank">Net Neutrality Victory</a>! <font color=blue>That’s right. We won.</b> Even a few months ago this victory didn’t seem possible. Last May, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler ignored the public call for real Net Neutrality — and instead released a proposal that would have allowed pay-to-play fast lanes online. Comcast and its pals thought they’d won the fight. But Free Press members and millions of people across the country proved them wrong. After a year of relentless activism, Wheeler reversed course — moving to give Internet users the strongest protections possible under Title II of the Communications Act. It’s an incredible turnaround that wouldn’t have happened without every single phone call, email, rally, Facebook post, tweet, meeting with Congress and everything else activists have been part of in the fight to save the Internet. 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. <b>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.</b> 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. <b>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.</b></font> </font> <center><img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/gonzo-111x191.png" height="75"></center><font face=arial size=4> <center><b>R.I.P. Leonard Nimoy - Live Long and Prosper</b></br > <img src="http://hot.mixtopix.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Leonard-Nimoy.jpg" height=200 alt="spock" /> <img src="http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/37/3777/R2GIF00Z/posters/leonard-nimoy.jpg" height=200 alt="leonard-nimoyr" /> <img src="http://cdn.ndtv.com/tech/images/gadgets/nimoy.jpg" height=200 alt="nimoy" /> </br > <img src="http://www.startrek.com/uploads/assets/articles/e98783a2557393bee69bd71a82da351ba7bef875.jpg" height=200 alt="spock2" /> <img src="http://www.trekbrasilis.org/tbweblog/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/spock-TMP.gif" height=200 alt="spock3" /> <img src="https://theshootening.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/leonard-nimoy-spock-star-trek-2.jpeg" height=200 alt="spock4" /></br > <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6a/Leonard_Nimoy_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/220px-Leonard_Nimoy_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg" height=300 alt="nimoy" /></br > Leonard Simon Nimoy </br > March 26, 1931 – February 27, 2015</br > </center></font> <center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br > <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick_teevee_test.jpg" alt="brick_teevee_test.jpg" /></br > The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br > THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br > Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,356 US Military Dead as of Feb 28, 2015</a> </br > <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br > <font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• ABC News exclusive Secretary of State John Kerry <br />
• ROUNDTABLE: AABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, ESPN senior writer and CNN contributor LZ Granderson, syndicated radio host Laura Ingraham, and ABC News’ Cokie Roberts<br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH)<br />
• Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.<br />
• Potential presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (R-AR)<br />
• Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic and CBS News State Department Correspondent Margaret Brennan. <br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal, Mark Halperin of Bloomberg, Maria Cardona of CNN and Republican strategist Kevin Madden, who is also a CNN political contributor.<br />
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<li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• Coming Up Sunday, March 1 at 7 p.m. ET/PT<br />
• FEMA: Evidence of fraud in Hurricane Sandy reports - FEMA official says he has seen evidence of fraud in engineering reports used to deny thousands of Hurricane Sandy claims<br />
• A shy side of Larry David? - Despite the laughs, the money and fame, Larry David says he still couldn't walk up to a woman in a bar<br />
• <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-bob-simon-tribute/" target="_blank">Remembering Bob Simon</a> - 60 Minutes remembers and celebrates the life and extraordinary career of friend and colleague Bob Simon<br />
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<li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) House Majority Leader<br />
• Dr. Ben Carson Professor Emeritus of Neurosurgery, Johns Hopkins University & Author, "One Nation"<br />
• Rep. Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)<br />
• Fmr. Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT)<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Chris Cillizza, Political Reporter, The Washington Post; Helene Cooper, Pentagon Correspondent, The New York Times; Hugh Hewitt, Host, "The Hugh Hewitt Show"; Maria Hinojosa, Host, NPR's "Latino USA"<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union (CNN)</b> CNN Correspondent Dana Bash hosts Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• Rick Perry, former Republican Texas Governor<br />
• Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)<br />
• Michael Oren, former Israeli Ambassador to the United States and a political opponent of Netanyahu<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Michele Bachmann, Donna Brazile, and Peter Baker<br />
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<li type=square><b>fauxnews </b><br />
• Majority Whip, Rep Steve Scalise (R-LA)<br />
• Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R)<br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>BRICK TEEVEE HACKED!</b> We missed last week's installment of Brick TeeVee due to heavy snow (and its removal), an unexpected visit from Da Kid, swinging over data to our new main PC and SB XLIX. However we did manage to finally finish up the previous week's post so see <a href="http://filthy-rich.blogspot.com/2015/01/brick-teevees-state-of-world-2015.html" target="_blank">Brick TeeVee's State of The World 2015!</a> We were all set to get this week's post up but SURPRISE none of our browsers would surf the 'net! SOMETHING snuck into the system and seems to block Port 80 and 443 and it's not the firewall. We did several scans while in Windows (and in Safe Mode too) using the best tools and they did find some things but something is still blocking us on all browsers. Might be an evil root-kit virus that might do ANYTHING so we're now deep cleaning the system using some UNIX-based tools. Fingers crossed they will find and clean the bug-a-boo that has infected our system. At least we didn't have MILLIONS of patient data hacked like <a href="http://www.databreaches.net/health-insurance-giant-anthem-blue-cross-and-blue-shield-discloses-breach-that-could-affect-tens-of-millions-of-customers-and-employees/" target="_blank">Health insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield discloses breach that could affect tens of millions of customers and employees</a>! So we're coming to you from the Secret Secure Bunker PC this week. Please visit all our regulars while we disinfect our main system!<br />
<ul><li type=square><b>Democracy NOW!</b> @ <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/" target="_blank">democracynow.org</a><br />
<li type=square><b>GritTV with Laura Flanders!</b> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">grittv.org</a><br />
<li type=square><b>HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid!</b> @ <a href="http://headon.headonradionetwork.com" target="_blank">HeadOnRadioNetwork.com</a><br />
<li type=square><b>The Green News Report!</b> @ <a href="http://greennews.bradblog.com/" target="_blank">greennews.bradblog.com</a> with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!<br />
<li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b> @ <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a><br />
<li type=square><b>Majority Report with Sam Seder!</b> @ <a href="http://majority.fm" target="_blank">Majority.FM</a><br />
<li type=square><b>Ring of Fire Radio with Sam, Bobby & Pap!</b> @ <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/" target="_blank">ringoffireradio.com</a><br />
<li type=square><b>The Keiser Report!</b> @ <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/" target="_blank">MaxKeiser.com</a>! With Stacy Herbert!<br />
<li type=square><b>The Scott Horton Show!</b> @ <a href="http://scotthorton.org/" target="_blank">scotthorton.org</a><br />
</ul>And put some coin in their tip jars while yer there! We're certain you will find something that makes you instantly smarter! Haha! And you just might find a few brick targets on the Sunday Beltway Bubalas Talkies too like 2004 LOSER and now U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry with Meet the Toad, Ted Cruz (R-TX) on FAKE SNOOZE and This Snafugopolis, also featuring Rick "my kids play with jarred fetuses" Sanitarium. We recommend ConsortiumNews.com TruthDig.com truth-out.org BuzzFlash.com TomDispatch.com wsws.org GlobalResearch.ca antiwar.com Salon.com TheNation.com Rolling Stone rs.com The Atlantic The New Yorker ThinkProgress.org The Intercept TheGuardian.com (just to name a few) for more info news and opinion! PLUS plenty more News & Comments too on our SIDEBAR over there! ---------> </br > Good Items ALL! CLICK ANYTHING AND BE INSTANTLY SMARTER! </br > We hope to have all our computer issues resolved soon and have a full BTV screed for you next week. Until then have a great week and we'll see you next Sunday! </font>
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<li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> with George Snafugopolis <br />
• Retired Gen. John Allen, the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIS<br />
• Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas<br />
• former Sen. Rick Santorum and his wife Karen<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Echelon Insights co-founder and Daily Beast contributor Kristen Soltis Anderson, CNN political commentator Van Jones, and Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, managing editors of Bloomberg Politics and hosts of “With All Due Respect” <br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS)</b> with Bob Schiefer<br />
• Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee<br />
• Tom Donilon, President Obama's former National Security Advisor<br />
• CBS News senior security contributor Michael Morell <br />
• Dr. Anthony Fauci, the chief of infectious disease at the National Institutes of Health<br />
• Dr. Jon LaPook, CBS News chief medical correspondent<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Ruth Marcus of the Washington Post, David Sanger of The New York Times, Nancy Youssef of The Daily Beast and John Harris of Politico<br />
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<li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> with Chuck Todd<br />
• Secretary of State John Kerry<br />
• Jordanian Foreign Minister Nasser Judeh<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: TBA<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union (CNN)</b> Dana Bash hosts <br />
• Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson <br />
• Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)<br />
• Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA)<br />
• Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) <br />
• former chairman of the House Intel Committee Mike Rogers<br />
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<li type=square><b>fauxnews </b> <br />
• retired U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former Director of the Defense Intelligence Agency<br />
• Dr. Ben Carson, author of “One Nation: What We Can All Do to Save America’s Future."<br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>State of The World</b> WOW! What a moving speech! We were cheering! And crying and laughing and cheering some more! Can you believe it? One for the ages! And it happened fifty one years ago. <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/19/exclusive_newly_discovered_1964_mlk_speech" target="_blank">Exclusive: Newly Discovered 1964 MLK Speech on Civil Rights, Segregation & Apartheid South Africa</a> <b>In a Democracy Now! and Pacifica Radio Archives exclusive, we air a newly discovered recording of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On December 7, 1964, days before he received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, King gave a major address in London on segregation, the fight for civil rights and his support for Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. The speech was recorded by Saul Bernstein, who was working as the European correspondent for Pacifica Radio. Bernstein’s recording was recently discovered by Brian DeShazor, director of the <a href="http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/" target="_blank">Pacifica Radio Archives</a>.</b> If you haven't yet then do READ our award-winning essay at our <a href="http://filthy-rich.blogspot.com/2013/08/btv-special-50th-anniversary-march-for.html" target="_blank">BTV Special! 50th Anniversary March for Jobs and Freedom! </a> from 2013! Tell yer peeps! GOOD ITEMS! Meanwhile the Brick TeeVee Tech Crew had to scramble to get another PC running when our beloved ten-years-old-this-month <a href="http://www.penstarsys.com/reviews/laptop/emach/m6805/index.html" target="_blank">eMachines M6805 laptop</a> running XP SP3 suffered some heat-related issues. The M6805 is on the bench while we affect repairs. However the surgery and moving files took quite a bit of time so our post will be delayed today. Speaking of the wINTEL platform.....<br />
<ul><li> <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010820/how-long-will-microsoft-support-windows-7.html" target="_blank">How long will Microsoft support Windows 7?</a> <b>.....Microsoft will stop mainstream support on January 12, 2015. But the company will keep providing extended support until January 14, 2020........ </b> You can still buy select systems with Windows 7 Professional pre-loaded from vendors like New Egg and Tiger Direct and others. We're partial to this <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834257804" target="_blank">HP ProBook 655 G1 (F2R12UT#ABA) Notebook AMD A-Series A8-5550M</a> to replace the M6805! Get yers now!<br />
<li> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/windows-server-2003/" target="_blank">Windows Server 2003 support is ending July 14, 2015</a> The Brick TeeVee Tech Crew is moving our servers to a virtual environmnet. If yer still on any version of Server 2003 it's time to move! If you need help with your transition leave a comments below! FREE ADVICE from yer Brick TeeVee Tech Crew!<br />
<li> <a href="http://news.microsoft.com/windows10story/" target="_blank">Windows 10: The Next Chapter</a> (microsoft.com) AND <a href="http://tech.firstpost.com/news-analysis/microsofts-windows-10-is-here-7-major-features-you-need-to-know-251198.html" target="_blank">Microsoft’s Windows 10 is here: 7 major features you need to know</a> @ TECH2 (tech.firstpost.com)<br />
</ul><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law" target="_blank">Moore's Law</a> marches on! Is yer workplace ready for this transition? Leave us a comment below and the Brick TeeVee Tech Crew will contact you for a FREE consult! Please see all our regulars for this week's news our corporate-driven Lame Stream Media (LSM) ignore! THROW BRICKS! ALL OUR REGULARS have important stories so CLICK ANYTHING and be INSTANTLY SMARTER! Really! Try it! There's enews from domestic to international! We'll be back with our latest BTV screed later today so check back often! Stay tuned! (notlikeyoucantclickanythingandbeinstantlysmarterinthemeantime) </br > ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ </br > Oh yeah and Obomber gave a good speech too. We hope you watched/listened to it IN WHOLE so you can form yer own opinion but nonetheless you've certainly been exposed to the lamestreammedia (LSM) version of "what he said" translation like you can't understand what he really did say and here's what WE (yes you Chris Matthews) WILL TELL YOU WHAT YOU HEARD (with yer own two ears!) over the passed week. The Brick TeeVee gives it a B+ on the whole. Others meted out other grades. <ul><li> Emily Atkin at Climate Progress <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/?s=state+of+the+union&x=0&y=0" target="_blank">Republicans Post Doctored Version Of State Of The Union, Censor Facts On Climate Change</a><br />
<li>Brendan Fischer at PRWatch.org <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2015/01/12713/koch-party-delivers-sotu-response" target="_blank">Koch Party Delivers SOTU Response</a><br />
<li>Lisa Graves and Ralph Nader on Democracy NOW! <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/21/on_5th_anniversary_of_citizens_united" target="_blank">On 5th Anniversary of Citizens United, GOP Taps Koch Brothers-Backed Senator to Give SOTU Response</a><br />
<li>Nomi Prins Uprising Wed <a href="http://uprisingradio.org/home/2015/01/21/jan-21-2015-nomi-prins-dissects-obamas-sotu-greeces-leftist-party-poised-to-take-power-in-elections-houthi-rebels-stage-slow-motion-coup-in-yemen/" target="_blank">Jan 21 2015 – Nomi Prins Dissects Obama’s SOTU</a> "Nomi Prins comments on President Obama’s 6th State of the Union. "<br />
<li> Dan Froomkin at The Intercept <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/01/20/obamas-cyber-proposals-sound-good-totally-clueless/" target="_blank">Obama’s Cyber Proposals Sound Good, But Erode Information Security</a><br />
<li>Bill Boyarsky at TruthDig.com <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/state_of_the_union_bright_ideas_dim_future_20150120" target="_blank">State of the Union: Bright Ideas, Dim Future </a><br />
<li>Michael Winship at ConsortiumNews.com <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/21/obamas-modest-proposals/" target="_blank">Obama’s Modest Proposals </a><br />
</ul>NEXT Graeme Wearden at TheGuardian.com explains this report by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/20/oxfam-85-richest-people-half-of-the-world" target="_blank">Oxfam: 85 richest people as wealthy as poorest half of the world </a> <font color=FireBrick>The world's wealthiest people aren't known for travelling by bus, but if they fancied a change of scene then the richest 85 people on the globe – who between them control as much wealth as the poorest half of the global population put together – could squeeze onto a single double-decker. The extent to which so much global wealth has become corralled by a virtual handful of the so-called 'global elite' is exposed in a new report from <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/oxfam" target="_blank">Oxfam</a> on Monday. It warned that those richest 85 people across the globe share a combined wealth of £1tn, as much as the poorest 3.5 billion of the world's population. The wealth of the 1% richest people in the world amounts to $110tn (£60.88tn), or 65 times as much as the poorest half of the world, added the development charity, which fears this concentration of economic resources is threatening political stability and driving up social tensions. It's a chilling reminder of the depths of wealth inequality as political leaders and top business people head to the snowy peaks of Davos for this week's World Economic Forum. Few, if any, will be arriving on anything as common as a bus, with private jets and helicopters pressed into service as many of the world's most powerful people <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/jan/19/world-economic-forum-davos-issues-2014" target="_blank">convene to discuss the state of the global economy over four hectic days of meetings, seminars and parties in the exclusive ski resort</a>. Winnie Byanyima, the Oxfam executive director who will attend the Davos meetings, said: "It is staggering that in the 21st Century, half of the world's population – that's three and a half billion people – own no more than a tiny elite whose numbers could all fit comfortably on a double-decker bus." <b>Oxfam also argues that this is no accident either, saying growing inequality has been driven by a "power grab" by wealthy elites, who have co-opted the political process to rig the rules of the economic system in their favour.</b> In the report, entitled Working For The Few (<a href="http://www.oxfam.org/sites/www.oxfam.org/files/bp-working-for-few-political-capture-economic-inequality-200114-summ-en.pdf" target="_blank">summary here</a>), Oxfam warned that the fight against poverty cannot be won until wealth inequality has been tackled.................. Byanyima explained: "In developed and developing countries alike we are increasingly living in a world where the lowest tax rates, the best health and education and the opportunity to influence are being given not just to the rich but also to their children. "Without a concerted effort to tackle inequality, the cascade of privilege and of disadvantage will continue down the generations. We will soon live in a world where equality of opportunity is just a dream. In too many countries economic growth already amounts to little more than a 'winner takes all' windfall for the richest." ...................................... Oxfam is calling on those gathered at WEF to pledge: to support progressive taxation and not dodge their own taxes; refrain from using their wealth to seek political favours that undermine the democratic will of their fellow citizens; make public all investments in companies and trusts for which they are the ultimate beneficial owners; challenge governments to use tax revenue to provide universal healthcare, education and social protection; demand a living wage in all companies they own or control; and challenge other members of the economic elite to join them in these pledges.</font> MICKEY MEASLES: ALICIA CHANG, AP Science Writer via USNews.com <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2015/01/22/disney-parks-linked-measles-outbreak-grows-to-70-cases" target="_blank">Disney Parks Measles Outbreak Reaches 70 Cases</a> See Uprising with Sonali interview with ARTHUR ALLEN author of <i>Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver</i> and watch <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qvr-b9B0Xs" target="_blank">Uprising Excerpt of Arthur Allen on Measles Outbreak in Disneyland </a> KING ABDULA DIES: Brick TeeVee correspondent MADDY snagged these tweets: <ul><li>Glenn Greenwald@Ggreenwald 1h1 hour ago Next on CNN: Was the dearly departed King Abdullah more like MLK or Gandhi? Our panel remembers this beloved figured of peace and reform.<br />
<li>Channel 4 News@channel4news 2h2 hours ago IMF chief @lagarde hails Saudi King Abdullah a 'strong advocate of women' - watch bit.ly/1CXrdoU #c4news (Ref: TheGuardian.com <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/23/lagarde-king-abdullah-advocate-women-driving-ban" target="_blank">Lagarde calls King Abdullah ‘advocate of women’ - despite ban on driving </a> <i>Human rights campaigners said his reign brought marginal advances for women but failed to secure fundamental rights) </i><br />
<li>Aaron Bady@zunguzungu 31m31 minutes ago The king is dead, so let's take a break from slowly beating a blogger to death for being a liberal. www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/22/flogging-saudi-blogger-raif-badawi-postponed … </ul>Also see Sam Husseini at ConsortiumNews.com <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/24/flattering-the-dead-saudi-king/" target="_blank">Flattering the Dead Saudi King</a> BARRETT BROWN SENTENCING: Brick TeeVee correspondent JEN: "This is a snippie of his speech to the judge: <a href="dailydot.com/politics/barrett-brown-sentencing-allocution/" target="_blank">Here's the speech Barrett Brown will deliver at his sentencing</a>" <ul>. . . First I will speak of regret. Like nearly all federal defendants, I hope to convince Your Honor that I sincerely regret some of the things that I have done. I don’t think anyone doubts that I regret quite a bit about my life including some of the things that brought me here today. Your Honor has the Acceptance of Responsibility document that my counsel submitted to you. Every word of it was sincere. The videos were idiotic, and although I made them in a manic state brought on by sudden withdrawal from Paxil and Suboxone, and while distraught over the threats to prosecute my mother, that’s still me in those YouTube clips talking nonsense about how the FBI would never take me alive. . . . . </ul>Read Barrett Brown's <a href="https://www.transcend.org/tms/2015/01/post-sentence-statement-journalist-barrett-brown-63-months-5-years-imprisonment-for-association-with-anonymous/" target="_blank">Statement to journalists</a> about his "new assignment" and get more info from <a href="https://freebarrettbrown.org/allocution/" target="_blank">FreeBarrettBrown.org</a>. PLUS Kevin Gosztola writes at Dissenter.FireDogLake.com <a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/tag/barrett-brown/" target="_blank">At Sentencing, Journalist Barrett Brown Expresses Regrets & Condemns Criminalization of Journalists</a> & Uprising <a href="http://uprisingradio.org/home/2015/01/22/jan-22-2015-congress-and-israeli-pm-snub-obama-former-cia-operative-on-trial-under-the-espionage-act-low-rates-of-vaccinations-drive-measles-outbreak/" target="_blank">Congress and Israeli PM Snub Obama, Former CIA Operative on Trial under the Espionage Act, Low Rates of Vaccinations Drive Measles Outbreak</a> "Kevin Gosztola reports on the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, a former CIA operative, involved in a bizarre program called Project Merlin." Here are a few more stories too big to snip! <ul><li> Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept <a href="firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/02/24/jtrig-manipulation/" target="_blank">How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations</a><br />
<li> Laura Poitras, Marcel Rosenbach, Fidelius Schmid, Holger Stark and Jonathan Stock at Der Speigel <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/secret-documents-nsa-targeted-germany-and-eu-buildings-a-908609.html" target="_blank">Cover Story: How the NSA Targets Germany and Europe</a> <i>Snowden Docs Reveal U.S.-Led "Digital Arms Race" - Top secret documents detail the mass scope of efforts by the United States to spy on Germany and Europe. Each month, the NSA monitors a half a billion communications and EU buildings are bugged. The scandal poses a threat to trans-Atlantic relations.</i><br />
<li> James Ball at TheGuardian.com <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/19/gchq-intercepted-emails-journalists-ny-times-bbc-guardian-le-monde-reuters-nbc-washington-post" target="_blank">GCHQ captured emails of journalists from top international media</a> <i>GCHQ’s bulk surveillance of electronic communications has scooped up emails to and from journalists working for some of the US and UK’s largest media organisations, analysis of documents released by whistleblower Edward Snowden reveals. <br />
Emails from the BBC, Reuters, the Guardian, the New York Times, Le Monde, the Sun, NBC and the Washington Post were saved by GCHQ and shared on the agency’s intranet as part of a test exercise by the signals intelligence agency.</i><br />
<li> Ben Mathis-Lilley at Slate.com <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">Argentine President Suggests Prosecutor Was Manipulated, Murdered by Spies</a> <i>Argentine prosecutor Alberto Nisman was found dead of a gunshot wound last Sunday after accusing President Christina Kirchner’s government of covering up Irans involvement in a 1994 terrorist bombing. Kirchner’s administration has denied the allegations, and some of her allies initially suggested Nisman had committed suicide. Retaliatory murder was also an obvious possibility given Nisman’s high-stakes charges against powerful figures.</i> <br />
<li> Nafeez Ahmed at Medium.com <a href="https://medium.com/@NafeezAhmed/how-the-cia-made-google-e836451a959e" target="_blank">How the CIA made Google</a><br />
<li> Thomas Escritt and Anthony Deutsch at Reuters.com <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/16/us-icc-palestinians-examination-idUSKBN0KP1PR20150116" target="_blank">ICC opens investigation into Israeli-Palestinian conflict</a><br />
<li> Sravanth Verma at DigitalJournal.com <a href="http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/environment/2014-was-the-hottest-year-on-record-and-things-are-getting-worse/article/423720" target="_blank">NASA confirms 2014 was hottest year on record</a><br />
<li> Uprising with Sonali interview with Snorkel Bob Wintner <a href="http://uprisingradio.org/home/2015/01/16/reef-libre-an-in-depth-look-at-cuban-exceptionalism-and-the-last-best-reefs-in-the-world/" target="_blank">Reef Libre: An In-Depth Look at Cuban Exceptionalism and the Last, Best Reefs in the World</a> <br />
<li><font color=red> STOP TPP at Citizen.org</font> <a href="http://action.citizen.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12659" target="_blank">Email Your Representative to Oppose ‘Fast Track’</a> <i>It’s do or die now. Stopping Fast Track is how we save ourselves from top-secret trade deals that make it easier for corporations to offshore our jobs and undermine our wages by forcing Americans to compete with workers in Vietnam making 56 cents an hour. </i><br />
</ul>WATCH The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill on DN! from Tuesday <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/20/as_fox_news_apologizes_jeremy_scahill" target="_blank">As Fox News Apologizes, Jeremy Scahill on Fake "Terror Experts" & Challenges of Real War Reporting</a> where he says "Well, look, I mean, they try to link Anwar al-Awlaki to every plot under the sun. The fact is that Anwar al-Awlaki’s writings and speeches clearly have inspired so-called lone-wolf terrorists. No doubt about that. <b>Whether he was operationally in charge of this is actually kind of a joke.</b> Anwar al-Awlaki was not even mid-level management in AQAP. They’re exploiting his legacy because of the power of nightmares. He speaks in English. He aims his message at a Western, English-speaking audience. So the United States has elevated his status within the organization. AQAP has a leadership structure. <b>Anwar al-Awlaki was not a senior figure within AQAP</b>." Our Brick TeeVee Last Word<sub>©</sub> goes to NukeFree.org's Harvey Wasserman explaining <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/01/20/ohios-anti-green-suicide/" target="_blank">Ohio’s Anti-Green Suicide</a> at EcoWatch.com <font color=DarkSlateGray>Swing state Ohio is plunging ever deeper into the fossil/nuke abyss. Its Public Utilities Commission may soon <a href="http://www.wksu.org/news/story/41689" target="_blank">gouge the public for $3 billion</a> (BILLION!) to subsidize two filthy 50-year-old coal burners and America’s most dangerous nuke. Approval would seal Ohio’s death notice. None of those coal/nuke burners can compete with the rising revolution in renewable energy. Throughout the world, similar outmoded facilities are shutting down. In 2001, Ohio deregulated its electric markets. But the state’s nuke owners demanded nearly $10 billion in “stranded cost” handouts so the obsolete Davis-Besse and Perry reactors on Lake Erie could allegedly compete with more efficient technologies. Today, despite the huge subsidies, renewables and fracked gas have completely priced them out of the market. Davis-Besse—a Three Mile Island clone—is infamous worldwide for its horrific breakdowns, including two of the five worst in U.S. history since 1979 as listed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. In 2002 a boric acid leak was found to have eaten nearly all the way through its reactor pressure vessel. A Chernobyl-sized disaster was missed by a fraction of an inch. The ensuing fines comprise the biggest in NRC annals. <b>The $600 million spent on replacement power could have funded an opening transition to a renewable economy. Instead, fires, operator error and chronic malfunctions continue to define Davis-Besse’s public-sponsored dotage. Designed in the 1960s and opened in the late 1970s, Davis-Besse threatens the entire Great Lakes region.</b> Unique in all the world, another dead nuke’s vessel closure head (from Midland, Michigan) was pasted in, failed, and was then replaced yet again within a ramshackle shell now thoroughly cut, cracked and compromised by cold weather, malfeasance, uncaring incompetence and more. <b> In short, Davis-Besse is being run by owners who believe—with good reason—that they can get away with anything. Perhaps that’s because, should it blow, FirstEnergy is <u>shielded by federal law from virtually all liability</u> for downwind financial, ecological and human health damage, which would be incalculable.</b> So now the company wants the public pay still more billions to keep Davis-Besse operating, no matter the consequences. The demand epitomizes Ohio’s technological, economic and ecological demise. Republican Governor John Kasich’s first act upon taking office in 2011 was to kill a $400 million federal grant meant to restore passenger rail service linking Cleveland, Columbus and Cincinnati. Virtually unique among the western world’s capital cities, the last passenger train left Columbus in 1979. The project would have created hundreds of jobs while reviving depressed communities along the route. A Wall Street multi-millionaire, Kasich has instead lavished public cash on the state’s obsolete highway system. Meanwhile the corporate-owned legislature has fought the sale of Tesla electric cars. In 2008, Ohio adopted one of America’s most advanced green energy programs. Its sophisticated array of targets and incentives sparked a clean energy boom. Millions of private investment dollars began pouring in for massive wind, solar and conservation projects. As in Germany’s transition to green power, Ohio energy prices were poised to plummet along with greenhouse gases and radioactive waste. Thousands of jobs were on the drawing boards. <b>But as Koch-funded Republicans took control of the state in 2010, Ohio became the first American state to <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/05/28/ohio-renewable-energy-mandate/" target="_blank">roll back its green power program</a>. Rampant fracking has brought increased <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2015/01/06/fracking-cause-ohio-earthquake/" target="_blank">seismic activity</a> and destroyed much of the state’s drinking water. Ohio’s ancient coal burners are being propped up with public cash. Its dying nukes—Perry was the first U.S. reactor to be damaged by an earthquake—continue to operate at huge public danger and expense.</b> In Illinois, New York, California, Michigan and elsewhere, the nuclear industry is demanding public cash to keep rickety, uncompetitive reactors in operation. But Ohio is unique for its across-the-board assault on green energy, passenger rail service, electric cars, fossil-fueled green house gases and common sense about reactor radiation, safety and heat emissions. Ohio’s PUC will soon decide on this latest scam to squander still more public money on its cancerous fleet of fossil/nuke dinosaurs. If they cave once again to the corporate interests, you can officially consign the Buckeye State to the radioactive ash heap of failed technological, ecological and economic history. <i>Based in central Ohio, Harvey Wasserman is author of SOLARTOPIA! OUR GREEN-POWERED EARTH and edits nukefree.org. His Green Power & Wellness Show is at prn.fm.</i></font> Well said Harvey! Tell ALL yer Ohio peeps to GET ACTIVE, contact the PUCO and FIGHT BACK on this MASSIVE GIVEAWAY to First Energy and their ilk. You can always click to nukefree.org on our sidebar over there and be INSTANTLY SMARTER about nuclear power AND GREEN issues! And we hope you dig in to all the stories we didn't snip because they are so huge! So You Are Here in the State of the World January 25, 2015. Tune in next week for more stories and opinion the LSM refuses to cover. We're here because you're there. Thanks for reading and we'll see you next Sunday! </font> <center><img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/gonzo-111x191.png" height="75"></center><p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font> <p><img src="http://www.democracynow.org/images/nav/dn_logo.png" height=100 alt="Democracy NOW!" /> <p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/19/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, January 19, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY EXCLUSIVE!</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/19/exclusive_newly_discovered_1964_mlk_speech" target="_blank">Exclusive: Newly Discovered 1964 MLK Speech on Civil Rights, Segregation & Apartheid South Africa</a> In a Democracy Now! and Pacifica Radio Archives exclusive, we air a newly discovered recording of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. On December 7, 1964, days before he received the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, King gave a major address in London on segregation, the fight for civil rights and his support for Nelson Mandela and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa. The speech was recorded by Saul Bernstein, who was working as the European correspondent for Pacifica Radio. Bernstein’s recording was recently discovered by Brian DeShazor, director of the <a href="http://www.pacificaradioarchives.org/" target="_blank">Pacifica Radio Archives</a>.<br />
<li><b>MORE Scahill </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/20/as_fox_news_apologizes_jeremy_scahill" target="_blank">As Fox News Apologizes, Jeremy Scahill on Fake "Terror Experts" & Challenges of Real War Reporting</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/20/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, January 20, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Iona Craig, a journalist who has reported from Yemen for years and until recently was its last accredited foreign reporter; and Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of the The Intercept </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/20/a_coup_in_yemen_jeremy_scahill" target="_blank">A Coup in Yemen? Jeremy Scahill & Iona Craig on Rebel Offensive to Seize Power, Saudi Role & AQAP</a> <br />
<li><b>MORE Scahill </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/20/as_fox_news_apologizes_jeremy_scahill" target="_blank">As Fox News Apologizes, Jeremy Scahill on Fake "Terror Experts" & Challenges of Real War Reporting</a> <br />
<li><b>Rigoberta Menchú, awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992 & Pamela Yates, partner at Skylight Pictures, a documentary film and digital media company that focuses on human rights and social justice stories</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/20/prosecuting_guatemalas_dirty_war_rigoberta_menchu" target="_blank">Prosecuting Guatemala’s Dirty War: Rigoberta Menchú Hails Embassy Fire Verdict, Dictator’s Trial</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/21/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, January 21, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/21/phyllis_bennis_as_obama_hails_turning" target="_blank">Phyllis Bennis: As Obama Hails "Turning Page" on Wars, U.S. Drone Strikes Continue Across Globe</a> <br />
<li><b>Rep. Keith Ellison, D-MN co-chairman of the House Progressive Caucus</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/21/rep_keith_ellison_on_obamas_push" target="_blank">Rep. Keith Ellison on Obama’s Push to Sign TPP & Seek Authority to Expand War in Iraq & Syria</a> <br />
<li><b>Ralph Nader</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/21/ralph_nader_on_what_was_missing" target="_blank">Ralph Nader on What was Missing in President Obama’s State of the Union Address</a> <br />
<li><b>Columnist for Tax Analysts and Al Jazeera America David Cay Johnston</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/21/david_cay_johnston_class_war_is" target="_blank">David Cay Johnston: Class War Is Being Waged by the Rich Against the Poor</a> <br />
<li><b>PublicCitizen.org's Lisa Graves & Ralph Nader</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/21/on_5th_anniversary_of_citizens_united" target="_blank">On 5th Anniversary of Citizens United, GOP Taps Koch Brothers-Backed Senator to Give SOTU Responsey</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/22/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, January 22, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Mohamedou Ould Slahi’s lawyer, Nancy Hollander; book editor, Larry Siems; and Col. Morris Davis, the former chief military prosecutor at Guantánamo Bay</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/22/inside_the_us_torture_chambers_prisoners" target="_blank">Inside the U.S. Torture Chambers: Prisoner’s Guantánamo Diary Details 12 Years of Abuse, Terror</a> <br />
<li><b>Jennifer Robinson, Australian human rights lawyer and director of legal advocacy for the Bertha Foundation & Alex Kelly, a social justice filmmaker</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/22/guantanamo_of_the_pacific_australian_asylum" target="_blank">"Guantánamo of the Pacific": Australian Asylum Seekers Wage Hunger Strike at Offshore Detention Site</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/23/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, January 23, 2015</a><ul><li><b>Iona Craig, journalist who was based in Sana’a for four years as the Yemen correspondent for The Times of Londo</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/23/hailed_as_us_counterterrorism_model_in" target="_blank">Hailed as U.S. Counterterrorism Model in Middle East, Yemen Teeters on the Brink of Collapse</a> <br />
<li><b>Toby Jones, associate professor of history and director of Middle Eastern studies at Rutgers University</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/23/remembering_saudis_king_abdullah_he_was" target="_blank">Remembering Saudi’s King Abdullah: "He Was Not a Benevolent Dictator, He Was a Dictator"</a><br />
<li><b>Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/23/a_systemic_failure_new_calls_for" target="_blank">"A Systemic Failure": New Calls for Reform as Feds Rule Out Civil Rights Charges for Darren Wilson</a> <br />
<li><b>Kevin Gallagher, director of Free Barrett Brown</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/23/barrett_brown_sentenced_to_five_years" target="_blank">Barrett Brown Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison After Reporting on Hacked Private Intelligence Firms</a> <br />
<li><b>Robert MacLean, former air marshal with the Transportation Security Administration & Neal Katyal, former acting solicitor general</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/23/in_victory_for_govt_whistleblowers_supreme" target="_blank">In Victory for Gov’t Whistleblowers, Supreme Court Sides with Fired TSA Air Marshal Who Spoke Out</a> <br />
</ul><p><img src="http://grittv.org/wp-content/themes/grit/images/logo.gif" height=100 alt="GRITtv" /> <a href="http://www.lauraflanders.com/grittv/" target="_blank">GRITtv</a> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">www.grittv.org</a> with Laura Flanders - New Episode Every Monday at TELESUR </br > »»» <b>VIDEO OF THE WEEK</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?video=do-elections-matter-chuck-pennacchio-and-syriza-activist-yiannis-bournous" target="_blank">Do Elections Matter? Chuck Pennacchio and Syriza Activist Yiannis Bournous</a> What is the fallout from Obamacare on the movement for universal healthcare, and is there any hope for change in the US electoral system? Chuck Pennacchio, Executive Director of Health Care 4 All Pennsylvania and founder of Citizen Solutions for Pennsylvania. And Yiannis Bournous, a leader of the Greek leftist political party Syriza, which is poised to win the January 25 elections. <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE SPORT!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></b></font></font> </br > »»» <b>SUNDAY NFL Championship</b> The Seattle Seahwaks face the New England Patriots NEXT WEEK on NBC! »»» <b>SUNDAY NBA DOUBLEHEADER on ABC</b> Heat @ Bulls 1:00 pm et THEN Thunder @ CAVS 3:30 pm et »»» <b>WEDNESDAY NBA DOUBLEHEADER on ESPN</b> </br > Nets @ Hawks 8:00 pm et THEN Wizards @ Suns 10:30 pm et »»» <b>THURSDAY NBA DOUBLEHEADER on TNT</b> </br > Nuggets @ Grizzlies 8:00 pm et THEN Bulls @ Lakers 10:30 pm et <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ACTION!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font></br > <font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i> <p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>! <p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <font color=red><b>ACTION!</b> <a href="http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/stop-titlex/" target="_blank">If Congress enacts Title X, we'll lose net neutrality forever.</a> Comcast’s well-paid friends in Congress are looking to enact a "Title X" provision that would give the Cable industry the power to ruin the open Internet and force Internet users to pay more for less. Congress leaders are planning on starting 2015 with a bill called “<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/19/7422657/republicans-looking-to-introduce-net-neutrality-bill-that-avoids-title-II" target="_blank">Title X</a>" that would compromise the World Wide Web by taking away the FCC’s ability to protect the open Internet and giving cable companies the power to charge for less access. This bill would be a huge betrayal to the millions of Internet users that demanded that Congress support real net neutrality. SIGN THE PETITION to Congress: "We want to keep the Internet open and free. Don't let cable companies take away our ability to create and express ourselves on the world wide web. Support real net neutrality, not fake bills like "Title X" that will poison the Internet." </font> <p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW! <p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org <p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>! <p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information! <p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Chelsea Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/manning-featured-in-alcatraz-art-exhibit" target="_blank">Manning featured in Alcatraz art exhibit</a> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/featured/birthday-messages-to-chelsea-from-snowden-gilliam-more-public-icons" target="_blank">Birthday Messages to Chelsea from Snowden, Gilliam & more public icons</a> <i>Dec 16, 2014. Public icons send birthday greetings and support to prisoner of conscience Chelsea Manning, including: Edward Snowden, Terry Gilliam, Michael Stipe, Vivienne Westwood, Molly Crabapple, JM Coetzee, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Slavoj Žižek, Alan Moore, Joe Sacco, Lupe Fiasco, Peter Tatchell, Billy Martin, Saul Williams..........</i> <p><font size=3><b>DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION</b></font> <a href="http://tjmf.flipswap.com/" target="_blank">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. </a> For more information, go to <a href="http://www.tjmartellfoundation.org" target="_blank">www.tjmartellfoundation.org</a> <p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!! <p><center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br > <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick_teevee_test.jpg" alt="brick_teevee_test.jpg" /></br > The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br > THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br > Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,356 US Military Dead as of Jan. 22, 2015</a> </br > <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br > <font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><p>
<li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough<br />
• Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R)<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: ABC News contributor and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, Republican strategist Sara Fagen, ABC News contributor and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, and ABC News’ Cokie Roberts.<br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• White House chief of staff Denis McDonough<br />
• Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz.<br />
• Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.<br />
• DEFLATEGATE: Jarrett Bell of USA Today<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Susan Page of USA Today, Dana Milbank of the Washington Post, Michael Crowley of Politico, Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic and CBS News Political Director John Dickerson<br />
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<li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• Coming Up Sunday, Jan. 25 at 7 p.m. ET/PT<br />
• The Republican Leaders: Boehner and McConnell respond to Obama<br />
• The Cleveland Division: Bad Cleveland cops need to be weeded out, police chief says<br />
• Li Na: Lesley Stahl profiles the great Chinese tennis champion who stood up to her country's stringent sports system<br />
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<li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Denis McDonough White House Chief of Staff<br />
• Fmr. Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR)<br />
• Kareem Abdul-Jabbar<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Hugh Hewitt, Host, "The Hugh Hewitt Show"; Helene Cooper, Pentagon Correspondent, The New York Times; Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Baltimore, Maryland; Tom Brokaw, NBC News Special Correspondent<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union (CNN)</b> CNN's Michael Smerconish hosts Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough<br />
• House Intelligence Committee member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA)<br />
• former Republican presidential candidate and U.S. ambassador Jon Huntsman<br />
• Former and possible future Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R-PA)<br />
• Two Iraq war veterans Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)<br />
• Winston Churchill's grandson Sir Nicholas Soames<br />
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<li type=square><b>HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid</b><br />
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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!<br />
• Prayer Meetin' Wednesday!! Uber pope/imam/rabii Bob dissects the latest on the Religious Wrong!! Listen here NOW! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(21-01-2015).mp3" target="_blank">Wednesday, January 21st, 2015 </a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.CRMW.net</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT</b> With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!<br />
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<b> The Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen:</b> 6 minutes of green news, politics, analysis & snarky comment! BOOKMARK <a href="http://greennews.bradblog.com/" target="_blank">greennews.bradblog.com</a> NOW!<br />
• <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11017" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - January 22, 2015</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: President Obama's State of the Union focuses on climate change; Republicans' sneaky move to give the Keystone XL pipeline a new name; Yellowstone River pipeline spill spews oil and cancer-causing benzene; PLUS: Yes, Republicans vote climate change is not a hoax --- but there's a catch... All that and more in today's Green News Report! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): Global nuclear decommissioning costs spiral; Good news: India's tiger population rebounds; What's the best way to drill for oil in a mostly untouched Alaskan tundra? Feds disagree; Organic farmers say pesticide drift contaminates and kills; US research labs lets livestock suffer in quest for profit; NM county's fracking ban struck down; Cutbacks in the Oil Patch... PLUS: VIDEO: “..a Bloodbath”: Efficiency, Renewables and Smart Grid will Kill Old Energy... and much, MUCH more! ...<br />
• <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11012" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - January 20, 2015</a> Confirmed. Again. NASA and NOAA find 2014 breaks record for hottest year; More new studies warn human impacts threaten our life support systems; PLUS: 'A glimmer of hopefulness in all this'... All that and more in today's Green News Report!<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11016" target="_blank">The Progressive State of the Union: KPFK 'BradCast'</a> Deconstructing Obama's SOTU and the GOP response, with our special in-studio roundtable, including: Heather 'Digby' Parton, David Dayen of Salon, John Amato of Crooks & Liars... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11010" target="_blank">NASA, NOAA Confirm 2014 Hottest Year on Record</a> Yet another climate change denial myth is scuttled, but here's how the fossil-fueled scammers have been getting away with their "no warming over the past decade!" hoax... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11009" target="_blank">Cluster of Studies Warn of Planetary Peril</a> New group of scientific reports find humanity rushing to brink of survivable limits, advise swift action needed to change course... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11013" target="_blank">Only 41% Support Keystone XL, But...</a> That's the good news. The not-as-good news is more surprising, though perhaps we shouldn't be surprised at all by it by now. (Or by the latest pipeline spill in Montana)...<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11011" target="_blank">Did John Roberts 'Stack the Deck' for SCOTUS Marriage Equality Cases?</a> The Court's agreement to hear challenges to state bans on same-sex marriage includes some 'unusual' questions... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=110141" target="_blank">St. Louis County Election Director Forced Out Of Office</a> Official who ignored pre-election warnings, obtained exclusively by BRAD BLOG, about likely paper ballot shortages last November, is unanimously ousted by Election Board... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10990" target="_blank">Not Voting IS a Vote</a> Stop blaming those who didn't turn out. Americans did vote. By not turning out, they voted against the two major parties and against the system as a whole. It may have been a dumb vote, but it was a landslide... <br />
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<li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b><br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <br />
<ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• 20 Jan 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-der-speigel-reveals-massive-us-cyber-offense-schemes/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Der Speigel Reveals Massive US Cyber Offense Schemes</a>As Obama talks cyber defense in State of Union, Der Speigel reveals NSA’s massive, offensive cyberwarfare schemes, from Snowden files…..<br />
• 21 Jan 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-cia-new-gop-leaders-work-to-squelch-panetta-review-of-torture/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: CIA, New GOP Leaders Work to Squelch “Panetta Review” of Torture</a> CIA continues efforts to 86 “Panetta Review” of torture, as new GOP Intel chair attempts to retrieve Feinstein report copies…. <br />
• 23 Jan 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-saudi-crown-passed-as-yemen-libya-descend-into-greater-chaos/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Saudi Crown Passed as Yemen, Libya Descend into Greater Chaos</a> Change of the Guard in House of Saud, as Yemen and Libya Descend to Chaos, and Netanyahu Runs Against Obama…..<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast January 9, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2015/01/09/activist-shahid-buttar-argues-that-body-cams-wont-end-police-violence/" target="_blank">Activist Shahid Buttar Argues that Body Cams Won’t End Police Violence</a> 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. <br />
• PBC Standard Podcast January 23, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2015/01/23/investigative-reporter-jason-leopold-recaps-big-stories-on-fight-over-torture-report-guantanamo-murders-more/" target="_blank">Investigative Reporter Jason Leopold Recaps Big Stories on Fight Over Torture Report, Guantanamo Murders, more</a> Jason Leopold of VICE News is back to recap his big recent stories on GOP moves to block release of torture report and Panetta review; Joseph Hickman's account of the deaths of 3 Gitmo prisoners, and more. <br />
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<li type=square><b>Ring of Fire Radio</b><br />
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Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/ <b>hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder</b><br />
Ring of Fire Radio - GoLeft TV - Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, Sam Seder - Politics, Commentary, and News.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weekend-on-ring-of-fire-radio-29/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire Radio! </a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. Posted on January 23, 2015 by Farron Cousins<br />
»» Senator Bernie Sanders will tell us about his ongoing fight to make sure that the middle class gets fair treatment and representation in Washington.<br />
»» Author and filmmaker Goldie Taylor will give us her analysis of President Obama’s State of the Union Address.<br />
»» And Ben Beachy from Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch will give us an update on the status of the Trans Pacific Partnership.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weekend-on-ring-of-fire-radio-29//" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV</a> - Sundays at NOON!<br />
»» Guests TBA <br />
»» Watch at <a href="http://www.freespeech.org/collection/ringoffire" target="_blank">FSTV</a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/papantonio-the-plot-thickens-in-the-dershowitz-epstein-story/" target="_blank">Papantonio: The Plot Thickens in the Dershowitz-Epstein Story</a> by Gary Bentley - The Jeffrey Epstein / Alan Dershowitz child sex scandal has mainly fallen through the cracks of mainstream media’s attention, but the story has the potential to become the Bill Cosby scandal on steroids. America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, discusses the case with Thom Hartmann.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/poor-little-sociopath-dimon-says-bankers-are-under-assault/" target="_blank">Poor Little Sociopath Dimon Says Bankers are “Under Assault”</a> by Joshua De Leon<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/pap-and-sam-dissect-the-state-of-the-union/" target="_blank">Pap and Sam Dissect The State of the Union</a> by Gary Bentley - Ring of Fire’s Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder take a closer look at President Obama’s State of the Union speech.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/stewart-brutalizes-fox/" target="_blank">Stewart Brutalizes Fox</a> by Justin Lane - Jon Stewart was shocked by recent actions of Fox News. It takes a lot to shock Stewart but Fox News did it with its recent claims that parts of France and England are occupied by radical Muslim forces and non-Muslims simply do not go into those zones.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/thom-hartmann-time-to-lock-up-the-lobbyists/" target="_blank">Maher’s Buyer’s Guide for Billionaires: Buy a Politician CHEAP.</a> by Justin Lane - In order to help the rest of us understand what in the heck the GOP is up to, the Republican National Committee needs to tell us all which Republicans aren’t running in 2016, says Bill Maher. Not only that, but someone has to help the billionaire donors that these potential candidates are clamoring over themselves to please need help in deciding which candidate is best for them. So Bill Maher put together a buyer’s guide to the GOP 2016 presidential hopefuls.<br />
• Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the "Podcast" tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/blogengine/" target="_blank">Ring of Fire Radio</a> Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, <b>rebroadcasts 7-10 et Sunday evenings on <a href="http://www.chicagoprogressivetalk.com/listen/" target="_blank">Chicago's Progressive Talk WCPT AM & FM</a> and 4 pm et on Sirius/XM 167 featuring The PAP Attack! </b> "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week." <br />
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<li type=square><b>Majority Report with Sam Seder</b> Streaming LIVE weekdays 12 NOON et @ <a href="http://Majority.fm" target="_blank">Majority.fm</a>! <br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11915-martin-luther-king-jr-day" target="_blank">1/19/15 Martin Luther King Jr. Day</a> <br />
• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/12015-ray-raphael-founding-myths-stories-that-hide-our-patriotic-past" target="_blank">1/20/15 Ray Raphael: Founding And Constitutional Myths: Stories That Hide Our Patriotic Past</a><br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/12115-bernie-sanders-adam-green-charles-pierce-the-progressive-response-to-the-sotu" target="_blank"> 1/21/15 Sen. Bernie Sanders, Adam Green & Charles Pierce: the Progressive Response to the SOTU </a><br />
• THURSDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/12215-johann-hari-chasing-the-scream-the-story-of-the-drug-war-you-never-heard-before" target="_blank"> 1/22/15 Johann Hari: Chasing The Scream: the Story of the Drug War You Never Heard Before </a><br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/12315-casual-friday-cliff-schecter-david-cross-in-studio" target="_blank">1/23/15 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & David Cross In Studio</a><br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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<li type=square><b>KEISER REPORT</b> Podcasts and more @ <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/" target="_blank">MaxKeiser.com</a>!<br />
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<b>"HI Y'ALL! Tell the people! Tell the people!"</b><br />
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 <a href="http://www.karmabanque.com/" target="_blank">KarmaBanque</a> a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. <br />
• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport" target="_blank">Keiser Report</a> <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/gold-surges-as-ecb-to-print-trillion-euros-and-grexit-election-sunday/" target="_blank">Gold Surges As ECB To Print Trillion Euros and ‘Grexit’ Election Sunday</a> by Mark O'Byrne — Stocks, bonds and precious metals surged yesterday as markets cheered the latest wave of money printing on a grand scale. Gold surged 3 per cent in euro terms (see chart below) after Mario Draghi in the ECB announced a massive quantitative easing or QE programme of over EUR 1 trillion from March 2015 to September 2016. The QE programme is even larger than expected at €60 billion every month rather than the €50 billion that had been expected. The euro fell another 0.9 per cent against the dollar and sterling terms also. .....<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/kingabdullah/" target="_blank">#KingAbdullah</a> by Stacy Herbert — The hypocrisy is full blown today on death of King Abdullah, being hailed today by our elected and unelected leaders as some sort of great man: ....................<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/oil-dinosaurs-face-extinction-state-oil-companies-and-the-meteor-strike-of-low-oil-prices/" target="_blank">Oil Dinosaurs Face Extinction: State Oil Companies and the Meteor-Strike of Low Oil Prices</a> by Charles Hugh Smith — State-owned oil companies that don’t slash expenses to align with revenues and boost critical investment in the infrastructure needed to maintain production will suffer financial extinction. Domestic and international energy companies are responding to the 50% decline in the price of oil by doing what’s necessary to remain in business: they’re slashing payroll, postponing capital investments, delaying new projects and soliciting price cuts from suppliers and subcontractors. This is the discipline of profit-driven capitalism: if expenses exceed revenues, profits vanish, losses pile up, capital contracts and eventually the company runs out of cash (and access to credit) and closes down. Unfortunately for state-owned oil companies, the feedback of expenses, losses and access to credit are superceded by the need to feed hordes of parasites: the state-owned company exists not to generate profits but to fund large payrolls and support state officials and cronies.................<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/douglas-murray-free-speech/" target="_blank">Douglas Murray Defends Free Speech to Those Who Question Why You Exercise Your Right</a> by Janet Tavakoli — British journalist Douglas Murray provides a brilliant example of how to push back against a perverse narrative, after the Paris murders of journalists (<a href="http://www.tavakolistructuredfinance.com/2015/01/swiss-franc-foreign-exchange-rates/" target="_blank">and subsequent to this interview, Jews</a>) by fundamentalist Muslims. ...... (tavakolistructuredfinance.com)<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/kr708-keiser-report-mexico-land-of-opportunity/" target="_blank">[KR708] Keiser Report: Mexico – Land of Opportunity</a> We discuss Aristotle trending, lands of opportunity and GM hiring. In the second half, Max interviews philosopher and television presenter, Pablo Boullosa, about the state of the Mexican economy and society and how to solve the ever-increasing drug violence.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/kr709-keiser-report-us-vs-china-battle-for-latin-america/" target="_blank">[KR709] Keiser Report: US vs China. Battle for Latin America</a> We discuss China’s $250 billion for Latin America forcing America’s ‘positive’ hand in the region. Meanwhile, back in China, ‘amateur hour’ reigns as the small cap index soars as dilettante investors believe lower stock prices mean less risk. In the second half, Max interviews financial journalist, publisher and presenter, Sergio Sarmiento, about the Mexican economy, corruption and the failed state.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/kr710-keiser-report-markets-mind-carnage/" target="_blank">[KR710] Keiser Report: Markets Mind Carnage</a> We discuss mind carnage in the markets as price discovery goes astray due to market intervention, and the rise of vigilante groups around the world looking for Rolex watch and Gucci belt wearing politicians. In the second half, Max interviews businessman, radio show host and anarchist, Jeff Berwick, about becoming a taxpayer, living in Mexico as a tourist and the ending of the drug wars.<br />
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<li type=square><b>The Scott Horton Radio Show</b><br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It’s been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show’s important milestones, as well as preview some of the exciting projects to look for in the near future. ........ The show on Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A., still called Antiwar Radio, has now moved to join their Sunday morning public affairs line up (8:30 am pt - http://kpfk.org), and remains the largest source of listeners, with 15,000-20,000 people tuning in weekly. The future: Liberty Express Radio is growing and bringing me along for the ride. The great Charles Goyette hooked me up with Alan Butler and the Liberty Express earlier this year, and what has been the daily replay there from 3-5 eastern time has become my best listened-to show. And now they’re adding my friend Tom Woods to the lineup from 2-3 PM. That does it. I’m making the switch! Starting Monday, October 14, the live show is moving to 3-5 PM Eastern time on LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/01/21/12115-william-hartung/" target="_blank">1/21/15 William Hartung</a>: William Hartung, Director of the Arms and Security Project at the Center for International Policy, discusses the extensive list of problems with the “<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-hartung/can-the-f-35-be-stopped_b_6458446.html" target="_blank">overpriced, underperforming and unnecessary</a>” F-35 combat aircraft.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/01/22/12215-peter-van-buren/" target="_blank">1/22/15 Peter Van Buren</a>: Peter Van Buren, author of <i>We Meant Well</i> and a frequent TomDispatch contributor, discusses how the US military-industrial complex profits from resupplying Iraq’s army with equipment that is too expensive to maintain and of little operational utility – essentially corporate welfare for General Dynamics, producer of M1 tanks.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/01/14/11415-patrick-cockburn/" target="_blank">1/14/15 Patrick Cockburn</a>: Patrick Cockburn, a Middle East correspondent with The Independent, discusses France’s terrorism blowback resulting from their ongoing intervention in Muslim countries; and the Islamic State’s sustainability in Iraq.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/01/22/12215-douglas-lucas/" target="_blank">1/22/15 Douglas Lucas</a>: Douglas Lucas, a writer at WhoWhatWhy.org, discusses “hacktivist” journalist Barrett Brown’s sentencing hearing, that could get him 8 1/2 years in prison for violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act among other questionable charges.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/01/23/12315-eric-margolis/" target="_blank">1/23/15 Eric Margolis</a>: Eric Margolis, journalist and author of American Raj, discusses Charlie Hebdo and the free speech double standard; French President Hollande’s popularity-gaining (and blowback-generating) invasions all over the Muslim world; and what comes after the death of Saudi King Abdullah.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>fauxnews </b><br />
• White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough <br />
• Ohio Governor John Kasich (R)<br />
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Sometimes it's hard to believe how much chutzpah the Poster Boy for the 1% can have, after <a href="http://cnsnews.com/news/article/jpmorgan-chase-ceo-bank-took-tarp-because-we-were-asked-treasury-secretary" target="_blank">getting bailed out by the American taxpayer</a> when his company arguably <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/02/business/suit-accuses-jpmorgan-unit-of-broad-misconduct-on-mortgage-securities.html" target="_blank">helped crash the global economy</a> and then got a <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/10/19/jpmorgan-said-to-be-discussing-13-billion-settlement-over-mortgage-loans/" target="_blank">world record fine</a> for doing it and then got <a href="http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/09/elizabeth-warren-jamie-dimon-gets-8-5-million-raise-for-illegal-conduct-at-jpmorgan/" target="_blank">a raise</a> to boot! YES cats and kittens, boys and girls and we in the 99% who deal with CEOs making 400x than we make and <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2011/02/income-inequality-in-america-chart-graph" target="_blank">massive financial inequality</a> (MoJo) but IT'S TRUE! Stephen Gandel at Fortune.com tells us <a href="https://fortune.com/2015/01/14/jamie-dimon-financial-regulation/" target="_blank">Jamie Dimon calls regulation un-American, once again</a> <font color=maroon>JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon still thinks the way banks are treated these days is un-American. On a conference call on Wednesday morning in which the bank reported that last year it had earned $22 billion, or roughly 240,000 times what’s in the average American’s retirement account, Jamie Dimon said that JPMorgan JPM was “under assault,” and questioned whether the increased scrutiny by regulators of banks since the financial crisis has gone too far. “In the old days, you dealt with one regulator. Now it’s five or six,” Dimon said, referring to instances when multiple regulators have sought to punish JPMorgan for the same issue. “You all should ask the question, how American that is.” .................. Dimon’s Wednesday comments came in response to a question about a new proposal from the Federal Reserve that would require JPMorgan, the biggest bank in America, to hold more capital in reserve to protect against losses, even compared to its other mega-bank rivals. The Fed has said the new proposal adjusts capital rules to account for the fact that risks at some banks are more complex than others, and maybe harder to detect. But Dimon effectively said the proposal shows that regulators still don’t get his bank. “It’s just because we’re big,” said Dimon. But regulators aren’t the only ones questioning JPMorgan’s size. Last week, rival Goldman Sachs released a report that said JPMorgan should be broken up. When asked by Fortune on Wednesday’s call whether he thought Goldman should be broken up, Dimon laughed and then offered, “No comment.” Like he has in the past, Dimon defended JPMorgan’s size. He said it makes the bank more diverse and safer, not the opposite. He also noted that many of the aspects of JPMorgan that have raised concern among regulators, like the bank’s $300 billion portfolio of so-called available for sale securities, make it safer, not riskier or more complex. “Our AFS portfolio adds to liquidity,” said Dimon. The bank’s size also seems to attract the attention of more regulators, something that Dimon thinks is unfair. But it has been a very long time since a big bank like JPMorgan would have had to deal with only one federal regulator, long before Dimon’s career began. According to bank historian John Gordan Steele, the Federal Reserve got its mandate to oversee the nation’s largest banks in 1913 (the same year that the actual J.P. Morgan died), making it the second federal regulator besides the Comptroller of the Currency. .............. </font> Okay all you Fed Conspiracy Theorists! Whatcha gonna do? Call Ron Paul? Sue Jamie Dimon for getting you thrown out of your home? Call <a href="http://tetw.org/Matt_Taibbi" target="_blank">Matt Taibbi</a>? Maybe your BEST BET is to TAKE OUT ALL YER MONEY from Chase Bank, JPMC and any 401K and other retirement investments you have that have JPMC in its portfolio for starters. The idea is to COLLAPSE JPMC from WITHIN, get it? If THEY don't have YER MONEY, then THEY can't bet with it! GET IT NOW? <br />
114th CONGRESS UPDATE: It's only January and we can't even keep up! We're not gonna snip these so READ THESE IN FULL: <ul><li>ThinkProgress.org <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/01/14/3611558/house-starts-year-with-anti-regulation-crusade/" target="_blank">House Passes Bill To Make Everything Harder And Worse</a> <br />
<li>HuffPoAOL <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/13/regulation-stealth-attack_n_6465900.html?ir=Politics" target="_blank">House Tries To Stop All New Government Rules</a></ul>NEXT some of the fallout from the Charlie Hebdo attacks last week with "A list by @DanielWickham93" <a href="https://storify.com/tometty/staunch-defenders-of-free-press-attend-solidarity" target="_blank">These 'staunch defenders' of the free press are attending today's solidarity rally in Paris</a>. Some excerpts: <font color=maroon><ul><li>1) King Abdullah of Jordan, which last year sentenced a Palestinian journalist to 15 years in prison with hard labour <br />
<li>2) Prime Minister of Davutoglu of Turkey, which imprisons more journalists than any other country in the world <br />
<li>3) Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel, whose forced killed 7 journalists in Gaza last yr (second highest after Syria) <br />
<li>4) Foreign Minister Shoukry of Egypt, which as well as AJ staff has detained journalist Shawkan for around 500 days <br />
<li>10) The Attorney General of the US, where police in Ferguson have recently detained and assaulted WashPost reporters <br />
<li>12) Sec-Gen of NATO, who are yet to be held to account for deliberately bombing and killing 16 Serbian journos in '99 </UL></font> Click over there for more 'staunch defenders' of the free press and links to stories about them! Good item! Next we go the TheGuardian.com's Mark Tran <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/11/paris-rally-charlie-hebdo-free-press-reports-without-borders" target="_blank">Presence at Paris rally of leaders with poor free press records is condemned </a> <font color=blue>Press freedom campaigners condemned the presence of world leaders attending the unity rally in Paris on Sunday who have poor records on human rights and the free press in their home countries. <a href="http://fr.rsf.org/rsf-denonce-une-recuperation-11-01-2015,47470.html" target="_blank">Reporters Without Borders singled out leaders</a> from Egypt, Turkey, Russia, Algeria and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), as being responsible for particularly harsh environments for journalists. These countries rank respectively 159th, 154th, 148th, 121st and 118th out of 180 countries in terms of press freedom in a league table compiled by the group. “We should show solidarity with Charlie Hebdo without forgetting the world’s other ‘Charlies’,” said Christophe Deloire, secretary general of the campaign group. “It would be intolerable [if] representatives from countries that reduce their journalists to silence profit from this emotional outpouring to … improve their international image … <b>We should not allow the predators of the press to spit on the graves of Charlie Hebdo</b>.” .................... Nearly <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/dec/18/erdogan-turkey-media-arrest-journalists" target="_blank">70 journalists are being prosecuted in Turkey</a> for referring to corruption allegations against close associates of the former prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who is now the president. In Egypt 16 journalists, including three from al-Jazeera, are in jail. The al-Jazeera journalists have been held since December 2013 for “spreading false news” and “membership of a terrorist organisation”. The al-Jazeera journalists include Peter Greste, formerly of the BBC, who has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/jan/07/peter-greste-lodges-formal-request-to-be-deported-from-egypt" target="_blank">lodged paperwork with the Egyptian government seeking his own deportation</a>. But his release from prison could be weeks or months away, as the new presidential power to deport foreign prisoners is tested for the first time. A member of Greste’s Australian legal team said the jailed journalist’s application was “among the first” to petition the Egyptian president, Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, for deportation. Several Russian journalists have been imprisoned, often in Siberia, and two NGOs that support the media have been added to an official list of “foreign agents”, a term used to stigmatise bodies that receive foreign funding and are suspected of “political activity”. In December, 20 activists including Masha Alyokhina from Pussy Riot were arrested in Moscow, after staging an all-night protest against the conviction of Alexei Navalny, a critic of the Kremlin, and his brother Oleg. Algeria bans marches and public protests, prompting the <a href="http://www.algerie-focus.com/" target="_blank">Algérie-Focus website</a> to say: “Marches and public protests are banned in Algeria, but Algerian ministers have the right to march in the streets of … Paris!”</font> And while <a href="http://english.cri.cn/12394/2014/07/16/2982s836278.htm" target="_blank">Obama, Merkel Vow to Improve Intelligence Cooperation</a> (while totally forgetting how <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/merkel-calls-obama-over-suspicions-us-tapped-her-mobile-phone-a-929642.html" target="_blank">US Taps Chancellor Merkel's Mobile Phone</a>) and <a href="http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/France-deploys-5000-police-officers-to-protect-Jewish-schools-in-Paris/articleshow/45852402.cms" target="_blank">France deploys 5,000 police officers to protect Jewish schools in Paris</a> and the <a href="http://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/world/eu-seeks-new-anti-terror/1577910.html" target="_blank">EU seeks new anti-terror measures after Paris attack</a> The "new" Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) is being rebranded without the word "PROTECTION". At the InfoWorld Tech Watch desk Caroline Craig tells us how <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/article/2607981/federal-regulations/cispa-returns-as-cisa----and-it-s-just-as-terrible-for-privacy.html" target="_blank">CISPA returns as CISA -- and it's just as terrible for privacy</a> <font color=purple>............ You remember the <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/cispa-big-brothers-best-friend-forever-191952" target="_blank">Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act</a>: introduced in 2011 but failed to pass the Senate, then reintroduced in 2013 only to be beaten back a second time. This go-around, Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Saxby Chambliss (R.-Ga.) have <b>stripped out the mention of "protection"</b> and rechristened their draft bill the <a href="http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/files/serve/?File_id=08de1c1b-446b-478c-84a8-0c3f35963216" target="_blank">Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act</a>. CISA purports to "improve cybersecurity in the United States through enhanced sharing of information about cybersecurity threats, and for other purposes" (emphasis added). According to a <a href="http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=f0d8fa94-0194-4924-afe8-43465637b4ef" target="_blank">press release</a> from Feinstein's office, "the bill incentivizes the sharing of cybersecurity threat information between the private sector and the government and among private sector entities" by providing companies with immunity from liability. <b>In other words, companies like Facebook, Google, and cellphone providers could share your information, so long as it's framed as a security threat -- and there's nothing you could do about it.</b> Senators, unlike weatherman Phil in "Groundhog Day," seemingly learn nothing from past experience. CISA suffers from the same vague, overly broad language that opponents criticized in CISPA. The words InfoWorld's <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/nsa-prism-and-cispa-the-conspiracy-behind-the-conspiracy-220765?page=0,1" target="_blank">Robert X. Cringely</a> used to describe CISPA apply equally to the draft CISA: <ul>The problem with CISPA is that in its current form it's still <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/t/cringely/nsa-prism-and-cispa-the-conspiracy-behind-the-conspiracy-220765" target="_blank">vague and ripe for abuse</a>. It absolves corporations of being responsible for what happens to the data they've collected. It allows data sharing with the entire federal government, not just the parts responsible for ensuring our safety. It circumvents other laws designed to limit governmental access to private information. And it can be deployed for a wide range of perceived threats that have nothing to do with attacks on our nation's infrastructure. In that it is very much like the Patriot Act, which was allegedly written to combat terrorists but ended up being used primarily against <a href="https://www.eff.org/cybersecurity-bill-faq" target="_blank">run-of-the-mill drug dealers</a>, money launderers, tree-huggers, and vegetarians (<a href="https://www.aclu.org/national-security/new-documents-show-fbi-targeting-environmental-and-animal-rights-groups-activities" target="_blank">yes, really</a>).</ul>......... As a sop to those privacy concerns, CISA requires companies to strip users' identifying information, but as <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-senate-is-officially-considering-a-cispa-clone?x=x" target="_blank">Motherboard</a> writes, that provision is waived if someone is even tangentially related to a "cyber threat" -- by being on a spam email list, for instance -- <b>a loophole Amie Stepanovich, an attorney with civil liberties group Access, called "large enough to drive a semi truck through."</b> "I can't believe this is coming out now. Congress can't pass a law to limit NSA surveillance, but they seem to be actively working to increase the amount of surveillance," Stepanovich told <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-senates-new-cispa-bill-might-let-law-enforcement-create-backdoor-wiretaps" target="_blank">Motherboard</a>.................</font> Back in 2012 the late great <a href="http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy" target="_blank">Aaron Swartz</a> called <a href="http://rt.com/usa/cispa-patriot-web-swartz-081/" target="_blank">‘CISPA: Patriot Act for the web’</a> and helped organize the 2012 internet blackout. <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">Watch Aaron Swartz Explain 'How We Stopped SOPA'</a> at Mashable.com <i>"In a keynote delivered to the 2012 F2C: Freedom to Connect conference, Swartz explained in depth how the technology community was able to quickly organize and ultimately cause SOPA's author to shelve the bill." </i> Read Nadine Bloch's <a href="http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/the-day-aaron-swartz-helped-make-the-internet-go-dark/" target="_blank">The day Aaron Swartz helped make the Internet go dark</a> at WagingNonViolence.org. And go to <a href="https://demandprogress.org/about" target="_blank">DemandProgress.org</a> 's <a href="https://www.battleforthenet.com/" target="_blank">Protect Net Neutrality and the Open Internet</a> at BattleForTheNet.com: <font color=red> <b>The most important FCC vote of our lifetime is about to happen.</b> On Feb 26 the FCC will vote to save net neutrality or let Comcast and other ISPs create Internet slow lanes. Some members of Congress, on behalf of their Cable donors, are trying to stop the FCC from protecting the Internet we love. There isn't much time to stop them, contact them now. </font> EBOLA SPORTS UPDATE: Winnepeg Free Press posts AP's Gerald Imray who explains how <a href="http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/sports/soccer/equatorial-guinea-watching-out-for-ebola-as-it-welcomes-african-cup-soccer-tournament-288762791.html" target="_blank">Equatorial Guinea watching out for Ebola as it welcomes African Cup soccer tournament</a> <font color=DarkMagenta>............ In the wake of the terrible West African Ebola outbreak, tournament organizers the Confederation of African Football were certain the Jan. 17-Feb. 8 African Cup should go ahead, confident the disease wouldn't be a threat. Now they have to make sure it won't be after dumping Morocco as host because of that country's fears over Ebola and desire to postpone the 16-team event for up to a year. CAF refused Morocco's suggestion and chose Equatorial Guinea as a short-notice replacement. It was really CAF's only choice as no one else wanted the tournament and its thousands of travellers. "When all (Equatorial) Guineans learnt that the African Nations Cup was going to be played here, everyone was afraid, we were terrified," Genoveva Abesolo Obunu, an official with Equatorial Guinea's health ministry, said. "But when we learnt about the steps the government was taking to prevent the sickness, the fear subsided." So the tournament will go on, kicking off this weekend in the oil-rich Central African nation halfway up the continent's west coast. It is Equatorial Guinea's second go at the African Cup in three years after co-hosting with Gabon in 2012. CAF and Equatorial Guinean authorities have announced this time that everyone arriving in the coming days — players, officials, fans, everyone — will undergo Ebola screening. No one is exempt, no matter where they come from. ...........</font> What ever happened to the big ebola scare in the U.S. LameStreamMedia (LSM), huh? CLIMATE NEWS: FLOODING in MALAWI - Istanbuls's WorldBulletin.net reports <a href="http://www.worldbulletin.net/news/152568/death-toll-from-malawi-floods-rises-to-11" target="_blank">Malawi flooding death toll nears 200, more missing </a> <font color=SaddleBrown>The death toll from flooding in Malawi has risen to 176 and others are still missing, Vice President Saulos Chilima said on Friday after touring the worst-hit parts of the southern African country, one of the world's poorest states. Flash floods caused by days of torrential rain have swept away roads and bridges, destroyed thousands of hectares of crops and raised fears of a cholera outbreak in the southern half of the country. The weather service is warning of more heavy rain in the next two to three weeks. "So far, the death toll stands at 176 people and we fear the number will rise because several are missing and some parts are inaccessible," Chilima said. The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP), one of several relief agencies rolling out assistance, said 110,000 people had been displaced, an increase from a government estimate of 70,000 earlier this week. "Many more are likely to require assistance. With more rain forecast, there is concern that these numbers may rise," the WFP said. The agency is airlifting more than 100 tons of high-energy biscuits to meet the immediate needs of those affected. "Ready-to-eat food will be prioritised for the most vulnerable people, particularly children, who have been displaced from their homes and have no access to food or cooking facilities," it said. The crop damage has raised fears of a poor harvest. Last year, Malawi's farmers harvested 3.9 million tonnes of the staple crop, maize, providing a surplus of almost one million tonnes. The wet weather has also wreaked damage in neighbouring Mozambique, which has been hit by catastrophic floods in the past......</font> Oddly back in November WorldBulletin.net reported on <a href="http://www.worldbulletin.net/haber/148173/malawis-water-woes" target="_blank">Malawi's water woes</a> <font color=SaddleBrown>People living in cities are supposed to draw water from the tap. But not in Malawi's commercial hub, Blantyre, where the number of people who wake up to dry taps everyday continues to rise. The past six months have been the worst in Malawi's major cities: Lilongwe, Blantyre, Zomba and Mzuzu. In Blantyre, some residents have not had tap water for years because in their areas, safe, piped water is not available.......</font> Hmmmmmm, WorldBulletin.net also reports <a href="http://www.worldbulletin.net/haber/152580/heavy-rains-flood-gaza-makeshift-homes" target="_blank">Heavy rains flood Gaza makeshift homes</a> <font color=Sienna>Dozens of makeshift housing units in the Gaza Strip were flooded on Friday due to heavy rains amid a cold snap which erupted this week across the Middle East region. Rainfalls had poured into makeshift tin huts sheltering dozens of Palestinian families in the southern Khuzaa town after they had been made homeless following a devastating Israeli offensive on the blockaded coastal enclave last summer, Shehda Abu Rouk, the town's local chief, told The Anadolu Agency. Abu Rouk called on the UN agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA to open up its schools in Khuzaa to temporarily shelter the once again homeless families. Moreover, an entire neighborhood in the southern Rafah city has also been flooded, according to local civil defense authorities. Using fishing boats, civil defense forces managed to rescue the residents of Jumeizat Al-Sabil neighborhood, whose streets and farmland had been damaged by the flood, Said al-Seoudi, the director of Gaza's civil defense authority, told AA. Dozens of Palestinian families have already left their homes in several parts of the Gaza Strip in fear of flooding amid an ongoing cold snap. ................</font> MORE CLIMATE NEWS: Darh Jamail at Truth-Out.com <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/28490-the-methane-monster-roars" target="_blank">The Methane Monster Roars</a> <font color=indigo>The disparity of the beauty before me with my troubled thoughts about the planet has found no reconciliation. I had been collecting data and conducting interviews for articles about methane releases in the Arctic for weeks, and pondering the information through the holidays only led me into depression. Going out into the mountains helped, but also provoked grave concerns for our collective future. To consider the possibility that humans have altered the atmosphere of the earth so drastically as to put our own lives in danger seems, at least emotionally, unfathomable. Given the scale of the planet, one would think, logically, it might not even be possible. Yet the majestic snow-covered peaks near where I live may no longer have glaciers (or even snow) within my lifetime, according to some of the scientists I've interviewed. ............ Vast amounts of methane lie frozen in the Arctic. It's not news that the Arctic sea ice is melting rapidly, and that it will likely be gone for short periods during the summers starting as early as next year. Losing that ice means releasing larger amounts of previously trapped methane into the atmosphere. Additionally, lying along the Arctic's subsea continental margins and beneath Arctic permafrost are methane hydrates, often described as methane gas surrounded by ice. In March 2010, a report in Science indicated that these cumulatively contain the equivalent of 1,000 to 10,000 gigatons of carbon. For <a href="http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/how-many-gigatons-of-co2/" target="_blank">perspective</a>, humans have released approximately 1,475 gigatons in total carbon dioxide since the year 1850. Paul Beckwith, [a climatology and meteorology professor at the University of Ottawa, Canada] warns that losing the Arctic sea ice will create a state that "will represent a very different planet, with a much higher global average temperature, in which snow and ice in the northern hemisphere becomes very rare or even vanishes year round." <b>In the simplest terms, here's what an ice-free Arctic would mean when it comes to heating the planet: Minus the reflective ice cover on Arctic waters, solar radiation would be absorbed, not reflected, by the Arctic Ocean. That would heat those waters, and hence the planet, further.</b> This effect has the potential to change global weather patterns, vary the flow of winds and even someday possibly alter the position of the jet stream. Polar jet streams are fast-flowing rivers of wind positioned high in the earth's atmosphere that push cold and warm air masses around, playing a critical role in determining the weather of our planet. "What happens in the Arctic does not stay in the Arctic," Beckwith explained. "The rapidly warming Arctic relative to the rest of the planet (five to eight times global average temperature rise) is decreasing the temperature gradient between the Arctic and the equator." This decreased gradient is disrupting the jet stream, leading to further warming in the Arctic, forming a runaway feedback loop, which in turn is causing the release of more methane in the Arctic. And on land, it's already happening as well. ................. To gain a better understanding of the implications of Arctic warming, I interviewed some of the scientists conducting the most cutting edge and current methane studies in the Arctic. Dr. Leonid Yurganov is a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland Physics Department and the Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology........ While Yurganov isn't seeing "fast and immediate liberation of methane from hydrates" at this very moment, he warned of what would happen if and when it does occur. "Increased methane would influence air temperature near the surface," he said. "This would accelerate the Arctic warming and change the climate everywhere in the world." Yurganov does not foresee an immediate global collapse within a decade. In his view, the summer Arctic sea ice will continue to shrink in a more linear fashion, but the frequency of extreme weather events and rising sea levels will continue to accelerate. "People should accommodate to climate change and be prepared to a decline in life-level caused by it," he warned. ..........</font> DAHR JAMAIL has been covering this for waytoo long so see all his articles at truth-out.org <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/author/itemlist/user/44706" target="_blank">HERE</a>! WAY TOO MUCH to snip much more so read ALL OF THIS! THEN Thom Hartmann's Daily Take Team explains <a href="http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/28447-why-carbon-should-be-left-in-the-ground" target="_blank">Why Carbon Should Be Left in the Ground </a> <font color=darkblue>........... A <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/07/much-worlds-fossil-fuel-reserve-must-stay-buried-prevent-climate-change-study-says" target="_blank">new study published in the journal Nature</a> argues that most of the remaining fossil fuel reserves on our planet will need to be left in the ground if we want to have any chance at preventing catastrophic climate change. The scientists behind the research argue that most Canadian tar sands oil, all Arctic oil and gas, and most shale gas <b>has to stay buried underground if we want to avoid the 2 degrees Celsius warming benchmark.</b> Christophe McGlade, the lead researcher on the study, told The Guardian that, "We've now got tangible figures of the quantities and locations of fossil fuels that should remain unused in trying to keep within the 2C temperature limit." ................ Basically, if we want to have any chance at saving our planet from the greatest threat it's ever faced, we have to leave fossil fuels and the carbon that comes with them in the ground. It's that simple. Unfortunately, countries and companies are still spending billions on oil and gas exploration. A <a href="http://www.odi.org/g20-fossil-fuel-subsidies" target="_blank">report by Oil Change International and the Overseas Development Institute</a> found that collectively, the G20 nations and companies within them, which includes the United States, are spending a staggering $88 billion per year on fossil fuel exploration subsides to Big Oil. ............... It's time for the United States – and the rest of the world – to stop investing in oil and gas exploration, and start investing in clean and green sources of energy. Only then can we keep carbon in the ground and give our planet a fighting chance.</font> WOW! If you STILL THINK humans and the Industrial Revolution DID NOT CAUSE our current global climate situation becuz you've been <a href="http://sinsofgreenwashing.org/" target="_blank">greenwashed</a> THINK AGAIN! Oliver Milman at MoJo tells us how <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2015/01/humans-destorying-planet-earth" target="_blank">We're Destroying the Planet in Ways That Are Even Worse Than Global Warming: 4 ways humans are endangering life on Earth</a> <i>This story originally appeared in the Guardian and is republished here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration.</i> <font color=DarkSlateGray>Humans are "eating away at our own life support systems" at a rate unseen in the past 10,000 years by degrading land and freshwater systems, emitting greenhouse gases and releasing vast amounts of agricultural chemicals into the environment, new research has found. Two major new studies by an international team of researchers have pinpointed the key factors that ensure a livable planet for humans, with stark results. Of nine worldwide processes that underpin life on Earth, four have exceeded "safe" levels: human-driven climate change, loss of biosphere integrity, land system change, and the high level of phosphorus and nitrogen flowing into the oceans due to fertilizer use. Researchers spent five years identifying these core components of a planet suitable for human life, using the long-term average state of each measure to provide a baseline for the analysis. <b>They found that the changes of the last 60 years are unprecedented in the previous 10,000 years, a period in which the world has had a relatively stable climate and human civilization has advanced significantly. ............... Since 1950, urban populations have increased sevenfold, primary energy use has soared by a factor of five, while the amount of fertilizer used is now eight times higher. The amount of nitrogen entering the oceans has quadrupled. All of these changes are shifting Earth into a "new state" that is becoming less hospitable to human life, researchers said. <b>"These indicators have shot up since 1950 and there are no signs they are slowing down,"</b> said Will Steffen of the Australian National University and the Stockholm Resilience Center. Steffen is the lead author on both of the studies. "When economic systems went into overdrive, there was a massive increase in resource use and pollution," Steffen said. "It used to be confined to local and regional areas but we're now seeing this occurring on a global scale. These changes are down to human activity, not natural variability." Steffen said direct human influence upon the land was contributing to a loss in pollination and a disruption in the provision of nutrients and fresh water. "We are clearing land, we are degrading land, we introduce feral animals and take the top predators out, we change the marine ecosystem by overfishing—it's a death by a thousand cuts," he said. "That direct impact upon the land is the most important factor right now, even more than climate change."</b> ................... The two studies, published in <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1259855" target="_blank">Science</a> and <a href="http://anr.sagepub.com/" target="_blank">Anthropocene Review</a>, featured the work of scientists from countries including the United States, Sweden, Germany, and India. The findings will be presented in seven seminars at the World Economic Forum in Davos, which takes place from January 21 to 25.</font> DAVOS? SWITZERLAND? <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-15/the-swiss-central-bank-just-made-davos-a-lot-pricier.html" target="_blank">The Swiss Central Bank Just Made Davos a Lot Pricier</a> <font color=MediumVioletRed>......... The franc jumped at least 14 percent today after the Swiss central bank decided now was the time to stop capping its value. A dollar today buys a Davos delegate 88 Swiss centimes, down from 97 centimes a month ago. ............. The franc’s sudden jump threatens to make an event that already costs a small fortune to attend more exclusive. The forum’s organizers are preparing to increase the annual fee for its top category of corporate membership to 600,000 francs in July, or $673,000 if you’re still counting. That’s before attendees and their entourages worry about the cost of flights, meals, and hotels.......</font> Oh poor poor Davos attendees! Who wants to bet Jamie Dimon attends? HAHA! To unravel and try to figure out what the decoupling of the Swiss Franc did see Zerohedge.com <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-01-16/what-really-happened-snb-yesterday-one-persons-take" target="_blank">What Really Happened At The SNB Yesterday: One Person's Take</a> via Reto Rietberg. With all this fact-based science reporting about human-caused global warming and all its devastating effects one aspect of this is the moving growing season and shifting global climes for growing food. WE GO BACK to truth-out.org for the Brick TeeVee LAST WORD and Jonathan Latham, Independent Science News | News Analysis <a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/28540-how-the-great-food-war-will-be-won" target="_blank">How the Great Food War Will Be Won </a> <font color=green>.................... <b>The real food crisis is of overproduction</b> Yet this strategy has a disastrous foundational weakness. <b>There is no global or regional shortage of food. There never has been and nor is there ever likely to be.</b> <a href="http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/centre-to-offload-65-lakh-tonnes-of-wheat-in-open-market/article4109903.ece" target="_blank">India</a> has a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/business/global/a-failed-food-system-in-india-prompts-an-intense-review.html?pagewanted=all&_r=1&" target="_blank">superabundance</a> of food. South America is swamped in food. The US, Australia, New Zealand and <a href="http://www.bioscienceresource.org/2012/10/can-local-organic-agriculture-feed-a-major-city-and-protect-its-water-supply/" target="_blank">Europe</a> are swamped in food (e.g. <a href="http://www.biogeosciences.net/9/607/2012/bg-9-607-2012.pdf" target="_blank">Billen et al 2011</a>). In Britain, like in many wealthy countries, nearly half of all row crop food production <a href="http://www.ethanolproducer.com/articles/10022/uk-wheat-to-ethanol-plant-officially-opens-for-business" target="_blank">now goes to biofuels</a>, which at bottom are an attempt to dispose of surplus agricultural products. China isn't quite swamped but it still exports food (see Fig 1.); and it <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton" target="_blank">grows 30% </a> of the world's cotton. <b>No foodpocalypse there either.</b> Of all the populous nations, Bangladesh comes closest to not being swamped in food. Its situation is complex. Its government says it is self-sufficient. The UN world Food Program <a href="http://documents.wfp.org/stellent/groups/public/documents/ena/wfp078255.pdf" target="_blank">says it is not</a>, but the truth appears to be that Bangladeshi farmers do not produce the rice they could because prices are too low, because of persistent gluts (1). Even some establishment institutions will occasionally admit that the food shortage concept – now and in any reasonably conceivable future – is bankrupt. According to experts consulted by the World Bank Institute there is already sufficient food production for <a href=http://wbi.worldbank.org/wbi/Data/wbi/wbicms/files/drupal-acquia/wbi/WBI%20Global%20Dialogue%20on%20Food%20Security%20and%20Adaptation%20-%20Summary%20of%20emerging%20issues.pdf" target="_blank">14 billion people</a> – more food than will ever be needed. <b>The Golden Fact of agribusiness is a lie.</b> Truth restoration: So, if the agribusiness PR experts are correct that food crisis fears are pivotal to their industry, then it follows that those who oppose the industrialization of food and agriculture should make dismantling that lie their top priority. Anyone who wants a sustainable, pesticide-free, or non-GMO food future, or who wants to swim in a healthy river or lake again, or wants to avoid climate chaos, needs to know all this. Anyone who would like to rebuild the rural economy or who appreciates cultural, biological, or agricultural diversity of any meaningful kind should take every possible opportunity to point out the evidence that refutes it. ....................</font> If ever was a time for CLICK ANYTHING AND BE INSTANTLY SMARTER this article is it! READ ALL OF THIS and CLICK on ALL the links for vastly more information! CLICK EVERYTHING AT <a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/28540-how-the-great-food-war-will-be-won" target="_blank">How the Great Food War Will Be Won </a> ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ Our congrats to The Ohio State Buckeyes, winners of the first ever College Football Playoff Championship! And congrats to The New England Patriots and Seattle Seahawks facing off in Superbowl XLIX in two weeks. And on THIS Martin Luther King Jr. weekend don't forget to read our award-winning essay at our <a href="http://filthy-rich.blogspot.com/2013/08/btv-special-50th-anniversary-march-for.html" target="_blank">BTV Special! 50th Anniversary March for Jobs and Freedom! </a> The post was written for the 50th anniversary of the famous "I have a dream" speech delivered during the March for Jobs and Freedom in Washington in 1963. One take-away, after re-reading this, is that things have gotten WORSE not better since then: HANDSUPDONTSHOOTICANTBREATHE and all that too. Please share with all yer peeps during this MLK Jr. Day weekend! AND Be sure to watch on line somewhere the video of Press the Todd's interview with Charlie Hebdo Editor-in-Chief Gérard Biard who said <b>"If God becomes entangled in politics, then democracy is in danger," </b> </font> <center><img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/gonzo-111x191.png" height="75"></center><p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font> <p><img src="http://www.democracynow.org/images/nav/dn_logo.png" height=100 alt="Democracy NOW!" /> <p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/12/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, January 12, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of the TheIntercept.org</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/12/circus_of_hypocrisy_jeremy_scahill_on" target="_blank">"Circus of Hypocrisy": Jeremy Scahill on How World Leaders at Paris March Oppose Press Freedom</a> <br />
<li><b>MORE Scahill </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/5/from_drone_strikes_to_black_sites" target="_blank">Jeremy Scahill on Paris Attacks, the al-Qaeda Link & the Secret U.S. War in Yemen</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/13/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, January 13, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Glenn Greenwaldco-founder of The Intercept, Lisa Stampnitzky, social studies lecturer at Harvard University & Luc Mathieu, foreign affairs reporter for the French newspaper Libération</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/13/glenn_greenwald_on_how_to_be" target="_blank">Glenn Greenwald on How to Be a Terror "Expert": Ignore Facts, Blame Muslims, Trumpet U.S. Propaganda</a> <br />
<li><b>MORE Greenwald</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/13/glenn_greenwald_with_calls_to_spare" target="_blank">Glenn Greenwald: With Calls to Spare Petraeus, Feinstein Plea Shows that Not All Leaks are Equal</a> <br />
<li><b>Reporters Without Borders: Program Director Lucie Morillon & Delphine Halgand, U.S. director of Reporters Without Borders</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/13/reporters_without_borders_on_witnessing_the" target="_blank">Reporters Without Borders on Witnessing the Paris Massacre Aftermath & Press Freedom After Charlie</a> <br />
<li><b>Adotei Akwei, managing director of government relations for Amnesty International USA</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/13/massacre_in_nigeria_up_to_2" target="_blank">Massacre in Nigeria: Up to 2,000 Feared Dead in Boko Haram’s Worst Attack to Date</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/14/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, January 14, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Juan Gonzalez, award-winning columnist with the New York Daily News and Democracy Now! co-host</b> <a href="hhttp://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/14/after_confronting_nyc_mayor_police_union" target="_blank">After Confronting NYC Mayor, Police Union Leader Faces Mutiny of His Own from Dissident Cops</a> <br />
<li><b>Debra and Marc Tice</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/14/parents_of_kidnapped_us_journalist_austin" target="_blank">Parents of Kidnapped U.S. Journalist Austin Tice on Their Struggle to Free Son from Syria Captivity</a> <br />
<li><b>Environmental activist Eric McDavid, his partner Jenny Esquivel, a member of the group Sacramento Prisoner Support & Ben Rosenfeld, McDavid’s lawyer</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/14/exclusive_eco_terrorist_freed_10_years" target="_blank">Exclusive: "Eco-Terrorist" Freed 10 Years Early After Feds Withhold Evidence on Informant’s Role</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/15/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, January 15, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Joseph Hickman, a former Guantánamo staff sergeant & Mark Denbeaux, professor at Seton Hall University School of Law</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/15/did_gitmo_suicides_cover_up_murder" target="_blank">Did Gitmo "Suicides" Cover Up Murder? U.S. Sgt. Speaks Out on Deaths & Prison’s Secret CIA Site</a> <br />
<li><b>Diana Whitten, director of the film Vessel & Rebecca Gomperts, Dutch doctor who founded Women on Waves</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/15/women_on_waves_meet_the_dutch" target="_blank">Women on Waves: Meet the Dutch Physician Who Defied Abortion Bans by Bringing Her Clinic to the Sea</a> Learn more about the film at vesselthefilm.com. <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/16/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, January 16, 2015</a><ul><li><b>Naderev "Yeb" Sano, Philippines climate change commissioner.</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/16/man_has_slapped_nature_in_the" target="_blank">"Man Has Slapped Nature in the Face": Pope Francis Urges Climate Action in Philippines Visit</a> <br />
<li><b>Nathan Schneider, is a columnist at America magazine, a national Catholic weekly magazine published by the Jesuits</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/16/pope_francis_plea_for_climate_action" target="_blank">Pope Francis Plea for Climate Action Revives Concept of "The Commons" to Rethink Economy & Society</a> <br />
<li><b>Adotei Akwei managing director of government relations for Amnesty International USA, Rona Peligal deputy director of Africa Division for Human Rights Watch & Horace Campbell professor of African American studies and political science at Syracuse University</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/16/as_nigerian_massacre_evidence_grows_questions" target="_blank">As Nigerian Massacre Evidence Grows, Questions Swirl over Collusion Between Boko Haram & Military</a> Amnesty International USA's latest report is <a href="http://www.hrw.org/reports/2014/10/27/those-terrible-weeks-their-camp-0" target="_blank">hose Terrible Weeks in Their Camp: Boko Haram Violence Against Women and Girls in Northeast Nigeria</a> and Campbell's latest is <a href="http://www.pambazuka.net/en/category/features/91999" target="_blank">The Menace of Boko Haram and Fundamentalism in Nigeria</a><br />
</ul><p><img src="http://grittv.org/wp-content/themes/grit/images/logo.gif" height=100 alt="GRITtv" /> <a href="http://www.lauraflanders.com/grittv/" target="_blank">GRITtv</a> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">www.grittv.org</a> with Laura Flanders - New Episode Every Monday at TELESUR </br > »»» <b>VIDEO OF THE WEEK</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?video=patrick-cockburn-charlie-hebdo-attack-could-benefit-isis-and-al-qaeda" target="_blank">Patrick Cockburn: Charlie Hebdo Attack Could Benefit ISIS and Al Qaeda</a> The attack on the Charlie Hebdo staff in Paris, January 7th, wasn't necessarily the work of a complex terrorist conspiracy, but it could still rebound to the benefit of groups like ISIS and Al Qaeda, says Middle East correspondent and author, Patrick Cockburn. It all depends on the reaction of the West. More war, he says, will breed more violent reaction. <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE SPORT!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></b></font></font> </br > »»» <b>SUNDAY NFL PLAYOFFS</b> NFC Championship Packers @ Seahwaks (FOX 3:05 pm et) THEN AFC Championship Colts @ Patriots (CBS 6:40 pm et) »»» <b>WEDNESDAY NBA DOUBLEHEADER on ESPN</b> </br > Thunder @ Wizards 8:00 pm et THEN Rockets @ Warriors 10:30 pm et »»» <b>THURSDAY NBA DOUBLEHEADER on TNT</b> </br > Spurs @ Bulls 8:00 pm et THEN Nets @ Clippers 10:30 pm et <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ACTION!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font></br > <font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i> <p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>! <p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <font color=red><b>ACTION!</b> <a href="http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/stop-titlex/" target="_blank">If Congress enacts Title X, we'll lose net neutrality forever.</a> Comcast’s well-paid friends in Congress are looking to enact a "Title X" provision that would give the Cable industry the power to ruin the open Internet and force Internet users to pay more for less. Congress leaders are planning on starting 2015 with a bill called “<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/19/7422657/republicans-looking-to-introduce-net-neutrality-bill-that-avoids-title-II" target="_blank">Title X</a>" that would compromise the World Wide Web by taking away the FCC’s ability to protect the open Internet and giving cable companies the power to charge for less access. This bill would be a huge betrayal to the millions of Internet users that demanded that Congress support real net neutrality. SIGN THE PETITION to Congress: "We want to keep the Internet open and free. Don't let cable companies take away our ability to create and express ourselves on the world wide web. Support real net neutrality, not fake bills like "Title X" that will poison the Internet." </font> <p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW! <p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org <p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>! <p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information! <p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Chelsea Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/manning-featured-in-alcatraz-art-exhibit" target="_blank">Manning featured in Alcatraz art exhibit</a> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/featured/birthday-messages-to-chelsea-from-snowden-gilliam-more-public-icons" target="_blank">Birthday Messages to Chelsea from Snowden, Gilliam & more public icons</a> <i>Dec 16, 2014. Public icons send birthday greetings and support to prisoner of conscience Chelsea Manning, including: Edward Snowden, Terry Gilliam, Michael Stipe, Vivienne Westwood, Molly Crabapple, JM Coetzee, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Slavoj Žižek, Alan Moore, Joe Sacco, Lupe Fiasco, Peter Tatchell, Billy Martin, Saul Williams..........</i> <p><font size=3><b>DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION</b></font> <a href="http://tjmf.flipswap.com/" target="_blank">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. </a> For more information, go to <a href="http://www.tjmartellfoundation.org" target="_blank">www.tjmartellfoundation.org</a> <p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!! <p><center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br > <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick_teevee_test.jpg" alt="brick_teevee_test.jpg" /></br > The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br > THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br > Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,356 US Military Dead as of Jan. 15, 2015</a> </br > <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br > <font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><p>
<li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Charlie Hebdo Editor-in-Chief Gérard Biard<br />
• Dan Pfeiffer, White House Senior Advisor<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Carol Lee, White House Correspondent, The Wall Street Journal; Robert Gibbs, Fmr. White House Press Secretary & Founding Partner, The Incite Agency; Kelly O'Donnell, NBC News Capitol Hill Correspondent; Michael Steele, Fmr. Chairman of the Republican National Committee<br />
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• Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC)<br />
• Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Chris Murphy (D-CT)<br />
• Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R)<br />
• former Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli (R)<br />
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• FRONT PORCH FRIDAY!! featuring the Malloy-HeadOn chatters! Listen here NOW! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(16-01-2015).mp3" target="_blank">Friday, January 16th, 2015 </a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.CRMW.net</a>!<br />
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• <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11007" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - January 15, 2015</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Obama's big move to cut methane emissions - but there's a catch; West Virginia and the fight for science in science textbooks; Good news and bad news on sea level rise; PLUS: Car Wars - it's Tesla vs. Chevy in the race for electric cars... All that and more in today's Green News Report! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): WA Gov. Jay Inslee's big green plans for his state; Booming solar jobs aiding economic recovery; Sen. Sanders forcing Republicans to go on record on climate change; Not all Republicans think alike about global warming; Fracking pollutants found in PA rivers; CA limits pesticide use on strawberries; Rooftop solar already cheaper than utility rates in some cities; Pope Francis steps up rhetoric on human-caused climate change... PLUS: The Logic of Divestment: Why We Have to Kiss Off Big Carbon Now... and much, MUCH more! <br />
• <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11004" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - January 13, 2015</a> 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!<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11006" target="_blank">Still Asking 'Why, Charlie Hebdo?': KPFK 'BradCast'</a> ust because we can publish material that offends millions, should we? What's the point? Callers ring in... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10944" target="_blank">Torture Was a War Crime After WWII and Still Is</a> Standards applied to the Japanese, who tortured the father of BRAD BLOG's Ernie Canning, help explain why the Bush Admin must still be prosecuted for war crimes...<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11002" target="_blank">Lawsuit Happy Texas Leads Nation in Carbon Emissions</a> No wonder former state AG, now Gov.-elect Greg Abbott files so many frivilous lawsuits. He must be hoping we won't notice how filthy dirty the Lone Star State is... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11010" target="_blank">NASA, NOAA Confirm 2014 Hottest Year on Record</a> Yet another climate change denial myth is scuttled, but here's how the fossil-fueled scammers have been getting away with their "no warming over the past decade!" hoax... <br />
• BRADBLOG VIDEO! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11001" target="_blank">Nebraska Supreme Court MAJORITY Finds Keystone XL Approval 'Unconstitutional', Allows It Anyway</a> Bizarre state provision sends fight over controversial Canadian project back to D.C... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10990" target="_blank">Not Voting IS a Vote</a> Stop blaming those who didn't turn out. Americans did vote. By not turning out, they voted against the two major parties and against the system as a whole. It may have been a dumb vote, but it was a landslide... <br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <br />
<ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• 14 Jan 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-on-freedom-of-expression-actions-speak-louder-than-words/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: On Freedom of Expression, Actions Speak Louder than Words</a> While governments and media giants pay lip service to free expression, France arrests 54 dissidents, NY Times refuses to run......<br />
• 15 Jan 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-cia-is-above-the-law-beyond-the-reach-of-senate-oversight/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: CIA is Above the Law, Beyond the Reach of Senate Oversight</a> At VICE news, Jason Leopold reports on CIA’s investigation of Senate investigators who found “Panetta review” documents, triggering constitutional crisis… <br />
• 16 Jan 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-abc-news-delivers-fbi-propaganda-on-home-grown-terrorists/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: ABC News Delivers FBI Propaganda on “Home Grown Terrorists”</a> FBI fearmongering media blitz continues, as ABC airs “exclusive” surveillance footage from 2012 case, another idiot with FBI provocateur handler… <br />
• PBC Standard Podcast January 9, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2015/01/09/activist-shahid-buttar-argues-that-body-cams-wont-end-police-violence/" target="_blank">Activist Shahid Buttar Argues that Body Cams Won’t End Police Violence</a> 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. <br />
• PBC Standard Podcast January 13, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2015/01/13/former-tucson-teacher-curtis-acosta-describes-appeals-hearing-on-arizona-law-that-banned-minority-studies/" target="_blank">Former Tucson Teacher Curtis Acosta Describes Appeals Hearing on Arizona Law that Banned Minority Studies</a> Curtis Acosta is a gifted teacher whose Latino studies program was banned by an Arizona state law, which is being challenged in federal court. He was in San Francisco for oral arguments before the US Court of Appeal for the 9th Circuit, and in this conversation, he provides the history of the case. We also hear part of the argument presented by esteemed law professor Erwin Chemerinsky. <br />
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• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/?s=ring+of+fire+radio" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire </a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
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• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weeks-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv-30/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV</a> - Sundays at NOON! Posted on January 17, 2015 by Farron Cousins<br />
»» Farron Cousins will be sitting in for Mike Papantonio this week.<br />
»» Howard Nations will tell us why the frontrunners for the GOP nod in 2016 are facing an uphill battle.<br />
»» Blogger Chauncey DeVega will explain why acts of terrorism on U.S. soil are largely ignored, and sometimes even celebrated.<br />
»» David TeSelle will tell us why Democrats are joining up with Wall Street to destroy public worker pensions.<br />
»» And we’ll be conducting a roundtable discussion with Brendan DeMelle, Carol Linnit and Justin Mikulka about the biggest environmental issues that need more attention.<br />
»» Watch at <a href="http://www.freespeech.org/collection/ringoffire" target="_blank">FSTV</a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/thom-hartmann-will-anyone-stop-the-tpp/" target="_blank">Thom Hartmann: Will Anyone Stop the TPP?</a> 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.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/poor-little-sociopath-dimon-says-bankers-are-under-assault/" target="_blank">Poor Little Sociopath Dimon Says Bankers are “Under Assault”</a> by Joshua De Leon<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/papantonio-dupont-poisons-water-for-50-years/" target="_blank">Papantonio: Dupont Poisons Water for 50 Years</a> by Gary Bentley - America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, appears on RT’s Breaking The Set with Abby Martin to talk about a federal lawsuit filed against the Dupont Corporation over the company’s poisoning of people’s drinking water.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/papantonio-duponts-polluted-history-has-poisoned-entire-communities/" target="_blank">Papantonio: DuPont’s Polluted History Has Poisoned Entire Communities</a> by Ring of Fire<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/thom-hartmann-time-to-lock-up-the-lobbyists/" target="_blank">Thom Hartmann: Time to Lock Up the Lobbyists</a> by Amy Eddings - Everyone knows that lobbyists have an extreme amount of power over our government. Thom Hartmann discusses that power and how we can keep them and check and hopefully get their dirty money out of politics.<br />
• Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the "Podcast" tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/blogengine/" target="_blank">Ring of Fire Radio</a> Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, <b>rebroadcasts 7-10 et Sunday evenings on <a href="http://www.chicagoprogressivetalk.com/listen/" target="_blank">Chicago's Progressive Talk WCPT AM & FM</a> and 4 pm et on Sirius/XM 167 featuring The PAP Attack! </b> "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week." <br />
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<li type=square><b>Majority Report with Sam Seder</b> Streaming LIVE weekdays 12 NOON et @ <a href="http://Majority.fm" target="_blank">Majority.fm</a>! <br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11215-dan-dicker-shale-boom-bust-the-myth-of-us-oil-independence" target="_blank">1/12/15 Dan Dicker: Shale Boom & Bust: the Myth of Us Oil Independence</a> <br />
• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11315-thomas-schaller-stronghold-how-republicans-captured-congress-but-surrendered-the-white-house" target="_blank">1/13/15 Thomas Schaller: Stronghold: How Republicans Captured Congress but Surrendered the White House</a><br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11415-karl-widerquist-the-guaranteed-basic-income-the-libertarian-dilemna" target="_blank"> 1/14/15 Karl Widerquist: The Guaranteed Basic Income & the Libertarian Dilemna </a><br />
• THURSDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11515-scott-horton-lords-of-secrecy-the-national-security-elite-and-americas-stealth-warfare" target="_blank">1/15/15 Scott Horton: Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America's Stealth Warfare </a><br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11615-mm-casual-friday-cliff-schecter-film-guy-matthew-weiss" target="_blank">1/16/15 M&M Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & Film Guy Matthew Weiss</a><br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
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• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport" target="_blank">Keiser Report</a> <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/manufactured-terrorism-u-s-officials-claim-credit-for-stopping-another-terror-attack-created-by-the-fbi/" target="_blank">Manufactured Terrorism – U.S. Officials Claim Credit for Stopping Another Terror Attack Created by the FBI</a> by Michael Krieger — The “war on terror” is the best thing to happen to power hungry politicians since a fire of questionable origin destroyed the Reichstag building in Berlin on February 27, 1933. Not only does the “war on terror” represent big business for shady crony capitalists, it gives politicians, i.e., professional authoritarians, an excuse to destroy civil liberties and implement a total surveillance system to ensure the plebs don’t get out of line. This is not just an unfortunate trend that has developed organically due to a dangerous world, these are the goals of the oligarch class and they will do whatever it takes to achieve them. This is where the “war on terror” and constant fear-mongering comes into play. There’s only one small problem. In the absence of real terror attacks in the U.S., it’s difficult to keep the stupid serfs shivering in a corner in the fetal position. Enter fake terrorist attacks;funded, created and planned by the FBI. Read the rest <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2015/01/16/manufactured-terrorism-u-s-officials-claim-credit-for-stopping-another-terror-attack-created-by-the-fbi/" target="_blank">here</a>......... (libertyblitzkrieg.com)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/swiss-national-bank-goes-nuclear-derivative-bombs-to-follow/" target="_blank">Swiss National Bank Goes Nuclear- Derivative Bombs to Follow?</a> by The Doc — A day after the Swiss National Bank SHOCKED the market by de-pegging the franc from the Euro, causing a 30% move in the CHF Thursday, Jay Taylor joins The Doc & Eric Dubin to break down all of the implications: <br />
- Currency fluctuations could cause massive derivative bombs</br ><br />
- Why we’re witnessing the destruction of capitalism </br ><br />
- Jay explains why we may soon see carnage in the equity markets </br ><br />
- Hard to see a way out of this for the Central Bankers- THIS IS NOT GOING TO END WELL!</br ><br />
- Has the Swiss National Bank ended Central Bank PM Manipulation, and kicked off the 3rd stage of the secular PM bull? </br ><br />
<a href="http://www.silverdoctors.com/swiss-national-bank-goes-nuclear-derivative-bombs-to-follow/" target="_blank">Click here for the SD Weekly Metals & Markets With The Doc, Eric Dubin, and Jay Taylor</a> (silverdoctors.com)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/swiss-national-bank-masters-of-the-game//" target="_blank">Swiss National Bank: Masters of the Game</a> by Janet Tavakoli — This is the Swiss National Bank’s idea of “further measures”. Read …READ <a href="http://www.tavakolistructuredfinance.com/2015/01/swiss-franc-foreign-exchange-rates/" target="_blank">more</a>...... (tavakolistructuredfinance.com)<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/kr705-keiser-report-siberian-camembert-ft-ben-aris/" target="_blank">[KR705] Keiser Report: Siberian Camembert (ft. Ben Aris)</a> We discuss the ‘new world order,’ same as the old world order as China resumes its place at the top of the economic heap of nations. We also ‘follow the yellow brick road’ to Weimar where the road to a so-called ‘stronger economy’ in the UK is backed by a mountain of debt. In the second half, Max interviews Ben Aris of BNE.eu about misperceptions of Russia in the Western media, the true state of the economy and the thriving industry of… Siberian camembert?<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/kr706-keiser-report-ali-baba-revolution-ft-paul-schulte/" target="_blank">[KR706] Keiser report: Ali-Baba Revolution (ft. Paul Schulte)</a>We are joined by Paul Schulte for a double header. In the first half, we discuss the economic catastrophe that is the European corporate and banking sector heading into 2015 – especially for Spain, France, Italy and then Germany. In the second half, we discuss the McFarlane effect as the new chairman of Barclays could begin dismantling the behemoth. We also discuss the number one territory for fintech being . . . China!<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/r707-keiser-report-banksterism/" target="_blank">[R707] Keiser Report: Banksterism</a> Coming to you from Mexico City where we find the so-called “failed state” looks a whole lot better in many regards than certain Western countries. We look at the role of the US drug war in creating the ultra-violence which has led to the headlines that caused the perception of a failed state in Mexico. In the second half, Max interviews economist and journalist Guillermo Barba about Mexico’s unallocated gold reserves at the Bank of England, the failed state question and the future of the Mexican economy.<br />
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<li type=square><b>The Scott Horton Radio Show</b><br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It’s been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show’s important milestones, as well as preview some of the exciting projects to look for in the near future. ........ The show on Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A., still called Antiwar Radio, has now moved to join their Sunday morning public affairs line up (8:30 am pt - http://kpfk.org), and remains the largest source of listeners, with 15,000-20,000 people tuning in weekly. The future: Liberty Express Radio is growing and bringing me along for the ride. The great Charles Goyette hooked me up with Alan Butler and the Liberty Express earlier this year, and what has been the daily replay there from 3-5 eastern time has become my best listened-to show. And now they’re adding my friend Tom Woods to the lineup from 2-3 PM. That does it. I’m making the switch! Starting Monday, October 14, the live show is moving to 3-5 PM Eastern time on LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/01/13/11315-olivia-watson/" target="_blank">1/13/15 Olivia Watson</a>: Olivia Watson, an advocacy officer with Defense for Children International-Palestine, discusses the <a href="http://dci-palestine.org/documents/how-was-2014-palestinian-children" target="_blank">suffering of Palestinian children in 2014</a> due to Israel’s war on Gaza and violation of children’s rights throughout the occupied territories.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/01/14/11415-patrick-cockburn/" target="_blank">1/14/15 Patrick Cockburn</a>: Patrick Cockburn, a Middle East correspondent with The Independent, discusses France’s terrorism blowback resulting from their ongoing intervention in Muslim countries; and the Islamic State’s sustainability in Iraq.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/01/15/11515-barry-lando/" target="_blank">1/15/15 Barry Lando</a>: Barry Lando, a former 60 Minutes producer and author of Web of Deceit, discusses how the US’s diplomatic blunders helped start the Gulf War, 24 years ago today; why George H.W. Bush is responsible for the tens of thousands of Iraqis who tried to rise up and overthrow Saddam Hussein; and how the war continues to shape the Middle East, US foreign policy, and the War on Terror.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/01/15/11515-jason-leopold/" target="_blank">1/15/15 Jason Leopold</a>: Jason Leopold, a writer for Vice News and author of News Junkie, discusses <a href="https://news.vice.com/article/how-guantanamo-became-americas-interrogation-battle-lab" target="_blank">How Guantanamo Became America’s Interrogation “Battle Lab,”</a> where prisoners were subjected to untested psychological experiments to determine “the effects of torture and the limits of the human spirit.”<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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• Sen Ben Cardin (D-MD), a member of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations<br />
• Ted Olson, former Solicitor General<br />
• Tony Perkins, President of the Family Research Council <br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>BLOWBACK</b> The entire world is shocked by the mass murders in Paris France ultimately ending in <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/09/us-france-shooting-idUSKBN0KG0Y120150109?utm_source=twitter" target="_blank">French forces kill newspaper attack suspects, hostages die in second siege</a> with reporting at Reuters by Mark John, Ingrid Melander and John Irish. We'll have more on this in a bit but first some good news! Tired of the same old NPR (National Petroleum Radio)? Are your airwaves clogged with all types of right- to far-right talkers? Well you're in luck! NEW CHANNEL 121 on SIRIUSXM with JOHN FUGELSANG STARTING MONDAY! <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/siriusxm-to-launch-new-siriusxm-insight-channel-300016411.html" target="_blank">SiriusXM to Launch New "SiriusXM Insight" Channel </a> <font color=purple>/PRNewswire/ -- SiriusXM today announced it will launch SiriusXM Insight, an all-new, exclusive, groundbreaking news, information, and entertainment radio channel offering listeners inspiring ideas and intelligent conversation with an edge. ........ At launch, SiriusXM Insight will feature shows with notable brands including the Aspen Institute, The Daily Beast, and TechCrunch, giving listeners the opportunity to react and learn about a range of critical issues spanning headline news and social trends, technology news, the arts and culture, science, parenting, spirituality, travel, literature, education and more. The channel will also include a variety of talented, insightful hosts from wide-ranging backgrounds, including three stand-up comedians well-known for their astute analysis of news and issues: SiriusXM on-air personality and stand-up comic, Pete Dominick; political commentator and comedian, John Fugelsang; and former practicing attorney and Muslim American stand-up comedian, Dean Obeidallah. Also joining the lineup are well-known experts Neil deGrasse Tyson, astrophysicist, Director of the Hayden Planetarium, and popularizer of science; author, Libertarian, activist and Harvard Law professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz; Pulitzer Prize-winning African-American journalist, professor, and publisher, Karen Hunter; center-right political commentator and gay rights activist, Margaret Hoover; and transcendental meditation expert and Executive Director of the David Lynch Foundation, Bob Roth. "SiriusXM Insight is like the cocktail party after the seminar - the topics are lively and the discussion is loose, engaging and unpredictable," said Scott Greenstein, President and Chief Content Officer, SiriusXM. .......... SiriusXM Insight will launch Monday, January 12, at 9:00 am ET on SiriusXM channel 121. The inaugural program will be "Stand Up! With Pete Dominick," in recognition of Dominick's role in inspiring the creation of the channel. ........ The SiriusXM Insight program lineup will provide a wide-variety of topics, including:<br />
<ul><li>Stand Up with Pete Dominick – 9am-12pm ET, daily <br />
<li>Get It Right with Margaret Hoover – 12pm-1pm ET, daily <br />
<li>Tell Me Everything with John Fugelsang – 2pm-5pm ET, daily<br />
<li>StarTalk Radio with Neil deGrasse Tyson – 5pm-6pm ET, daily <br />
<li>The Karen Hunter Show - 7pm-9pm ET, daily <br />
<li>Aspen Institute Radio – Saturdays, 1-3pm ET <br />
<li>The Perri Peltz Show – Wednesdays at 6pm & Saturdays at 3pm<br />
<li>Daily Beast Radio – Saturdays, 9am-10am ET <br />
<li>TechCrunch Radio – Tuesdays at 6pm ET <br />
<li>The Dean Obeidallah Show – Saturdays, 10am-12pm ET <br />
<li>Success without Stress with Bob Roth – Last Friday of every month, 6pm ET <br />
<li>Righteous Radio with Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove – Sundays, 9am ET <br />
<li>The Alan Dershowitz Show –Sundays, 10am-12pm ET <br />
<li>TalkPoverty Radio –Saturdays, 12pm ET <br />
</ul>............. Listeners will be able to join the conversation by calling 877-974-7487 or submitting their thoughts and questions using #SXMInsight and @SXMInsight. ........ </font> DISHTV subscribers already get SOME SIRIUSXM programming (like <a href="http://www.siriusxm.com/undergroundgarage" target="_blank">Little Steven's Undergroup Garage</a> Ch. 21) but we're not sure if DISHTV will carry this new channel. Subscriptions start at about ten bucks a month, not too shabby! And you can listen in your car AND at home! So while "SiriusXM Insight" is launching the GOPhers are trying to take away 'Net Neutrality right out of the gate! FightForTheFuture.org explains <a href="http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/stop-titlex/" target="_blank">If Congress enacts Title X, we'll lose net neutrality forever.</a> <font color=red>Comcast’s well-paid friends in Congress are looking to enact a "Title X" provision that would give the Cable industry the power to ruin the open Internet and force Internet users to pay more for less. Congress leaders are planning on starting 2015 with a bill called “<a href="http://www.theverge.com/2014/12/19/7422657/republicans-looking-to-introduce-net-neutrality-bill-that-avoids-title-II" target="_blank">Title X</a>" that would compromise the World Wide Web by taking away the FCC’s ability to protect the open Internet and giving cable companies the power to charge for less access. This bill would be a huge betrayal to the millions of Internet users that demanded that Congress support real net neutrality. SIGN THE PETITION to Congress: "We want to keep the Internet open and free. Don't let cable companies take away our ability to create and express ourselves on the world wide web. Support real net neutrality, not fake bills like "Title X" that will poison the Internet." </font> MORE 114th CONGRESS: Dylan Scott at TPM finds <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/social-security-di-house-rules-change" target="_blank">New GOP Congress Fires Shot At Social Security On Day One</a> <font color=FireBrick> With a little-noticed proposal, Republicans took aim at Social Security on the very first day of the 114th Congress. The incoming GOP majority approved late Tuesday a new rule that experts say could provoke an unprecedented crisis that conservatives could use as leverage in upcoming debates over entitlement reform. The largely overlooked change puts a new restriction on the routine transfer of tax revenues between the traditional Social Security retirement trust fund and the Social Security disability program. The transfers, known as reallocation, had historically been routine; the liberal Center for Budget and Policy Priorities <a href="http://www.offthechartsblog.org/14789/" target="_blank">said</a> Tuesday that they had been made 11 times. The CBPP added that the disability insurance program "isn't broken," but the program has been strained by demographic trends that the reallocations are intended to address. The House GOP's rule change would still allow for a reallocation from the retirement fund to shore up the disability fund -- but only if an accompanying proposal "improves the overall financial health of the combined Social Security Trust Funds," per the rule, expected to be passed on Tuesday. While that language is vague, experts say it would likely mean any reallocation would have to be balanced by new revenues or benefit cuts. House Democrats are sounding the alarm...........</font> MORE! And that's not all the GOPhers have been digging into on the first week! Reporting for Rueters Timothy Gardner <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/09/us-usa-keystone-congress-idUSKBN0KI1VO20150109" target="_blank">U.S. House passes Keystone XL bill, Senate to debate next week</a> <font color=Brown>The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill on Friday to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline, despite a threat by the White House to veto legislation on the project. The bill passed, 266-153, with 28 of the House Democrats voting for the pipeline, down three from a similar vote in November. The Senate will debate a similar bill early next week. President Barack Obama has said the State Department should finish its assessment of the project before he decides whether to approve it. TransCanada Corp's pipeline would help transport more than 800,000 barrels per day of mostly Canadian tar sands oil to refineries along the Gulf Coast.</font> We're sure there will be much more skullduggery going on in The House so stay tuned and be ready to call your congresscritters! BOSTON MARATHON UPDATE: On DN! TUESDAY <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/6/justice_or_vengeance_is_a_fair" target="_blank">Justice or Vengeance?: ACLU Raises Concerns as Boston Marathon Bombing Trial Begins</a> with Carol Rose, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. Her article, "<a href="http://cognoscenti.wbur.org/2015/01/05/why-the-tsarnaev-trial-represents-the-antithesis-of-due-process" target="_blank">Tsarnaev Trial Will Test What It Means To Be 'Boston Strong</a>,'" was published Monday on WBUR’s website. ALSO Mark Potok, senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/6/david_duke_without_the_baggage_will" target="_blank">"David Duke Without the Baggage": Will Top GOPer Steve Scalise Resign over Speech to Racist Group?</a> Mark Potok's latest piece for their Hatewatch blog <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2014/12/30/steve-scalises-denials-are-not-believable/" target="_blank">Steve Scalise’s Denials Are Not Believable</a> AND <a href="http://uprisingradio.org/home/" target="_blank">Uprising with Sonali</a> On Tuesday's show <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8NzOF3UR1E" target="_blank">Uprising with Sonali – January 6 2015</a> "Marjorie Cohn examines suspected Boston Marathon bomber’s trial, the implications for political dissent, prisoner rights, the death penalty, and the hypocrisy of terrorism cases." <a href="http://www.marjoriecohn.com/" target="_blank">Marjorie Cohn</a> also has a NEW BOOK! <a href="http://www.alibris.com/search/books/subject/Political-Science-Public-Policy?wquery=Drones+and+Targeted+Killing+Legal%2C+Moral%2C+and+Geopolitical+Issues" target="_blank">Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues</a>. Good item! NEXT From the WSJ's Devlin Barrett <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/americans-cellphones-targeted-in-secret-u-s-spy-program-1415917533" target="_blank">Americans’ Cellphones Targeted in Secret U.S. Spy Program</a> <font color=SteelBlue>Devices on Planes that Mimic Cellphone Towers Used to Target Criminals, but Also Sift Through Thousands of Other Phones - The Justice Department is scooping up data from thousands of mobile phones through devices deployed on airplanes that mimic cellphone towers, a high-tech hunt for criminal suspects that it is snagging a large number of Americans...... </font> Since we can't get past the WSJ's paywall we go to Tech Dirt Editor MIKE MASNICK and the <i> because-surveillance-is-fun,-yo dept</i> <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20141113/16292029131/feds-put-fake-cell-towers-planes-spied-tons-innocent-americans.shtml" target="_blank">Feds Put Fake Cell Towers On Planes, Spied On Tons Of Innocent Americans</a> <font color=indigo>The Wall Street Journal broke the news that the DOJ has been spying on tons of innocent Americans by putting fake mobile phone towers on airplanes and scooping up all sorts of data from people who thought they were connecting to regular mobile phone towers. <ul>The U.S. Marshals Service program, which became fully functional around 2007, operates Cessna aircraft from at least five metropolitan-area airports, with a flying range covering most of the U.S. population, according to people familiar with the program. Planes are equipped with devices—some known as “dirtboxes” to law-enforcement officials because of the initials of the Boeing Co. unit that produces them—which mimic cell towers of large telecommunications firms and trick cellphones into reporting their unique registration information. The technology in the two-foot-square device enables investigators to scoop data from tens of thousands of cellphones in a single flight, collecting their identifying information and general location, these people said. </ul>We have, of course, reported for a while now on so-called <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/search-g.php?q=stingray" target="_blank">Stingray devices</a>, which mimic mobile phone towers on the ground (and have noted that Stingray is just one brand of a few such devices, known as IMSI catchers), but putting them on special planes and flying them around would allow law enforcement agencies to get a lot more information on a lot more people. <b>Given that law enforcement efforts like this are supposed to be narrowly targeted towards those actually suspected of breaking the law, this seems like a <u>massive 4th Amendment abuse</u>, creating mass surveillance programs for law enforcement with little real oversight or control. While it may not be entirely surprising that this is happening, <u>it is yet another surveillance program being done with zero public transparency, zero public debate and zero public input. That's a huge concern as we've seen time and time again how such programs get abused.</u></b> And, while the WSJ doesn't come out and say it, it certainly sounds like it got this info from a concerned whistleblower inside the US Marshals Service: <ul>Within the Marshals Service, some have questioned the legality of such operations and the internal safeguards, these people said. They say scooping up of large volumes of information, even for a short period, may not be properly understood by judges who approve requests for the government to locate a suspect’s phone. Some within the agency also question whether people scanning cellphone signals are doing enough to minimize intrusions into the phone system of other citizens, and if there are effective procedures in place to safeguard the handling of that data. </ul>As such programs keep getting disclosed, think of how many such other programs there are that we just don't know about?</font> We know! Let's ask Ed Snowden! WATCH PBS's NovaNEXT <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/military/snowden-transcript/" target="_blank">Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare</a> <font color=navy>Last June, journalist James Bamford, who is working with NOVA on a new film about cyber warfare that will air in 2015, sat down with Snowden in a Moscow hotel room for a lengthy interview. In it, Snowden sheds light on the surprising frequency with which cyber attacks occur, their potential for destruction, and what, exactly, he believes is at stake as governments and rogue elements rush to exploit weaknesses found on the internet, one of the most complex systems ever built by humans. The following is an unedited transcript of their conversation.........</font> Lisa Hajjar a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is the Edward Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut. The Nation <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/193185/cia-didnt-just-torture-it-experimented-human-beings" target="_blank">The CIA Didn’t Just Torture, It Experimented on Human Beings</a> <font color=darkblue> Reframing the CIA’s interrogation techniques as a violation of scientific and medical ethics may be the best way to achieve accountability. ..................... As Americans from the Beltway to the heartland debate—again—the legality and efficacy of “enhanced interrogation,” we are reminded that “torture” has lost its stigma as morally reprehensible and criminal behavior. That was evident in the 2012 GOP presidential primary, when more than half of the candidates vowed to bring back waterboarding, and it is on full display now. On Meet the Press, for example, former Vice President Dick Cheney, who functionally topped the national security decision-making hierarchy during the Bush years, announced that he “would do it again in a minute.” No one has been held accountable for torture, beyond a handful of prosecutions of low-level troops and contractors. Indeed, impunity has been virtually guaranteed as a result of various Faustian bargains, which include “golden shield” legal memos written by government lawyers for the CIA; ex post facto immunity for war crimes that Congress inserted in the 2006 Military Commissions Act; classification and secrecy that still shrouds the torture program, as is apparent in the Senate report’s redactions; and the “look forward, not backward” position that President Obama has maintained through every wave of public revelations since 2009. An American majority, it seems, has come to accept the legacy of torture. <b>Human experimentation, in contrast, has not been politically refashioned into a legitimate or justifiable enterprise. Therefore, it would behoove us to appreciate the fact that the architects and implementers of black-site torments were authorized at the highest levels of the White House and CIA to experiment on human beings.</b> Reading the report through this lens casts a different light on questions of accountability and impunity. .............. In the mid-1980s, CIA practices became the subject of congressional investigations into US-supported atrocities in Central America. Both manuals became public in 1997 as a result of Freedom of Information Act litigation by The Baltimore Sun. That would have seemed like a “never again” moment. But here we are again. This brings us back to Mitchell and Jessen. Because of their experience as trainers in the military’s Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape (SERE) program, after 9/11 they were contacted by high-ranking Pentagon officials and, later, by lawyers who wanted to know whether some of those SERE techniques could be reverse-engineered to get terrorism suspects to talk. .................... My point is not to minimize the illegality of torture or the legal imperatives to pursue accountability for perpetrators. Rather, because the concept of torture has been so muddled and disputed, <b>I suggest that accountability would be more publicly palatable if we reframed the CIA’s program as one of human experimentation.</b> If we did so, it would be more difficult to laud or excuse perpetrators as “patriots” who “acted in good faith.” Although torture has become a Rorschach test among political elites playing to public opinion on the Sunday morning talk shows, human experimentation has no such community of advocates and apologists. </font> The “war on terror” is not the CIA’s first venture into human experimentation. Read the rest with the brief history of CIA torturing over the decades. <a href="http://blacklivesmatter.com/" target="_blank">BLACK LIVES MATTER</a> & OCCUPY LAPD: At the LA Times Veronica Rocha reports <a href="http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-black-lives-matter-occupy-lapd-protest-20150105-story.html" target="_blank">After a week, police bust up Occupy LAPD camp-in, arrest 2 women</a>. One of the women arrested was the mother of <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/11/kendrec-mcdade-autopsy_n_1510497.html" target="_blank">Kendrec McDade: Autopsy Revealed 7 Gun Shot Wounds, 3 Fatally Slicing Arteries (PHOTOS)</a> <font color=FireBrick>.......UPDATE: At a news conference Saturday, Harper said that McDade's parents are concerned that the autopsy indicates one bullet entered their son's back, contracting the police assertion that none of the shots hit his back, the <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/05/kendrec-mcdades-parents-raise-concerns-about-sons-autopsy-report.html" target="_blank">Times reports</a>. In a federal lawsuit, the teen's parents allege that the police are <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/04/kendrec-mcdade-lawsuit-pa_n_1402621.html" target="_blank">trying to cover up</a> wrongdoing and that McDade, after being shot seven times, was left on the street for a prolonged period of time without receiving first aid.</font> How does one GAIN KNOWLEDGE to KNOW HOW to fire a shot POINT BLANK at someone's SPINE to KILL? So claims Melina Abdulla of Black Lives Matter on Thursday's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NULGkj7YxA" target="_blank">Uprising with Sonali – January 8 2015</a> "Melina Abdulla of Black Lives Matter continues the conversation around the movement against police violence." NASA wants water on The Moon! REALLY! From Wired's UK affiliate <a href="http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-02/02/terraforming" target="_blank">Nasa wants to make water and oxygen on the Moon</a> We heard a blurb about this last week and even though this article is from last February we thought you might be interested! <font color=DimGrey> By 2018, Nasa is hoping to put a rover on the lunar surface that will be able to extract hydrogen, water and oxygen from the soil. The RESOLVE (Regolith and Environment Science and Oxygen & Lunar Volatile Extraction) mission will grab handfuls of lunar dirt and heat them up to a temperature where hydrogen, oxygen and water vapour can escape. The two ingredients can then be combined to make water. A similar experiment will be mounted on the next Mars rover, due to launch in 2020. However this version will involve extracting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere, filtering out dust, and then processing the CO2 into oxygen. Both missions are early experiments in the science of terraforming - turning other planets into environments that humans could live in without specialised equipment. Without oxygen and water we're unlikely to survive for too long -- but bringing it from home is difficult, so it's far preferable to be able to conjure it up in-situ. <b>If the experiments are successful, future missions may involve <u>industrialising the process</u></b>, eventually allowing us to drink Martian water and breathe lunar air. ....... </font> What could possibly go wrong? The Earth has a FINITE NUMBER of ATOMS all working in concert to keep us alive on the 3rd Rock From The Sun. What might happen to the global millenia-old eco-balance if more hydrogen & oxygen atoms are added? More water? WE CAN'T DEAL WITH THE WATER WE HAVE NOW! Over the last century and a half our industrial processes have already unleashed life-threatening chemicals into our air, ground and water, once stored safely in the ground, causing millions of deaths and thousands of illnesses and more to come. ON TOP OF THIS <a href="http://mashable.com/2014/09/16/nasa-astronaut-spacex-boeing-iss/" target="_blank">NASA's "outsourcing" to private firms</a> has put the International Space Station at risk (see Reuters <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/29/us-space-orbital-idUSKBN0IH2F220141029" target="_blank">Probe of Virginia rocket blast begins; space station supplied</a>) and the escalating NATO/West new "cold war" over Ukraine has prompted <a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/05/14/nasa_and_the_iss_russia_threatens_to_abandon_international_space_effort.html" target="_blank">Russian Deputy Prime Minister Threatens to Pull Out of ISS</a> AND <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2853374/Crunch-time-ISS-Russia-plans-quit-station-just-six-years-Nasa-fighting-running-2024.html" target="_blank">Crunch time for the ISS: Russia plans to quit the station in just six years - but Nasa is fighting to keep it running until 2024</a> Yer taxpayer dollars at work! HOODIES BANNED IN OKLAHOMA? $500 FINE? Emily Atkin at ThinkProgress tells us <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/01/03/3607687/oklahoma-hoodie-ban/" target="_blank">New Bill Would Make Wearing Hoodies A Crime</a> FOR REAL! <font color=maroon>Oklahoma lawmakers are planning to introduce a bill this February that would make it illegal to wear hooded sweatshirts, or “hoodies,” in public, according to a <a href="http://www.newson6.com/story/27740198/new-proposed-bill-may-ban-hoodies-in-public-places" target="_blank">report</a> from Oklahoma’s Channel 6 News. Republican Senator Don Barrington will introduce <a href="http://webserver1.lsb.state.ok.us/cf_pdf/2015-16%20INT/SB/SB13%20INT.PDF" target="_blank">the bill</a>, which would make it a misdemeanor to “wear a mask, hood, or covering” either while committing a crime or in order to intentionally conceal one’s identity. <b>If the bill is passed, offenders would be subject to a fine of $50 to $500, and up to one year in jail.</b> The ban would not affect mask-wearers on Halloween or at masquerade parties, nor would it apply to people who wear head coverings for religious purposes. The bill’s purpose is seemingly to deter crime. As Channel 6’s report notes, robberies caught on surveillance camera often show the perpetrator wearing a mask or hoodie to cover his or her face. With the bill’s language only prohibiting wearing hoodies while committing a crime or to intentionally hide, supporters say the ban wouldn’t negatively affect people just trying to wear a sweatshirt in day-to-day life. Others, however, have argued that bans on hoodies — no matter the intention — only serve to exacerbate problems with racial profiling. CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin <a href="http://newday.blogs.cnn.com/2014/03/06/lower-your-hoodie-if-you-want-to-go-to-the-mall/" target="_blank">took on the issue</a> when an Indiana mall banned the garment in March: “This is about the pretext of being able to stop young African-American males,” she said. “Hoodie is code for ‘thug’ in many places and I think businesses shouldn’t be in the business of telling people what to wear. The Fourteenth Amendment protects us from this.” .............</font> Yeah Hoodies. Last we <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma#Demographics" target="_blank">looked</a> Oklahoma's demographics were <i>7.3% non-Hispanic Black or African American, 8.2% non-Hispanic American Indian and Alaska Native..... 8.9% of Oklahoma's population was of Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish origin (they may be of any race).</i> Wonder what Republican Senator Don Barrington was thinking when he decided hoodies were a bad thang, hmmmmm? GEORGIA WHITE SUPREMACIST DOMESTIC TERRORISTS UPDATE: <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/buzzflash/commentary/militia-plot-to-blow-up-an-atlanta-police-station-thwarted" target="_blank">Terrorism the Media Overlooks: White Supremacists, Sovereign Citizens and Christian Fundamentalists </a> BILL BERKOWITZ FOR BUZZFLASH AT TRUTHOUT <font color=Brown>............ In another vastly under-reported case, in February of last year Terry Eugene Peace, Brian Edward Cannon and Cory Robert Williamson, traveled from Rome, Georgia to Tennessee with one goal in mind: obtain the incendiary devices necessary to carry out an attack on an Atlanta police station. They were seeking "several explosive devices, including a thermite-mix charge and a dozen pipe bombs constructed for 'maximum fragmentation,'" NorthwestGeorgianews.com recently reported. Unfortunately for them, instead of an arms dealer, they met up "an undercover FBI source." Before their trip, Peace, Cannon and Williamson — all members of a militia in Georgia — "participated in online chat discussions between Jan. 23 and Feb. 15, 2014, that were monitored by the FBI," NorthwestGeorgianews.com pointed out. "During the conversations online, they discussed using guerilla war tactics and planned to launch attacks against a metro Atlanta police station and several government agencies in February 2014. The three men attempted to 'recruit other individuals to join them and to carry out similar operations in those individuals' home states.' Peace allegedly told other militia members to choose targets including 'road blocks, TSA checkpoints, sheriffs/police conducting operations outside the Constitution' as well as to participate in the 'removal of government people who support extra-Constitutional activities.'" "The men were arrested in Cartersville, [Georgia] on Feb. 15, 2014, when they took possession of inert explosives and other material given to the source by the FBI." They were "originally arraigned in March 2014 on a charge of conspiracy to receive and possess a destructive device." They were recently indicted "on a much more serious domestic terrorism charge — conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction," an "indictment and charge supersedes the previous indictment," NorthwestGeorigianews.com reported.</font> For more info we go to UrbanIntellectuals.com By Furious <a href="http://urbanintellectuals.com/2015/01/10/3-white-men-charged-with-domestic-terrorism-but-the-mass-media-is-silent/" target="_blank">White Men Charged With Domestic Terrorism But The Mass Media Is Silent</a> <font color=maroon>Charges of domestic terrorism are serious and plastered all around the mainstream and social media. <b>However, this only seems to apply when the terrorist are black or brown skinned Africans, Arabs or Muslims, not white men.</b> Monday, three white men from Rome were charged with domestic terrorism – conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and if you were not reading this article, it is likely you have never even heard a peep about it. Are you wondering why? <b>Well, it seems because they are white. Not exactly the image the mass media hopes to spread around the world as the face of terror.</b> Terry Eugene Peace, Brian Edward Cannon and Cory Robert Williamson waived their rights to an arraignment and pleaded not guilty to domestic terrorism charges and conspiracy to defraud the government. Using weapons of mass destruction could carry a life term in prison. .......</font> More at <a href="http://www.northwestgeorgianews.com/rome/news/local/rome-men-now-face-domestic-terrorism-charge/article_9c2bd03e-9512-11e4-bbb8-b73fb9e6e225.html" target="_blank">NorthestGeorgiaNews.com</a>. WHITE PRIVILEDGE ON FAKE SNOOZE: <a href="http://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/davidbadash/naked_racism_fox_news_host_asks_how_to_spot_bad_guys_if_we_can_t_see_tone_of_their_skin?recruiter_id=2" target="_blank">Fox News Host Asks How We Can Tell 'Bad Guys' If We Can't See 'Tone Of Their Skin'?</a> reports David Badash at TheNewCivilRightsMovement.com <font color=MediumVioletRed>Ever since the horrific terrorist attack on the Paris offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, Fox News has been busy at work trying to blame President Barack Obama for it, and trying to turn it into ratings gold by making it their next Benghazi. On Fox's "Outnumbered" Wednesday, the cast got into a discussion about how Paris police didn't have enough weapons, which enabled – they claimed – the Islamic extremist terrorists to massacre 12 people. <b>Enter Fox News anchor Shannon Bream, a former corporate attorney and graduate of Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.</b> Bream, speaking unscripted, wondered how police would be able to identify "bad guys" if they had ski masks and couldn't "even know what color," what "the tone of their skin was?" Her commentary – totally unquestioned by the four other Fox News hosts – was in response to co-host Kennedy Montgomery, aka "Kennedy," who had said, "sometimes bad guys don't look like bad guys." <b>"That's my question about these guys because if we know they were speaking unaccented French and they had, you know, ski masks on, <u>do we even know what color they were?</u>," Bream asked. "What the tone of their skin was," she tried to clarify – as if that were less racist. "I mean what if they didn't look like typical bad guys?"</b> <a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2015/01/07/after-paris-attack-fox-anchor-suggests-skin-col/202039" target="_blank">Media Matters noted</a> that Bream "apparently," was "implying that certain skin tones should raise red flags for law enforcement." And calling it "naked racism," <a href="http://bluenationreview.com/video-fox-news-host-says-skin-tone-determines-whether-look-like-bad-guy/" target="_blank">Blue Nation Review noted</a> that "Fox News tends to cloak its racism in code words and dog whistles," but "sometimes it’s disturbingly on display," as it was Wednesday.</font> Listen to BOB KINCAID's <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(07-01-2015).mp3" target="_blank"> Wednesday, January 7th, 2015 show</a> and SAM SEDER on Thursday's <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/1815-julian-e-zelizer-the-fierce-urgency-of-now-the-battle-for-the-great-society" target="_blank">Majority Report: Fox's Shannon Bream wants to know what do when terrorists aren't "the typical color"? </a> who slice and dice FAKE NEWS Outnumbered's Shannon Bream's over-the-top racist comments! After the incredible murders at Charlie Hebdo in Paris news outlets all over the world are trying to place blame on this group or that group and are <i>en masse</i> totally trying to PIN some mysterious ISLAMIC FACTION for the murders. NOTICE how PARIS was NOT COMPLETELY <a href="http://www.thewire.com/national/2013/04/boston-lockdown-residents-are-asked-shelter-place-while-cops-sweep-watertown/64383/" target="_blank">SHUT DOWN like THE BOSTON PD DID</a> AFTER THE MARATHON BOMBING. DESPITE the mis-informed reactionary "<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/2842493.stm" target="_blank">Freedom Fries</a>" crap France has been the longest U.S. ally since the inception of the country. A deeper historical knowledge is required to understand not just THIS "terrier attack" that the Lame Stream Media (LSM) wants you to belileve (ref Fake Snooze above for example) BUT the complex interactions that happen when THE WEST interacts in the Mid-East with NO consideration of local customs and religious beliefs. What is happening now is the BLOWBACK of The West's (aka U.S.'s) actions and ILLEGAL INVASION of Afghanistan and Iraq and the U.S.-branded non-discriminitory-civlilian-vs-terreir triillion-dollar U.S.-TAXPAYER-FUNDED drones and criuse missle "smart" bombs. All this is to say that each attack like this one is just part of a larger picture of action-reaction NATO, The West and especially the U.S. provokes in the Mid-East. The man who coined the phrase BLOWBACK is the late great CHALMERS JOHNSON. His trilogy <ul><li><a href="http://www.alibris.com/Blowback-The-Costs-and-Consequences-of-American-Empire-Chalmers-Johnson/book/743853?matches=189" target="_blank">Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire </a><br />
<li><a href="http://www.alibris.com/The-Sorrows-of-Empire-Militarism-Secrecy-and-the-End-of-the-Republic-Chalmers-Johnson/book/7828825?matches=232" target="_blank">The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy and the End of the Republic </a><br />
<li><a href="http://www.alibris.com/Nemesis-The-Last-Days-of-the-American-Republic-Chalmers-Johnson/book/9863887?matches=203" target="_blank"> Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic </a> </ul>has the ESSENCE of what has happened from the follies of continuous U.S. beligerousness in the Mid-East in their quest of carbon-greedy West-Backed multinationals. Just as it has been said "One person's terrorist is another's Freedom Fighter" from outside the U.S. where LSM reports are carefully crafted and screened (a.k.a. propaganda) the rest of the world sees U.S. foreign policy something along the lines of "Shoot first, ask questions later" or "Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out" which could be boiled down to "Shoot anything that moves" as U.S. Foreign Policy Objective #1. This simplistic view of the outside world according to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Consensus" target="_blank">Washington Consensus</a> these past decades has led us to this place in time. When we were protesting the invasion of Iraq in 2003, its country and society was as secular and modern as possible in the Mid-East (not like Saudi Arabia or Egypt). Remember Iraq was an <a href="http://www2.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/" target="_blank">ally of Donald Rumsfeld and the Reagan regime</a>. Aside from the on-going tensions in the region between Sunni & Shia and Jews & Palestinians the region was fairly stable. But the blind ambition of "war prezident" Dim Son and his cronies in the carbon extraction industries decided (on false pretenses) to kick the hornet's nest. To this day we see the effects of that military action in what the LSM terms "radicalized Moose-lims". With this backdrop in mind PLEASE WATCH ALL OF Democracy Now!'s <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/8" target="_blank">Thursday, January 08, 2015 show</a> with Tariq Ramadan, professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford University AND John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper’s Magazine PLUS Comics Legend Art Spiegelman AND Gilbert Achcar, professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London for a great debate on the cause-and-effect of the wars in the Mid-East that has cause so much of the strife leading up to and including the attack at Charlie Hebdo. AND also on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NULGkj7YxA" target="_blank">Uprising with Sonali – January 8 2015</a> "Al Jazeera's Wajahat Ali has an in-depth discussion about the political context in Europe in light of the armed attack to a French satirical magazine that left 12 people dead. Then, Imam Feisel Abdul Rauf talks about Muslim responses to the attack and long-term solutions to curbing extremism." Our Brick TeeVee LAST WORD goes to Professor Juan Cole <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2015/01/sharpening-contradictions-satirists.html" target="_blank">Sharpening Contradictions: Why al-Qaeda attacked Satirists in Paris</a> <font color=navy>The horrific murder of the editor, cartoonists and other staff of the irreverent satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, along with two policemen, by terrorists in Paris was in my view a strategic strike, aiming at polarizing the French and European public. The problem for a terrorist group like al-Qaeda is that its recruitment pool is Muslims, but most Muslims are not interested in terrorism. Most Muslims are not even interested in politics, much less political Islam. France is a country of 66 million, of which about 5 million is of Muslim heritage. But in polling, only a third, less than 2 million, say that they are interested in religion. French Muslims may be the most secular Muslim-heritage population in the world (ex-Soviet ethnic Muslims often also have low rates of belief and observance). Many Muslim immigrants in the post-war period to France came as laborers and were not literate people, and their grandchildren are rather distant from Middle Eastern fundamentalism, pursuing urban cosmopolitan culture such as rap and rai. In Paris, where Muslims tend to be better educated and more religious, the <a href="http://www.euro-islam.info/country-profiles/city-profiles/paris/" target="_blank">vast majority reject violence and say they are loyal to France</a>. Al-Qaeda wants to mentally colonize French Muslims, but faces a wall of disinterest. But if it can get non-Muslim French to be beastly to ethnic Muslims on the grounds that they are Muslims, it can start creating a common political identity around grievance against discrimination. This tactic is similar to the one used by Stalinists in the early 20th century. ......... The operatives who carried out this attack exhibit signs of professional training. They spoke unaccented French, and so certainly know that they are playing into the hands of Marine LePen and the Islamophobic French Right wing. They may have been French, but they appear to have been battle hardened. This horrific murder was not a pious protest against the defamation of a religious icon. It was an attempt to provoke European society into pogroms against French Muslims, at which point al-Qaeda recruitment would suddenly exhibit some successes instead of faltering in the face of lively Beur youth culture (French Arabs playfully call themselves by this anagram term deriving from wordplay involving scrambling of letters). Ironically, there are reports that one of the two policemen they killed was a Muslim. Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia, then led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, deployed this sort of polarization strategy successfully in Iraq, constantly attacking Shiites and their holy symbols, and provoking the ethnic cleansing of a million Sunnis from Baghdad. The polarization proceeded, with the help of various incarnations of Daesh (Arabic for ISIL or ISIS, which descends from al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia). And in the end, the brutal and genocidal strategy worked, such that Daesh was able to encompass all of Sunni Arab Iraq, which had suffered so many Shiite reprisals that they sought the umbrella of the very group that had deliberately and systematically provoked the Shiites. “Sharpening the contradictions” is the strategy of sociopaths and totalitarians, aimed at unmooring people from their ordinary insouciance and preying on them, mobilizing their energies and wealth for the perverted purposes of a self-styled great leader. </font><i>(We'll add the American hard-right Evangelical Christians in this group who claim "victim" status. -Ed.)</i> <font color=navy> <b>The only effective response to this manipulative strategy (as Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani tried to tell the Iraqi Shiites a decade ago) is to resist the impulse to blame an entire group for the actions of a few and to refuse to carry out identity-politics reprisals.</b> For those who require unrelated people to take responsibility for those who claim to be their co-religionists (not a demand ever made of Christians), the al-Azhar Seminary, seat of Sunni Muslim learning and fatwas, <a href="http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/119710/Egypt/Politics-/AlAzhar-and-Arab-League-condemn-Paris-attack.aspx" target="_blank">condemned the attack, as did the Arab League that comprises 22 Muslim-majority states</a>. We have a model for response to terrorist provocation and attempts at sharpening the contradictions. It is Norway after <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2011/07/when-extremism-learns-to-blow-things-up.html" target="_blank">Anders Behring Breivik</a> committed mass murder of <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2011/07/white-terrorism-in-norway.html" target="_blank">Norwegian leftists</a> for being soft on Islam. The Norwegian government launched no war on terror. They tried Breivik in court as a common criminal. They remained committed to their admirable modern Norwegian values. Most of France will also remain committed to French values of the Rights of Man, which they invented. But an insular and hateful minority will take advantage of this deliberately polarizing atrocity to push their own agenda. Europe’s future depends on whether the Marine LePens are allowed to become mainstream. <b>Extremism thrives on other people’s extremism, and is inexorably defeated by tolerance.</b> <i>Let me conclude by offering my profound condolences to the families, friends and fans of our murdered colleagues at Charlie Hebdo, including Stephane Charbonnier, Bernard Maris, and cartoonists Georges Wolinski Jean Cabut, aka Cabu, and Berbard Verlhac (Tignous)– and all the others. As Charbonnier, known as Charb, said, “I prefer to die standing than to live on my knees.”. </i></font> <center><img src="http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6wI3tHCUAECJDL.png" height=300 alt="CHARB" /> <img src="http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6wdjO1CYAELBWG.jpg" height=240 alt="extremists" /> <img src="http://3i26kd3p1usa3cefqi1ay96t13o6.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/charlie-hebdo-tayo-illustration.jpg" height=240 alt=RIP" /> <img src="http://www.interestingvideos.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/charlie-hebdo-shooting-tribute-illustrators-cartoonists-8.jpg" height=200 alt="pens" /> <img src="http://america.aljazeera.com/content/ajam/multimedia/photo-gallery/2015/1/photos-je-suis-charliegoesglobal/_jcr_content/slideShowImages/slide2/image.adapt.960.high.jpg" height=200 alt="je suis charlie" /> <img src="http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6xzpiACIAAWMYZ.jpg" height=330 alt="Not Afraid" /> <img src="http://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6wIyiDIgAAAaW7.png" height=400 alt="Charlie Hebdo" /> </center></font> <center><img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/gonzo-111x191.png" height="75"></center><p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font> <p><img src="http://www.democracynow.org/images/nav/dn_logo.png" height=100 alt="Democracy NOW!" /> <p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/5/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, January 05, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Phyllis Bennis, fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies & Ali Abunimah, co-founder of The Electronic Intifada</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/5/defying_us_israel_will_icc_membership" target="_blank">Defying U.S. & Israel, Will ICC Membership Bring Justice to Stateless & Occupied Palestinians?</a> <br />
<li><b>Scott Horton, human rights attorney and contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/5/from_drone_strikes_to_black_sites" target="_blank">From Drone Strikes to Black Sites, How U.S. Foreign Policy Runs Under a Cloak of Secrecy</a> Scott Horton, a human rights attorney and contributing editor at Harper’s Magazine, whose new book is "Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America’s Stealth Foreign Policy."<br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/6/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, January 06, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Carol Rose, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/6/justice_or_vengeance_is_a_fair" target="_blank">Justice or Vengeance?: ACLU Raises Concerns as Boston Marathon Bombing Trial Begins</a> <br />
<li><b>Mark Potok, senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/6/david_duke_without_the_baggage_will" target="_blank">"David Duke Without the Baggage": Will Top GOPer Steve Scalise Resign over Speech to Racist Group?</a> <br />
<li><b>Anabel Hernández, Mexican investigative reporter</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/6/as_obama_hosts_pena_nieto_explosive" target="_blank">As Obama Hosts Peña Nieto, Explosive Report Ties Mexican Federal Police to Students’ Disappearance</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/7/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, January 07, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Robert Mahoney, deputy director of the Committee to Protect Journalists; and Tariq Ali, a British-Pakistani political commentator, historian, activist, filmmaker, novelist and an editor of the New Left Review</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/7/charlie_hebdo_shooting_12_killed_in" target="_blank">Charlie Hebdo Shooting: 12 Killed in Attack on French Satirical Magazine Known for Muhammad Cartoons</a> <br />
<li><b>Matt Apuzzo, New York Times reporter</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/7/will_james_risen_be_jailed_in" target="_blank">Will James Risen Be Jailed? In Press Freedom Fight, NYT Reporter Tells Court He Won’t Name Source</a> <br />
<li><b>Tony Rothert, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/7/fighting_gag_order_ferguson_grand_juror" target="_blank">Fighting Gag Order, Ferguson Grand Juror Accuses Prosecutor of Mishandling Case & Misleading Public</a> <br />
<li><b>Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now! co-host</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/7/mario_cuomo_1932_2015_late_new" target="_blank">Mario Cuomo (1932-2015): Late New York Gov. Remembered as Working-Class Champion</a> <br />
<li><b>Tariq Ali</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/7/leading_muslim_scholar_tariq_ramadan_attack" target="_blank">Leading Muslim Scholar Tariq Ramadan: Attack on Paris Magazine "a Pure Betrayal of Our Religion"</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/8/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, January 08, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Tariq Ramadan, a professor of contemporary Islamic studies at Oxford University AND John R. MacArthur, publisher of Harper’s Magazine</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/8/scholar_tariq_ramadan_harpers_rick_macarthur" target="_blank">Scholar Tariq Ramadan, Harper’s Rick MacArthur on Charlie Hebdo Attack & How the West Treats Muslims</a> <br />
<li><b>Art Spiegelman, renowned American cartoonist, editor and comics advocate AND Ramadan</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/8/comics_legend_art_spiegelman_scholar_tariq" target="_blank">Comics Legend Art Spiegelman & Scholar Tariq Ramadan on Charlie Hebdo & the Power Dynamic of Satire</a> <br />
<li><b>Gilbert Achcar, professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/8/a_clash_of_barbarisms_after_paris" target="_blank">"A Clash of Barbarisms": After Paris Attack, How U.S. Policy in Middle East Helps Fuel Extremism</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, January 09, 2015</a><ul><li><b>Gilbert Achcar, professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/9/gilbert_achcar_on_the_clash_of" target="_blank">Gilbert Achcar on the Clash of Barbarisms from the Massacre in Paris to the U.S. Occupation of Iraq</a> <br />
<li><b>Muhammad El Khaoua, a graduate student in international relations at the Paris Institute for Political Science</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/9/french_muslims_fear_backlash_increased_islamophobia" target="_blank">French Muslims Fear Backlash, Increased Islamophobia After Charlie Hebdo Attack</a> <br />
<li><b>Rosemary Harris Lytle, president of the NAACP Colorado, Montana, Wyoming State Conference</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/9/fbi_probes_naacp_office_bombing_in" target="_blank">FBI Probes NAACP Office Bombing in Colorado as Act of Domestic Terrorism</a> <br />
<li><b>James Haslam, director of the Vermont Workers’ Center</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/9/29_arrested_as_single_payer_advocates" target="_blank">29 Arrested as Single-Payer Advocates Disrupt Vermont Gov. Shumlin’s Inauguration</a> <br />
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</ul><p><img src="http://grittv.org/wp-content/themes/grit/images/logo.gif" height=100 alt="GRITtv" /> <a href="http://www.lauraflanders.com/grittv/" target="_blank">GRITtv</a> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">www.grittv.org</a> with Laura Flanders - New Episode Every Monday at TELESUR </br > »»» <b>VIDEO OF THE WEEK</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?video=peter-linebaugh-who-owns-the-commons-an-800-year-fight-for-public-goods" target="_blank">Peter Linebaugh: Who Owns the Commons? An 800 Year Fight for Public Goods</a> <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE SPORT!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></b></font></font> </br > »»» <b>SUNDAY NFL PLAYOFFS</b> FOX Cowboys @ Packers 1:00 pm et THEN CBS Colts @ Broncos 4:40 pm et </br > »»» <b>MONDAY NCAA FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP on ESPN</b> No. 2 Oregon vs. No. 4 Ohio State CFP NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME PRES. BY AT&T 8:30 PM ET »»» <b>WEDNESDAY NBA DOUBLEHEADER on ESPN</b> </br > Wizards @ Bulls 8:00 pm et THEN Clippers @ Trailblazers 10:30 pm et »»» <b>THURSDAY NBA DOUBLEHEADER on TNT</b> </br > Thunder @ Rockets 8:00 pm et THEN CAVS @ Lakers 10:30 pm et <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ACTION!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font></br > <font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i> <p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>! <p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <font color=red><b>ACTION! <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell the FCC: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> 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. </b> SIGN NOW at <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell Chairman Wheeler: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> at freepress.net NOW. </font> <p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW! <p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org <p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>! <p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information! <p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Chelsea Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/manning-featured-in-alcatraz-art-exhibit" target="_blank">Manning featured in Alcatraz art exhibit</a> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/featured/birthday-messages-to-chelsea-from-snowden-gilliam-more-public-icons" target="_blank">Birthday Messages to Chelsea from Snowden, Gilliam & more public icons</a> <i>Dec 16, 2014. Public icons send birthday greetings and support to prisoner of conscience Chelsea Manning, including: Edward Snowden, Terry Gilliam, Michael Stipe, Vivienne Westwood, Molly Crabapple, JM Coetzee, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Slavoj Žižek, Alan Moore, Joe Sacco, Lupe Fiasco, Peter Tatchell, Billy Martin, Saul Williams..........</i> <p><font size=3><b>DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION</b></font> <a href="http://tjmf.flipswap.com/" target="_blank">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. </a> For more information, go to <a href="http://www.tjmartellfoundation.org" target="_blank">www.tjmartellfoundation.org</a> <p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!! <p><center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br > <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick_teevee_test.jpg" alt="brick_teevee_test.jpg" /></br > The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br > THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br > Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,356 US Military Dead as of Jan. 8, 2015</a> </br > <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br > <font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><p>
<li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• Attorney General Eric Holder<br />
• Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., the new chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee<br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• Attorney General Eric Holder<br />
• Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas, House Homeland Security Committee chairman<br />
• Sen. John Cornyn, the Texas Republican<br />
• CBS News Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent Bob Orr and CBS News senior security contributor Michael Morel <br />
• David Ignatius of The Washington Post and Farah Pandith, of the Council on Foreign Relations<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Ruth Marcus of The Washington Post, Jim VandeHei of Politico and Peter Baker of The New York Times<br />
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<li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• Coming Up Sunday, Jan. 11 at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT<br />
• Colorado Pot<br />
• Obamacare<br />
• Up<br />
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<li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Attorney General Eric Holder<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: TBA<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union(CNN)</b> Gloria Borger hosts Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET<br />
• The latest on the Charlie Hebdo terror attack in Paris<br />
• Attorney General Eric Holder<br />
• Sen. John McCain, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee<br />
• Senate Intelligence Committee Vice Chairman Dianne Feinstein.<br />
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<li type=square><b>HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid</b><br />
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• FRONT PORCH FRIDAY!! First show of 2015! Listen here NOW! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(09-01-2015).mp3" target="_blank">Friday, January 9th, 2015</a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.CRMW.net</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT</b> With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!<br />
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<b> The Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen:</b> 6 minutes of green news, politics, analysis & snarky comment! BOOKMARK <a href="http://greennews.bradblog.com/" target="_blank">greennews.bradblog.com</a> NOW!<br />
• <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=10999" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - January 8, 2015</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: America's first high-speed rail line breaks ground in CA; Environment to lose another champion in the Senate; More tank problems one year after WV toxic chemical spill; Fracking industry causing more quakes in OH and TX; PLUS: The Golden State invests big time in the new green economy... All that and more in today's Green News Report! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): George Will again gets it exactly backwards on climate change; Denmark sets world record for wind energy production; Yes, it's cold, and global warming is still real; Serengeti Strategy - how corporate interests target individual scientists; China makes it easier to sue industrial polluters; Australia is burning and climate change is to blame; Did AZ just revolutionize the utility-solar industry?... PLUS: Stop what you’re doing and watch Elizabeth Warren rip apart Keystone XL pipeline... and much, MUCH more! ...<br />
• <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=10996" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - January 6, 2015</a> WHILE WE WERE OUT: The planet had its hottest year in recorded history; EPA issued new coal rules; Vermont shut down a nuclear plant; Germany broke more renewable energy records; China announced the closure of 2000 coal mines; Republicans take over; PLUS: The planet loses another champion... All that and MUCH more in today's Green News Report!<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=10997" target="_blank">Torture Still a War Crime: KPFK 'BradCast'</a> Guest: BRAD BLOG's Ernie Canning on his father's torture during WWII, the Japanese war crimes trials and why U.S. war criminals today need to be held accountable... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10944" target="_blank">Torture Was a War Crime After WWII and Still Is</a> Standards applied to the Japanese, who tortured the father of BRAD BLOG's Ernie Canning, help explain why the Bush Admin must still be prosecuted for war crimes...<br />
• BRADBLOG VIDEO! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=10994" target="_blank">Presidents Are Gods</a> Governors go to jail for financial indiscretions all the time, and yet when a President murders and/or tortures thousands, somehow accountability becomes unthinkable... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=10869" target="_blank">Posner's Penance: A Profile in Judicial Courage</a> The reknowned conservative appelate court jurist who decided he was wrong about Photo ID voting restrictions has sent a very clear message to the U.S. Supreme Court... <br />
• BRADBLOG VIDEO! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=10998" target="_blank">Why?</a> In the wake of the horrific terror attack at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, one question few seem to be asking (or answering) comes to mind... <br />
• BRADBLOG VIDEO! <a href="http://bradblog.com/?p=11001" target="_blank">Nebraska Supreme Court MAJORITY Finds Keystone XL Approval 'Unconstitutional', Allows It Anyway</a> Bizarre state provision sends fight over controversial Canadian project back to D.C... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10990" target="_blank">Not Voting IS a Vote</a> Stop blaming those who didn't turn out. Americans did vote. By not turning out, they voted against the two major parties and against the system as a whole. It may have been a dumb vote, but it was a landslide... <br />
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<li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b><br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <br />
<ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• 6 Jan 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-new-survey-shows-journalists-are-chilled-by-surveillance/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: New Survey Shows Journalists Are Chilled by Surveillance</a> Mass surveillance (and prosecutions of journalists) is causing journalists to self-censor, reports Michigan Prof. Juan Cole from PEN worldwide survey…<br />
• 8 Jan 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-as-france-responds-to-terrorist-attack-britain-considers-pre-crime-monitoring-of-toddlers/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: As France Responds to Terrorist Attack, Britain Considers Pre-Crime Monitoring….of Toddlers!</a> As France reels from terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, Britain considers monitoring toddlers for terrorist tendencies, just like “Minority Report”… <br />
• 9 Jan 2015 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-power-hungry-bloodthirsty-leaders-angle-to-exploit-terrorist-attack-in-france/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Power-hungry, Bloodthirsty Leaders Angle to Exploit Terrorist Attack in France</a> French gendarmes kill 5 to end terrorist episode, and power-hungry, bloodthirsty leaders leap at chances to exploit it…….<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast December 24, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/12/24/holiday-bonus-extended-interview-with-prof-richard-falk/" target="_blank">Holiday Bonus! Extended Interview with Prof. Richard Falk</a> No Subscription Required….Happy Holidays! Here is a truly in-depth conversation with Richard Falk, Princeton Professor Emeritus in international law, who served from 2008-2014 as UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine. An acknowledged expert on international law and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he shares his expertise and insight, and discusses his new book, <i>Palestine: The Legacy of Hope. </i><br />
• PBC Standard Podcast January 9, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2015/01/09/activist-shahid-buttar-argues-that-body-cams-wont-end-police-violence/" target="_blank">Activist Shahid Buttar Argues that Body Cams Won’t End Police Violence</a> 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. <br />
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<li type=square><b>Ring of Fire Radio</b><br />
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Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/ <b>hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder</b><br />
Ring of Fire Radio - GoLeft TV - Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, Sam Seder - Politics, Commentary, and News.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weekend-on-ring-of-fire-radio-27/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire <br />
January 10, 2015</a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
»» Heather Digby Parton will tell us what we can expect from the new Republican Congressional leadership.<br />
»» Alan Pyke from Think Progress will give us the details on the Payday loan industry’s efforts to bring back debtors’ prisons.<br />
»» And Nahal Toosi from Politico will tell us why the top GOP presidential candidates for 2016 are already in serious trouble.<br />
• <a href="http://www.freespeech.org/collection/ringoffire" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV</a> - Sundays at NOON! <br />
»» Guests TBA<br />
»» Watch at <a href="http://www.freespeech.org/collection/ringoffire" target="_blank">FSTV</a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/thom-hartmann-discusses-the-corporate-war-on-solar-power/" target="_blank">Thom Hartmann Discusses the Corporate War On Solar Power</a> by Joshua De Leon<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/watch-jon-stewart-call-mitch-mcconnell-on-his-b-s-that-the-gop-caused-job-growth/" target="_blank">Watch Jon Stewart Call Mitch McConnell on His B.S. That the GOP Caused Job Growth</a> by Joshua De Leon<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/bill-maher-salman-rushdie-and-others-have-a-brilliant-discussion-about-charlie-hebdo-and-extreme-islam/" target="_blank">Bill Maher, Salman Rushdie and Others Have a Brilliant Discussion About Charlie Hebdo and Extreme Islam</a> by Joshua De Leon<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/seder-the-political-implications-of-the-charlie-hebdo-attack/" target="_blank">Seder: The Political Implications of the Charlie Hebdo Attack</a> by Gary Bentley<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/papantonio-dont-be-terrorized-by-terrorism/" target="_blank">Papantonio: Don’t Be Terrorized By Terrorism</a> by Ring of Fire - America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, and Thom Hartmann talk about the recent terrorist attack in Paris.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/papantonio-religious-extremism-and-the-charlie-hebdo-terrorist-attack/" target="_blank">Papantonio: Religious Extremism and The Charlie Hebdo Terrorist Attack</a> by Gary Bentley - America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, appears on The Thom Hartmann Program to discuss religious extremism within the Islamic world in regards to the terrorist attack at the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper.<br />
• Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the "Podcast" tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/blogengine/" target="_blank">Ring of Fire Radio</a> Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, <b>rebroadcasts 7-10 et Sunday evenings on <a href="http://www.chicagoprogressivetalk.com/listen/" target="_blank">Chicago's Progressive Talk WCPT AM & FM</a> and 4 pm et on Sirius/XM 167 featuring The PAP Attack! </b> "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week." <br />
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<li type=square><b>Majority Report with Sam Seder</b> Streaming LIVE weekdays 12 NOON et @ <a href="http://Majority.fm" target="_blank">Majority.fm</a>! <br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/15-the-crazies-running-against-speaker-boehner-steve-scalise-not-resigning" target="_blank"> 1/5/15 The Crazies Running Against Speaker Boehner & Steve Scalise Not Resigning </a> <br />
• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/16-ari-paul-perfect-moment-for-police-reform-ryan-grim-gop-follies-begin" target="_blank">1/6/15 Ari Paul: The Moment For Police Reform & Ryan Grim: GOP Follies Begin</a><br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/1715-maria-margaronis-the-paris-terrorist-attacks-will-syriza-to-power-in-greece" target="_blank">1/7/15 Maria Margaronis: The Paris Terrorist Attacks & Syriza to Power in Greece? </a><br />
• THURSDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/1815-julian-e-zelizer-the-fierce-urgency-of-now-the-battle-for-the-great-society" target="_blank">1/8/15 Julian E. Zelizer: The Fierce Urgency of Now: the Battle for the Great Society</a><br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/1915-casual-friday-cliff-schecter-pete-dominick" target="_blank">1/9/15 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & Pete Dominick</a><br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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<li type=square><b>KEISER REPORT</b> Podcasts and more @ <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/" target="_blank">MaxKeiser.com</a>!<br />
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<b>"HI Y'ALL! Tell the people! Tell the people!"</b><br />
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 <a href="http://www.karmabanque.com/" target="_blank">KarmaBanque</a> a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. <br />
• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport" target="_blank">Keiser Report</a> <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/eu-showdown-greece-takes-on-the-vampire-squid/" target="_blank">EU Showdown: Greece Takes on the Vampire Squid</a> by by Ellen Brown — Greece and the troika (the International Monetary Fund, the EU, and the European Central Bank) are in a dangerous game of chicken. The Greeks have been threatened with a “<a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-29/greece-turmoil-after-third-failed-presidential-vote-means-snap-elections-deck" target="_blank">Cyprus-Style prolonged bank holiday</a>” if they “vote wrong.” But they have been bullied for too long and are saying “no more.” A return to the polls was triggered in December, when the Parliament rejected Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ pro-austerity candidate for president. In a general election, now set for January 25th, the EU-skeptic, anti-austerity, leftist Syriza party is likely to prevail. Syriza captured a 3% lead in the polls following mass public discontent over the harsh austerity measures Athens was forced to accept in return for a €240 billion bailout. Austerity has plunged the economy into conditions worse than in the Great Depression. <a href="http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Greek-Depression-the-by-William-K-Black--Austerity_Austerity_Austerity_Bailout-141231-49.html" target="_blank">As Professor Bill Black observes</a>, the question is not why the Greek people are rising up to reject the barbarous measures but what took them so long. .........<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/get-real-copper/" target="_blank">Savage Murder In Paris Shows Freedom, Western Societies and Economies Vulnerable</a> by Mark O'Byrne — READ <a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/savage-murder-paris-shows-freedom-western-societies-economies-vulnerable/" target="_blank">Savage Slaughter In Paris Shows West and Freedom Itself Vulnerable!</a> (goldcore.com)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/lars-schall-informed-911-terror-trading-takes-apart-jamesgrickards-claims-911-cia-trading-implicated/" target="_blank">OUTLOOK 2015 – Uncertainty, Volatility, Possible Reset, Diversify!</a> by Mark O'Byrne — READ <a href="http://www.goldcore.com/ie/gold-blog/outlook-2015-uncertainty-volatility-possible-reset-diversify/" target="_blank">OUTLOOK 2015 – Uncertainty, Volatility, Possible Reset, Diversify!</a> (goldcore.com)<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/kr702-keiser-report-dis-harmony-with-cash/" target="_blank">[KR702] Keiser Report: (Dis-)harmony with Cash</a> We visit Hong Kong for this episode in which they discuss disharmony in the capital markets as London properties are turned into buy to leave safe deposit boxes while Americans extract alleged equity from their subprime used cars. In the second half, Max speaks to Ken Lo, CEO of the ANX exchange about their bitcoin debit card and plans on expanding into StartCOIN and other alt-coins. They compare the regulatory situation in Hong Kong versus New York in terms of financial technology being allowed to prosper. Or not.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="[KR703] Keiser Report: ‘Shoebox’ Housing & ‘Dim Sum’ Bonds" target="_blank">[KR703] Keiser Report: ‘Shoebox’ Housing & ‘Dim Sum’ Bonds</a> Reporting from Hong Kong, we discuss the ‘social tragedy’ of subdivided flats and the booming market for ‘dim sum’ bonds. In the second half, Max speaks to Dr Fernando Cheung Vice Chairman of the Labour Party and one of the prominent figures of.the Umbrella Movement about the protests in Hong Kong, the capital from the Mainland and the comparison to protests in America, especially places like Oakland, where Dr. Cheung, was politically active.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/kr-704-keiser-report-china-mainland-msm-myths/" target="_blank">[KR704] Keiser Report: China Mainland MSM Myths</a> We back in the London studio, have brought Paul Schulte back with them from Hong Kong. Paul is an author, analyst and professor, who debunks the myths in the Western media about mainland China and how it is that Chris Patten, the former governor of Hong Kong, set in motion the problems we see today in the streets of the former British dependent territory. In the second half, Max speaks to WilliamBanzai7, the artist for the financial apocalypse now, who features on Zerohedge.com. They discuss the Umbrella Revolution and what inspires his art.<br />
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<li type=square><b>The Scott Horton Radio Show</b><br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It’s been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show’s important milestones, as well as preview some of the exciting projects to look for in the near future. ........ The show on Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A., still called Antiwar Radio, has now moved to join their Sunday morning public affairs line up (8:30 am pt - http://kpfk.org), and remains the largest source of listeners, with 15,000-20,000 people tuning in weekly. The future: Liberty Express Radio is growing and bringing me along for the ride. The great Charles Goyette hooked me up with Alan Butler and the Liberty Express earlier this year, and what has been the daily replay there from 3-5 eastern time has become my best listened-to show. And now they’re adding my friend Tom Woods to the lineup from 2-3 PM. That does it. I’m making the switch! Starting Monday, October 14, the live show is moving to 3-5 PM Eastern time on LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/01/08/10815-ramzy-baroud/" target="_blank">1/08/15 Ramzy Baroud</a>: Ramzy Baroud, an internationally-syndicated columnist and founder of PalestineChronicle.com, discusses how <a href="http://www.palestinechronicle.com/time-to-move-out-the-problem-with-mahmoud-abbas-and-his-authority/" target="_blank">Mahmoud Abbas and his Palestinian Authority have lost their purpose</a> and mandate; the legal consequences if Palestine gains membership in the International Criminal Court; and why the terrorist attack against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo was motivated mostly by political, not religious, concerns.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/01/07/10715-gareth-porter/" target="_blank">1/05/15Gareth Porter</a>: Gareth Porter, an award-winning independent journalist and historian, discusses why the Obama administration’s plan to fight the Islamic State can’t possibly succeed; and the few US presidents who could stand up to the military-industrial complex.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/29/122914-eric-margolis/" target="_blank">12/29/14 Eric Margolis</a>: Eric Margolis, an internationally syndicated columnist and author of <i>American Raj</i>, discusses the never-ending war in Afghanistan; the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq; and Libya’s descent into another civil war.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/01/07/10715-mitchell-prothero/" target="_blank">1/07/15 Mitchell Prothero</a>: Mitchell Prothero, a journalist with McClatchy Newspapers, discusses the terrorist attack in Paris targeting satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo, known for publishing cartoons insulting Islam and the Prophet Muhammad.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2015/01/06/10615-ray-mcgovern/" target="_blank">1/06/15 Ray McGovern</a>: Ray McGovern, a veteran CIA analyst and peace activist, discusses why its so important to <a href="https://consortiumnews.com/2015/01/03/rebuilding-the-obama-putin-trust/" target="_blank">rebuild a trusting relationship</a> between President Obama and Russian President Putin; the neoconservatives pushing for a dangerous confrontation over Ukraine; and how the US media deludes Americans into believing all kinds of nonsense about world affairs.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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• Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey<br />
• Sen John Hoeven (R-ND), a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources<br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>Welcome to 2015!</b> If you thought 2014 was rough hold on to your seats! With the pro-corporate 114th Congress and a pliable pro-corporatist at the helm of The United States things will get much worse for the 99% while the Lame Stream Media will tell you some sycophantic rant about how Everything is Just Fine despite the avalanche of bad news from police arming-up and more protests to evil trade deals that potentially will make the U.S. and the EU on par with third world countries while the planet continues to burn and countless biospheres, microbial, plant and animal species disappear. As we transition from the <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/20/113th-congress-produces-22-do-nothing-1947-1948-counterpart.html" target="_blank">113th Congress Produces 22% of “Do-Nothing” 1947-1948 Counterpart </a> to the newly-elected (by only about 20% of voters nationwide on average) GOPher-controlled 114th Congress we predict more crazy corporate-friendly legislation and the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/02/gop-obamacare-vote_n_3695871.html" target="_blank">umpteenth</a> challenge to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordable_Health_Care_for_America_Act" target="_blank">The Affordable Health Care Act</a> plus gutting any and all regulation authority to every department from the EPA to the SEC and more. We're not sure why these peeps are so hell-bent on destroying their constituents' lives and The Planet Earth (except for their 1% financial backers) except for GREED of MONEY. What we DO KNOW is that they are on a mission NOT for the Greater Good and perserving The GLOBAL Commons (earth, water, air) for We Da Peeps BUT to give handouts to their corporate polluters in any and every which way possible. Brick TeeVee will continue to bring you the most pertinent stories of 2015 and try to urge you to ACTION! Progressives need to start NOW to get candidates on ballots for the 2016 Elections - we have precious little time - so we peeps have something to VOTE FOR. The 2014 midterm election was an abberation: there's WAY MORE OF US than there is of THEM (Reference Ralph Nader's <a href="https://nader.org/books/unstoppable" target="_blank">UNSTOPPABLE</a>). Regardless of who are the presidential candidates it is VITALLY IMPORTANT we get PROGRESSIVE candidates on down-ticket races. The 2004 Election had a 70%+ turnout and back then it was EVANGELICALS (and OH SoS Ken Blackwell) who decided the election. Ten years later WE NOW have the upper hand and <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/4/28/ralph_nader_on_tpp_gm_recall" target="_blank">according to Nader</a> BIG majorites across ideologies are OPPOSED to the corporate staus-quo agenda. The 2016 Republican National Convention Circle Jerk will be in our backyard. We at the Brick TeeVee Compound are working with groups to get a website going to help direct protesters to housing and events as they become available. Your work needs to START NOW and as we move through 2015 you will see just how DESTRUCTIVE and OUTRIGHT MEAN the GOPhers really are. You might even find some tea-bag right-wingers in your social circles and neighborhoods who may be swayed over to some common-sense thinking. Knock on some doors, make some flyers up, engage peeps and you'll find some unexpected allies. It all starts with US & YOU! RIGHT NOW. You'll be mildly surprised with the reaction once you start! Be sure to look up all your local orgs to help get started cuz they've been at it for some time too! OR even INFILTRATE the teabag groups with INFO and TRUTH they've not seen! Blow their minds! Then TAKE OVER! <b>YOU</b> CAN DO THIS. <b>WE</b> CAN DO THIS. Let's get busy!<br />
CASE IN POINT: The PEW Research Center outlines what we've know for years: <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/17/wealth-gap-upper-middle-income/" target="_blank">America’s wealth gap between middle-income and upper-income families is widest on record</a> <font color=navy>A new Pew Research Center analysis of wealth finds the gap between America’s upper-income and middle-income families has reached its highest level on record. In 2013, the median wealth of the nation’s upper-income families ($639,400) was nearly seven times the median wealth of middle-income families ($96,500), the widest wealth gap seen in 30 years when the Federal Reserve began collecting these data. In addition, America’s upper-income families have a median net worth that is nearly 70 times that of the country’s lower-income families, also the widest wealth gap between these families in 30 years.<br />
<center><img src="http://www.pewresearch.org/files/2014/12/FT_14.12.16_wealthInequality.png" alt="wealthInequality" /></center>..................... As a result, the estimated wealth gap between upper-income and middle-income families has increased during the recovery. In 2010, the median wealth of upper-income families was 6.2 times the median wealth of middle-income families. By 2013, that wealth ratio grew to 6.6. To be sure, the wealth gap between upper-income and middle-income families also widened during the Great Recession. The median wealth of all three income groups declined from 2007 to 2010. But upper-income families were not hit nearly as hard as lower- and middle-income families. Median wealth declined by 17% from 2007 ($718,000) to 2010 ($595,300) among upper-income families. In contrast, middle-income (-39%) and lower-income (-41%) families had larger declines in wealth. The larger losses among middle-income families resulted in the wealth gap between upper- and middle-income families rising from 2007 (4.5) to 2010 (6.2). ............... The latest data reinforce the <a href="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2012/08/22/the-lost-decade-of-the-middle-class/" target="_blank">larger story of America’s middle class household wealth stagnation over the past three decades</a>. The Great Recession destroyed a significant amount of middle-income and lower-income families’ wealth, and the economic “recovery” has yet to be felt for them. <b>Without any palpable increase in their wealth since 2010, middle- and lower-income families’ wealth levels in 2013 are comparable to where they were in the early 1990s.</b> ................ While most American families remain financially stuck, upper-income families have seen their median wealth double from $318,100 in 1983 to $639,400 in 2013. The typical wealth level of these families increased each decade over the past 30 years. The Great Recession did set back the median wealth of upper-income families, but over the past three years these families have recouped some of their losses.</font> WAIT! THERE'S MORE! Paul Buchheit at AlterNet tells us <a href="http://www.alternet.org/how-american-corporations-and-super-rich-steal-rest-us" target="_blank">How American Corporations and the Super Rich Steal From the Rest of Us</a></br ><br />
<font color=purple> <b>1. The Corporations.</b> As schools and local governments are going broke around the country, companies who built their businesses with American research and education and technology and infrastructure <a href="http://www.usagainstgreed.org/CorpTaxByYear2.xls" target="_blank">are paying less in taxes</a> than ever before. Incredibly, over half of U.S. corporate foreign profits are now being held in <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-12-12/inversions-are-often-last-stop-for-companies-avoiding-u-s-taxes.html" target="_blank">tax havens</a>, double the share of just twenty years ago. Corporations are stealing from the nation that made them rich.Corporations are stealing from the nation that made them rich. There are many examples of greed among individual firms. Based largely on 2014 SEC documents submitted by the companies themselves: <ul><li>---<a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/34088/000003408814000012/xom10k2013.htm" target="_blank">Exxon</a> has almost 80% of its productive oil and gas wells in the U.S. but declared only 17% of its income here. The company used a theoretical tax to account for 83% of last year's income tax bill, and paid less than 2% of its total income in current U.S. taxes.<br />
<li>---<a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/93410/000009341014000011/cvx-123113x10kdoc.htm" target="_blank">Chevron</a> has about 75% of its oil and gas wells and almost 90% of its pipeline mileage in the United States, yet the company claimed only 13% of last year's income in the U.S., and paid almost nothing (less than 1/10 of 1%) in current U.S. taxes.<br />
<li>------<a href="http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/78003/000007800314000018/pfe-12312013xex13.htm" target="_blank">Pfizer</a> had 40% of last year's sales in the U.S., but claimed losses in the U.S. and $17 billion in profits overseas.</ul>..........</br > <b>2. The Forbes 40 </b> Defenders of inequality argue that fortunes are deserved because of innovation and hard work. But many of the <a href="http://www.usagainstgreed.org/20141201_Analysis.txt" target="_blank">40 Americans who own as much</a> as the poorest half of the country have relied on less deserving means of accumulating great fortunes (details <a href="http://www.nationofchange.org/20-richest-americans-takers-not-makers-1390833796" target="_blank">here</a>). .............</br > <b>3. The Deniers</b> After 35 years of wealth theft there are still inequality deniers -- notably the <a href="http://www.aei.org/publication/obamas-inequality-argument-just-utterly-collapsed/" target="_blank">American Enterprise Institute</a>, which claims that income inequality has been shrinking since 1989, <a href="http://www.aei.org/publication/new-cbo-study-shows-rich-dont-just-pay-fair-share-pay-almost-everybodys-share/" target="_blank">and that</a> we should be asking whether or not the bottom 60% are paying their fair share. Another insult from <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2014/11/05/income-inequality-is-good-for-the-poor/" target="_blank">The Federalist</a>: Income Inequality Is Good For The Poor. The <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2014/04/26/living-with-inequality" target="_blank">Reason Foundation</a> tops it off, advising us that the best way to defuse the situation is to teach tolerance for inequality... All of which suggests that the theft of society's wealth may be due to ignorance as well as to greed. </font> At AlterNet.com Lee Fang discusses <a href="http://www.alternet.org/world/scary-revolving-door-black-water-lobbyist-run-house-intel-committee" target="_blank">Round Goes the Revolving Door: Black Water Lobbyist to Run House Intel Committee</a> <font color=FireBrick>After lobbyist-run SuperPACs and big money efforts dominated the last election, legislators are now appointing lobbyists to literally manage the day-to-day affairs of Congress. <b>For the House Intelligence Committee, which oversees government intelligence operations and agencies, the changing of the guard means a lobbyist for Academi, the defense contractor formerly known as Blackwater, is now in charge.</b> Congressman Devin Nunes (R-CA), the incoming chairman of the Intelligence Committee when the House reconvenes in January, <a href="http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/jeff-shockey-goes-for-the-reverse-revolving-door-again/" target="_blank">announced</a> that Jeff Shockey will be the new Staff Director of the committee. As a paid representative of Academi, Shockey and his firm have earned <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/client_reports.php?id=F1975&year=2014" target="_blank">$80,000</a> this year peddling influence on behalf of Academi. In previous years, the House Intelligence Committee has <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/us/politics/11blackwater.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">investigated</a> Blackwater over secret contracts with the Central Intelligence Agency. Now, the shoe is on the other foot. As Staff Director, the highest position on a committee for a staff member, Shockey will oversee the agencies that do business with his former employer. Shockey also represents a number of other companies with business before defense agencies: General Dynamics, Koch Industries, Northrop Grumman, United Launch Alliance, Innovative Defense Technologies and Boeing. The role reversal, for lobbyists to take brief stints in Congress after an election, has become a normalized. In a previous <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/174151/reverse-revolving-door-how-corporate-insiders-are-rewarded-upon-leaving-firms-congres" target="_blank">investigation</a> for The Nation, we found that some corporate firms offer employment contracts with special bonuses for their staff to return to government jobs, ensuring the paycut the receive for passing through the revolving door to become public servants doesn’t have to alter their K Street lifestyle. Other committees are also hiring lobbyists. Congessman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), Darrell Issa’s (R-CA) replacement as chair of the Oversight Committee, just hired Podesta Group lobbyist Sean McLaughlin as his new Staff Director. McLaughlin’s client list includes the Business Roundtable, a trade association for corporate CEOs of large firms. Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) also hired a new chief of staff, Mark Isakowitz, who represents BP.</font> So right there in a nutshell is what we can expect from the 114th Congress in 2015 just to start! And here's just one example of dark-of-night legislation the GOPhers are infamous for. Lambert Strether has a guest post at NakedCapitalism.com <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/12/cromnibus-pension-provisions-gut-forty-years-policy-allow-existing-pensions-slashed.html" target="_blank">Cromnibus Pension Provisions Gut Forty Years of Policy, Allow Existing Pensions to Be Slashed</a> <font color=Brown>Oddly, or not, “progressive” and Democratic loyalist commentary on the Cromnibus bill has — with <a href="http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2014/12/12/CRomnibus-Disaster-Signals-Sad-New-Normal-DC" target="_blank">occasional honorable exceptions</a> – focused almost exclusively on Elizabeth Warren’s fight against a derivatives provision that might benefit big banks, <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/12/elizabeth-warren-remarks-citigroup-bailout-provision-cromnibus-bill.html" target="_blank">as we saw yesterday</a>, and has been silent about a provision that could do far worse and far more immediate harm to working people who made their retirement plans based on the belief that their pension rights were secure and backed by legislation, and the idea that a contract was a contract. Oldthink, I know! So in this post I want to rectify that mysterious silence, and take a look at the truly nauseating Kline-Miller amendment, passed by the House, and part of the Senate bill forwarded to Obama for his signature. <a href="http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2014/12/12/CRomnibus-Disaster-Signals-Sad-New-Normal-DC" target="_blank">David Dayen</a> summarizes: <ul>Under the bill, trustees would be enabled to cut pension benefits to current retirees, reversing a 40-year bond with workers who earned their retirement packages.</ul><a href="http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-that-awful-congressional-plan-20141209-column.html" target="_blank">Michael Hilzick</a>: <ul>Under ERISA, the 1974 law governing pensions in the private sector, benefits already earned by a worker can’t be cut.</ul>Now they can. That’s right. Even if you’re retired and vested in a private pension plan, your benefits could be cut. Congress retraded the deal (if I have the finance jargon right). That’s nauseating even for today’s official Washington. And the bill was passed in a thoroughly <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">bipartisan fashion</a>: Kline is a Minnesota Republican, and Miller is a “liberal” California Democrat. [Reach me that bucket, wouldja?] Who Does Kline-Miller Affect? I said your pension <i>could be</i> cut, so here’s how Kline-Miller works and who it applies to. ....................... Wait, you say. 1.5 million workers isn’t very many, and besides, I have a single employer pension, and so I’m safe from the chopping block. Not so fast! What matters is that a precedent has been set. The <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/pension-change-seen-as-setting-a-precedent-1418586647" target="_blank">Wall Street Journal</a> is practically rubbing its hands: <ul>[The] measure included in Congress’s mammoth spending bill permits benefit cuts for retirees in one type of pension plan, a big shift that lawmakers and others believe could set a precedent for other troubled retirement programs. Lawmakers and experts, while divided over the merits of the change, largely agreed that it could well be the first of many. </ul><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-12-11/congress-says-it-has-to-cut-pensions-to-save-them" target="_blank">Alicia Munnell</a>, director of Boston College’s Center for Retirement Research says the change: <ul>“is letting the genie out of the bottle. Once it becomes legal to cut accrued benefits, then it’s a different world. It’s really precedent-making change. [While not opposed to giving trustees flexibility, she said] “It needs to be applied very, very judiciously.”</ul>What could go wrong? The bottom line here is that the legalities and the contractual relations and whatever moral commitments were made don’t really matter. What does matter is that whenever there’s a big pot of money lying around that theoreticallly should go to working people — say, retirement funds, but it could be anything — Congress can retrade whatever deal put the money into the pot, and years after the fact, too. Oh, and <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/pension-fund-run-wall-street-cited-push-cut-retiree-benefits-1748439" target="_blank">workers lose the right to challenge the cuts in court</a>. Nice! ......................... Third, the think tank behind Kline-Miller is the National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans. Here’s their <a href="http://webiva-downton.s3.amazonaws.com/71/59/b/39/1/Solutions_Not_Bailouts.pdf" target="_blank">report</a>. It’s titled: <ul>“Solutions not Bailouts”</ul>But what would be so very wrong with — work with me, here — just bailing the pension plans out? I can’t see why bailing out workers isn’t a solution. It certainly was for the banksters! <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/pension-fund-run-wall-street-cited-push-cut-retiree-benefits-1748439" target="_blank">International Business Times</a>:<ul>While Congress responded to the 2008 financial crisis by rescuing the banking industry with an $700 billion bailout [and that’s only TARP!], there’s no rescue on the way for retirees. Lawmakers are offering no bailout to close multiemployer plans’ aggregate $42 billion deficit. </ul>$42 billion? Spread out over decades? That’s chicken feed! What’s wrong with these people?</font> READ the whole detailed sordid thing! If you don't have a pension then why care? Lambert explains this point very succinctly: <font color=Brown>What’s the point of a union contract if Congress can unilaterally retrade the deal after the fact? I thought contracts were supposed to be sacred. Or doesn’t that apply when workers are involved?</font> We caught this interview with Thom Harmann and Dr. Stephanie Seneff of MIT <a href="http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/half-all-children-will-be-autistic-2025" target="_blank">Half of all Children will be Autistic by 2025...</a> <font color=indigo>Thom Hartmann talks with Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Senior Research Scientist-Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.), Website: http://web.mit.edu/ about data showing a remarkably consistent correlation between the use of Roundup on crops (and the creation of Roundup-ready GMO crop seeds) with rising rates of autism.</font> As a follow-up we have Christina Sarich at naturalsociety.com <a href="http://naturalsociety.com/dr-stephanie-seneff-mit-scientist-explains-synergistic-effect-aluminum-glyphosate-poisoning-cause-skyrocketing-autism/" target="_blank">MIT Scientist Exposes Consequence of Monsanto’s Glyphosate & Aluminum Cocktail</a> and here is the PDF of the study on glyphosate by Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff <a href="http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/Entropy/entropy-15-01416.pdf" target="_blank">Glyphosate’s Suppression of Cytochrome P450 Enzymes and Amino Acid Biosynthesis by the Gut Microbiome: Pathways to Modern Diseases </a> and here is another interview with Dr. Seneff OneRadioNetwork.com <a href="http://oneradionetwork.com/environment/dr-stephanie-seneff-when-food-is-poison-gmos-and-glyphosate-slow-poison-over-time-september-19-2013/" target="_blank">When Food Is Poison: GMO’s and Glyphosate: Slow Poison Over Time</a> and also at mercola.com <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2013/06/09/monsanto-roundup-herbicide.aspx" target="_blank">Monsanto’s Roundup Herbicide May Be Most Important Factor in Development of Autism and Other Chronic Disease</a> Of course we recommend these documentaries: <ul><li> <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/the-world-according-to-monsanto/" target="_blank">The World According to Monsanto</a> <br />
<li> <a href="http://www.documentarywire.com/david-vs-monsanto/" target="_blank">David vs Monsanto</a><br />
<li> <a href="http://www.thefutureoffood.com/" target="_blank">The Future of Food</a> </ul>AND If you haven't watched this yet then see <a href="http://flowthefilm.com/" target="_blank">Flow: For Love of Water</a> <font color=blue>Irena Salina's award-winning documentary investigation into what experts label the most important political and environmental issue of the 21st Century - The World Water Crisis. Salina builds a case against the growing privatization of the world's dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution, human rights, and the emergence of a domineering world water cartel. Interviews with scientists and activists intelligently reveal the rapidly building crisis, at both the global and human scale, and the film introduces many of the governmental and corporate culprits behind the water grab, while begging the question "CAN ANYONE REALLY OWN WATER?" Beyond identifying the problem, FLOW also gives viewers a look at the people and institutions providing practical solutions to the water crisis and those developing new technologies, which are fast becoming blueprints for a successful global and economic turnaround.</font> Also read <a href="http://flowthefilm.com/aboutwater" target="_blank">About Water</a> and you can also view <a href="http://flowthefilm.com/trailer" target="_blank">TRALER</a> and TopDocumentaryFilms.com also has the whole documentary <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/flow-for-love-of-water/" target="_blank">HERE</a>. IN A RELATED MATTER At EcoWatch.com Anastasia Pantsios explains a new study that has determined <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/10/28/bp-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill/" target="_blank">BP Oil Spill Left Rhode Island-Sized ‘Bathtub Ring’ on Ocean Floor</a>. What does this all mean for the 114th Congress? You can bet your last paper dollar they will try to pass legislation favorable to multinational corporations as these documentaries illustrate. And anything that actually HELPS regular peeps like us? FUGGETABOUTIT. Keep in mind there will be MANY "Democrats" willing to "go along to get along" to push ahead these regressive laws. And the GOPher specialty will be to manuever their favorite Chamber of Commerce backed bill into something like a "must pass" legislation like the CROMNIBUS BILL without debate or hearings in the dead of night. Look for President Obomber to veto the most heinous proposals except those multinational trade deals like the <a href="http://www.citizen.org/TPP" target="_blank">TRANS PACIFIC PARTNERSHIP (TPP)</a> or the even more destabalizing <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/dec/02/transatlantic-free-trade-deal-regulation-by-lawyers-eu-us" target="_blank">TRANS ATLANTIC TRADE AND PARTNERSHIP (TIPP)</a> deal As George Monbiot says, "Plans to create an EU-US single market will allow corporations to sue governments using secretive panels, bypassing courts and parliaments". ONLY IF true Dems can peel off enough pricipled tea baggers who "stand up for The Constitution" can any of these terrible deals be defeated. But with Obomber leading the way he's sure to get huge support from the bought-n-paid-for-by-big-buzness 114th Congress. The only thing we can offer is to support the <a href="http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/" target="_blank">PROGRESSIVE CAUCUS</a> and other outside organizations and unions who vehmently oppose these trade pacts. Don't count on the Lame Stream Media to keep you informed on this! YOU have to dig up info for your own Opposition Research and the Brick TeeVee Crew will certainly help out! We give the first 2015 BTV LAST WORD to James Fallows at The Atlantic who explains <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/12/the-tragedy-of-the-american-military/383516/" target="_blank">The Tragedy of the American Military</a> <font color=OliveDrab><i>The American public and its political leadership will do anything for the military except take it seriously. The result is a chickenhawk nation in which careless spending and strategic folly combine to lure America into endless wars it can’t win.</i> ............... This reverent but disengaged attitude toward the military—we love the troops, but we’d rather not think about them—has become so familiar that we assume it is the American norm. But it is not. When Dwight D. Eisenhower, as a five-star general and the supreme commander, led what may have in fact been the finest fighting force in the history of the world, he did not describe it in that puffed-up way. On the eve of the D-Day invasion, he warned his troops, “Your task will not be an easy one,” because “your enemy is well-trained, well-equipped, and battle-hardened.” As president, Eisenhower’s most famous statement about the military was his warning in his farewell address of what could happen if its political influence grew unchecked. At the end of World War II, nearly 10 percent of the entire U.S. population was on active military duty—which meant most able-bodied men of a certain age (plus the small number of women allowed to serve). Through the decade after World War II, when so many American families had at least one member in uniform, political and journalistic references were admiring but not awestruck. Most Americans were familiar enough with the military to respect it while being sharply aware of its shortcomings, as they were with the school system, their religion, and other important and fallible institutions. Now the American military is exotic territory to most of the American public. As a comparison: A handful of Americans live on farms, but there are many more of them than serve in all branches of the military. (Well over 4 million people live on the country’s 2.1 million farms. The U.S. military has about 1.4 million people on active duty and another 850,000 in the reserves.) The other 310 million–plus Americans “honor” their stalwart farmers, but generally don’t know them. So too with the military. Many more young Americans will study abroad this year than will enlist in the military—nearly 300,000 students overseas, versus well under 200,000 new recruits. As a country, America has been at war nonstop for the past 13 years. As a public, it has not. A total of about 2.5 million Americans, roughly three-quarters of 1 percent, served in Iraq or Afghanistan at any point in the post-9/11 years, many of them more than once. The difference between the earlier America that knew its military and the modern America that gazes admiringly at its heroes shows up sharply in changes in popular and media culture. ................... Let’s skip to today’s Iraq-Afghanistan era, in which everyone “supports” the troops but few know very much about them. The pop-culture references to the people fighting our ongoing wars emphasize their suffering and stoicism, or the long-term personal damage they may endure. <i>The Hurt Locker</i> is the clearest example, but also <i>Lone Survivor; Restrepo;</i> the short-lived 2005 FX series set in Iraq, <i>Over There</i>; and Showtime’s current series <i>Homeland</i>. Some emphasize high-stakes action, from the fictionalized <i>24</i> to the meant-to-be-true <i>Zero Dark Thirty</i>. Often they portray military and intelligence officials as brave and daring. But while cumulatively these dramas highlight the damage that open-ended warfare has done—on the battlefield and elsewhere, to warriors and civilians alike, in the short term but also through long-term blowback—they lack the comfortable closeness with the military that would allow them to question its competence as they would any other institution’s. ................... For two decades after World War II, the standing force remained so large, and the Depression-era birth cohorts were so small, that most Americans had a direct military connection. Among older Baby Boomers, those born before 1955, at least three-quarters have had an immediate family member—sibling, parent, spouse, child—who served in uniform. Of Americans born since 1980, the Millennials, about one in three is closely related to anyone with military experience. ....................... If I were writing such a history now, I would call it Chickenhawk Nation, based on the derisive term for those eager to go to war, as long as someone else is going. It would be the story of a country willing to do anything for its military except take it seriously. As a result, what happens to all institutions that escape serious external scrutiny and engagement has happened to our military. Outsiders treat it both too reverently and too cavalierly, as if regarding its members as heroes makes up for committing them to unending, unwinnable missions and denying them anything like the political mindshare we give to other major public undertakings, from medical care to public education to environmental rules. The tone and level of public debate on those issues is hardly encouraging. But for democracies, messy debates are less damaging in the long run than letting important functions run on autopilot, as our military essentially does now. A chickenhawk nation is more likely to keep going to war, and to keep losing, than one that wrestles with long-term questions of effectiveness.............</font> Much more including "Why does civilian technology grow ever cheaper and more reliable while military technology does the opposite? An animated explainer narrated by James Fallows." GREAT ITEM! The FIRST-EVER college football playoffs took place on New Year's Day at the 101st Rose Bowl and the 81st Sugar Bowl. We go to The Oregonian's Ducks beat writer Andrew Greif <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/ducks/index.ssf/2015/01/oregon_ducks_rout_florida_stat.html" target="_blank">Oregon Ducks rout Florida State in a 59-20 knockout that's been in the works long before New Year's Day</a>. Then AP National Writer Paul Newberry at The Bucyrus Telegraph-Forum with <a href="http://www.bucyrustelegraphforum.com/story/sports/college/ohio-state/2015/01/02/sweet-sugar-buckeyes-upset-alabama/21178173/" target="_blank">Sweet as Sugar: Buckeyes upset Alabama 42-35</a>! So it's the Ducks vs. the Bucks for the FIRST-EVER college football playoff Championship Game January 12 in Arlington, Texas (yeah, in Jerry's place). ESPN's Mark Schlabach explains how the <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/ducks-bucks-change/story?id=27957690" target="_blank">Ducks, Bucks change everything</a> at abcnews.go.com: <i> "Oregon won by 40?" Meyer asked, after a reporter told him the final score. "Oh, oh," said OSU tailback Ezekiel Elliott, who was sitting next to him on a podium during the postgame news conference..... who broke the game open on his fourth quarter 3rd down 85-yard touchdown run. "I gotta go," Meyer said, as he started to climb out of his chair. "We gotta go get ready for that one."</i> Haha! DUCKS vs. BUCKS! Shout out to our BTV Ducks viewers in The Great Northwest! You have <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/01/kshama-sawant-seattle-minimum-wage_n_5249435.html" target="_blank">Kshama Sawant</a> and <a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/11/oregon_election_results_us_hou_1.html" target="_blank">Pete DeFazio</a>! We have John K-SICK and a solid two thirds of da OH State House controlled by the ALEC-led GOPhers. But we DO HAVE Senator <a href="http://www.brown.senate.gov/" target="_blank">Sherrod Brown</a> and <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/three_congressmen_just_reignited_the_cold_war_while_no_one_was_looking_2014" target="_blank">Dennis</a> too! Go Buckeyes! Hope everybody had a great holiday season of merriment! THROW BRICKs every chance you get in 2015! See you next week! </font> <center><img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/gonzo-111x191.png" height="75"></center><p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font> <p><img src="http://www.democracynow.org/images/nav/dn_logo.png" height=100 alt="Democracy NOW!" /> <p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/29/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, December 29, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Matthieu Aikins, journalist based in Kabul & Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/29/the_afghan_war_is_not_over" target="_blank">The Afghan War is Not Over: U.S. Ends 13-Year Combat Mission, But 10,000+ Troops Continue the Fight</a> Matthieu Aikins' recent report for Rolling Stone magazine is "<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/afghanistan-the-making-of-a-narco-state-20141204" target="_blank">Afghanistan: The Making of a Narco State</a>."<br />
<li><b>Kathy Kelly</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/29/peace_activist_kathy_kelly_heads_to" target="_blank">Peace Activist Kathy Kelly Heads to Prison for Protesting U.S. Drone War</a> <br />
<li><b>Matthieu Aikins</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/29/the_worst_narco_state_in_history" target="_blank">The Worst Narco-State in History? After 13-Year War, Afghanistan’s Opium Trade Floods the Globe</a> <br />
<li><b>Adhyl Polanco, officer with the New York City Police Department since 2005</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/29/nypd_officer_speaks_out_on_fellow" target="_blank">NYPD Officer Speaks Out on Fellow Cops Who Turned Backs to Mayor & Why People of Color Fear Police</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/30/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, December 30, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Philip Balboni, president and CEO of GlobalPost, Gary Noesner, former chief of the FBI’s Crisis Negotiation Unit & and Sarah Shourd, who was was held prisoner by Iran for 410 days </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/30/as_american_captives_die_while_others" target="_blank">As American Captives Die While Others Walk Free, Is U.S. Hostage Policy Costing Citizens’ Lives?</a> <br />
<li><b>Stanley Cohen, longtime human rights attorney</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/30/did_the_us_abandon_an_american" target="_blank">Did the U.S. Abandon an American Hostage in Syria? Inside the Secret Bid to Free Peter Kassig</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/31/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, December 31, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Austen Ivereigh, a British writer, commentator and co-founder of Catholic Voices</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/31/pope_francis_calls_for_action_on" target="_blank">Pope Francis Calls for Action on Climate Change & Capitalism on a Planet "Exploited by Human Greed"</a> <br />
<li><b>More Austen Ivereigh</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/31/the_great_reformer_pope_francis_biographer" target="_blank">"The Great Reformer": Pope Francis Biographer on How Pontiff Became Star Diplomat & Voice for Change</a> <br />
<li><b>Climate activist and author Bill McKibben</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/31/at_end_of_warmest_year_on" target="_blank">At End of Warmest Year on Record, "Alternative Nobel" Winner Bill McKibben Urges Action on Climate</a> We play an excerpt of McKibben’s speech earlier this month in Stockholm, Sweden, where he received the Right Livelihood Award, known as the alternative Nobel Prize.<br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/1/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, January 1, 2015</a> <ul><li><b>Matt Taibbi, award-winning journalist with Rolling Stone magazine & Alayne Fleischmann, JPMorgan Chase whistleblower</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/1/matt_taibbi_and_the_9_billion" target="_blank">Matt Taibbi and "The $9 Billion Witness" Who Exposed How JPMorgan Chase Helped Wreck the Economy</a> <br />
<li><b>MORE Matt Taibbi</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/2/russell_brand_on_revolution_fighting_inequality" target="_blank">Russell Brand on Revolution, Fighting Inequality, Addiction, Militarized Police & Noam Chomsky</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/2/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, January 2, 2015</a><ul><li><b>Julian Assange, founder and editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/2/exclusive_julian_assange_on_when_google" target="_blank">Exclusive: Julian Assange on "When Google Met WikiLeaks" While He was Under House Arrest</a> <br />
<li><b>Russell Brand, British comedian, actor, radio host, author and activist</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2015/1/1/who_goes_to_jail_matt_taibbi" target="_blank">Who Goes to Jail? Matt Taibbi on "The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap"</a> <br />
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</ul><p><img src="http://grittv.org/wp-content/themes/grit/images/logo.gif" height=100 alt="GRITtv" /> <a href="http://www.lauraflanders.com/grittv/" target="_blank">GRITtv</a> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">www.grittv.org</a> with Laura Flanders - New Episode Every Monday at TELESUR </br > »»» <b>VIDEO OF THE WEEK</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?video=freedom-dreaming-liberation-robin-d-g-kelley" target="_blank">Freedom Dreaming & Liberation: Robin D.G. Kelley </a> Is there a connection between Communists in Alabama during the great depression, jazz great Thelonious Monk, and Apartheid in Palestine? This week's guest, author and historian Robin D.G. Kelley has written about all three, and much more...... <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE SPORT!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></b></font></font> </br > »»» <b>NFL PLAYOFFS</b> CBS Bengals @ Colts 1:00 pm et; then FOX Lions @ Cowboys 4:40 pm et</br > »»» <b>WEDNESDAY NBA DOUBLEHEADER on ESPN</b> </br > Rockets @ CAVS 7:00 pm et THEN Suns @ Timberwolves 9:30 pm et »»» <b>THURSDAY NBA DOUBLEHEADER on TNT</b> </br > Rockets @ Knicks 8:00 pm et THEN Heat @ Trailblazers 10:30 pm et <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ACTION!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font></br > <font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i> <p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>! <p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <font color=red><b>ACTION! <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell the FCC: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> 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. </b> SIGN NOW at <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell Chairman Wheeler: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> at freepress.net NOW. </font> <p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW! <p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org <p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>! <p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information! <p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Chelsea Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/aclu-honors-chelsea-on-her-birthday" target="_blank">ACLU honors Chelsea on her birthday</a> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/featured/birthday-messages-to-chelsea-from-snowden-gilliam-more-public-icons" target="_blank">Birthday Messages to Chelsea from Snowden, Gilliam & more public icons</a> <i>Dec 16, 2014. Public icons send birthday greetings and support to prisoner of conscience Chelsea Manning, including: Edward Snowden, Terry Gilliam, Michael Stipe, Vivienne Westwood, Molly Crabapple, JM Coetzee, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Slavoj Žižek, Alan Moore, Joe Sacco, Lupe Fiasco, Peter Tatchell, Billy Martin, Saul Williams..........</i> <p><font size=3><b>DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION</b></font> <a href="http://tjmf.flipswap.com/" target="_blank">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. </a> For more information, go to <a href="http://www.tjmartellfoundation.org" target="_blank">www.tjmartellfoundation.org</a> <p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!! <p><center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br > <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick_teevee_test.jpg" alt="brick_teevee_test.jpg" /></br > The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br > THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br > Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,356 US Military Dead as of Jan. 1, 2015</a> </br > <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br > <font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><p>
<li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• The latest breaking details on the AirAsia Flight QZ 8501 disaster and recovery effort<br />
• incoming members of Congress already making waves, with Sen.-elect Ben Sasse, R-Neb., Sen.-elect Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Rep.-elect Mia Love, R-Utah.<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren, television and radio host Tavis Smiley, national political reporter for the Washington Post Robert Costa and CNN Contributor Margaret Hoover.<br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) <br />
• Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.)<br />
• Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich<br />
• Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.)<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: David Ignatius of the Washington Post, Gwen Ifill of PBS, Susan Page of USA Today, and Dan Balz of the Washington Post. <br />
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<li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• Sunday, Jan. 4 at 7 p.m. ET/PT<br />
• Ending America's Longest War - Deadline for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan may need to be "re-examined," says Ashraf Ghani in his first interview for U.S. television as president<br />
• Alive and Kickin' - Lesley Stahl reports on a new show in Harlem with a cast of singers ages 55 and up<br />
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<li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) <br />
• Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)<br />
• NBC Correspondent Richard Engel - permanent state of war<br />
• retired Gen. Daniel Bolger and Sarah Chayes<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Washington, DC's new mayor Muriel Bowser, Metropolitan Police Department Chief of Police Cathy Lanier, and Kaya Henderson, the Chancellor of DC Public Schools.<br />
• ROUNDTABLE II: Buzzfeed News' John Stanton, Yahoo's Matt Bai, New York Times' Helene Cooper and NBC News' Andrea Mitchell.<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union(CNN)</b> Dana Bash hosts Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET<br />
• Congressman Joseph Crowley and former NYPD Commissioner Bernard Kerik <br />
• Senate Foreign Relations Committee's top Democrat Robert Menendez. <br />
• Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell<br />
• Congressman Steve Israel <br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Congresswomen-elect Barbara Comstock and Debbie Dingell join Sen. Roger Wicker for a conversation about Congress in 2015<br />
• <a href="http://sotu.blogs.cnn.com/2014/12/21/candy-bids-cnn-farewell/" target="_blank">Candy bids CNN farewell</a><br />
• <a href="http://sotu.blogs.cnn.com/2014/12/21/a-salute-to-candy-crowley/" target="_blank">A salute to Candy Crowley</a><br />
• <a href="http://sotu.blogs.cnn.com/2014/12/21/candy-crowley-27-amazing-years-at-cnn/" target="_blank">Candy Crowley: 27 amazing years at CNN</a><br />
• <a href="http://sotu.blogs.cnn.com/2014/12/22/cnners-say-goodbye-as-candy-leaves-cnn-2/" target="_blank">CNNers say goodbye as Candy leaves CNN</a><br />
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• FRONT PORCH FRIDAY!! First show of 2015! Listen here NOW! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(02-01-2015).mp3" target="_blank">Friday, January 2nd, 2015 </a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.CRMW.net</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT</b> With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!<br />
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<b> The Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen:</b> 6 minutes of green news, politics, analysis & snarky comment! BOOKMARK <a href="http://greennews.bradblog.com/" target="_blank">greennews.bradblog.com</a> NOW!<br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10989" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - December 23, 2014</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: 2014 on track for hottest year on record; Washington state governor proposes a carbon cap and trade system; Plastic trash pollution in the oceans worse than previously known; PLUS: Innovative solar energy breakthrough out of Australia... All that and more in our last Green News Report of the year! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): EPA issues new rules for toxic coal ash waste; Measuring the true cost of coal; Insane impacts of factory farming; NDAA giveaways include increasing fracking on public lands; US power grid needs $2.1 trillion investment; Texas weakens chemical exposure guidelines; Most U.S. coastal cities to see 'nuisance flooding'; Autism again linked to air pollution exposure in pregnancy... PLUS: What Might Have Been - Al Gore on climate change in 1983... and much, MUCH more! ...<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10992" target="_blank">The 'Very Special BradCast Holiday Special' Returns</a> Join The 'BradCast' Radio Theatre Players for some of our favorite episodes from the 1930s & 40s in what is now, officially, a beloved annual holiday tradition for two years running!... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10944" target="_blank">Torture Was a War Crime After WWII and Still Is</a> Standards applied to the Japanese, who tortured the father of BRAD BLOG's Ernie Canning, help explain why the Bush Admin must still be prosecuted for war crimes...<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10990" target="_blank">Not Voting IS a Vote</a> Stop blaming those who didn't turn out. Americans did vote. By not turning out, they voted against the two major parties and against the system as a whole. It may have been a dumb vote, but it was a landslide... <br />
• BRADBLOG VIDEO! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10991" target="_blank">'A Terrible Idea': E-Voting, E-Counting, 'Open Source' and Internet Voting</a> Computerphile's Tom Scott understands and explains what too many -- even most opponents of 'e-voting' -- don't fully appreciate..<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10985" target="_blank">Bloomberg Editors Refuse to Correct Inaccurate, Misleading Photo ID Editorial</a> Read the 'mind-boggling' responses to BRAD BLOG's emailed explanation of blatant errors and inaccuracies in Francis Barry's op-ed..<br />
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<li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b><br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <br />
<ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• 19 Dec 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-gov-siegelman-will-not-be-home-for-the-holidays/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Gov. Siegelman Will Not Be Home for the Holidays</a> New judge denies release to former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, and Siegelman supporter provides details on Monday’s court hearing… <br />
• 22 Dec 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-former-nsa-technical-director-bill-binney-comments-on-sony-hack/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney Comments on Sony Hack</a> Binney says NSA finds vulnerabilities in corporate security, software, but doesn’t alert companies or consumers so it can exploit weaknesses… <br />
• 23 Dec 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-the-questions-corporate-media-never-ask-obama/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: The Questions Corporate Media Never Ask Obama</a> In our final 2014 News & Comment podcast, we list critical questions that weren’t asked at Obama’s last press conference…..<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast December 24, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/12/24/holiday-bonus-extended-interview-with-prof-richard-falk/" target="_blank">Holiday Bonus! Extended Interview with Prof. Richard Falk</a> No Subscription Required….Happy Holidays! Here is a truly in-depth conversation with Richard Falk, Princeton Professor Emeritus in international law, who served from 2008-2014 as UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine. An acknowledged expert on international law and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he shares his expertise and insight, and discusses his new book, <i>Palestine: The Legacy of Hope. </i><br />
• PBC Standard Podcast December 19, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/12/19/law-professor-marjorie-cohn-talks-about-obamas-expanded-use-of-armed-drones/" target="_blank">Law Professor Marjorie Cohn Talks About Obama’s Expanded Use of Armed Drones</a> Marjorie Cohn, San Diego law professor and past president of the National Lawyers Guild, talks about her new book, <i>Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues.</i><br />
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Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/ <b>hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder</b><br />
Ring of Fire Radio - GoLeft TV - Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, Sam Seder - Politics, Commentary, and News.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire </a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
»» Guests TBA<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weeks-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv-28/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire January 3, 2015</a> - Sundays at NOON! <br />
»» Former CIA attorney John Rizzo will be here to tell us about some of the most secretive activities of our federal government.<br />
»» Simon Lazarus from the Constitutional Accountability Center will discuss the legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act.<br />
»» And Ethan Rome from Health Care for America Now will tell us how trade deals like the TPP could effect American healthcare. <br />
»» Michael Burg explains how austerity measures are leading to an increase in the amount of government waste and corporate fraud.<br />
»» Howard Nations talks about the new way that insurance companies are trying to fleece consumers with higher fees.<br />
»» David Haynes will tell us why most vehicle recalls go unheeded by consumers, dealerships, and even the government.<br />
»» Joshua Holland, senior digital producer for BillMoyers.com, will tell us about the mental anguish that was caused by the Great Recession.<br />
»» Dr. Tom Schneider, author of A Physician’s Apology, talks about the rampant greed that has become a staple of the medical profession.<br />
»» Legendary trial lawyer Fred Levin is going to discuss his career, and the hurdles he overcame to be one of the most successful trial lawyers in America.<br />
»» Watch at <a href="http://www.freespeech.org/collection/ringoffire" target="_blank">FSTV</a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/a-short-primer-on-the-jeb-bush-sordid-family-history/" target="_blank">A Short Primer on the Jeb Bush Sordid Family History</a> by Guest Blogger<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/lets-start-drug-testing-corporate-ceos-our-real-welfare-queens/" target="_blank">Let’s Start Drug Testing Corporate CEOs, our Real “Welfare Queens”</a> by Joshua Schwitzerlett - Thom Hartmann took on the ridiculousness of this policy in this segment.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2015/01/papantonio-no-outrage-will-kill-democracy/" target="_blank">Papantonio: Lack of Outrage is Killing Democracy</a> by Gary Bentley<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/fcc-somehow-lost-hundreds-of-thousands-of-net-neutrality-comments/" target="_blank">FCC Somehow ‘Lost’ Hundreds of Thousands of Net Neutrality Comments</a> by Amy Eddings - ........Fight for the Future’s Jeff Lyons said “at lest 244,811 [comments] were missing” from the FCC’s data, and the Sunlight Foundation found that 95,000 comments released by the FCC were duplicates. “The Sunlight Foundation study concluded that anti-net neutrality comments dominated the dataset,” reported Gizmodo. “There was talk of a ‘shadowy’ Koch Brothers group that succeeded in driving half of the total number of comments, leading to the conclusion that some 60 percent of those who commented actually opposed net neutrality.” This statistic then fueled the political rhetoric that most Americans opposed net neutrality, a fact that simply wasn’t true......<br />
• Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the "Podcast" tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/blogengine/" target="_blank">Ring of Fire Radio</a> Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, <b>rebroadcasts 7-10 et Sunday evenings on <a href="http://www.chicagoprogressivetalk.com/listen/" target="_blank">Chicago's Progressive Talk WCPT AM & FM</a> and 4 pm et on Sirius/XM 167 featuring The PAP Attack! </b> "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week." <br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/122914-best-of-2014-david-j-blacker-the-falling-rate-of-learning-and-the-neoliberal-endgame" target="_blank">12/29/14 Best of 2014: David J. Blacker: The Falling Rate of Learning and the Neoliberal Endgame</a> <br />
• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/123014-best-of-2014-haley-sweetland-edwards-the-corporate-free-speech-racket" target="_blank">12/30/14 Best of 2014: Haley Sweetland Edwards: The Corporate “Free Speech” Racket</a><br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/122414-nick-hanauer-pay-higher-wages-now-david-dayen-how-wall-street-is-undermining-reform" target="_blank">12/31/14 Best of 2014: Professor Walter Block Defends Libertarianism</a><br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/123114-best-of-2014-professor-walter-block-defends-libertarianism" target="_blank">1/1/15 Best of 2014: William Lazonick: Profits Without Prosperity</a><br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/1215-best-of-2014-eddie-glaude-jr-ferguson-the-disease-of-white-supremacy" target="_blank">1/2/15 Best of 2014: Eddie Glaude Jr: Ferguson & the Disease of White Supremacy </a><br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts "The Truth About Markets" on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s "People & Power" series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of <a href="http://www.karmabanque.com/" target="_blank">KarmaBanque</a> a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. <br />
• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport" target="_blank">Keiser Report</a> <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/explosion-of-the-us-dollar-carry-trade-americans-utterly-clueless-about-whats-coming-in-2015/" target="_blank">Explosion of the US Dollar Carry Trade: Americans Utterly Clueless About What’s Coming in 2015</a> by The Doc — The 9 trillion dollar U.S. dollar carry trade is starting to unwind. <i> Oil’s collapse is predicated by one major event:the explosion of the US Dollar carry trade. Worldwide, there is over $9 TRILLION in borrowed US Dollars that has been ploughed into risk assets. Just about everything will be hit as well. Most of the “recovery” of the last five years has been fueled by cheap borrowed Dollars. Now that the US Dollar has broken out of a multi-year range, you’re going to see more and more “risk assets” (read: projects or investments fueled by borrowed Dollars) blow up. Oil is just the beginning, not a standalone story. If things really pick up steam, there’s over $9 TRILLION worth of potential explosions waiting in the wings. Imagine if the entire economies of both Germany and Japan exploded and you’ve got a decent idea of the size of the potential impact on the financial system. And that’s assuming NO increased leverage from derivative usage…</i> More <a href="http://www.silverdoctors.com/explosion-of-the-us-dollar-carry-trade-americans-utterly-clueless-about-whats-coming-in-2015/ " target="_blank">HERE</a>…<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/get-real-copper/" target="_blank">Get REAL . . . COPPER</a> by Stacy Herbert — Stacy Summary: Jan Skoyles discusses copper with Simon Hunt of Simon Hunt Strategic Services about the industrial metal known as ‘Dr. Copper’ for its ability to predict the economic forecast. Due to monopolies and various price fixing schemes, Mr. Hunt reckons that other metals are now better at forecasting the future. He also makes his own predictions for where the future price may take us in the copper market in 2015. Sponsored by: miningmaven.com<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/lars-schall-informed-911-terror-trading-takes-apart-jamesgrickards-claims-911-cia-trading-implicated/" target="_blank">Lars Schall “Informed 9/11 Terror Trading” Takes Apart @JamesGRickards Claims. 9/11 CIA Trading implicated.</a> by Stacy Herbert AND <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/informed-911-terror-trading-lars-schall-responds-to-jim-rickards-limited-hangout/" target="_blank">“Informed 9/11 Terror Trading” – Lars Schall Responds To Jim Rickards’ Limited Hangout</a> by Lars Schall — In a lecture that he gave in Copenhagen, Denmark, German financial journalist Lars Schall shows that the claim put forward by Wall Street player / bestselling author Jim Rickards that he has been “rigorous and scientific about the evidence” re 9/11 insider trading is merely a lousy joke.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/kr699-keiser-report-2014-year-of-bubbles/" target="_blank">[KR699] Keiser Report: 2014 Year of Bubbles</a> We are joined by Mitch Feierstein of PlanetPonzi.com for a look back on 2014 and forward to 2015. They talk oil, ruble, yen, restoring diplomatic relations with Cuba, the possible implosion of the Japanese bond market and about falling wages and falling Baltic Dry Index as globalization declines.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/kr700-keiser-report-big-kaputski-of-2015/" target="_blank">[KR700] Keiser Report: Big Kaputski of 2015</a> We celebrate the first day of 2015 with some regular guests who attempt to predict the big themes of the New Year. First, we talk to Dominic Frisby of Moneyweek.com about where it all might kick off this year – perhaps Japan? Next, Professor Steve Keen talks Minsky moments, debt deflation and the Bancor. Last, but not least, they speak to Liam Halligan of BNE.eu for his predictions on Europe, China, Russia and dividend yields in 2015.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2015/01/kr701-keiser-report-deglobalization-internet-2-0/" target="_blank">[KR701] Keiser Report: Deglobalization & Internet 2.0</a> We celebrate the second day of 2015 with some regular guests who attempt to predict the big themes of the new year. First up, we talk to Alasdair Macleod of GoldMoney.com about a printing press for wage earners and whether or not we are in a period of deglobalisation. Next they speak to Mark McGowan – aka ‘The Artist Taxi Driver’ about General Election 2015, which political party is not in the pocket of the corporations and whether or not the Met Police working with RBS on financial crime will lead to more or less in the new year. In the second half, they talk to Chris Powell of GATA.org about the CME’s letter to the CFTC exposing the fact that the central banks have ‘volume discounts’ for their trading accounts. And, finally, they talk to Reggie Middleton of BoomBustBlog.com and UltraCoin about the upcoming year as the one in which the blockchain technology is finally recognised as Internet 2.0 and whether or not IBM, and other share buybacking corporations like it, will just one day evaporate.<br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It’s been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show’s important milestones, as well as preview some of the exciting projects to look for in the near future. ........ The show on Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A., still called Antiwar Radio, has now moved to join their Sunday morning public affairs line up (8:30 am pt - http://kpfk.org), and remains the largest source of listeners, with 15,000-20,000 people tuning in weekly. The future: Liberty Express Radio is growing and bringing me along for the ride. The great Charles Goyette hooked me up with Alan Butler and the Liberty Express earlier this year, and what has been the daily replay there from 3-5 eastern time has become my best listened-to show. And now they’re adding my friend Tom Woods to the lineup from 2-3 PM. That does it. I’m making the switch! Starting Monday, October 14, the live show is moving to 3-5 PM Eastern time on LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/29/122914-vijay-prashad/" target="_blank">12/29/14 Vijay Prashad</a>: Vijay Prashad, a writer for al-Araby, discusses an overlooked footnote in the Senate report on CIA torture that describes <a href="http://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/76634358-ca10-46ff-a9ba-4b99570a6a09" target="_blank">how the US tried to justify torture</a> by citing an Israeli Supreme Court ruling on the subject.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/29/122914-gareth-porter/" target="_blank">12/29/14 Gareth Porter</a>: Gareth Porter, an award-winning journalist and historian, discusses the Obama administration’s delaying tactics on an Iranian nuclear deal, and why he is more pessimistic than ever about an agreement being reached.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/29/122914-eric-margolis/" target="_blank">12/29/14 Eric Margolis</a>: Eric Margolis, an internationally syndicated columnist and author of <i>American Raj</i>, discusses the never-ending war in Afghanistan; the fight against the Islamic State in Iraq; and Libya’s descent into another civil war.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/30/123014-will-grigg/" target="_blank">12/30/14 Will Grigg</a>: Will Grigg, blogger and author of <i>Liberty in Eclipse</i>, discusses the “tribal Leninism” that keeps Americans divided and prevents popular opposition to the unaccountable police state; and how to <a href="http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/12/without-qualified-immunity-would-cops.html" target="_blank">level the legal playing field</a> between public law enforcement and private security.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/30/123014-james-carden/" target="_blank">12/30/14 James Carden</a>: James Carden, a Contributing Editor for The National Interest, discusses his article “<a href="http://nationalinterest.org/feature/dangerous-escalation-us-backs-putin-corner-11914" target="_blank">Dangerous Escalation: US Backs Putin Into a Corner</a>;” and how the ultra-confrontational neoconservative foreign policy agenda makes Henry Kissinger sound like the voice of moderation.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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• Sen John Thune (R-SD)<br />
• two freshman members of the House of Representatives. Rep-Elect Martha McSally (R-AZ) and Rep-Elect Lee Zeldin (R-NY)<br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>Holiday Musings</b> HO HO HO! Happy Holidays to all! Although Christmas has passed many are still celebrating the holidays mostly the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_days_of_Christmas" target="_blank">Twelve Days of Christmas</a>. Wiki explains, "In England in the Middle Ages, this period was one of continuous feasting and merrymaking, which climaxed on Twelfth Night, the traditional end of the Christmas season. In Tudor England, Twelfth Night itself was forever solidified in popular culture when William Shakespeare used it as the setting for one of his most famous stage plays, titled Twelfth Night. Often a Lord of Misrule was chosen to lead the Christmas revels.[18] Some of these traditions were adapted from the older pagan customs, including the Roman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia" target="_blank">Saturnalia</a> and the Germanic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuletide" target="_blank">Yuletide</a>.[19] " IN FACT The Brick TeeVee Crew has been loading up on "feasting and merrymaking" all week! We hope and trust your holiday merrymaking has been fun too!<br />
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Washington's Blog tells us the story of <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/12/real-santa-claus.html" target="_blank">The REAL Santa Claus</a> <font color=OliveDrab>Saint Nicholas was a <a href="http://www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas" target="_blank">real, historical person</a>. But he didn’t live in some snowy Northern place like the North Pole or Scandinavia. And he probably wasn’t fair-skinned with ruddy cheeks. He lived in the town of Myra – on the Southern Coast of Turkey – in the fourth century (it was then part of Greece). So he likely had an olive-colored, Mediterranean complexion. And he didn’t ride a magic sleigh driven by flying reindeer, have a workshop full of elves, squeeze through chimneys with belly-defying dimensions, or maintain a naughty-or-nice list rivaling the NSA. The real St. Nick came from a wealthy family, and his parents died in an epidemic when he was young. Nick used his large inheritance to help the poor. For example, poor young girls were likely to be sold into slavery because they didn’t have a dowry with which to attract a husband. So on 3 occasions, Nicholas threw a bag of gold into a poor girl’s house through an open window … enough to provide a dowry so the girl could get married. The bags of gold are said to have landed in stockings or shoes left in front of the fire to dry. This led to the custom of kids hanging stockings or putting out shoes, hoping for gifts from Saint Nick. ..........</font> And we peel back to 2005 and Michelle Goldberg st Salon.com <a href="hhttp://www.salon.com/2005/11/21/christmas_6/" target="_blank">How the secular humanist grinch didn’t steal Christmas </a> <font color=maroon>IN 1959, the recently formed John Birch Society issued an urgent alert: Christmas was under attack. In a JBS pamphlet titled “There Goes Christmas?!” a writer named Hubert Kregeloh warned, “One of the techniques now being applied by the Reds to weaken the pillar of religion in our country is the drive to take Christ out of Christmas — to denude the event of its religious meaning.” The central front in this perfidious assault was American department stores, where the “Godless UN” was scheming to replace religious decorations with internationalist celebrations of universal brotherhood. ........... At the time, the campaign to save Christmas was not widely treated as a matter of great national import. The John Birch Society was generally regarded as a crank, far-right outfit whose paranoid conspiracy theories (it believed fluoridated water was part of an evil communist plot to poison America’s brains) put it outside the pale of reasonable discourse. Staffers on the ultra-right 1964 Barry Goldwater campaign tried to prevent Birchers from volunteering because they carried the taint of extremism. The John Birch Society didn’t have access to a major television network. But a lot has changed since then. ..........</font> READ ON! And we go back to 2008's Alex Altman at TIME.com for <a href="http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1868542,00.html" target="_blank">A Brief History Of The War on Christmas</a> <font color=Brown>Certainly the number of revelers who share those sentiments is greater than you think: in a 2006 Chicago Tribune poll, 68% of respondents affirmed their belief in a War on Christmas. But while Gibson and FOX colleague Bill O'Reilly have taken the fight against these left-wing Grinches mainstream, theirs is only the latest skirmish in a battle that's been going on for hundreds of years. The front lines of the War on Christmas were originally manned by none other than the Puritans — and not on the side many conservative news anchors might think. Objecting to the yuletide festivities on the grounds that they didn't square with the Bible's teachings, in 1659 the founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony banned the holiday; it wasn't reinstated until 1681. For a war often blamed on secular terrorists, these are some pious roots. Since then, the perpetrators of the struggle against Santa have taken on many forms; just about every major bugbear on the radical left has at one point or another been blamed. In the beginning, of course, there were the Jews. "The whole record of the Jewish opposition to Christmas...shows the venom and directness of [their] attack," wrote automaker and notorious anti-Semite Henry Ford in 1921, citing efforts around the country to silence Christmas carolers and suppress demonstrations of religion in schools. By the 1950s, blame had shifted to the Communists. "One of the techniques now being applied by the Reds to weaken the pillar of religion in our country is the drive to take Christ out of Christmas," screamed a 1959 pamphlet (the overpunctuated title: "There Goes Christmas?!") issued by the newly-formed John Birch Society. The society also assailed United Nations "fanatics" who were trying to "poison the 1959 Christmas season with their high-pressure propaganda." Before it became part of mainstream conservative punditry, the leading proponent of the War on Christmas was a former magazine writer and editor named Peter Brimelow. .........</font> HAHA! While we constantly hear the bray from media CONservatives "Put Christ back in Christmas" we DID hear one local college deejay Jumpin' Joe Madigan (das buuk <a href="https://www.facebook.com/retroradiostation" target="_blank">Retro Radio WJCU 88.7</a>) propose "putting The Christ back in CHRISTIANS"! WHAT A NOVEL IDEA! IMAGINE the so-called (most-times self-proclaimed) "Christian Conservatives" TODAY on the media fighting for things like helping the poor or throwing out the "moneychangers"! The ENTIRE Fake Snooze EDIFICE would collapse of their own hubris and hippocracy! Well we CAN Imagine (aka notgonnahappen).<br />
We go to the UK's Daily Mail for the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-2887795/Tsunami-memories-recalled-10th-anniversary.html" target="_blank">10th anniversary of tsunami is marked with tears</a> <font color=blue>PERELIYA, Sri Lanka (AP) — A packed train in Sri Lanka that was swept off the tracks by waves as big as elephants. A boat patrolling off Thailand's shore hurled more than a mile inland. Streets in Indonesia turned into roaring rivers that carried people to their deaths. Vivid and terrifying memories such as these were recalled Friday at ceremonies marking the 10th anniversary of the Indian Ocean tsunami that left nearly a quarter-million people dead in one of modern history's worst natural disasters. The Dec. 26, 2004 tsunami was triggered by a magnitude-9.1 earthquake — the region's most powerful in 40 years — that tore open the seabed off Indonesia's Sumatran coast, displacing billions of tons of water and sending waves roaring across the Indian Ocean at jetliner speeds as far away as East Africa. Weeping survivors and others took part in beachside memorials and religious services across Asia, while some European countries also marked the anniversary, remembering the thousands of Christmastime tourists who died in the disaster. Pain and hope alike were harvested from the tragedy.</font> Lots more with some stunning pictures! And France24.com has this video report <a href="http://www.france24.com/en/20141226-indonesia-begins-tsunami-memorials/" target="_blank">World marks 10 years since devastating Asian tsunami</a> <font color=SeaGreen>.......... Tsunami-hit nations began commemorating the 220,000 people who perished on December 26, 2004, after a 9.3-magnitude earthquake off Indonesia's western tip generated a series of massive waves that devastated coastlines from Indonesia, Thailand and Sri Lanka to Somalia. Among the victims were thousands of foreign tourists enjoying the region's warm temperatures over Christmas, bringing the tragedy home to citizens around the world. The Indonesian national anthem opened an official memorial at a 20-acre park in Indonesia's Banda Aceh -- the main city of the province closest to the epicentre of the massive quake and which bore the brunt of waves towering up to 35 metres (115 feet) high.</font> From Bill Nicol's Blog we find <a href="http://www.blog.nicolnotes.com/tsunami-10th-anniversary/" target="_blank">Tsunami 10th Anniversary</a> <font color=darkblue>Almost 10 years since the 2004 tsunami. Time for the commemoration. There’ll be lots of comments. Some will be good, some bad, some self-serving rot. The big agencies will no doubt do a superb job of chest beating. I just saw an early feed from a conference organised by the World Bank. Unsurprisingly, it was a stacked panel — all from the Bank. But at least they chose the best including Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Andrew Steer and Joel Hellman. But they are of the institution so my expectations are not high. I noted, for instance, a reference to the $700m pumped into Aceh and Nias through the Multi Donor Fund (MDF) with the Bank essentially claiming credit by association even though it “only” put in $25m and made the fastest grab for money for its own programs. But that’s okay. It was quick off the mark. And, after all, the Bank did administer the MDF and did it well, at least in the early stages. Later, the MDF became a rule-bound sludge that ground into unresponsiveness, as did the Bank. The Bank’s people could not see this and whitewashed the mess they created as the institution degenerated from best friend of the Indonesian Government recovery agency, BRR, to just another of its many obdurate enemies. The problem? Andrew Steer’s fabulous early leadership was replaced by the technocratic purity of bunch of bureaucrats who could not think beyond the limits of their own culture. I could see this coming and tried to warn the people involved but none would listen. It was the most appalling level of ignorance from a bunch of people who could and should have known better. But, for a writer like myself, it just added to the great story I recorded in my book “Tsunami Chronicles: Adventures in Disaster Management”. It will give you more balance and more facts about the Aceh reconstruction program than anything you’re likely to find elsewhere. More on this in a later post.</font> Read Bill's book <a href="http://www.alibris.com/Tsunami-Chronicles-Adventures-in-Disaster-Management-Bill-Nicol/book/24729029?matches=6" target="_blank">Tsunami Chronicles: Adventures in Disaster Management </a> for more details on the Disaster Capitalism that began ten years ago. NEXT Prof Michel Chossudovsky at GlobalResearch.ca asks <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/indian-ocean-tsunami-why-did-the-information-not-get-out/207" target="_blank">Ten Years Ago: December 26, 2004: Indian Ocean Tsunami. Why did the Information Not Get Out? Was There a Hidden Agenda?</a> <i>This article was first published in February 2005. The tsunami warning system was also examined by the author in two texts published in the immediate wake of the December 26, 2004 tsunami. ......... The text below examines the broader seismic network as well as the system of satellite imagery, which provides data in near real time.</i> Click over for the real-time map showing the tsunami's progress! WOW! IN A RELATED STORY to the tsunami of ten years ago and the CANCER that is GLOBAL Author and investigative reporter David Cay Johnston says it's <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/12/trade-agreementstranspacificpartnershipeconomicssecrecy.html" target="_blank">Full speed ahead on secretive trade deal</a> at aljazeera.com <font color=Brown>Early next year, after the 114th Congress begins meeting, a new Washington coalition will move quickly to approve the <b>Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a 12-nation trade agreement that will destroy American jobs, restrict individual liberty and burden American taxpayers. Oh, and it will do so without any real debate.</b> The coalition pushing approval consists of multinational corporations eager to escape the rigors of competition, Republican lawmakers who talk free markets but act as enemies of competition and President Barack Obama, as loyal a friend as Wall Street and multinational corporations have ever had in the White House. The broad strokes of the proposed agreement show it is not about lowering the few remaining tariffs and trade barriers, with a few exceptions such as easing Japanese protections for domestic farmers so cheap California rice can be sold in Tokyo. At least the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative does not call it a free trade agreement, because it is anything but. <b>Rather, it is a trade-restriction agreement that protects monopolists, large corporations and various state-owned enterprises from the rigors of competition while diminishing worker rights and gutting environmental rules and food safety inspections. The agreement would even let foreign companies seek damages if U.S. or state rules threaten their profits.</b> Plaintiff companies would not have to sustain damages to collect damages from American taxpayers. They would only need to show a threat to their profits, leaks from the trade talks have revealed. .............. A draft of just one TPP chapter, labeled QQ, has <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2013/12/jobs-employment-freetradeagreementstpp.html" target="_blank">become public</a>. WikiLeaks posted the 30,000-word document, covering intellectual property rights such as drug patents and movies, which you can read <a href="http://wikileaks.org/tpp" target="_blank">here</a>. Secrecy, complexity and finely detailed rules are the tools of exploiters who can and will use them to crush competition and protect their privileges, undermining the benefits of competitive markets, just as Adam Smith warns us in “The Wealth of Nations”: <i>People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.</i> ............. <b>Obama wants Congress to fast-track the agreement</b>, which would mean perfunctory congressional hearings followed by an up-or-down vote within 90 days, no amendments allowed. That congressional Republicans favor fast-tracking has an “Alice in Wonderland” quality, given GOP attacks on his supposed dictatorial use of executive orders. ..........<b>Secrecy and fast track are not how democracy is supposed to work. They are also a glaring contradiction of candidate Obama’s transparency promises in 2008.</b> The whole idea of self-governance is that we will hear out every side and come to decisions after reasoned — and even unreasoned — debate. It’s messy and slow and does not always produce the optimal results, but sunshine is also the best antidote to dictatorial rule and abuse of power. If you have hardly heard of the proposed TPP or its European twin, the proposed Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, and have little to no idea of just what it is about, that is no surprise. Only a handful of us have written about the agreement, mostly to a collective shrug from the public. That disinterest is understandable because when all the major news organizations fail to follow a story, people reasonably assume it must not be important. But these trade deals are critically important. ............ The real reasons trade talks get little attention are that officials refuse to say anything of substance on the record that understanding trade economics, treaty law and related issues requires a lot of time. Sadly, most journalists rely on what official sources say rather than their own reporting. <b>The TPP is not totally secret. If you represent any of about 500 big U.S. companies involved in negotiating its terms, you are in the know</b>. The tiny, elite universe of trade lawyers enjoys not just insider power but big money from client fees. .............</font> YOIKES! OUR BEST HOPE after <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2014-12-21/the-113th-congress-was-the-second-least-productive-in-history?hootPostID=e95b737d83a753f26ebb118976019ac7" target="_blank">The 113th Congress Was the Second Least Productive in History</a> is that the <a href="http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/press-releases/cpc-cochairs-oppose-fast-track-process-for-tpp-urge-more-congressional-input/" target="_blank">Progressive Caucus</a> wins over enough tea-bag-ronpaul-stopusintervension-antiwar-libertarian-peace types in AN HISTORIC LEFT-CENTER-RIGHT MOVEMENT to <a href="http://www.stopfasttrack.com/" target="_blank">Congress: Don't betray democracy! No "Fast Track" for the TPP</a> <font color=purple>Congress is pushing legislation right now that would "Fast Track" the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- a secretive agreement negotiated behind closed doors by government bureaucrats and more than 600 corporate lobbyists. It threatens everything you care about: democracy, jobs, the environment, and the Internet. Enter your phone number below. You'll get a call from us and we'll connect you to your reps. Can't call? <a href="http://cms.fightforthefuture.org/stopfasttrack-email" target="_blank">Send an email</a>. These organizations oppose Fast Track. Here's why, in their own words.<br />
<ul><li><a href="http://www.stopfasttrack.com/#fftf" target="_blank">Fight For The Future</a><br />
<li><a href="http://www.stopfasttrack.com/#cwa" target="_blank">CWA Communications Workers of America</a><br />
<li><a href="http://www.stopfasttrack.com/#aclu" target="_blank">American Civil Liberties Union</a><br />
<li><a href="http://www.stopfasttrack.com/#reddit" target="_blank">REDDIT</a><br />
</ul></font> Many more organizations OPPOsE TPP so go there NOW! TAKE ACTION! And tell yer peeps! ALSO See last year's Electronic Frontier Foundation's <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/public-interest-coalition-letter-no-fast-track-authority-trans-pacific-partnership" target="_blank">Public Interest Coalition Opposes Fast-Track Authority for the Trans-Pacific Partnership</a>. Your Number One Resource for All Things TPP is Public<a href="http://www.citizen.org/TPP" target="_blank">Citizen.org Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Job Loss, Lower Wages and Higher Drug Prices</a>
TruthDig.com's A/V booth features <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/chris_hedges_and_bullock_charity_and_revolution_at_christmastime_20141227" target="_blank">Chris Hedges and Rev. David Bullock: Christmas Charity and Revolution</a> <font color=darkblue>In a special Christmas episode of The Real News Network’s “Reality Asserts Itself,” Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges and Detroit’s Rev. David Bullock discuss capitalism’s perversion of charity and the season’s potential to breath social justice back into national life.</font> Also at TruthDig.com David Sirota explains <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_states_are_redistributing_the_wealth_20141226" target="_blank">How States Are Redistributing the Wealth</a> <font color=FireBrick>Brownback’s proposal: Slash the state’s required pension contribution by $40 million to balance the state budget, even though Kansas already has one of the worst-funded pension systems in the nation. ............... In New Jersey, Christie slashed required pension payments while signing legislation expanding tax credits to corporations, and doling out a record amount of taxpayer subsidies to businesses. ................. Illinois followed a somewhat similar path. For years, lawmakers did not make the full actuarially required pension payments, causing severe funding shortages in the state’s pension system. While lawmakers said there was little money to meet pension obligations, Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn signed a corporate tax cut in 2011 that is projected to cost the state more than $370 million a year in lost revenue. Two years after signing that bill, as pension funding gaps swelled, Quinn signed legislation slashing public employees’ retirement benefits. An Illinois judge last month ruled that the legislation violated the state’s constitution, though the ruling is being appealed. The obvious question raised by these episodes is: Where is the outrage? To date, these attempts to use workers’ money to finance massive giveaways to the rich have generated little media coverage or political opposition—and certainly less than the full-fledged frenzy that took place when Obama made his “spread the wealth” comment a few years ago. The tepid response to this kind of wealth transfer suggests that for all the angry rhetoric about redistribution you might hear on talk radio, cable TV and in the halls of Congress, the political and media class is perfectly fine with redistribution—as long as the cash flows from the 99 percent to the 1 percent, and not the other way around.</font>
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The Intercept <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/26/nsa-releases-report-internal-abuses-christmas-eve/" target="_blank">NSA Drops Christmas Eve Surprise</a>
By Murtaza Hussain <font color=indigo>The National Security Agency on Christmas Eve day released twelve years of <a href="https://www.nsa.gov/public_info/declass/IntelligenceOversightBoard.shtml" target="_blank">internal oversight reports</a> documenting abusive and improper practices by agency employees. The heavily redacted reports to the President’s Intelligence Oversight Board found that NSA employees repeatedly engaged in unauthorized surveillance of communications by American citizens, failed to follow legal guidelines regarding the retention of private information, and shared data with unauthorized recipients. While the NSA has come under public pressure for openness since high-profile revelations by whistleblower Edward Snowden, the release of the heavily redacted internal reports at 1:30PM on Christmas Eve demonstrates limits to the agency’s attempts to demonstrate transparency. Releasing bad news right before a holiday weekend, often called a “Christmas Eve surprise,” is a common tactic for trying to minimize press coverage. The reports, released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the American Civil Liberties Union, offer few revelations, but contain accounts of internal behavior embarrassing to the agency. In one instance an NSA employee “searched her spouse’s personal telephone directory without his knowledge to obtain names and telephone numbers for targeting”, a practice which <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/24/loveint-when-nsa-officers-use-their-spying-power-on-love-interests" target="_blank">previous reports</a> have indicated was common enough to warrant the name “LOVEINT”.</font>
<P>Staff writer Nadia Prupis at CommonDreams.org reports <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/news/2014/12/23/citizenfour-producers-sued-aiding-edward-snowden" target="_blank">Citizenfour Producers Sued for 'Aiding' Edward Snowden</a> <font color=DarkMagenta>A retired naval officer and former government secretary is suing the producers of Citizenfour, the documentary chronicling NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden's classified document release in 2013, for "profiteering" from the "theft and misuse" of government files. The officer and former secretary of the Kansas Department of Transportation, Horace Edwards, <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr-esq/citizenfour-producers-sued-edward-snowden-759839" target="_blank">said</a> he was filing the suit "on behalf of the American public." .......... Snowden's document leak revealed widespread, illegal global spying programs conducted by the U.S. and U.K. governments, among other regimes, which targeted both foreign diplomats and those countries' own citizens for surveillance. The files also identified numerous telecommunications companies as participating in the operations, handing over private customer data and metadata to government agents, even without warrants. Snowden's supporters call him a hero; his detractors call him a traitor. Edwards, who filed the suit Monday at the Kansas federal court, is one such critic. According to the lawsuit, Edwards believes that the revelations—many of which are still being newly published—caused "irreparable damage to the safety of the American people." His suit aims to prevent "dangerous disruption of foreign affairs due to irresponsible conduct of disloyal government operatives and entertainment industry collaborators".<b>Among those named in the suit is investigative journalist and filmmaker Laura Poitras, who won a Pulitzer Prize for her work highlighting the leak and also directed and is one of the producers of Citizenfour—a first-person account of the meeting and collaboration in Hong Kong between Poitras, Snowden, and journalists Glenn Greenwald and Ewan MacAskill.</b> "This lawsuit seeks relief against those who profiteer by pretending to be journalists and whistleblowers but in effect are evading the law and betraying their country," Edwards writes in his suit. He also charges Poitras with "hiding [Snowden] in her hotel room while he changes into light disguise, accepting all of the purloined information to use for her personal benefit financially and professionally, filming Defendant Snowden’s meeting with a lawyer in Hong Kong as he tries to seek asylum." ......</font> and video too! WOW!
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At ClimateProgress Emily Atkin reports <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/24/3606821/new-yorkers-dont-like-fracking/" target="_blank">New Yorkers Strongly Approve Of State’s New Ban On Fracking</a> <font color=blue>New York Governor Andrew Cuomo’s <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/17/3604762/breaking-new-york-will-pursue-fracking-ban/" target="_blank">recent decision</a> to ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, in the state is receiving widespread support from the people who live there, according to a <a href="http://www.quinnipiac.edu/news-and-events/quinnipiac-university-poll/new-york-state/release-detail?ReleaseID=2121" target="_blank">new poll</a>. The Quinnipiac University poll released Monday found that 55 percent of New Yorkers across the state support Cuomo’s decision on fracking, while 25 percent oppose it and the remainder are undecided. In upstate New York, where fracking likely would have taken place, 56 percent of respondents approved of the ban while 30 percent opposed it. Republicans approved of the ban 42 to 40 percent, Democrats approved 67 to 11 percent, and people who live in New York City supported the ban 56 to 19 percent. Overall, no political party, gender, age, or regional group disapproved of Cuomo’s decision. “It’s a clean sweep, but not a big sweep, for Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s decision to ban fracking in New York State,” Quinnipiac University Poll assistant director Maurice Carroll said in a statement, noting that Cuomo’s overall approval rating did not much improve despite the good numbers of fracking. ..............</font>
AT the ThinkProgress.com Health Desk Tara Culp-Ressler tells us a <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">Federal Court Unanimously Calls North Carolina Anti-Abortion Law A Violation Of The First Amendment</a> <font color=purple>IN a unanimous decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has permanently blocked a 2011 law in North Carolina that represented one of the <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/10/31/3587288/north-carolina-condescending-ultrasound/" target="_blank">harshest forced ultrasound measures</a> in the country. The judges agreed that the measure is a violation of the First Amendment. The law, which was <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/01/21/3184341/north-carolina-ultrasound-strikes/" target="_blank">struck down by a district court</a> at the beginning of this year, forced doctors to provide their patients with detailed descriptions of ultrasounds immediately before proceeding with an abortion. Even if the patient attempted to avoid that information by closing her eyes and covering her ears, the law <a href="http://www.webcitation.org/66g6CbOrS" target="_blank">stipulated</a> that physicians should continue speaking. .............. In Monday’s opinion, the Fourth Circuit concluded that “the state cannot commandeer the doctor-patient relationship to compel a physician to express its preference to the patient.” ........... Aside from preserving this aspect of the doctor-patient relationship, the recent ruling also prevents North Carolina women from being subject to a law that suggests they’re incapable of making their own decisions about a pregnancy.</font>
And Joe Romm at Climate Progress says <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/12/24/3606755/irreversible-not-unstoppable-climate-change-yet-to-come/" target="_blank">Irreversible But Not Unstoppable: The Ghost Of Climate Change Yet To Come</a> <font color=indigo>Unlike Scrooge, we don’t get a spirit to show us what the future holds if we don’t change our ways. That’s what we have science for. ................. The question of whether it’s “too late,” doesn’t have one purely scientific answer. It does seem clear that the most dangerous carbon-cycle feedback — the defrosting permafrost — hasn’t kicked in yet but likely will within two decades, adding <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/10/06/970721/carbon-feedback-from-thawing-permafrost-will-add-04f-15f-to-total-global-warming-by-2100/feed/" target="_blank">0.4°F – 1.5°F</a> to total global warming by 2100. On the other hand, part of the West Antarctic ice sheet now does appear close to if not past the point of <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/13/3437033/coastal-cities-abandoned/" target="_blank">irreversible collapse</a>. That said, the worst case of sea level rise can still be avoided, as can many other of the most serious impacts. <b>If humanity gets truly serious about emissions reduction — and by serious I mean “World War II serious” in both scale and urgency — we could go to near-zero global emissions in, say, two decades and then quickly go carbon negative. It wouldn’t be easy, <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2011/01/10/207320/the-full-global-warming-solution-how-the-world-can-stabilize-at-350-to-450-ppm/" target="_blank">far from it</a> in fact. But it would be vastly cheaper and preferable to the alternative.</b> A few years ago, scientists found the “net present value of climate change impacts” to be an astronomical <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2009/09/08/204561/climate-change-adaptation-impacts-iied/" target="_blank">$1240 trillion</a> on our current emissions path, making mitigation to under 450 ppm a must. Delay is very risky and very, very expensive. As the <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/11/09/364895/iea-global-warming-delaying-action-is-a-false-economy/" target="_blank">International Energy Agency</a> has explained, “on planned policies, rising fossil energy use will lead to irreversible and potentially catastrophic climate change.” “Delaying action is a false economy: for every $1 of investment in cleaner technology that is avoided in the power sector before 2020, an additional $4.30 would need to be spent after 2020 to compensate for the increased emissions.” Action now will save <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/05/14/3437715/climate-action-delayed-is-climate-action-denied/" target="_blank">trillions and trillions of dollars</a>. .................... Indeed, we are only committed to under 2°C total warming so far, which may be manageable — especially if we did keep CO2 concentrations from peaking below 450 ppm, the small amount of CO2 we are likely to be able to remove from the atmosphere this century could well take us below the danger zone. But if we don’t reverse emissions trends far faster than currently envisioned, we will certainly double and probably triple that temperature rise, most likely negating any practical strategy to undo the impacts for hundreds of years:
<ul><li><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/11/10/2908741/national-geographic-melt-earth-ice/" target="_blank">National Geographic Maps Our Coastline</a> After We Melt All Earth’s Ice, Raising Seas Over 200 Feet<br />
<li><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/06/02/234291/romm/2011/01/13/207334/science-kiehl-ncar-paleoclimate-lessons-from-earths-hot-past/" target="_blank">Science stunner</a> — On our current emissions path, CO2 levels in 2100 will hit levels last seen when the Earth was 29°F (16°C) hotter.</ul>Such is the climate change yet to come.</font>
Margaret Sarfehjooy and Coleen Rowley explain <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/perception-management-selling-peace-groups-on-us-led-wars/5421646" target="_blank">“Perception Management”: Selling ‘Peace Groups’ on US-Led Wars</a> at GlobalResearch.ca <font color=DarkMagenta>“War is peace” double-speak has become commonplace these days. And, the more astute foreign policy journalists and commentators are beginning to realize the extent of how “liberal interventionists” work in sync with neocon warhawks to produce and sustain a perpetual state of U.S. war. More and more “peace and social justice” groups are even being twisted into “democracy promotion,” U.S. militarism style. But rarely do we get a window to see as clearly into how this Orwellian transformation occurs as with the “Committee in Solidarity with the People of Syria” (CISPOS) based in Minnesota’s Twin Cities, a spin-off of “Friends for a Nonviolent World” (FNVW), steering its Quaker-inspired founding in nonviolence to promote speakers and essayists with strong ties to the violent uprising to topple the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad, resulting in a war that has already taken some 200,000 lives. Do the real pacifist members approve? Or even know? ................... With all of the information about Syria, what are we to believe as true? We know the facts about recent U.S. interventions in Middle Eastern countries. Why would Syria be any different? Afghanistan is still in shambles with the majority of the people living in extreme poverty; Libya, which had the highest GDP per capita and life expectancy on the continent, is now a failed state; Western intervention transformed Iraq from an emerging country with moderate prosperity into an impoverished country with a starving population. In the lead-up to each intervention, “experts” emerged to explain that while anti-imperialism is good in general and in past scenarios, this time is different. Is it? Isn’t it time for war-weary Americans to wise up and stop falling for these pretexts of bringing democracy and human rights to foreign countries through training and funding of “color (and umbrella) revolutions,” inciting of coups and regime changes and eventually, through U.S.-NATO military might? Liberal interventionists clearly assist neocon warhawks towards their mutual goal of “full spectrum dominance” under the euphemistic guise of Pax Americana. Only the “Pax” always turns out to be endless war and occupation.</font></br >
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<li><b>Christine Hong, assistant professor at University of California at Santa Cruz & Tim Shorrock, investigative journalist</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/22/the_interview_pokes_fun_at_north" target="_blank">"The Interview" Belittles North Korea, But is Film’s Backstory and U.S. Policy the Real Farce?</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/23/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, December 23, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Nathaniel Raymond, research ethics adviser for Physicians for Human Rights</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/23/weaponizing_health_workers_how_medical_professionals" target="_blank">Weaponizing Health Workers: How Medical Professionals Were a Top Instrument in U.S. Torture Program</a> <br />
<li><b>Lawrence Wilkerson, served as chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell from 2002 to 2005</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/23/ex_bush_official_us_tortured_prisoners" target="_blank">Ex-Bush Official: U.S. Tortured Prisoners to Produce False Intel that Built Case for Iraq War</a> <br />
<li><b>More Lawrence Wilkerson</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/23/bush_cheney_should_be_charged_with" target="_blank">Bush & Cheney Should Be Charged with War Crimes Says Col. Wilkerson, Former Aide to Colin Powell</a> <br />
<li><b>Humberto Brown, former Panamanian diplomat, Greg Grandin, professor of Latin American history at New York University & Wilkerson </b> <a aref="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/23/the_war_to_start_all_wars" target="_blank">"The War to Start All Wars": Did U.S. Invasion of Panama 25 Years Ago Set Stage for Future Wars?</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/24/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, December 24, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Mandela Barnes, Wisconsin Democratic state representative in Milwaukee</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/24/ferguson_nyc_milwaukee_protests_erupt_as" target="_blank">Ferguson, NYC, Milwaukee: Protests Erupt as Officer Cleared in Killing of Unarmed Dontre Hamilton</a> <br />
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<li><b>Martin Garbus, attorney and member of the Cuban Five legal team</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/24/diplomaculate_conception_us_helped_jailed_cuban" target="_blank">"Diplomaculate Conception": U.S. Helped Jailed Cuban Five Member Artificially Inseminate His Wife</a> <br />
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<li><b>"Cuban 5" René González</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/25/rene_gonzalez_first_freed_member_of" target="_blank">René González, First Freed Member of Cuban 5, Speaks Out from Havana</a> We rebroadcast a 2013 interview with the first freed member of the Cuban Five, René González. <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/26/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, December 26, 2014</a><ul><li><b>Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/26/mike_gravel_to_senator_mark_udall" target="_blank">Mike Gravel to Senator Mark Udall: Make Full Torture Probe Public Like I Did with Pentagon Papers</a> <br />
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<font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i>
<p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>!
<p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <font color=red><b>ACTION! <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell the FCC: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> 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. </b> SIGN NOW at <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell Chairman Wheeler: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> at freepress.net NOW. </font>
<p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW!
<p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org
<p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>!
<p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information!
<p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Chelsea Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/aclu-honors-chelsea-on-her-birthday" target="_blank">ACLU honors Chelsea on her birthday</a> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/featured/birthday-messages-to-chelsea-from-snowden-gilliam-more-public-icons" target="_blank">Birthday Messages to Chelsea from Snowden, Gilliam & more public icons</a> <i>Dec 16, 2014. Public icons send birthday greetings and support to prisoner of conscience Chelsea Manning, including: Edward Snowden, Terry Gilliam, Michael Stipe, Vivienne Westwood, Molly Crabapple, JM Coetzee, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Slavoj Žižek, Alan Moore, Joe Sacco, Lupe Fiasco, Peter Tatchell, Billy Martin, Saul Williams..........</i>
<p><font size=3><b>DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION</b></font> <a href="http://tjmf.flipswap.com/" target="_blank">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. </a> For more information, go to <a href="http://www.tjmartellfoundation.org" target="_blank">www.tjmartellfoundation.org</a>
<p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!! <p><center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br >
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The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br >
THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br >
Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</br >
<a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br >
<a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,356 US Military Dead as of Dec 19, 2014</a> </br >
<a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br >
<font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br >
<font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br >
<font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br >
<font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><p>
<li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• 2014 Game Changers<br />
• Special edition of “This Week with George Stephanopoulos.”<br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton <br />
• former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani <br />
• Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)<br />
• Ebola czar Ron Klain<br />
• Author Laura Hillenbrand, whose epic biography of war hero Louis Zamperini is portrayed in the film "Unbroken." <br />
• ROUNDTABLE: David Rohde of Reuters and Robin Wright of the U.S. Institute of Peace.<br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• Sunday, Dec. 21 at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT<br />
• Preview: Sen. Tom Coburn - Republican Sen. Tom Coburn says he's proud of the U.S. for electing Barack Obama president<br />
• Preview: Reese Witherspoon - Award-winning actress talks about some tough years and reading she was "washed up" in The New Yorker before she made her comeback<br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• New York Police Commissioner William Bratton<br />
• THE STATE OF SATIRE: politics and comedy with Lewis Black, W. Kamau Bell, and Laura Krafft<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post, Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report, NBC's Luke Russert, and conservative columnist and former Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell<br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>State of the Union(CNN)</b> Dana Bash hosts Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET<br />
• Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)<br />
• Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)<br />
• Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX)<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Ken Cuccinelli, Matea Gold, Kevin Madden and Donna Brazile.<br />
• <a href="http://sotu.blogs.cnn.com/2014/12/21/candy-bids-cnn-farewell/" target="_blank">Candy bids CNN farewell</a><br />
• <a href="http://sotu.blogs.cnn.com/2014/12/21/a-salute-to-candy-crowley/" target="_blank">A salute to Candy Crowley</a><br />
• <a href="http://sotu.blogs.cnn.com/2014/12/21/candy-crowley-27-amazing-years-at-cnn/" target="_blank">Candy Crowley: 27 amazing years at CNN</a><br />
• <a href="http://sotu.blogs.cnn.com/2014/12/22/cnners-say-goodbye-as-candy-leaves-cnn-2/" target="_blank">CNNers say goodbye as Candy leaves CNN</a><br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid</b><br />
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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!<br />
• PRAYER MEETIN' WEDNESDAY!! XMAS Eve Special!! Listen here NOW! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(24-12-2014).mp3" target="_blank">Wednesday, December 24th, 2014 </a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.CRMW.net</a>!<br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT</b> With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!<br />
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<b> The Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen:</b> 6 minutes of green news, politics, analysis & snarky comment! BOOKMARK <a href="http://greennews.bradblog.com/" target="_blank">greennews.bradblog.com</a> NOW!<br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10989" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - December 23, 2014</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: 2014 on track for hottest year on record; Washington state governor proposes a carbon cap and trade system; Plastic trash pollution in the oceans worse than previously known; PLUS: Innovative solar energy breakthrough out of Australia... All that and more in our last Green News Report of the year! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): EPA issues new rules for toxic coal ash waste; Measuring the true cost of coal; Insane impacts of factory farming; NDAA giveaways include increasing fracking on public lands; US power grid needs $2.1 trillion investment; Texas weakens chemical exposure guidelines; Most U.S. coastal cities to see 'nuisance flooding'; Autism again linked to air pollution exposure in pregnancy... PLUS: What Might Have Been - Al Gore on climate change in 1983... and much, MUCH more! ...<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10992" target="_blank">The 'Very Special BradCast Holiday Special' Returns</a> Join The 'BradCast' Radio Theatre Players for some of our favorite episodes from the 1930s & 40s in what is now, officially, a beloved annual holiday tradition for two years running!... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10944" target="_blank">Not Voting IS a Vote</a> Stop blaming those who didn't turn out. Americans did vote. By not turning out, they voted against the two major parties and against the system as a whole. It may have been a dumb vote, but it was a landslide... <br />
• BRADBLOG VIDEO! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10991" target="_blank">'A Terrible Idea': E-Voting, E-Counting, 'Open Source' and Internet Voting</a> Computerphile's Tom Scott understands and explains what too many -- even most opponents of 'e-voting' -- don't fully appreciate..<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10985" target="_blank">Bloomberg Editors Refuse to Correct Inaccurate, Misleading Photo ID Editorial</a> Read the 'mind-boggling' responses to BRAD BLOG's emailed explanation of blatant errors and inaccuracies in Francis Barry's op-ed..<br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b><br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <br />
<ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• 19 Dec 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-gov-siegelman-will-not-be-home-for-the-holidays/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Gov. Siegelman Will Not Be Home for the Holidays</a> New judge denies release to former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, and Siegelman supporter provides details on Monday’s court hearing… <br />
• 22 Dec 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-former-nsa-technical-director-bill-binney-comments-on-sony-hack/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Former NSA Technical Director Bill Binney Comments on Sony Hack</a> Binney says NSA finds vulnerabilities in corporate security, software, but doesn’t alert companies or consumers so it can exploit weaknesses… <br />
• 23 Dec 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-the-questions-corporate-media-never-ask-obama/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: The Questions Corporate Media Never Ask Obama</a> In our final 2014 News & Comment podcast, we list critical questions that weren’t asked at Obama’s last press conference…..<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast December 24, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/12/24/holiday-bonus-extended-interview-with-prof-richard-falk/" target="_blank">Holiday Bonus! Extended Interview with Prof. Richard Falk</a> No Subscription Required….Happy Holidays! Here is a truly in-depth conversation with Richard Falk, Princeton Professor Emeritus in international law, who served from 2008-2014 as UN Special Rapporteur for Palestine. An acknowledged expert on international law and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, he shares his expertise and insight, and discusses his new book, <i>Palestine: The Legacy of Hope. </i><br />
• PBC Standard Podcast December 19, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/12/19/law-professor-marjorie-cohn-talks-about-obamas-expanded-use-of-armed-drones/" target="_blank">Law Professor Marjorie Cohn Talks About Obama’s Expanded Use of Armed Drones</a> Marjorie Cohn, San Diego law professor and past president of the National Lawyers Guild, talks about her new book, <i>Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues.</i><br />
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• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weekend-on-ring-of-fire-radio-25/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire December 25, 2014</a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
»» Former CIA attorney John Rizzo will be here to tell us about some of the most secretive activities of our federal government.<br />
»» Simon Lazarus from the Constitutional Accountability Center will discuss the legal challenges to the Affordable Care Act.<br />
»» And Ethan Rome from Health Care for America Now will tell us how trade deals like the TPP could effect American healthcare.<br />
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• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/since-911-the-war-on-terror-has-cost-taxpayers-14-million-an-hour/" target="_blank">Since 9/11, the War on Terror has Cost Taxpayers $14 million an Hour</a> by Amy Eddings - A new report from Congress has found that since 9/11, war spending has cost American taxpayers about $1.6 trillion, or about $337 million a day, every day, for the past 13 years, the International Business Times <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/14-million-hour-war-costs-top-16-trillion-911-say-congressional-researchers-1764816" target="_blank">reported</a>. The new estimate of the $1.6 trillion estimate from the Congressional Research Service is actually about half a trillion dollars more than the CRS’s 2010 estimate. This makes the War on Terror second in spending costs to World War II. ....................<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/thom-hartmann-how-the-new-economic-boom-left-behind-the-poor-middle-class/" target="_blank">Thom Hartmann: How the New Economic Boom Left Behind the Poor & Middle Class</a> by Joshua Schwitzerlett<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/papantonio-another-wall-street-appointee/" target="_blank">Obama Ran Twice on Anti-NAFTA Free Trade; He was Lying to Us. Big TPP Push.</a> by Guest Blogger - As President Obama continues to push the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a secret trade agreement negotiated behind closed doors, the more we learn about it – the more we realize how dangerous the agreement is. Last year, Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch sat down with Democracy Now and explained exactly why the TPP is terrible. “This is not mainly about trade,” said Wallach. “It is a corporate Trojan horse. The agreement has 29 chapters, and only five of them have to do with trade. The other 24 chapters either handcuff our domestic governments, limiting food safety, environmental standards, financial regulation, energy and climate policy, or establishing new powers for corporations.” Even as far back as last October, Wallach knew exactly the damage the TPP would do. Watch her full remarks.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/a-simple-conversation-about-how-really-really-criminal-banks-have-become/" target="_blank">A Simple Conversation About How REALLY REALLY CRIMINAL Banks Have Become</a> by Amy Eddings - On an episode of his web series The Trews, comedian and actor Russell Brand sat down with Max Keiser, a financial host on RT to discuss banks. Keiser explains just how shockingly criminal the big banks have become, including how RBS was laundering money for Hamas and HSBC was laundering money for Hezbollah and Mexican drug cartels.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/fcc-somehow-lost-hundreds-of-thousands-of-net-neutrality-comments/" target="_blank">FCC Somehow ‘Lost’ Hundreds of Thousands of Net Neutrality Comments</a> by Amy Eddings - ........Fight for the Future’s Jeff Lyons said “at lest 244,811 [comments] were missing” from the FCC’s data, and the Sunlight Foundation found that 95,000 comments released by the FCC were duplicates. “The Sunlight Foundation study concluded that anti-net neutrality comments dominated the dataset,” reported Gizmodo. “There was talk of a ‘shadowy’ Koch Brothers group that succeeded in driving half of the total number of comments, leading to the conclusion that some 60 percent of those who commented actually opposed net neutrality.” This statistic then fueled the political rhetoric that most Americans opposed net neutrality, a fact that simply wasn’t true......<br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/122214-jane-landers-ending-our-failed-cuba-policy" target="_blank">12/22/14 Jane Landers: Ending Our Failed Cuba Policy </a> <br />
• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/122314-year-end-wrap-up" target="_blank">12/23/14 Year End Wrap Up</a><br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/122414-nick-hanauer-pay-higher-wages-now-david-dayen-how-wall-street-is-undermining-reform" target="_blank">12/24/14 Nick Hanauer: Pay Higher Wages Now! & David Dayen: How Wall Street Is Undermining Reform</a><br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/122614-digby-2014-review" target="_blank">12/26/14 Digby: 2014 Review</a><br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts "The Truth About Markets" on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s "People & Power" series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of <a href="http://www.karmabanque.com/" target="_blank">KarmaBanque</a> a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. <br />
• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport" target="_blank">Keiser Report</a> <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/russian-roulette-taxpayers-could-be-on-the-hook-for-trillions-in-oil-derivatives/" target="_blank">Russian Roulette: Taxpayers Could Be on the Hook for Trillions in Oil Derivatives</a> by Ellen Brown — The sudden dramatic collapse in the price of oil appears to be an act of geopolitical warfare against Russia. The result could be trillions of dollars in oil derivative losses; and the FDIC could be liable, following repeal of key portions of the Dodd-Frank Act last weekend. Senator Elizabeth Warren charged Citigroup last week with “holding government funding hostage to ram through its government bailout provision.” At issue was a section in the omnibus budget bill repealing the Lincoln Amendment to the Dodd-Frank Act, which protected depositor funds by requiring the largest banks to push out a portion of their derivatives business into non-FDIC-insured subsidiaries. <br />
Warren and Representative Maxine Waters came close to killing the spending bill because of this provision. But the tide turned, according to Waters, when not only Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase, but President Obama himself lobbied lawmakers to vote for the bill. More <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/russian-roulette-taxpayers-could-be-on-the-hook-for-trillions-in-oil-derivatives/#more-76005" target="_blank">HERE</a>…<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/is-russia-being-driven-into-the-arms-of-china/" target="_blank">Is Russia Being Driven Into the Arms of China?</a> by Mark O'Byrne — European governments slavishly adhere to U.S. imposed sanctions. So from a western elite point of view, Russia is indeed isolated. Whether antagonising Russia is damaging to Russia is a moot point. Certainly in Russia’s current straits the bankrupt west is in no position to help. European farmers are suffering from loss of export markets while Europe is still dependent on Russian natural gas. So how “isolated” is Russia in reality? READ MORE <a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/russia-driven-arms-china/" target="_blank">Is Russia Being Driven Into the Arms of China? </a> (goldcore.com)<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/get-real-with-jan-skoyles-gold-is-heading-west-to-east/" target="_blank">Get REAL with Jan Skoyles: Gold is heading West to East</a> by Stacy Herbert — Stacy Summary: The show that was the first ever crowdfunded financial news programme is back. Jan Skoyles talks to Ned Naylor-Leyland about gold heading from West to East. Lots of interesting discussion and data. <br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/gold-terrifies-the-international-monetary-system/" target="_blank">Gold “Terrifies” the International Monetary System</a> by WolfStreet.com — Gold is the most maligned asset, if you listen to the Fed, the ECB, and other central banks. This was driven home again in a variety of ways, including what transpired before the Swiss gold referendum and Mario Draghi’s “all assets but gold” declaration. So I asked Fabrice Drouin Ristori, Founder and CEO of Goldbroker.com, why the heck central banks react toward gold in that bizarre manner. Read….. <a href="http://wolfstreet.com/2014/12/22/gold-terrifies-the-international-monetary-system/" target="_blank">Gold “Terrifies” the International Monetary System</a> (wolfstreet.com)<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/kr696-keiser-report-696-tail-chasing-media/" target="_blank">[KR696] Keiser Report 696 – Tail Chasing Media</a> Max Keiser and Stacy Herbert discuss power. In the domestic political arena, Russell Brand’s campaign with the New Era Estate women proves that the people do have the power – if they want it. And in the energy market, it seems supply and demand actually has the power – not the cartels, not the conspiracies. In the second half, Max interviews former energy market regulator Chris Cook about the possible causes of the oil price collapse and what the future holds for price and projects.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/kr697-keiser-report-remove-money-from-politics-ft-russell-brand/" target="_blank">[KR697] Keiser Report: Remove money from politics! (ft. Russell Brand)</a> We visit Russell Brand at his Trews set in East London for a double header of Christmas cheer. The three discuss the big themes of 2014 and what to look forward to in 2015. They look at successful activist campaigns and not yet successful campaigns – but at the end of the day, the people have the power as the New Era Estate kicking Westbrook Partners out of London. They talk cryptocurrencies, crowdfunding and media distractions. And they wish you all a very Merry Christmas!<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/kr698-keiser-report-de-fiatisation-of-the-world/" target="_blank">[KR698] Keiser Report: De-Fiatisation of the World</a> We discuss the ‘Give Us Back Our Gold’ movement across Europe as governments seek to have their gold held domestically as fear spreads about the integrity of our fiat and debt world. Max describes the de-fiatisation of the world as the American empire makes way for the emerging power of China. In the second half Max interviews Sandeep Jaitly of FeketeResearch.com about negative GOFO rates, earning free fiat with your gold and taking us back to the Dark Ages with Quantitative Easing.<br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It’s been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show’s important milestones, as well as preview some of the exciting projects to look for in the near future. ........ The show on Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A., still called Antiwar Radio, has now moved to join their Sunday morning public affairs line up (8:30 am pt - http://kpfk.org), and remains the largest source of listeners, with 15,000-20,000 people tuning in weekly. The future: Liberty Express Radio is growing and bringing me along for the ride. The great Charles Goyette hooked me up with Alan Butler and the Liberty Express earlier this year, and what has been the daily replay there from 3-5 eastern time has become my best listened-to show. And now they’re adding my friend Tom Woods to the lineup from 2-3 PM. That does it. I’m making the switch! Starting Monday, October 14, the live show is moving to 3-5 PM Eastern time on LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/10/121014-marcy-wheeler/" target="_blank">12/10/14 Marcy Wheeler</a>: Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses the CIA’s lies about properly vetting their enhanced interrogation program with their Congressional overseers; Dick Cheney’s conspicuous absence from the CIA torture report; and the 9000 CIA documents withheld that likely implicate the Office of Legal Council and Cheney in the torture program.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/17/121714-grant-f-smith/" target="_blank">12/17/14 Grant F. Smith</a>: Grant F. Smith, founder of the Institute for Research, Middle Eastern Policy (IRMEP), discusses his involvement in the April 10, 2015 conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC: “<a href="http://israellobbyus.org/" target="_blank">The Israel Lobby: Is it Good For the US?</a>”<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/16/121614-douglas-lucas/" target="_blank">12/16/14 Douglas Lucas</a>: Douglas Lucas, a writer, researcher, and journalist based in Texas, discusses “hactivist” writer <a href="http://whowhatwhy.com/2014/12/16/governments-final-onslaught-delays-barrett-browns-sentencing/" target="_blank">Barrett Brown’s sentencing hearing</a> in a Dallas federal court, where he faces up to 8.5 years in prison on a plea deal. He was arrested in September 2012 after posting YouTube videos threatening an FBI agent, and a litany of charges was then added by prosecutors who accused Brown of colluding with the Anonymous hacker collective in criminal acts, rather than just covering their findings as a journalist.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/17/121714-eric-margolis/" target="_blank">12/17/14 Eric Margolis</a>: Eric Margolis, internationally syndicated columnist and author of <i>American Raj</i>, discusses the Pakistani Taliban’s mass-killing of kids in Peshawar; the history of Pakistan’s restive northwest territories from the days of British empire; why the US still won’t leave Afghanistan; and the possibility of normalized relations with Cuba.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/18/121814-mark-thornton/" target="_blank">12/18/14 Mark Thornton</a>: Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, discusses the <a href="http://mises.org/library/war-drugs-was-born-100-years-ago" target="_blank">100 year anniversary of the War on Drugs</a>, its firm foundation in racism and bigotry, and how it has been taxed, regulated, and legislated into a multi-billion dollar government enterprise of destruction.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>Solstice 2014 Special</b> Another Solar Year begins today! Happy Solstice! We go to Lady SpringWolf for the <a href="http://www.paganspath.com/magik/yule-history.htm" target="_blank">History of Yule - The Winter Solstice</a> <font color=indigo>Every year the Sun traces out a circular path in a west-to-east direction relative to the stars (this is in addition to the apparent daily east-to-west rotation of the celestial sphere around the Earth). The two points at which the ecliptic and the equatorial plane intersect, known as the vernal and autumnal equinoxes, and the two points of the ecliptic farthest north and south from the equatorial plane, known as the summer and winter solstices, divide the ecliptic into four equal parts. These cycles were familiar to Greek astronomers, but it wasn't until Hipparchus that a method of using the observed dates of two equinoxes and a solstice to calculate the size and direction of the displacement of the Sun’s orbit was established. Hipparchus (190BC – 120BC) was a Greek Astronomer and Mathematician. His writings on this subject tell us that the Solstice was a known event not just in his time, but before his time as well. The winter solstice occurs on December 21 and marks the beginning of winter (this is the shortest day of the year). The Winter Solstice has been recognized and celebrated for eons by ancient people around the globe. The Newgrange burial mound in Ireland's County Meath is surrounded by megalithic stones set in what archeologists believe to be astronomical position to the Winter Solstice. The Stone Age monument dates to around 3200 B.C., making it 500 years older than the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt and a thousand years older than England's Stonehenge. ......... No one is really sure when the first festival or ritual celebration for this time of the year occurred. But we do know that it has long been recognized and honored in some of the worlds most reverent monuments. It would be silly to think that a point in time so important to ancient people would not have been celebrated or honored until the 7th century AD. But we're jumping ahead in our tale. ............. Most scholars suggest that the first influence of this winter festival began with Saturnalia in Rome. Saturnalia is the feast with which the Romans commemorated the dedication of the temple of the god Saturn. Saturn was a major Roman God and designated as the God of agriculture and harvest. Another link to the "wheel" concept. In early astrology, Saturn represents our limitations, our restrictions,yet it is also our inner mentor and teacher. His lessons are manifested only over time, after which we go through inner rebirth and enjoy spiritual growth. Some suggest this is the connection between the idea of the "rebirth" of the God during the winter festival. ............. In Scandinavia, the Norse celebrated Yule from December 21, the winter solstice, through January. In recognition of the return of the sun. It is this influence that we can see most in European Paganism. The Wheel of the Year divided into 4 parts was not that far of a leap for early European Pagans. They were already familiar with honoring the solstice periods as evidenced in The Stone Age Newgrange tomb and Stonehenge. They recognized the Suns return and knew it meant fields would once again be ready for tilling and planting. Warmth would return to the world and darkness would fade. To the rural folk who worked hard during the year, the end of a lean winter was something to celebrate and the God of the Sun was something to be honored. It bothers me that such significance it put on Germanic celebrations from the 7th Century AD, when so much historical evidence points to a much older acknowledgement and reverent connection to the Wheel of The Year in early pagan Europe and Norse history and mythology. </font> Much more at PagansPath.com! From today onward the days will be getting longer and although we have a cold Winter ahead of us now Spring Training and Opening Day seem just that much closer! Happy Solstice everybody!<br />
Now for some quick hits!<br />
<ul><li>CLEVELAND – Protest shuts down Wal-Mart store - WKYC.com <a href="http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/cleveland/2014/12/20/ferguson-protesters/20715929/" target="_blank">Ferguson protesters join in with Cleveland</a> <br />
<li> Cleveland.com <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/court-justice/index.ssf/2014/12/attorneys_who_filed_suit_again.htmll" target="_blank">Attorneys who filed suit against Cleveland police on behalf of Tamir Rice's family ask to be released</a><br />
<li> Vermont shelves Single-Payer health plan - vtdigger.com <a href="http://vtdigger.org/2014/12/17/shumlin-says-single-payer-not-affordable-now/" target="_blank">Shumlin backs off single payer plan</a><br />
<li>RT.com <a href="http://rt.com/news/215227-eu-recognize-palestine-state/" target="_blank">European Parliament votes to recognize Palestine statehood 'in principle'</a><br />
<li>Jesse's Café Américain <a href="http://jessescrossroadscafe.blogspot.ca/2014/12/moyers-new-robber-barons.html" target="_blank">Moyers: The New Robber Barons</a><br />
<li> Reporters Without Borders <a href="http://en.rsf.org/rwb-publishes-2014-round-up-of-16-12-2014,47388.html" target="_blank">RWB publishes 2014 round-up of violence against journalists</a><br />
<li>AND The Rude Pundit has <a href="http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2014/12/a-farewell-to-michele-bachmann.html" target="_blank">A Farewell to Michele Bachmann</a></ul>FUKUSHIMA UPDATE: With al the other hub-bub going on in the U.S. and the world we need to go back to last month for this update by Esther Tanquintic-Misa at ibtimes.com <a href="http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/571864/20141106/tepco-removal-spent-fuel-rod-fukushima-reactor.htm" target="_blank">TEPCO Finishes Removing 400 Tonnes of Spent Fuel Rod From Fukushima Reactor 4</a> <font color=DarkSlateGray>After 12 long months, Tokyo Electric Power Company or TEPCO, has finally completed the removal of all spent fuel rod assemblies from the storage pool at the damaged Fukushima Daiichi unit 4. The spent uranium fuel that was removed accounted for a total of 400 tonnes. TEPCO said last Wednesday that there still remains some 180 unused fuel assemblies in the pool. But these are less-risky, it said. The materials will be removed by year end. The company said it had placed in a storage pool at ground level of the plant all the 1,331 recovered spent fuel assemblies. </font> Paul Gunter from Beyond Nuclear appeared on Abby Martin's "Breaking The Set" Wednesday. WATCH <a href="http://rt.com/shows/breaking-set-summary/215447-cuba-us-nuclear-arsenal/" target="_blank">Ending Cold War grudge, Fukushima forever & happy birthday Chelsea Manning</a> <i>Abby Martin wishes happy birthday to Chelsea Manning and highlights all the people who sent her birthday cards, including NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. RT’s Nicholas Sanchez-O’Donovan talks about President Obama’s announcement that the US will begin to normalize relations with Cuba. The decision to put 7,000 body cameras on LAPD officers – will this truly make a difference in preventing police brutality? Scott Yundt, staff attorney with Tri-Valley CAREs, discusses the unfathomable amount of money being spent to upgrade the US nuclear arsenal. Paul Gunter, reactor oversight director at Beyond Nuclear, talks about the removal of over 1,300 fuel rods from the Fukushima power plant and where the cleanup effort of the site currently stands. Kyodo News reported that these were initially located on the top floor of the No. 4 building, which was rocked by a hydrogen explosion early in the crisis. Located 30 metres above ground, the pool had been left uncovered since the explosion three years ago. The spent fuel rods are now going to be checked for signs of damage. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has six reactors. Reactors No. 1-3 went into partial meltdown resulting from the tsunami. The incident damaged their cooling systems. Reactor No. 4 suffered a hydrogen explosion. Reactors No. 5 and 6, meantime, were less badly affected. Their fuel remains stored and all are in stable condition, according to RIA Novosti. The removal of the used fuel marks, TEPCO said, marked "a solid step toward the decommissioning of the plant." <b>The entire decommissioning process will take up 40 years.</b> Fuel from Reactor No. 1 will be removed starting 2019, two years later than originally planned. TEPCO has recently removed the canopy over the building to allow debris removal. Removal of debris at the Reactor No. 3 is ongoing through remote-controlled robots, while the interior of the building of Reactor No. 2 is currently being surveyed. Unlike at Reactor No. 4, Reactors No. 1-3 were highly operational when the tsunami happened and disaster struck. These reactors have higher levels of radioactive contamination because of the meltdowns. The three reactor buildings are holding a total of 1,400 fuel assemblies in storage pools. Once all the spent fuel are already removed, TEPCO can now focus on extracting the reactor cores that reacted during the disaster. It is deemed the most difficult task and one that has never been done before, Reuters said. The operation is scheduled to start in 2025.</i> AND From BeyondNuclear.org <a href="http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2014/12/16/beyond-nuclear-on-harvey-wassermans-solartopia-green-power-a.html" target="_blank">Beyond Nuclear</a> on Harvey Wasserman's "<a href="http://www.beyondnuclear.org/home/2014/12/16/beyond-nuclear-on-harvey-wassermans-solartopia-green-power-a.html" target="_blank">Solartopia Green Power and Wellness" radio show</a>" <font color=indigo>Beyond Nuclear was pleased to be invited back on to <a href="http://prn.fm/solartopia-green-power-wellness-show-12-16-14/" target="_blank">Harvey Wasserman's "Solartopia Green Power and Wellness" radio show</a> today. Here is Harvey's description: <ul>"A RATEPAYER REVOLT against nuclear power and the nationwide battle for Solartopia are the pure green fires that drive today's show. CYNTHIA PAPERMASTER of CODE PINK is organizing a rate withholding campaign in California's Bay Area meant to force Pacific Gas & Electric to finally shut its two lethal reactors at Diablo Canyon. Cynthia recently presented Michael Peavey of the California Public Utilities Commission with a "pink slip" for his collusion with the utilities he was hired to regulate. Expert KEVIN KAMPS of BEYOND NUCLEAR tells us about the politics of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the new Republican Congress. The willingness of regulatory agencies to ignore water quality and public safety issues for the benefit of greedy corporations threatens the health, safety, and prosperity of all of us at dying reactors like New Jersey's Oyster Creek and Davis-Besse in Ohio. Kevin's decades of hard campaigning for a Solartopian dawn make him one of America's leading experts on what happens next with atomic energy. Together, Cynthia and Kevin offer a great perspective on what we must now do to rid the Earth of atomic energy." </ul><a href="http://prn.fm/solartopia-green-power-wellness-show-12-16-14/" target="_blank">Click here to listen to the show</a>!</font> Good item! DENNIS WATCHES C-SPAN: We at Brick TeeVee shy away from posting entire articles in favor of posting the important snippies-of-interest related to the topic at-hand. However we need to post this article by former House Rep DENNIS KUCINICH in its entirety because it is just too important. It perfectly illustrates how the GOPhers have been operating these past years slipping in "poison pills" in any number of dissociated "must pass" bills from the <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/01/28/3216361/farm-final-compromise-explainer/" target="_blank">Farm Bill</a> to to ones like this to keep the government open, always in the dead of night and without ANY debate. And the SAME THING happens when <a href="http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed" target="_blank">ALEC-Backed legislation</a> happens in statehouses across the country. READ ALL OF THIS to get a glimpse of how GOPhers use arcane House rules to further their deadly corporatist agenda. At TruthDig.com <a href="http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/three_congressmen_just_reignited_the_cold_war_while_no_one_was_looking_2014" target="_blank">Three Members of Congress Just Reignited the Cold War While No One Was Looking</a> <font color=blue><ul>Late Thursday night, the House of Representatives unanimously passed a far-reaching Russia sanctions bill, a hydra-headed incubator of poisonous conflict. The second provocative anti-Russian legislation in a week, it further polarizes our relations with Russia, helping to cement a Russia-China alliance against Western hegemony, and undermines long-term America’s financial and physical security by handing the national treasury over to war profiteers. <b>Here’s how the House’s touted “unanimity” was achieved: Under a parliamentary motion termed “unanimous consent,” legislative rules can be suspended and any bill can be called up. If any member of Congress objects, the motion is blocked and the bill dies.</b> At 10:23:54 p.m. on Thursday, a member rose to ask “unanimous consent” for four committees to be relieved of a Russia sanctions bill. At this point the motion, and the legislation, could have been blocked by a single member who would say “I object.” <b>No one objected, because no one was watching for last-minute bills to be slipped through.</b> Most of the House and the media had emptied out of the chambers after passage of the $1.1 trillion government spending package. <b>The Congressional Record will show only three of 425 members were present on the floor to consider the sanctions bill.</b> Two of the three feigned objection, creating the legislative equivalent of a ‘time out.’ They entered a few words of support, withdrew their “objections” and the clock resumed. <b>According to the clerk’s records, once the bill was considered under unanimous consent, it was passed, at 10:23:55 p.m., without objection, <u>in one recorded, time-stamped second</u>, unanimously. </b> Then the House adjourned. I discovered, in my 16 years in Congress, that many members seldom read the legislation on which they vote. On Oct. 24, 2001, House committees spent long hours debating the Patriot Act. At the last minute, the old bill was swapped out for a version with draconian provisions. <b>I voted against that version of the Patriot Act, <i>because I read it.</i></b> The legislative process requires attention. Legislation brought before Congress under “unanimous consent” is not read by most members simply because copies of the bill are generally not available. During the closing sessions of Congress I would often camp out in the House chamber, near the clerk’s desk, prepared to say “I object” when something of consequence appeared out of the blue. Dec. 11, 2014, is one of the few times I regret not being in Congress to have the ability to oversee the process. The Russia Sanctions bill that passed “unanimously,” with no scheduled debate, at 10:23:55 p.m. on Dec. 11, 2014, includes:</br > 1. Sanctions of Russia’s energy industry, including Rosoboronexport and Gazprom.</br > 2. Sanctions of Russia’s defense industry, with respect to arms sales to Syria.</br > 3. Broad sanctions on Russians’ banking and investments.</br > 4. Provisions for privatization of Ukrainian infrastructure, electricity, oil, gas and renewables, with the help of the World Bank and USAID.</br > 5. Fifty million dollars to assist in a corporate takeover of Ukraine’s oil and gas sectors.</br > 6. Three hundred and fifty million dollars for military assistance to Ukraine, including anti-tank, anti-armor, optical, and guidance and control equipment, as well as drones.</br > 7. Thirty million dollars for an intensive radio, television and Internet propaganda campaign throughout the countries of the former Soviet Union.</br > 8. Twenty million dollars for “democratic organizing” in Ukraine.</br > 9. Sixty million dollars, spent through groups like the National Endowment for Democracy, “to improve democratic governance, and transparency, accountability [and] rule of law” in Russia. What brilliant hyperbole to pass such a provision the same week the Senate’s CIA torture report was released.</br > 10. An unverified declaration that Russia has violated the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, is a nuclear “threat to the United States” and should be held “accountable.”</br > 11. A path for the U.S. withdrawal from the INF Treaty, which went into force in 1988. The implications of this are immense. An entire series of arms agreements are at risk of unraveling. It may not be long before NATO pushes its newest client state, Ukraine, to abrogate the Non-Proliferation Treaty, which Ukraine signed when it gave up its nuclear weapons, and establish a renewed nuclear missile capability, 300 miles from Moscow.</br > 12. A demand that Russia verifiably dismantle “any ground launched cruise missiles or ballistic missiles with a range of between 500 and 5,500 kilometers ...”—i.e., 300 and 3,300 miles.</br > <b><a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c113:H.R.5859:" target="_blank">READ THE LEGISLATION</a>, which Congress apparently didn’t.</b> As reported on <a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/ukraine/budget.htm" target="_blank">GlobalSecurity.org</a>, earlier that same day in Kiev, the Ukrainian parliament approved a security plan that will:</br > 1. Declare that Ukraine should become a “military state.”</br > 2. Reallocate more of its approved 2014 budget for military purposes.</br > 3. Put all military operating units on alert.</br > 4. Mobilize military and national guard units.</br > 5. Increase military spending in Ukraine from 1 percent of GDP to 5 percent, increasing military spending by $3 billion over the next few years.</br > 6. Join NATO and switch to NATO military standards.</br > <b>Under the guise of democratizing, the West stripped Ukraine of its sovereignty with a U.S.-backed coup, employed it as a foil to advance NATO to the Russian border and reignited the Cold War, <u>complete with another nuclear showdown</u>.</b> The people of Ukraine will be less free, as their country becomes a “military state,” goes into hock to international banks, faces structural readjustments, privatization of its public assets, decline of social services, higher prices and an even more severe decline in its standard of living. In its dealings with the European Union, Ukraine could not even get concessions for its citizens to find work throughout Europe. The West does not care about Ukraine, or its people, except for using them to seize a strategic advantage against Russia in the geopolitical game of nations. Once, with the help of the West, Ukraine fully weighs in as a “military state” and joins the <b>NATO gun club</b>, its annual defense budget will be around $3 billion, compared with the current defense budget of Russia, which is over $70 billion. <i>Each Western incitement creates a Russian response, which is then given as further proof that the West must prepare for the very conflict it has created, war as a self-fulfilling prophecy. </i> That the recent Russia sanctions bill was advanced, “unanimously,” without debate in the House, portends that our nation is sleepwalking through the graveyards of history, toward an abyss where controlling factors reside in the realm of chance, what Thomas Hardy termed “crass casualty.” Such are the perils of unanimity.</ul></font> And more biligerent moves by Congress are outlined by RENSE.com's Stephen Lendman <a href="http://www.rense.com/general96/natodeliver.html" target="_blank">NATO Delivering Arms To Ukraine</a> <font color=DarkMagenta>......... The Ukraine Freedom Support Act (UFSA) of 2014 </font>(See here <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:h.r.5859:" target="_blank">H.R.5859 - Latest Major Action: 12/18/2014 Signed by President</a> -Ed.) <font color=DarkMagenta>authorizes lethal and non-lethal aid. Besides what's already being supplied. Including communications equipment. Body armor. Night vision goggles. Humvees. Radar. Counter-mortar detection units. Binoculars. Small boats. Various other gear. Sniper and assault rifles. Hand grenade launchers. Mortars and shells. Stingers. Anti-tank missiles. What's known may be the tip of the iceberg. UFSA legislation "authoriz(ing) (Obama) to provide defense articles, defense services, and training to the Government of Ukraine for the purpose of countering offensive weapons and reestablishing the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine…" "(I)ncluding anti-tank and anti-armor weapons, crew weapons and ammunition, counter-artillery radars to identify and target artillery batteries, fire control, range finder, and optical and guidance and control equipment, tactical troop-operated surveillance drones, and secure command and communications equipment." Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Russia "will not be able to leave this without a response." Especially if new US sanctions are imposed. Ryabkov blamed US "anti-Russian moods." Trying "to dictate decisions to us that for us are categorically unacceptable." Destroying chances for cooperation. <b>Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich responded to hostile US legislation, saying: "Both houses of the US Congress have approved the Ukraine Freedom Support Act bypassing debates and proper voting.</b> The overtly confrontational message of the new law cannot but evoke profound regret." "Once again Washington is leveling baseless sweeping accusations against Russia and threatening more sanctions." ........</font> From FreeUkraineNow.org Sputnik explains <a href="http://freeukrainenow.org/2014/12/19/inside-the-ukraine-freedom-support-act/" target="_blank">Inside the “Ukraine Freedom Support Act”</a> <font color=purple>......... The Three Amigos: The UFSA is just as much about Moldova and Georgia as it is about Ukraine, as all three countries are collectively grouped together except for when it comes to assisting with internally displaced persons. For example, when it comes to ‘the three amigos’, ............... Putting it all together, it is clear that the US has strategically incorporated Moldova and Georgia into its legislation about Ukraine, providing proof that it is Washington and not Moscow which is ‘widening the battlefield’ of the New Cold War. This isn’t the first time either, as all the amigos were first lumped together in May when the so-called Russian Aggression Prevention Act of 2014 was unveiled, which served as the predecessor of House Resolution 758. The reasoning for this is rather simple, actually. The US wants to coordinate its push against the former Soviet periphery and is pulling out all the stops along the way. .............</font> IRONICALLY THE ONLY COSPONSOR OF <a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:HR05859:@@@P" target="_blank">H.R.5859</a> WAS REP MARCY KAPTUR in the newly GOPher-redistricted OH-9 that was carved out SPECIFICALLY to get Dennis Kucinich out of Da House in favor of the pro-military Kaptur as outlined by David Swanson at GlobalResearch.ca <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-military-contractors-finance-pro-war-democracy-the-election-we-should-be-following/29155" target="_blank">US MILITARY CONTRACTORS FINANCE “PRO-WAR DEMOCRACY”: The Election We Should Be Following</a> <font color=navy>............ A useful example to highlight the contrast between Congressman Dennis Kucinich and Congresswoman Marcy Kaptur is found in the funding of wars. Between 2001 and 2009, Congresswoman Kaptur voted for $545 billion in war funding, voting Yes over and over again for Bush’s wars. Congressman Dennis Kucinich voted for a total of $17 billion. (See the chart below.) In the lead up to the invasion of Iraq, Kucinich’s was the clearest voice against it. He circulated evidence of war lies to his colleagues. He organized many of them to vote No with him. Kaptur, too, voted No on the authorization. But once the war had started, many Congress members, including Kaptur, turned around and voted to fund its continuation and escalation, year after year, even as the public turned more and more strongly against the war. <b>While Kucinich was working to impeach Bush and Cheney, Kaptur was voting to fund their wars.</b> While Kucinich was advancing resolutions to shift the debate toward ending wars and preventing new ones, Kaptur was claiming wars made us safer and reciting “support the troops” rhetoric, as though what veterans need most is the creation of more injured veterans. ............. Congresswoman Kaptur has been spending a lot of money on television ads in hopes of defeating Kucinich in the upcoming primary. Where does her money come from? Well, according to the Center for Responsive Politics (OpenSecrets.org), in the current election cycle, she gets 77% of her money from PACs, and 5% from small individual contributors. Kucinich, in contrast, gets 5% from PACs, and 68% from small individual contributors. <b>Kucinich does not get money from war contractors. <u>Kaptur is a different story</u>. Thus far, in the current election cycle, her fourth biggest “contributor” is a little operation known as General Dynamics. Her third biggest is Teledyne Technologies. Tied for seventh place are American Systems Corp and Northrop Grumman. Tied at 16th are Boeing and Lockheed Martin.</b> Most of these corporations have been among Kaptur’s regular funders in past campaigns as well. They are also among the leading violators of U.S. laws. ................. According to the National Priorities Project (CostOfWar.com) Kaptur’s Ninth District of Ohio (prior to redistricting) has shelled out over $3.1 billion for wars since 2001. That expense has been with Kaptur’s full cooperation. And that is an expense measured purely in dollars taken from tax payers to pay for wars. It does not include further costs for veterans’ care, for interest on war debt, for increased fuel prices, or for lost opportunities. Nor does it include the cost already extracted of several times the $3.1 billion for a base annual military budget that has roughly doubled this decade and done so on the basis of the wars. .................. </font> NO FUCKING KIDDING. In this one stark example one can obviously see how the We Da Peeps self-governance has been turned on its head to favor huge military-industrial types who literally BUY congresspeeps like Marcy Kaptur to get legislation passed that give them WINDFALL PROFITS. Don't think FOR A MINUTE General Dynamics, Teledyne Technologies, Northrop Grumman, Boeing and Lockheed Martin aren't salivating on the NEXT BIG NATO military expansion into Eastern Europe, aided and abetted by the likes of Kaptur and her pro-war criminal pals in Da House also bought-n-paid-for by the military-industrial complex. Do yerself a favor and search <a href="http://OpenSecrets.org" target="_blank">OpenSecrets.org</a> to see how much $$$$$ YOUR CONGRESSPEEP has received from the M-I-C since the War on Terriers started in 2001. They "create jobs" donchaknow! And the M-I-C is in every district in the land (all those small and not-so-small tool-n-dye and parts shops in your neighborhood for instance). Rat basturds. </br > <img src="http://www.simoney.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/390x320/9df78eab33525d08d6e5fb8d27136e95/i/-/i-heart-ny-button-badges.jpg" height=100 alt="iheartny" /> </br > At Reuters Daniel Wiessner and Edward McAllister report <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/17/us-energy-fracking-newyork-idUSKBN0JV29Z20141217" target="_blank">New York bans fracking after health report</a> <font color=darkblue>New York state will ban hydraulic fracturing after a long-awaited report concluded that the oil and gas extraction method poses health risks, Governor Andrew Cuomo's administration said on Wednesday. New York Environmental Commissioner Joseph Martens said at a cabinet meeting he will issue an order early next year banning fracking, which has been under a moratorium since 2008. Once that happens, New York will join Vermont as the only states to completely prohibit fracking. The decision ends what has been a fierce debate in New York over the benefits and pitfalls of fracking, a process that involves pumping water, sand and chemicals into a well to extract oil or gas. Many in the state saw gas drilling as a key economic resource while others argued it was too dangerous. <b>The state's health commissioner, Howard Zucker, said there is not enough scientific information to conclude that fracking is safe. "The potential risks are too great, in fact not even fully known, and relying on the limited data presently available would be negligent on my part," Zucker said.</b> New York sits atop a portion of the Marcellus shale, one of the largest natural gas deposits in the United States. The ruling is a blow for energy companies that had been waiting for years to tap the thousands of acres of land they have leased there. The oil and gas industry immediately slammed Cuomo for the decision. Karen Moreau, the executive director of the New York State Petroleum Council, called it a reckless move that would deprive the state of thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. "We are resolved to continue to fight for these benefits in New York," she said. Environmental groups, meanwhile, hailed Cuomo as a national leader on the issue. "We hope that this determined leadership Governor Cuomo has displayed will give courage to elected leaders throughout the country and world," said Deborah Goldberg, an attorney with the group Earthjustice.</font> AND Stefanie Spear at EcoWatch.com links to some videos! <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/12/19/rfk-jr-josh-fox-fracking-ban/" target="_blank">RFK, Jr. and Josh Fox Chime in on New York Fracking Ban Victory</a> <font color=purple>Last night on Thom Hartmann‘s Best of the Rest of the News, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., president of <a href="http://waterkeeper.org/" target="_blank">Waterkeeper Alliance</a>, and Thomas Linzey, co-Founder of the <a href="http://www.celdf.org/" target="_blank">Community Legal Defense Fund</a>, joined Hartmann to talk about the dangers of fracking and the New York fracking ban. .............. Watch as Kennedy talks about the historical significance of this decision and how it’s “the first time in a decade that in a meaningful way a national political leader has stood up to the power of Big Oil.” ............. On Wednesday, Josh Fox, director of <a href="http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/" target="_blank">Gasland and Gasland Part II</a>, was on MSNBC’s <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/andrew-cuomo--im-not-a-scientist-374321731971" target="_blank">All In With Chris Hayes</a> to discuss this huge fracking ban victory. ......... Watch the interview below as Governor Cuomo explains that he is “not a scientist.”</font> For more info see DeSmogBlog's Special Report <a href="http://www.desmogblog.com/fracking-the-future/" target="_blank">FRACKING THE FUTURE</a>. Meanwhile in the Buckeye State CommonDreams.org staff writer Andrea Germanos says in Monroe County, Ohio <a href="http://commondreams.org/news/2014/12/17/out-control-fracking-well-forces-evacuations" target="_blank">Out of Control Fracking Well Forces Evacuations</a> <font color=brown>An out-of-control natural gas fracking well in Monroe County, Ohio <a href="http://wosu.org/2012/news/2014/12/17/control-fracking-well-displaces-eastern-ohio-families/" target="_blank">forced</a> more than two dozen families from their homes and may pose the threat of an explosion. The blowout at the Triad Hunter-operated well on the Utica Shale happened at approximately 2:00 p.m. EST on December 13, 2014, according to a <a href="http://www.b2i.us/profiles/investor/ResLibraryView.asp?ResLibraryID=74322&GoTopage=1&Category=1848&BzID=1969&G=202" target="_blank">statement</a> released Sunday by the operator's parent company, Magnum Hunter Resources Corporation. According to reporting by the <a href="http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/12/17/families-flee-out-of-control-natural-gas-leak.html" target="_blank">Columbus Dispatch</a>, the well had been temporarily plugged a year ago. ......... No injuries have been reported in the incident so far. Over twenty-five families in the area were evacuated, though they now have daytime access to their homes.........</font> ALSO watch The Big Picture THURSDAY's <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJLG1H-_FeU" target="_blank">Full Show 12/18/14: Torture and Fracking with RFK Jr.</a> <i>In a special, “Conversations with Great Minds,” Thom talks about Pres. George W. Bush, the Iraq War and if he should be prosecuted with author and former prosecutor, Vincent Bugliosi. Thom talks about fracking dangers and the New York state ban with the Robert Kennedy Jr., President of Waterkeeper Alliance and Thomas Linzey, Co-Founder of the Community Legal Defense Fund.</i> <b>The Brick TeeVee Editors and Contributors in Da Bunker</b> were fast elves at work since the Senate's CIA Torture Report came out. First they find The New Yorker's Jane Mayer who tells us about <a href="http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/unidentified-queen-torture" target="_blank">The Unidentified Queen of Torture </a> <font color=indigo>For the past eight months, there has been a furious battle raging behind closed doors at the White House, the C.I.A., and in Congress. The question has been whether the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence would be allowed to use pseudonyms as a means of identifying characters in the devastating report it released last week on the C.I.A.’s abusive interrogation and detention program. Ultimately, the committee was not allowed to, and now we know one reason why. The NBC News investigative reporter Matthew Cole has pieced together a <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/bin-laden-expert-accused-shaping-cia-deception-torture-program-n269551" target="_blank">remarkable story</a> revealing that a single senior officer, who is still in a position of high authority over counterterrorism at the C.I.A.—a woman who he does not name—appears to have been a source of years’ worth of terrible judgment, with tragic consequences for the United States. Her story runs through the entire report. She dropped the ball when the C.I.A. was given information that might very well have prevented the 9/11 attacks; she gleefully participated in torture sessions afterward; she misinterpreted intelligence in such a way that it sent the C.I.A. on an absurd chase for Al Qaeda sleeper cells in Montana. And then she falsely told congressional overseers that the torture worked. ............... Many people who have worked with her over the years expressed shock to NBC that she has been entrusted with so much power. A former intelligence officer who worked directly with her is quoted by NBC, on background, as saying that she bears so much responsibility for so many intelligence failures that “she should be put on trial and put in jail for what she has done.” Instead, however, she has been promoted to the rank of a general in the military, most recently working as the head of the C.I.A.’s global-jihad unit. In that perch, she oversees the targeting of terror suspects around the world. (She was also, in part, the model for the lead character in “Zero Dark Thirty.”) According to sources in the law-enforcement community who I have interviewed over the years, and who I spoke to again this week, this woman—whose name the C.I.A. has asked the news media to withhold—had supervision over an underling at the agency who failed to share with the F.B.I. the news that two of the future 9/11 hijackers had entered the United States prior to the terrorist attacks. ............... It never alerted the F.B.I., which had the principle domestic authority for protecting the U.S. from terror attacks. Its agents had, in fact, been on the trail of at least one of the hijackers previously, but had no way of knowing that he had entered the United States. Nor did the C.I.A. alert the State Department, which kept a “TIPOFF” watch list for terror suspects. Amazingly, perhaps, more than thirteen years after the 9/11 attacks, no one at the C.I.A. has ever been publicly held responsible for this failure. </font> One of our BTV investigators snagged this tweet from Glenn Greenwald at The Intercept! <ul>"Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 12m12 minutes ago Given the extreme malfeasance & how widely known it is in media, why is Alfreda Bikowsky's name being withheld?"</ul>HAHA! But wait! There's more! Another one of our "staff" dug back to over THREE YEARS AGO to find this post by Sibel Edmonds at her Boiling Frogs blog from September 21, 2011! <a href="http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2011/09/21/bfp-breaking-news-confirmed-identity-of-the-cia-official-behind-911-rendition-torture-cases-is-revealed/" target="_blank">BFP Breaking News: Confirmed Identity of the CIA Official behind 9/11, Rendition & Torture Cases is Revealed</a> <font color=Brown>Boiling Frogs Post has now confirmed the identity of the CIA analyst at the heart of a notorious failure in the run-up to the September 11th tragedy. Her name is Alfreda Frances Bikowsky and she is the current director of the CIA Jihad Unit. Through three credible sources and documents we have confirmed Ms. Bikowsky’s former titles and positions, including her start at the CIA as an analyst for the Soviet Desk, her position as one of the case officers at the CIA’s Bin Laden Unit-Alec Station, her central role and direct participation in the CIA’s rendition-torture and black sites operations, and her current position as director of the CIA’s Global Jihad Unit. Alfreda Frances Bikowsky is the person described in New Yorker journalist Jane Mayer’s book The Dark Side as having flown in to watch the waterboarding of terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammad without being assigned to do so. “Its not supposed to be entertainment,” superiors were said to have told her. She was also at the center of “the el-Masri incident,” in which an innocent German citizen was kidnapped by the CIA in 2003 and held under terrible conditions without charges for five months in a secret Afghan prison. The AP characterized it as “one of the biggest diplomatic embarrassments of the U.S. war on terrorism.” Both the previous and current administrations appear to have deemed Alfreda Frances Bikowsky’s direct involvement in intentional obstruction of justice, intentional cover up, lying to Congress, and overseeing rendition-kidnapping-torture practices as qualifying factors to have kept promoting her. She now leads the CIA’s Global Jihad Unit and is a close advisor to the President. <b>Update 1:</b> It was brought to our attention that the webmaster at Secrecykills.com had mistakenly scanned and posted the uncensored documents containing the names of the two CIA officers. Per their request we now are removing the second CIA officer’s name. Boiling Frogs Post had independently obtained and confirmed the first name: Alfreda Frances Bikowsky, but had included the second name, M. A. C., based on the uncensored documents posted by mistake at Secrecykills.com previously. Due to the government pressure on and threats to the producers Nowosielski-Duffy we were asked to remove the references to their site and previous post…At least for now. As you can see the mainstream media and pseudo alternatives (including Raw Story) have abided by their government masters and fund-ers, and have refused to pick up the story or support the producers-reporters or Boiling Frogs Post. We rely on ‘your’ support. The story is still developing-please stay tuned.</font> GREAT JOB by the Brick TeeVee Sleuths! WOW! For more on this "failing and falling upward" story we go to Greenwald directly to <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/19/senior-cia-officer-center-torture-scandals-alfreda-bikowsky/" target="_blank">Meet Alfreda Bikowsky, the Senior Officer at the Center of the CIA’s Torture Scandals </a> <font color=darkgreen>......... The person described by both NBC and The New Yorker is senior CIA officer Alfreda Frances Bikowsky. Multiple news outlets have reported that as the result of a long string of significant errors and malfeasance, her competence and integrity are doubted — even by some within the agency. The Intercept is naming Bikowsky over CIA objections because of her key role in misleading Congress about the agency’s use of torture, and her active participation in the torture program (including playing a direct part in the torture of at least one innocent detainee). Moreover, Bikowsky has already been publicly identified by news organizations as the CIA officer responsible for many of these acts. .............. NBC, while withholding her identity, noted that the same unnamed officer “also participated in ‘enhanced interrogations’ of self-professed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, witnessed the waterboarding of terror suspect Abu Zubaydah and ordered the detention of a suspected terrorist who turned out to be unconnected to al Qaeda, according to the report.” ................ Both news outlets withheld the name of this CIA officer even though her identity is widely known among journalists, and her name has been used by various media outlets in connection with her work at the CIA. Both articles cited requests by the CIA not to identify her, even though they provided details making her identity clear. In fact, earlier this year, The Washington Post <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/2014/01/12/43841ac6-7a34-11e3-af7f-13bf0e9965f6_story.html" target="_blank">identified</a> Bikowsky by name, describing her as a CIA analyst “who was tied to a critical intelligence-sharing failure before the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and the botched 2003 ‘rendition’ of an innocent German citizen thought to be an al-Qaeda operative.” That Post report led to both <a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/08/27/237763/in-senate-cia-fight-on-interrogation.html" target="_blank">McClatchy</a> and <a href="https://www.emptywheel.net/2014/08/27/should-alfreda-bikowskys-lawyer-really-be-in-charge-of-declassifying-the-torture-report/" target="_blank">independent journalist Marcy Wheeler</a> raising questions about the propriety of Bikowsky’s former personal lawyer, Robert Litt, playing a key role in his current capacity as a top government lawyer in deciding which parts of the torture report should be released. The McClatchy article identified Bikowsky by name as the officer who “played a central role in the bungled rendition of Khaled el-Masri. El-Masri, who was revealed to be innocent, claimed to have been tortured by the agency.” El-Masri, a German citizen who was kidnapped from Macedonia and tortured by the CIA in Afghanistan, was released in 2003 after it was revealed he was not involved in al Qaeda. .................... <b>Bikowsky’s name, and her long string of controversial actions, have become such an open secret that she even has her own lengthy, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfreda_Frances_Bikowsky" target="_blank">detailed Wikipedia page</a>.</b> The entry describes her as a “career Central Intelligence Agency officer who has headed . . . the Global Jihad unit.” In the months leading up to the release of the torture report, the CIA and the White House fought to prevent the Senate even from assigning pseudonyms to the CIA officers whose actions are chronicled in the report. The Senate ultimately capitulated, making it difficult to follow any coherent narrative about what these officers did. ................. Naming Bikowsky allows people to piece together these puzzles and hold American officials accountable. The CIA’s arguments for suppression of her name are vague and unpersuasive, alluding generally to the possibility that she could be the target of retaliation. The CIA’s arguments focus on an undefined threat to her safety. “We would strongly object to attaching anyone’s name given the current environment,” a CIA spokesperson, Ryan Trapani, told The Intercept in an email. In a follow-up voicemail he added: “There are crazy people in this world and we are trying to mitigate those threats.” However, beyond Bikowsky, a number of CIA officials who oversaw and implemented the program have already been publicly identified—indeed, many of the key architects of the program, such as Jose Rodriguez, are <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ex-cia-chief-defends-waterboarding-of-al-qaeda-leader/" target="_blank">frequent guests</a> on news programs. ...............</font> So there it is! Screw up, embrace illegal activity and get a raise and a promotion! Heck that describes most of the GOPhers in Congress! HuffPoAOL also has this VIDEO interview <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/18/glenn-greenwald-dick-cheney-torture_n_6350670.html" target="_blank">Glenn Greenwald Blasts Dick Cheney And President Obama On Torture</a> Also at CommonDreams.org staff writer Jon Queally <a href="http://commondreams.org/news/2014/12/18/leaked-internal-cia-document-admits-us-drone-program-counterproductive" target="_blank">Leaked Internal CIA Document Admits US Drone Program "Counterproductive"</a> <font color=purple>Wikileaks on Thursday has made public a never-before-seen internal review conducted by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that looked at the agency's drone and targeted assassination programs in places like Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, and elsewhere. The agency's own analysis, conducted in 2009, found that its clandestine drone and assassination program was likely to produce counterproductive outcomes, including strengthening the very "extremist groups" it was allegedly designed to destroy. Here's a link to the document, titled <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/wikileaks_secret_cia_review_of_hvt_operations.pdf" target="_blank">Best Practices in Counterinsurgency: Making High-Value Targeting Operations an Effective Counterinsurgency Toolocument</a> (pdf). In one of the key findings contained in the CIA report, agency analysts warn of the negative consequences of assassinating so-called High Level Targets (HLT). "The potential negative effect of HLT operations," the report states, "include increasing the level of insurgent support […], strengthening an armed group's bonds with the population, radicalizing an insurgent group's remaining leaders, creating a vacuum into which more radical groups can enter, and escalating or de-escalating a conflict in ways that favor the insurgents.” Wikileaks points out that this internal prediction "has been proven right" in the years since the internal review was conducted near the outset of President Obama's first term. And despite those internal warnings—which have been loudly shared by human rights and foreign policy experts critical of the CIA's drone and assassination programs—Wikileaks also notes that after the internal review was prepared, "US drone strike killings rose to an all-time high." <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2014/12/18/cia-analysis-high-value-targeting-had-limited-effect-against-taliban/" target="_blank">Reached</a> by the Washington Post on Thursday for response, CIA spokesperson Kali J. Caldwell said the agency would not comment “on the authenticity or content of purported stolen intelligence documents.” According to a <a href="https://wikileaks.org/cia-hvt-counterinsurgency/press-release.html" target="_blank">statement released by Wikileaks</a>: <ul>The report discusses assassination operations (by various states) against the Taliban, al-Qa'ida, the FARC, Hizbullah, the PLO, HAMAS, Peru's Shining Path, the Tamil's LTTE, the IRA and Algeria's FLN. Case studies are drawn from Chechnya, Libya, Pakistan and Thailand. The assessment was prepared by the CIA's Office of Transnational Issues (OTI). Its role is to provide “the most senior US policymakers, military planners, and law enforcement with analysis, warning, and crisis support”. The report is dated 7 July 2009, six months into Leon Panetta's term as CIA chief, and not long after CIA analyst John Kiriakou blew the whistle on the torture of CIA detainees. Kiriakou is still in prison for shedding light on the CIA torture programme. Following the politically embarrassing exposure of the CIA's torture practices and the growing cost of keeping people in detention indefinitely, the Obama administration faced a crucial choice in its counter-insurgency strategy: should it kill, capture, or do something else entirely?</ul>Given exclusive access to the CIA document ahead of its public release, the Sydney Morning Herald's Philip Dorling <a href="http://www.smh.com.au/world/drone-strikes-counterproductive-says-secret-cia-report-20141218-129ynq.html" target="_blank">reported earlier</a> on Thursday. ................</font> The hits just keep on coming! On Tuesday Professor of History Alfred McCoy at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and author of <i>A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror</i> and <i>Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation</i> was interviewed on DN! <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/16/psychological_torture_is_enshrined_in_us" target="_blank">"Psychological Torture is Enshrined in U.S. Law": Complicity in Abuses Began Long Before Bush</a>. Please watch this entire segment for its sheer "Big Brother"-ness: <font color=FireBrick>When the United States finally ratified the U.N. Convention Against Torture in 1994, we did so subject to certain qualifications, known in diplomatic parlance as "reservations." And basically, the four reservations that we introduced modified our approval, our ratification of that convention, everything in it except: We redefined the U.N. definition of what torture was—extreme pain—and we called it "prolonged mental harm," that for an act to rise to the level of torture, it had to become, in U.S. parlance, in those reservations, prolonged mental harm. Now, those three words are critical. First of all, "mental." That meant that the United States was effectively splitting the U.N. convention down the middle. The convention barred both physical and psychological torture. We were saying, "We accept the ban on physical torture, but we’re exempting the ban on psychological torture. And we are qualifying that ban because in order for an act to rise to the level of torture, of psychological torture, it has to inflict prolonged mental harm upon the victim." Now, what is "prolonged"? How long is "prolonged"? That’s not defined. It’s a huge loophole. And what constitutes "harm"? That’s another huge loophole. And that, of course, opened the door for that notorious memo by the Office of Legal Counsel, its leader then Jay Bybee, to say that for something to rise to the level of harm, the pain must be sufficient or equivalent to organ failure. In other words, torture, psychological torture up to but not including death, is legally acceptable in U.S. law. ...................... When the Abu Ghraib photographs were released back in April 2004, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld blamed it on the so-called "bad apples." That’s the first reflex—blame the bad apples. Then Dick Cheney and others, right away, began saying that it was an imperative for national security: We had to do it for reasons of safety. That’s the second stage in impunity. Then, when President Obama came into office in April 2009, he visited CIA headquarters, and he brought us to the third stage of impunity by saying that the past was indeed unfortunate, but it was time to move forward together. In other words, national unity means we can’t investigate this troubled past. Then we hit stage four, which is essentially exoneration for the perpetrators and the powerful that ordered them to commit these acts. .............. Now what they’re fighting for is not just exoneration, they want vindication before the bar of history. And that’s critical on a couple of levels. ............. And so, that’s why this is a desperate and very serious battle over impunity. And that’s why the Senate committee’s report is so important, because up to this point the perpetrators and their powerful were winning the debate. Now, in fact, the debate has shifted its tone, and it’s looking to me like it’s a much more neutral, much more positive outcome....... </font> FDL's Kevin Gosztola also did a story on the <a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2012/09/22/five-stages-of-impunity-for-torture/" target="_blank">Five Stages of Impunity for Torture</a> back in September 2012 for more info on this. The BTV LAST WORD goes to Charles Davis at Salon.com <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/12/16/america_nation_of_torturers_stop_saying_this_isnt_who_we_are_heres_the_real_truth/" target="_blank">America, nation of torturers: Stop saying “this isn’t who we are” — here’s the real truth</a> <font color=navy><i>Terrible findings in the torture report "are not who we are," John Kerry claims. Well, here's a U.S. history lesson</i> ............ Saying the United States has always been garbage is not going to be terribly popular in a nation that still fondly refers to a group of sadistic slave-owners as its “founding fathers” — so politicians savvy enough to know that openly embracing torture is not a good look for the world’s leading state-sponsor of holier-than-thou rhetoric, appeal to a history and set of values that never was and never were in practice, as a way to give political cover to their middling, public relations-minded critiques of the national-security state’s least defensible excesses. <b>It’s entirely false, this narrative of extreme goodness marked by occasional self-correcting imperfection, but it satisfies our national ego to think the American phoenix rises from a store of ethically traded gold, not a pile of rotting trash.</b> “We will likely hear these false appeals to an imaginary history a great deal with the release of the Senate report on CIA torture,” <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2014/12/founding-foundational-constitution.html" target="_blank">writes Juan Cole</a>, a history professor at the University of Michigan. But even historians can fall victim to America’s easier to digest mythology, with Cole proceeding to characterize the ugly truth about the United States – that it was founded on the “exaltation of ‘whiteness’ over universal humanity, and preference for property rights over human rights” – as but a right-wing lie. As he tells it, the likes of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were actually progressives who would almost certainly “have voted to release the report and . . . been completely appalled at its contents.” Cole follows that assertion up with a list of things that some of these founding fathers said they believed: Jefferson, for instance, argued that the formal abolition of torture in the French legal system was in keeping with “the progress of philanthropy and civilization.” And the Bill of Rights of course prohibits “cruel and unusual punishment.” But, naggingly, the actual record of those who gave those nice speeches and drafted the Constitution suggests we shouldn’t just believe what they said and wrote down. “Fascists will argue that the Constitution does not apply to captured foreign prisoners of war, or that the prisoners were not even P.O.W.s, having been captured out of uniform,” writes Cole. “But focusing on the category of the prisoner is contrary to the spirit of the founding fathers.” Except, it isn’t at all – and if fascism is denying human rights on the basis of nationality or appearance, than the exalted founders were of course fascists themselves. The same document that ostensibly prohibits torture also defined an African slave as three-fifths of a person – and even then, only for purposes of bolstering the political power of those who enslaved them: in practice, they were treated as property whose master could torture or murder them with impunity. This is not pedantry: Hundreds of thousands of people were denied their ostensibly inalienable rights because of the color of their skin; nearly four million by the time of the Civil War, or almost half the population of the South. ................ <b>Instead of renouncing this history, we have chosen to celebrate a mythical, white-washed version of it, with genocide relegated to a footnote.</b> If our leaders were more honest, they’d admit that the CIA’s recently revealed torture isn’t a break from this legacy, but the fruit of it – the product of decades of dehumanizing counter-insurgency warfare that expanded the USA from 13 colonies on the East Coast to much of North America and, ultimately, a global empire (it’s no coincidence that the code-name for Osama bin Laden was “<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/05/bin.laden.geronimo/index.html" target="_blank">Geronimo</a>,” taken from the famed Apache leader). After almost wiping out America’s original inhabitants, the U.S. government went on to declare total war on differently pigmented people around the globe. .................... Pointing all this out – noting that the U.S. government has rarely lived up to its stated ideals – is not to engage in mere pedantry, nor is it an attempt to suggest this country is irredeemably evil. This nation was born in genocide and slavery, sure, still it could conceivably change – but only if, instead of ignoring the institutionalized injustice, we recognizing and call out the systemic cause of the alleged “aberrations” our leaders are forced to distance themselves from every 18 months. The problem is not that the tree of liberty has produced a few bad seeds, but that the settler-colonists who planted it on someone else’s land watered it with blood of slaves and native peoples. It’s not George W. Bush and Dick Cheney who are responsible for making America a state that tortures, but George Washington and that other dick Tom Jefferson. Avoiding the routine departure from “our values” requires confronting our actual history; it’s the only way to learn from it. Torture and total war are not the work of a few bad people, but <b>the product of a system that from its inception treated human beings as property and the right to property as more important than the rights of women and men</b> – it’s who we are, and if we want the violence wrought by our system to end, we must honestly address the systemic cause. ......... </font> Very much more so click over! And a hat-tip to Robert Barsocchini at <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/12/america-nation-torturers-stop-saying-isnt-heres-real-truth.html" target="_blank">Washington's Blog</a> for re-posting the entire article! Great comments too! THANKS AGAIN to EVERYBODY for stopping by every Sunday for all our posts this year! 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Without Da Bunker none of this would be possible. <b>Happy Solstice 2014 everybody! </b> And remember: There is NO SANITY CLAUSE. <center><img src="http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/forums/images/smilies/Xmas/character0181.gif" alt="santra tree" /> <img src="http://www.4smileys.com/smileys/christmas-smileys/santa-pops-out-chimney-1.gif" alt="chimneysanta" /> <img src="http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/forums/images/smilies/Xmas/character0181.gif" alt="santra tree" /> </center></font> <center><img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/gonzo-111x191.png" height="75"></center><p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font> <p><img src="http://www.democracynow.org/images/nav/dn_logo.png" height=100 alt="Democracy NOW!" /> <p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/15/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, December 15, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Countrywide Police Protests</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/15/why_are_our_sons_gunned_down" target="_blank">Why Are Our Sons Gunned Down? Parents of Black Victims of Police Killings Lead D.C. March</a> <br />
<li><b>Democracy Now!’s Aaron Maté and Samantha Riddell</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/15/black_youth_organized_millions_march_nyc" target="_blank">Black Youth-Organized Millions March NYC Draws Tens of Thousands in Movement’s Biggest Protest Yet</a> <br />
<li><b>Roundtable with guests from three continents: in Peru, Suzanne Goldenberg, U.S. environment correspondent for The Guardian; in London, Asad Rehman, head of international climate for Friends of the Earth; and in New Delhi, Nitin Sethi, associate editor at Business Standard</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/15/emissions_cutting_deal_reached_at_cop" target="_blank">Emissions-Cutting Deal Reached at COP 20 Lima, But Will It Help Prevent Catastrophic Climate Change?</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/16/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, December 16, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Dr. Steven Reisner, founding member of the Coalition for an Ethical Psychology & Alfred McCoy, professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/16/after_duo_created_cia_torture_methods" target="_blank">After Duo Created CIA Torture Methods, Did World’s Largest Group of Psychologists Enable Abuses?</a> <br />
<li><b>Reisner & McCoy</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/16/psychological_torture_is_enshrined_in_us" target="_blank">"Psychological Torture is Enshrined in U.S. Law": Complicity in Abuses Began Long Before Bush</a> <br />
<li><b>Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/9/as_developing_nations_seek_climate_aid" target="_blank">Mike Gravel to Senator Mark Udall: Make Full Torture Probe Public Like I Did with Pentagon Papers</a> AND on-line Exclusive <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/12/16/former_senator_mike_gravel_on_putting" target="_blank">Part Two</a> of the interview<br />
<li><b>Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network</b> <a aref="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/9/indigenous_women_on_the_front_lines" target="_blank">Indigenous Women: Earth Defenders Speak Out from the Front Lines of Climate Change</a> <br />
<li><b>Pablo Solón, executive director of Focus on the Global South</b> <a aref="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/9/a_global_climate_deal_is_within" target="_blank">A Global Climate Deal is Within Reach, But Only Public Pressure Can Ensure It Meets Earth’s Needs</a> <br />
<li><b>Chile, Africa and New Zealand climate protesters</b> <a aref="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/9/climate_justice_activists_from_around_the" target="_blank">Climate Justice Activists from Around the World Show Solidarity with Philippines</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/17/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, December 17, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Tariq Ali, British-Pakistani political commentator, historian, activist, filmmaker & Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera English web correspondent in Pakistan</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/17/the_destabilization_of_pakistan_tariq_ali" target="_blank">The Destabilization of Pakistan: Tariq Ali on Taliban School Massacre & U.S. Afghan War Blowback</a> <br />
<li><b>William Bastone, editor of "The Smoking Gun"</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/17/was_key_grand_jury_witness_in" target="_blank">Was Key Grand Jury Witness in Michael Brown Case a Racist, Mentally Ill, Lying Ex-Felon?</a> His latest at thesmokinggun.com <a href="http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/unmasking-Ferguson-witness-40-496236" target="_blank">'Witness 40': Exposing a Fraud in Ferguson</a><br />
<li><b>Marcy Wheeler, investigative blogger who runs EmptyWheel.net</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/17/press_freedom_fight_reporter_james_risen" target="_blank">Press Freedom Fight: Reporter James Risen Faces Subpoena in CIA Whistleblower Case</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/18/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, December 18, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Peter Kornbluh, directs the Cuba Documentation Project at the National Security Archive at George Washington University</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/18/cut_loose_the_shackles_of_the" target="_blank">"Cut Loose the Shackles of the Past": U.S. and Cuba Announce a New Dawn in Diplomatic Relations</a> <br />
<li><b>Robert Muse, a Washington, D.C.-based lawyer who is an expert in U.S. laws relating to Cuba & Kornbluh, Ratner</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/18/can_obama_lift_the_embargo_on" target="_blank">Can Obama Lift the Embargo on Cuba Without Congress in Effort to Normalize U.S.-Cuba Relations?</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/19/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, December 19, 2014</a><ul><li><b>Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now! co-host</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/19/from_free_pre_k_to_paid" target="_blank">From Free Pre-K to Paid Sick Leave to Pay Raises, NYC Mayor de Blasio Fulfills Progressive Promises</a> <br />
<li><b>Sandra Steingraber, co-founder both New Yorkers Against Fracking and Concerned Health Professionals of New York & Tony Ingraffea, professor emeritus and Weiss Presidential Teaching Fellow at Cornell University</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/19/new_york_says_no_to_fracking" target="_blank">New York Says No to Fracking: State Bans Drilling Following Grassroots Outcry over Public Health</a> <br />
<li><b>Martin Garbus, considered a leading attorney in the United States & Michael Ratner, president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/19/should_bush_and_cheney_be_tried" target="_blank">Should Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & CIA Officials Be Tried for Torture? War Crimes Case Filed in Germany</a> <br />
<li><b>Garbus & Ratner</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/19/assata_shakur_what_does_new_us" target="_blank">Assata Shakur: What Does New U.S.-Cuba Pact Mean for Exiled Black Panther Wanted in New Jersey?</a> <br />
</ul><p><img src="http://grittv.org/wp-content/themes/grit/images/logo.gif" height=100 alt="GRITtv" /> <a href="http://www.lauraflanders.com/grittv/" target="_blank">GRITtv</a> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">www.grittv.org</a> with Laura Flanders - New Episode Every Monday at TELESUR </br > »»» <b>VIDEO OF THE WEEK</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?video=freedom-dreaming-liberation-robin-d-g-kelley" target="_blank">Freedom Dreaming & Liberation: Robin D.G. Kelley </a> Is there a connection between Communists in Alabama during the great depression, jazz great Thelonious Monk, and Apartheid in Palestine? This week's guest, author and historian Robin D.G. Kelley has written about all three, and much more...... <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE SPORT!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></b></font></font> </br > »»» <b>SUNDAY FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA on NBC</b> Cardinals @ Eagles 8:30 pm et</br > »»» <b>MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL on ESPN</b> Broncos @ Bengals 8:30 pm et </br > »»» <b>THURSDAY NBA XMAS MARATHON!</b> ESPN 12 pm Wizards @ Knicks; ABC 2:30 pm Thunder @ Spurs; ABC 5 pm CAVS @ Heat; TNT 8 pm Lakers @ Bulls; TNT 10:30 pm Warriors @ Clippers <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ACTION!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font></br > <font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i> <p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>! <p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <font color=red><b>ACTION! <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell the FCC: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> 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. </b> SIGN NOW at <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell Chairman Wheeler: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> at freepress.net NOW. </font> <p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW! <p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org <p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>! <p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information! <p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Chelsea Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/featured/new-action-write-letters-to-dod-officials-requesting-clemency-for-chelsea" target="_blank">New Action- write letters to DoD officials requesting clemency for Chelsea!</a> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/plaintiff-firm-for-chelseas-appeals-named-a-leading-firm-in-us" target="_blank">Chelsea's new appeals team named a leading US firm</a> <i>Dec 2, 2014. The National Law Journal and Law.com has named Freedman, Boyd Hollander, Goldberg, Urias & Ward as one of the "Top 50 Leading Plaintiff Firms in America"..........</i> <p><font size=3><b>DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION</b></font> <a href="http://tjmf.flipswap.com/" target="_blank">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. </a> For more information, go to <a href="http://www.tjmartellfoundation.org" target="_blank">www.tjmartellfoundation.org</a> <p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!! <p><center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br > <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick_teevee_test.jpg" alt="brick_teevee_test.jpg" /></br > The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br > THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br > Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,356 US Military Dead as of Dec 19, 2014</a> </br > <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br > <font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><p>
<li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, ABC News contributor and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, ABC News contributor and Republican strategist Ana Navarro, and ABC News’ Cokie Roberts.<br />
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• Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.)<br />
• Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-N.C.) <br />
• Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.)<br />
• The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Nancy Cordes, David Martin, John Dickerson, Margaret Brennan, Major Garrett and Jan Crawford. <br />
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• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• Sunday, Dec. 21 at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT<br />
• Preview: Sen. Tom Coburn - Republican Sen. Tom Coburn says he's proud of the U.S. for electing Barack Obama president<br />
• Preview: Reese Witherspoon - Award-winning actress talks about some tough years and reading she was "washed up" in The New Yorker before she made her comeback<br />
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<li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL)<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: tba<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN)</b> Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• President Obama<br />
• Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Newt Gingrich, Donna Brazile, LZ Granderson and Amy Walter<br />
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<li type=square><b>HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid</b><br />
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• FRONT PORCH FRIDAY! Bob and The HORN/Malloy chatters discuss the week's news! Listen here NOW! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(19-12-2014).mp3" target="_blank">Friday, December 19th, 2014 </a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.CRMW.net</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT</b> With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!<br />
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• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10988" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - December 18, 2014</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Nothin' but good news for a change! New York issues first permanent ban on fracking; Obama permanently protects Alaska's Bristol Bay; PLUS: More accountability, more indictments in West Virginia toxic chemical spill... All that and more surprisingly good news in today's Green News Report! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): Drone video footage reveals massive toxic lagoons of pig feces; Warming oceans killing off Maine's cod; Big Coal evicts villagers in Columbia; Ohio coal companies ask government for bailout; Why oil prices keep falling; What is the 'atmospheric river' hitting California?... PLUS: The most brazen political lie of 2014: "Climate change is a hoax"... and much, MUCH more! ...<br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10986" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - December 16, 2014</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Congress wraps up for the year with Republican anti-environment initiatives to be signed by the President; UN climate summit wraps up in Peru - ALL nations are in for final talks in Paris; PLUS: Another Bush, another climate change denier... All that and more in today's Green News Report!<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10980" target="_blank">The Clint Curtis Story, Ten Years Later: A KPFK 'BradCast' Special Edition</a> Plus MUCH MORE this week... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10944" target="_blank">Not Voting IS a Vote</a> Stop blaming those who didn't turn out. Americans did vote. By not turning out, they voted against the two major parties and against the system as a whole. It may have been a dumb vote, but it was a landslide... <br />
• BRADBLOG VIDEO! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10987" target="_blank">Brad on Hartmann Radio: Wrapping Up a Few More Election 2014 Races</a> Yes, some of us are still paying attention. Plus: A BRAD BLOG 'Programming Note'...<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10985" target="_blank">Bloomberg Editors Refuse to Correct Inaccurate, Misleading Photo ID Editorial</a> Read the 'mind-boggling' responses to BRAD BLOG's emailed explanation of blatant errors and inaccuracies in Francis Barry's op-ed..<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10979" target="_blank">SOLVED: Mystery that Flipped Maine Senate Election!</a> 21 'phantom ballots' flipped the results of a Nov. 4th state Senate election from D to R. But a dramatic turn of events and hand-counted paper ballots have now resolved the mystery... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10984" target="_blank">Proponents of Oregon GMO Measure 92 Concede Defeat</a> Adverse court ruling, barring inclusion of 4,600 rejected ballots, signals end of road (for now) of state's most expensive campaign, decided by just 800 votes out of 1.5 million cast... <br />
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<li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b><br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <br />
<ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• 16 Dec 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-majority-of-americans-think-torture-is-justified/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Majority of Americans Think Torture is Justified</a> We’re awesome and exceptional! New national poll shows majority of Americans think torture is OK, and that it works…. <br />
• 17 Dec 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-after-47-years-obama-ends-failed-embargo-of-cuba/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: After 47 Years, Obama Ends Failed Embargo of Cuba!</a> Obama accepts reality, agrees to prisoner swap and end to failed embargo against Cuba; Fidel Castro lives to see it!<br />
• 18 Dec 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-gov-siegelman-will-not-be-home-for-the-holidays/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Gov. Siegelman Will Not Be Home for the Holidays</a> New judge denies release to former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, and Siegelman supporter provides details on Monday’s court hearing… <br />
• PBC Standard Podcast Decmber 16, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/12/16/reporter-jason-leopold-talks-about-cia-torture-architect-james-mitchell-and-what-is-and-isnt-in-senate-report/" target="_blank">Reporter Jason Leopold Talks About CIA Torture “Architect” James Mitchell, and What Is–and Isn’t–in Senate Report</a> Jason Leopold is now reporting for Vice News, where he has scooped the mainstream media with video and text interviews of James Mitchell, the CIA contractor who admitted to Leopold that he was involved in waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and Abu Zubaydeh. We also talk about the limited scope of the Senate report, and important issues that were not covered. <br />
• PBC Standard Podcast December 19, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/12/19/law-professor-marjorie-cohn-talks-about-obamas-expanded-use-of-armed-drones/" target="_blank">Law Professor Marjorie Cohn Talks About Obama’s Expanded Use of Armed Drones</a> Marjorie Cohn, San Diego law professor and past president of the National Lawyers Guild, talks about her new book, <i>Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral and Geopolitical Issues.</i><br />
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Ring of Fire Radio - GoLeft TV - Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, Sam Seder - Politics, Commentary, and News.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weekend-on-ring-of-fire-radio-24/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire December 18, 2014</a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
»» Nick Hanauer will be here to tell us why the argument against increased worker pay is completely false.<br />
»» Salon.com contributor David Dayen will tell us how Wall Street exploited Democratic infighting to help pass the budget bill.<br />
»» David TeSelle will explain how big box retail stores like Walmart and Home Depot are gaming everything from labor laws to environmental standards through their campaign donations.<br />
»» Author Paul Waldman will tell us why Obama’s executive order on immigration has left the Republican Party feeling defeated.<br />
»» And best-selling author Cliff Schecter will be here to discuss the biggest news of the week that the corporate media ignored.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV!</a> - Sundays at NOON! <br />
»» Guests TBA<br />
»» Watch at <a href="http://www.freespeech.org/collection/ringoffire" target="_blank">FSTV</a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/dick-cheney-the-disgusting-torture-apologist/" target="_blank">Dick Cheney — The Disgusting Torture Apologist</a> by Gary Bentley - Ring of Fire’s Sam Seder and author Cliff Schecter discuss Dick Cheney’s disgusting apologist attitude towards the CIA torture report.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/papantonio-how-to-buy-a-legal-system/" target="_blank">Papantonio: How To Buy A Legal System</a> by Gary Bentley - The midterm elections didn’t just hand Congress over to the Republican Party – they also gave a host of courthouses all over the country to big business. Corporate money was the big winner in judicial elections. America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, and attorney David Haynes explain what that means for our civil justice system.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/papantonio-another-wall-street-appointee/" target="_blank">Papantonio: Another Wall Street Appointee</a> by Gary Bentley - President Obama has presented his nominee for Treasury Secretary, and as expected, we’ve been given another corporate Wall Street shill. Not only is this another slap to the face of progressives, but it could have a huge impact on fiscal policy. America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, discusses the president’s nominee with attorney Peter Mougey.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/jesse-ventura-body-slams-sick-dick-cheney/" target="_blank">Jesse Ventura Body Slams Sick Dick Cheney</a> by Joshua Schwitzerlett<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/jesse-ventura-body-slams-sick-dick-cheney/" target="_blank">Largest Tar Sands Pipeline into US Shut Down after Spilling Nearly 60,000 Gallons of Oily</a> by Amy Eddings<br />
• Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the "Podcast" tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/blogengine/" target="_blank">Ring of Fire Radio</a> Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, <b>rebroadcasts 7-10 et Sunday evenings on <a href="http://www.chicagoprogressivetalk.com/listen/" target="_blank">Chicago's Progressive Talk WCPT AM & FM</a> and 4 pm et on Sirius/XM 167 featuring The PAP Attack! </b> "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week." <br />
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<li type=square><b>Majority Report with Sam Seder</b> Streaming LIVE weekdays 12 NOON et @ <a href="http://Majority.fm" target="_blank">Majority.fm</a>! <br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/121514-why-the-sydney-siege-happened-fox-news-smears-millions-march" target="_blank">12/15/14 Jihadi or Crazy & Fox Attacks Millions March</a> <br />
• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/121614-mohammad-khan-fighting-to-protect-public-schools-from-wall-street" target="_blank">12/16/14 Mohammad Khan: Fighting to Protect Public Schools From Wall Street</a><br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/121714-thomas-geoghegan-why-america-needs-a-new-kind-of-labor-movement" target="_blank">12/17/14 Thomas Geoghegan: Why America Needs a New Kind of Labor Movement </a><br />
• THURSDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/121814-roxanne-dunbar-ortiz-an-indigenous-peoples-history-of-the-united-states" target="_blank">12/18/14 Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz: An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States </a><br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/121914-casual-friday-cliff-schecter-tom-scharpling" target="_blank">12/19/14 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & Tom Scharpling </a><br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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<li type=square><b>KEISER REPORT</b> Podcasts and more @ <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/" target="_blank">MaxKeiser.com</a>!<br />
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<b>"HI Y'ALL! Tell the people! Tell the people!"</b><br />
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 <a href="http://www.karmabanque.com/" target="_blank">KarmaBanque</a> a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. <br />
• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport" target="_blank">Keiser Report</a> <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/havana-found/" target="_blank">Havana Found</a> by Ellen Brown — Here’s a summary from my advocacy of this move last year: "<a href="http://www.tavakolistructuredfinance.com/2013/09/us-embargo-of-cuba/" target="_blank">Should We Help End Cuba’s Special Period?</a>" What is it like to live in a country where the government has been accused of torture, fickle application of the law to imprison citizens, unfair courts, repression of journalists, and a huge prison system? I’m not talking about the United States—in case you thought I was—I’m talking about Cuba. read <a href="http://www.tavakolistructuredfinance.com/2013/09/us-embargo-of-cuba/" target="_blank">more</a>…<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/is-russia-being-driven-into-the-arms-of-china/" target="_blank">Is Russia Being Driven Into the Arms of China?</a> by Mark O'Byrne — European governments slavishly adhere to U.S. imposed sanctions. So from a western elite point of view, Russia is indeed isolated. Whether antagonising Russia is damaging to Russia is a moot point. Certainly in Russia’s current straits the bankrupt west is in no position to help. European farmers are suffering from loss of export markets while Europe is still dependent on Russian natural gas. So how “isolated” is Russia in reality? READ MORE <a href="http://www.goldcore.com/us/gold-blog/russia-driven-arms-china/" target="_blank">Is Russia Being Driven Into the Arms of China? </a> (goldcore.com)<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/get-real-with-jan-skoyles-gold-is-heading-west-to-east/" target="_blank">Get REAL with Jan Skoyles: Gold is heading West to East</a> by Stacy Herbert — Stacy Summary: The show that was the first ever crowdfunded financial news programme is back. Jan Skoyles talks to Ned Naylor-Leyland about gold heading from West to East. Lots of interesting discussion and data. <br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/russian-roulette-taxpayers-could-be-on-the-hook-for-trillions-in-oil-derivatives/" target="_blank">Russian Roulette: Taxpayers Could Be on the Hook for Trillions in Oil Derivatives</a> by Ellen Brown — The sudden dramatic collapse in the price of oil appears to be an act of geopolitical warfare against Russia. The result could be trillions of dollars in oil derivative losses; and the FDIC could be liable, following repeal of key portions of the Dodd-Frank Act last weekend. <br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/kr693-keiser-report-oil-can-combust-blow-it-all/" target="_blank">[KR693] Keiser Report: Oil can combust & blow it all</a> We discuss the blood-bathing in the oil related markets – from the Dubai stock exchange to the West Australian fracking company gone bust to some of the highest paid jobs in America being laid off. In the second half Max interviews former banker turned independent media star, Brian Rose of London Real TV and Silicon Real. They discuss whether or not London can ever be a new Silicon Valley.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/kr694-keiser-report-bubonic-plague-of-finance/" target="_blank">[KR694] Keiser Report: Bubonic Plague of Finance</a> We discuss the arrival of the ‘shakedown times’ as our deposits and pension funds are now open to confiscation to Too Big To Fail banks in ‘resolution’… something that used to be known as ‘bankruptcy.’ In the second half Max interviews Karl Denninger about the likely oil price collapse impact on credit markets and the “Adequacy of Loss-Absorbing Capacity of Global Systemically Important Banks in Resolution”…say what? And, finally, the discuss the latest shenanigans from Jamie Dimon who lobbied to roll back certain Dodd Frank provisions regarding derivatives.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/kr695-keiser-report-rubles-baptism-by-fire/" target="_blank">[KR695] Keiser Report – Ruble’s Baptism by Fire</a> We are joined by Liam Halligan of BNE.eu. They talk rubles, sanctions and diversifying the economy with some technology investments. In the second half, Max interviews Konstantin Gurdgiev about the ruble, the Russian budget and David Cameron’s take on the causes and consequences of the crisis and sanctions. They also discuss the ruble’s ‘baptism by fire’ as it only just joined the five trillion dollar per day forex markets.<br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It’s been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show’s important milestones, as well as preview some of the exciting projects to look for in the near future. ........ The show on Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A., still called Antiwar Radio, has now moved to join their Sunday morning public affairs line up (8:30 am pt - http://kpfk.org), and remains the largest source of listeners, with 15,000-20,000 people tuning in weekly. The future: Liberty Express Radio is growing and bringing me along for the ride. The great Charles Goyette hooked me up with Alan Butler and the Liberty Express earlier this year, and what has been the daily replay there from 3-5 eastern time has become my best listened-to show. And now they’re adding my friend Tom Woods to the lineup from 2-3 PM. That does it. I’m making the switch! Starting Monday, October 14, the live show is moving to 3-5 PM Eastern time on LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/10/121014-marcy-wheeler/" target="_blank">12/10/14 Marcy Wheeler</a>: Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses the CIA’s lies about properly vetting their enhanced interrogation program with their Congressional overseers; Dick Cheney’s conspicuous absence from the CIA torture report; and the 9000 CIA documents withheld that likely implicate the Office of Legal Council and Cheney in the torture program.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/17/121714-grant-f-smith/" target="_blank">12/17/14 Grant F. Smith</a>: Grant F. Smith, founder of the Institute for Research, Middle Eastern Policy (IRMEP), discusses his involvement in the April 10, 2015 conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC: “<a href="http://israellobbyus.org/" target="_blank">The Israel Lobby: Is it Good For the US?</a>”<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/16/121614-douglas-lucas/" target="_blank">12/16/14 Douglas Lucas</a>: Douglas Lucas, a writer, researcher, and journalist based in Texas, discusses “hactivist” writer <a href="http://whowhatwhy.com/2014/12/16/governments-final-onslaught-delays-barrett-browns-sentencing/" target="_blank">Barrett Brown’s sentencing hearing</a> in a Dallas federal court, where he faces up to 8.5 years in prison on a plea deal. He was arrested in September 2012 after posting YouTube videos threatening an FBI agent, and a litany of charges was then added by prosecutors who accused Brown of colluding with the Anonymous hacker collective in criminal acts, rather than just covering their findings as a journalist.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/17/121714-eric-margolis/" target="_blank">12/17/14 Eric Margolis</a>: Eric Margolis, internationally syndicated columnist and author of <i>American Raj</i>, discusses the Pakistani Taliban’s mass-killing of kids in Peshawar; the history of Pakistan’s restive northwest territories from the days of British empire; why the US still won’t leave Afghanistan; and the possibility of normalized relations with Cuba.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/18/121814-mark-thornton/" target="_blank">12/18/14 Mark Thornton</a>: Mark Thornton, Senior Fellow at the Mises Institute, discusses the <a href="http://mises.org/library/war-drugs-was-born-100-years-ago" target="_blank">100 year anniversary of the War on Drugs</a>, its firm foundation in racism and bigotry, and how it has been taxed, regulated, and legislated into a multi-billion dollar government enterprise of destruction.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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• Rep Mike Rogers (R-MI), Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence<br />
• Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Sen Ron Johnson (R-WI) <br />
• Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, Sen Ben Cardin (D-MD)<br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>Torture Report Special</b> Thanks for hanging with us (pun intended) as we assemble this week's post. We have never seen so much big-time significant stuff come out in one week! From our perch it looks like lots of peeps are NOT going to have a Happy Holiday while others are popping champagne corks (some are the same peeps!). And we don't even have ONE story about the <a href="http://cop20lima.org" target="_blank">COP20</a> so see DN! for all those updates on Global Climate Change! <br />
Malloy chatter <b>Anitole78</b> gives us this snippet from Howard Zinn <a href="http://howardzinn.org/a-power-governments-cannot-suppress/" target="_blank">A Power Governments Cannot Suppress</a>, 2007: <font color=blue>"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…Our problem is that people are obedient allover the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem......... The challenge remains. On the other side are formidable forces: money, political power, the major media. On our side are the people of the world and a power greater than money or weapons: the truth. Truth has a power of its own. Art has a power of its own. That age-old lesson – that everything we do matters – is the meaning of the people’s struggle here in the United States and everywhere. A poem can inspire a movement. A pamphlet can spark a revolution. Civil disobedience can arouse people and provoke us to think, when we organize with one another, when we get involved, when we stand up and speak out together, we can create a power no government can suppress. We live in a beautiful country. But people who have no respect for human life, freedom, or justice have taken it over. It is now up to all of us to take it back."</font> <br />
UPDATE! The mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice that was just shot by a cop not allowed to ride in the EMT to the hospital with her dying child and had to go to the hospital in the squad car with her 12-year-old daughter the CPD already caught and detained <a href="http://news.jammedup.com/2014/12/09/tamir-rices-sister-was-handcuffed-after-his-shooting-mom-says/" target="_blank">Tamir Rice’s Sister was Handcuffed After His Shooting, Mom Says</a> <font color=red>Tamir Rice’s 14-year-old sister rushed to her brother’s side after finding out the boy had been shot, and upon arriving police officers “tackled” her, handcuffed her and placed Tamir’s sister in a police car with the officer who shot Tamir, her mother and a Rice family attorney disclosed reporters on Monday. The mother of Tamir Rice, Samaria Rice, was also threatened to be arrested after she attempted to charge and yell at the officers “because they wouldn’t let her run to her son’s aid,” she said. ............ the mother remembered the moment she received the news that her youngest of her four children had been shot. “Two little boys came and knocked on my door and said, ‘Police officers just shot your son twice in the stomach,’ ” she said. At first, she didn’t believe them but quickly realized they were telling the truth. “I really thought they was playing, like joking around, but I saw the seriousness in their face, and it scared me,” she said. She ran to the scene, admittedly frantic, and arrived at the same time as an ambulance. Officers wouldn’t let her check on her son, she said, “and then I saw my daughter in the back of a police car, the same one the shooter got out of.” Family attorney Walter Madison said police placed Tamir’s sister in the car with Loehmann. Samaria Rice said she calmed down and asked police to release her daughter. They told her no, she said. Not only would they not release her daughter, but later, she said, they made her choose: Stay with her daughter or accompany her son to a hospital. She chose the latter but was told she couldn’t ride in the back of the ambulance with her son, so she rode in the front seat on the way to the hospital, she said......</font> WOW! AND Breanna Edwards of TheRoot.com explains <a href="http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/12/tamir_rice_s_mom_wants_conviction_in_her_son_s_death.html" target="_blank">Tamir Rice’s Mom Wants a Conviction in Her Son’s Death</a> <font color=FireBrick>Samaria Rice, the mother of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was <a href="http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/11/cleveland_police_officer_shoots_12_year_old_boy_carrying_toy_gun.html" target="_blank">fatally shot by Cleveland police Nov. 22</a>, is “looking for a conviction” for both of the officers who were on the scene at the time of her son’s death, <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/mother-cleveland-boy-shot-police-shes-convictions/story?id=27440827" target="_blank">ABC News reports</a>. ........... In an exclusive interview with ABC, the grieving mother said that she wants the “police [to] be accountable for what they did to my son. I’m looking for a conviction for both of the officers.” ........... The family has also recently filed a <a href="http://www.theroot.com/articles/culture/2014/12/wrongful_death_suit_filed_in_tamir_rice_s_shooting_death.html" target="_blank">wrongful death suit</a> against the city and the two officers involved in Tamir’s shooting death, claiming that the officers acted recklessly and that the police left the little boy on the ground bleeding without medical attention, ABC News notes.</font> In a related story we follow up with Cleveland's Ideastream who reports Cleveland Mayor <a href="http://ideastream.org/news/feature/jackson-says-police-problems-complex-stands-by-leadership" target="_blank">Jackson says police problems complex, stands by leadership</a> <font color=maroon><i>In the wake of last week’s scathing Justice Department review of the Cleveland police, Mayor Frank Jackson says many factors, inside and outside the force, have contributed to problems. Responding to the finding of routine, excessive use of force, Jackson talked about the path to reform during an open discussion with reporters today at City Hall. ideastream’s Joanna Richards reports. </i> .......... The mayor acknowledged problems with the police force, but <b>insisted they did not amount to systemic failure.</b> He stood by the division’s leadership despite calls from demonstrators and a city councilman for firings following the Justice Department review. The mayor also repeatedly questioned whether the department had its facts straight, and said the city is looking into the claims. <b>“We’re just not accepting it because the DOJ said it,” Jackson said.</b> But despite his misgivings about the report, the mayor acknowledged city policing had its flaws. ........ He called the recent shooting death of Tamir Rice by an officer his "worst moment as mayor", and talked about the difficulty of striking a delicate balance between protecting the public and allowing police leeway to protect themselves. Overall, Jackson welcomed reform he says is already underway, and will ramp up under a legal agreement being negotiated with the Justice Department. </font> Listen to the story at the link! Of course we'll keep you posted on updates to these stories! Matt Taibbi at Rolling Stone weighs in with "The crooked math that's going to crash American law enforcement if policies aren't changed" in <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-police-in-america-are-becoming-illegitimate-20141205" target="_blank">The Police in America Are Becoming Illegitimate</a> <font color=purple>Nobody's willing to say it yet. But after Ferguson, and especially after the Eric Garner case that exploded in New York yesterday after yet another non-indictment following a minority death-in-custody, the police suddenly have a legitimacy problem in this country. Law-enforcement resources are now distributed so unevenly, and justice is being administered with such brazen inconsistency, that <b>people everywhere are going to start questioning the basic political authority of law enforcement. And they're mostly going to be right to do it, and when they do, it's going to create problems that will make the post-Ferguson unrest seem minor.</b> The Garner case was a perfect symbol of everything that's wrong with the proactive police tactics that are now baseline policy in most inner cities. ................. The ostensible goal of Broken Windows is to quickly and efficiently weed out people with guns or outstanding warrants. You flood neighborhoods with police, you stop people for anything and everything and demand to see IDs, and before long you've both amassed mountains of intelligence about who hangs with whom, and made it genuinely difficult for fugitives and gunwielders to walk around unmolested. ................ But the psychic impact of these policies on the massive pool of everyone else in the target neighborhoods is a rising sense of being seriously pissed off. They're tired of being manhandled and searched once a week or more for riding bikes the wrong way down the sidewalk (about <a href="http://www.streetsblog.org/2013/07/09/nypd-issues-more-tickets-for-sidewalk-riding-than-speeding-on-local-streets/" target="_blank">25,000 summonses a year</a> here in New York), smoking in the wrong spot, selling loosies, or just "obstructing pedestrian traffic," a.k.a. walking while black. This is exactly what you hear Eric Garner complaining about in the last moments of his life. "Every time you see me, you want to mess with me," he says. "It stops today!" <b>This is the part white Middle American news audiences aren't hearing about these stories.</b> .............. The press and the people who don't live in these places want you to focus only on the incidents in question. It was technically a crime! Annoying, but he should have complied! His fault for dying – and he was a fat guy with asthma besides! But the real issue is almost always the hundreds of police interactions that take place before that single spotlight moment, the countless aggravations large and small that pump up the rage gland over time. .................This policy of constantly badgering people for trifles generates bloodcurdling anger in "hot spot" neighborhoods with industrial efficiency. And then something like the Garner case happens and it all comes into relief. Six armed police officers tackling and killing a man for selling a 75-cent cigarette. <b>That was economic regulation turned lethal</b>, a situation made all the more ridiculous by the fact that we no longer prosecute the countless serious economic crimes committed in this same city. A ferry ride away from Staten Island, on Wall Street, the pure unmolested freedom to fleece whoever you want is considered the sacred birthright of every rake with a briefcase.<br />
<b>If Lloyd Blankfein or Jamie Dimon had come up with the concept of selling loosies, they'd go to their graves defending it as free economic expression that "creates liquidity" and should never be regulated.</b> Taking it one step further, if Eric Garner had been selling naked credit default swaps instead of cigarettes – if in other words he'd set up a bookmaking operation in which passersby could bet on whether people made their home mortgage payments or companies paid off their bonds – <i>the police by virtue of a federal law called the Commodity Futures Modernization Act would have been barred from even approaching him.</i> <u>There were more cops surrounding Eric Garner on a Staten Island street this past July 17th then there were surrounding all of AIG</u> during the period when the company was making the toxic bets that nearly destroyed the world economy years ago. This is the crooked math that's going to crash American law enforcement if policies aren't changed. .............</font><br />
PRINT THIS <a href="http://tinyurl.com/k3tuvqr" target="_blank">POSTER</a> and distribute! Asks <b>Anitole78</b> <i>"Who polices the policemen? Who watches the watchers?"</i><br />
AP EXCLUSIVE: Via Bill Hutchison at NYDailynews.com <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/u-s-co-opted-cuba-hip-hop-scene-failed-youth-uprising-article-1.2041420" target="_blank">U.S. co-opted Cuba's hip-hop scene in failed attempt to spark unrest in communist nation</a> <font color=Brown><b>An Associated Press investigation revealed a secret operation to infiltrate Cuba’s underground hip-hop scene was ill-conceived and put innocent Cubans at risk.</b> A covert U.S. operation to spark a democracy-spreading youth movement in Cuba by infiltrating the country’s underground hip-hop scene ended up a Looney tune. An Associated Press investigation blew the lid off the clandestine mission by the U.S. Agency for International Development, revealing it flopped because it was ill-conceived, reckless and executed by amateurs. Instead of spreading democracy, the mission put innocent Cubans at risk and left unwitting recruits detained and interrogated by Cuban officials. On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) called the operation “just plain stupid,” while U.S. Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) deemed it “boneheaded.” .............. Uncovering reams of records, the AP found that USAID repeatedly put innocent Cubans and its own operatives in jeopardy despite warning signs. Authorities detained or interrogated musicians or USAID operatives at least six times, often confiscating their computers and thumb drives, which in some cases contained material linking them to USAID. The missions initial point person, a Serbian music promoter named Rajko Bozic, infiltrated a popular rap group known as Los Aldeanos. But When the Cuban government caught wind of the scheme, Los Aldeanos began facing political pressure and had to emigrate to South Florida. A popular music festival was also banned because of the perception that USAID was pulling the strings for it. So instead of sparking a democratic revolution, it compromised an authentic source of protest that had produced some of the hardest-hitting grassroots criticism since Fidel Castro took power in 1959, an AP investigation found.</font> Of course USAID is not the happy smiley (taxpayer-funded) entity it claims to be <a href="http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/the-americas-blog/usaid-subversion-in-latin-america-not-limited-to-cuba" target="_blank">USAID Subversion in Latin America Not Limited to Cuba</a> notes Dan Beeton at The Center for Economic and Policy Research. <font color=peru>....... As CEPR Co-Director Mark Weisbrot described in <a href="http://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/101542" target="_blank">an interview</a> with radio station KPFA’s “Letters and Politics” yesterday [04 April 2014], <b>USAID and OTI in particular have engaged in various efforts to undermine the democratically-elected governments of Venezuela, Bolivia, and Haiti, among others</b>, and such “open societies” could be more likely to be impacted by such activities than Cuba. Declassified U.S. government documents show that USAID’s OTI in Venezuela <a href="http://venezuelanalysis.com/analysis/1350" target="_blank">played a central role</a> in funding and working with groups and individuals following the short-lived 2002 coup d’etat against Hugo Chávez. A key contractor for USAID/OTI in that effort has been Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI). More recent <a href="https://wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/06CARACAS3356_a.html" target="_blank">State Department cables made public by Wikileaks</a> reveal that USAID/OTI subversion in Venezuela extended into the Obama administration era (until 2010, when funding for OTI in Venezuela appears to have ended), and DAI continued to play an important role. ......</font> and for more background read this item at Longitutde361.com <a href="http://www.longitude361.com/?p=508" target="_blank">The USAID-CIA consortium in which Obama was raised</a> from 2011 and <a href="http://monthlyreview.org/2006/12/01/the-myths-of-democracy-assistance-u-s-political-intervention-in-post-soviet-eastern-europe/" target="_blank">The Myths of ‘Democracy Assistance’: U.S. Political Intervention in Post-Soviet Eastern Europe</a> by Gerald Sussman at monthlyreview.org from 2006. <br />
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Due to lack of time and space please read these very important items: <ul><li> Soldiers For Peace International <a href="http://www.soldiersforpeaceinternational.org/2014/12/turkeys-turn-to-russia-could-spell-end.html" target="_blank">TURKEY'S TURN TO RUSSIA COULD SPELL THE END OF NATO</a><br />
<li> Zerohedge.com has this <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-05-07/guest-post-false-eastwest-paradigm-hides-rise-global-currency" target="_blank">Guest Post: False East/West Paradigm Hides The Rise Of Global Currency</a> Submitted by Brandon Smith of <br />
<a href="http://www.alt-market.com/articles/2126-false-eastwest-paradigm-hides-the-rise-of-global-currency" target="_blank">Alt-Market blog </a> <br />
<li>HuffPo UK <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/12/06/luke-somers-killed_n_6279854.html" target="_blank">Luke Somers, Al Qaeda Hostage, Killed In Failed Special Forces Rescue Attempt</a><br />
<li> New York Times <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/08/world/americas/us-transfers-6-guantanamo-detainees-to-uruguay.html" target="_blank">Uruguay Accepts 6 Detainees Held at Guantánamo</a><br />
<li> Shahid Buttar Common Dreams <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/12/11/what-ferguson-eric-garner-and-cia-torture-have-common" target="_blank">What Ferguson, Eric Garner, and CIA Torture Have in Common</a><br />
</ul>NEXT Eric Lipton at the NYT uncovers <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/07/us/politics/energy-firms-in-secretive-alliance-with-attorneys-general.html" target="_blank">Energy Firms in Secretive Alliance With Attorneys General</a> <font color=DarkSlateGray>The letter to the Environmental Protection Agency from Attorney General Scott Pruitt of Oklahoma carried a blunt accusation: Federal regulators were grossly overestimating the amount of air pollution caused by energy companies drilling new natural gas wells in his state. But Mr. Pruitt left out one critical point. The three-page letter was written by lawyers for Devon Energy, one of Oklahoma’s biggest oil and gas companies, and was delivered to him by Devon’s chief of lobbying. ................. The email exchange from October 2011, obtained through an open-records request, offers a hint of the unprecedented, secretive alliance that Mr. Pruitt and other Republican attorneys general have formed with some of the nation’s top energy producers to push back against the Obama regulatory agenda, an investigation by The New York Times has found. <b>Attorneys general in at least a dozen states are working with energy companies and other corporate interests, which in turn are providing them with record amounts of money for their political campaigns, including at least $16 million this year.</b> They share a common philosophy about the reach of the federal government, but the companies also have billions of dollars at stake. And the collaboration is likely to grow: For the first time in modern American history, Republicans in January will control a majority — 27 — of attorneys general’s offices. ................ Out of public view, corporate representatives and attorneys general are coordinating legal strategy and other efforts to fight federal regulations, according to a review of thousands of emails and court documents and dozens of interviews. “When you use a public office, pretty shamelessly, to vouch for a private party with substantial financial interest without the disclosure of the true authorship, that is a dangerous practice,” said <a href="http://harrang.com/directory/dave-frohnmayer/" target="_blank">David B. Frohnmayer</a>, a Republican who served a decade as attorney general in Oregon. “The puppeteer behind the stage is pulling strings, and you can’t see. I don’t like that. And when it is exposed, it makes you feel used.”</font> Unbeleivable! Read on! Much more!
Erika Eichelberger at MotherJones.com explains how <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/12/spending-bill-992-derivatives-citigroup-lobbyists" target="_blank">Citigroup Wrote the Wall Street Giveaway The House Just Approved</a> <font color=indigo>Update Friday, December 12, 2014: On Thursday night, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/us/congress-spending-bill.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0" target="_blank">House passed</a> the spending bill with the Citigroup-written provision. The Senate is expected to approve the legislation. A year ago, Mother Jones <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/citigroup-hr-992-wall-street-swaps-regulatory-improvement-act" target="_blank">reported</a> that a House bill that would allow banks like Citigroup to do more high-risk trading with taxpayer-backed money was written almost entirely by Citigroup lobbyists. The bill passed the House in October 2013, but the Senate never voted on it. For months, it was all but dead. Yet on <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/10/us/politics/congressional-leaders-reach-deal-on-spending.html?ref=politics" target="_blank">Tuesday night</a>, the Citi-written bill resurfaced. Lawmakers snuck the measure into a <a href="http://rules.house.gov/bill/113/hr-83" target="_blank">massive 11th-hour government funding bill</a> that congressional leaders negotiated in the hopes of averting a government shutdown. President Barack Obama is expected to sign the legislation. "This is outrageous," says Marcus Stanley, the financial policy director at the advocacy group Americans for Financial Reform. "This is to benefit big banks, bottom line." As I <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/05/citigroup-hr-992-wall-street-swaps-regulatory-improvement-act" target="_blank">reported</a> last year, the bill eviscerates a section of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reform act called the "push-out rule":<ul>Banks hate the push-out rule…because this provision will forbid them from trading certain derivatives (which are complicated financial instruments with values derived from underlying variables, such as crop prices or interest rates). Under this rule, banks will have to move these risky trades into separate non-bank affiliates that aren't insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and are less likely to receive government bailouts. The bill would smother the push-out rule in its crib by permitting banks to use government-insured deposits to bet on a wider range of these risky derivatives.</ul>The Citi-drafted legislation will benefit five of the largest banks in the country—Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo. These financial institutions control more than 90 percent of the $700 trillion derivatives market. If this measure becomes law, <u>these banks will be able to use FDIC-insured money to bet</u> on nearly anything they want. <b>And if there's another economic downturn, they can count on a taxpayer bailout</b> of their derivatives trading business.........</font> MORE! NEXT we have MORE MATT TAIBBI at Rolling Stone <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/dodd-frank-budget-fight-proves-democrats-are-a-bunch-of-stuffed-suits-20141213#ixzz3LqnRzifD" target="_blank">Dodd-Frank Budget Fight Proves Democrats Are a Bunch of Stuffed Suits</a> <font color=purple>........... The dominant media narrative this past week has been that Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, firmly saddled in her high horse, is trying to hold up the passage of the budget over a trifle. In reality, the so-called "Citigroup" provision to kill a rule designed to prevent future bailouts (so named because it was allegedly <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/12/11/elizabeth_warren_citigroup_lobbyists_literally_wrote_omnibus_bill.html" target="_blank">written by Citigroup lobbyists</a>) is potentially quite an evil and destructive little thing. But the nitpicking counter-spin is already coming hot and heavy."Every leading Democrat," said RNC spokescreep Sean Spicer, "feels like Elizabeth Warren is looking over their shoulder to go further to the left." All of this is infuriating on multiple levels, but mainly because Warren's opposition to the Citi provision wasn't a left-leaning move at all. It was very much a conservative position. Ayn Rand herself, dragged from the grave and lashed to a chair on the floor of the Senate, would have argued the same thing. All the Dodd-Frank rule says is that if you're a federally-insured depository institution – if you're an FDIC-guaranteed bank, where real people have real bank accounts that are guaranteed by the federal government – you can't also be gambling with swaps and other dangerous derivative instruments.
Think of it in terms of a workman's compensation law. If you're going to be insured against injury by the state, the state should get to demand that you don't engage in fire-eating or base-jumping during work hours. <b>There's no logical argument against the provision. The banks only want it because they want to use your bank accounts as a human shield to protect their dangerous gambling activities.</b> Thus it was no surprise when <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/12/12/wall-st-wins-a-round-in-a-dodd-frank-fight/?_r=0" target="_blank">JPMorgan Chase chief Jamie Dimon started personally calling lawmakers</a> this week to make sure the Citigroup provision passed. Dimon's bank is the poster child for this rule, since the infamous <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/19/investing/jpmorgan-london-whale-fine/" target="_blank">London Whale episode</a> of a few years ago is exhibit A of what this rule is designed to prevent: <b>a trillion-dollar federally-insured depository bank engaging in tons of unsafe financial sex with risky derivatives, leading to spiraling losses in the billions that imperiled the savings of millions of ordinary people. Both parties are moving against their ideological reputations in this fight.</b> ........... Conservatives for welfare, and liberals for big business. It doesn't make sense unless we're not really dealing with any divided collection of conservatives or liberals, and are instead talking about one nebulous mass of influence, money and interests. I think of it as a single furiously-money-collecting/favor-churning oligarchical Beltway party, a thing that former Senate staffer and author Jeff Connaughton calls "<a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/10/how-professional-democrats-and-professional-republicans-ran-america-into-the-ground.html" target="_blank">The Blob</a>." What's happening here is that The Blob, which includes supposed enemies like Reid and Graham, wants to give donation-factory banks like Citi and Chase a handout. But a coalition of heretics, including the liberal Warren, the genuinely conservative Vitter and (surprisingly to me) the usually party-orthodox Nancy Pelosi is saying no to the naked giveaway. Is killing the Citigroup provision really worth the trouble? Is it a "Hill to die on"? Maybe not in itself. But the key here is that a victory on the swaps issue will provide the Beltway hacks with a playbook for killing the rest of the few meaningful things in Dodd-Frank, probably beginning with the similar Volcker Rule, designed to prevent other types of gambling by federally-insured banks. Once they cave on the swaps issue, it won't be long before the whole bill vanishes, and we can go all the way back to our pre-2008 regulatory Nirvana. .......</font> Read on! Awesome! Next Brick TeeVee Contributor <b>msgeaux</b> sez "The country is no more.... What a travesty!!!!! This is 10 times the last bailout" and points us to Tyler Durden at Zerohedge.com <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-12-12/presenting-303-trillion-derivatives-us-taxpayers-are-now-hook" target="_blank">Presenting The $303 Trillion In Derivatives That US Taxpayers Are Now On The Hook For</a> with some awesone charts from the one and only Office of the Comptroller of Currency at Treasury <font color=darkblue>Courtesy of the Cronybus(sic) last minute passage, government was provided a quid-pro-quo $1.1 trillion spending allowance with Wall Street's blessing in exchange for assuring banks that taxpayers would be on the hook for yet another bailout, as a result of the swaps push-out provision, after incorporating explicit Citigroup language that allows financial institutions to trade certain financial derivatives from subsidiaries that are insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, <b>explicitly</b> putting taxpayers on the hook for losses caused by these contracts. ............ We say <i>explicitly</i>, of course, because taxpayers have always been on the hook <i>implicitly</i> for the next Wall Street meltdown. Why? Exhibit A: US banks are the proud owners of $303 trillion in derivatives (and spare us the whole "but.. but... net exposure" cluelessness - <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">read here</a> why that is absolutely irrelevant when even one counterpaty fails): [chart] Exhibit B: Here are the four banks that are in complete control of the US "republic." [chart] At least we now know with certainty that to a clear majority in Congress - one consisting of republicans and democrats - the future viability of Wall Street is far more important than the well-being of their constituents. Which also, implicitly, was made clear when Hank Paulson was waving a three-page "blank check" term sheet, and when Congress voted through the biggest bailout of banks in US history back in 2008. The only question is when the next multi-trillion (or perhaps quadrillion now that <b>all</b> global central banks are all in?) bailout takes place.
Source: <a href="http://www.occ.treas.gov/topics/capital-markets/financial-markets/trading/derivatives/dq214.pdf" target="_blank">OCC</a></font>
FREEDOM INDUSTRIES UPDATE: CHARLESTON – Remember that toxic spill in WVA into the Elk River of 4-methylcyclohexane methanol (or MCHM) that's used to "clean" coal contaminating the drinking water for some quarter-million+ peeps? Sure you do. (look <a href="http://filthy-rich.blogspot.com/2014/01/brick-teevees-4-methylcyclohexane.html" target="_blank">here</a>.) And remember how the company immediately filed for BANKRUPCY repesented by another company they "have interest in"? Sure you do. (look <a href="http://filthy-rich.blogspot.com/2014/01/brick-teevees-wake-for-death-of-net.html" target="_blank">here</a>.) Now comes Jeff Freely at Bloomberg's BusinessWeek.com <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-12-09/west-virginia-executive-charged-in-spill-bankruptcy" target="_blank">Freedom Industries Charged in Fraud After Chemical Spill</a> <font color=Brown>The former president of Freedom Industries Inc., the chemical maker that in January contaminated drinking water for 300,000 West Virginia residents, was charged with fraud in the company’s bankruptcy filing, which was triggered by lawsuits after the catastrophe shut down water service to the state's largest city.
<b>Gary Southern, an executive of Charleston, West Virginia-based Freedom since 2009, was arrested and accused of lying during bankruptcy proceedings in hopes of protecting about $8 million in personal assets, according to a Federal Bureau of Investigation complaint filed Dec. 8.</b> The chemical maker sought bankruptcy protection from creditors in January, days after state officials discovered that a leak from one of Freedom’s tanks sent about 7,500 gallons of a cleaning agent used in coal-mining operations spilling into the Elk River. The spill contaminated drinking water for about 300,000 people in the Charleston area and sent more than 100 residents to the hospital. Shortly after the leak was discovered, <b>“Southern engaged in a pattern of deceitful behavior, which included numerous false and/or fraudulent statements” about his role at Freedom</b>, FBI Special Agent James Lafferty said in court filings. .............. <b>Southern, who owns a house on Marco Island, Florida, was arrested two days ago on bankruptcy-fraud and wire-fraud charges</b> and appeared before a federal magistrate in Fort Myers yesterday, the Associated Press reported. He was released on a $100,000 unsecured bond and ordered to hand over his passport. He’s accused of misrepresenting his role at Freedom Industries and his involvement in the December 2013 sale of the chemical maker to Chemstream Holdings Inc., a company controlled by Pennsylvania coal-mining magnate J. Clifford Forrest. As part of a probe into the cause of Elk River spill, Lafferty said he learned Southern testified under oath in the bankruptcy case that he hadn’t worked at Freedom before Chemstream’s acquisition of the company. Records show Southern was hired as Freedom’s chief operating officer in May 2009 and served on the company’s board from March 2010 until October 2013, Lafferty said in an affidavit filed in federal court in Charleston. 'Financial Type’ Southern testified during a bankruptcy hearing that he worked for Freedom as “a part-time, financial type consultant” prior to the Chemstream acquisition, according to the filing. Contrary to those statements, Southern “possessed and exercised significant management authority” at Freedom before the purchase, Lafferty said in the affidavit. .......</font> LOTS MORE to read so click over for the rest!
SENATE FOIA UPDATE: OpenTheGovernment.org has been tracking paggage of an updated Freedom Of Information Act bill
<a href="http://www.openthegovernment.org/Now_or_Never_FOIA" target="_blank">Now or (Almost) Never for FOIA Reform</a> <font color=indigo>The House has an opportunity to pass a meaningful Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) reform bill today that will force federal agencies to be more accountable to the public. While we understand that the bill, S. 2520, is jostling for position on the House schedule with many other pieces of legislation, we urge Congressional leadership to not miss this window of opportunity. S. 2520, and it's House companion bill, HR 1211, passed their respective bodies with no opposition. Good bipartisan work was critical to achieving this result. Particularly on the Senate side, though, the vote belies the difficulty open government advocates had in bringing the bill to a vote. As many people are aware, the Senate bill barely squeaked out after an attempt by Senator Rockefeller to kill the bill by placing an 11th hour hold on the legislation. ................. The political reality of the situation is that is S.2520 fails to pass in this Congress, independent agencies like the FTC and other components of the career civil service that do not want to be held more accountable will work even harder to bottle it up during the next Congress. The 113th Congress has already passed a lot of ground-breaking open government legislation, including the DATA Act and the Presidential and Federal Records Act. Let's add one more accomplishment to the list, Speaker Boehner! Please put S. 2520 on the schedule for a vote TODAY.</font> AND they have this <a href="http://www.openthegovernment.org/Boehner_Fails_FOIA_Reform" target="_blank">UPDATED: Failure of Speaker Boehner to Pass FOIA Reform</a> <font color=indigo>Statement of Patrice McDermott, Executive Director of OpenTheGovernment.org: <i>We are particularly concerned that Speaker Boehner has now said that he has “no knowledge of the plan” to pass the bipartisan, bicameral FOIA reform bill. If accountability and making the federal government answer to the public is really a priority for the Republican Caucus, passing this bill should be a priority. The House passed the House companion bill 410 – 0. The Senate passed the bill by unanimous consent after the open government community waged an all-out war against a last second attempt by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and other independent agencies that are supposed to be on the public’s side to stop the bill. It’s up to Speaker Boehner to put this bill to a vote and create the levels of open government the public needs. We call on Speaker Boehner to work with Minority Leader Pelosi to pass S.2520 by unanimous consent.</i>.........</font> Well it looks like Da House split town before they could vote on H.T. 1211 FOIA Act. Wonder why?
Writing at Counterpunch.org Billy O'Connor explains <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/12/05/the-death-of-the-fourth-estate/" target="_blank">The Death of the Fourth Estate</a> <font color=blue>Non-journalists are also beginning to question print and broadcast news. According to a recent Gallup survey, only 40 percent of Americans believe what they read in newspapers. After scanning today’s tabloids, one only wonders why the percentage is that high. ................ Because controversy sells, stations are no longer content with merely slanting their broadcasts. <b>Now, in order to rile-up their audiences, “newscasters” flat-out lie.</b> Whether you’re left or right wing, “news” is skewered, biased or twisted to suit the objectives of the medium’s owner. And if someone owns a television, radio station or a newspaper, he’s rich. So viewers, listeners, or readers are subjected to a steady stream of a wealthy man’s slant. Oligarchs hire “newscasters” for ratings not competence — witness the abundance of the blonde hair, blue-eyed variety on right-wing stations.
Because our uninformed electorate craves the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought, today’s affirmation and checkbook journalists thrive and flourish. ................... A true journalist must be fiercely independent. He must analyze or unearth vital information, and while doing so, seek the whole truth. Americans today rarely witness that kind of reporting because real news doesn’t sell, and it also presents the journalist with a dilemma. Does the broadcaster work for the public or the man who signs his paycheck? If current “newscasters” disagree with their bosses, they lose their forums, so they will do or say as they’re told. If a broadcaster has a National audience, chances are he has already sold out. In today’s America If Diogenes searched for honest journalism, his lamp would run out of oil because if information is truly the currency of democracy, our Republic has been bankrupt since Reagan deregulated news ownership. .................. America doesn’t have elections. We have auctions. Ninety seven percent of the time, whatever candidate spends the most money wins. Economic power translates into political influence, and because of the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to bestow life status upon corporations, in some Orwellian-Frankensteinian nightmare, plutocrats now control all three branches of our government. How does unlimited, anonymous money pouring into our lawmaker’s coffers help our Republic? It doesn’t, and even the least informed of our electorate knows it. <b>Eighty percent of Americans want Citizens United overturned. It won’t happen. The oligarchs prefer laws that sell to the highest bidder.</b> The wealthiest Americans not only own our government but the fourth estate as well. Poor people don’t own news stations. .................. America has 8000 channels telling us what five rich men want us to hear and a tiny handful of independent channels and papers that nobody has ever heard of. The latest midterms proved that the 30 percent who voted listened to this biased information and then did as they were told. ................. Question everything you see in print. Verify everything you read or hear. If today’s journalism is truly the first draft of history, then Hemingway’s old adage rings true. “The first draft of everything is shit.” ............</font>
The NYT Editorial Board pens this item <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">Dark Again After Report on C.I.A. Torture</a> <font color=maroon>We have not always agreed with Senator Dianne Feinstein on national security issues like wiretapping, but the California Democrat who heads the Senate Intelligence Committee has displayed commitment and courage in the investigation of the illegal detention, abuse and torture of prisoners by the Central Intelligence Agency. Realizing she had one last chance to get this report to the public before Republicans take over the Senate, Ms. Feinstein released a summary of the findings despite heavy pressure from Republicans and the White House to withhold it. She and her aides deserve enormous credit for their five-and-a-half-year struggle. Sadly, that is pretty much it on the disclosure front. In post-9/11 America, when it comes to momentous matters of national security, democratic tradition and the rule of law, there is precious little disclosure and no justice and accountability. It’s a bipartisan affliction. Employees of the C.I.A. and the military, as well as private contractors, illegally detained, tortured and abused prisoners — some of them really dangerous men, but also some who should never have been detained. None of them should have been dealt with in such a shameful and evidently unlawful way. <b> The jailers and torturers acted on orders that descended from President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, C.I.A. chief George Tenet and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, among others.</b> They justified their action with twisted legal memos arguing that torture was not torture when the president wanted to do it. ........... Under Mr. Bush, foreign citizens with no connection to terrorism were snatched from the streets and, on one occasion, from Kennedy International Airport in New York. They were bound, gagged, blindfolded and flown off to countries that commit even more hideous acts of torture than the ones the C.I.A. seemed to prize so highly. .............. No one was held accountable. When the prisoners were finally set free, their bodies broken and their lives ruined (one was dropped on a remote road in a lonely part of Europe where nobody spoke his language and had to make his way home to a family that had long thought him dead), the United States rolled out its legal guns to make sure that no court ever heard their cases. The excuse was national security. The real reason was that if these stories were told in public, it would be hideously embarrassing to the government. That policy of concealment continued into the Obama administration, with perhaps even greater zeal than under Mr. Bush. To this day, the United States government will not even acknowledge these abductions, much less apologize or provide compensation. ...........</font>
Here are two items you must sift through for all the details:<ul><li>CommonDreams.org Staff by Jon Queally, staff writer <a href="http://commondreams.org/news/2014/12/09/senate-cia-torture-report-details-ruthless-brutality-bush-era" target="_blank">Senate CIA Torture Report Details 'Ruthless' Brutality of Bush Era</a> with updates! <font color=blue>Senate Intelligence Committee's report says CIA abuse violated 'U.S. law, treaty obligations, and our values.' Journalists, experts and human rights advocates say that torture program under the Bush administration was systematically orchestrated by top officials.</font><br />
<li>GLENN GREENWALD at The Intercept <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/12/09/live-coverage-release-senate-torture-report/" target="_blank">Live Coverage of the Senate Torture Report</a> with even more updates! <font color=blue>The Intercept will have comprehensive coverage of the report throughout the day. We’ll have full annotations of the report; graphical guides to the key parts; reporting in Washington from Dan Froomkin, who has been covering the report for months, and other reporters; and I’ll be live-blogging key parts of the report and other fallout in this space all day, appearing, in reverse chronological order, underneath these initial observations.</font></ul>WAY TOO MUCH TO SNIP! AND be sure to listen to Majority Report's <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/121014-marcy-wheeler-rebecca-gordon-talk-torture" target="_blank">12/10/14 Marcy Wheeler: They Knew It Was Torture & Rebecca Gordon: Torture Is Mainstreamed</a>. NEXT AP's JOHN HEILPRIN explains some of the international reaction <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/10/un-us-torture_n_6300864.html" target="_blank">UN Expert Calls For Prosecution Over U.S. Torture</a> via HuffPoAOL's TheWorldPost <font color=purple>GENEVA (AP) — All senior U.S. officials and CIA agents who authorized or carried out torture like waterboarding as part of former President George W. Bush's national security policy must be prosecuted, top U.N. officials said Wednesday. It's not clear, however, how human rights officials think these prosecutions will take place, since the Justice Department has declined to prosecute and the U.S. is not a member of the International Criminal Court.
<b>Zeid Raad al-Hussein, the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, said it's "crystal clear" under international law that the United States, which ratified the U.N. Convention Against Torture in 1994, now has an obligation to ensure accountability.</b> "In all countries, if someone commits murder, they are prosecuted and jailed. If they commit rape or armed robbery, they are prosecuted and jailed. If they order, enable or commit torture — recognized as a serious international crime — they cannot simply be granted impunity because of political expediency," he said. <b>U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hopes the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee report on the CIA's harsh interrogation techniques at secret overseas facilities is the "start of a process" toward prosecutions, because the "prohibition against torture is absolute," Ban's spokesman said.</b> Ben Emmerson, the U.N.'s special rapporteur on counterterrorism and human rights, said the report released Tuesday shows <b>"there was a clear policy orchestrated at a high level within the Bush administration, which allowed (it) to commit systematic crimes and gross violations of international human rights law."</b> He said international law prohibits granting immunity to public officials who allow the use of torture, and this applies not just to the actual perpetrators but also to those who plan and authorize torture. "The fact that the policies revealed in this report were authorized at a high level within the U.S. government provides no excuse whatsoever. Indeed, it reinforces the need for criminal accountability," Emmerson said. ..............</font> Much more!
NEXT ESQUIRE's Charlie Pierce has these three reports: <ul><li> <a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Torture_Report_And_What_It_Says" target="_blank">The Torture Report, Part One: What It Says</a><br />
<li> <a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Torture_Report_And_What_It_Means" target="_blank">The Torture Report Part Two: What It Means</a><br />
<li> <a href="http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/The_Torture_Report_And_What_Comes_Next" target="_blank">The Torture Report, Part Three: What Will Happen Now</a> </ul> Michael Meurer at Truth-Out.org explains <a href="http://truth-out.org/news/item/27935-the-missing-photos-from-the-senate-report-on-cia-torture" target="_blank">The Missing Photos From the Senate Report on CIA Torture </a> <font color=navy>................ However, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/09/world/cia-torture-report-document.html" target="_blank">528-page "summary version"</a> of the report's "Findings and Conclusions" has, by the admission of Feinstein herself, been <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2014/12/cia-torture-report-redactions-113454.html" target="_blank">heavily redacted</a> and is focused only on CIA torture. It reports only one prisoner death and does not include more damning information and photographic evidence on US torture and prisons operated by the US Army, US Navy and other Department of Defense (DOD) agencies. ........... The availability of this investigative data as early as 2005, showing widespread deaths in US custody, with DOD investigations concluding there were more than two dozen homicides, makes it clear that the Senate report on CIA torture is just a start on the long road to full disclosure. <a href="http://costsofwar.org/article/torture" target="_blank">More than 100,000 prisoners</a> have been detained, and many of them tortured, at the US network of prisons across Central Asia since the war on terror began in 2002. As <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/26540-confronting-barbarism-isis-the-united-states-and-the-consequences-of-torture" target="_blank">Truthout reported</a> in October 2014, a pending American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawsuit seeks the release of more than 2,000 photos from the US Army that document an estimated 400 cases of abuse at Abu Ghraib and six other prisons between 2001 and 2005, including sexual assaults using "<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5395830/Abu-Ghraib-abuse-photos-show-rape.html" target="_blank">a truncheon, wire and a phosphorescent tube.</a>" ................... President Obama opposes release of these photos and has <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5395830/Abu-Ghraib-abuse-photos-show-rape.html" target="_blank">publicly stated</a> they would inflame anti-US sentiment. But what signal does the United States send to its own citizens and the world by continuing to suppress and deny the widespread violation of our most fundamental values and the <a href="http://www.cfr.org/international-law/united-states-geneva-conventions/p11485#p4" target="_blank">conscious contravention of the Geneva Conventions on torture and human rights</a>? Civil rights groups from Amnesty International to Human Rights Watch are <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/09/torture-cia-amnesty-international-human-rights-watch" target="_blank">calling for the prosecution of those responsible</a> for the extra-legal human rights violations documented in the Feinstein Senate report on CIA torture. Yet the <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2004/05/11/AR2005040206859.html" target="_blank">full spectrum of US torture</a>, secret prisons and even covert airlines to transfer prisoners in secret from one prison to another needs to be exposed in order to know how far up the chain of command responsibility goes. .............. </font>
Sibel Edmonds' Boiling Frogs has this item from <a href="http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2014/12/14/narconews-torture-report-reveals-cias-manipulation-of-us-media/" target="_blank">NarcoNews: Torture Report Reveals CIA’s Manipulation of US Media</a> <font color=green>Agency Used Classified Information as Currency for Deception - By Bill Conroy ................ And much of the information leaked to the media via these authorized leaks “on the operation of the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program and the effectiveness of its enhanced interrogation techniques was inaccurate…,” the Senate report states. <b>So, in essence, the CIA operated as a propaganda machine, utilizing classified information as part of a larger effort to deceive the American public about the shortcomings of its torture program, if the Senate report is to be believed.</b> Now, none of this is really new in the big picture of how the government and the media work with respect to classified information. The simple rule to remember is that the higher up in the government the leaker is, the less risk they face. As far back as 1974, politicians were pointing out this basic flaw in the system. A <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">Congressional Research Service (CRS)</a> report released last year touches on the reality: … You can read the complete investigative report <a href="http://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2014/12/torture-report-reveals-cia-s-manipulation-us-media" target="_blank">here</a> @ NarcoNews</font>
LASTLY The Rude Pundit warns us <a href="http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2014/12/before-torture-report-disappears.html" target="_blank">Before the Torture Report Disappears</a> <font color=purple>It's already happening, no? The Senate Intelligence committee's report on the CIA's post-9/11 interrogation techniques, known colloquially as "torture," is in the fast fade from our news cycle and from our outrage churner. It's become like that hot fuck one torrid night on a Mexican vacation, when the tequila and ecstasy flowed and you went back to your timeshare with one of the local dudes and balled your brains out, in the rush, the hurlyburly and hustle of the three hours left between leaving the bar and the cruel light of dawn. Ah, that was something you did, you can say later, and then go on with your life. If it left you with a case of herpes, well, shit, people live with that all the time, don't they? At least it ain't the HIV. Where's the beach? So it seems it will be with the torture report, something that stays with us the rest of our days, incurable, occasionally surfacing, but tolerated. Already, the media have moved on, to the CRomnibus, the Sony email leak, the floods in California. There will be more Eric Garner and Michael Brown protests, so we're not so brain-damaged that we can't have memory of something for more than a week or two. The Tamir Rice shooting is coming into sharper focus, too. And there's all that Christmas shopping to be done. <b>The Rude Pundit has never had any illusions. He never thought that any prosecutions or even arrests would happen. He never thought there would be a reckoning of any sort.</b> Oh, sure, he hoped we might spend more than a few days pointing fingers. But we are a nation that simply doesn't like to look in the mirror. And if no one is there to hold our heads and point them straight ahead, then we are happy to glance and then gaze away, into the unknown, always blindly optimistic about the future. Before we move on, though, the Rude Pundit wants to deal with a couple last things and then we can go back to snarkily saying, "Rectal infusion" and giggling, ignoring the whole ass rape part of the act. ................ Either way, why the fuck would it matter what the reaction would be? When the people supporting the cops defend the officer who killed Eric Garner, they say that Garner should have just allowed himself to be arrested. It's his fault that violence happened. If he didn't want something bad to happen to him, he shouldn't have done something wrong in the first place. Well, fuck, doesn't that also go for torture? The time to worry about what the Muslim world - if not the entire rest of the globe - thought about us is before you start torturing. Once you've done it, aren't you kind of just asking for it? The Rude Pundit doesn't want there to be any violence against Americans, but, Jesus, stop behaving as if we're so fucking special that, even when we do evil shit, we should not be viewed as an enemy. When did we start giving a fuck about the possible damage we might be doing? The number of civilian deaths doesn't stop us from firing drone missiles. ................... Others talk about how scared Americans were. The Rude Pundit was a thinking adult on September 11, 2001. He talked to lots of thinking adults. We were gung-ho for getting the fuckers who were behind the attacks. But mostly we were just sad about how fucked up the world had become, and he remembers specific conversations with people about how we hoped the United States wouldn't act like assholes. As soon as the invasion of Afghanistan occurred (and not a small force just to get bin Laden), along with the opening of the prison at Gitmo, the Rude Pundit knew we were gonna be total dicks. We tortured because we're big enough to be bullies without fear of real recriminations. We also tortured because we're cowards who demonstrated quite plainly that all that shit about freedom is readily cast aside when we feel even a bit threatened. We're forgetting about it now because we're also really good at pretending, a family that sweeps it all under a rug so lumpy that you have to walk around it to get across the room. </font>
Our Brick TeeVee LAST WORD goes to BTV Contributor <b>BillORightsMan</b> who caught this exchange between former Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin and National Petroleum Radio's Audie Cornish on Tuesday <a href="http://www.npr.org/2014/12/09/369667274/former-deputy-cia-director-says-torture-report-misses-the-point" target="_blank">Former Deputy CIA Director Says 'Torture Report' Misses The Point - Audie Cornish talks to former Deputy CIA Director John McLaughlin</a> and has this rebuttal. <font color=navy>Mr. McLaughlin's statements to Ms. Cornish reminded me of statements the "good Germans" made at the Nuremburg trials. He repeatedly deferred to "the State Department" and "the Justice Department" for approval of the torture methods employed by those under his command. Not once did he ever mention by name John Yoo (author of the "torture memos") or any other person within the Bush Administration that he could cite by name who issued these "orders". He even tried to equivocate drone strikes to torture. He relied over and over on an "imminent threat" to justify these appalling human rights violations that took place under his watch even invoking "actionable intelligence" when it has been proved unequivocally that torture does the exact opposite. Perhaps if Mr. McLaughlin's defense that these torture methods are lawful and provide truthful statements he should be "extraordinarily renditioned" to some secret base for some waterboarding and 24-hour sleep deprivation to see if he's telling the truth? And to Ms. Cornish's discredit she never once tried to press him for any evidence to prove his statements. So much for Ms. Cornish's "adversarial" journalism. Perhaps she is a "good German" too? ENDNOTE: Most of the "good Germans" at Nuremburg were sentenced to long prison terms or death for "following orders".</font> Well said BillORightsMan! And we'll add everything the Third Reich did in WWII was "legal" too. We'll have more SPIN next week from "The Torturers" that appeared on this Sunday's corporomedia including former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden (thisweak) Darth Cheney (pressthemeat) and Dim Son (stateofthecandy). Have a great week and we'll see you next Sunday!
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<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/8/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, December 08, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Lidy Nacpil of the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/8/as_typhoon_hagupit_wreaks_havoc_leading" target="_blank">As Typhoon Hagupit Wreaks Havoc, Leading Filipino Environmental Voice Silenced at U.N. Climate Talks</a> <br />
<li><b>Lidy Nacpil of the Philippine Movement for Climate Justice & Saleemul Huq, a Bangladeshi climate scientist </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/8/at_lima_talks_nations_worst_hit" target="_blank">At Lima Talks, Nations Worst Hit by Global Warming Say Climate Aid Isn’t Charity, But Reparations</a> <br />
<li><b>Julia Urrunaga, Peru programs director for the Environmental Investigation Agency</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/8/the_laundering_machine_how_us_corporations" target="_blank">The Laundering Machine: How U.S. Corporations Threaten Peru’s Forests Through Illegal Logging</a> New report "<a href="http://eia-international.org/wp-content/uploads/The-Laundering-Machine.pdf" target="_blank">The Laundering Machine: How Fraud and Corruption in Peru’s Concession System Are Destroying the Future of Its Forests</a>."<br />
<li><b>Widows Julia Pérez and Ergilia Rengifo</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/8/widows_of_peru_s_murdered_indigenous" target="_blank">Widows of Peru’s Murdered Indigenous Rainforest Defenders Demand Justice at U.N. Climate Summit</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/9/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, December 09, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Godwin Uyi Ojo, executive director of Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria</b> <a aref="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/9/they_have_destroyed_our_livelihood_activists" target="_blank">"They Have Destroyed Our Livelihood": Activists Protest Shell and Chevron at U.N. Climate Talks</a> <br />
<li><b>Pascoe Sabido of the Corporate Europe Observatory</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/9/corporate_conquistadors_new_report_exposes_how" target="_blank">"Corporate Conquistadors": New Report Exposes How Multinationals Drive, Profit from Climate Change</a> <br />
<li><b>Atossa Soltani, founder and executive director of Amazon Watch</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/9/as_developing_nations_seek_climate_aid" target="_blank">First Ever Climate Summit in Amazon Country Amidst Growing Threat to "Heart of the Planet"</a> <br />
<li><b>Women’s Earth and Climate Action Network</b> <a aref="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/9/indigenous_women_on_the_front_lines" target="_blank">Indigenous Women: Earth Defenders Speak Out from the Front Lines of Climate Change</a> <br />
<li><b>Pablo Solón, executive director of Focus on the Global South</b> <a aref="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/9/a_global_climate_deal_is_within" target="_blank">A Global Climate Deal is Within Reach, But Only Public Pressure Can Ensure It Meets Earth’s Needs</a> <br />
<li><b>Chile, Africa and New Zealand climate protesters</b> <a aref="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/9/climate_justice_activists_from_around_the" target="_blank">Climate Justice Activists from Around the World Show Solidarity with Philippines</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/10/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, December 10, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Reed Brody, counsel and spokesperson for Human Rights Watch</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/10/these_are_crimes_new_calls_to" target="_blank">"These Are Crimes": New Calls to Prosecute Bush Admin as Senate Report Reveals Brutal CIA Torture</a> <br />
<li><b>Nnimmo Bassey, a Nigerian environmental activist, director of Health of Mother Earth Foundation</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/10/from_south_america_to_africa_market" target="_blank">From South America to Africa, "Capitalist" Solutions to Climate Change Seen as Path to Catastrophe</a> <br />
<li><b>Chief Ninawa Huni Kui, president of the Federation of the Huni Kui, an indigenous group in Brazil</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/10/brazilian_indigenous_leader_carbon_trading_scheme" target="_blank">Brazilian Indigenous Leader: Carbon Trading Scheme "REDD" a False Solution to Climate Change</a> <br />
<li><b>Democracy Now! visits Casa de Convergencia TierrActiva</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/10/as_un_summit_enters_high_level" target="_blank">As U.N. Summit Enters High-Level Talks, Protesters Gather for Historic Climate March in Lima</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/11/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, December 11, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Lima Climate Summit 2014, Indigenous, Peru</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/11/we_are_like_the_walking_dead" target="_blank">"We Are Like the Walking Dead": Latin American Indigenous Groups Decry Corporate Destruction of Land</a> <br />
<li><b>Democracy Now!’s Deena Guzder and Nermeen Shaikh </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/11/putting_people_before_profit_thousands_march" target="_blank">Putting People Before Profit: Thousands March in Peruvian People’s Climate March in Lima</a> <br />
<li><b>Democracy Now! producer Renée Feltz</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/11/from_the_streets_to_the_suites" target="_blank">From the Streets to the Suites, Protesters Call for Climate Justice at Corporate Gathering in Lima</a> <br />
<li><b>Marly Anzualdo Castro, whose brother, Kenneth Anzualdo Castro, was disappeared in 1993 during Fujimori’s reign</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/11/peruvian_protester_my_brother_was_disappeared" target="_blank">Peruvian Protester: My Brother Was Disappeared in 1993 at El Pentagonito, the Site of Climate Summit</a> <br />
<li><b>Chris Moye, the environmental governance campaigner for Global Witness</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/11/perus_deadly_environment_host_nation_of" target="_blank">Peru’s Deadly Environment: Host Nation of U.N. Summit is Among Most Dangerous for Land Defenders</a> Global Witness new report <a href="http://www.globalwitness.org/deadlyenvironment/" target="_blank">Deadly Environment</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/12/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, December 12, 2014</a><ul><li><b>United Nations Climate Change Conference in Lima, Peru</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/12/we_are_on_a_course_leading" target="_blank">"We are on a Course Leading to Tragedy": At U.N. Talks, Kerry Delivers Urgent Plea on Climate Change</a> <br />
<li><b>More COP20 Coverage</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/12/former_vp_al_gore_urges_obama" target="_blank">Former VP Al Gore Urges Obama to Reject Keystone XL as Kerry, Top U.S. Negotiator Stay Mum</a> <br />
<li><b>Climate Change, Keystone XL, Natural Gas & Oil Drilling</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/12/silencing_dissent_un_bars_climate_protesters" target="_blank">Silencing Dissent: U.N. Bars Climate Protesters from Putting "Keystone," "Kerry" or "U.S." on Signs</a> <br />
<li><b>Climate Change, Natural Gas & Oil Drilling</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/12/as_fossil_fuel_divestment_movement_grows" target="_blank">As Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Grows, U.N. Negotiators Consider a "Zero Emissions" Future</a> <br />
<li><b>Sean Sweeney, director and founder of the Global Labor Institute at Cornell University, and Bruce Hamilton, vice president of Amalgamated Transit Union</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/12/pipe_dreams_labor_researchers_say_keystone" target="_blank">Pipe Dreams? Labor Researchers Say Keystone XL Project May Kill More Jobs Than It Creates</a> <br />
<li><b>Winnie Byanyima, director of Oxfam & Dipti Bhatnagar, Friends of the Earth International</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/12/activists_climate_talks_have_done_nothing" target="_blank">Activists: Climate Talks Have Done Nothing to Avert Catastrophe, But Hope Lies in People’s Action</a> <br />
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<font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i>
<p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>!
<p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <font color=red><b>ACTION! <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell the FCC: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> 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. </b> SIGN NOW at <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell Chairman Wheeler: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> at freepress.net NOW. </font>
<p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW!
<p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org
<p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>!
<p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information!
<p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Chelsea Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/featured/new-action-write-letters-to-dod-officials-requesting-clemency-for-chelsea" target="_blank">New Action- write letters to DoD officials requesting clemency for Chelsea!</a> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/plaintiff-firm-for-chelseas-appeals-named-a-leading-firm-in-us" target="_blank">Chelsea's new appeals team named a leading US firm</a> <i>Dec 2, 2014. The National Law Journal and Law.com has named Freedman, Boyd Hollander, Goldberg, Urias & Ward as one of the "Top 50 Leading Plaintiff Firms in America"..........</i>
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<p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!! <p><center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br >
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<li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden<br />
• Army veteran Eric Fair discusses his experience as a contract interrogator in Iraq in 2004<br />
• New York Times columnist Tom Friedman<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., former House Speaker and CNN political commentator Newt Gingrich, syndicated radio host and ABC News contributor Laura Ingraham, and CNN & SiriusXM host Michael Smerconish<br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., Vice Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee<br />
• Sen. Angus King, I-Maine<br />
• Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich.<br />
• Sen. John Mccain, R-Ariz.<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal, who is now a CBS News contributor, Michael Gerson of the Washington Post, Charles Ellison of The Root, and Mark Mazzetti of The New York Times<br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• Sunday, Dec. 14 at 7 p.m. ET/PT<br />
• Inside Syria's civil war - Survivor of Homs siege recalls having to eat grass as food ran out and documenting images that offer a rare look inside the country's cruel civil war<br />
• Anderson Cooper plugs in to mindfulness - Anderson Cooper gives up his cell phone to report on "mindfulness," the self-awareness that's hard to attain in today's digitally distracted world<br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Former Vice President Dick Cheney<br />
• Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore.<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: tba<br />
</p><p><li type=square><b>State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN)</b> Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• Rep. Peter King of the House Intelligence Committee<br />
• Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick<br />
• part two of Candy Crowley’s exclusive interview with President George W. Bush<br />
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• TITANIC TUESDAY! Bob goes ballistic over the Senate Torture Report! Listen here NOW! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(09-12-2014).mp3" target="_blank">Tuesday, December 9th, 2014 </a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.crmw.net</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT</b> With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!<br />
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<b> The Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen:</b> 6 minutes of green news, politics, analysis & snarky comment! BOOKMARK <a href="http://greennews.bradblog.com/" target="_blank">greennews.bradblog.com</a> NOW!<br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10977" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - December 9, 2014</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Super Typhoon Hagupit blows 2014 into the record books; Doesn't look good for Keystone XL pipeline, if Obama on The Colbert Report is to be believed; PLUS: Rich vs. Poor: Deep divisions stall UN climate talks... All that and more in today's Green News Report! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): Solar panel efficiency breakthrough - record 40 percent efficiency; Louisiana's 'moon shot' to restore disappearing coastline; 'Significant' methane leaking from abandoned wells; Supreme Court rejects BP challenge to Gulf spill settlement; Heat waves will increase in Europe... PLUS: Fossil Fuel companies in secretive alliance with Republican Attorneys General ... and much, MUCH more! ...<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10980" target="_blank">The Clint Curtis Story, Ten Years Later: A KPFK 'BradCast' Special Edition</a> Plus MUCH MORE this week... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10944" target="_blank">Not Voting IS a Vote</a> Stop blaming those who didn't turn out. Americans did vote. By not turning out, they voted against the two major parties and against the system as a whole. It may have been a dumb vote, but it was a landslide... <br />
• BRADBLOG VIDEO! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10954" target="_blank">East Coast/West Coast Investigative Election Integrity Muckraking with Friedman and Palast on Hartmann TV!</a> <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10978" target="_blank"> 'Tom Tomorrow' Tooned About Torture For Years Before the U.S. Senate Torture Report</a> Everything old is true again... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10979" target="_blank">SOLVED: Mystery that Flipped Maine Senate Election!</a> 21 'phantom ballots' flipped the results of a Nov. 4th state Senate election from D to R. But a dramatic turn of events and hand-counted paper ballots have now resolved the mystery... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10984" target="_blank">Proponents of Oregon GMO Measure 92 Concede Defeat</a> Adverse court ruling, barring inclusion of 4,600 rejected ballots, signals end of road (for now) of state's most expensive campaign, decided by just 800 votes out of 1.5 million cast... <br />
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<li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b><br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <br />
<ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• 10 Dec 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-lies-deception-revealed-by-senate-torture-review-compounded-by-enablers-defenders/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Lies & Deception Revealed by Senate Torture Review Compounded by Enablers, Defenders</a> Senate torture review is limited-hang-out, but sparks calls for prosecution, and purging the torture team from CIA, other agencies….. <br />
• 11 Dec 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-dems-fight-gop-sneak-attacks-in-must-pass-spending-package/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Dems Fight GOP Sneak Attacks in Must-Pass Spending Package</a> Brinksmanship, backroom deals, delay tactics, and DeLay’s tactics in budget vote, stark preview of GOP muscle in next Congress….<br />
• 12 Dec 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-on-poisoned-spending-bill-obama-leads-57-house-dems-over-a-fiscal-cliff/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: On Poisoned Spending Bill, Obama Leads 57 House Dems Over a Fiscal Cliff</a> Obama leads Dems in the House over a fiscal cliff, as 57 Dems bail out Boehner on massive spending bill....<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast November 25, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/12/03/green-chemistry-isnt-about-perfection-but-works-to-reduce-toxic-chemicals/" target="_blank">Green Chemistry Isn’t About Perfection, But Works to Reduce Toxic Chemicals</a> Meet the “father of green chemistry”, Dr. John C. Warner. The former research head for Polaroid founded the Warner Babcock Institute and co-authored the book <i>Green Chemistry</i>. He defines his vision, and notes that industry is way ahead of academia in embracing his principles. <br />
• PBC Standard Podcast December 5, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/12/05/progressive-think-tanker-dave-johnson-asks-is-the-democratic-party-relevant-anymore/" target="_blank">Progressive Think Tanker Dave Johnson Asks: Is the Democratic Party Relevant Anymore?</a> Following the mid-term elections, your humble host tagged the Democratic Party as “increasingly irrelevant”. In a recent article, Dave Johnson asks the question, and surveys recent progressive commentary. <br />
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<li type=square><b>Ring of Fire Radio</b><br />
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Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/ <b>hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder</b><br />
Ring of Fire Radio - GoLeft TV - Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, Sam Seder - Politics, Commentary, and News.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weekend-on-ring-of-fire-radio-22/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire December 5, 2014</a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
»» The Best of Ring of Fire Radio!<br />
»» Author Naomi Klein will join us to talk about her new book “This Changes Everything.”<br />
»» Michael Burg will explain how employer wage theft is threatening the minimum wage movement.<br />
»» And author Daniel Schulman will explain everything you ever wanted to know about the Koch brothers’ rise to power.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weeks-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv-25/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV!</a> - Sundays at NOON! <br />
»» David TeSelle will explain how big box retail stores like Walmart and Home Depot are gaming everything from labor laws to environmental standards through their campaign donations.<br />
»» Peter Mougey will give us the dirty details on Antonio Weiss, Obama’s nominee as Secretary of the Treasury.<br />
»» Progressive host David Pakman in New York City will talk about a recent study that shows a direct correlation between gun ownership rates and gun death rates.<br />
»» David Haynes will explain how big business has purchased local judges to advance their disastrous agendas without fear of legal repercussions.<br />
»» Author Paul Waldman will tell us why Obama’s executive order on immigration has left the Republican Party feeling defeated.<br />
»» And Sam Seder will join Pap to discuss the death of Eric Garner, and the grand jury’s decision to not bring charges against the officer that killed him.<br />
»» Watch at <a href="http://www.freespeech.org/collection/ringoffire" target="_blank">FSTV</a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/pap-and-abby-martin-how-the-eric-garner-case-exposed-the-sham-of-grand-juries/" target="_blank">Pap and Abby Martin: How the Eric Garner Case Exposed the Sham of Grand Juries</a> by Gary Bentley - Abby Martin speaks with America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio and former DC police officer, Ronald Hampton, about the decision by a grand jury not to indict New York police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, over the choking death of 43-year-old Eric Garner.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/pap-and-thom-hartmann-has-a-democratic-partys-populist-moment-finally-arrived/" target="_blank">Pap and Thom Hartmann: Has A Democratic Party’s Populist Moment Finally Arrived?</a> by Gary Bentley - West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin has now joined Elizabeth Warren’s campaign against the nomination of banker Antonio Weiss to the Treasury Department. Does this mean that the Democratic Party’s populist moment finally arrived? America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, joins Thom Hartmann to discuss this.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/seder-what-else-has-our-incompetent-lying-cia-hid-from-us/" target="_blank">Seder: What Else Has Our Incompetent, Lying CIA Hid From Us?</a> by Gary Bentley - Ring of Fire’s Sam Seder and author Cliff Schecter discuss how the Senate’s recently released report on CIA torture show us just how much the CIA has hid from us.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/elizabeth-warren-explains-how-very-serious-the-wall-street-take-over-of-your-life-has-become/" target="_blank">Elizabeth Warren Explains How Very Serious the Wall Street Take Over of Your Life has Become</a> by Joshua Schwitzerlett<br />
• Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the "Podcast" tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/blogengine/" target="_blank">Ring of Fire Radio</a> Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, <b>rebroadcasts 7-10 et Sunday evenings on <a href="http://www.chicagoprogressivetalk.com/listen/" target="_blank">Chicago's Progressive Talk WCPT AM & FM</a> and 4 pm et on Sirius/XM 167 featuring The PAP Attack! </b> "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week." <br />
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<li type=square><b>Majority Report with Sam Seder</b> Streaming LIVE weekdays 12 NOON et @ <a href="http://Majority.fm" target="_blank">Majority.fm</a>! <br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/12814-how-cigarette-taxes-explain-the-death-of-unarmed-black-americans" target="_blank">12/8/14 How Cigarette Taxes Explain The Death Of Unarmed Black Americans</a> <br />
• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/12914-kristen-buras-charter-schools-race-and-urban-space-where-the-market-meets-grassroots-resistance" target="_blank">12/9/14 Kristen Buras: The Neoliberal Charter Attack On Post Katrina New Orleans' Schools</a><br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/121014-marcy-wheeler-rebecca-gordon-talk-torture" target="_blank">12/10/14 Marcy Wheeler: They Knew It Was Torture & Rebecca Gordon: Torture Is Mainstreamed</a><br />
• THURSDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/121114-stanley-aronowitz-the-death-and-life-of-american-labor" target="_blank">12/11/14 Stanley Aronowitz: The Death and Life of American Labor</a><br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/121214-cliff-schecter-andy-kindler" target="_blank">12/12/14 Cliff Schecter & Andy Kindler</a><br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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<li type=square><b>KEISER REPORT</b> Podcasts and more @ <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/" target="_blank">MaxKeiser.com</a>!<br />
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<b>"HI Y'ALL! Tell the people! Tell the people!"</b><br />
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 <a href="http://www.karmabanque.com/" target="_blank">KarmaBanque</a> a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. <br />
• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport" target="_blank">Keiser Report</a> <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/bail-in-and-the-financial-stability-board-the-global-bankers-coup/" target="_blank">Bail-In and the Financial Stability Board: The Global Bankers’ Coup</a> by Ellen Brown — On December 11, 2014, <a href="http://www.americanbanker.com/news/law-regulation/why-citi-may-soon-regret-its-big-victory-on-capitol-hill-1071636-1.html" target="_blank">the US House passed a bill</a> repealing the Dodd-Frank requirement that risky derivatives be pushed into big-bank subsidiaries, leaving our deposits and pensions exposed to massive derivatives losses. The bill was vigorously challenged by Senator Elizabeth Warren; but the tide turned when Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorganChase, stepped into the ring. Perhaps what prompted his intervention was the unanticipated $40 drop in the price of oil. <a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/new-law-make-taxpayers-potentially-liable-trillions-derivatives-losses" target="_blank">As financial blogger Michael Snyder points out</a>, that drop could trigger a derivatives payout that could bankrupt the biggest banks. And if the G20’s new “bail-in” rules are formalized, depositors and pensioners could be on the hook......... READ <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/bail-in-and-the-financial-stability-board-the-global-bankers-coup/#more-76004" target="_blank">MORE</a> ........<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/fracker-down/" target="_blank">Fracker down</a> by Stacey Herbert — Stacy Summary: As we’ve warned repeatedly, frackers were losing money at $100/barrel, they’re going bust at $60/barrel. READ <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-12-11/oil-price-drop-claims-first-wa-victim-red-fork-energy/5962020" target="_blank">Oil price collapse claims WA’s Red Fork Energy, shale gas company in receivership</a> <i>The collapse of the oil price has snared its first West Australian victim with Red Fork Energy losing the support of its major lender. The Perth-based company drills for shale gas in the United States, producing oil and gas. But, it is completely exposed to the US shale gas industry, which analysts say has come unviable at current oil prices.</i> But Bank of America said shale fracking was profitable at even $40!? <br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/the-shocking-data-proving-shale-oil-is-massively-over-hyped/" target="_blank">The Shocking Data Proving Shale Oil Is Massively Over-hyped</a> by Peak Prosperity — Hooray, oil is suddenly much cheaper than it used to be. That’s great news, right? Not so fast. For certain it’s not good news for those counting on a continued rise in US oil production from the “shale miracle”. Many drillers were challenged to operate profitably when oil was above $70 per barrel. Very few will remain solvent with oil in the $50s (as it is as of this writing). So, expect US oil production to suffer from these lower prices if they persist. But even if oil prices rise and rise soon, there’s new data that indicates the total amount of extractable oil from America’s shale plays is less — much less — than what we’re being told (or better put, “sold”). <a href="http://www.peakprosperity.com/podcast/89793/shocking-data-proving-shale-oil-massively-over-hyped" target="_blank">Click here to listen to the full interview</a> (peakprosperity.com)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/welcome-to-the-recovery-mckinsey-survey-shows-40-of-americans-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-up-from-30-in-2012/" target="_blank">Welcome to the Recovery – McKinsey Survey Shows 40% of Americans Living Paycheck to Paycheck, Up From 30% in 2012</a> by Michael Krieger — Nothing screams economic recovery like 2 out of every 5 Americans living paycheck to paycheck. Especially when that number has reportedly increased by 33% since 2012. Perhaps someone should inform these destitute plebs that the stock market is up nearly 45% over the past two years, and after all, nothing says economic success like the 0.01% enriching themselves via fraud and financial engineering… Read the rest <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/12/09/welcome-to-the-recovery-mckinsey-survey-shows-40-of-americans-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-up-from-30-in-2012/" target="_blank">HERE</a>. <br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/kr-690-keiser-report-fracking-fascism-market-failure/" target="_blank">Keiser Report: Fracking, Fascism & Market Failure</a> We discuss the motto of the modern financial markets: “my word is my bond, but my bond is your problem.” As the yield-chasers have piled into the junk bond market in the past few years of ZIRP, this could spell big trouble for the fracking sector as oil prices plunge. In the second half Max chats to the CEO of Bitpay.com, Stephen Pair. They discuss Foxtrot – a project that hopes to do for networks what bitcoin did for currency – and also about the latest in bitcoin, internet 2.0 and regulations. <br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/kr691-keiser-report-real-reasons-behind-uk-porn-law/" target="_blank">[KR691] Keiser Report: Real Reasons behind UK Porn Law</a> We look at the ‘death eaters’ and ‘deglobalizers’ longing for suffering by ordinary people, especially if the ruling elite can’t be the guaranteed winners. They look at currency crises due to balance of payments and deglobalization and those cheering it on. In the second half Max interviews Itziar Bilbao Urrutia – aka Ms Tytania – about the new ban on certain female acts in porn and the real reason behind the ban being censorship and fear of another Wikileaks or Snowden. Max also suggests if Westminster wants to help children, they should stop harming them first.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/kr692-keiser-report-debt-meteor-approaching-earth/" target="_blank">[KR692] Keiser Report: Debt Meteor Approaching Earth</a> We believe that ‘something’s gotta give’ as the real world continues to tumble while equity markets continue rising – and not everyone is ‘lovin’ it.’ We also compare the debt curse to the oil curse. In the second half, Max interviews equity crowdfunding pioneer, Simon Dixon of BankToTheFuture.com, about the latest in CrowdFunding 2.0 as both the political and financial space is disinter mediated.<br />
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<li type=square><b>The Scott Horton Radio Show</b><br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It’s been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show’s important milestones, as well as preview some of the exciting projects to look for in the near future. ........ The show on Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A., still called Antiwar Radio, has now moved to join their Sunday morning public affairs line up (8:30 am pt - http://kpfk.org), and remains the largest source of listeners, with 15,000-20,000 people tuning in weekly. The future: Liberty Express Radio is growing and bringing me along for the ride. The great Charles Goyette hooked me up with Alan Butler and the Liberty Express earlier this year, and what has been the daily replay there from 3-5 eastern time has become my best listened-to show. And now they’re adding my friend Tom Woods to the lineup from 2-3 PM. That does it. I’m making the switch! Starting Monday, October 14, the live show is moving to 3-5 PM Eastern time on LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/10/121014-marcy-wheeler/" target="_blank">12/10/14 Marcy Wheeler</a>: Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses the CIA’s lies about properly vetting their enhanced interrogation program with their Congressional overseers; Dick Cheney’s conspicuous absence from the CIA torture report; and the 9000 CIA documents withheld that likely implicate the Office of Legal Council and Cheney in the torture program.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/10/121014-jonathan-landay/" target="_blank">12/10/14 Jonathan Landay</a>: Jonathan Landay, a McClatchy Foreign Staff journalist, discusses his article about the real intent of the Bush administration’s torture program – to lie us into war: “<a href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2009/04/21/66622/report-abusive-tactics-used-to.html" target="_blank">Report: Abusive tactics used to seek Iraq-al Qaida link</a>.”<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/11/121114-lawrence-wilkerson/" target="_blank">12/11/14 Lawrence Wilkerson</a>: Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, discusses how he helped with Powell’s infamous address to the UN in 2003, making the case for war with Iraq; the behind-the-scenes pressure exerted by Bush administration officials to keep the “garbage intel” linking Iraq and al-Qaeda in Powell’s speech; and Dick Cheney’s effort to hide his criminal behavior behind OLC lawyers and their memos justifying torture.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/12/121214-andrew-cockburn/" target="_blank">12/12/14 Andrew Cockburn</a>: Andrew Cockburn, author of <i>Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy</i>, discusses the unholy merger of the Israel lobby and the military-industrial complex; how NATO expansion enriches Lockheed; and his article “<a href="http://harpers.org/archive/2015/01/game-on/" target="_blank">Game On: East vs. West, again</a>,” about the renewing Cold War with Russia.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/12/121214-jeffrey-kaye/" target="_blank">12/12/14 Jeffrey Kaye</a>: Jeffrey Kaye, a psychologist active in the anti-torture movement, discusses the CIA-contracted psychologists who largely designed the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” torture program, and their link to the <a href="http://dissenter.firedoglake.com/2014/12/11/ssci-report-reveals-cia-torture-program-originated-in-same-department-as-mkultra/" target="_blank">same CIA department that brought us MKULTRA</a>.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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• Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a former Intelligence Committee member <br />
• Karl Rove, former top White House Advisor to President George W. Bush<br />
• Jose Rodriguez, former Director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service<br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>Hands Up Cleveland</b> From Marvin Gaye's 1971 Motown Records release <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_Going_On_%28Marvin_Gaye_album%29" target="_blank">What's Going On</a> the last track is "Inner City Blues" that include these lyrics.<br />
<ul>Hang ups, let downs</br >
Bad breaks, set backs</br >
Natural fact is</br >
Honey, that I can't pay my taxes</br >
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Oh, make me wanna holler</br >
And throw up both my hands</br >
Yea, it makes me wanna holler</br >
And throw up both my hands</br >
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Crime is increasing</br >
<b>Trigger happy policing</b></br >
Panic is spreading</br >
God knows where, where we're heading</br >
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Oh, they don't understand</br >
Make me wanna holler</br >
They don't understand</br >
</ul>Hear the song at UTOOB <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkzy5clEjxs" target="_blank">Marvin Gaye - Inner City Blues (with lyrics) </a> More on this in a bit..............<br />
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SCOTTISH DEVOLUTION: The Guardian.com's Ashley Cowburn and Toby Helm explain how <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/nov/29/newcastle-austerity-cuts-george-osborne-autumn-statement" target="_blank">The north hits back at Osborne’s austerity: ‘it’s devolution or bust’ </a> <font color=DarkMagenta>In his office in Newcastle, the Labour leader of the local council, Nick Forbes, is counting the cost to his city of four years of crippling austerity, and wondering what will be left at the end of it all. “Everything has been affected by the cuts,” he says. “There are a lot of things that the council no longer does that it used to do in 2010. We used to have a play service and a youth service – we no longer have either of those. We’ve had to close a number of libraries.” Things are close to the point of no return, he says. Newcastle has already had £151m wiped from its revenue since 2010 and is now agonising over finding another £90m of cuts over the next three years. Two-thirds of what the council spends is on adult and children’s social care, and much of that is provision to meet statutory needs defined by parliament. “Unless something changes in the next three years, our ability to provide these services will certainly be constrained,” says Forbes. “We are going to get into the realm of impossible cuts because we cannot legally or morally not support children who are at risk of sexual or violent abuse. This is keeping virtually every local authority awake at night.” ............. For Forbes, whose city is just 100 miles from the Scottish border, last week’s announcement of more devolution to Scotland – including new powers to set income tax – has added to a sense of grievance and envy, and highlighted the need for a similar dispersal of power from the capital to regions south of the border. Newcastle must have devolution if it is to avoid disaster, he says. If the city could retain more in tax revenues that currently heads south to London, then local people and politicians could devise local solutions to local problems and plan for their futures, rather than be at the mercy of annual cuts imposed by Whitehall. “Most of the decisions that affect our city are taken 300 miles away, and I defy anybody sat behind a desk in Whitehall to share the same passion or have the same knowledge about the city as we do here in Newcastle. 95% of the taxes raised here go directly towards the Treasury.” .............. Forbes says it is now a race against time to devolve more power and money to the regions before further rounds of savage cuts strip cities of essential services and leave local authorities with nothing left to manage. “It’s all very well talking about devolution but if there’s nothing left to devolve to then it’s a meaningless exercise. What’s happening at the moment is that the scale of cuts means that local authorities are stopping doing virtual every area of non-statutory service provision. In effect, local government is becoming a hollow shell, simply for the delivery of national government initiatives. There’s no time to lose here.” ................ “One of the things I have found by being one of the council leaders who is pointing out the impact of local austerity is that sometimes I feel like a whistleblower. Like many whistleblowers have found, I’ve been subject to a fair amount of criticism and abuse – that doesn’t mean the message I’m giving is not the truth. I would urge people who are concerned about the impact to public services to see the bigger picture and, like me, help to make the case against austerity.”.......</font> WAIT! THERE'S MORE! From STV.tv this video <a href="http://news.stv.tv/tayside/302525-hundreds-of-people-protest-against-governments-austerity-measures/" target="_blank">Hundreds of people protest against Government's austerity measures</a> <font color=darkblue>Hundreds of people marched through the streets of Dundee on Saturday in protest against the Government's austerity measures. The demonstration, organised by the Scottish Unemployed Worker's Network and the SNP, highlighted the increasing numbers affected by welfare sanctions. SNP deputy leader Stewart Hosie MP joined campaigners, which included Dundee mother Charmaine Donachy who says she has been a victim of tough new Welfare sanctions. Ms Donachy said her benefits were cut off for a month after she failed to turn up for an appointment that she insists she knew nothing about. The Department for Work and Pensions says sanctions are only used as a last resort and can be challenged.</font> Then read Paul Hilder at the NewStatesman.com <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2014/11/new-politics-how-old-political-consensus-melting-away" target="_blank">A new politics? How the old political consensus is melting away</a> <i>Over the coming months and years, this new politics will shake the British establishment to its foundations. It has many faces but a common origin: the growing consensus that the status quo is broken. The British political landscape was hit by an earthquake this autumn, and its name is new politics. I have charted its rise for years and suddenly it’s centre stage. Change is coming from all directions. It seems cacophonous. The social-democratic “Yes” movement in Scotland and the UK Independence Party’s populist “No to immigration and Brussels” are poles apart. But they share an adversary in the form of Westminster, and they are carving deep into the base of Labour and the Conservatives – neither of which now looks able to form a majority government next May.........</i><br />
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SWEDISH TEA? The Swedish Government snap election in September resulted in a RW 13% that overtook 87%. To explain what this means we go to JONATHAN M. FELDMAN at Counterpunch.org <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/17/has-the-swedish-left-lost-again/" target="_blank">Has the Swedish Left Lost Again?</a> <font color=indigo>On September 14th, national elections were held for the Swedish parliament and led to the departure of the sitting Right-wing government. The new political alignment gave the Left bloc 43.8%, of the vote, with the Right bloc (Alliansen) only getting 39.3% according to the latest statistics. The big election winner was the Swedish Democrats (Sverige Demokraterna or SD), the far-Right party hostile to established Swedish immigration policy and many say immigrants themselves. In 2002, SD received only 1.4% of the vote. In 2006, this increased to 2.93% of the vote. By the 2010 parliamentary elections they got into the parliament with 5.7% of the vote (passing the 4% threshold for entry into the parliament). This year they got 12.9% of the vote. The SD got 29% of their voters this year from those who voted for the leading right-wing party, the Moderates in the last election. They got 16% from the leading Left party, the Social Democrats.......... This points to a growing disavowal of both major parties whose similarities were more important to many voters than their differences. The result has led to a failure of either the Alliansen or the Left to gain control of the parliament through their own votes, i.e. SD has imploded the hegemony of both major blocs. ................ From a Left perspective one can ask how these events came to pass. How did a party, that some persons argue have roots in Sweden’s Nazi movement, gain hundreds of thousands of votes? If SD is the party of the disgruntled, why can’t the Left capture such votes? One answer could be that with the realignment of class relations and stratification systems, the Left draws its base from persons who are relatively comfortable. The Left is implicated in policies that inevitably lead to winners or losers. The losers, who can’t find jobs in a globalized Sweden, turn against established parties. A third possibility is that the Left itself is filled with delusions or a failure to change its outlook and strategies to enhance success. In his essay, “Notes on Nationalism,” George Orwell gives us a formula for understanding how even the Left can be subjected to an ideological system and is deluded. Orwell wrote that “a nationalist is one who thinks solely, or mainly, in terms of competitive prestige.” He argued that nationalism was “power-hunger tempered by self-deception.” Moreover, “every nationalist is capable of the most flagrant dishonesty, but he is also—since he is conscious of serving something bigger than himself—unshakably certain of being in the right.” The nationalist looks to support their favorite cause, but “only AFTER this would begin searching for arguments that seemed to support his cause.” Orwell explained that even “people of Left opinions” were “not immune” to nationalism. I am less interested in Orwell’s view of nationalism than I am his view of how discourse is deployed and can lead to self-deception by the Left......... There are five core myths within the Left which help prevent a systemic challenge to SD and the respectable Right.</font> Read on! Say isn't it the Swedish Government that caused Julian Assange to seek immunity for some trumped up charges? <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/nov/20/julian-assange-appeal-arrest-warrant-swedish-court" target="_blank">Julian Assange: Swedish court rejects appeal to lift arrest warrant</a> <font color=MediumVioletRed>Stockholm’s appeal court has rejected a demand by Julian Assange’s lawyers to lift the arrest warrant against him, leaving the WikiLeaks founder still facing extradition to Sweden should he renounce his asylum in Ecuador’s London embassy. ............. But the court also noted that Sweden’s investigation into Assange had come to a halt and prosecutors’ failure to examine alternative avenues of investigation “is not in line with their obligation – in the interests of everyone concerned – to move the preliminary investigation forward”. The ruling is expected to put pressure on prosecutors to find new ways to break the deadlock. Per Samuelsson, one of Assange’s lawyers in Stockholm, said the court’s criticism of the prosecutor was aimed at her refusal to come to London to question Assange. “This is crucial because the court said we were right in the wording, but not in the court’s actual decision,” he said. After the ruling he had spoken to Assange, who was disappointed but confident that they would prevail in the long run. “Swedish and international law is on our side,” Samuelsson said. “The ruling shows we are on the right track, but unfortunately the court of appeal did not have the courage to overturn the arrest warrant.”............ </font><br />
H RES 758: FreeUkraineNow.org "Stopping US-NATO takeover of Ukraine and Russia" has this <a href="http://freeukrainenow.org/2014/12/04/breaking-u-s-representatives-approve-resolution-condemning-russia/" target="_blank">BREAKING: U.S. Representatives approve resolution condemning Russia, with update</a> <font color=navy>This is truly one of the lowest points ever taken in American conduct. The shocking vote of 411 in favor, 10 against, 13 not voting, took place this morning http://www.c-span.org/video/?323075-1/us-house-legislative-business — at approximately 2:02 on the video; includes transcript. The vote roll-call is here: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2014/roll548.xml<br />
The 10 “No” votes were:<br />
<ul><li>Justin Amash (MI) Rep<br />
<li>John Duncan (TN) Rep<br />
<li>Alan Grayson (FL) Dem<br />
<li>Alcee Hastings (FL) Dem<br />
<li>Walter Jones (NC) Rep<br />
<li>Thomas Massie (KY) Rep<br />
<li>Jim McDermott (WA) Dem<br />
<li>George Miller (CA) Dem<br />
<li>Beto O’Rourke (TX) Dem<br />
<li>Dana Rohrabacher (CA) Rep</ul><b>Reputed peace advocates including John Conyers, Barbara Lee, Maxine Waters, Raul Grijalva, Jim McGovern voted for the resolution.</b> The large Progressive Caucus http://cpc.grijalva.house.gov/caucus-members/ approved the resolution, except for three members, and one who abstained. Last night, there was this discussion. http://www.c-span.org/video/?323042-3/us-house-legislative-business — at approximately 3:21 on the video.
No one in the House advocated for wisdom and truth. No one presented arguments against this resolution. No one asked for proof for these accusations. .............. The accusations and statements actually describe US actions, not Russian ones. Live in peace and security? I cannot imagine how the people of East Ukraine can live in peace with the attacks by the Kiev regime. This resolution is a very dangerous and arrogant step taken by United States leaders who are destroying the lives of many as well as peace and harmony. Where are the people who will stand up for truth? Where are the people who will expose this charade by the US and NATO?</font> The author then links to these important stories:
<ul><li> <a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/211439-congress-obama-statement-resolution-russia/" target="_blank">‘House of Representatives’ resolution declares Cold War’</a><br />
<li> <a href="http://rt.com/op-edge/211035-nato-russia-crisis-east-europe/" target="_blank">‘NATO’s disastrous expansion at the core of the Ukraine conflict’</a><br />
<li> <a href="http://rt.com/usa/211527-representatives-condemn-russia-aggression/" target="_blank">House of Representatives passes resolution against Russia</a><br />
<li> <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/breaking-adoption-of-house-of-representatives-resolution-provides-de-facto-green-light-to-obama-to-declare-war-on-russia/5418022" target="_blank">Breaking: Adoption of House of Representatives Resolution: Provides De Facto “Green Light” to Obama to “Declare War on Russia”</a><br />
</ul>In a related matter Robert Parry at ConsortiumNews.com explains <a href="http://consortiumnews.com/2014/12/02/nyt-shows-how-propaganda-works/" target="_blank">NYT Shows How Propaganda Works </a> <i>Exclusive: The U.S. mainstream media pretends it operates with professional standards of objectivity and fairness, but – especially in its international reporting – the only real standards are double standards, as the New York Times has shown on Ukraine and Syria, writes Robert Parry. </i>
WATCH The Big Picture THURSDAY <a href="http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/full-show-12414-i-can%E2%80%99t-breathe-i-can%E2%80%99t-breathe" target="_blank">Full Show 12/4/14: I Can’t Breathe! I Can’t Breathe!</a> featuring <ul><li>The Nation's John Nichols on living wage and retail workers bill of rights <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/191729/it-time-retail-workers-bill-rights" target="_blank">It Is Time for a Retail Workers’ Bill of Rights</a> <i>The unfortunate reality is that action on workplace issues, like action on a meaningful increase in the minimum wage, will be hard to come by in the next Congress. But states and communities can pick up on the San Francisco initiative. And the federal government can send the right signal.</i><br />
<li>John Deans with greenpeace.org 71077345 ShellOil artic lease <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2014/08/28/breaking-shell-announces-2015-arctic-drilling-plans/" target="_blank">BREAKING: Shell announces 2015 Arctic drilling plans</a> <i>“The Dutch oil giant has bungled its way through its Arctic operations and squandered nearly $6 billion so far– and all they have to show for it is a containment dome crushed like a beer can, a grounded drill rig, and a PR disaster. Even with all of the money they’ve spent, Shell hasn’t been able to prove they can operate in the Arctic.”</i><br />
<li>3rd world bank climate report on unchecked emmissions <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/24/3596227/world-bank-report-turn-down-the-heat/" target="_blank">This Is The Dystopian World We Are Leaving For Today’s Teenagers</a> <i>Called “<a href="http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2014/11/20404287/turn-down-heat-confronting-new-climate-normal-vol-2-2-main-report" target="_blank">Turn Down The Heat</a>,” the report warns of a “new climate normal” that will create a world of increased risks and instability. This will add substantially to the already daunting challenges of global development and poverty reduction, as crop yields would decline, water resources dwindle or shift, ocean acidification accelerate, and sea levels continue to rise and disrupt heavily-populated coastal regions. </i></ul>
MICHIGAN COURT OF APPEALS: education not legally required: FromMichiganCitizen.com <a href="http://michigancitizen.com/court-rules-michigan-has-no-responsibility-to-provide-quality-public-education/" target="_blank">Court rules Michigan has no responsibility to provide quality public education</a> <font color=purple><B>DETROIT — In a blow to schoolchildren statewide, the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled on Nov. 7 the State of Michigan has no legal obligation to provide a quality public education</b> to students in the struggling Highland Park School District. A 2-1 decision reversed an earlier circuit court ruling that there is a “broad compelling state interest in the provision of an education to all children.” The appellate court said the state has no constitutional requirement to ensure schoolchildren actually learn fundamental skills such as reading — but rather is obligated only to establish and finance a public education system, regardless of quality. Waving off decades of historic judicial impact on educational reform, the majority opinion also contends that “judges are not equipped to decide educational policy.” “This ruling should outrage anyone who cares about our public education system,” said Kary L. Moss, executive director of the American Civil Liberties of Michigan. “The court washes its hands and absolves the state of any responsibility in a district that has failed and continues to fail its children.” <b>The decision dismisses an unprecedented “right-to-read” lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Michigan in July 2012</b> on behalf of eight students of nearly 1,000 children attending K-12 public schools in Highland Park, Mich. The suit, which named as defendants the State of Michigan, its agencies charged with overseeing public education and the Highland Park School District, maintained that the state failed to take effective steps to ensure that students are reading at grade level. “Let’s remember it was the state that turned the entire district over to a for-profit charter management company with no track record of success with low performing schools,” said Moss. “It is the state that has not enforced the law that requires literacy intervention to children not reading at grade level. It is the state’s responsibility to ensure and maintain a system of education that serves all children.”......... </font>
U.N. REPORT ON U.S. TORTURE: from WSWS.org <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/11/29/pers-n29.html" target="_blank">UN report documents torture, police violence in US</a> sez Patrick Martin <font color=FireBrick>The United Nations Committee Against Torture issued a lengthy report Friday assessing the performance of the 156 countries whose governments have ratified the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which took effect two decades ago. The report subjected a major country to a wide-ranging critique, indicting it for a long list of human rights violations including:
<ul><li>Refusal to prosecute officials who engage in or sanction torture of prisoners<br />
<li>Detaining prisoners indefinitely without trial or other judicial proceeding, or any hope of release<br />
<li>Kidnapping individuals overseas and torturing them in secret prisons<br />
<li>Approving a manual for interrogation of prisoners that includes methods classified as torture under the Geneva Conventions<br />
<li>Imprisoning immigrants under degrading conditions and refusing to acknowledge their claims as refugees fleeing persecution<br />
<li>Imposing the death penalty on hundreds of prisoners, many of them from oppressed racial and ethnic minorities, many of them demonstrably innocent or unfairly tried<br />
<li>Widespread use of solitary confinement, considered a form of torture, at all levels of the prison system<br />
<li>Severe abuse of juveniles, pregnant women and other vulnerable groups both in police custody and in prisons<br />
<li>Maintaining a regime of police violence, particularly against young men from racial and ethnic minorities, and refusing to restrain or punish police who kill, wound or torture</ul>It will not come as any surprise to readers of the WSWS that the country named is not China, or Russia, or Iran, or some other target of the American ruling class, but the US itself. The government that claims the right to bully, blockade, and attack any country in the world in the name of “human rights” and “democracy” is guilty of the most heinous crimes. .................... The report also notes that the US government is in violation of its commitment under the Convention on Torture to “Ensure that alleged perpetrators and accomplices are duly prosecuted, including persons in positions of command and those who provided legal cover to torture, and, if found guilty, handed down penalties commensurate with the grave nature of their acts.” Obama directly repudiated this legal obligation, in his directive to “look forward, not backward” on allegations of torture. While this remains a closed book to the American political establishment, the report underscores the seamless connection between military violence overseas and militarized police violence at home—though its criticisms are couched largely in racial terms. It condemns “racial profiling by police and immigration offices and growing militarisation of policing activities.” A spokesman said the committee members “voiced deep concern at the frequent and recurring police shootings in fatal pursuit of unarmed black individuals.” .................... Two days before the report was made public, seven UN human rights experts issued an open letter to Obama that, while couched in friendly, even obsequious language, called for “the fullest possible release” of the CIA torture report and warned that Obama’s decision on the document would have “far-reaching consequences for victims of human rights violations everywhere and for the credibility of the United States.” The White House, however, has worked closely with the CIA in suppressing the document. Or more exactly, the CIA made its demands, and the White House has followed suit obediently. ............................ The Senate report is hardly a real indictment of the CIA. Lawyers for the Guantanamo Bay prisoners who were waterboarded dozens of times say that Senate investigators never took testimony from them. In other words, the only account of the torture comes from those who participated in the torture, or sanctioned it, not from those who were its victims. It also reportedly does not level any accusations against the top executive, military and intelligence officials who drew up and sanctioned the criminal policy. That even such a document, with thousands of lines blacked out and vital information withheld, cannot be made public, speaks volumes about the decay and collapse of American democracy. The US ruling elite is incapable of coming clean about the period when, as Obama admitted, “We tortured some folks.” That is because the entire state apparatus is preparing for the use of similar methods against a much-feared upheaval among workers and young people at home.</font> See DN! below for an interview with Dr. Jens Modvig, member of the U.N. Committee Against Torture on this report. Also read Ed Pilkington at TheGuardian.com <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/law/2014/nov/28/un-condemns-sleep-deprivation-among-us-detainees" target="_blank">UN torture report condemns sleep deprivation among US detainees</a> AND Wilson Dizzard at Al Jazeera <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/3/27/us-human-rights-reportun.html" target="_blank">U.N. slams U.S. for torture, NSA spying</a>. NEXT be sure to read The Intercept's Glenn Greenwald interview <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/25/talking-james-risen-pay-price-war-terror-press-freedoms/" target="_blank">Talking to James Risen About Pay Any Price, the War on Terror and Press Freedoms</a> <font color=darkgreen>James Risen, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 2005 for <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/16/politics/16program.html?pagewanted=all" target="_blank">exposing</a> the NSA warrantless eavesdropping program, has long been one of the nation’s most aggressive and adversarial investigative journalists. Over the past several years, he has received at least as much attention for being <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/02/james-risen-supreme-court-rejected_n_5431338.html" target="_blank">threatened with prison</a> by the Obama Justice Department (ostensibly) for refusing to reveal the source of one of his stories—a persecution that, in reality, is <a href="http://www.salon.com/2011/06/23/risen_3/" target="_blank">almost certainly</a> the vindictive by-product of the U.S. government’s anger over his NSA reporting. He has published a new book on the War on Terror entitled <i>Pay Any Price: Greed, Power and Endless War</i>. There have been lots of critiques of the War on Terror on its own terms, but Risen’s is one of the first to offer large amounts of original reporting on what is almost certainly the most overlooked aspect of this war: the role corporate profiteering plays in ensuring its endless continuation, and how the beneficiaries use rank fear-mongering to sustain it.</font> DIGBY remarks <a href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/he-didnt-become-radical-country-did.html" target="_blank">He didn't become radical, the country did</a> <font color=indigo>.......... With the exception of John Yoo's version of legal torture, the radical GWOT tactics were continued. Risen was reporting on this stuff for the NY Times right after 9/11 and this is what he remembers:<ul>I think my real change came after 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq. I was covering the CIA as a beat then. And to me, it was fascinating talking to CIA people right after the invasion of Iraq and right before the invasion of Iraq, because it was kind of like privately talking to a bunch of Howard Deans. They were all radicalized against what Bush was doing.
To me it was wild to hear all of these people inside the intelligence community, especially in 2003, 2004, who were just going nuts. They couldn’t believe the radical change the United States was going through, and that nobody was opposed to it. And that led me to write my last book, State of War, because I was hearing things from within the intelligence community and the U.S. government that you weren’t hearing publicly from anybody. So that really led me to realize—and to step back and look at—the radical departure of U.S. policy that has happened since 9/11 and since the invasion of Iraq.
To me, it’s not like I’ve been radicalized, I feel like I stayed in the same place and the country changed. The country became more radicalized in a different direction.</ul>I feel the same way. There are a lot of reasons for that, I think, not the least of which is that having two presidents of different parties operate under the same logic makes a whole lot of people assume it must be the right logic. When no house cleaning was done after a Democrat took charge the bipartisan National Security consensus was sealed once again.
Anyway, read the whole interview if you have time and get Risen's book. One of the main themes is how the economic incentives of the National Security State warp our policies. I couldn't agree more. In fact, I've been writing about the problem of "<a href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/police-state-2010-if-we-build-it-they.html" target="_blank">If you build it, they will use it</a>" for a very long time. We just kept building it. </font>
IN MONTGOMERY COUNTY OHIO: Brendan James at TPM LiveWire tells us in the Dayton area <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/montgomery-county-ohio-deputies-racist-texts?amp&&" target="_blank">Five Ohio Deputies Investigated Over Racist Text Messages: 'I Hate Ni**ers'</a> <font color=maroon>The sheriff's department of Montgomery County, Ohio said on Tuesday it was investigating five deputies for allegedly sending racist text messages both on and off duty, with some of the slurs reportedly directed at black deputies. Captain Thomas Flanders and Detective Michael Sollenberger, both suspended on paid administrative leave, were two of the five under investigation after a complaint from the Dayton Unit NAACP, television <a href="http://wdtn.com/2014/12/02/5-deputies-accused-of-racially-charged-texts/" target="_blank">WDTN reported this week</a>. The three other deputies were not publicly named. Montgomery County Sheriff Phil Plummer addressed the “very disturbing racial text messages” on Tuesday, according to the local station. “I will not tolerate racism in this department," he said. The sheriff said that the messages in question were sent on personal cell phones between November 2011 and January 2013, according to WDTN. Plummer also identified Sollenberger as a part of Internal Affairs and Flanders as head of the Montgomery County Jail, the station reported. WDTN spoke to Flanders and his wife, who denied sending any racist messages...........</font> FYI this is CD-10 represented in Da House by Michael Turner (R) who was first elected in 2002.
The Huffington Post’s Ryan J. Reilly and Dana Liebelson tell us <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/12/04/cleveland-police-doj_n_6270220.html" target="_blank">Feds Find Shocking, Systemic Brutality, Incompetence In Cleveland Police Department</a> <font color=red>.........The agency's investigation found that officers in Cleveland routinely use unjustifiable force against not only criminals and suspects, but also innocent victims of crimes. The so-called <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/14/ferguson-doj-christy-lopez_n_5978404.html" target="_blank">“pattern or practice” report</a> from the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division was released Thursday afternoon as DOJ and the city announced plans to develop a court-enforceable agreement that would impose an independent monitor on the Cleveland Division of Police. "Accountability and legitimacy are essential for communities to trust their police departments, and for there to be genuine collaboration between police and the citizens they serve,” said Attorney General Eric Holder in a press conference on Thursday. Holder announced the measure during his trip to Cleveland, where police officers fatally shot an unarmed black child last month. In Cleveland, Holder has attended a series of meetings about rebuilding community trust between law enforcement and the public, even as protests erupted nationwide over the non-indictment of police officers who killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, and Eric Garner in New York City. Following his visit to Cleveland, Holder intends to visit Chicago and Philadelphia, as well as Memphis, Tennessee, and Oakland, California, for additional roundtable meetings. ................The Justice Department began investigating the use of force in Cleveland's police division in <a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-investigation-cleveland-division-police" target="_blank">March 2013</a>. A few months prior, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson had requested that the agency look into the issue. Jackson's request came after a high-profile police chase in November 2012 that resulted in Cleveland police dispatching at least 62 vehicles, firing 137 bullets and <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/01/cleveland-police-unarmed-black-pair-lawsuit" target="_blank">killing two unarmed black suspects</a>, who each sustained more than 20 gunshot wounds. In his remarks Thursday, Holder said that he and President Barack Obama believe there is more to be done on the issue of use of lethal force by police departments. ..................... There have been numerous other occasions when Cleveland police are alleged to have used excessive force. Most recently, on Nov. 22, a Cleveland police officer fatally shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was playing with a toy gun in a park. <a href="http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-investigation-cleveland-division-police" target="_blank">Footage of the incident</a> shows the officer firing his gun within two seconds of pulling up to the boy in his car. <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014/dec/03/officer-who-fatally-shot-tamir-rice-had-been-judged-unfit" target="_blank">The Guardian reported</a> on Thursday that Timothy Loehmann, the officer who shot Tamir, was judged unfit for police work in 2012 by his then-employer, the police department of Independence, Ohio. An Independence official described Loehmann's "dismal" handgun performance in an internal memo. According to the DOJ report, Cleveland police officers "carelessly fire their weapons, placing themselves, subjects, and bystanders at unwarranted risk of serious injury or death." For example, the agency pointed to an incident in 2011 where officers "fired 24 rounds in a residential neighborhoods," with six rounds striking houses and 14 hitting parked cars. In another case, "an officer’s decision to draw his gun while trying to apprehend an unarmed hit-and-run suspect resulted in him accidentally shooting the man in the neck." ......... For example, in 2013, the report noted that police shot at a kidnapping victim after he fled from his assailants wearing only his boxers. The sergeant said he believed the victim had a weapon because he raised his hand. In another case detailed by the Justice Department, a 300-pound officer punched a 13-year-old boy who was handcuffed inside a police car and kicking the door. ............. The report cited another case in which officers shocked a handcuffed suspect, prompting him to "fall face-first onto asphalt, shattering four front teeth and causing facial contusions." A Cleveland police officer also administered an electric shock to a man who was deaf and suicidal, according to the DOJ report. The man had committed no crime and may not have understood instructions. </font> JEEBUS! And this just in from TickleTheWire.com <a href="http://www.ticklethewire.com/2014/11/25/hacker-group-anonymous-says-it-shut-down-clevelands-website-over-police-shooting/" target="_blank">Hacker Group ‘Anonymous’ Says It Shut Down Cleveland’s Website Over Police Shooting</a> <font color=darkblue>Notorious hacker group Anonymous took credit for shutting down the city of Cleveland’s website Monday, prompting an FBI investigation, Cleveland.com <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/11/fbi_investigating_cleveland_ci.html" target="_blank">reports</a>. Anonymous said the website was hacked in response to the police shooting of Tamir Rice, who was killed Saturday while carrying an airsoft gun. The website was still down Tuesday morning. “The city of Cleveland and our website vendor are reviewing the incident and determining proper preventative measures to be added in order to ensure future attacks are thwarted,” city spokesman Daniel Ball said. Anonymous posted a video on YouTube, saying Tamir was shot “in cold blood.”
“Police of the United States you will learn in due time once anonymous has shut down your sites that we will not stand for your ignorant untrained rookie cops,” the message said.</font> For more local reaction download and listen to Merle Johnson on WRUW's <a href="http://wruw-stream.wruw.org/archives/128/454.mp3" target="_blank">It's About Justice</a>. NOTE The archive of this show will be available for one week only so download and save now! And more fall-out from the DOJ report as the <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/12/family_of_woman_who_died_in_cl.html" target="_blank">Family of woman who died in Cleveland police custody believes officers violated civil rights, NAACP says</a> <font color=indigo>CLEVELAND, Ohio — The NAACP is looking into allegations that Cleveland police officers violated rights of a woman who died after a confrontation with police. Sheila Wright, the executive director of the Cleveland NAACP, said they are assisting the family of Tanisha Anderson and the family's attorney David Malik in trying to find out exactly what happened to Anderson. "They are frustrated because they think their story is being buried," Wright said. "We are going to help walk them through the process. We're waiting for the information like everyone else." The Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner has not yet ruled on what caused Anderson's death. The Cleveland Police Use of Deadly Force Investigation Team, <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/12/cleveland_police_too_quick_to_use.html" target="_blank">which drew harsh criticism from the U.S. Justice Department's investigation</a> in to the police department, is also investigating. The Justice Department also found people with mental illness were <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/12/cleveland_police_use_cruel_exc.html#incart_related_stories" target="_blank">subjected to cruel and unnecessary force</a> at the hands of poorly trained Cleveland police officers. ......</font> And our local NPR station WCPN 90.3 IdeaStream covers <a href="http://ideastream.org/news/feature/protests-follow-eric-holders-visit-to-cleveland" target="_blank">Protests Follow Eric Holder’s Visit To Cleveland</a> <font color=blue>Critics are likening the incidents to ones in Ferguson and New York. This included dozens of protesters who marched in Cleveland’s Public Square after Holder’s visit. “Hands up! Can’t breathe! Hands up! Can’t breathe!” they chanted, referring to the death of Eric Garner, who died hours after a NYPD officer held him in a choke hold. A Staten Island grand jury cleared the officer in that case. Among the demonstrators in Cleveland was Robin Blake, who hopes that Holder’s visit prompts change. But he says in the meantime, he fears city police are indifferent to the African-American community. He recalls last months’ incident where an officer shot a young boy playing with what turned out to be an Airsoft gun. “I live down the street from the park where Tamir Rice was shot, so this is my front doorstep,” says Blake. “So this is….I think it’s more important than people are realizing right now.” Another protester was Valerie Nunn, who held a sign that said, “Black lives matter”. She says nothing feels right about having her city lumped in with Ferguson, Missouri, and New York, where African-Americans have died after recent confrontations with police. Nunn says she’s wary of trusting Cleveland’s police, after several incidents also resulted in black resident’s deaths. “Y’know, I can get shot just for walking out of my house, and I feel like that’s not cool, y’know what I’m saying?” says Nunn. “I could just be walkin’ down the street, doing somethin’ with my fingers and they might think I’m trying to do something to harm them, and they shoot me! Know what I’m saying?” Today’s release of findings by justice officials say a pattern of excessive force has eroded public confidence in Cleveland police, straining relations between law enforcement and the communities they serve. Lakewood resident and protester Jane Kentner says while the confrontations with police look to be drawn along racial lines, the issue of accountability in law enforcement should concern everyone. “It needs a whole lot of checks and balances, and people have to not have so much white privilege that they can just sit at home and say, ‘Well, that doesn’t concern me,’” argues Kentner. “We have to be united, we can’t be in our little racial groups.” .........</font> And you can watch Eric Holder's announcement at Cleveland.com <a href="http://videos.cleveland.com/plain-dealer/2014/12/eric_holder_and_the_doj_announ.html" target="_blank">Eric Holder and the DOJ announce findings on Cleveland Police</a>.
For this week's BTV LAST WORD Malloy chatter DuaneV points us to Albert Burneko at The Concourse who explains <a href="http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-american-justice-system-is-not-broken-1666445407" target="_blank">The American Justice System Is Not Broken This is what it was made to do</a> <font color=navy>In July, New York police officer Daniel Pantaleo choked unarmed black man Eric Garner to death, in broad daylight, while a bystander caught it on video. That is what American police do. Yesterday, despite the video, despite an NYPD prohibition of exactly the sort of chokehold Pantaleo used, and despite the New York City medical examiner ruling the death a homicide, a Staten Island grand jury declined even to indict Pantaleo. That is what American grand juries do.
In August, Ferguson, Mo., police officer Darren Wilson shot unarmed black teenager Michael Brown to death in broad daylight. That is what American police do. Ten days ago, despite multiple eyewitness accounts and his own face contradicting Wilson's narrative of events, a grand jury declined to indict Wilson. That is what American grand juries do.
In November 2006, a group of five New York police officers shot unarmed black man Sean Bell to death in the early morning hours of his wedding day. That is what American police do. In April 2008, despite multiple eyewitness accounts contradicting the officers' accounts of the incident, Justice Arthur J. Cooperman acquitted the officers of all charges, including reckless endangerment. That is what American judges do.
In February of 1999, four plainclothes New York police officers shot unarmed black man Amadou Diallo to death outside of his home. That is what American police do. A year later, an Albany jury acquitted the officers of all charges, including reckless endangerment. That is what American juries do.
In November of 1951, Willis McCall, the sheriff of Lake County, Fla., shot and killed Sam Shepherd, an unarmed and handcuffed black man in his custody. That is what American police do. Despite both a living witness and forensic evidence which contradicted his version of events, a coroner's inquest ruled that McCall had acted within the line of duty, and Judge Thomas Futch declined to convene a grand jury at all.
<b>The American justice system is not broken. This is what the American justice system does. This is what America does.</b> ............................ The murders of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Sean Bell, Amadou Diallo, Sam Shepherd, and countless thousands of others at the hands of American law enforcement are not aberrations, or betrayals, or departures. The acquittals of their killers are not mistakes. There is no virtuous innermost America, sullied or besmirched or shaded by these murders. This is America. It is not broken. It is doing what it does.
<b>America is a serial brutalizer of black and brown people. Brutalizing them is what it does.</b> It does other things, too, yes, but brutalizing black and brown people is what it has done the most, and with the most zeal, and for the longest. The best argument you can make on behalf of the various systems and infrastructures the country uses against its black and brown citizens—the physical design of its cities, the methods it uses to allocate placement in elite institutions, the way it trains its police to treat citizens like enemy soldiers—might actually just be that they're more restrained than those used against black and brown people abroad. <b>America employs the enforcers of its power to beat, kill, and terrorize, deploys its judiciary to say that that's OK, and has done this more times than anyone can hope to count. This is not a flaw in the design; this is the design.</b> ........................ Policing in America is not broken. The judicial system is not broken. American society is not broken. All are functioning perfectly, doing exactly what they have done since before some of this nation's most prosperous slave-murdering robber-barons came together to consecrate into statehood the mechanisms of their barbarism. Democracy functions. Politicians, deriving their legitimacy from the public, have discerned the will of the people and used it to design and enact policies that carry it out, among them those that govern the allowable levels of violence which state can visit upon citizen. Taken together with the myriad other indignities, thefts, and cruelties it visits upon black and brown people, and the work common white Americans do on its behalf by telling themselves bald fictions of some deep and true America of apple pies, Jesus, and people being neighborly to each other and betrayed by those few and nonrepresentative bad apples with their isolated acts of meanness, the public will demands and enables a whirring and efficient machine that does what it does for the benefit of those who own it. It processes black and brown bodies into white power. That is what America does. It is not broken. That is exactly what is wrong with it.</font> Look for plenty of GOPhers (and some Dems) on the Sunday Funnies defending the status quo and blaming the victim. Also check out the rest of the BTV lineup below for more news, inof and commentary! Click anything and be instantly smarter! Have a great week!
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<p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/1/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, December 1, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Alicia Garza, co-creator of "Black Lives Matter" & Dante Barry, organizer at Center for Media Justice and Million Hoodies Movement for Justice</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/1/not_one_more_darren_wilson_not" target="_blank">"Not One More Darren Wilson, Not One More Mike Brown": National Protests Continue Ferguson Struggle</a> <br />
<li><b>Michael Eric Dyson, University Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/1/dehumanizing_the_black_lives_of_america" target="_blank">Dehumanizing the Black Lives of America: Michael Eric Dyson on Ferguson, Police Brutality and Race</a> <br />
<li><b>Sharif Abdel Kouddous, Democracy Now! correspondent in Cairo & Hossam Bahgat, Egyptian journalist and human rights activist based in New York City</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/1/a_dark_moment_in_egypts_history" target="_blank">"A Dark Moment in Egypt’s History": Former Dictator Hosni Mubarak Cleared in Death of Protesters</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/2/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, December 2, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Ashley Yates, an activist, poet and artist who is co-creator of Millennial Activists United</b> <a aref="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/2/the_root_is_racism_in_america" target="_blank">The Root is Racism in America: Ferguson Activist Speaks Out on Police Abuses After Meeting Obama</a> <br />
<li><b>James Peterson, director of Africana studies and associate professor of English at Lehigh University</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/2/will_obamas_police_reforms_bring_change" target="_blank">Will Obama’s Police Reforms Bring Change? Admin Urged to Seize Political Momentum of Ferguson Moment</a> <br />
<li><b>Panetti’s attorney, Kathryn Kase, and Ron Honberg, national director for policy and legal affairs of the National Alliance on Mental Illnes</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/2/will_texas_execute_a_schizophrenic_man" target="_blank">Will Texas Execute a Schizophrenic Man Who Tried to Subpoena Jesus, JFK & the Pope at His Own Trial?</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/3/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, December 3, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Dr. Jens Modvig, member of the U.N. Committee Against Torture </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/3/united_nations_panel_slams_us_record" target="_blank">United Nations Panel Slams U.S. Record on Police Brutality, Torture, Child Migrants & Guantánamo</a> <br />
<li><b>Jennifer Gibson, staff attorney at the international legal charity Reprieve</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/3/a_precise_us_drone_war_report" target="_blank">"A "Precise" U.S. Drone War? Report Says 28 Unidentified Victims Killed for Every 1 Target</a> <br />
<li><b>Mark Colville, member of Amistad Catholic Worker</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/3/peace_activist_faces_up_to_two" target="_blank">Peace Activist Sentenced for Protesting at Drone Base Near Syracuse, NY</a> <br />
<li><b>Clemente Rodríguez & Roberto Lovato</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/3/father_of_missing_mexican_student_speaks" target="_blank">Father of Missing Mexican Student Speaks Out as U.S. Protesters Stage Day of Action Against Drug War</a> <br />
<li><b>Elena Gálvez & Ariel Goodman</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/3/ecuadorean_authorities_seize_climate_caravan_bus" target="_blank">Ecuadorean Authorities Seize Climate Caravan Bus Carrying Activists Opposed to Drilling in Yasuni</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/4/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, December 4, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Brandon Davidson, nephew of Eric Garner</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/4/i_cant_breathe_as_protests_erupt" target="_blank">"I Can’t Breathe": As Protests Erupt in NYC, Eric Garner’s Nephew Speaks Out on Grand Jury Ruling</a> <br />
<li><b>Democracy Now! producer Renée Feltz and video producer Messiah Rhodes </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/4/i_fear_for_the_lives_of" target="_blank">"I Fear for the Lives of My Sons": Voices from NYC Protests over Eric Garner Grand Jury Ruling</a> <br />
<li><b>Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/4/vince_warren_on_how_police_officers" target="_blank">Vince Warren on How Police Officers Get Away with Killing from Ferguson to NYC</a> <br />
<li><b>Alice Slater, New York director of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/4/out_cheneying_cheney_obamas_likely_defense" target="_blank">Out Cheneying-Cheney: Obama’s Likely Defense Pick Once Backed Pre-emptive Attack on North Korea</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/5/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, December 5, 2014</a><ul><li><b>Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now! co-host and New York Daily News columnist</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/5/pioneering_politician_herman_badillo_the_first" target="_blank">Pioneering Politician Herman Badillo, the First Puerto Rican Elected to Congress, Dies at 85</a> <br />
<li><b>HANDS UP DON'T SHOOT Protests</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/5/shutting_down_the_streets_thousands_protest" target="_blank">Shutting Down the Streets: Thousands Protest Police Killings by Blocking Traffic & Staging Die-ins</a> <br />
<li><b>Harry Siegel, columnist and editorial writer for the New York Daily News</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/5/did_the_nypd_let_eric_garner" target="_blank">Did the NYPD Let Eric Garner Die? Video Shows Police Ignored Pleas to Help Him After Chokehold</a> <br />
<li><b>Retired NYPD detective Graham Weatherspoon, The Nation's Mychal Denzel Smith & Harry Siegel, columnist at the New York Daily News</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/5/a_racist_and_unjust_system_a" target="_blank">A Racist and Unjust System? A Discussion on Policing in Wake of Michael Brown and Eric Garner Deaths</a> <br />
<li><b>Democratic Ohio state Senator Nina Turner, Weatherspoon, Smith & Siegel</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/5/the_killing_of_tamir_rice_cleveland" target="_blank">The Killing of Tamir Rice: Cleveland Police Criticized for Shooting 12-Year-Old Holding Toy Gun</a> <br />
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<font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i>
<p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>!
<p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <font color=red><b>ACTION! <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell the FCC: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> 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. </b> SIGN NOW at <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell Chairman Wheeler: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> at freepress.net NOW. </font>
<p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW!
<p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org
<p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>!
<p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information!
<p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Chelsea Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/featured/new-action-write-letters-to-dod-officials-requesting-clemency-for-chelsea" target="_blank">New Action- write letters to DoD officials requesting clemency for Chelsea!</a> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/plaintiff-firm-for-chelseas-appeals-named-a-leading-firm-in-us" target="_blank">Chelsea's new appeals team named a leading US firm</a> <i>Dec 2, 2014. The National Law Journal and Law.com has named Freedman, Boyd Hollander, Goldberg, Urias & Ward as one of the "Top 50 Leading Plaintiff Firms in America"..........</i>
<p><font size=3><b>DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION</b></font> <a href="http://tjmf.flipswap.com/" target="_blank">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. </a> For more information, go to <a href="http://www.tjmartellfoundation.org" target="_blank">www.tjmartellfoundation.org</a>
<p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!! <p><center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br > <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick_teevee_test.jpg" alt="brick_teevee_test.jpg" /></br >
The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br >
THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br >
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<a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br >
<a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,353 US Military Dead as of Nov 27, 2014</a> </br >
<a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br >
<font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br >
<font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br >
<font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br >
<font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><p>
<li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio<br />
• Former New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly<br />
• Gov. John Kasich, R-Ohio<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, CNN political commentator Van Jones, National Review editor Rich Lowry, and Rep. Loretta Sanchez, D-Calif. <br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton<br />
• NAACP President Cornell William Brooks<br />
• Soledad O'Brien, Executive Producer and Director of "Black in America," a documentary about the death of Eric Garner<br />
• Camden County Police Chief J. Scott Thomson<br />
• CBS News Justice and Homeland Security Correspondent Bob Orr will join us to preview the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence report<br />
• British Ambassador Peter Westmacott<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Charles Blow of The New York Times, Gerald Seib of the Wall Street Journal, and David Ignatius of the Washington Post, Jeanne Cummings of Bloomberg Politics <br />
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<li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• Sunday, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. ET/PT<br />
• The Spill at Dan River<br />
• Disrupting Cancer<br />
• The City of Music<br />
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<li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Esaw Garner, widow of the unarmed black man whose chokehold death has sparked protests across the country<br />
• Rev. Al Sharpton<br />
• Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter<br />
• Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed<br />
• Cyrus Vance, Manhattan district attorney<br />
• Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, governor-elect.<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN)</b> Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• Former President George W. Bush<br />
• Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro and his brother – Congressman Joaquin Castro <br />
• Congressman Mike Rogers, Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee <br />
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<li type=square><b>HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid</b><br />
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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!<br />
• Thorn in the Side Thursday! Bob decodes Pastor Mike Huckerbee's racist blame-the-victim INCLUDING the NEW word for BLAH people <a href="http://crooksandliars.com/diane-sweet/santorum-i-didnt-say-black-people-i-sa" target="_blank">*</a>: "THUG" and more Hockey Puck moments! Listen here NOW! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(04-12-2014).mp3" target="_blank">Thursday, December 4th, 2014 </a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.crmw.net</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT</b> With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!<br />
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<b> The Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen:</b> 6 minutes of green news, politics, analysis & snarky comment! BOOKMARK <a href="http://greennews.bradblog.com/" target="_blank">greennews.bradblog.com</a> NOW!<br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10966" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - December 4, 2014</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Germany's biggest utility spins off its fossil fuel assets; Are fossil fuel companies running scared? Florida punishes homeowners for not polluting; PLUS: MSNBC's big infomercial for Big Coal... All that and more in today's Green News Report! IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): Scientists predict green energy revolution after incredible new graphene discoveries; See what your city will look like with rising sea levels; NASA: rate of Antarctic ice melt triples in a decade; CO2 emissions produce maximum warming in 10 years; India considers emissions peak 2035-50; Russia's proposed pipeline falls victim to low prices; MIT: no health impacts from wind turbine noise ... PLUS: The Way We Weren’t: Inhofe Singles out Streisand as Global Warming Hoaxer in Chief... and much, MUCH more! ...<br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10966" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - December 2, 2014</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: UN climate summit underway to map the future of global warming; California hit by record rain, amid record drought; Global implications of falling oil prices; PLUS: The toxic legacy of the world's worst industrial disaster thirty years later... All that and more in today's Green News Report!<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10965" target="_blank">Unspinning Climate Change with Dr. Michael Mann and 'Recounting' Arizona: KPFK 'BradCast'</a> Plus MUCH MORE this week... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10944" target="_blank">Not Voting IS a Vote</a> Stop blaming those who didn't turn out. Americans did vote. By not turning out, they voted against the two major parties and against the system as a whole. It may have been a dumb vote, but it was a landslide... <br />
• BRADBLOG VIDEO! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10954" target="_blank">East Coast/West Coast Investigative Election Integrity Muckraking with Friedman and Palast on Hartmann TV!</a> <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10962" target="_blank">'Recount' and Controversy in Arizona U.S. House Race</a>Razor-thin computer-reported margin, failed paper-ballot tabulators, untallied provisionals, terrible 'recount' rules leave Barber-McSally contest in AZ-2 unsettled... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10964" target="_blank">House Judiciary Letter Suggests Impeachment for Wife-Beating Federal Judge</a> Goodlatte (R) and Conyers (D) seek update from 11th Circuit Court, cite potential impeachment of Judge Mark Fuller... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10970" target="_blank">NC Repubs Trying to Run-Out Clock on Voter Suppression Lawsuit (Again)?</a> Plaintiffs charge state attempt to reschedule next summer's federal trial 'unsupportable', 'disingenuous'... <br />
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<li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b><br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <br />
<ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• 3 Dec 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-irans-air-force-joins-the-fray-bombs-islamic-state-in-iraq/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Iran’s Air Force Joins the Fray, Bombs Islamic State in Iraq</a> Iran joins the anti-Islamic State free-for-all, sends fighter jets to Diyala province in Iraq; US, Iran both deny coordination…. <br />
• 4 Dec 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-jason-leopold-reports-that-senate-torture-review-to-be-released-in-days/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Jason Leopold Reports that Senate Torture “Review” to be Released in Days</a> –after 2 years of delay and infighting, including a Senate-CIA showdown, Feinstein’s torture review set for release, says Jason Leopold… <br />
• 5 Dec 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-obama-nominates-ashton-carter-as-defense-secretary/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Obama Nominates Ashton Carter as Defense Secretary</a> –Obama names new Pentagon chief, Ashton B. Carter, to manage the war machine; he’s considered hawkish on Syria, Iraq war…. .<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast November 25, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/12/03/green-chemistry-isnt-about-perfection-but-works-to-reduce-toxic-chemicals/" target="_blank">Green Chemistry Isn’t About Perfection, But Works to Reduce Toxic Chemicals</a> Meet the “father of green chemistry”, Dr. John C. Warner. The former research head for Polaroid founded the Warner Babcock Institute and co-authored the book <i>Green Chemistry</i>. He defines his vision, and notes that industry is way ahead of academia in embracing his principles. <br />
• PBC Standard Podcast December 5, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/12/05/progressive-think-tanker-dave-johnson-asks-is-the-democratic-party-relevant-anymore/" target="_blank">Progressive Think Tanker Dave Johnson Asks: Is the Democratic Party Relevant Anymore?</a> Following the mid-term elections, your humble host tagged the Democratic Party as “increasingly irrelevant”. In a recent article, Dave Johnson asks the question, and surveys recent progressive commentary. <br />
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• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weekend-on-ring-of-fire-radio-22/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire December 5, 2014</a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
»» The Best of Ring of Fire Radio!<br />
»» Author Naomi Klein will join us to talk about her new book “This Changes Everything.”<br />
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»» And author Daniel Schulman will explain everything you ever wanted to know about the Koch brothers’ rise to power.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weeks-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv-22/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV!</a> - Sundays at NOON! <br />
»» Guest list TBA. Watch at <a href="http://www.freespeech.org/collection/ringoffire" target="_blank">FSTV</a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/pap-and-abby-martin-how-the-eric-garner-case-exposed-the-sham-of-grand-juries/" target="_blank">Pap and Abby Martin: How the Eric Garner Case Exposed the Sham of Grand Juries</a> by Gary Bentley - Abby Martin speaks with America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio and former DC police officer, Ronald Hampton, about the decision by a grand jury not to indict New York police officer, Daniel Pantaleo, over the choking death of 43-year-old Eric Garner.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/watch-this-and-understand-wall-street-is-setting-this-up-again-no-regulations-on-the-book-to-stop-it/" target="_blank">Watch This and Understand Wall Street is Setting This Up Again. No Regulations on the Book to Stop It</a> by Guest Blogger <br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/12/pap-and-thom-hartmann-how-do-we-decide-who-can-be-cops/" target="_blank">Pap and Thom Hartmann: How Do “We” Decide Who Can Be Cops?</a> by Gary Bentley - America’s Lawyer, Mike Papantonio, joins Thom Hartmann to talk about racism in the criminal justice system. <br />
• Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the "Podcast" tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/blogengine/" target="_blank">Ring of Fire Radio</a> Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, <b>rebroadcasts 7-10 et Sunday evenings on <a href="http://www.chicagoprogressivetalk.com/listen/" target="_blank">Chicago's Progressive Talk WCPT AM & FM</a> and 4 pm et on Sirius/XM 167 featuring The PAP Attack! </b> "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week." <br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/121-ferguson-the-crisis-of-police-violence-against-black-men" target="_blank">12/1/14 Ferguson & The Crisis of Police Violence Against Black Men</a> <br />
• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/12214-karen-piper-the-price-of-thirst" target="_blank">12/2/14 Karen Piper: The Price of Thirst, Global Water Inequality and the Coming Chaos</a><br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/12314-maya-schenwar-why-prisons-dont-work" target="_blank">12/3/14 Maya Schenwar: Why Prison's Don't Work</a><br />
• THURSDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/12414-dani-mcclain-the-assault-on-young-black-life" target="_blank">12/4/14 Dani McClain: The Assault on Young Black Life </a><br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/12514-casual-friday-cliff-schecter-film-guy-matthew-weiss" target="_blank">12/5/14 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & Film Guy Matthew Weiss</a><br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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<li type=square><b>KEISER REPORT</b> Podcasts and more @ <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/" target="_blank">MaxKeiser.com</a>!<br />
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WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts "The Truth About Markets" on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s "People & Power" series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of <a href="http://www.karmabanque.com/" target="_blank">KarmaBanque</a> a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. <br />
• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport" target="_blank">Keiser Report</a> <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/new-g20-rules-cyprus-style-bail-ins-to-hit-depositors-and-pensioners/" target="_blank">New G20 Rules: Cyprus-style Bail-ins to Hit Depositors AND Pensioners</a> by Ellen Brown — On the weekend of November 16th, the G20 leaders whisked into Brisbane, posed for their photo ops, approved some proposals, made a show of roundly disapproving of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and whisked out again. It was all so fast, they may not have known what they were endorsing when they rubber-stamped the Financial Stability Board’s “Adequacy of Loss-Absorbing Capacity of Global Systemically Important Banks in Resolution,” which completely changes the rules of banking. READ <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/new-g20-rules-cyprus-style-bail-ins-to-hit-depositors-and-pensioners/#more-75864" target="_blank">MORE</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/video-of-the-day-this-is-what-happens-when-you-call-the-cops/" target="_blank">Video of the Day – This Is What Happens When You Call the Cops</a> by Michael Krieger — In a healthy, moral and civilized society defined by the rule of law, police can play an important role. They should be people who come from the communities they promise to “protect and serve.” They should view themselves as a part of these communities, not as something separate and distinct. Police should see their jobs as having a great degree of risk, and must be willing to accept that risk. This means not pretending to be a solider at war, not choosing the most violent solution to every problem, and not viewing the citizenry as milk cows ready and willing to be <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/07/28/asset-forfeiture-how-cops-continue-to-steal-americans-hard-earned-cash-with-zero-repercussions/" target="_blank">drained of their assets via civil forfeiture</a>. Unfortunately, this isn’t the state of the police in America in 2014… Read the rest <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/12/04/video-of-the-day-this-is-what-happens-when-you-call-the-cops/" target="_blank">HERE</a>...........<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/ecb-draghis-qe-battle-with-germany-rules-out-ecb-gold-buying/" target="_blank">ECB Draghi’s QE Battle With Germany; Rules Out ECB Gold Buying</a> by Mark O'Byrne — Speaking in the ECB’s new 1.3 billion euro headquarters, an imposing Frankfurt skyscraper designed to show the strength of the ‘single’ currency, Draghi threw down the gauntlet to Germany and signaled that he would not allow opposition from Germany or anyone else to stop the ECB’s QE. Despite the fact that it has failed in Japan and is meeting with mixed success in the UK and U.S. In his clearest language yet, Mario Draghi underlined his desire and commitment to debt monetisation, and argued the case for creating new money to buy assets such as government bonds. He made the comments during the question and answer period of his monthly press conference following the ECB’s monetary policy meeting. Interestingly, Draghi ruled out the printing of money to buy gold bullion. He was asked what types of assets the ECB would buy as part of its quantitative easing program. He responded, “we discussed all assets but gold.”…READ <a href="http://www.goldcore.com/goldcore_ECB_Draghi_s_QE_Battle_With_Germany_Rules_Out_ECB_Gold_Buying" target="_blank">ECB Draghi’s QE Battle With Germany; Rules Out ECB Gold Buying</a> (goldcore.com)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/wall-street-moves-to-put-taxpayers-on-the-hook-for-derivatives-trades/" target="_blank">Wall Street Moves to Put Taxpayers on the Hook for Derivatives Trades</a> by Michael Krieger — Wall Street has for some time attempted to put taxpayers on the hook for its derivatives trades. I highlighted this a year ago in the post: <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/10/29/citigroup-written-bankster-legislation-moves-through-the-house-of-representatives/" target="_blank">Citigroup Written Legislation Moves Through the House of Representatives</a>. Fortunately, that bill never made it to a vote on the Senate floor, but now Wall Street is trying to sneak it into a bill needed to keep the government running. Can’t make this stuff up…Read the rest <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/12/05/wall-street-moves-to-put-taxpayers-on-the-hook-for-derivatives-trades/" target="_blank">HERE</a>. <br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/kr687-keiser-report-russell-brand-for-london-mayor/" target="_blank">[KR687] Keiser Report: Russell Brand for London Mayor!</a> We discuss the fact that Britain’s days as a haven of political, economic stability are numbered and everyone is saying it. Also numbered, are America’s days as the so-called ‘United States of Arabia’ as oil price wars put the heat on shale oil producers. In the second half Max interviews Liam Halligan, journalist at the Telegraph and BNE, about why it is that APEC means so much more than the G20 and about Japan’s out of control Quantitative Easing.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/keiser-report-dutch-gold-repatriation/" target="_blank">Keiser Report: Dutch Gold Repatriation</a> We are joined by Liam Halligan of Business New Europe (www.bne.eu) to discuss Martin Wolf’s analytical article in the Financial Times about the “radical measures” needed to combat our “unusual economic ills.” We also discuss Max’s response, published as the lead “Letters” item in the FT. In the second half, Max interviews Chris Powell of GATA about the failed Swiss Gold Initiative, the successful Dutch repatriation of 122 tons of gold and about the negative GOFO rates in the gold market.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/12/keiser-report-unjust-road-to-independence/" target="_blank">Keiser Report: Unjust Road to Independence</a> We look at the injustice which may lead to independence, from “embarrassed” RBS bankers getting away with mortgage fraud to the Washington DC police department scheduling future Civil Asset Forfeitures to meet budget requirements. In the second half, Max continues his interview with Chris Powell of GATA about negative GOFO rates in the gold market.<br />
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<li type=square><b>The Scott Horton Radio Show</b><br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It’s been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show’s important milestones, as well as preview some of the exciting projects to look for in the near future. ........ The show on Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A., still called Antiwar Radio, has now moved to join their Sunday morning public affairs line up (8:30 am pt - http://kpfk.org), and remains the largest source of listeners, with 15,000-20,000 people tuning in weekly. The future: Liberty Express Radio is growing and bringing me along for the ride. The great Charles Goyette hooked me up with Alan Butler and the Liberty Express earlier this year, and what has been the daily replay there from 3-5 eastern time has become my best listened-to show. And now they’re adding my friend Tom Woods to the lineup from 2-3 PM. That does it. I’m making the switch! Starting Monday, October 14, the live show is moving to 3-5 PM Eastern time on LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/02/120214-patrick-l-smith/" target="_blank">12/02/14 Patrick L. Smith</a>: Patrick L. Smith, a journalist with Salon.com and author of <i>Time No Longer: Americans After the American Century</i>, discuses what the <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/11/13/what_really_happened_in_beijing_putin_obama_xi_and_the_back_story_the_media_wont_tell_you/" target="_blank">surprise Saudi-instigated oil price drop</a> has to do with Obama, Putin and Xi meeting in Beijing at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Summit in November.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/11/18/111814-jacob-hornberger/" target="_blank">11/18/14 Jacob Hornberger</a>: Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses how the <a href="http://fff.org/2014/11/18/united-states-lost-cold-war/" target="_blank">United States lost the Cold War</a> by adopting the totalitarian features of the Soviet Union; and how to better the economy by cutting the Pentagon’s budget and using the proceeds for productive purposes.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/04/120414-chris-woods/" target="_blank">12/04/14 Chris Woods</a>: Chris Woods, an investigative reporter on national security issues, discusses his article “<a href="http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/12/03/pentagon-in-denial-about-civilian-casualties-of-u-s-airstrikes-in-iraq-and-syria/" target="_blank">Pentagon in Denial About Civilian Casualties of U.S. Airstrikes in Iraq and Syria</a>.”<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/05/120514-ray-mcgovern/" target="_blank">12/05/14 Ray McGovern</a>: Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst turned peace activist, discusses why the MSM is finally telling the truth about the US’s responsibility for Ukraine’s problems; and the <a href="http://rt.com/usa/211527-representatives-condemn-russia-aggression/" target="_blank">House of Representatives resolution</a> that essentially declares another Cold War with Russia.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/12/05/120514-philip-giraldi/" target="_blank">12/05/14 Philip Giraldi</a>: Philip Giraldi, Executive Director of The Council for the National Interest, discusses his article “<a href="http://www.unz.com/pgiraldi/neocons-triumphant-in-washington-and-geneva/" target="_blank">Neocons Triumphant in Washington and Geneva</a>;” and why Chuck Hagel really got forced out of his Secretary of Defense job.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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Mark Twain once quipped, “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” So it is with <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/finance/224763-gop-lashes-out-on-eve-of-immigration-announcement" target="_blank">Republicans outraged by Obama's plan</a> on his executive actions on immigration. TheHill.com's Rebecca Shabad notes <font color=maroon>“The president is throwing this nation into a crisis and we have an obligation to do our duty, here, and in the Senate,” Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) told reporters. Obama purposely timed the announcement, King said, to coincide with lawmakers leaving Washington Thursday for Thanksgiving recess. King said he’s staying behind in Washington to deal with the issue. ............ Some Republicans expressed frustration that Obama invited only Senate and House Democrats to dinner Wednesday evening to huddle before the announcement. Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) said the fact that Republicans were not invited signals that Obama is creating “the beginning of a political campaign” that provokes “partisan warfare” and not a bipartisan agreement. “Why would you do this on the eve of Thanksgiving, going into holidays, unless you want to create a political fight?" Cole asked. "I mean I’m mystified by the political calculus." Republicans should have been included in Wednesday’s dinner, said Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.). “I think that’s endemic of how the president has run his office,” she said. “He has been unwilling to reach out to Republicans.” Bachmann called Obama “cynical” for issuing the order after the midterm elections when so many Democrats faced tight reelection races. ................. While Rep. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio) said he’s “bothered when somebody tries to pass laws through executive actions,” he said it’s not worth another government shutdown. “I don’t advocate that. I think that is a mistake,” he said.....</font> Yeah and it gets even worse as <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/republicans-call-obama-executive-actions-damaging-to-presidency-file-lawsuit-over-obamacare/2014/11/21/d3720d0e-7192-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html" target="_blank">Republicans challenge Obama’s executive actions, file lawsuit over Obamacare</a> reports Wapo's Katie Zezima and Robert Costa <font color=Brown>............. Back in Washington, Republicans were launching their own assaults, announcing that the House GOP had filed a lawsuit challenging the implementation of the 2010 health-care law and promising to turn back the immigration effort. “We’re working with our members and looking at the options available to us,” said House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), “but I will say to you the House will, in fact, act.” ................ <b>The suit, which was approved by House Republicans four months ago, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It will be led by <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/restore-balancing-among-the-branches-of-government-in-washington/2014/06/27/81440022-f49d-11e3-b633-0de077c9f768_story.html" target="_blank">Jonathan Turley</a>, a law professor at the George Washington University Law School, who is the third legal adviser to handle the case.</b> In recent weeks, some Republicans have pushed for including the immigration order in the lawsuit against the president. Instead, Boehner promised action in the House to counter Obama’s plans. “The House has an obligation to stand up for the Constitution, and that is exactly why we are pursuing this course of action.” .................. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), a leading opponent of the president’s action and the likely incoming chairman of the budget committee, accused Obama of refusing to enforce the law and promised to use budgetary measures to prevent funding for the implementation of the new immigration rules. Speaking Friday at the Heritage Foundation, Sessions said such action was necessary because Obama “granted amnesty to 5 million people, and he did it by basically saying, ‘I’m not going to enforce the laws of the United States of America.’ " .................Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) said in an interview Friday that a growing group of Senate Republicans is coalescing around a more tempered rebuttal to the president: passing a series of standalone immigration bills in the coming months and demonstrating to voters that the party can govern. “Put legislation on the president’s desk,” Flake said. “We could do bills on border security, interior enforcement, mandatory E-Verify, and address high-tech workers and guest workers.” ............ Obama essentially blamed Boehner for not allowing an immigration bill to come to the House floor. “I cajoled and I called and I met. I told John Boehner, I’ll wash your car, I’ll walk your dog — whatever you need to do, just call the bill. That’s how democracy is supposed to work. And if the votes hadn’t been there, then we would have had to start over. But at least give it a shot — and he didn’t do it.”</font> Click that link for Jonathan Turley! Some of you may recall Turley as a regular guest on Keith Olbermann's MSNBC show "Countdown". He's been against the ever-increasing "executive powers" since those broadcasts during the Reign of Dim Son. Lots at his blog too at <a href="http://jonathanturley.org" target="_blank">jonathanturley.org</a>. <br />
NOT SO FAST BONER & TURLEY. Sarah Jones at PoliticusUSA.com reports <a href="http://www.politicususa.com/2014/11/25/100-legal-scholars-president-obamas-immigration-actions-constitutional-powers.html" target="_blank">Republicans Wrong: 135 Legal Scholars Say Obama’s Immigration Actions Are Constitutional </a> <font color=darkblue>Republicans are wrong again, so say over 100 legal scholars. President Obama acted Constitutionally and within the powers of his office when he took immigration action. Jim Kuhnehn reported for the <a href="http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c957a284aaa748dfba47ece9ce2712c1/legal-scholars-obamas-immigration-actions-lawful" target="_blank">AP</a>, “More than 100 immigration professors and scholars declared Tuesday that President Barack Obama’s decision to make several million immigrants illegally in the United States eligible to be spared from deportation is constitutional and within his administrative powers.” That’s 135 scholars for anyone who’s counting. And they all say that President Obama’s immigration actions are well within the legal authority of the executive branch. The lawyers published their conclusion in a <a href="https://pennstatelaw.psu.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdfs/Immigrants/executive-action-law-prof-letter.pdf" target="_blank">letter</a>, updated from a September 3, 2014 letter sent by 136 law professors to the White House on the role of executive action in immigration law. <i>Our conclusion is that the expansion of the DACA program and the establishment of Deferred Action for Parental Accountability are legal exercises of prosecutorial discretion. Both executive actions are well within the legal authority of the executive branch of the government of the United States.</i> It’s not as if this is news to those who operate in reality land, but this is news for those deeply entrenched in the alternative universe/contagious disease that is Republicanitis. Seeing as every modern president since Eisenhower has done this including Republican former President Ronald Reagan, Republicans look foolish and petty the more they screech about Obama. ................ 135 legal scholars V Republicans. But wait. Republicans claim that it’s different when Obama does it because the scope is so broad. What say the scholars? They disagree. The broad scope does not impact prosecutorial discretion. Oh. Further, the scholars cited the fact that federal courts “also explicitly recognized prosecutorial discretion in general and deferred action in particular. Notably, the U.S. Supreme Court noted in its Arizona v. United States decision in 2012: ‘A principal feature of the removal system is the broad discretion exercised by immigration officials.'” <b>Keep in mind that Republicans also don’t “believe” in climate change, science, medicine, reality, and much more. They base monetary policy on a fictional character’s monologue in a book written for juvenile teenage boys.</b> Reality is a stranger to Republicans these days. So it should come as no surprise that they are wrong again, because they once again denied reality. The reality is, Barack Obama is the President of the U.S. He’s in his second term. The people wanted him a lot more than they wanted the Republican alternatives, in both elections. But we are six years in, and Republicans are still whining daily like perpetual sore losers who refuse to take responsibility for their own failures.</font> Good one Sarah! Spot on! For more GOPher whining one needs only to visit last week's Sunday Funnies how quickly the GOPhers got THEIR "truth" out pre-empting the Real Truth still putting on its shoes. But we at Brick TeeVee are all over it! A week late haha! For more on the alternate reality that is "Republicanitis" we go to Chicken Noodle News's Sara Fischer <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/23/politics/lindsey-graham-benghazi-report/index.html" target="_blank">Sen. Lindsey Graham: GOP-led Benghazi report is 'full of crap'</a> <font color=MediumVioletRed>Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-South Carolina, has some harsh words for the <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/21/politics/benghazi-attack-report/index.html" target="_blank">recently released Benghazi report</a>, led by his own party. "I think the report is full of crap," Graham told Gloria Borger on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday. "I don't believe that the report is accurate, given the role that Mike Morell (deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency at the time) played in misleading the Congress on two different occasions. Why didn't the report say that?" ........... "That's a bunch of garbage," Graham said. "That's a complete bunch of garbage." ............... "When Susan Rice was on television after the attack, she said on three different occasions the consulate was strongly, and significantly secure," Graham said. "Nothing could be further than that from the truth, and there's nothing in the talking points about the level of security." ....... "Anybody who has followed Benghazi at all knows that the CIA deputy director did not come forward to tell Congress what role he played in changing the talking points and the only way we knew he was involved is when he told a representative at the White House," Graham said. .......... "I'm going to do a hard review of this."</font> Key word there is "hard" for Senator Lindsey "still in the closet" Graham haha! Mr. Graham certainly lives in his own reality as EVERY probe, study, commission and report has said basically the same thing! We're pretty sure FactCheck.org's <a href="http://www.factcheck.org/2012/10/benghazi-timeline/" target="_blank">Benghazi Timeline</a> won't change the mind of Senator "I do my own makeup" Graham. Another journalist who won't be changing the mind of Senator "do I look fat in this suit" Graham and his neocon buddies is Robert Parry at ConsortiumNews.com <a href="http://consortiumnews.com/2014/11/24/possible-motives-for-ousting-hagel/" target="_blank">Possible Motives for Ousting Hagel </a> <font color=navy>The abrupt resignation of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel – along with the failure to reach a final agreement on Iran’s nuclear program on the same day – does not augur well for the last quarter of Barack Obama’s presidency, reflecting his continuing tendency to let the neocons have their way. Not that Hagel had distinguished himself as a sterling leader of the Pentagon – nor has all hope disappeared that a sensible resolution of the impasse with Iran might be achieved before the next “deadline” in June – but Obama still does not appear to have escaped the spell of the neocons who continue to dominate American geopolitical thought despite the bloody disasters that they helped cause in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Six years into his presidency, Obama still doesn’t seem to understand that just because some people have impressive credentials doesn’t mean they know what they’re doing. Indeed, in a profoundly corrupted system – like the one that now controls Official Washington – rewards are handed out to people who serve the corrupt interests or at least don’t get in the way. In a time of corruption, the countervailing forces of wisdom and courage will never be found among the credentialed, but rather among the outcasts of the establishment, those who were forced to the margins because they objected to the venality, because they stood up against misguided “group think.” .................. The tragedy of Obama is that I’m told that he understands the stupidity of the modern U.S. establishment and does sometimes consult with “realists” who offer practical advice for how he can resolve some of the most nettlesome problems facing the United States around the world. But he does so virtually in secret, with what politicians like to call “deniability.” Obama operates one foreign policy above the table – pounding his fist along with the neocons against Syria, Iran and Russia – and another foreign policy below the table, dealing with adversaries in ways necessary to confront global challenges, such as collaborating with Iran to counter the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and with Russia to address challenges with Iran, Syria, Libya and elsewhere. Yet, while keeping such pragmatic overtures under the table, Obama reaches out publicly to neocons who have been implicated in some of the worst disasters in the history of U.S. foreign policy — but who have “credentials.” ................................... You might think that the only reason to invite one of the Iraq War architects to the White House would be as a “sting operation” to arrest him and trundle him off to The Hague for prosecution for war crimes. After all, the justices at the post-World War II Nuremberg Tribunals deemed aggression – starting an unprovoked war – “the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” And we have certainly seen that “accumulated evil” get unpacked. Yet, Obama courted Kagan as a respected “equal,” according to one source familiar with the behavior of the two men at lunch. Although as a journalist I try not to react viscerally to what I hear, the phrase “a meeting of equals” brought the taste of vomit to the back of my throat. ...................... Even as a twice-elected president, Obama seems captive to this high regard for people with credentials, even when the system awarding those credentials daily demonstrates its extraordinary levels of corruption, cruelty and outright stupidity. Which brings us back to the apparently forced resignation of Chuck Hagel, who earned the enmity of Official Washington because he was an early Republican turning against the Iraq War and because he offered some mild criticism of the Israel Lobby. ................... There’s also the neocon desire for a new Cold War with Russia over Ukraine. It’s possible that Hagel, a Vietnam veteran who understands the ugliness of war and has no fondness for the neocons, is being sidelined because he isn’t willing to throw more young American men and women into the blood and horror of more neocon-inspired adventures, not to mention wasting hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayers’ money.............</font> Read more at <a href="http://consortiumnews.com" target="_blank">consortiumnews.com</a>! NEXT Our Man in Pipelineistan Asia Times' PEPE ESCOBER explains how <a href="http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Central_Asia/CEN-01-211114.html" target="_blank">Washington plays Russian roulette</a> <font color=indigo>These are bleak times. I've been in serious conversation with some deep sources and interlocutors - those who know but don't need to show off, privileging discretion. They are all deeply worried. This is what one of them, a New York strategic planner, sent me: <ul>The propaganda attack against Putin equating him with Hitler is so extreme that you have to think that the Russians cannot believe their ears and cannot trust the United States anymore under any circumstances. I cannot believe how we could have gotten ourselves into this situation to protect the looters in the Ukraine that Putin would have rid the Ukraine of, and even had the gall to place in a leadership role one of the worst of the thieves. But that is history. What is certain is that MAD [mutually assured destruction] is not a deterrent today when both sides believe the other will use nuclear weapons once they have the advantage and that the side that gains a decisive advantage will use them. MAD is now over.</ul>That may sound somewhat extreme - but it's a perfectly logical extension, further on down the road, of what the Russian president intimated in his already legendary interview with Germany's ARD in Vladivostok last week: the West is provoking Russia into a new Cold War. [1] Mikhail Gorbachev just stressed a few days ago the new Cold War is already on. Princeton's Stephen Cohen says the Cold War in fact never left. The Roving Eye reported about Cold War 2.0 months ago. Brits - still stranded in the 19th century new Great Game - prefer to spin the "strident toxic personality" of "diminutive Putin"; [2] he is the "ruthless, charming and ultimately reckless" man who "put the cold war back in vogue". The Council on Foreign Relations, predictably, mourns the end of the post-Cold War world, blasts the current "disorder", and dreams of the good ol' unchallenged exceptionalist days. [3] For arguably the best detailed background on how we came to this perilous state of affairs, it's hard to beat Vladimir Kozin of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies. [4] Read him carefully. And yes, it's Cold War 2.0, the double trouble remix; between the US and Russia, and between NATO and Russia. ............................ So NATO has been warned about Russia's real red lines. Still, substantial sectors of the Washington/Wall Street elites can't get enough of war. And they like it hot. [6] No one should ever underestimate the unlimited stupidity of the Return of the Living Neo-con Dead using their favorite pulpit, the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal. The "logic" behind Cold War 2.0 - now in full swing - couldn't give a damn about European stability. The Obama administration launched it - with NATO as the spearhead - to in fact prevent Eurasian integration, building a New Berlin Wall in Kiev. The immediate target is to undermine Russia's economy; in the long run, regime change would be the ultimate bonus. So the logic of escalation is on. The economically devastated EU is a joke; the only thing that counts for the US is NATO - and the overwhelming majority of its members are in the bag, sharing the prevailing mood in Washington of treating Putin as if he were Milosevic, Saddam Hussein or Gaddafi. There are no signs whatsoever Team Obama is willing to de-escalate. And when the Hillarator President-in-Waiting ascends to the throne, all bets are off. </font> Going back to ConsortiumNews <a href="http://consortiumnews.com/2014/11/28/der-spiegel-tones-down-anti-putin-hysteria/" target="_blank">Der Spiegel Tones Down Anti-Putin Hysteria </a> <font color=navy>Exclusive: The mainstream U.S. news media continues to spew out a steady flow of anti-Russian propaganda over the Ukraine crisis, but the prominent German newsmagazine Der Spiegel has begun to temper its belligerent tone, finally reflecting the more nuanced reality, reports Robert Parry. ................. In another reversal of sorts, this leading German-language newsmagazine <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/war-in-ukraine-a-result-of-misunderstandings-between-europe-and-russia-a-1004706.html" target="_blank">has acknowledged</a> that the European Union and German leaders were guilty of miscalculations that contributed to the Ukraine crisis, particularly by under-appreciating the enormous financial costs to Ukraine if it broke its historic ties to Russia in favor of a new association with the EU............</font> Do read this! Too long to snip! Along these lines we go to Prof. James Petras at GlobalResearch.ca <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/all-out-war-in-ukraine-natos-final-offensive/5415354" target="_blank">All-Out War in Ukraine: NATO’s ‘Final Offensive’</a> <font color=FireBrick>There are clear signs that a major war is about to break out in Ukraine: A war actively promoted by the NATO regimes and supported by their allies and clients in Asia (Japan) and the Middle East (Saudi Arabia). The war over Ukraine will essentially run along the lines of a full-scale military offensive against the southeast Donbas region, targeting the breakaway ethnic Ukraine- Russian Peoples Republic of Donetsk and Lugansk, with the intention of deposing the democratically elected government, disarming the popular militias, killing the guerrilla resistance partisans and their mass base, dismantling the popular representative organizations and engaging in ethnic cleansing of millions of bilingual Ukraino-Russian citizens. NATO’s forthcoming military seizure of the Donbas region is a continuation and extension of its original violent putsch in Kiev, which overthrew an elected Ukrainian government in February 2014. The Kiev junta and its newly ‘elected’ client rulers, and its NATO sponsors are intent on a major purge to consolidate the puppet Poroshenko’s dictatorial rule. The recent NATO-sponsored elections excluded several major political parties that had traditionally supported the country’s large ethnic minority populations, and was boycotted in the Donbas region. This sham election in Kiev set the tone for NATO’s next move toward converting Ukraine into one gigantic US multi-purpose military base aimed at the Russian heartland and into a neo-colony for German capital, supplying Berlin with grain and raw materials while serving as a captive market for German manufactured goods. An intensifying war fever is sweeping the West; the consequences of this madness appear graver by the hour. <b>War Signs: The Propaganda and Sanctions Campaign, the G20 Summit and the Military Build Up</b> ................ NATO is sending vast arms shipments to the Kiev junta, along with “Special Forces” advisers and counter-insurgency experts in anticipation of a full-scale attack against the rebels in the Donbas. The Kiev regime has never abided by the Minsk cease fire. According to the UN Human Rights office 13 people on average –mostly civilians –have been killed each day since the September cease fire. In eight weeks, the UN reports that 957 people have killed –overwhelmingly by Kiev’s armed forces. The Kiev regime, in turn, has cut all basic social and public services to the Peoples’ Republics’, including electricity, fuel, civil service salaries, pensions, medical supplies, salaries for teachers and medical workers, municipal workers wages; banking and transport have been blockaded. <b>The strategy is to further strangle the economy, destroy the infrastructure, force an even greater mass exodus of destitute refugees from the densely populated cities across the border into Russia and then to launch massive air, missile, artillery and ground assaults on urban centers as well as rebel bases.</b> </font> <i>(Sounds a lot like shock-n-awe in Iraq a decade ago, doesn't it? -Ed.)</i> <font color=FireBrick> The Kiev junta has launched an all-out military mobilization in the Western regions, accompanied by rabid anti-Russian, anti-Eastern Orthodox indoctrination campaigns designed to attract the most violent far right chauvinist thugs and to incorporate the Nazi-style military brigades into the frontline shock troops. The cynical use of irregular fascist militias will ‘free’ NATO and Germany from any responsibility for the inevitable terror and atrocities in their campaign. This system of ‘plausible deniability’ mirrors the tactics of the German Nazis whose hordes of fascist Ukrainians and Ustashi Croats were notorious in their epoch of ethnic cleansing. ........... <b>G20-plus-NATO: Support of the Kiev Blitz</b> ........... NATO’s virulent hostility to Russian President Putin was on full display at the G20 meeting in Australia: NATO-linked presidents and prime ministers, especially Merkel, Obama, Cameron, Abbott, and Harper’s political threats and overt personal insults paralleled Kiev’s growing starvation blockade of the besieged rebels and population centers in the south-east. Both the G20’s economic threats against Russia and the diplomatic isolation of Putin and Kiev’s economic blockade are preludes to NATO’s Final Solution – the physical annihilation of all vestiges of Donbas resistance, popular democracy and cultural-economic ties with Russia. Kiev depends on its NATO mentors to impose a new round of severe sanctions against Russia, especially if its planned invasion encounters a well armed and robust mass resistance bolstered by Russian support. NATO is counting on Kiev’s restored and newly supplied military capacity to effectively destroy the southeast centers of resistance. NATO has decided on an ‘all-or-nothing campaign’: to seize all of Ukraine or, failing that, destroy the restive southeast, obliterate its population and productive capacity and engage in an all-out economic (and possibly shooting) war with Russia. Chancellor Angela Merkel is on board with this plan despite the complaints of German industrialists over their huge loss of export sales to Russia. President Hollande of France has signed on dismissing the complaints of trade unionists over the loss of thousands French jobs in the shipyards. Prime Minister David Cameron is eager for an economic war against Moscow, suggesting the bankers of the City of London find new channels to launder the illicit earnings of Russian oligarchs.............. </font> WOW! Read on! Not looking good as President Nobel Peace Prizer will have a decidedly irrational neocon Congress next year. Also see this <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/interview-with-president-vladimir-putin-the-crisis-in-east-ukraine-the-sanctions-regime-russian-german-relations/5416638" target="_blank">Interview with President Vladimir Putin: The Crisis in East Ukraine, The Sanctions Regime, Russian-German Relations</a>: <i>Vladimir Putin answered questions from Hubert Seipel of the German TV channel ARD. The interview was recorded on November 13 in Vladivostok. President Vladimir Putin presents his views on the Ukraine crisis and defends Russia’s actions.</i> THEN at Washington's Blog <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/11/big-banks-take-huge-stakes-aluminum-petroleum-physical-markets-manipulate-prices.html" target="_blank">Big Banks Take Huge Stakes In Aluminum, Petroleum and Other Physical Markets … Then Manipulate Their Prices</a> <font color=indigo>.............Indeed, big banks aren’t even really acting like banks anymore. Big banks do very little traditional banking, since most of their business is from financial speculation. For example, we noted in 2010 that <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/01/less-than-a-tenth-of-bank-of-americas-assets-comes-from-traditional-banking-deposits.html" target="_blank">less than 10% of Bank of America’s assets come from traditional banking deposits</a>. The big banks are <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2014/11/banks-big-busted-massively-manipulating-foreign-exchange-precious-metal-markets.html" target="_blank">manipulating every market</a>. They’re also taking over important aspects of the physical economy, including <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/giant-banks-take-over-real-economy-as-well-as-financial-system-enabling-manipulation-on-a-vast-scale.html" target="_blank">uranium mining, petroleum products, aluminum, ownership and operation of airports, toll roads, ports, and electricity</a>. And they are using these physical assets to massively manipulate commodities prices … scalping consumers of <a href="http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/07/big-banks-busted-manipulating-aluminum-and-copper-prices.html" target="_blank">many billions of dollars</a> each year. More from <a href="hhttp://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-vampire-squid-strikes-again-the-mega-banks-most-devious-scam-yet-20140212" target="_blank">Matt Taibbi</a>, <a href="http://news.firedoglake.com/2014/01/14/federal-reserve-may-continue-to-promote-wall-streets-expansion-into-commodities/" target="_blank">FDL</a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXpLIqDksDA" target="_blank">Elizabeth Warren</a>. A 2-year bipartisan probe by the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has shined a light on this problem, culminating in a new <a href="http://www.levin.senate.gov/download/psi-commodities-111914" target="_blank">400-page report</a>. Senator Levin – the Chair of Subcommittee – <a href="http://www.levin.senate.gov/newsroom/press/release/subcommittee-finds-wall-street-commodities-actions-add-risk-to-economy-businesses-consumers" target="_blank">summarizes</a> the findings from the investigation:<ul>“Wall Street’s massive involvement in physical commodities puts our economy, our manufacturers and the integrity of our markets at risk,” said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., the subcommittee’s chairman. “It’s time to restore the separation between banking and commerce and to prevent Wall Street from using nonpublic information to profit at the expense of industry and consumers.”......... Goldman didn’t just store aluminum; it was involved in massive trades of aluminum at the same time its warehouse operations were affecting aluminum availability, storage costs, and prices. After Goldman bought Metro, it accumulated massive aluminum holdings of its own, and in 2012, added about 300,000 metric tons of its own aluminum to the exit queue at its warehouses. ..........</ul></font> You MUST read all of this! Then scroll down to Max Keiser for stories on Russia and The Netherlands buying/repatriating GOLD as this commmodity's price has certainly been manipulated. Washington's Blog concludes with a short concise post snagged from StoryLeak.com <font color=indigo><b>The final days of US empire are fast approaching. Perhaps its end will pass slowly and gradually, or perhaps the event will unfold rapidly and catastrophically. Maybe chaos will break loose, or maybe its demise will be organized well and proceed smoothly. This nobody knows, but the end of empire is coming as surely as day follows night and sun follows rain. Overexpansion, overreach and over-indebtedness will take their toll—as all past empires have discovered. Empires are like bacteria in a Petrie dish; unthinking, unseeing, unfeeling, they expand until they run out of food or contaminate their environment with their waste, and then they die. They are automatons, and they just can’t help it: they are programmed to expand or die, expand or die, and, in the end, expand and die. </b></font> And THAT may be the final result of the end of the Capitalist Shock Doctrine system.<br />
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<a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/michael-brown-shooting-protests-against-grand-jury-decision-spread-across-america-9881035.html" target="_blank">Michael Brown shooting: Protests against Ferguson grand jury decision spread across America </a> <font color=purple>The news that a grand jury had declined to indict the police officer who shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown last August ignited instant unrest on the streets of Ferguson, Missouri, but more peaceful protests were also taking place in cities all across the country and in Washington DC. Even as electronic billboards showed the usual commercial cornucopia of retail temptations, Times Square was closed down to vehicle traffic by New York police as hundreds jammed in to express their own disquiet at the ruling. Protests were also being held in Baltimore and Boston. In Washington DC an estimated crowd of 300 people marched towards the White House within moments of President Barack Obama going before the nation on live television urging calm and restraint. Protest chants heard in the nation’s capital included, “Black lives matter”. New York City also saw a spontaneous protest by roughly 200 people in Union Square, some brandishing signs with messages like “Jail killer cops.” At one point, marchers knocked down police barriers in the square, which is close to New York University, and started making their way into the West Village and then north towards Times Square with police helicopters hovering overhead. Similar scenes were meanwhile being reported from cities as far apart as Philadelphia in Pennsylvania and Oakland, California.......</font> And right here in Da Cleve a rookie cop shot a 12-year-old boy within seconds of arriving at the scene. The boy was "armed with" a "realistic-looking" toy gun. We find an AP report on abcnews.go.com <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/cleveland-crowd-protests-boy-shot-police-27182187" target="_blank">Cleveland Crowd Protests Over Boy Shot by Police</a> <font color=Teal> Several hundred people marched down an exit ramp and temporarily blocked rush-hour traffic on a busy freeway on Tuesday while protesting a police officer's fatal shooting of a 12-year-old boy who had brandished a realistic-looking novelty gun. Police diverted traffic but didn't take action against the protesters, who chanted phrases such as "Hands up, don't shoot" and "No justice, no peace" as they sat in a major intersection before marching past City Hall and onto state Route 2. The protesters were demonstrating after the death of Tamir Rice, who was shot Saturday when police responded to a 911 call about a gun at a playground. Police later determined Tamir had an airsoft gun, which typically shoots tiny plastic pellets. The demonstration came as protesters across the country blasted a grand jury's decision not to indict a white police officer who killed an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri. Cleveland police Chief Calvin Williams was observing and conferring with officers about the local protest but declined to immediately comment. The crowd blocked the freeway for about an hour before returning to a downtown square, where it dispersed. The demonstrators passed by the Cuyahoga County jail, causing inmates to bang on their windows. Among the protesters was 17-year-old Naesha Pierce, who said she had stayed up until 3 a.m. watching television news coverage from Ferguson, where people marched in streets, destroyed police cars and set businesses on fire. <b>"The system wasn't made to protect us," she said. "To get justice, the people themselves have to be justice."</b> The crowd included people of various races and groups of students from at least three area colleges. "This is the way our democracy is supposed to work, to come out and express your opinions," Mike Brickner, senior policy director for ACLU of Cleveland, said as the protesters demonstrated near Public Square. Attorneys for Tamir's family have asked police to release the complete surveillance video of the confrontation between him and the officer. Police allowed the family's attorneys to watch the video on Monday but haven't released it publicly. Officials noted that the video is considered evidence and said they wanted to be sensitive to the family, the community and the officer, whom they described as distraught. Police say Tamir was told to raise his hands but pulled what appeared to be a handgun from his waistband. Police say the video is clear, but they wouldn't discuss details of what it shows. City officials planned to hold a public forum Tuesday evening at a recreation center close to where Tamir was shot.</font> Cleveland.com has some photos of the action <a href="http://photos.cleveland.com/4501/gallery/cleveland_prostestors_takeover/index.html#/0" target="_blank">Cleveland protestors take over Public Square and Memorial Shoreway</a>. They also have <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/11/five_takeaways_from_community.html" target="_blank">Five takeaways from community forum about police shooting of Tamir Rice</a> & <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/11/five_takeaways_from_protest_he.html" target="_blank">Five takeaways from protest held in wake of release of Tamir Rice shooting video</a> and you can <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/11/cleveland_police_officer_shot_1.html" target="_blank">Watch the surveillance video released by Cleveland Police</a> plus view <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/11/the_tamir_rice_shooting_a_time.html#incart_story_package" target="_blank">The Tamir Rice shooting: A timeline of events</a>.<br />
FEDERAL INVESTIGATION? Jeremy Diamond at Chicken Noodle News tells us <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/25/politics/holder-federal-civil-rights-investigation-continues/index.html" target="_blank">Holder: Federal Ferguson investigation will continue</a> <font color=purple>Attorney General Eric Holder said Monday night that a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting of Michael Brown will continue despite a St. Louis County grand jury's decision to not indict Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson. Holder noted that federal civil rights cases have a "high legal bar," but said federal investigators have "resisted forming premature conclusions." "Though we have shared information with local prosecutors during the course of our investigation, the federal inquiry has been independent of the local one from the start, and remains so now," Holder said in a statement. "Even at this mature stage of the investigation, we have avoided prejudging any of the evidence." He added that the Justice Department is also still investigating allegations of misconduct by the Ferguson Police Department........ </font> <br />
PROSECUTOR AS DEFENSE ATTORNEY? A long time ago an attorney friend once told us two things you need to know about criminal court: 1. All cops lie. 2. All judges believe all cops. And added, "People come to court looking for justice. What they get is Just Us." So ThinkProgress tells us <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/11/25/3596884/ferguson-legal-experts/" target="_blank">Experts Blast Ferguson Prosecutor’s Press Conference, Legal Strategy</a> <font color=blue>..............Ben Trachtenberg, an associate professor of law at the University of Missouri School of Law, said the entire announcement “read like a closing argument for the defense,” while Susan McGraugh, an associate professor at the Saint Louis University School of Law, said she was “furious” when she watched it. “Bob McCulloch took a very defensive posture,” McGraugh said. “It was a poor choice to be so confrontational in presenting a grand jury verdict that he had to know would upset a large number of people. He should have left out the editorializing.” Marjorie Cohn, a professor of criminal law and procedure at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, said the way McCulloch presented the facts to the public was unlike anything she had ever seen. “In 98 percent of cases, the prosecutor would just announce the grand jury decision and that’s it,” she said. “He would not characterize the evidence defensively, or attack the media.” ........... “The prosecutor did not want an indictment, and he passed the buck to the grand jury to make that decision,” said Cohn, who is also a former president of the National Lawyers’ Guild. “It was clear the prosecutor was partisan in this case, and not partisan in the way prosecutors usually are, which is to get people indicted.” ............... “[McCulloch] put the grand jury in the role of being a trier of fact, which is not its role,” Cohn said. “The grand jury was put in the position of basically being a jury, but in a one-sided, closed proceeding. The only people inside the grand jury room are the grand jury and prosecutors.” In contrast, she said, “In a trial, there are lawyers on both sides, witnesses, and the evidence is presented in an adversarial way.” Making the grand jury weigh evidence and question witnesses also shrouded that process in secrecy—a factor that led to the “rampant speculation” McCulloch criticized in Monday’s night press conference, McGraugh said. “People could do nothing but speculate because he was using a secret grand jury proceeding,” she said. “He didn’t acknowledge that people had to speculate as a result of his own actions.” She added that even within the realm of grand jury proceedings, the case spoke to a lack of “equal treatment under law.” “The law was not applied to Officer Wilson the same way it would be applied to someone who wasn’t a police officer,” said McGraugh, who previously worked as a trial attorney and spent eight years at the Missouri State Public Defender’s Office. “If my client killed someone tomorrow and claimed it was in self-defense, he would be arrested and required to post bond while awaiting a grand jury decision. Then, the prosecutor would not be allowed to bring both sides of the story into the building.”</font> NEXT WATCH THE PAP ATTACK on RT's "Breaking the Set" Tuesday on Ferguson <a href="http://rt.com/shows/breaking-set-summary/208919-ferguson-protests-wilson-jury/" target="_blank">Ferguson: Riot double-standard, smoke & mirrors grand jury, activists demand accountability</a> <i>Abby Martin discusses the coverage of the Ferguson protests following the news that Officer Darren Wilson won’t be indicted for the killing of teenager Michael Brown, and how it compares to the portrayal of riots over sports events and festivals. RT’s Alexey Yaroshevsky talks about the mood of the community following a night of both peaceful protest and destruction. Two activists on the ground in Ferguson, Zaki Baruti, president of the Universal African People’s Organization and Casandra Fairbanks from the Free Thought Project, say what the mainstream media has missed in its coverage. The use of tear gas on protesters, despite the fact that it’s an internationally banned chemical weapon. Finally, the legal aspects of the case with attorney and co-host of Ring of Fire radio, Mike Papantonio. </i> <br />
Spend a good hour with Thom Hartmann's The Big Picture <a href="http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/full-show-112614-why-we-fight-our-siblings-over-holidays" target="_blank">Full Show 11/26/14: Why We Fight with Our Siblings Over the Holidays</a> <i>In tonight's “Conversations with Great Minds" Thom talks with the Center for America’s Future Richard Eskow, host of “The Zero Hour” radio show. Tonight’s “Geeky Science” looks at the science of why we fight with our siblings over the holidays and in tonight’s “Green Report” we air “Green World Rising,” the third in a series of climate change documentaries narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio and presented by Thom Hartmann.</i> <br />
WALLY WORLD BLACK FRIDAY ACTION! Go to <a href="http://blackfridayprotests.org/" target="_blank">BlackFridayProtests.org</a> for info! And go to TheGuardian.com for <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/business/live/2014/nov/28/black-friday-strikes-protests-walmart-live-coverage" target="_blank">Black Friday: protests at Walmart stores and 'shutdown' in St Louis – as it happened</a>. We hope you had enough sense to stay away from the malls and all those stores that opened early on Thanksgiving. Tomorrow is Cyber Monday and if you're going to shop on-line make sure you go directly to the merchants you support instead of the growing evil that is Amazon. Our own BTV Contributor <b>jen</b> has this Jim Hightower rant at NationOfChange.org for our Brick TeeVee LAST WORD: <a href="http://www.nationofchange.org/2014/11/20/amazon-crushing-main-street-threatening-vitality-communities/" target="_blank">Amazon is Crushing Main Street and Threatening the Vitality of Our Communities</a> <font color=green>Even by the anything-goes ethical code of the corporate jungle, Amazon.com’s CEO, Jeff Bezos, is considered a ruthless predator by businesses that deal with him. He has the monopoly power to stalk, weaken and even kill off retail competitors — from giants as Barnes & Noble and Wal-Mart, to hundreds of small Main Street shops. If you think “predator” is too harsh a term, consider the metaphor that Bezos chose when explaining how to approach small book publishers to make them cough up ever-deeper discounts: stalk them “the way a cheetah would pursue a sickly gazelle.” Amazon’s zip-zip, direct-to-customer Internet business structure ripped right through the segmented system of publishers, wholesalers, distributors, bookstores and big-box retailers — and quickly became a monopolistic powerhouse. Today, this one corporation sells a stunning 40 percent of all new books, up from 12 percent five years ago. With his market clout, deep-pocket financing and ferocious price-cutting, Bezos has forced hundreds of America’s independent bookstores to close, which depletes the economic and cultural vitality of the communities they served. The online carnivore has also devastated the haughty superstore book chains that only a short time ago preyed on the local independents and dominated the market. Borders, the second-largest chain, couldn’t keep up with Amazon’s pace, succumbing to bankruptcy in 2011. Now, Barnes & Noble, the largest brick-and-mortar bookstore, is stumbling. ................... Without actually “being” anywhere and without hiring any sales clerks, Amazon is now a top seller of such consumer goods as baby products, jewelry, groceries, sports equipment, cosmetics, auto parts, pet supplies, luggage, kitchen gadgets, musical instruments, garden tools, etc. Central to the business plan that Bezos drew up in 1994 was a loophole he’d found in a Supreme Court ruling just two years earlier: If a retailer has no physical presence in a state, it need not collect sales taxes. So, he has emphatically insisted from the start that Amazon’s only facility is its headquarters in Washington State. Up until recently, Amazon was not collecting sales tax in 49 states (21 states have now closed the “Amazon loophole”). To understand that impact of not paying sales taxes, let’s look at my home state of Texas, where the sales tax rate is 8.15 percent. <b>By claiming to be exempt, Amazon gets a price subsidy of more than eight cents on every dollar of its sales — more than the entire profit margin of most independent shops! Amazon’s devious tax ploy has been key to its ability to underprice our hometown retailers, forcing so many of them out of business. But the tax dodge also shortchanges our communities by eliminating billions of dollars in annual tax revenues that cities and states desperately need for schools, infrastructure, parks and other public services. Amazon’s calculated ruthlessness toward employees, suppliers and competitors must be publicly scorned and rejected. </b>This is going to be up to us grassroots folks. We need to let more people know what’s going on behind that jazzy website, for Amazon is insidious, far more dangerous and destructive to our culture’s essential values of fairness and justice than even Wal-Mart would dream of being. To support the locally owned businesses in your community, visit the American Independent Business Alliance at www.amiba.net. </font> Well said Mr. Hightower! Heed his warning! The only thing über-capitalists like Bezos understands is MONEY and his ilk is out to get ALL of YOURS! Several of our regulars routinely link to Amazon (Majority Report, Ring of Fire Radio, Scott Horton) so send them Hightower's screed and tell them to stop supporting Amazon and begging for nickels from Bezos (we have already, several times) and tell them you will NOT "click through" from their websites anymore. Also Read MoJo's Mac McClelland's First Hand Account of her "brief, backbreaking, rage-inducing, low-paying, dildo-packing time inside the online-shipping machine" <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/02/mac-mcclelland-free-online-shipping-warehouses-labor" target="_blank">I Was a Warehouse Wage Slave</a>. And we at BTV screen for links in stories (especially books) and make sure we point to the author's or the publisher's webpage instead of the now obiquitious amazon click-thru links. If you want a good book for a gift we highly recommend buying from <a href="http://alibris.com" target="_blank">alibris.com</a> where new & used books can be purchased from mom-n-pop retailers from all over including rare and out-of-print titles too! READ MORE and TURN OFF THE TEEVEE! Not much to report on the Sunday Funnies this week as it's a bunch of ideologues, has-beens and back-benchers (what's new?) giving us the same old "Washington Consensus" and a lot of hot air and commercials in between. PROGRAMMING NOTE: Free Speech TV has replaced "The Big Picture" with "UPRISING with Sonali" in that time slot but if you have DISHTV you can watch "The Big Picture" and other cool shows on RT America on Channel 280! We wish you safe, sane, secure cyber shopping tomorrow (if you're into that) and have a great week! <br />
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<p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/24/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, November 24, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Dr. Hakim, a peace activist and physician who has provided humanitarian relief in Afghanistan & Kathy Kelly of Voices for Creative Nonviolence</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/24/after_vowing_to_end_combat_mission" target="_blank">After Vowing to End Combat Mission in Afghanistan, Obama Secretly Extends America’s Longest War</a> <br />
<li><b>Robert King, member of the Angola 3 who spent 29 years in solitary confinement for a murder he did not commit & Carine Williams, attorney for Albert Woodfox</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/24/longest_serving_us_prisoner_in_solitary" target="_blank">Longest-Serving U.S. Prisoner in Solitary Ordered Free Again, But State Obstruction Bars His Release</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/25/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, November 25, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Furguson Grand Jury Verdict Reaction</b> <a aref="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/25/black_lives_matter_ferguson_erupts_after" target="_blank">Black Lives Matter: Ferguson Erupts After Grand Jury Clears Officer in Michael Brown Killing</a> <br />
<li><b>Vincent Warren, Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/25/it_is_officially_open_season_on" target="_blank">"It is Officially Open Season on Black Folks": Legal Expert Decries Handling of Wilson Grand Jury</a> <br />
<li><b>Rev. Osagyefo Sekou of the Fellowship of Reconciliation & Jelani Cobb, director of the Africana Studies Institute at the University of Connecticut</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/25/riot_as_the_language_of_the" target="_blank">Riot as the Language of the Unheard: Ferguson Protests Set to Continue In Fight For Racial Justice</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/26/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, November 26, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Tory Russell, one of the founders of the group Hands Up United</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/26/this_country_values_property_over_people" target="_blank">"This Country Values Property Over People": Ferguson Activist Speaks Out as Protests Spread</a> <br />
<li><b>Benjamin Crump, attorney for family of Michael Brown & Rev. Al Sharpton, civil rights leader</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/26/rev_sharpton_legacy_of_civil_rights" target="_blank">Rev. Sharpton: Legacy of Civil Rights Movement Shows Need for Feds to Bring Justice if State Fails</a> <br />
<li><b>James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Mickey Schwerner, the three civil rights workers who were killed 50 years ago</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/26/mississippi_burning_as_ferguson_erupts_obama" target="_blank">Mississippi Burning: As Ferguson Erupts, Obama Honors Civil Rights Activists Slain By Klan in 1964</a> <br />
<li><b>Ricky Jackson, Ohio man freed from prison after spending 39 years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/26/i_didnt_know_what_the_sky" target="_blank">"I Didn’t Know What the Sky Looked Like Any More": Ricky Jackson Exonerated After 39 Years in Jail</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/27/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, November 27, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>MIT Professor Noam Chomsky</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/27/in_un_speech_noam_chomsky_blasts" target="_blank">In U.N. Speech, Noam Chomsky Blasts United States for Supporting Israel, Blocking Palestinian State</a> In this holiday special, we broadcast the words of world-renowned political dissident Noam Chomsky, who recently spoke in the hall of the U.N. General Assembly at an event sponsored by the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. I followed with a public interview. <br />
<li><b>Chomsky Interviewr</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/27/noam_chomsky_at_united_nations_it" target="_blank">Noam Chomsky at United Nations: It Would Be Nice if the United States Lived Up to International Law</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/28/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, Friday, November 28, 2014</a><ul><li><b>Isabel Allende, Chilean-American novelist who has just been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/28/novelist_isabel_allende_on_her_literary" target="_blank">Novelist Isabel Allende on Her Literary Career and Memories of Chile During the CIA-Backed Coup</a> In a holiday special, we spend the hour with Isabel Allende, one of Latin America’s and the United States’ greatest novelists.<br />
</ul><p><img src="http://grittv.org/wp-content/themes/grit/images/logo.gif" height=100 alt="GRITtv" /> <a href="http://www.lauraflanders.com/grittv/" target="_blank">GRITtv</a> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">www.grittv.org</a> with Laura Flanders </br > »»» <b>VIDEO OF THE WEEK</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?video=act-up-against-ebola-organizing-against-fear" target="_blank">ACT UP Against Ebola: Organizing Against Fear </a> Healthcare panic surrounding ebola seems familiar to activists of the ACT Up era. Should we focusing on science or sensationalism? Anne-christine d'Adesky and National Nurses United's Deborah Burger on GRITtv. <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE SPORT!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></b></font></font> </br > »»» <b>SUNDAY FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA on NBC</b> Broncos @ Chiefs 8:30 pm et</br > »»» <b>MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL on ESPN</b> Dolphins @ Jets 8:30 pm et </br > »»» <b>THURSDAY NBA DOUBLEHEADER ON TNT</b> CAVS @ Knicks on 8 pm et then Pelicans @ Warriors 10:30 pm et <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ACTION!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font></br > <font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i> <p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>! <p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <font color=red><b>ACTION! <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell the FCC: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> 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. </b> SIGN NOW at <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell Chairman Wheeler: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> at freepress.net NOW. </font> <p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW! <p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org <p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>! <p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information! <p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Chelsea Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/featured/amnesty-intl-interviews-chelsea" target="_blank">Nov 18, 2014. The Amnesty International Interview with Chelsea Manning, "Why Speaking Out is Worth the Risk"</a> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/birthday-vigil-for-chelsea-manning" target="_blank">Birthday Vigil for Chelsea Manning</a> <i>Nov 17, 2014. Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years in August 2013. If this stands, she’ll be out in 2045. Take action in a vigil on Chelsea's birthday, Dec. 17th.........</i> <p><font size=3><b>DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION</b></font> <a href="http://tjmf.flipswap.com/" target="_blank">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. </a> For more information, go to <a href="http://www.tjmartellfoundation.org" target="_blank">www.tjmartellfoundation.org</a> <p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!! <p><center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br > <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick_teevee_test.jpg" alt="brick_teevee_test.jpg" /></br > The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br > THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br > Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,353 US Military Dead as of Nov 27, 2014</a> </br > <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br > <font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><p>
<li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• FURGUSON ROUNDTABLE: St. Louis Alderman Antonio French, former New York City Police Commissioner and ABC News contributor Ray Kelly, and New Yorker contributor and University of Connecticut associate professor Jelani Cobb. <br />
• ROUNDTABLE: ABC News contributor and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, ABC News contributor and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, ABC News’ Cokie Roberts, and Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens. <br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• Ta-Nehisi Coates of the Atlantic <br />
• Dr. James Peterson Director of Lehigh University<br />
• Senator-Elect Thom Tillis, R-N.C., and Senator-Elect Gary Peters, D-Mich.<br />
• new Archbishop of Chicago Blase Cupich, Pope Francis's first appointment in the United States<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: John Heilemenn of Bloomberg Politics, Michael Crowley of Politico, and CBS News Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes. <br />
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<li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. PT.<br />
• War and hunger<br />
• Swiping your card<br />
• The lion whisperer<br />
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<li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Gov. Deval Patrick, D-Mass.<br />
• Rep. Tom Cotton, R-Ark.<br />
• Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN)</b> Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• Michael Huerta, head of the Federal Aviation Administration<br />
• Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R)<br />
• COP VIOLENCE ROUNDTABLE: former NYPD Police commissioner Bernard Kerik; Malik Aziz, the Deputy Police Chief of Dallas and the Chairman of the National Black Police Association; Chief Thomas Manger, Vice President of the Police Executive Research Forum; and Chief James Craig from Detroit.<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: two presidential historians – Richard Norton Smith and Douglas Brinkley – along with veteran Washington reporters Karen Tumulty and Peter Baker.<br />
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• Prayer Meetin' Wednesday!! Über Pope/Rabbi/Imam Bob skewers the Religious Right! Listen here NOW! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(26-11-2014).mp3" target="_blank">Wednesday, November 26th, 2014 </a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.crmw.net</a>!<br />
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• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10958" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - November 25, 2014</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: NY Gov. Cuomo blames meteorologists for his failure to prep for deadly Buffalo snowstorm; Arrests in Canada protesting another tar sands pipeline; You'll never guess who is now the world leader in deforestation; PLUS: Those lefty treehugger hippies at the World Bank warn extreme weather will be the 'new normal' by 2050 ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!..... IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): Solar and wind energy start to win on price vs. fossil fuels; Giving thanks for climate heroes big and small this thanksgiving; White House threatens to put brakes on alternative biofuels; EPA orders pollution upgrades on big TX coal plants; White evangelicals believe extreme weather disasters caused by End Times, not climate change; Neither rain nor snow nor heat sways views on climate science... PLUS: Leaked: The Oil Lobby's Conspiracy to Kill Off California's Climate Law... and much, MUCH more! ...<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10961" target="_blank">'KPFK' BradCast: Maine Mystery, Ferguson Fury and Thanks for Something</a> 'My thanks to all of you this Thanksgiving which, as a few callers reminded me, isn't nearly as terrible as it seemed before this week's show'... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10944" target="_blank">Not Voting IS a Vote</a> Stop blaming those who didn't turn out. Americans did vote. By not turning out, they voted against the two major parties and against the system as a whole. It may have been a dumb vote, but it was a landslide... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10955" target="_blank">Recount' Ahead for Oregon's GMO Labeling Measure</a> Fewer than 900 votes separate 'Yes' from 'No' on 'Right to Know' Measure 92, out of more than 1.5 million paper ballots tallied by computers statewide in Nov. 4 election... <br />
• BRADBLOG VIDEO! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10954" target="_blank">East Coast/West Coast Investigative Election Integrity Muckraking with Friedman and Palast on Hartmann TV!</a> <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10956" target="_blank">No Indictment in Ferguson Shooting of Michael Brown</a> A few early thoughts on the St. Louis County Prosecutor's extraordinary spectacle and miscarriage of justice on the night of his announcement... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10959" target="_blank">Mysterious Ballots Flip Maine Senate Recount Result From Democratic to Republican</a> 21 'phantom' ballots appear out of nowhere in Town of Long Island, reverse results of very close state contest, leaving officials baffled...<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10949" target="_blank">We're #26! Harvard 'Electoral Integrity' Report Dings U.S.</a> 'World's Greatest Democracy' rated worst among Western nations; Ranked just below Micronesia, just above Mexico in overall list...<br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <br />
<ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• 24 Nov 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-formerly-anti-war-president-secretly-extends-us-war-in-afghanistan/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Formerly “Anti-War” President Secretly Extends US War in Afghanistan</a> Obama secretly extends the war in Afghanistan and fires Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel: are these two events connected, asks PBC?….<br />
• 25 Nov 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-its-time-for-trigger-happy-policemen-to-end-shoot-to-kill-mentality/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: It’s Time for Trigger-Happy Policemen to End Shoot-to-Kill Mentality</a> CFerguson and other communities respond to grand jury’s exoneration of Darren Wilson in killing of Michael Brown as questions linger….<br />
• 26 Nov 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-as-exit-is-delayed-more-us-troops-will-stay-in-afghanistan/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: As Exit is Delayed, More US Troops Will Stay in Afghanistan</a> Obama delays US exit from Afghanistan in sneaky way, gets no criticism; who will be the last American to die .....<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast November 25, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/11/25/globetrotting-journalist-pepe-escobar-on-his-new-book-empire-of-chaos-plus-endless-afghan-war-hagels-exit-beghazi-report-and-more/" target="_blank">Globetrotting Journalist Pepe Escobar on His New Book, “Empire of Chaos”, plus: Endless Afghan War, Hagel’s Exit, Beghazi Report and More</a> Pepe Escobar returns to talk about his great new book, and recent developments in world affairs, from Afghanistan to Syria, the firing of Pentagon boss Chuck Hagel, and the GOP Beghazi report that made him laugh out loud. <br />
• PBC Standard Podcast November 21, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/11/21/re-thinking-prisons-and-incarceration-with-truthout-editor-maya-schenwar/" target="_blank">Re-Thinking Prisons and Incarceration with Truthout Editor Maya Schenwar</a> Maya Schenwar, editor-in-chief of Truthout.org, talks about her new book about America’s prisons, <i>Locked Down, Locked Out</i>.<br />
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• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weekend-on-ring-of-fire-radio-21/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire November 26, 2014</a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
»» The Best of Ring of Fire Radio!<br />
»» We’ll hear from Howard Zinn, Chalmers Johnson, Daniel Ellsberg, Thom Hartmann, and several other newsmakers and brilliant progressive minds.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weeks-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv-22/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV!</a> - Sundays at NOON! <br />
»» Guest list TBA. Watch at <a href="http://www.freespeech.org/collection/ringoffire" target="_blank">FSTV</a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/11/obama-takes-action-on-immigration-republicans-go-crazy-video/" target="_blank">SCOTUS Justices Still Haven’t Recused Themselves from BP Case Despite Family Ties</a> by Amy Eddings - .....While BP and the plaintiffs awaiting payments are waiting to hear if SCOTUS will actually take arguments, neither Justices Antonin Scalia nor Samuel Alito have recused themselves despite having family ties to the case. Both justices have a son who works at the multinational law firm handling BP’s appeals, Gibson Dunn. Phil Alito became an associate with the firm’s Washington DC office in August 2013, and Eugene Scalia has been with the firm for over a decade and was made a full partner in 2003.......<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/11/the-walton-walmart-poverty-train-needs-to-end/" target="_blank">The Walton Walmart Poverty Train Needs To End</a> by Guest Blogger - Reposted with permission from <a href="http://billmoyers.com/2014/11/26/walton-empire-can-lift-workers-poverty/" target="_blank">BillMoyers.com</a> By Charina Nadura - An open letter addressed to Wal-Mart heiress Alice Walton <a href="http://walmarthungergames.tumblr.com/post/103205628330/a-letter-from-walmart-worker-laranda-jackson-to" target="_blank">posted to the Walmart Hunger Games Tumblr</a> [........] <br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/11/elizabeth-warren-to-fhfa-director-you-havent-helped-a-single-family/" target="_blank">Elizabeth Warren to Pres. Obama: Enough is Enough</a> by Amy Eddings - Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) unleashes her frustration with President Obama’s continuous appointment of Wall Street cronies to high-level positions in an op-ed <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/elizabeth-warren/presidents-wall-street-nominee_b_6188324.html" target="_blank">piece for The Huffington Post</a>, “I believe President Obama deserves deference in picking his team, and I’ve generally tried to give him that,” wrote Sen. Warren. “But enough is enough.” Warren’s justifiable anger comes from the announcement by President Obama that his nominee for Under Secretary for Domestic Finance at the Treasury Department – a position that “oversees Dodd-Frank implementation and a wide range of banking and economic policy making issues, including consumer protection – is Antonio Weiss. Why does Weiss’s appointment bother her so much? Because he’s “the head of global investment banking for the financial giant Lazard. He has spent the last 20 years of his career at Lazard — most of it advising on international mergers and acquisitions.” “Neither his background nor his professional experience makes him qualified to oversee consumer protection and domestic regulatory functions at the Treasury,” wrote Warren..............<br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-24-14-heather-hurlburt-the-why-of-the-chuck-hagel-resignation" target="_blank"> 11/24/14 Heather Hurlburt: The Why of the Chuck Hagel Resignation </a> <br />
• TUESDAY <a aref="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-25-14-janeane-garofalo-preparing-for-thanksgiving-with-your-conservative-relatives" target="_blank">11/25/14 Janeane Garofalo: Preparing For Thanksgiving With Your Conservative Relatives</a><br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-26-14-mychal-denzel-smith-no-justice-for-black-lives-zoe-carpenter-stop-and-frisk-for-latinos" target="_blank">11/26/14 Mychal Denzel Smith: No Justice for Black Lives & Zoe Carpenter: ‘Stop-and-Frisk for Latinos’</a><br />
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WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts "The Truth About Markets" on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s "People & Power" series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of <a href="http://www.karmabanque.com/" target="_blank">KarmaBanque</a> a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. <br />
• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
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»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/wsj-reports-bank-of-north-dakota-outperforms-wall-street/" target="_blank">WSJ Reports: Bank of North Dakota Outperforms Wall Street</a> by Ellen Brown — While 49 state treasuries were submerged in red ink after the 2008 financial crash, one state’s bank outperformed all others and actually launched an economy-shifting new industry. So <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/shale-boom-helps-north-dakota-bank-earn-returns-goldman-would-envy-1416180862" target="_blank">reports the Wall Street Journal </a> this week, discussing the Bank of North Dakota (BND) and its striking success in the midst of a national financial collapse led by the major banks. Chester Dawson begins his November 16th article: <i>It is more profitable than Goldman Sachs Group Inc., has a better credit rating than J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and hasn’t seen profit growth drop since 2003. Meet Bank of North Dakota, the U.S.’s lone state-owned bank, which has one branch, no automated teller machines and not a single investment banker.</i> <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/wsj-reports-bank-of-north-dakota-outperforms-wall-street/#more-75731" target="_blank">MORE</a>!<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/122-tonnes-of-gold-secretly-repatriated-to-netherlands/" target="_blank">122 Tonnes of Gold Secretly Repatriated to Netherlands</a> by Mark O'Byrne — The Dutch central bank said Friday it is repatriating some of its gold reserves from the U.S., making it the latest central bank in Europe to address public concerns about the safety of its gold in the wake of the eurozone debt crisis. As the debate regarding whether or not Switzerland should keep the bulk of its gold reserves at home on Swiss soil reaches it’s climax – the referendum takes place on Sunday – it is telling that the Dutch announced on Friday that they have just secretly repatriated 122 tonnes of their sovereign gold reserves from New York back to Amsterdam.<br />
The gold, worth $5 billion at today’s prices, represents 20% of the Netherlands total reserves. It now keeps 31% of its reserves in Amsterdam. Another 31% is believed to be in New York, with the remainder spread between Ottawa and London – the same locations where the bulk of Swiss gold is purported to be stored.<br />
The trend towards gold repatriation began with Hugo Chavez bringing Venezuelan gold back to Caracas in 2011. It has been followed by similar moves by other large gold owning nations and central banks, most notably, Germany.<br />
The repatriation movement has been driven by suspicion that the Federal Reserve and other central banks may have leased or sold gold it was holding on behalf of other countries to bullion banks and that this gold may have been used in order to suppress the price of gold in recent years… READ <a href="http://www.goldcore.com/goldcore_blog/122_Tonnes_of_Gold_Secretly_Repatriated_to_Netherlands" target="_blank">122 Tonnes of Gold Secretly Repatriated to Netherlands</a> (goldcore.com)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/an-unstoppable-zombie-holiday-humanity-shudders-as-america-exports-black-friday-to-the-world/" target="_blank">“An Unstoppable Zombie Holiday” – Humanity Shudders as America Exports Black Friday to the World</a> by Michael Krieger — It was always a uniquely American embarrassment. A day when the rest of the world could smugly and confidently sneer at the their consumption-obsessed, overweight, and violent brothers and sisters abroad; secure in the fact that they were distinctly different. Well, as Bob Dylan sang, “The Times They are a Changin’,” and the highest-holy day of the American religion of consumerism is coming your way whether you like it or not. Naturally, it is gaining its most robust foothold in the United Kingdom……Read the rest <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/11/28/an-unstoppable-zombie-holiday-humanity-shudders-as-america-exports-black-friday-to-the-world/" target="_blank">HERE</a>...........<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/gold-price-spikes-to-1467-50oz-on-computer-glitch/" target="_blank">Gold “Price” Spikes to $1,467.50/oz on Computer Glitch</a> by Mark O'Byrne — Gold spiked higher in many price feeds overnight and was $270 higher or more than 22% higher to $1,467.50/oz at one stage in what appears to have been some form of computer glitch. Despite a very bullish backdrop of the Swiss gold referendum on Sunday, gold repatriation movements in Europe, Russian central bank gold buying and very robust Indian and Chinese demand, there was no breaking news that would justify such a dramatic uptick in gold. <br />
The “usual suspects” were a fat finger trade by a large hedge fund or bank. This was quickly discounted as the price moved higher in a series of trades over a period of minutes rather than in one or two trades. READ <a href="http://www.goldcore.com/goldcore_blog/Gold_Price_Spikes_to_1467_50_dollars_per_oz_on_Computer_Glitch" target="_blank">Gold “Price” Spikes to $1,467.50/oz on Computer Glitch</a> (goldcore.com)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/netherlands-germany-have-euro-disaster-plan-possible-return-to-guilder-and-mark/" target="_blank">Netherlands, Germany Have Euro Disaster Plan – Possible Return to Guilder and Mark</a> by Mark O'Byrne — .........A TV documentary broke the story last Tuesday. The rumours were confirmed on Thursday by the current Dutch minister of finance, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, and the current President of the Eurogroup of finance ministers in a television interview which was covered by <a href="http://euobserver.com/news/126605" target="_blank">EU Observer</a> and <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-18/dutch-had-back-up-plan-to-reintroduce-guilder-dijsselbloem-says.html" target="_blank">Bloomberg</a>. READ <a href="http://www.goldcore.com/goldcore_blog/Netherlands_Germany_Have_Euro_Disaster_Plan_Possible_Return_to_Guilder_and_Mark" target="_blank">Netherlands, Germany Have Euro Disaster Plan – Possible Return to Guilder and Mark </a> (goldcore.com). <br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/kr683-keiser-report-cemented-uk-generation/" target="_blank">[KR683] Keiser Report: Cemented UK Generation</a> We discuss the heavens being taken by force rather than by consensus as Podemos rises as a political force in Spain and, in the UK, students plead for David Cameron to be gentle with them. In the second half Max interviews John Mill Ackerman, law professor and editor-in-chief of the Mexican Law Review, about the protests in Mexico, the economic ‘reforms’ which partially led to the unrest and the new oil law and what it means for social programmes in Mexico.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/kr684-keiser-report-financial-engineering/" target="_blank">[KR684] Keiser Report: Financial Engineering</a> We discuss the fact that there are no fundamentals, only financial engineering which is too bad for a real world with a real environment and real people who need to eat. In the second half Max interviews author and journalist, Robert Chalmers, about the corporate lynching of Gary Webb, the journalist who uncovered the CIA’s role in the drugs trade. <br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/kr685-keiser-report-goodbye-wealth/" target="_blank">[KR685] Keiser Report: Goodbye, Wealth!</a> We discuss the fact that we are all Jack Johnson now – bankrupted by those we trust or, in the case of the central banks – distrust – all in the name of property speculation and other non-wealth producing speculative pursuits. In the second half Max interviews the founder of Nanex, Eric Hunsader, about high frequency trading, market making and scalping markets.<br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It’s been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show’s important milestones, as well as preview some of the exciting projects to look for in the near future. ........ The show on Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A., still called Antiwar Radio, has now moved to join their Sunday morning public affairs line up (8:30 am pt - http://kpfk.org), and remains the largest source of listeners, with 15,000-20,000 people tuning in weekly. The future: Liberty Express Radio is growing and bringing me along for the ride. The great Charles Goyette hooked me up with Alan Butler and the Liberty Express earlier this year, and what has been the daily replay there from 3-5 eastern time has become my best listened-to show. And now they’re adding my friend Tom Woods to the lineup from 2-3 PM. That does it. I’m making the switch! Starting Monday, October 14, the live show is moving to 3-5 PM Eastern time on LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/11/17/111714-eric-margolis/" target="_blank">11/17/14 Eric Margolis</a>: Eric Margolis, a journalist and author of American Raj, discusses the confusing situation in Syria; the incoming Republican congressmen eager to do Israel’s bidding; and why Saudi Arabia is manipulating oil prices to damage Russia’s economy.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/11/18/111814-jacob-hornberger/" target="_blank">11/18/14 Jacob Hornberger</a>: Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses how the <a href="http://fff.org/2014/11/18/united-states-lost-cold-war/" target="_blank">United States lost the Cold War</a> by adopting the totalitarian features of the Soviet Union; and how to better the economy by cutting the Pentagon’s budget and using the proceeds for productive purposes.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/11/21/112114-gareth-porter/" target="_blank">11/21/14 Jason Leopold</a>: Jason Leopold, an investigative reporter for Vice News, discusses the <a href="https://news.vice.com/article/the-senate-report-on-cia-interrogation-is-about-to-reignite-debate-over-the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden" target="_blank">Senate Intelligence Committee’s report</a> on the CIA’s torture program during the Bush administration; the fight over which parts will be redacted; and when it might finally be released to the public.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/11/21/112114-jason-leopold/" target="_blank">11/21/14 Jason Leopold</a>: Gareth Porter, an independent journalist and author of <i>Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare</i>, discusses the stalled nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 in Geneva, during a final round of talks before the November 24th deadline.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/11/24/112414-patrick-cockburn/" target="_blank">11/24/14 Patrick Cockburn</a>: Patrick Cockburn, a journalist with The Independent, discusses how the Islamic State has hastened an end to <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/comment/isis-in-iraq-the-trauma-of-the-last-six-months-has-overwhelmed-the-remaining-christians-in-the-country-9877698.html" target="_blank">Iraq’s 2000 year old Christian communities</a>; why the CIA is underestimating the Islamic State’s power; and how Chuck Hagel’s resignation as Defense Secretary highlights the disaster of US policy in the Middle East.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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• former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani (R)<br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>Brick TeeVee's 2014 Turkey Day Special!</b> Can you believe <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/7-months-of-hottest-records-october-2014-11" target="_blank">For The 7th Month In A Row October Set A Heat Record</a>? Chelsea Harvey at BusinessInsider.com explains <font color=Brown>Last month was the warmest October since humans started recording climate data in 1880, according to the <a href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sotc/global/2014/10" target="_blank">National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center</a>. And the previous six months also all set heat records. April, May, June, August, and September of this year were all also the warmest on record, and July came in at fourth hottest. In fact, the entire period from January through October this year was the warmest such stretch ever recorded.......</font> But if you live in Buffalo New York you saw a different record. We go to ZeroHedge.com for these <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-19/stunning-photos-record-snow-covering-upstate-new-york-100-total-inches-snow-expected" target="_blank">Stunning Photos Of Record Snow Covering Upstate New York: 100 Total Inches Of Snow Expected</a> <font color=DarkSlateGray>As <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-17/polar-vortex-20-arrives-all-50-states-will-freeze-tonight" target="_blank">previously reported</a>, the anticipated Polar Vortex 2.0 has struck, pushing temperatures in all 50 states to <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/19/us-usa-weather-cold-idUSKCN0J227820141119" target="_blank">below freezing</a>, while heavy snow prompted a state of emergency in western New York and contributed to the deaths of four people. <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/19/us-usa-weather-cold-idUSKCN0J227820141119" target="_blank">According to Reuters</a>, it was the coldest November morning across the country since 1976, according to Weather Bell Analytics, a meteorologist consulting firm. It remains to be seen how many GDP percentage points were wiped out as a result, unless of course, this time it will be different from last winter. Typically, such cold is not seen until late December through February. But it was the situation in upstate New York, especially around Buffalo and parts of Erie County, where things got most dire and where 60 inches (1.5 m) of snow accumulated, with more falling, said Steven Welch of the National Weather Service near Buffalo. Snow fell at a rate of up to five inches (13 cm) an hour and some areas approached the U.S. record for 24-hour snowfall totals of 76 inches, or over 6 feet, the NWS said. The record cumulative snowfall through Wednesday is shown in the image below: [lake effect snow map] .......... forecasters were calling for more snow on Thursday, as much as three feet more, for a <b>total of up to 100 inches over four days - a year's worth for the region.</b> .................But nothing compares to the photos on the ground as shocked residents woke up to find themselves literally burried under 6 or more feet of snow. Here is a sample of what they saw on Tuesday morning courtesy of Albany Meteorologist Greg Pollak ......</font> Click over to see some of the craziest pix of the massive snow! We especially like the ones of Snow Beer Caves! BuzzFeed.com has the <a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/the-most-terrifying-pictures-of-the-snow-in-buffalo" target="_blank">24 Pictures That Perfectly Capture How Insane The Snow Is Near Buffalo, New York</a>. WOW! This weekend brought some normalized temps in the 40s which is causing its own set of new problems. From CNN Ed Payne explains <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/22/us/winter-weather/index.html" target="_blank">Buffalo's curse: After the snow, warmer temps and rain</a> <font color=darkblue>After insane amounts of snow and bitterly cold temperatures this week, the Buffalo area begins to thaw out Saturday. The good news: Warmer temperatures will begin to melt some 7 feet of snow across the region. The bad news: Warmer temperatures will begin to melt some 7 feet of snow across the region. Saturday's high should reach 40 degrees, but with it comes rain. The entire area is under a flood warning, which means flooding is imminent or has been reported. The National Weather Service says flood-prone areas will be inundated, but warns there will be general flooding, too. ......... According to the National Weather Service, temperatures will remain above freezing through Monday, rising steadily into the 50s on Sunday. Heavy snow threatens to collapse more roofs before it melts. Some roofs already have crumbled, but rain may collapse more, in part because the already heavy snow perched atop buildings will soak up this weekend's rain before it melts, Erie County officials have said. About 30 roofs collapsed from Thursday night into Friday morning, Erie County Deputy Executive Richard Tobe said. ........ Snow and vehicle removals still are major tasks ahead. Erie County crews have had to deal with clearing 1,800 lane-miles of county roads before getting to residential streets, Poloncarz said Friday. .......... And the storm forced the NFL to announce that Sunday's game between the Buffalo Bills and the New York Jets, scheduled to be played at the Bills' Ralph Wilson Stadium, will take place at Detroit's Ford Field on Monday night. But even leaving the Buffalo area had its complications. Before meeting at the Bills' stadium Friday morning to get on a bus to the airport, some of the players had to be picked up by snowmobile because of driving bans in certain areas, team spokesman Scott Berchtold said. ........ </font> We here in Da Cleve are no strangers to Lake Effect snows when very cold air from Canada comes blowing across a relatively warm Lake Eerie and dump a ton of snow on us, but we cannot recall ANYTHING close to what Buffalo got (many here recall the winter storms of 1954 or 1977) even peeps in Chardon OH, the unofficial snow capital of Ohio, who set their own snowfall record in the 2006-7 season with 148.2". And Buffalo got AN ENTIRE SEASON of snow in only a few days! What Anthropogenic Climate Change? <br />
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Good thing <font color=maroon>“The Environment and Public Works Committee, which today is chaired by Barbara Boxer, will be chaired by me,” [Climate change skeptic Sen. Jim] Inhofe (R-Okla.) said in a speech after his victory Tuesday night.</font> accoridng to <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/223056-inhofe-ill-chair-environment-committee" target="_blank">The Hill</a>. <font color=maroon>“We could be totally [energy] independent in the state of Oklahoma and in the United States of America if we didn’t have Obama’s war on fossil fuels,” Inhofe said. Inhofe is one of the most high-profile skeptics of climate change science in the Senate, having declared it a hoax years ago. Earlier Tuesday, he <a href="http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/222803-inhofe-blasts-extreme-climate-report" target="_blank">blasted</a> a major United Nations report on climate change as “extreme,” and said it would “cripple” the economy. He is a vocal critic of Obama’s and Democrats’ attempts to reduce the emissions of greenhouse gasses that scientists agree cause climate change, and he compared the Environmental Protection Agency to the Gestapo, the secret police of Nazi Germany. But he also has pushed back on other environmental policies, such as increased nuclear energy safety, efforts to fight ozone layer depletion and funding for cleanup of environmental contamination..........</font> Another good thing: James Mountain "Jim" Inhofe turned 80 on November 17th! According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Inhofe" target="_blank">wiki</a> <i>In the 2008 election cycle, Inhofe's largest campaign donors represented the oil and gas ($446,900 in donations), leadership PACs ($316,720) and electric utilities ($221,654) industries/categories.[23][24] In 2010, his largest donors represented the oil and gas ($429,950) and electric utilities ($206,654).[25]</i>The Brick TeeVee crew hope to outlive this troglodyte who we're certain NEVER passes up a good RED steak every day! Going forward we recommend any peeps called before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee be as confrontational as possible so as to make the new chair's head explode! Haha! WAIT! There's more! At AlterNet STEVE ROSENFELD rounds up the <a href="http://www.dewww.alternet.org/tea-party-and-right/12-extremist-gop-cartoon-characters-just-voted-office" target="_blank">12 Extremist GOP Cartoon Characters Just Voted into Office</a> <font color=indigo>........... After Election Day, Politico penned a much-cited article, "<a href="http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/11/animal-house-112665_full.html?print#.VGO55offKyU" target="_blank">Animal House?</a>" It said, “There could be as many as 10 or 20 [Michelle] Bachmanns coming to Washington,” referring to the loony but retiring Minnesota congresswoman who led the House Tea Party Caucus and ran for president in 2012.</font> <i>(NOTE: Michele "One L" Bachmann has been one of the most corrupt politicians EVAH. Dig in at HuffPoAOL's roundup for the gory sordid details <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/news/michele-bachmann-investigation/" target="_blank">HERE</a> -Ed.) </i> <font color=indigo> However, Politico only identified four crazed House Republican freshmen: Wisconsin’s Glenn Grothman, Georgia’s Jody Hice, North Carolina’s Mark Walker, and Montana’s Ryan Zinke. AlterNet fills out this list, introducing a dozen newly elected over-the-edge Republicans. These are politicans who believe moderation is a vice, who want to reduce the role of government, and who tend to trust Wall Street and religious institutions more than the public sphere. One can only hope these extremists will not wreak great havoc before being driven from office, as was the case with Nixon and McCarthy.</font> We'll pick out just a few! <font color=indigo><b>5. David Brat (Virginia 7).</b> Brat, a libertarian-minded economics professsor, came out of political nowhere to defeat House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in June's primary. His views are firmly grounded in the GOP’s most fervently anti-government wing. As <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/david-brat-eric-cantor-common-good-climate-change" target="_blank">Mother Jones reported</a>, Brat “appears to endorse slashing Social Security payouts to seniors by two-thirds. He wants to dissolve the IRS. And he has called for drastic cuts to education funding, explaining, ‘My hero Socrates trained in Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money.’” <b>Brat also said that “rich” nations have nothing to fear about climate change</b>, MoJo noted. ............. <b>10. Ken Buck (Colorado 4).</b> Buck, who lost a U.S. Senate race in 2010, is a corporate Republican business lobbyists drool over. In addition to being a former prosecutor who refused to go after confessed rapists, he has called homosexuality a lifestyle choice and <b>believes that climate change is not a manmade problem.</b> He opposes most government programs, wants to privatize the Veterans Administration hospital system, has called Social Security “horrible, bad policy,” and wants to repeal Obamacare. “The idea that the federal government should be running healthcare or retirement or any of those programs is fundamentally against what I believe,” he <a href="http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0610/39076.html" target="_blank">said</a>. “The private sector runs programs like that far better.” </font> Looks like Barnum & Bailey's got NUTHIN' on these fools! Maybe we can raise money to send a Big Red Clown Nose to every troglodyte in Congress? Of course accompanied with a snarky letter for each of them highlighting their particular "idiosyncrasy" whether it be anti-climate-change, anti-women, anti-elderly, anti-education, anti-poor, anti-children, anti-environment, anti-science, anti-Muslim, anti-immigration, you name it! OUR BEST BET for the NEXT TWO YEARS is to FLOOD the innertubes of the web, twitters, UTOOB and FaceBuuks with smart, snarky, sarcastic wit and wisdom countering each and every word and vote these troglodytes try to get away with! WE as CITIZENS have The Power! We just need to AMPLIFY IT way beyond what <a href="http://FAIR.org" target="_blank">FAIR.org</a>, <a href="OpenSecrets.org" target="_blank"></a>, <a href="http://PolitiFACT.com" target="_blank">PolitiFACT.com</a>, <a href="http://BradBlog.com" target="_blank">BradBlog.com</a> and others do every day! How about a hashtag we all use <b>#GOPherKlownKar</b>? GET BUSY! WE CAN DO THIS! (Note: conservatives don't "get" Sarcasm and think The Colbert Report is a REAL Righty show! Haha!) As we said last week the low voter turnouts hasn't stopped the GOPhers from braying about a "mandate". BradBlog thinks there's a different kind of mandate: <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10944" target="_blank">In Defense of Non-Voters: Not Voting IS a Vote</a> <font color=darkgreen>......... Americans did vote. They voted against the two major parties and against the system as a whole by not voting. You may not like that point, it may even make you angry, but it needs to be said. Neither party earned the vote of the majority of the American people. In fact, all of those who voted this year combined do not represent a majority of the number of registered, much less eligible, voters in this country. Whatever might have convinced all of those voters to show up to the polls, neither party was able to do it. <b>That is a "vote," as I see it. And it's a vote --- a landslide, in fact --- either in favor of the way things are going, or against a two party system that has failed.</b> Given that "right track/wrong track" polls so consistently show Americans believe the country is on the "wrong track," I'd say we just had a pretty clear landslide vote against a two party system that has failed. And those parties, once again, received a clear mandate, whether they choose to acknowledge it or not, from those "voters" who simply failed to show up and participate in the current electoral system. ............... I'm the first person to say that I think people <i>should</i> vote, if only because when they don't, that's one less vote that bad guys need to steal. Moreover, by its very nature, its incredibly easy for politicians to simply ignore the type of mandate they receive from the majority of the electorate who fail to vote at all. But I'm really tired of hearing politicians and pundits blame the electorate after elections. Even while I believe it's ill-considered, I understand why people don't vote. And I blame the people who have given them no good reason to vote because they have been given nothing to vote <i>for</i>.........</font> Well said Brad! <br />
For this week's BTV Sunday Sermon we point you to psychologist, writer and founder of <a href="http://www.wisdomcommons.org/" target="_blank">Wisdom Commons</a> Valerie Tarico at Alternet <a href="http://www.alternet.org/belief/6-ways-religion-does-more-bad-good" target="_blank">6 Ways Religion Does More Bad Than Good</a> <font color=indigo>What if harming society is part of religion’s survival strategy?</font><br />
ALSO Amanda Marcotte <a href="http://www.alternet.org/belief/why-its-harder-ever-religions-con-their-followers" target="_blank">Why It's Harder Than Ever for Religions to Con Their Followers</a> <font color=slateblue>It's more difficult for religions to control their believers’ access to information</font>. But it seems the climate-change-denier big-money fossil-fuel interests have no such problem. KEYSTONE XL GREENWASHING: Reporting for TheGuardian.com Suzzane Goldenberg has <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/nov/18/revealed-keystone-companys-pr-blitz-to-safeguard-its-backup-plan" target="_blank">Revealed: Keystone company's PR blitz to safeguard its backup plan</a> <font color=Brown>The company behind the Keystone XL project is engaged in a “perpetual campaign” that would involve putting “intelligent” pressure on opponents and mobilising public support for an entirely Canadian alternative, bypassing Barack Obama and pipeline opposition in the US. Hours before a Senate vote to force US approval of the Keystone pipeline, the industry playbook to squash opposition to the alternative has been exposed in documents made available to the Guardian. Strategy documents drafted by the public relations giant Edelman for TransCanada Corporation – which is behind both Keystone and the proposed alternative – offer a rare inside glimpse of the extensive public relations, lobbying, and online and on-the-ground efforts undertaken for pipeline projects. The plans call, among other things, for mobilising 35,000 supporters. The documents were prepared for Energy East, a project designed to serve as an entirely Canadian alternative to Keystone that is the biggest tar sands pipeline proposed to date. TransCanada confirmed it was working with Edelman on the campaign and had already put in place the advertising, online hub and mass mobilisation efforts. The pipeline company said it did not work with Edelman on Keystone. <b>Edelman’s response was brief. “We do not talk about the work we do for clients,” a spokesman wrote in an email.</b> ..................... The <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1363082-tc-energy-east-grassroots-advocacy.html#document/p3/a187491" target="_blank">digital hub of the campaign</a>, a microsite about Energy East, has already been launched. Edelman says in the documents that the strategy was forged in the battles over Keystone XL and other US energy projects. “In North America pipelines have become proxies for the broader, contentious debate around climate change and oil sands development,” <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1362999-tc-energy-east-quebec-plan.html#document/p5/a187488" target="_blank">the documents say</a>. <b>The Alberta tar sands are the world’s third-largest known carbon store. The United Nations climate science panel, the IPCC, has said that most of the world’s fossil fuels must stay in the ground to avoid catastrophic climate change.</b> Energy East is the longest pipeline proposed to date and also the highest capacity; if built, it would pump up to 1.1m barrels a day. In the wake of the Keystone XL opposition and a pipeline spill in 2010 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, oil industry projects now face “permanent, persuasive, nimble and well-funded opposition groups”, in Edelman’s words. <b>But the documents say the oil industry and public relations firms have developed an effective strategy to beat back those opponents</b> through online organising. Industry mobilised a million activists and generated more than 500,000 pro-Keystone comments during the public comment period, one of the documents says. “It’s not just associations or advocacy groups building these programs in support of the industry. Companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and Halliburton (and many more) have all made key investments in building permanent advocacy assets and programs to support their lobbying, outreach and policy efforts,” <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1363083-tc-energy-east-grassroots-advocacy-vision-document.html#document/p6/a187492" target="_blank">the documents say</a>. “TransCanada will be in good company.” “This approach strives to neutralize risk before it is leveled, respond directly to issues or attacks as they arise, and apply pressure – intelligently – on opponents, as appropriate,” <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1363083-tc-energy-east-grassroots-advocacy-vision-document.html#document/p6/a187492" target="_blank">the documents say</a>............ The campaign group Avaaz, one of the potential targets of the opposition research, called on Edelman to sever its connections with the campaign. <b>“Edelman’s cynical plan to smear citizens groups shows how low fossil fuel companies will stoop to protect their profits in the face of rising seas, melting ice caps and millions calling for climate action,” Alex Wilks, a campaign director in New York, wrote in an email. “Edelman must cancel its TransCanada contract and stop promoting one of the world’s dirtiest oil pipelines.”</b> .......... Unlike Keystone the route of the Energy East pipeline falls entirely within Canada’s borders. But its purpose is similar: finding a route to get the vast carbon store of the Alberta tar sands to market. In the case of Keystone XL, TransCanada is seeking to pump crude oil from the tar sands of Alberta to the Gulf Coast where it can be processed in the Texas refinery town of Port Arthur and exported through the Gulf of Mexico. In the case of Energy East, TransCanada will convert and expand existing natural gas pipelines to deliver the oil to Saint John, New Brunswick, where there are refineries, and from where it can be shipped to supertankers in the Gulf of Mexico. ........</font> YOU MUST read ALL of this! Then watch DN! <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/19/as_sioux_tribe_calls_keystone_xl" target="_blank">As Sioux Tribe Calls Keystone XL an "Act of War", TransCanada Hires PR Firm to Probe Critics</a> New study on the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe! At EcoWatch.com Anastasia Pantsios explains a new study that has determined <a href="http://ecowatch.com/2014/10/28/bp-deepwater-horizon-oil-spill/" target="_blank">BP Oil Spill Left Rhode Island-Sized ‘Bathtub Ring’ on Ocean Floor</a> <font color=green>.......A new <a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2014/10/23/1414873111" target="_blank">study</a> reveals that the disaster, which BP claims has been cleaned up and its impacts exaggerated, left a deposit of oil the size of Rhode Island on the ocean floor. Researchers from the University of California, Santa Barbara, University of California, Irvine, and Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Oceanographic Institution, led by geochemistry professor Dave Valentine from UCI, have published a study Fallout Plume of Submerged Oil from Deepwater Horizon. Analyzing sea sediment, they discovered what they referred to as a “bathtub ring,” saying it “formed from an oil-rich layer of water impinging laterally upon the continental slope (at a depth of 900 – 1,300 m) and a higher-flux ‘fallout plume’ where suspended oil particles sank to underlying sediment.” “Following the sinking of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, an unprecedented quantity of oil irrupted into the ocean at a depth of 1.5 km,” the study said. “The novelty of this event makes the oil’s subsequent fate in the deep ocean difficult to predict. This work identifies a fallout plume of hydrocarbons from the Macondo Well contaminating the ocean floor over an area of 3,200 km. Our analysis suggests the oil initially was suspended in deep waters and then settled to the underlying sea floor. The spatial distribution of contamination implicates accelerated settling as an important fate for suspended oil, supports a patchwork mosaic model of oil deposition and frames ongoing attempts to determine the event’s impact on deep-ocean ecology.” ............. BP issued a statement saying the study was overblown. “The authors failed to identify the source of the oil, leading them to grossly overstate the amount of residual Macondo oil on the sea floor and the geographic area in which it is found,” a BP spokesman told AP. But Valentine and his team suggested the impact could be even more far-reaching. “We also suggest that a significant quantity of oil was deposited on the ocean floor outside this area but so far has evaded detection because of its heterogeneous spatial distribution,” the study said.</font> AND see ClimateCentral.org for interactive maps including <a href="http://www.climatecentral.org/news/150-years-in-30-seconds-sea-level-debt-sinking-us-cities-16338" target="_blank">150 Years in 30 Seconds: Sea Level Debt Sinking U.S. Cities</a> and more!<br />
NEXT at HuffPoAOL <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/20/cia-torture-white-house_n_6195032.html" target="_blank">Torture Report Fight Erupts In Chaos</a> <font color=navy>....... The White House's briefing to Democrats on immigration Thursday erupted instead into a confrontation over the Senate's classified torture report, Senate sources told The Huffington Post. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, waited for the immigration discussion to end and then pulled out a prepared speech that she read for five or six minutes, making the case for the release of the damning portrayal of America's post-9/11 torture program. "It was a vigorous, vigorous and open debate -- one of the best and most thorough discussions I've been a part of while here," said Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.). Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.), who served as intelligence committee chair before Feinstein, was furious after the meeting, and accused the administration of deliberately stalling the report. “It’s being slow-walked to death. They’re doing everything they can not to release it," Rockefeller told HuffPost. "It makes a lot of people who did really bad things look really bad, which is the only way not to repeat those mistakes in the future," he continued. "The public has to know about it. They don’t want the public to know about it." .............. Time is becoming a critical issue with regard to the report, as Republicans prepare to take control of the Senate in January. At that time, Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) will replace Feinstein as head of the intelligence committee. “I’m concerned that there’s not a whole lot of sand left in this hourglass,” said Heinrich. "Until this report is unclassified in a way that doesn't expose people's identity, but where you can understand the narrative, our work will not be done. And we're not there yet." Heinrich, a member of the intelligence committee, compared the report to a story, arguing that it is impossible to follow without aliases or pseudonyms to guide a reader. "If you take all the names out of a novel, it becomes very hard to understand that novel's narrative arc," he said. "We don't need people's real names, but we need to understand why decisions were made, what decisions were made and what the ramifications are." Feinstein declined to discuss the meeting with reporters Thursday. "I ain't talkin'," she said. ................ Democrats aren't the only ones who want to see the report released. A number of Republicans, most of whom opposed the so-called "enhanced interrogation" techniques used at Guantanamo Bay and other facilities, also say America needs to come clean in order to restore its moral standing. ..................... The agency argues that while the names of the agents are not revealed, other information included in the report could easily lead the public and members of the press to discern who the panel is talking about. “Making public pseudonyms associated with such individual officers, as well as dates, locations and other identifying information related to those officers, dramatically increases the likelihood that they will be exposed and potentially subject to threats or violence,” Trapani continued. “A pseudonym itself is little protection from exposure when a host of other information about that officer is made available to the public through the report and will likely be seen by adversaries and foreign intelligence services.” But Heinrich dismissed that argument. "For decades, every oversight report we've ever done has used either aliases or pseudonyms, because they protect people's identity," he said. "So I think that's very weak ground to stand on." Rockefeller said that the administration itself is the one doing harm to the nation. "They're doing enormous damage to the country," he said.</font> In a related matter The Daily Caller's Greg Campbell reports <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/07/lame-duck-sen-udall-pressured-to-leak-cia-report-as-final-act-in-office/" target="_blank">Lame Duck Sen. Udall Pressured To Leak CIA Report As Final Act In Office</a> <font color=darkblue>........Activists are pressuring Udall, who returns to Washington next week to finish his term before handing his office to Republican Cory Gardner, to leak a Senate Intelligence Committee’s 6,300-page report on CIA torture practices that has only come out in a heavily redacted summary form. Those who are pushing him say there’s no reason for him not to — when his term ends, he’ll be leaving the committee anyway, and as a sitting member of Congress, he has immunity from prosecution for leaking classified material. “Udall has nothing to lose,” Trevor Timm, the director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation wrote Wednesday <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/05/mark-udall-loss-privacy-cia-torture-report" target="_blank">in an article for The Guardian</a>. “He can’t get kicked off any committee he won’t be a part of in two months. And he can’t be prosecuted for revealing classified information as a member of Congress.” Udall has already been criticized for not using the privilege of his position to correct the record about NSA spying and CIA overreach that were revealed by former CIA contractor Edward Snowden. Instead, he and Sen. Ron Wyden, who also wants transparency in intelligence issues, have called for the report to be declassified through normal channels.......... With these comments falling on deaf ears, transparency advocates say Udall has only one choice left to do the right thing — either release the documents or read them into the congressional record from the floor of the Senate, as Sen. Mike Gravel of Alaska did in 1971 with the Pentagon Papers. “The problem is peer pressure,” Gravel <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2014/11/06/advocates-ask-mark-udall-to-leak-documents-before-leaving-office" target="_blank">told U.S. News and World Report</a>. “He would have to go against the pressure of his colleagues who think it’s irresponsible to give out secrets.” ............</font> <br />
AFFORDABLE CARE ACT SCOTUS CHALLENGE: Jonathan H. Adler at the Case Western University School of Law, where he is the inaugural Johan Verheij Memorial Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Business Law and Regulation explains <br />
<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/11/07/why-did-the-court-grant-cert-in-king-v-burwell/" target="_blank">Why did the court grant cert in King v. Burwell?</a> <font color=blue>Friday the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in a high-profile Obamacare case, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/07/22/fourth-circuit-upholds-irs-tax-credit-rule/" target="_blank">King v. Burwell</a>. (Disclosure: I’m <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2013/12/if_obamacare_is_overturned_a_c.html" target="_blank">acredited/blamed</a> for being one of the folks who <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/01/22/how-the-case-that-could-topple-obamacare-began/" target="_blank">outlined the theory</a> upon which this lawsuit is based.) I posted a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/11/07/supreme-court-to-hear-king-v-burwell-challenge-to-irs-tax-credit-rule/" target="_blank">quick comment</a> on the case grant earlier. With this post I wanted to briefly discuss the significance of the grant and revisit some of the points I made in <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2014/11/03/will-the-supreme-court-grant-certiorari-in-king-v-burwell/" target="_blank">Monday’s post</a> on why the court might grant this case. .............. While I see King as a straightforward case of statutory interpretation, it unquestionably concerns an “important question of federal law,” as the resolution of this case could have a significant impact on the implementation of the PPACA, particularly in the 36 states that have not established their own exchanges. Indeed, the importance of the legal issue was one of the things highlighted by the federal government and commentators in urging the D.C. Circuit to hear the case en banc. An additional reason to take the case now is that this litigation creates substantial uncertainty about the operation of the law and, should the plaintiffs’ claims be upheld, policymakers, insurance companies, and those who would otherwise be eligible for subsidies will need time to figure out how to respond. This is one of the reasons all of the lower appellate courts to consider these claims have expedited their proceedings. They recognized that there are good reasons to treat these cases as more urgent and time-sensitive than the typical case. Further, while the D.C. Circuit’s decision to rehear Halbig en banc vacated the original panel’s judgment, the Court is aware that this is a question upon which courts are divided. Two panels on two different circuits reached different conclusions, and even the panel which sided with the government was not unanimous in its rationale. The existence of another decision rejecting the government’s position provides further reasons for the justices to suspect that this is an issue that will eventually land on their lap. So, if one combines the time-sensitive nature of the litigation with the reasonable possibility that the case would end up in the Court’s lap anyway, there’s reason enough to take the case.</font><br />
MORE SCOTUS: SLATE.COM's Eric Segall is the Kathy & Lawrence Ashe professor of law at Georgia State University, a former trial attorney for the Justice Department, and the author of <i>Supreme Myths: Why the Supreme Court Is Not a Court and Its Justices Are Not Judges</i> now pens <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2014/11/supreme_court_justices_are_not_judges_they_rule_on_values_and_politics_not.html" target="_blank">Supreme Court Justices Are Not Really Judges</a> <font color=purple>......Sure, they wear black robes and they sit in a courtroom, but that is not enough to make them judges. Taking law seriously—as opposed to making decisions based mostly on personal values—is what distinguishes judges from other political officials. On that basis, Supreme Court justices are simply not judges. .............. If the justices really did act like judges, then perhaps our current judicial system would make sense. But given the reality, it is time to reconsider life tenure, ask the justices to perform their jobs with much more humility, place cameras in the court, and institute a nomination process in which senators demanded real answers to hard questions. .......... I do not claim the court always acts like Republicans or Democrats. I do claim the justices don’t act like judges bound by prior law, precedent, interpretive canons, or constitutional theory. The challenge to the mandate was just one more piece of evidence for that proposition, and the latest challenge, the one that is bothering Linda Greenhouse so much, is not different in kind than the first one. .........</font><br />
GOPher WAR ON WOMEN STRONG IN OHIO: At ThinkProgress.org Tara Culp-Ressler tells us how <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/11/21/3595486/ohio-republicans-heartbeat-abortion/" target="_blank">Ohio Republicans Use Extreme Measures To Advance Radical Six Week Abortion Ban</a> <font color=maroon>This week, Republican lawmakers in Ohio pulled out all the stops to advance an extreme anti-abortion bill in the state’s lame duck session. They added the legislation to the schedule <a href="http://www.wksu.org/news/story/41066" target="_blank">at the last minute</a> on Thursday morning, and even <a href="http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/11/20/heartbeat-bill-committee.html" target="_blank">restructured</a> a House committee — replacing the legislators who oppose the measure with different legislators who support it — to ensure the bill’s passage. <a href="http://www.legislature.state.oh.us/bills.cfm?ID=130_HB_248" target="_blank">HB 248</a>, which now heads to a vote in the full House, would criminalize abortion after a fetal heartbeat can be detected, something that typically occurs around six weeks of pregnancy. That shaves off about 17 weeks from the window that women can access legal abortion services under Roe v. Wade. It’s also so early that many women may not even realize they’re pregnant at that point. ............ Reproductive rights groups are frustrated that abortion opponents would waste taxpayer dollars on risking a lawsuit. “It’s irresponsible for the legislature to entertain this legislation once again,” Stephanie Kight, the president of Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio, said in a statement. The far-right sponsors of the legislation, on the other hand, say they would <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2014/11/heartbeat_bill_restricting_abo.html" target="_blank">welcome a legal challenge</a> against Roe v. Wade — and that’s one of the primary reasons they want to pass the six-week ban in the first place. <br />
On Thursday, they did everything in their power to make that happen. Rep. Lynn Wachtmann (R), one of the bill’s sponsors, <a href="http://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2014/11/heartbeat_bill_restricting_abo.html" target="_blank">told the Plain Dealer</a> that three Republicans and one Democrat were changed on the Health and Aging Committee “to ensure the panel had enough members present and votes to give the bill initial approval.”</font> <br />
Going in the opposite direction Tara also notes <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/08/06/3468135/france-gender-equality-law/" target="_blank">France Just Passed A Sweeping Gender Equality Law To Make It Easier To Get An Abortion</a> <font color=blue>Women in France can now end a first-trimester pregnancy for any reason — and the full cost of the abortion will be financed by the government — under a <a href="http://www.trust.org/item/20140806033123-qzbd6" target="_blank">sweeping new gender equality law</a> approved on Tuesday. The new policy amends the country’s existing abortion law, which currently allows women to get an abortion only if they can prove they’re in “emotional distress.” The new abortion policy, which was proposed by the minister for women’s rights and has been debated among lawmakers since the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/25/opinion/the-rights-of-french-women.html" target="_blank">beginning of this year</a>, is just one of the measures in a <a href="http://www.marieclaire.com/blog/france-gender-equality-law?click=blog" target="_blank">broad package of legislation</a> intended to strengthen gender equity in the country. The law also includes provisions to provide support for domestic abuse victims, improve women’s wages, encourage paternal leave and a more equal division of childcare, increase female representation in politics, and limit stereotypical images of women in the media. It represents the most comprehensive women’s rights legislation in the history of France. “I don’t believe that history is going to spontaneously take us forward, so going towards more equality needs us to be politically proactive,” France’s minister for women’s rights, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/20/french-mps-equality-law" target="_blank">explained</a> when the measure was first introduced. That proactive approach to women’s equality sharply <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/04/09/1841061/equal-pay-reproductive-health/" target="_blank">diverges</a> from the policies in much of the rest of the world, including the United States. ...............</font> Read on! And lastly Esther Kaplan at The Nation finds <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/186425/work-speedups-have-consequences-boss-never-imagined" target="_blank">Americans Are Working So Hard It’s Actually Killing People </a> <font color=indigo>............... The rise of HMOs and cost-cutting in the 1990s mean patients who are stable and ambulatory—some nurses call them “walkie-talkies”—are now quickly released, so those left in the hospital tend to be sicker and harder to care for. ................ And as technology has advanced, gravely ill patients who once would have died are now being kept alive, requiring constant care. But the crush of work these nurses face also exemplifies a hidden side of the recent economic recovery: in industry after industry, speedups are turning work into a hazard, with increasing numbers of injuries and dangerous levels of stress. While 18.6 million people remain underemployed, millions of others are working more hours, and more intensely, than ever. This is especially true in certain industries, from oil refineries to retail to publishing, where federal data shows labor productivity has risen at double or more the national rate. A 2010 survey of people registered with Monster.com found that 53 percent of respondents had taken on additional duties since the start of the recession because co-workers had been laid off—almost all of them without any additional compensation. A 2010 report from the Center for American Progress and the Hastings Center for WorkLife Law found that overwork was a particular problem among professionals: 14 percent of women and 38 percent of men were working more than fifty hours a week. But it has become common in industrial occupations as well. “When time and a half for overtime was established by federal law, that was really a job-creation measure, so it would cost less to hire a new worker,” says Mike Wright, the United Steelworkers’ director of health and safety. “But starting in the late 1970s, the cost of benefits exceeded that extra pay cost, and it became cheaper to work your existing workers harder.” ............... Take the meatpacking industry. By age 39, Juan Martinez, who worked at a Cargill beef processing plant near Omaha, had hands so disfigured from making repetitive cuts that he could no longer work; he is now surviving on disability. He still experiences pain so intense it feels like nails are being hammered into his fingers. .............. Line speeds in meatpacking and poultry are federally regulated for food safety only, not worker safety. Last year, the USDA proposed to raise the cap on poultry line speeds from 140 to an almost unimaginable 175 birds a minute, even though hand and wrist injuries were already rampant in the industry. A government study of one poultry plant in March of this year found that 41 percent of the workers already exceed safe limits for hand activity, and 42 percent showed evidence of carpal tunnel syndrome. ................ Speedups, like those at the plant or the hospital, have produced some of the most spectacular industrial disasters in recent years. The BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 was caused, in part, by intense production pressures that had entire crews working twelve-hour shifts without a single day off for weeks on end; hundreds of maintenance tasks, and a key cement inspection in the well that exploded, had been skipped to save time and money. The spill’s final effects on marine life and coastal communities may not be known for years. The catastrophic explosion at Massey Energy’s Upper Big Branch coal mine in West Virginia in 2010 killed twenty-nine people. Inspectors found that basic safety measures, such as controlling dust, had been routinely sacrificed in a relentless focus on the production of coal; one miner had even been suspended for sounding the alarm about poor ventilation—a factor in the explosion. A 2008 Las Vegas Sun investigation into a spate of construction-worker deaths on the Strip found that multibillion-dollar projects going up at a dizzying pace, with contractors facing steep penalties for missing deadlines, had made skipping basic safety practices routine. The Walmart driver who hit comedian Tracy Morgan in June, killing his companion, was speeding, according to police, and had not slept in twenty-four hours; he’d already been working for thirteen and a half hours (of a maximum of fourteen, a new federal cap) and may have been rushing to make his final delivery rather than taking the nap he desperately needed. But nowhere is the effect of worker speedups on the general population more evident than at hospitals like Wilkes-Barre. Numerous studies over the past decade have shown that higher patient-to-nurse ratios are strongly correlated with medical errors and worse health outcomes, including more patient deaths. ...............</font> WOW! Read all of this! This week's Sunday Bobblehead shows will be up-in-arms about President Not Sure's new executive move on immigration so throw bricks at will! President Not Sure will have a one-on-one with George Snafugopolis too! We hope you have a great Turkey Day and try really hard not to go overboard on Black Friday and definitely DON'T shop at those stores that are open on Thursday already, since they are most certainly taking advantage of their already-underpaid workers. Be sure to scan all our regulars for more news and opinion! Click anything and be instantly smarter! See you next week!<br />
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<p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/17/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, November 17, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now! co-host and columnist at the New York Daily News</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/17/is_obamas_immigration_plan_too_modest" target="_blank">Is Obama’s Immigration Plan Too Modest? Proposals Cover Less Than Half of Nation’s Undocumented</a> <br />
<li><b>Rosi Carrasco, member of Organized Communities Against Deportations & Ireri Unzueta Carrasco, an undocumented immigrant and recipient of the Deferred Action program</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/17/immigrant_rights_activists_vow_to_continue" target="_blank">Immigrant Rights Activists Vow to Continue Fighting Deportations as Obama Prepares Executive Order</a> <br />
<li><b>Naomi Klein, journalist and best-selling author</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/17/naomi_klein_reject_keystone_xl_pipeline" target="_blank">Naomi Klein: Reject Keystone XL Pipeline, We Need Radical Change to Prevent Catastrophic Warming</a> <br />
<li><b>Rich Gross, Sierra Club guide since 1990 & Sabrina Shankman, reporter with the Pulitzer Prize-winning website, InsideClimate News</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/17/terror_at_the_top_of_the" target="_blank">Terror at the Top of the World: Is Climate Change Leading to More Attacks by Polar Bears in Arctic?</a> ALSO WEB EXCLUSIVE <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/11/17/part_two_meltdown_terror_at_the" target="_blank">Part 2: "Meltdown: Terror at the Top of the World" Links Polar Bear Attacks to Climate Change</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/18/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, November 18, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Montague Simmons, chair of the St. Louis-based Organization for Black Struggle & Jeff Smith, assistant professor of urban policy at The New School</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/18/return_of_the_ferguson_war_zone" target="_blank">Return of the Ferguson War Zone? Missouri Enacts State of Emergency Ahead of Mike Brown Grand Jury</a> <br />
<li><b>Beverly Gage, professor of American history at Yale University</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/18/the_fbi_vs_martin_luther_king" target="_blank">The FBI vs. Martin Luther King: Inside J. Edgar Hoover’s "Suicide Letter" to Civil Rights Leader</a> <br />
<li><b>Peter Hart, activism director at the media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/18/no_debate_antiwar_voices_absent_from" target="_blank">No Debate: Antiwar Voices Absent from Corporate TV News Ahead of U.S. Attacks on Iraq & Syria</a> See Hart's new report <a href="http://fair.org/press-release/no-debate-and-the-new-war/" target="_blank">"Debating How — Not Whether — to Launch a New War"</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/19/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, November 19, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Amira Hass, Ha’aretz correspondent for the occupied Palestinian territories</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/19/jerusalem_unrest_threatens_wider_flare_up" target="_blank">Jerusalem Unrest Threatens Wider Flare-Up After Deadliest Attack on Israeli Civilians in 3 Years</a> <br />
<li><b>Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies at Columbia University & Eran Efrati, former Israeli combat soldier turned anti-occupation activist</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/19/palestinians_always_live_in_fear_jerusalem" target="_blank">"Palestinians Always Live in Fear": Jerusalem Killings Follow Months of Tensions, Settlement Growth</a> <br />
<li><b>Cyril Scott, president of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota & Suzanne Goldenberg, U.S. environment correspondent for The Guardian</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/19/as_sioux_tribe_calls_keystone_xl" target="_blank">As Sioux Tribe Calls Keystone XL an "Act of War", TransCanada Hires PR Firm to Probe Critics</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/20/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, November 20, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Eric Holthaus, meteorologist who writes about weather and climate for Slate</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/20/from_hottest_october_to_coldest_november" target="_blank">From Hottest October to Coldest November, Is Climate Change Behind the Extreme Weather?</a> <br />
<li><b>Gabriel London, independent filmmaker</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/20/the_life_and_mind_of_mark" target="_blank">The Life and Mind of Mark DeFriest: New Film Captures Florida Prisoner’s Shocking Ordeal Behind Bars</a> <br />
<li><b>Bryan Stevenson, founder and director of the Equal Justice Initiative</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/20/just_mercy_bryan_stevenson_on_ferguson" target="_blank">"Just Mercy": Bryan Stevenson on Ferguson, Prison Reform & Why the Opposite of Poverty is Justice</a> ALSO WEB EXCLUSIVE <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/11/20/part_2_bryan_stevenson_on_executions" target="_blank">PART 2: Bryan Stevenson on Executions and Civil Rights: "Lynching Stopped But the Mindset Didn't"</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/21/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, Friday, November 21, 2014</a><ul><li><b>Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now! co-host, activist Maru Mora Villalpando & her seventeen-year-old daughter Josefina Mora </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/21/obamas_action_marks_historic_victory_for" target="_blank">Obama’s Action Marks Historic Victory for Immigrant Rights, But Activists Warn of a Long Way to Go</a> <br />
<li><b>Juan Carlos Ruiz, priest and co-founder of the New Sanctuary Movement</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/21/as_mexicans_protest_us_fueled_drug" target="_blank">As Mexicans Protest US-Fueled Drug War, Sanctuary Movement Backs Church Refuge for the Undocumented</a> <br />
<li><b>Gerardo Reyes-Chavez, farm worker and organizer with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/21/food_chains_new_film_tracks_how" target="_blank">Food Chains: New Film Tracks How Immokalee Workers Won Fair Wages from Corporate Giants</a> <br />
<li><b>Viggo Mortensen, Academy Award-nominated actor</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/21/viggo_mortensen_helps_mark_10_years" target="_blank">Viggo Mortensen Helps Mark 10 Years of Howard Zinn’s "Voices of a People’s History"</a> <br />
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<font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i>
<p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>!
<p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <font color=red><b>ACTION! <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell the FCC: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> 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. </b> SIGN NOW at <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell Chairman Wheeler: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> at freepress.net NOW. </font>
<p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW!
<p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org
<p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>!
<p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information!
<p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Chelsea Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/featured/amnesty-intl-interviews-chelsea" target="_blank">Nov 18, 2014. The Amnesty International Interview with Chelsea Manning, "Why Speaking Out is Worth the Risk"</a> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/birthday-vigil-for-chelsea-manning" target="_blank">Birthday Vigil for Chelsea Manning</a> <i>Nov 17, 2014. Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years in August 2013. If this stands, she’ll be out in 2045. Take action in a vigil on Chelsea's birthday, Dec. 17th.........</i>
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<p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!! <p><center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br >
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<a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br >
<font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br >
<font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br >
<font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br >
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<li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• President Barack Obama<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Dr. Ben Carson, Democratic strategist James Carville, ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, and editor and publisher of The Nation Katrina vanden Heuvel. <br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• House Homeland Security Chairman Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas<br />
• Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin, D-Ill.<br />
• Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill.<br />
• Rep. Raul Labrador, R-Idaho<br />
• NAACP President Cornell William Brooks<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Susan Page of USA Today, David Ignatius and Michael Gerson of the Washington Post, Mark Leibovich of The New York Times Magazine and Clarence Page of the Chicago Tribune<br />
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<li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• November Nov. 23 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. PT.<br />
• Falling Apart<br />
• Chernobyl<br />
• A forgotten corner of hell<br />
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<li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Sens. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz., and Robert Menendez, D-N.J.<br />
• former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani<br />
• Anthony Gray, attorney for the Michael Brown family<br />
• John Hofmeister, former CEO of Shell Oil<br />
• author Daniel Yergin<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN)</b> Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• Benghazi: Senator Lindsey Graham and committee member Rep. Adam Schiff<br />
• Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum (R)<br />
• Ferguson ROUNDTABLE: Princeton University Professor and activist Cornel West, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund President Sherrilyn Ifill, Sojourners President Jim Wallis and LZ Granderson<br />
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• Prayer Meetin' Wednesday!! Über Pope/Rabbi/Imam Bob skewers the Religious Right! Listen here NOW! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(19-11-2014).mp3" target="_blank">Wednesday, November 19th, 2014 </a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.crmw.net</a>!<br />
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• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10951" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - November 20, 2014</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Record-breaking extreme winter storm breaks Buffalo, NY; It's official: October 2014 hottest October on record; Sorry, Republicans: China will cap coal use by 2020; PLUS: Obama doubles down on climate foreign policy... All that and more in today's Green News Report! ..... IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): NASA video: a year in C02; Senate climate hawks introduce 'carbon fee & dividend' legislation; Keystone XL PR company plans dirty tricks campaign; Criminal charges for illegal toxic mine dumping in Alaska; World must 'mind the carbon emissions gap' to avoid dangerous climate change; Why are US farmers getting billions in aid amid record crop yields? ... PLUS: San Diego to use recycled wastewater for new drinking water supply ... and much, MUCH more! ...<br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10947" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - November 18, 2014</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Senate floor fight fails to pass Keystone XL pipeline; Can Congress override the President next year?; Native Americans say KXL is 'an act of war' and vow to fight the pipeline on their land; PLUS: Finally! Accountability for the 'Dark Lord of Coal': Don Blankenship indicted on criminal charges... All that and more in today's Green News Report!<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10939" target="_blank">KPFK 'BradCast': Greg Palast on the GOP 'Crosscheck'; Tomas Young in Crawford, TX (2005)</a> Voter suppression and war crimes continue...<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10944" target="_blank">Not Voting IS a Vote</a> Stop blaming those who didn't turn out. Americans did vote. By not turning out, they voted against the two major parties and against the system as a whole. It may have been a dumb vote, but it was a landslide... <br />
• BRADCAST! VIDEO! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10946" target="_blank">Sanders on Colbert: Midterms a Vote Against Both Parties</a> For those mad at us for asserting 'not voting IS a vote', look who just said the same thing... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10945" target="_blank">Exclusive: St. Louis County Was Warned Before Election Paper Ballots Would Run Out</a> Email obtained by BRAD BLOG reveals County's top election official ignored warnings from election experts, leading to shortages... <br />
• BRADBLOG VIDEO! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10954" target="_blank">East Coast/West Coast Investigative Election Integrity Muckraking with Friedman and Palast on Hartmann TV!</a> <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10943" target="_blank">Gag Order Won't Ensure Impartial Jury in Trial of 'Dark Lord of Coal Country'</a> WV's criminally indicted coal boss and U.S. Chamber of Comm. director Don Blankeship presents challenge for federal prosecutors... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10950" target="_blank">Extreme Weather? What Extreme Weather?</a> Yes, scientists have been warning us about this for years. And, yes, the record breaking storm in Buffalo is tied to global warming... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10949" target="_blank">We're #26! Harvard 'Electoral Integrity' Report Dings U.S.</a> 'World's Greatest Democracy' rated worst among Western nations; Ranked just below Micronesia, just above Mexico in overall list...<br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <br />
<ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• 19 Nov 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-lame-duck-senate-rejects-watered-down-nsa-reform/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Lame-Duck Senate Rejects Watered-Down NSA Reform</a> Overshadowed by Keystone vote, GOP senators use demagoguery to defeat mild reforms to NSA mass surveillance, phone metadata collection…..<br />
• 20 Nov 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-cia-tries-to-re-write-rules-on-retaining-emails/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: CIA Tries to Re-Write Rules on Retaining Emails</a> CIA plan to destroy emails draws challenge from Sens. Feinstein, Chambliss; attorney confirms secret hearing in Guantanamo force feeding case….<br />
• 21 Nov 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-if-you-were-undocumented-would-you-take-obamas-offer/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: If You Were Undocumented, Would You Take Obama’s Offer?</a> Obama unveils his long delayed immigration changes; if you were an undocumented resident, would you sign up for 3-year deferral?<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast November 19, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/11/19/enviro-journalist-mark-schapiro-sleuths-the-impact-of-climate-change-and-the-cost-of-carbon/" target="_blank">Enviro-journalist Mark Schapiro Sleuths the Impact of Climate Change and the Cost of Carbon</a> Veteran environmental journalist Mark Schapiro talks about his new book, <i>Carbon Shock</i> and comments on Obama’s emissions deal with China, Keystone and related issues <br />
• PBC Standard Podcast November 21, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/11/21/re-thinking-prisons-and-incarceration-with-truthout-editor-maya-schenwar/" target="_blank">Re-Thinking Prisons and Incarceration with Truthout Editor Maya Schenwar</a> Maya Schenwar, editor-in-chief of Truthout.org, talks about her new book about America’s prisons, <i>Locked Down, Locked Out</i>.<br />
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• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weekend-on-ring-of-fire-radio-19/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire November 14, 2014</a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
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• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weeks-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv-22/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV!</a> Posted on November 22, 2014 by Farron Cousins - Sundays at NOON! <br />
»» Farron Cousins will be filling in for Mike Papantonio this week.<br />
»» David Haynes will tell us how corporate greed and negligence have made our roadways a very hazardous place.<br />
»» Timothy Karr, senior director of strategy for Free Press, will give us the latest on the ongoing battle for net neutrality.<br />
»» Attorney Howard Nations explains how the growing gap between the haves and have nots is threatening our democracy.<br />
»» Attorney David Hersh will tell us how the TPP could get fast tracked from the new GOP congress.<br />
»» Peter Mougey will explain why the Securities and Exchange Commission is delaying rules and regulations that could help curb Wall Street crime.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/11/obama-takes-action-on-immigration-republicans-go-crazy-video/" target="_blank">Obama Takes Action on Immigration, Republicans Go Crazy (VIDEO)</a> by Gary Bentley - When Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush took action on immigration, no one batted an eye. But when Obama does it, everyone just loses their minds.<br />
Ring of Fire’s Sam Seder and author Cliff Schecter discuss this week’s immigration saga.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/11/scotus-preparing-to-gut-affordable-care-act-video/" target="_blank">SCOTUS Preparing to Gut Affordable Care Act (VIDEO)</a> by Gary Bentley - Ring of Fire’s Sam Seder and former Ring of Fire co-host David Bender discuss the Supreme Court’s decision to hear a case titled King v. Burwell, which presents a challenge to the Affordable Care Act.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/11/elizabeth-warren-to-fhfa-director-you-havent-helped-a-single-family/" target="_blank">Elizabeth Warren to FHFA Director: You Haven’t Helped a Single Family</a> by Amy Eddings - At a Senate Banking Committee hearing yesterday, Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) <a href="http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/11/19/1346047/-Elizabeth-Warren-Smacks-Down-Mel-Watt-Demands-Principal-Reduction-for-5-1-Million-Homeowners?detail=facebook" target="_blank">pulled no punches</a> when questioning Mel Watt, the new head of the Federal Housing Financing Agency. Sen. Warren asked why the FHFA hadn’t yet implemented principal reduction relief for millions of struggling homeowners even though it would be mutually beneficial.......<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/11/more-dirty-dealings-on-wall-street-revealed-in-the-wake-of-secret-recordings/" target="_blank">More Dirty Dealings on Wall Street Revealed in The Wake of Secret Recordings</a> by Joshua De Leon - Goldman Sachs has been found to have very close ties with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York following secret recordings leaked by a former regulator, <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/11/19/rising-scrutiny-as-banks-hire-from-the-fed/?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0" target="_blank">reported The New York Times</a>. The revolving door consists of former government employees, specifically those who work in financial regulation, being hired by the Wall Street banks that they were once charged with overseeing. A two-way street, former bankers also go work for the Fed. This relationship created a conduit by which banks can obtain confidential information held by the Fed, information that banks were never supposed to see. .............<br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-17-14-will-gop-kill-best-foreign-deal-in-decades-shirt-gate" target="_blank">11/17/14 Will GOP Kill Best Foreign Deal In Decades? & ShirtGate</a> <br />
• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-18-14-dahlia-lithwick-what-s-ruining-the-supreme-court" target="_blank">11/18/14 Dahlia Lithwick: The Eliitism Poisoning the Supreme Court </a> <br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-19-14-naomi-klein-this-changes-everything" target="_blank">11/19/14 Naomi Klein: This Changes Everything</a><br />
• THURSDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-20-14-greisa-martinez-president-obama-s-historic-move-on-immigration" target="_blank">11/20/14 Greisa Martinez: President Obama's Historic Move On Immigration</a><br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-21-14-casual-friday-cliff-schecter-isabel-gillies" target="_blank">11/21/14 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & Isabel Gillies </a> <br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
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»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/wsj-reports-bank-of-north-dakota-outperforms-wall-street/" target="_blank">WSJ Reports: Bank of North Dakota Outperforms Wall Street</a> by Ellen Brown — While 49 state treasuries were submerged in red ink after the 2008 financial crash, one state’s bank outperformed all others and actually launched an economy-shifting new industry. So <a href="http://online.wsj.com/articles/shale-boom-helps-north-dakota-bank-earn-returns-goldman-would-envy-1416180862" target="_blank">reports the Wall Street Journal </a> this week, discussing the Bank of North Dakota (BND) and its striking success in the midst of a national financial collapse led by the major banks. Chester Dawson begins his November 16th article: <i>It is more profitable than Goldman Sachs Group Inc., has a better credit rating than J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and hasn’t seen profit growth drop since 2003. Meet Bank of North Dakota, the U.S.’s lone state-owned bank, which has one branch, no automated teller machines and not a single investment banker.</i> <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/wsj-reports-bank-of-north-dakota-outperforms-wall-street/#more-75731" target="_blank">MORE</a>!<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/breaking-dutch-central-bank-secretly-repatriates-130-tonnes-of-gold-from-the-us/" target="_blank">BREAKING: Dutch Central Bank Secretly Repatriates 130 Tonnes of Gold From the US!</a> by The Doc — The Netherlands has repatriated about 130 tonnes of their gold reserves, according to a press release published by the central bank. <br />
The gold was repatriated from the vaults of the Federal Reserve in New York back to the vault of ‘De Nederlandsche Bank’ in Amsterdam. This operation took several months and was done in complete secrecy. Click <a href="http://www.silverdoctors.com/breaking-dutch-central-bank-secretly-repatriates-130-tonnes-of-gold-from-the-us/" target="_blank">here for the full press release</a> on this secret gold repatriation by the Dutch central bank ............<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/least-transparent-ever-obama-administration-fighting-to-prevent-release-of-c-i-a-torture-report/" target="_blank">Least Transparent Ever – Obama Administration Fighting to Prevent Release of C.I.A. Torture Report</a> by Michael Krieger — If you’re already reading this site, you don’t need me to tell you how much of a fraud Barack Obama is. His love affair with cronyism and devotion to lack of transparency has been documented in countless venues for many years now. Nevertheless, his actions continue to do irreparable harm to the nation, and as much as it has become a tedious affair at times, highlighting his hatred for justice remains an important job…Read the rest <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/11/21/least-transparent-ever-obama-administration-fighting-to-prevent-release-of-c-i-a-torture-report/" target="_blank">HERE</a>...........<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/its-iraq-2-0-biden-dodges-angry-mob-in-ukraine/" target="_blank">It’s Iraq 2.0! Biden dodges angry mob in Ukraine</a> by Stacy Herbert — Stacy Summary: Another bunch of ungrateful foreigners. We deliver them freedom at the end of a drone strike and all we get in return . . . <br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/sinead-oconnor-calls-for-non-violent-revolution-in-ireland/" target="_blank">Sinead O’Connor calls for Non Violent Revolution in Ireland</a> by Dublin Eileen — Briefly taking the chair on Ireland’s most watched chat show Sinead O’Connor spoke out about police violence towards women water protesters and called for a non violent revolution. The clip has been censored by RTE (Irish State Broadcaster) Read the rest <a href="http://thedailyedge.thejournal.ie/sinead-oconnor-late-late-show-revolution-1793724-Nov2014/" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/kr681-keiser-report-big-problem-regulators/" target="_blank">[KR681] Keiser Report: Big Problem? Regulators!</a> We discuss precious metals manipulation in Switzerland and the costs of the never-ending banking fraud – from the ‘suffering and life long risks’ to children in Europe and beyond to the rising cost of food hitting lower income consumers. In the second half Max interviews Alasdair Macleod of GoldMoney.com about gold, China, QE and the economy.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/kr682-keiser-report-kim-kardashians-bottom-as-model-of-uk-economy/" target="_blank">[KR682] Keiser Report: Kim Kardashian’s Bottom as Model of UK Economy</a> We discuss David Cameron doubling down on failure as ‘global recession looms.’ With a fair and balanced view at Cameron’s claims of ‘paying down government debt,’ we concede that national debt growing from £580 billion in 2007 to £1,400 billion today could, using certain accounting tricks, be seen as the shrinking debt load. In the second half Max interviews Reggie Middleton of BoomBustBlog.com and Ultra-Coin.com about the block chain, the tech sector and more.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/kr683-keiser-report-cemented-uk-generation/" target="_blank">[KR683] Keiser Report: Cemented UK Generation</a> We discuss the heavens being taken by force rather than by consensus as Podemos rises as a political force in Spain and, in the UK, students plead for David Cameron to be gentle with them. In the second half Max interviews John Mill Ackerman, law professor and editor-in-chief of the Mexican Law Review, about the protests in Mexico, the economic ‘reforms’ which partially led to the unrest and the new oil law and what it means for social programmes in Mexico.<br />
• THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/07/the-truth-about-markets-28-june-2014/" target="_blank">The Truth About Markets – 28 June 2014</a> Stacy Summary: We talk about bogus collateral driving global housing bubbles. <a href="https://ia902509.us.archive.org/19/items/TaM28062014/TaM-28062014.mp3" target="_blank">Download show HERE</a> (mp3) <br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It’s been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show’s important milestones, as well as preview some of the exciting projects to look for in the near future. ........ The show on Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A., still called Antiwar Radio, has now moved to join their Sunday morning public affairs line up (8:30 am pt - http://kpfk.org), and remains the largest source of listeners, with 15,000-20,000 people tuning in weekly. The future: Liberty Express Radio is growing and bringing me along for the ride. The great Charles Goyette hooked me up with Alan Butler and the Liberty Express earlier this year, and what has been the daily replay there from 3-5 eastern time has become my best listened-to show. And now they’re adding my friend Tom Woods to the lineup from 2-3 PM. That does it. I’m making the switch! Starting Monday, October 14, the live show is moving to 3-5 PM Eastern time on LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/10/28/102814-trita-parsi/" target="_blank">10/28/14 Trita Parsi</a>: Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, discusses his article “<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/10/27/the-biggest-threat-to-a-nuclear-deal-isnt-irans-hardliners/" target="_blank">How Congressional Hawks Plan to Kill Obama’s Iran Deal</a>.”<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/11/17/111714-eric-margolis/" target="_blank">11/17/14 Eric Margolis</a>: Eric Margolis, a journalist and author of American Raj, discusses the confusing situation in Syria; the incoming Republican congressmen eager to do Israel’s bidding; and why Saudi Arabia is manipulating oil prices to damage Russia’s economy.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/11/18/111814-jacob-hornberger/" target="_blank">11/18/14 Jacob Hornberger</a>: Jacob Hornberger, founder and president of The Future of Freedom Foundation, discusses how the <a href="http://fff.org/2014/11/18/united-states-lost-cold-war/" target="_blank">United States lost the Cold War</a> by adopting the totalitarian features of the Soviet Union; and how to better the economy by cutting the Pentagon’s budget and using the proceeds for productive purposes.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/11/21/112114-gareth-porter/" target="_blank">11/21/14 Gareth Porter</a>: Gareth Porter, an independent journalist and author of <i>Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare</i>, discusses the stalled nuclear negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 in Geneva, during a final round of talks before the November 24th deadline.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/11/21/112114-jason-leopold/" target="_blank">11/14/14 Trevor Timm</a>: Jason Leopold, an investigative reporter for Vice News, discusses the <a href="https://news.vice.com/article/the-senate-report-on-cia-interrogation-is-about-to-reignite-debate-over-the-killing-of-osama-bin-laden" target="_blank">Senate Intelligence Committee’s report</a> on the CIA’s torture program during the Bush administration; the fight over which parts will be redacted; and when it might finally be released to the public.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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• Sen Ted Cruz (R-TX), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee<br />
• Rep Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus<br />
• exas Attorney General and Governor-elect Greg Abbott (R)<br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>Brick TeeVee's Mix-n-Match Sunday</b> Lots to cover this week what with President Not Sure going East and making some serious proposals about some milque-toast climate change agreement with China to a non-binding 'net neutrality' "declaration" while at the same time trying to screw the planet with on-going TPP talks we outlined last week. HOWEVER the BTV Big Catch came from Meet The Chuck in our screed we sent to NBC and breifly posted here asking MTP and NBC to post their Sunday Guest List among other demands from NBC (before we replaced it with our regular albeit late news roundup) basically calling them corporate/gummint mouthpeices and offering how they can change their corporate ways and be the muck-rakers The Constitution gives them the authority to do. IN THAT POST we asked, "For all the money you pay Chuck Todd and his staff perhaps they can write collectively a "Coming up on MTP This Sunday mm/dd/yyyy" four-paragraph missive on who they will be interviewing on their next show (might take them all of 15 minutes)." AND IT WORKED to some extent as we now see on their website this week <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/coming-meet-press-chuck-todd-n248946" target="_blank">COMING UP ON "MEET THE PRESS WITH CHUCK TODD"</a>. Can you BELIEVE IT? We can't be sure if the MTP overlords and screeners actually READ our complaint or if they decided independently to start posting a "Coming Up" post RIGHT AFTER we sent them our screed (we'll see if this practice continues after this week) but WE'LL TAKE CREDIT NOW! Haha! If YOU have "suggestions" or beefs with MTP or MSNBC you too can contact them via email at contact.nbcnews@nbcuni.com or call NBCNews.com PR at 212.664.3720 or by email at mediainquiries@msnbc.com! Be sure to tell them Brick TeeVee sent ya haha! And as our screed we sent them said, "OFFER: Any and all of you working the trenches of locally owned O&O NBC affiliates or the corporate offices can post freely at the Home of Brick TeeVee http://filthy-rich.blogspot.com" and this offer still stands! We'll pee our pants if we get ANY comments with breaking news from ANY NBC peeps! Considering NBCNews.com gets millions of hits daily and BTV is lucky to get a few dozen A WEEK this potentially could be HUGE! Or not. Thanks to ALL our dedicated readers and visitors who come here to ad-free Brick TeeVee every week to be Instantly Smarter! <br />
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For this week's BTV Sunday Sermon we point you to psychologist, writer and founder of <a href="http://www.wisdomcommons.org/" target="_blank">Wisdom Commons</a> Valerie Tarico at Alternet <a href="http://www.alternet.org/belief/20-weirdest-religious-beliefs" target="_blank">The 20 Weirdest Religious Beliefs</a> <font color=indigo>Test your knowledge of which strange belief belongs to which religion. </font> Also for the BTV Sunday Sermon we go to TPM LIVEWIRE and Da <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/pope-evolution-big-bang-creation" target="_blank">Pope: Evolution, Big Bang Theories Don't Contradict Creation</a> from Oct 28 <font color=purple>Pope Francis on Monday said that the Big Bang and evolution theories do not contradict the concept of creation. "When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so," he <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/10/28/pope-francis-evolution-big-bang/18053509/" target="_blank">said at an assembly of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences</a>. "He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment." "God is not a divine being or a magician, but the Creator who brought everything to life," he continued. "Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve." Pope Francis did say that the beginning of the world was an act of love, not "a work of chaos." <br />
Francis is not the first pope to state that evolution and creation are not at odds, according to <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2014/10/28/pope-francis-evolution-big-bang/18053509/" target="_blank">USA Today</a>. Pope Pius XII in 1950 said that there wasn't any opposition between the theory of evolution and Catholic teachings, and multiple popes since have agreed with him. </font> We're still waiting for Da Pope & Co. to evolve to recognize women as mens' equals. CASE IN POINT from Molly Redden's Mother Jones story <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/07/teen-abortion-judicial-bypass-parental-notification" target="_blank">This Is How Judges Humiliate Pregnant Teens Who Want Abortions</a> <font color=FireBrick>........ When they discussed her family, the judge began pleading. "He said, 'I'm sure your mother would understand,'" Kiera recalls. "He was kind of panicking—I felt like he was saying, 'Well, have you tried having a better mother? Have you tried religion?'"....... In Alabama and Florida, some judges went so far as to appoint lawyers for girls' fetuses, even giving them names. "You say that you are aware that God instructed you not to kill your own baby," one attorney, who represented "Baby Ashley," thundered at his 17-year-old adversary. "But you want to do it anyway?" .......</font> Much more at MoJo! <br />
NEXT at Political MoJo Inae Ho reports <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2014/11/obama-net-neutrality" target="_blank">Obama Just Announced His Full Support to Preserve Net Neutrality </a> <font color=navy>In a move strongly backing net neutrality regulations, President Barack Obama announced his plan to reclassify the internet as a utility in order to preserve the web's "basic principles of openness and fairness." "Net neutrality has been built into the fabric of the Internet since its creation — but it is also a principle that we cannot take for granted. We cannot allow Internet service providers (ISPs) to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas." .............. "Simply put: No service should be stuck in a 'slow lane' because it does not pay a fee," Obama said in the Monday morning statement. "That kind of gatekeeping would undermine the level playing field essential to the Internet’s growth." Unsurprisingly, the GOP is not happy with the president's plan: ""Net Neutrality" is Obamacare for the Internet; the Internet should not operate at the speed of government." — Senator Ted Cruz.</font> At the Electronic Frontier Foundation CORRYNNE MCSHERRY asks <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/white-house-gets-it-net-neutrality-will-fcc-0" target="_blank">The White House Gets It Right On Net Neutrality. Will the FCC?</a> <font color=purple>After months of netroots protests, we learned the FCC began to settle on <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/11/no-compromise-fcc-should-reject-risky-confusing-hybrid-net-neutrality" target="_blank">a “hybrid” proposal</a> that, we fear, is legally unsustainable. Here's why: if the FCC is going to craft and enforce clear and limited neutrality rules, it must <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/06/fcc-and-net-neutrality-way-forward" target="_blank">first do</a> one important thing. The FCC must reverse its 2002 decision to treat broadband as an “information service” rather than a “telecommunications service.” This is what’s known as Title II reclassification. According to the highest court to review the question, the rules that actually do what many of us want — such as forbidding discrimination against certain applications — require the FCC to treat access providers like “common carriers, ” treatment that can only be applied to telecommunications services. Having chosen to define broadband as an “information service,” the FCC can impose regulations that “promote competition” (good) but it cannot stop providers from giving their friends special access to Internet users (bad). .............. As we have <a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2014/07/forbearance-what-it-why-its-essential-net-neutrality-0" target="_blank">said for months</a>, <b>reclassification must be combined with a commitment to forbear from imposing aspects of Title II that were originally drafted for 20th century telephone services and that don't make sense for the Internet.</b> While forbearance doesn’t set the limits on the regulatory agency in stone, it does require the FCC to make a public commitment that is difficult to reverse. This is an important moment in the fight for the open Internet. President Obama has chosen to stand with the us: the users, the innovators, the creators who depend on an open internet. But the fight isn't over yet: we still need to persuade the FCC to join him. Stay tuned for ways you can help.</font> See our ACTION from FreePress.net below in our Net Neutrality section! <br />
HOW BASE & DESPERATE (but not serious? <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVWWtqa9-7M" target="_blank">Adam Ant</a> anyone?) Three-term Mary Landrieu is "desperatly trying to hold on to her seat" we're told by the Mass Insomnia (yeah you too npr) which FAILS TO MENTION <a href="http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2014/07/landrieu-cassidy-tied-in-runoff.html" target="_blank">she got 42% against THREE tea-bag GOPhers</a>. So now she has to "run off" against Rep. Bill Cassidy LA-6 who happens to have championed <a href="http://blogs.rollcall.com/218/house-expediting-vote-on-cassidys-keystone-pipeline-bill/" target="_blank">the SAME "BUILD THE KEYSTONE PIPELINE NOW!" BILL</a> in Da House <a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/11/mary_landrieu_keystone_democrats_should_be_embarrassed_to_indulge_the_louisiana.html" target="_blank">LANDRIEU brought to Da Senate</a>! AT THE SAME TIME! Koinkadink?<br />
That the Lame Stream Media is making this race out to be a "life and death struggle" is not surprising. Our own <b>msgeaux</b> finds <a href="http://www.theonion.com/articles/cnn-holds-morning-meeting-to-decide-what-viewers-s,37397/" target="_blank">CNN Holds Morning Meeting To Decide What Viewers Should Panic About For Rest Of Day</a> <font color=maroon>Kicking around ideas ranging from an uptick in child kidnappings to a new link between laptops and cancer, senior CNN staffers held their regular daily meeting this morning to decide which topic viewers should panic about for the rest of the day. “It’s always kind of tough to get our meetings going each morning, but once we got some coffee in us, we were able to toss around a few ideas on what might absolutely terrify half a million or so viewers today,” said CNN Newsroom executive producer Eric Hall, adding that although the discourse was briefly derailed by a recounting of the previous night’s NFL game and discussions of staff members’ upcoming weekend plans, the team eventually spent 45 minutes debating which stories had the legs to prey on people’s anxieties for a full 24-hour cycle........</font> <br />
FURGESON GOES TO THE U.N. Just like <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/6/22/detroit-water-un.html" target="_blank">Detroit activists call for UN help as city shuts off water for thousands</a> for PEOPLES JUSTICE now come the parents of police-slain MIKE BROWN <a href="http://newsone.com/3070510/michael-brown-parents-united-nations/" target="_blank">Michael Brown’s Parents To UN: ‘We Need The World To Know What’s Going On In Ferguson’</a> <font color=indigo>Lesley McSpadden (pictured left) and Michael Brown Sr. (pictured), testified before a U.N. committee Tuesday, saying they “need the world to know what’s going on in Ferguson,” <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/11/us/ferguson-brown-parents-u-n-/index.html" target="_blank">CNN reports</a>. McSpadden and Brown Sr. appeared before the United Nations Committee Against Torture, which also works against cruel or degrading treatment or punishment by government authorities, to discuss events in Ferguson, Mo., after the Aug. 9th shooting death of their unarmed 18-year-old son by White police officer Darren Wilson. <i>“We need the world to know what’s going on in Ferguson and we need justice,” McSpadden told CNN in Geneva, Switzerland. “We need answers and we need action. And we have to bring it to the U.N. so they can expose it to the rest of the world, what’s going on in small town Ferguson.” ............. </i>The shooting sparked ongoing and sometimes violent protests in Ferguson over police violence against Blacks, especially unarmed men. Now in an effort to avert violence again if a grand jury does not indict the officer, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon warned Tuesday that protesters would face consequences if they crossed the line.</font> Also at the Daily Mail <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2827581/Michael-Brown-s-parents-say-brazen-Darren-Wilson-treated-human-shooting-dead-Ferguson-ahead-appearance-torture-committee.html" target="_blank">Ferguson cop has ALWAYS known he will not be charged for shooting Michael Brown - and he treated the unarmed teen as 'less than human', his parents will tell the United Nations</a> <font color=SteelBlue>MailOnline has seen a copy of the report that Browns’ family will present to the UN, and it gives one of the starkest illustrations yet of the family’s sense of injustice. In it, Brown’s father Michael Brown Sr and his mother Leslie McSpadden speak of their anger that their son’s dead body was left bleeding in the street for four hours. They write: ‘Given the history of racial tensions in the city of Ferguson, this particularly disrespectful treatment of Brown’s body and callous disregard for the trauma it could cause Ferguson residents repeated and reinforced the longstanding degrading treatment of black racial minorities by an overwhelmingly white police force. ‘Not only did the abandonment of the body convey to residents that the police officer regarded the black youth as less than human, but it also illustrated the officer’s brazen confidence that he would not be punished for such unwarranted violence’. In the document Brown’s family call for the immediate arrest of Wilson, who is in hiding at an undisclosed location. They also want the Ferguson police department to be placed under ‘federal receivership to hold it accountable for systematically targeting and harassing residents of color in a predatory and degrading manner’. Among their other calls is a demand from Missouri Governor Jay Nixon to apologize for the ‘intimidation and excessive force used against’ protesters. They also say they want an ‘amnesty to those protesters arrested while protesting the killing of Michael Brown.’ ............ </font> <br />
PA SUED OVER SCHOOL FUNDING AFTER ONLY FOUR YEARS OF GOPHERS From the Philadelphia Inquirer's Staff Writer Kristen Graham <a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/school_files/Districts-parents-sue-Pa-over-education-funding.html" target="_blank">Districts, parents sue Pa. over education funding</a> <font color=FireBrick>School districts, parents, an organization representing small and rural school systems and the state NAACP on Monday filed a <a href="http://edfundinglawsuit.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">lawsuit</a> against Gov. Tom Corbett, state education officials and legislative leaders, saying that Pennsylvania fails to uphold its constitutional obligation to educate children adequately. Plaintiffs of the suit, filed in Commonwealth Court, include two Philadelphia School District parents and the William Penn School District in Delaware County. State officials have "adopted an irrational school funding system that does not deliver the essential resources students need and discriminates against children based on where they live and the wealth of their communities," say the plaintiffs, who are represented by the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia and the Education Law Center-PA. ................ The suit alleges that while leaders impose academic standards on children, they do not give them the resources to meet those standards. “My child is in classes with too many other students and she has no access to tutoring services or support from paraprofessionals, but our elected officials still expect and require her to pass standardized tests,” Jamela Miller, parent of an 11-year-old child in the William Penn School District, said in a prepared statement. “How are kids supposed to pass the tests required to graduate high school, find a job and contribute to our economy if their schools are starving for resources?” ................. Pennsylvania is a rarity nationwide - one of just a handful of states that lacks a codified funding formula. One was proposed during the Rendell administration, but abandoned in 2011 under Corbett. A lack of formula leads to a heavy reliance on property taxes and wide gaps in per-pupil spending: depending on where they live, spending per public school student in Pennsylvania ranges from $9,800 to $28,400. And still, many poor district have higher tax rates than wealthy ones. "It is not tax effort that explains the difference in funding," the suit states. "Rather, these underfunded districts are in areas so poor that, despite their high tax rates, they simply cannot raise enough money to improve education without more assistance from the state." .................... Pennsylvania funds a smaller share of public education costs than nearly every other state in the U.S., said Maura McInerney, a lawyer with the Education Law Center. “Students and teachers are making concerted efforts to ensure that students acquire needed skills in reading, math and science — but without basic services, too many students now face insurmountable and illegal disadvantages,” McInerney said. A committee has begun exploring the idea of an education funding formula for Pennsylvania, but the group's work is just beginning. Gov-elect Tom Wolf has said that he intends to restore education cuts and enact a funding formula.</font> So incoming DEM Guv Elect Tom Wolf has to deal with this and try to clean up and claw back some of the shadowy (read "not-transparent-AT-ALL") 'PRIVATIZING' of schools. This is essentially the SAME isssue the <a href="http://www.schoolfunding.info/states/oh/lit_oh.php3" target="_blank">Ohio Supreme Court has FOUND UNCONCTITUTIONAL FOUR TIMES</a> and NO ONE has YET been held in CONTEMPT much less served time in Da Big House in Ohio. AFTER NEARLY TWO DECADES. Our well-wishes to the teachers, kids and parents in this effort but expect to be in this struggle for the duration. Certainly "No Child's Behind Left" and "RACE to the TOP" have had AND STILL HAVE a BIG EFFECT on our schools from FUNDING to CURRICULUM. Wonder how the PA Supreme Court is now configured after FOUR YEARS of NEOLIBERAL "FREE MARKET" "PRIVATIZATION" GOPHER control in PA. Hmmmmmmmmm? Our sisters and brothers in Chicago know what we're talking about with <a href="http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/21628237-452/cps-starving-its-schools-to-justify-privatization.html" target="_blank">Mayor RAHM EMANUEL</a>. FYI this whole puplic school privatization began when SCOTUS heard the case <a href="http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2002/06/27/42voucher_web.h21.html" target="_blank"><i>Zelman v. Simmons-Harris</i>: Supreme Court Upholds Cleveland Voucher Program</a> IN 2002! Right here in Da Cleve. And so it goes.<br />
WHAT'S IT GOING TO TAKE TO DEFEAT THESE TROGLODYTES and <i>really educate</i> OUR KIDS and GRANDKIDS? In Ohio we're still wondering. And still fighting back after all these years. GET ON DA BUS in YOUR district to start. <br />
NEXT Bill McKibben at 350.org desperately tries to put a shine a turd <a href="http://350.org/bill-mckibben-the-big-climate-deal-what-it-is-and-what-it-isnt/" target="_blank">The Big Climate Deal: What It Is, and What It Isn’t</a> <font color=brown>1) It is historic. ......... 2) It isn’t binding in any way. .......... 3) It is proof, if any more was needed, that renewable energy is ready to go. ........... 4) It is not remotely enough to keep us out of climate trouble. We’ve increased the temperature less than a degree and that’s been enough to melt enormous quantities of ice, not to mention set the weather on berserk. So this plan to let the increase more than double is folly — though it is good to see that the two sides have at least agreed not to undermine that two degrees target, the one tiny achievement of the Copenhagen conference fiasco. 5) It is a good way to put pressure on other nations. ........ 6) It isn’t a way for Obama to get off the hook on things like the Keystone pipeline. ............ 8) It’s not, in any way, a stretch goal. .......... 9) It is — and this is the real key — a reminder that movements work. ......... 10) It isn’t, in other words, a reason to slack off a bit in the ongoing fight for a livable climate, a fight our civilizations are in great danger of losing. If we want this to be a start, and not a finish, we’ve got to build even bigger and more powerful movements that push the successors of these gentlemen to meet what science demands. Today’s an achievement for everyone who’s held a banner, signed a petition, and gone to jail — and a call for many more to join us going forward! </font> <br />
MEANWHILE Juan Cole accurately calls a lemon a lemon <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2014/11/dollar-languid-climate.html" target="_blank">A Day Late & a Dollar Short: Obama & China agree on Languid Climate Goals</a> <font color=navy> ....... The US just agreed to reduce carbon emissions to as much as 28% below 2005 levels by 2025. But US emissions increased from 5 bn tons a year in 1990 to 6 bn in 2005, an increase of 20 percent. So the US is still only committed to being slightly below 1990 levels by 2025. <b>In other words, it will go on spewing an average of 5 bn metric tons a year into the atmosphere, the equivalent of taking a dump in your kitchen sink, for over a decade into the future, getting down to like 4.5 billion metric tons in a decade. This is as close to doing nothing about the crisis as you could get.</b> It is twice as ambitious a goal as the previous one in the US, but this is a country of oilmen and climate change denialists who really do want to increase emissions. .............. Neither country has been willing to do all that much at all to reduce emissions. US emissions went up last year and are only slightly down from the highs of the zeroes, mainly because of the rise of wind power in Iowa, Texas, etc., switching a bit from coal to natural gas, and the economic turn down of 2009 and after. Less that one percent of US electricity generation is from solar, despite the country having enormous solar potential in the South and Southwest and despite the availability of large open spaces on which to mount the panels. <b>China actually pledged to go on <i>increasing</i> its carbon emissions until 2030, by which time it thinks it will hit its peak and after which its carbon emissions will begin falling. 2030! Game over, climate.</b> The world will likely put out 40 bn metric tons of carbon dioxide in 2014, up from the 36 bn tons common only a few years ago. We’re going in the wrong direction and have been for a very long time. If another 1.2 trillion metric tons goes into the atmosphere, we’re locked into a roughly 4 degrees Fahrenheit increase. All we have to do is 40 bn tons for 30 years to ensure that, and likely soon we’ll be doing much more than 40 annually, so the cutoff will come much earlier than 30 years, maybe even 15. That would be around the time China thinks it might be able to arrange to start reducing its annual emissions. ................. The tools Obama and Xi announced to get to their limp goals are also unimpressive. Research on carbon capture and sequestration, which is actually dangerous. What if the sequestered carbon leaks? Remember that Cameroon lake? This is just a sop to the coal industry. And research and green trade, which don’t amount to a serious commitment. <b>It is a sad commentary that this agreement is actually an improvement on previous goals of the two countries.</b> And it is better to have an agreement with firm dates and targets than to have the two carbon monsters take turns hiding behind each other at climate talks. But this agreement isn’t a commitment to reduce carbon emissions on a timescale appropriate to the magnitude of the crisis. <u>It mostly kicks the ball down the road</u>. ......... </font> <br />
Robert Parry at ConsortiumNews.com explains <a href="http://consortiumnews.com/2014/11/11/the-neocon-plan-for-war-and-more-war/" target="_blank">The Neocon Plan for War and More War </a> <font color=darkblue>........ The new menu of neocon delights was listed by influential neocon theorist Max Boot in a <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">blog post</a> for Commentary magazine, an important outlet for neocon thinking. Boot argued that the Republicans – and thus the neocons – have earned a mandate on national security policy from the electoral repudiation of Obama’s Democratic Party. ............. Boot’s recounting of that history is, of course, wrongheaded in several ways. It may have been foolish for Obama to set a “red line” against chemical weapons use in Syria, but there is growing evidence that the Syrian government was not behind the lethal sarin attack of Aug. 21, 2013, and that it was instead a provocation by rebel extremists. ....... Further, Putin’s approach to the Ukraine crisis in February 2014 was reactive, not provocative or expansionistic. It was the European Union and the United States (led by neocons such as Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs Victoria Nuland, National Endowment for Democracy President Carl Gershman and Sen. John McCain) that set out to overturn the Ukrainian status quo. .............. And, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria arose not from Obama’s timidity but from the neocon-inspired invasion of Iraq last decade. ISIS emerged from the hyper-violent Al-Qaeda in Iraq, which didn’t exist until President George W. Bush followed neocon advice to invade and occupy Iraq. The terrorist group, rebranding itself as the Islamic State, moved on to Syria where the neocons were seeking another “regime change” in the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad. .......... In other words, Boot is working not only from a false narrative but a dangerous fantasy. Nevertheless, it is a narrative that is widely accepted inside Official Washington where one of the favorite sayings is “perception is reality.” So, although Boot’s perception is factually unhinged, it is regarded as “reality” by many “smart people” in the world’s most powerful capital. After laying out his false diagnosis – that Obama’s supposed failure to destroy the Syrian military in 2013 led to the crises of Ukraine and ISIS in 2014 – Boot then prescribes what needs to be done. ......... </font> Read on for more details on the neocon end game! Then read Noam Chomsky at Truth-Out.org <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/27201-the-leading-terrorist-state" target="_blank">The Leading Terrorist State</a> <font color=indigo>"It's official: The U.S. is the world's leading terrorist state, and proud of it." That should have been the headline for the lead story in The New York Times on Oct. 15, which was more politely titled "CIA Study of Covert Aid Fueled Skepticism About Helping Syrian Rebels." ..............</font> <br />
And at TheNation.com read <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/186129/snowden-exile-exclusive-interview" target="_blank">Edward Snowden: A ‘Nation’ Interview </a> and <a href="http://www.thenation.com/video/181584/watch-naomi-klein-how-capitalism-destroying-our-fragile-climate" target="_blank">WATCH: Naomi Klein on How Capitalism Is Destroying Our Fragile Climate</a> plus Eric Alterman explains how <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/187665/corporate-media-companies-are-real-winners-2014-midterms" target="_blank">Corporate Media Companies Are the Real Winners in the 2014 Midterms</a><br />
Lastly read Matt Taibbi at the Rolling Stone (yes he <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/oct/31/matt-taibbi-rolling-stone-first-look-media" target="_blank">quit</a> The Intercept) <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-9-billion-witness-20141106" target="_blank">The $9 Billion Witness: JPMorgan Chase's Worst Nightmare </a> and look for Taibbi and whistleblower Alayne Fleischmann on The Keiser Report, Majority Report and in the Ring of Fire Radio reports. And be sure to watch Thursday's DN! on Mexico’s Missing Students and the protests happening down there (not covered AT ALL by the lame-stream media btw). We're sure we missed a few more items but check below for more news and info on a range of topics as usual! Have a great week and we'll see you next Sunday!<br />
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<center><img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/gonzo-111x191.png" height="75"></center><p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font> <p><img src="http://www.democracynow.org/images/nav/dn_logo.png" height=100 alt="Democracy NOW!" /> <p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/10/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, November 10, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>María Luisa Aguilar Rodríguez, coordinator of the advocacy unit for Tlachinollan</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/10/ive_had_enough_mexican_protesters_decry" target="_blank">"I’ve Had Enough": Mexican Protesters Decry Years of Impunity After Apparent Massacre of 43 Students</a> <br />
<li><b>Matthew Hoh, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/10/this_is_crazy_ex_state_dept" target="_blank">"This is Crazy": Ex-State Dept. Official Matthew Hoh Blasts Obama’s Doubling of U.S. Troops in Iraq</a> <br />
<li><b>MORE Matthew Hoh</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/10/on_eve_of_veterans_day_a" target="_blank">On Eve of Veterans Day, a Former Soldier Speaks Out on Hidden Costs of War from PTSD to Suicide</a> <br />
<li><b>Ryan Boyko, Yale University graduate student in public health</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/10/out_of_ebola_quarantine_yale_student" target="_blank">Out of Ebola Quarantine, Yale Student Says Health Workers Should Be Treated as Heroes, Not Pariahs</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/4/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, November 11, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Phil Donahue, one of the best-known talk show hosts in U.S. television history</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/11/paralyzed_iraq_war_vet_turned_peace" target="_blank">Paralyzed Iraq War Vet Turned Peace Activist Tomas Young Dies on Eve of Veterans Day</a> <br />
<li><b>MORE Phil Donahue</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/11/legendary_talk_show_host_phil_donahue" target="_blank">Legendary Talk Show Host Phil Donahue on the Silencing of Antiwar Voices in U.S. Media</a> <br />
<li><b>StoryCorps Veterans Day Special</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/11/storycorps_veterans_day_special_the_unlikely" target="_blank">StoryCorps Veterans Day Special: The Unlikely Bond Between a U.S. Soldier & Two Iraqi Boys</a> Two years ago, StoryCorps launched the Military Voices Initiative recording the stories of post-9/11 military veterans and their families. And this Veterans Day, StoryCorps is releasing a series of animations and a radio special based on these interviews. We broadcast one of those stories stories told by Spc. Justin Cliburn, who deployed to Iraq with the Oklahoma Army National Guard in 2005. <br />
<li><b> Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/11/storycorps_veterans_day_special_the_unlikely" target="_blank">Tomas Young, Rest in Peace</a> There were 8,920,000 military veterans in the United States as of last June, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Sometime last Sunday or Monday, hours before Veterans Day began, that number dropped by one, when Tomas Young died at home in Seattle, with his wife by his side. He was one of many soldiers who were sent to Iraq and were grievously injured there.........<br />
<li><b>Web Exclusive! </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2014/11/11/veterans_day_special_former_state_dept" target="_blank">Veterans Day Special: Matthew Hoh on Recovering from the "Darkness" of PTSD After Iraq War</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/12/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, November 12, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Jake Schmidt, director of the International Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/12/as_china_agrees_to_cut_carbon" target="_blank">Obama Reaches Climate Deal with China — and GOP Congress May Not Be Able to Stop It</a> <br />
<li><b>Steven Renderos, national organizer with the Center for Media Justice</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/12/obama_calls_for_net_neutrality_but" target="_blank">Obama Calls for Net Neutrality, But His Own Industry-Tied FCC Appointee Could Stand in the Way</a> <br />
<li><b>Lt. Gen. Daniel Bolger (Ret.), served 35 years in the U.S. Army before retiring in 2013</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/12/why_we_lost_retired_us_general" target="_blank">Why We Lost: Retired U.S. General Calls for Public Inquiry into Failures of Iraq, Afghan Wars</a> In a piece published this week in The New York Times headlined "<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/opinion/the-truth-about-the-wars-in-iraq-and-afghanistan.html" target="_blank">The Truth About [the] Wars</a>," General Bolger called for a public inquiry, along the lines of the 9/11 Commission, to look into why the two wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have gone so poorly.<br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/13/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, November 13, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>John Gibler, author and independent journalist based in Mexico</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/13/mexico_burns_as_outrage_over_student" target="_blank">Mexico Burns as Outrage over Student Disappearances Sparks Protests Against State-Backed Violence</a> <br />
<li><b>Laura Carlsen, director of the Mexico City-based Americas Policy Program of the Center for International Policy</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/13/are_mexicos_missing_students_the_victims" target="_blank">Are Mexico’s Missing Students the Victims of U.S.-Backed Drug War?</a> <br />
<li><b>Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/6/ben_jerry_s_co_founder_on target="_blank">As Dems Punt Vote on Loretta Lynch, Admin Faces Pressure to Include Girls in "My Brother’s Keeper"</a> <br />
<li><b>Kimberlé Crenshaw, professor of law at UCLA and Columbia University and the founder of the African American Policy Forum</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/13/as_dems_punt_vote_on_loretta" target="_blank">Midterm Voters Reject U.S. Drug War with Victories for Marijuana Legalization & Sentencing Reform</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/14/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, Friday, November 14, 2014</a><ul><li><b>British comedian, actor, radio host, author and activist Russell Brand </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/7/new_gop_majority_backs_amnesty_for" target="_blank">Russell Brand on Revolution, Fighting Inequality, Addiction, Militarized Policing & Noam Chomsky</a> Today, we’re broadcasting from London, and we’re joined by Russell Brand. .........But in recent years, Russell Brand has emerged as one of the most prominent voices of the British left. He has taken part in anti-austerity protests, spoken at Occupy Wall Street and marched with the hacker collective Anonymous. A recovering addict himself, Russell Brand has also become a leading critic of Britain’s drug laws.<br />
</ul><p><img src="http://grittv.org/wp-content/themes/grit/images/logo.gif" height=100 alt="GRITtv" /> <a href="http://www.lauraflanders.com/grittv/" target="_blank">GRITtv</a> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">www.grittv.org</a> with Laura Flanders </br > »»» <b>VIDEO OF THE WEEK</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?video=building-grassroots-to-strengthen-movements" target="_blank">Building Grassroots to Strengthen Movements</a> <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE SPORT!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></b></font></font> </br > »»» <b>NASCAR on ESPN</b> NASCAR Sprint Cup Series FINAL RACE! It's the Ford EcoBoost 400 at the Homestead-Miami Speedway! For Kevin Harvick, Denny Hamlin, Joey Logano and Ryan Newman, it's time to grab that first Sprint Cup trophy once and for all! Coverage begins at 1 pm et & Green Flag around 3 pm et</br > »»» <b>SUNDAY FOOTBALL NIGHT IN AMERICA on NBC</b> Patriots @ Colts 8:30 pm et</br > »»» <b>MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL on ESPN</b> Steelers @ Titans 8:30 pm et </br > »»» <b>THURSDAY NIGHT NBA DOUBLEHEADER on TNT</b> Clippers @ Heat 8 pm et THEN Bulls @ Kings 10:30 pm et <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ACTION!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font></br > <font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i> <p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>! <p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <font color=red><b>ACTION! <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell the FCC: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> 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. </b> SIGN NOW at <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_proposal/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Tell Chairman Wheeler: No Frankenstein Net Neutrality</a> at freepress.net NOW. </font> <p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW! <p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org <p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>! <p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information! <p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Bradley Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/uncategorized/chelsea-manning-on-containing-isis-in-guardian-op-ed" target="_blank">Chelsea Manning on containing ISIS in Guardian op-ed </a> <i>September 16, 2014. Chelsea Manning's Guardian op-ed, "How to make ISIS fall on its own sword" ....... </i> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/nyt-calls-out-dod-on-missing-medical-care-for-manning" target="_blank">NYT calls out DoD on missing Medical care for Manning</a> <i>November 11, 2014. Although she has made repeated requests for gender-related health care, the NYT times notes that, "Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel and other officials continue to deny medically necessary care to Chelsea Manning"........</i> <p><font size=3><b>DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION</b></font> <a href="http://tjmf.flipswap.com/" target="_blank">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. </a> For more information, go to <a href="http://www.tjmartellfoundation.org" target="_blank">www.tjmartellfoundation.org</a> <p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!! <p><center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br > <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick_teevee_test.jpg" alt="brick_teevee_test.jpg" /></br > The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br > THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br > Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,350 US Military Dead as of Nov 11, 2014</a> </br > <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br > <font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><p>
<li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Rep. Tom Cole, R-Okla., and Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Ill., Democratic strategist and ABC News contributor Donna Brazile, Republican strategist and ABC News contributor Ana Navarro, and ABC News Chief White House Correspondent Jonathan Karl. <br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• former Gov. Mitt Romney, the Republican nominee for president in 2012<br />
• Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo.<br />
• Sen. Mike Lee, R-Ut.<br />
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<br />
• James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence<br />
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<li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• November 16 at 7 p.m. ET/PT<br />
• Water<br />
• Cardinal Seán<br />
• Mandy Patinkin<br />
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<li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA)<br />
• Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell <br />
• Nerd Screen: Chuck dissects the low turnout numbers from the midterm and what it means for 2016<br />
• NBC News’ Anne Thompson looks at two states, Illinois and Texas, and how they have responded to Obamacare<br />
• HEALTH CARE ROUNDTABLE: Neera Tanden President, Center for American Progress; Avik Roy Opinion Editor, Forbes; Dr. Toby Cosgrove President and CEO, Cleveland Clinic<br />
• POLITICAL ROUNDTABLE: Carly Fiorina Fmr. CEO, Hewlett-Packard; Reid Wilson Reporter, Washington Post; Helene Cooper Pentagon Correspondent, The New York Times; Chris Matthews Host, MSNBC’s ‘Hardball’<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN)</b> Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• Senator Dick Durbin, the number two Democrat in the Senate<br />
• Senator Al Franken <br />
• IMMIGRATION ROUNDTABLE: Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus Xavier Becerra<br />
• 'OBAMACARE' ROUNDTABLE: S.E. Cupp, LZ Granderson, Penny Lee and Mercedes Schlapp <br />
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<li type=square><b>HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid</b><br />
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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!<br />
• Prayer Mettin' Wednesday!! Über Pope/Rabbi/Imam Bob skewers the Religious Right! Listen here NOW! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(12-11-2014).mp3" target="_blank">Wednesday, November 12th, 2014 </a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.crmw.net</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT</b> With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!<br />
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<b> The Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen:</b> 6 minutes of green news, politics, analysis & snarky comment! BOOKMARK <a href="http://greennews.bradblog.com/" target="_blank">greennews.bradblog.com</a> NOW!<br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10940" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - November 13, 2014</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Historic climate deal between U.S. and China: it's the deal Republicans said could never be done; Hope breaks out for international climate treaty negotiations; Republicans freak out at home, while scientists say it's not enough, but it's a good start...(Also, BREAKING: Coal mine owner Don Blankenship indicted...) All that and more in today's Green News Report! ..... IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): Coal mine boss Don Blankenship indicted for mine explosion that killed 29; Why those 5 cent charges for plastic bags actually work; Keystone XL Pipeline: Lame-Duck Congress Fast-Tracks Legislation; Why The U.S.-China Climate Deal Makes Keystone XL Pipeline An Even Worse Idea; IEA Warns Fossil Fuel Trends Dire; Lightning Will Increase With Warming... PLUS: Pope Francis: “Unbridled consumerism” will have destructive consequences for the planet ... and much, MUCH more! ...<br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10936" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - November 11, 2014</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: "The science has spoken": final UN climate change report - the bad news, the good news, and room for hope; PLUS: Flashback: 25th anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's historic climate change speech --- back to when conservatives accepted science ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10939" target="_blank">KPFK 'BradCast': Greg Palast on the GOP 'Crosscheck'; Tomas Young in Crawford, TX (2005)</a> Voter suppression and war crimes continue...<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10935" target="_blank">IN MEMORIAM:<br />
Tomas Young, 1979-2014</a> On Veterans Day, we're sad to report that America has lost another casualty of the War on Iraq -- one who, after first meeting and interviewing him in 2005, we will never forget... <br />
• BRADCAST! VIDEO! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10937" target="_blank">Brad on Thom Hartmann TV: More Election 2014 Mess</a> On thousands of 'missing' votes in Wisconsin, on Nate Silver and polls vs. 'results', on Rightwing 'True the Vote' voter fraud fraudsters, and on much more... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10934" target="_blank">Crucial Moment for the FCC and 'Net Neutrality'</a> Will the Democratic majority commissioners support the President's clarion call and thwart GOP opposition to an open Internet?...<br />
• BRADBLOG VIDEO! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10941" target="_blank">Stephen Colbert is Really REALLY Funny</a> That's not a news flash, but, as this segment makes clear once again, it's very very sad that The Colbert Report is soon going away... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10924" target="_blank">Reuters: Voting Probs Around Nation, Bizarre Targeting of Election Judges in Chicago</a> Wire service summarizes voting machine problems, Photo ID voter suppression -- and a really strange story out of Chicago... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10927" target="_blank">'True the Vote' Group Fails to Find 'Voter Fraud' (Again)</a> Laughingstock RW organization's 'army' of monitors armed with new smart phone app uncover just 18 largely benign 'irregularities', 0 cases of polling place voter impersonation...<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10929" target="_blank">The Polls Were Skewed Toward Republicans: A Response to Nate Silver</a> The statistics guru unhelpfully explains away mid-term's surprising outcome by presuming pre-election polling was wrong and unverified election results were all correct... <br />
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<li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b><br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <br />
<ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• 10 Nov 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-obama-makes-strong-stand-for-net-neutrality-why-did-he-wait/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Obama Makes Strong Stand for Net Neutrality–Why Did He Wait?</a> In his strongest statement to date, President Obama declares support for net neutrality, common carrier status….why did he wait?…. <br />
• 11 Nov 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-midterms-define-democrats-as-desperate-irrelevant-2-corporate-party/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: General Bolger Honors Veterans with the Truth</a> On Veterans Day, empty rhetoric abounds—but Gen. Dan Bolger tells the truth about America’s dirty wars, and the surge…<br />
• 12 Nov 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-obamas-climate-change-deal-with-china-better-than-nothing/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Obama’s Climate Change Deal with China: Better than Nothing</a> Obama’s new climate change deal with China is better than nothing, but China’s carbon reductions don’t start for 15 years….<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast November 3, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/11/03/10690/" target="_blank">Sibel Edmonds Goes Deep on Her New Novel, and the Deep State</a> Sibel Edmonds talks about her new novel, The Lone Gladio, and explains some of the key elements of her fictional narrative based on the “deep state”, Operation Gladio, and CIA covert operations. <br />
• PBC Standard Podcast November 10, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/11/10/ray-mcgovern-recounts-being-barred-from-petraeus-event-suspects-surveillance/" target="_blank">Ray McGovern Recounts Being Barred from Petraeus Event, Suspects Surveillance</a> Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern shares his account of being denied entry to a New York event where David Petraeus was speaking, as he was arrested and roughed up by police, and suspects the spooks were alerted by intercepted email. <br />
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• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weekend-on-ring-of-fire-radio-19/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire November 14, 2014</a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
»» David Bender will join me for a discussion of the news of the week.<br />
»» Adam Green from the Progressive Change Campaign Committee will tell us about the progressive victories from the midterms.<br />
»» Abby Martin, host of Breaking The Set on RT America, will talk about the corporate media’s 2014 midterm payday, where political ad spending reached into the billions.<br />
»» Attorney Ben Gordon explains the misconduct of medical device manufacturer Smith & Nephew.<br />
»» Howard Nations will tell us why infrastructure investment has almost completely disappeared, in spite of the warnings from the country’s top economists.<br />
»» And Peter Mougey will tell us why the SEC has failed to do their job of preventing Wall Street criminal behavior.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weeks-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv-20/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV!</a> Sundays at NOON! <br />
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• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/glenn-greenwald-why-privacy-matters/" target="_blank">Glenn Greenwald: Why Privacy Matters</a> by Joshua Schwitzerlett<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/11/the-corporate-assault-on-civil-justice-video/" target="_blank">The Corporate Assault on Civil Justice (VIDEO)</a> by Gary Bentley - Years ago, Republican operatives got together to discuss their options for de-funding the Democratic Party. Their idea was to attack trial lawyers who, at the time, were the single largest donors to the Democrats. That is where the idea of “tort reform” was born, and Republicans have sold the idea to the American people by claiming that it would reduce healthcare costs. Nothing could be further from the truth, and the numbers prove it. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins and attorney Howard Nations discuss this.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/11/biggest-loser-in-midterm-elections-the-environment/" target="_blank">American Corporations Hiding More Money Now Than Ever</a> by Joshua De Leon - U.S. corporations now have over $2 trillion hidden in offshore bank accounts, or tax havens, as of this week, <a href="http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/u-s-companies-now-stashing-2-trillion-overseas-n247256" target="_blank">reported NBC News</a>. This is the most amount of money that companies have kept offshore ever, and the $2.1 trillion amount is six times more than what it was 12 years ago. By April of 2013, the total was $1.5 trillion, meaning that amount increased $500 billion in just 18 months. According to the report, the analysis illustrating the hidden money “paints a bleak picture of whether that money will make its way home and the limited economic impact it would have even if it does.” ..........<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/11/congress-has-14-percent-approval-and-a-95-percent-re-election-rate-wtf/" target="_blank">Congress has 14 percent approval and a 95 percent re-election rate. WTF?!</a> by Amy Eddings - Most Americans, regardless of political party, are fed up with the current status of the federal government. Congressional approval is 14 percent, but somehow 95 percent of legislators get re-elected. David Packman discusses this sad phenomenon. <br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/11/jpmorgan-paid-9-billion-to-keep-one-witness-from-talking/" target="_blank">JPMorgan Paid $9 Billion to Keep One Witness From Talking</a> by Joshua Schwitzerlett - Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann<br />
• Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the "Podcast" tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/blogengine/" target="_blank">Ring of Fire Radio</a> Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, <b>rebroadcasts 7-10 et Sunday evenings on <a href="http://www.chicagoprogressivetalk.com/listen/" target="_blank">Chicago's Progressive Talk WCPT AM & FM</a> and 4 pm et on Sirius/XM 167 featuring The PAP Attack! </b> "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week." <br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-10-14-mexico-ready-for-revolution-obama-comes-out-for-net-neutrality" target="_blank">11/10/14 Mexico Ready For Revolution & Obama Comes Out For Net Neutrality</a> <br />
• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-11-14-matt-taibbi-the-9-billion-witness-meet-jp-morgan-chase-s-worst-nightmare" target="_blank">11/11/14 Matt Taibbi: The $9 Billion Witness: Meet JPMorgan Chase’s Worst Nightmare</a> <br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-12-14-ian-millhiser-the-absurd-new-supreme-court-case-that-could-kill-obamacare" target="_blank">11/12/14 Ian Millhiser: The Absurd New Supreme Court Case That Could Kill Obamacare</a><br />
• THURSDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-13-14-ben-adler-why-the-u-s-china-climate-deal-is-a-game-changer" target="_blank">11/13/14 Ben Adler: Why the U.S.-China Climate Deal Is a Game Changer</a><br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-14-14-casual-friday-tina-dupuy-on-her-this-american-life-story-cliff-schecter-on-the-week" target="_blank"> 11/14/14 Casual Friday: Tina Dupuy On Her This American Life Story & Cliff Schecter On The Week </a> <br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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<li type=square><b>KEISER REPORT</b> Podcasts and more @ <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/" target="_blank">MaxKeiser.com</a>!<br />
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WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts "The Truth About Markets" on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s "People & Power" series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of <a href="http://www.karmabanque.com/" target="_blank">KarmaBanque</a> a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. <br />
• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport" target="_blank">Keiser Report</a> <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/central-planners-are-in-a-state-of-panic/" target="_blank">Central Planners Are In A State of Panic</a> by Peak Prosperity — Everything the central planners have tried has failed to bring widespread prosperity and has instead concentrated it dangerously at the top. Whether by coincidence or conspiracy, every possible escape hatch for 99.5% of the people has been welded shut. We are all captives in a dysfunctional system of money, run by a few for the few, and it is headed for complete disaster. To understand why, in all its terrible and fascinating glory, we need look no further than Japan. Read more <a href="http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/88617/central-planners-state-panic" target="_blank">HERE</a>...........<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/john-hussman-the-stock-market-is-overvalued-by-100/" target="_blank">John Hussman: The Stock Market Is Overvalued By 100%</a> by Peak Prosperity — John Hussman’s public appearances are rare, so we’re especially grateful he made time to speak with us yesterday about the precarious state in which he sees global markets. Based on historical norms and averages, he calculates that the ZIRP and QE policies of the Fed and other world central banks have led to an overvaluation in the stock market where prices are 2 times higher than they should be. <a href="http://www.peakprosperity.com/podcast/88702/john-hussman-stock-market-overvalued-100" target="_blank">Click here to listen to the interview</a> ............<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/american-upper-middle-class-share-of-wealth-is-worse-than-every-country-besides-russia-and-indonesia/" target="_blank">Gold Rigging Settlement With UBS – Other Banks To Follow</a> by Mark O'Byrne — <a href="http://www.goldcore.com/goldcore_Gold_Rigging_Settlement_With_UBS_Other_Banks_To_Follow" target="_blank">Gold Rigging Settlement With UBS – Other Banks To Follow</a>. Suspicions that the price of precious metals are frequently manipulated by a few international banks were further confirmed over the weekend. UBS agreed to settle with various international regulatory bodies investigating rigging in foreign exchange and precious metals markets. Manipulation of markets can work effectively in the short term. However, in the long term prices will be dictated by the global supply and the global demand of 7 billion people, many in Asia who believe in gold as a store of wealth. Not to mention, sovereign central banks such as the People’s Bank of China and the Russian central bank – who also believe in gold as an important monetary asset. Read more <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/gold-rigging-settlement-with-ubs-other-banks-to-follow/#more-75588" target="_blank">HERE</a>...........<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/keiserreport-warned-you-first-qe-causes-deflation/" target="_blank">#KeiserReport warned you first: QE causes deflation</a> by Stacy Herbert — Stacy Summary: Bloomberg news is now reporting that QE could be causing deflation. They say almost nobody saw this coming. Of course, if you watched Keiser Report, you will have heard this long ago. READ <a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2014-11-04/reality-might-topple-a-beloved-economic-theory" target="_blank">Reality Might Topple a Beloved Economic Theory</a> <i> But what if QE had the opposite of the intended effect? That is the claim of a small but well-credentialed group of macroeconomists that I once labeled the “Neo-Fisherites,” after the famous monetary economist Irving Fisher. These economists wonder if quantitative easing reduced inflation, instead of increasing it as many feared it would. The Neo-Fisherites go even further than that — they wonder if low interest rates, which we usually think of as being inflationary, are actually deflationary! It sounds crazy. How could creating money lower the value of money in the long run? </i> Most recently, Max closed the first half of episode 613 of Keiser Report arguing it was causing deflation: [VIDEO] But for a very long discussion on this, here is Professor Fekete in October 2013 saying QE was causing hyper-deflation and that those who said it would cause inflation were wrong: [VIDEO]<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/glenn-greenwald-on-hilary-clinton-soulless-principle-free-power-hungry/" target="_blank">Glenn Greenwald on Hilary Clinton: “Soulless, Principle-Free, Power Hungry…”</a> by Michael Krieger — One attribute I like most about Glenn Greenwald is that he never pulls punches. One of his most prescient and cutting political lines came earlier this year when he made some observations on the upcoming 2016 Presidential election, in which two status quo, corrupt, bloodthirsty con-artists will compete for the Oval Office. While we don’t yet know which crony the GOP will put up, Hilary is pretty much a foregone conclusion for the Democrats. Greenwald observed… Read the rest <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/11/14/glenn-greenwald-on-hilary-clinton-soulless-principle-free-power-hungry/" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/kr678-keiser-report-westminster-aka-westmonster/" target="_blank">[KR678] Keiser Report: Westminster aka Westmonster</a> We discuss JP Morgan’s worst nightmare – Alayne Fleischmann, a former employee in their diligence department willing to provide the evidence of their crimes packaging toxic mortgages into securities which were then sold on to investors. In the second half Max interviews Mark McGowan – aka The Artist Taxi Driver – about Westmonster, both the film and the reality of Westminster as governed on behalf of corporate interests.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/kr679-keiser-report-whistleblower-alayne-fleischmann-jp-morgan-worst-nightmare-talks-to-max/" target="_blank">[KR679] Keiser Report: Whistleblower Alayne Fleischmann (JP Morgan ‘worst nightmare’) talks to Max (their second worst nightmare)</a> We discuss the shouts of ‘Ya Me Cansé’ as the people are sick of a corrupt elite above the law. We also look at the headlines of students in India who believe in the right to cheat and at the innocent people who plead guilty to crimes they didn’t commit in America. In the second half Max interviews Alayne Fleischmann, the JP Morgan whistleblower, profiled in the latest Rolling Stone magazine. They talk about fraud in the mortgage backed securities business, the statute of limitations on wire fraud and what exactly it is that Jamie Dimon wants.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/kr680-keiser-report-numpty-taxes/" target="_blank">[KR680] Keiser Report: ‘Numpty’ Taxes</a> We discuss ‘numpty’ taxes and ‘stupid’ Ireland as bankers and central bankers treat everyone else like the ‘muppets’ they believe we are. We also discuss Angela Merkel refusing to meet with Timothy Geithner and how it is that QE is causing deflation. In the second half, Max interviews Matt Taibbi about his Rolling Stone exclusive on the JP Morgan whistleblower, Alayne Fleischmann, who was interviewed in the previous episode of the Keiser Report.<br />
• THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/07/the-truth-about-markets-28-june-2014/" target="_blank">The Truth About Markets – 28 June 2014</a> Stacy Summary: We talk about bogus collateral driving global housing bubbles. <a href="https://ia902509.us.archive.org/19/items/TaM28062014/TaM-28062014.mp3" target="_blank">Download show HERE</a> (mp3) <br />
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<li type=square><b>The Scott Horton Radio Show</b><br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It’s been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show’s important milestones, as well as preview some of the exciting projects to look for in the near future. ........ The show on Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A., still called Antiwar Radio, has now moved to join their Sunday morning public affairs line up (8:30 am pt - http://kpfk.org), and remains the largest source of listeners, with 15,000-20,000 people tuning in weekly. The future: Liberty Express Radio is growing and bringing me along for the ride. The great Charles Goyette hooked me up with Alan Butler and the Liberty Express earlier this year, and what has been the daily replay there from 3-5 eastern time has become my best listened-to show. And now they’re adding my friend Tom Woods to the lineup from 2-3 PM. That does it. I’m making the switch! Starting Monday, October 14, the live show is moving to 3-5 PM Eastern time on LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/10/28/102814-trita-parsi/" target="_blank">10/28/14 Trita Parsi</a>: Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, discusses his article “<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/10/27/the-biggest-threat-to-a-nuclear-deal-isnt-irans-hardliners/" target="_blank">How Congressional Hawks Plan to Kill Obama’s Iran Deal</a>.”<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/11/11/111114-eric-margolis/" target="_blank">11/11/14 Eric Margolis</a>: Eric Margolis, journalist and author of American Raj, discusses why the US and Russia are headed toward a new Cold War on the <a href="http://www.unz.com/emargolis/eddy-chevvy-gorby-and-the-fall-of-the-wall/" target="_blank">25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall’s destruction</a>.<br />
• <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.626147" target="_blank">11/12/14 M.J. Rosenberg</a>: M.J. Rosenberg, a commentator on Israel and the Middle East, discusses Israel’s departure from anything resembling democracy, and why Republican super-donor <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">Sheldon Adelson doesn’t see any problem with that</a>.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/11/13/111314-marcy-wheeler/" target="_blank">11/13/14 Marcy Wheeler</a>: Blogger Marcy Wheeler discusses how the USA Freedom Act could effect the NSA’s ability to spy on Americans’ phone records, and why <a href="https://www.emptywheel.net/2014/11/12/why-i-dont-support-usa-freedom-act/" target="_blank">she doesn’t support the legislation</a>.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/11/14/111414-trevor-timm/" target="_blank">11/14/14 Trevor Timm</a>: Trevor Timm, a Guardian US columnist and executive director of the Freedom of the Press Foundation, discusses how the Justice Department is using fake communications towers on airplanes to collect cellphone data; and Congress’s attempt to sneak through a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/12/new-spying-laws-cybersecurity-nsa-fbi" target="_blank">fake cybersecurity bill</a> that further weakens privacy laws.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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• Sen John Thune (R-SD), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference<br />
• Sen Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), a member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee<br />
• Senators-elect Rep Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Rep James Lankford (R-OK) <br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>Brick TeeVee Election 2014 Post-Mortem</b> The GOPhers won in a Big Wave in last Tuesday's mid-term election taking control of the U.S. Senate and increasing their majority in the U.S. House of Representatives. For the Democrats and many progressive-leaning peeps it seems like a death knell and the end of the world (and it could be considering how many anti-science candidates were elected or re-elected). But a BIG THING TO REMEMBER is that voter turn-out was HISTORICALLY low, perhaps less than 40% of the electorate, which in part can be attributed to the GOP-controlled states enacting voter suppression tactics like Voter I.D. laws and more (see BradBlog below for more info on that) and GOPher redistricting along party and ethnic/racial lines from their sweep in the last mid terms in 2010 and MASSIVE outside-group spending making this election the most costly ever. WHAT THIS REALLY MEANS is that LESS THAN 20% of the electorate made this "Decision 2014" happen, certainly NOT the "mandate" from the "American people" the GOPhers are now crowing about. There were also some decidedly PROGRESSIVE state-wide issues like increasing minimum wage that WON BIG at the same time. Here are some post-election items we've harvested from the innertubes of the web: <ul><li>JUAN COLE <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2014/11/republican-congress-entangle.html" target="_blank">How a Republican Congress Could Entangle the U.S. Further in the Middle East</a> <br />
<li>THOMAS E. MANN & NORM ORNSTEIN <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/which-republican-party-won-the-midterms/2014/11/07/3ed08e4e-6505-11e4-836c-83bc4f26eb67_story.html" target="_blank">Which Republican Party Won the Midterms?</a> <br />
<li>GARY YOUNGE <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/04/republicans-win-big-election-midterms" target="_blank">Republicans didn't win as big as you think they did. And Obama didn't lose</a> <br />
<li>LEE FANG <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/188433/gerrymandering-rigged-2014-elections-republican-advantage" target="_blank">Gerrymandering Rigged the 2014 Elections for Republican Advantage</a> Also on Wednesday's DN! below.<br />
<li>RICHARD V. REEVES <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/research/opinions/2014/11/10-progressives-lost-election-ideas-winning-reeves" Target="_blank">Progressives Lost the Election, but Their Ideas Are Winning</a><br />
<li>ZOË CARPENTER <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/188185/weed-legal-capital-and-6-other-reasons-election-wasnt-total-bust" target="_blank">Weed Is Legal in the Capital—and 10 Other Reasons the Election Wasn’t a Total Bust</a> <br />
<li>GRACE WOLLACK & JOHN HUDAK <a href="http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/fixgov/posts/2014/11/07-spending-per-voter-2014-midterm-senate-wallack-hudak" target="_blank">'How Much Did Your Vote Cost? Spending Per Voter in the 2014 Senate Races</a> <br />
<li>DEIRDRE FULTON <a href="http://commondreams.org/news/2014/11/05/we-will-only-get-louder-dozens-communities-vote-boot-big-money-politics" target="_blank">'We Will Only Get Louder': Dozens of Communities Vote to Boot Big Money from Politics</a><br />
</ul>READ ON for some excellent analyses of the fall-out from this election! Good stuff! Next we go to DIGBY with <a href="http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/11/all-governments-must-protect-ability-of.html" target="_blank">"All governments must protect the ability of journalists to write and speak freely"</a> <font color=maroon>This is very special: <ul>The White House Office of the Press Secretary</br > For Immediate Release November 02, 2014 </br > Statement by the President on the First-Annual International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists</br > History shows that a free press remains a critical foundation for prosperous, open, and secure societies, allowing citizens to access information and hold their governments accountable. ................ In the overwhelming majority of these cases, the perpetrators of these crimes against journalists go unpunished. <b>All governments must protect the ability of journalists to write and speak freely.</b> On this first-ever International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, the United States commends the priceless contributions by journalists to the freedom and security of us all, shining light into the darkness and giving voice to the voiceless. We honor the sacrifices so many journalists have made in their quest for the truth, and demand accountability for those who have committed crimes against journalists.</ul>Well, <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/06/19/ap-chief-intrusive-government-is-chilling-journalism/" target="_blank">some of the time</a> anyway. <ul>In a speech today in Washington, AP President and CEO Gary Pruitt [said]: <i>The actions of the DOJ against AP are already having an impact beyond the specifics of this case. Some longtime trusted sources have become nervous and anxious about talking with us — even on stories unrelated to national security. In some cases, government employees we once checked in with regularly will no longer speak to us by phone. Others are reluctant to meet in person. .......... And I can tell you that this chilling effect on newsgathering is not just limited to AP. Journalists from other news organizations have personally told me that it has intimidated both official and nonofficial sources from speaking to them as well. Now, the government may love this. But beware a government that loves too much secrecy.</i></ul><a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech/leak-prosecutions-obama-takes-it-11-or-should-we-say-526" target="_blank">There is this too</a>, coming at that press freedom from the other direction: [.......aclu.org.........] And <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2013/10/nsa-chief-stop-reporters-selling-spy-documents-175896.html" target="_blank">remember this</a>? [..........politico.com...........] That's a lot of respect for journalists and the first amendment. I guess nobody really cares about any of this. We're (probably) about to see Mark Udall get kicked out of the Senate at the hands of some authoritarian neanderthal. Still it's shameful to see the White House offer up sanctimonious lectures about press freedom when they've been busily eroding one of America's few values that actually stood out as being unique in this world --- the values of 1st Amendment. </font> Thanks to Digby for pointing out some of the most incredulous hubris of this administration! CLIMATE NEWS: The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their final climate report before the big Climate Change conference in Paris in a few months. KARL RITTER at HuffPoAOL explains <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/02/un-climate-change-report_n_6089392.html" target="_blank">UN Climate Change Report Delivers Stark Warnings</a> <font color=indigo>COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Climate change is happening, it's almost entirely man's fault and limiting its impacts may require reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero this century, the U.N.'s panel on climate science said Sunday. The fourth and final volume of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's giant climate assessment offered no surprises, nor was it expected to since it combined the findings of three reports released in the past 13 months. But it underlined the scope of the climate challenge in stark terms. Emissions, mainly from the burning of fossil fuels, may need to drop to zero by the end of this century for the world to have a decent chance of keeping the temperature rise below a level that many consider dangerous. The IPCC didn't say exactly what such a world would look like but it would likely require a massive shift to renewable sources to power homes, cars and industries combined with new technologies to suck greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The report warned that failure to reduce emissions could lock the world on a trajectory with "irreversible" impacts on people and the environment. Some impacts already being observed included rising sea levels, a warmer and more acidic ocean, melting glaciers and Arctic sea ice and more frequent and intense heat waves. <b>"Science has spoken. There is no ambiguity in their message. Leaders must act. Time is not on our side," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at the report's launch in Copenhagen.</b> Amid its grim projections, the report said the tools are there to set the world on a low-emissions path and break the addiction to burning oil, coal and gas which pollute the atmosphere with heat-trapping CO2, the chief greenhouse gas. .............. Today only a small minority of scientists challenge the mainstream conclusion that climate change is linked to human activity. Global Climate Change, a NASA website, says 97 percent of climate scientists agree that warming trends over the past century are very likely due to human activities. The American public isn't as convinced. A year-old survey by Pew Research showed 67 percent of Americans believed global warming is occurring and 44 percent said the earth is warming mostly because of human activity. More recently, a New York Times poll said 42 percent of Republicans say global warming won't have a serious impact, a view held by 12 percent of Democrats and 22 percent of independents. ............ Emissions have risen so fast in recent years that the world has used up two-thirds of its carbon budget, the maximum amount of CO2 that can be emitted to have a likely chance of avoiding 2 degrees of warming, the IPCC report said. "This report makes it clear that if you are serious about the 2-degree goal ... there is nowhere to hide," said Alden Meyer of the Union of Concerned Scientists, an advocacy group. "You can't wait several decades to address this issue.".................... The biggest hurdle is deciding who should do what. Rich countries are calling on China and other major developing countries to set ambitious targets; developing countries saying the rich have a historical responsibility to lead the fight against warming and to help poorer nations cope with its impacts. The IPCC avoided taking sides, saying the risks of climate change "are generally greater for disadvantaged people and communities in countries at all levels of development."</font> The Carbon Brief has this <a href="http://www.carbonbrief.org/blog/2014/11/media-round-up-the-ipcc-synthesis-report/" target="_blank">Media round-up: The IPCC synthesis report</a> so do click over for more on the IPCC report. And immediately after the election results became clear President Not Sure high-tailed it for the Far East and China to shore up support for the Trans Pacific Partnership. WE URGE YOU to watch Lori Wallach from PublicCitizen.org's Global Trade Watch at DN! for <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/6/obama_mcconnell_pledge_cooperation_will_fast" target="_blank">Obama & McConnell Pledge Cooperation; Will Fast-Tracking Secretive TPP Trade Deal Top Their Agenda?</a> Wallach lays out point-by-point exactly what this "trade" deal really is and why we need to demand our congresspeeps to deny "fast track authority" to President Not Sure. And there are enough GOPhers from the Constitution wing of the Tea Bag Caucus who are very wary of more Executive Power along with plenty of Dems who share the same skepticism of these broad give-aways of workers' rights, environmental rights and soveriegnty to what amounts to a non-elected world trade faction. Watch this NOW! And get more info at Public Citizen <a href="http://www.citizen.org/TPP" target="_blank">Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP): Job Loss, Lower Wages and Higher Drug Prices</a> and from WikiLeaks <a href="https://wikileaks.org/tpp/" target="_blank">Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - IP Chapter</a> Wallach concludes <font color=blue>....Today is the start of a national action day on TPP. If you go to <a href="http:/TradeWatch.org" target="_blank">TradeWatch.org</a>, you can figure out about the activities going on around the country. Or go to <a href="http://CitizensTrade.org" target="_blank">CitizensTrade.org</a>, see a list of all the activities. Same thing is happening in Australia and New Zealand and Singapore and Malaysia and Japan. And so, this campaigning has caused enough upset, that even though all the heads of state—Obama’s going to China, he’s going to be with all the other heads of TPP countries—they had hoped to have a signing ceremony. And with any luck and a little more campaigning, they won’t. But if we don’t stop fast track, it will be right over our shoulders in January, February, March, that they will make a deal. So it’s very dicey right now. We can make the difference.</font> Go there now and TAKE ACTION before some back-room deal gets cut! AND on the Fight Against GMOs we bring you this video <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR-Ke6Y5ziY" target="_blank">DON'T EAT IT!</a> from Swami G: <i>Story- GMO Executives Have Taken Over the Food Chain, a group of dedicated citizens march to face them off in an epic battle, but something nefarious and unexpected happens.</i> GREAT! Sorry for the late update and posting but there is much to read and watch below so please Click Anything and be Instanly Smarter! See you next Sunday! </font> <center><img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/gonzo-111x191.png" height="75"></center><p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font> <p><img src="http://www.democracynow.org/images/nav/dn_logo.png" height=100 alt="Democracy NOW!" /> <p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/3/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, November 03, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Angélique Kidjo, Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter from Benin, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/3/angelique_kidjo_dont_let_the_ebola" target="_blank">Angélique Kidjo: Don’t Let the Ebola Crisis Dehumanize Africa and Don’t Let Hate Consume America</a> <br />
<li><b>MORE Angélique Kidjo</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/3/honoring_mama_africa_angelique_kidjo_pays" target="_blank">Honoring Mama Africa: Angélique Kidjo Pays Tribute to South African Singer, Activist Miriam Makeba</a> <br />
<li><b>Greg Palast, investigative reporter with Al Jazeera America</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/3/jim_crow_returns_interstate_crosscheck_program" target="_blank">Jim Crow Returns: Interstate "Crosscheck" Program Could Strip Millions of the Right to Vote</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/4/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, November 04, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Stacey Abrams, Democratic state representative in the Georgia 89th District and the House minority leader</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/4/40_000_voters_missing_in_georgia" target="_blank">40,000 Voters Missing in Georgia? After Registration Drive in Areas of Color, Names Left off Rolls</a> <br />
<li><b>Ben Jealous, chairman of the Southern Election Fund</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/4/new_voter_suppression_laws_could_decide" target="_blank">New Voter Suppression Laws Could Decide Key Races, and Turn Back the Clocks for Years to Come</a><br />
<li><b>Lee Fang, reporting fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/4/the_priciest_midterms_ever_brought_to" target="_blank">The Priciest Midterms Ever, Brought to You by "Dark Money" and Election Finance Out of Control</a><br />
<li><b>John Nichols, political writer for The Nation</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/4/gop_threatens_a_senate_takeover_but" target="_blank">GOP Threatens a Senate Takeover, But State Votes Could Bring Rejection of Right-Wing Agenda</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/5/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, November 05, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Phillip Bailey, freelance journalist in Louisville, Kentucky</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/5/the_citizens_united_senator_after_gops" target="_blank">The Citizens United Senator: After GOP’s Midterm Rout, Mitch McConnell Likely Next Majority Leader</a> <br />
<li><b>Lee Fang, reporting fellow with The Investigative Fund at The Nation Institute</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/5/a_big_win_for_climate_change" target="_blank">A Big Win for Climate Change Denial: Republicans to Target EPA Regulations After Taking Senate</a> <br />
<li><b>John Nichols, political writer for The Nation</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/5/grassroots_activism_helped_elect_obama_in" target="_blank">Grassroots Activism Helped Elect Obama in 2008 — Will It Resurface to Push Him in Next 2 Years?</a><br />
<li><b>Sen. Bernie Sanders, Independent senator from Vermont</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/5/sen_bernie_sanders_the_united_states" target="_blank">Sen. Bernie Sanders: The United States is on the Verge of Becoming an Oligarchy</a><br />
<li><b>Peter Sterling, executive director of Vermont Leads</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/5/can_push_for_single_payer_healthcare" target="_blank">Can Push for Single-Payer Healthcare Survive in Vermont After Shockingly Tight Governor’s Race?</a><br />
<li><b>Susan Greene, editor of The Colorado Independent</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/5/mark_udall_leading_senate_voice_on" target="_blank">Mark Udall, Leading Senate Voice on NSA Surveillance and Environment, Ousted in Heated Colorado Race</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/6/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, November 06, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen’s Global Trade Watch</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/6/obama_mcconnell_pledge_cooperation_will_fast" target="_blank">Obama & McConnell Pledge Cooperation; Will Fast-Tracking Secretive TPP Trade Deal Top Their Agenda?</a> <br />
<li><b>Lorrin Pang, has served as a consultant to the World Health Organization and works for Maui’s Department of Health</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/6/maui_v_monsanto_hawaii_county_voters" target="_blank">Maui v. Monsanto: Hawaii County Voters Defy Agri-Giant’s Spending to OK Landmark Ban on GMO Crops</a> <br />
<li><b>Jerry Greenfield, co-founder of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/6/ben_jerry_s_co_founder_on target="_blank">Ben & Jerry’s Co-Founder on Knowing Your GMOs: Changing a Label Costs "Essentially Nothing"</a> <br />
<li><b>Ethan Nadelmann, founder and executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/6/midterm_voters_reject_us_drug_war" target="_blank">Midterm Voters Reject U.S. Drug War with Victories for Marijuana Legalization & Sentencing Reform</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/7/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, Friday, November 7, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now! co-host and New York Daily News award-winning columnist. </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/7/new_gop_majority_backs_amnesty_for" target="_blank">New GOP Majority Backs Amnesty for Corporate Tax Dodgers, But Not Undocumented Immigrants</a> <br />
<li><b>Rolling Stone's Matt Taibbi </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/7/matt_taibbi_and_bank_whistleblower_on" target="_blank">Matt Taibbi and Bank Whistleblower on How JPMorgan Chase Helped Wreck the Economy, Avoid Prosecution</a> <br />
</ul><p><img src="http://grittv.org/wp-content/themes/grit/images/logo.gif" height=100 alt="GRITtv" /> <a href="http://www.lauraflanders.com/grittv/" target="_blank">GRITtv</a> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">www.grittv.org</a> with Laura Flanders </br > »»» <b>VIDEO OF THE WEEK</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?video=building-grassroots-to-strengthen-movements" target="_blank">Building Grassroots to Strengthen Movements</a> <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE SPORT!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></b></font></font> </br > »»» <b>NASCAR on ESPN</b> NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Quicken Loans Race For Heroes 500 at the Phoenix International Raceway Coverage begins at 3 pm et </br > »»» <b>FOOTBALL NIGHT on NBC</b> Packers @ Bears 8:30 pm et</br > »»» <b>MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL on ESPN</b> Eagles @ Panthers 8:30 pm et </br > <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ACTION!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font></br > <font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i> <p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>! <p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <font color=red><b>ACTION! <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_break/" target="_blank">Stop the FCC from Breaking the Internet</a> The Federal Communications Commission is proposing rules that would kill — rather than protect — Net Neutrality and allow rampant discrimination online. Under these rules, telecom giants like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon would be able to pick winners and losers online and discriminate against online content and applications. And no one would be able to do anything about it. We must stop the FCC from moving forward with these rules, which would give the green light to ISPs eager to crush Net Neutrality. The agency can preserve Net Neutrality only by designating broadband as a telecommunications service under the law. Anything else is an attack on our rights to connect and communicate. Tell FCC Chairman Wheeler to throw out his proposed rules. Demand nothing less than real Net Neutrality.</b> SIGN NOW at <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_break/" target="_blank">Stop the FCC from Breaking the Internet</a> at freepress.net NOW. </font> Join the Day of Action on May 15! The Internet will rise up online and take to the streets. <a href="http://act.freepress.net/survey/DC_May_15/" target="_blank">SIGN UP HERE</a> to learn more! <p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW! <p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org <p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>! <p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information! <p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Bradley Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/uncategorized/chelsea-manning-on-containing-isis-in-guardian-op-ed" target="_blank">Chelsea Manning on containing ISIS in Guardian op-ed </a> <i>September 16, 2014. Chelsea Manning's Guardian op-ed, "How to make ISIS fall on its own sword" ....... </i> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/chelsea-manning-receives-courageous-peacemaking-award" target="_blank">Chelsea Manning receives Courageous Peacemaking Award</a> <i>October 22, 2014 . The Center for Conscience in Action will honor Chelsea Manning and Oklahoma peacemakers in a program on Sunday, October 26 .......</i> <p><font size=3><b>DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION</b></font> <a href="http://tjmf.flipswap.com/" target="_blank">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. </a> For more information, go to <a href="http://www.tjmartellfoundation.org" target="_blank">www.tjmartellfoundation.org</a> <p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!! <p><center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br > <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick_teevee_test.jpg" alt="brick_teevee_test.jpg" /></br > The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br > THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br > Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,350 US Military Dead as of Nov 8, 2014</a> </br > <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br > <font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><p>
<li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• "This Week" powerhouse roundtable debates all the week’s midterm politics following the Republican takeover of the Senate<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: ABC News contributor and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, Fox News anchor Greta Van Susteren, BuzzFeed.com editor-in-chief Ben Smith, and Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, managing editors of Bloomberg Politics and hosts of “With All Due Respect.” <br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• interview with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office<br />
• interview with former President George W. Bush<br />
• ROUNDTABLE : Peggy Noonan, a CBS News contributor who also writes for The Wall Street Journal, Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, David Gergen of Harvard University and Michelle Norris of NPR.<br />
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<li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• November 9 at 7 p.m. ET/PT<br />
• Fixing the VA - U.S. Secretary for Veterans Affairs Robert McDonald undertakes the largest reorganization of the VA in its entire history<br />
• Steve Carell - The usually comedic actor takes on a film role that's deadly serious. Steve Kroft profiles Carell at the height of his Hollywood success<br />
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<li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
All legal notices should be sent by mail to the editor-in-chief NBCNews.com, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052<br />
• Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis.<br />
• Rep.-elect Gwen Graham, D-Fla.<br />
• Sen.-elect Mike Rounds, R-S.D.<br />
• former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va.<br />
• Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: tba (fyi the MTP site DOES NOT post their guest lists in advance anymore)<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN)</b> Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• A State of the Union post-election special – the newest members of Congress meet the veterans, face to face. Freshman Congressmen-elect Brendan Boyle, Carlos Curbelo, Ruben Gallego and Lee Zeldin come to our studios<br />
• Senator John Thune<br />
• Senator Chris Murphy <br />
• ROUNDTABLE: tba<br />
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<li type=square><b>HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid</b><br />
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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!<br />
• Prayer Mettin' Wednesday!! Bob reflects on the awful candidates the Dems put out this mid-term! Listen here NOW! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(05-11-2014).mp3" target="_blank">Wednesday, November 5th, 2014 </a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.crmw.net</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT</b> With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!<br />
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<b> The Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen:</b> 6 minutes of green news, politics, analysis & snarky comment! BOOKMARK <a href="http://greennews.bradblog.com/" target="_blank">greennews.bradblog.com</a> NOW!<br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10928" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - November 6, 2014</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Election 2014 Environmental Democalypse Now: get ready for the Republican hegemonic hellscape; Climate denier caucus now in charge; PLUS: At least one note of very good environmental election news... All that and more in today's Green News Report! ..... IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): Energy storage breakthrough revealed; Fracking frenzy brings fears of boom-bust cycle; Peak water in U.S.; New Koch Industries video: "we rearrange your polar bears"; End the GMO madness: try mandatory labeling; GOP wins deal blow to US climate change leadership internationally; Maine's shrimp season cancelled for lack of shrimp ... PLUS: The biggest loser in this election is the climate - and the children of 2100 ... and much, MUCH more! ...<br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10907" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - October 30, 2014</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: 'Sit down and shut up!': Superstorm Sandy recovery stalled, 2 years later; The Weather Channel repudiates its climate change-denying co-founder; PLUS: 'It's not too late': the stark yet hopeful message in the UN's final climate science report... All that and more in today's Green News Report!<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10926" target="_blank">About Last Night: KPFK 'BradCast'</a> Guest Matthew Segal of OurTime.org joins Brad to discuss whether young voters are to blame for Tuesday's election results and, if not them, then who...or what... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10914" target="_blank">Touch-Screen Votes Flipping Dem to Repub in 'Toss Up' NC U.S. Senate Race</a> Most expensive Senate race in history -- and balance of chamber -- could be determined by 100% unverifiable e-votes... <br />
• BRADCAST! VIDEO! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10917" target="_blank">Touch-Screen Votes Flip R to D and D to R in VA [VIDEO]</a> RWers finally become 'believers' in those 'liberal conspiracy theories' about votes flipping on 100% unverifiable voting systems...now that they see it affects them as well... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10918" target="_blank">Round-up of Reported Election Failures (So Far) in CT, NC, GA, TX, AL</a> Serious problems' reported at the polls in a number of states. Here is a quick summary of just a few of them... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10922" target="_blank">AR Voters Being Illegally Asked to Show Photo ID</a> Arkansas Times reports some poll workers attempting to enforce GOP Photo ID restriction found by state Supreme Court to violate constitutional 'right to vote'... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10921" target="_blank">Electronic Voter ID System Fails in Broward County, FL</a> Failure results in emergency court filing by state Democrats as Gubernatorial race between Charlie Crist and Rick Scott is deadlocked in Sunshine State... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10905" target="_blank">Touch-Screen Votes Flipping in Arkansas. Again.</a> Year after year the state's $30 million ES&S iVotronic voting system has failed voters. So why should this year be any different? Because now they have a terrible plan to deal with it... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10924" target="_blank">Reuters: Voting Probs Around Nation, Bizarre Targeting of Election Judges in Chicago</a> Wire service summarizes voting machine problems, Photo ID voter suppression -- and a really strange story out of Chicago... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10927" target="_blank">'True the Vote' Group Fails to Find 'Voter Fraud' (Again)</a> Laughingstock RW organization's 'army' of monitors armed with new smart phone app uncover just 18 largely benign 'irregularities', 0 cases of polling place voter impersonation...<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10929" target="_blank">The Polls Were Skewed Toward Republicans: A Response to Nate Silver</a> The statistics guru unhelpfully explains away mid-term's surprising outcome by presuming pre-election polling was wrong and unverified election results were all correct... <br />
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<li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b><br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <br />
<ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• 5 Nov 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-midterms-define-democrats-as-desperate-irrelevant-2-corporate-party/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Midterms Define Democrats as Desperate, Irrelevant #2 Corporate Party</a> Midterm election blowout exposes Democratic Party as irrelevant #2 corporate party, with weak, fear-based tactics aimed at wedging liberal base….. <br />
• 6 Nov 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-scrappy-voters-in-richmond-ca-flip-the-bird-to-chevron/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Scrappy Voters in Richmond, CA Flip the Bird to Chevron</a> High point of mid-term elections: little Richmond, California beats back Chevron’s big-bucks effort to make it a company town ….<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast November 3, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/11/03/10690/" target="_blank">Sibel Edmonds Goes Deep on Her New Novel, and the Deep State</a> Sibel Edmonds talks about her new novel, The Lone Gladio, and explains some of the key elements of her fictional narrative based on the “deep state”, Operation Gladio, and CIA covert operations. <br />
• PBC Standard Podcast November 6, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/11/06/incisive-commentary-on-israelpalestine-with-former-un-official-richard-falk-and-israeli-journalist-ofra-yeshua-lyth/" target="_blank">Incisive Commentary on Israel/Palestine with Former UN Official Richard Falk and Israeli Journalist Ofra Yeshua-Lyth</a> Richard Falk served as UN Rapporteur for Palestine 2008-2014, and Ofra Yeshua-Lyth is an Israeli journalist. They join me for this in-depth discussion on the current situation and recent events in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. <br />
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<li type=square><b>Ring of Fire Radio</b><br />
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Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/ <b>hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder</b><br />
Ring of Fire Radio - GoLeft TV - Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, Sam Seder - Politics, Commentary, and News.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weekend-on-ring-of-fire-radio-18/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire November 7, 2014</a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
»» Best-selling author Cliff Schecter will be here to give us his analysis of the midterm elections.<br />
»» Blogger Gaius Publius will explain the problems with the Democratic establishment’s leadership.<br />
»» Sabrina Joy Stevens will tell us about TIME Magazine’s attack on teachers.<br />
»» And film director Giovanni Zelko will join us to discuss his new political thriller “The Algerian.”<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weeks-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv-20/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV!</a> Sundays at NOON! Posted on November 8, 2014 by Farron Cousins<br />
»» Farron Cousins will be sitting in for Mike Papantonio this week.<br />
»» We’ll be taking a look at the midterm election results, and we’ll discuss where the Democratic Party can improve before the 2016 elections – they have to abandon the corporate wing of the Party.<br />
»» We’ll also be talking about the corporate attempts to enact tort reform, and how the states that have enacted tort reform measures are suffering.<br />
»» We’ll explain why banks are no longer loaning money to people to help the economy, and how Wall Street banks are strangling local banks to death.<br />
»» And we’ll discuss the decline of America’s collective IQ – voters are less informed than ever, even though information is more available than at any other time in history.<br />
»» And we’ll talk about the dangerous consequences of right wing hate talkers like Michael Savage.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/glenn-greenwald-why-privacy-matters/" target="_blank">Glenn Greenwald: Why Privacy Matters</a> by Joshua Schwitzerlett<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/11/computer-programmer-admits-under-oath-that-politicians-paid-him-to-try-and-rig-elections/" target="_blank">Computer Programmer Admits Under Oath that Politicians Paid Him to Try and Rig Elections</a> Clinton Curtis, a computer programmer, admitted under oath years ago that, not only are there programs that can be used to fix elections, but, in October 2000, he wrote a prototype for then-Speaker of the House in Florida Tom Feeney (R). Curtis said that the program could flip the results to show that the preferred candidate won 51 percent to 49 percent. Watch Curtis’s full testimony, and for the full Clint Curtis story, check out our good friend <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?page_id=4454" target="_blank">Brad Friedman’s coverage over at BradBlog.com</a> (he’s been covering this for over a decade!)<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/11/biggest-loser-in-midterm-elections-the-environment/" target="_blank">Biggest Loser in Midterm Elections? The Environment.</a> The GOP wasn’t exactly working hard to protect the environment before Tuesday...<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/11/bill-maher-bush-was-the-worst-president-ever/" target="_blank">Post Election Blues? Bill Maher Rebooted Will Make You Feel Better</a> by Joshua Schwitzerlett <br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/11/bill-maher-nails-it-about-our-spineless-crop-of-democrats/" target="_blank">Bill Maher Nails It About Our Spineless Crop of Democrats</a> by Joshua Schwitzerlett <br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-3-14-cliff-schecter-becky-bond-election-2014" target="_blank"> 11/3/14 Cliff Schecter & Becky Bond: Election 2014 </a> <br />
• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-4-14-esther-kaplan-americans-are-working-so-hard-it-s-actually-killing-people" target="_blank">11/4/14 Esther Kaplan: Americans Are Working So Hard It’s Actually Killing People</a> <br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-5-14-recapping-the-bloodbath" target="_blank">11/5/14 Recapping The Mid- Term Bloodbath</a><br />
• THURSDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-6-14-sanjay-rawal-food-chains-gaius-publius-dem-establishment-tea-partying-progressive-base" target="_blank">11/6/14 Sanjay Rawal: Food Chains + Gaius Publius: Dem Establishment "Tea Partying" Progressive Base</a><br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/11-7-14-casual-friday-cliff-schecter-josh-orton" target="_blank">11/7/14 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & Josh Orton</a> <br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts "The Truth About Markets" on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s "People & Power" series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of <a href="http://www.karmabanque.com/" target="_blank">KarmaBanque</a> a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. <br />
• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport" target="_blank">Keiser Report</a> <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/central-planners-are-in-a-state-of-panic/" target="_blank">Central Planners Are In A State of Panic</a> by Peak Prosperity — Everything the central planners have tried has failed to bring widespread prosperity and has instead concentrated it dangerously at the top. Whether by coincidence or conspiracy, every possible escape hatch for 99.5% of the people has been welded shut. We are all captives in a dysfunctional system of money, run by a few for the few, and it is headed for complete disaster. To understand why, in all its terrible and fascinating glory, we need look no further than Japan. Read more <a href="http://www.peakprosperity.com/blog/88617/central-planners-state-panic" target="_blank">HERE</a>...........<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/one-year-after-silk-road-seizure-silk-road-2-0-is-seized-other-marketplaces-go-down/" target="_blank">One Year After Silk Road Seizure, Silk Road 2.0 Is Seized, Other Marketplaces Go Down</a> by Justin O'Connell — The Operator of Silk Road 2.0 – Dread Pirate Roberts 2 – has been charged in Manhattan federal court. Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said: “As alleged, Blake Benthall attempted to resurrect Silk Road, a secret website that law enforcement seized last year, by running Silk Road 2.0, a nearly identical criminal enterprise. Let’s be clear—this Silk Road, in whatever form, is the road to prison. Those looking to follow in the footsteps of alleged cybercriminals should understand that we will return as many times as necessary to shut down noxious online criminal bazaars. We don’t get tired.” Original article appeared at Bitcoinomics.Net. Read the rest <a href="http://bitcoinomics.net/?p=451" target="_blank">HERE</a> ............<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/american-upper-middle-class-share-of-wealth-is-worse-than-every-country-besides-russia-and-indonesia/" target="_blank">American Upper Middle Class Share of Wealth is Worse than Every Country Besides Russia and Indonesia</a> by Michael Krieger —One of Liberty Blitzkrieg’s most popular posts in 2013 was titled: <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2013/07/23/how-does-americas-middle-class-rank-globally-27/" target="_blank">How Does America’s Middle Class Rank Globally? #27</a>. The data in that article was based on a comprehensive study published by Credit Suisse titled <a href="https://www.credit-suisse.com/ch/en/news-and-expertise/research/credit-suisse-research-institute/publications.html" target="_blank">Global Wealth Data Book</a>. Well, the 2014 version is now out, and the results are not pretty… Read more <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/11/06/american-upper-middle-class-share-of-wealth-is-worse-than-every-country-besides-russia-and-indonesia/" target="_blank">HERE</a>...........<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/day-after-msm-mocks-maxkeiser-for-calling-bankers-murderers/" target="_blank">‘The Big Four’ in the main have managed to duck below the radar when it comes to corporate tax finger pointing.</a> by Dublin Eileen — The accountancy industry which consists of ‘The Big Four’ in the main have managed to duck below the radar when it comes to corporate tax finger pointing. <i> Prof Palan said that for the first time, there was clear evidence linking not an isolated and supposedly rogue bank, but one of the ‘big four’ accounting firms, PwC. “I cannot stress enough the importance of the role played by the big four accounting in the development of the offshore world. The vast majority of the tax schemes that we have heard about in the past few years are organised by one [ or other] of the big four accounting firms.”</i> <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/business/economy/luxembourg-leaks-controversy-a-game-changer-1.1992650" target="_blank">The revelations about Luxembourg tax agreements negotiated by PricewaterhouseCoopers</a> for some of the largest corporations in the world have been described as a “game changer” by an expert on international tax.<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/a-magical-fairyland-how-global-multi-national-corporations-avoid-taxes-in-luxembourg/" target="_blank">A “Magical Fairyland” – How Global Multi-National Corporations Avoid Taxes in Luxembourg</a> by Michael Krieger — The following expose by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ), at times reads like a movie script. Leaked documents, one of the world’s largest accounting firms, and a retired tax official named Marius Kohl, nicknamed “Monsieur Ruling,” who was described by a Belgian newspaper as “the guardian of the only door through which companies can enter the fiscal paradise of Luxembourg.” This piece has it all… Read the rest <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/11/08/a-magical-fairyland-how-global-multi-national-corporations-avoid-taxes-in-luxembourg/" target="_blank">here</a>. <br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/kr675-keiser-report-crash-boom-pop/" target="_blank">[KR675] Keiser Report – CRASH! BOOM! POP!</a> We discuss ‘American Psycho’ type banker murderers roaming the streets beheading prostitutes. While in the central banks, we see ‘corporatism’ as defined by the World Bank in the 80s and 90s – and that is a balance sheet greater than 25% of GDP. In the second half Max interviews Professor Steve Keen and artist Miguel Guerra about their new crowdfunded graphic novel series – CRASH, BOOM, POP – where economics will be fun to learn. Professor Keen promises Max a naked Margaret Thatcher to keep with the genre. They also discuss the godzilla in the Japanese central banking consuming any debt the population throws at it and where this might lead for the final global debt showdown.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/kr676-keiser-report-fools-their-money/" target="_blank">[KR676] Keiser Report: Fools & Their Money</a> We discuss how fools and their money are soon parted whether shale oil investors losing $1.17 for every dollar gained or housing market participants who seek to help people onto the so-called ‘property ladder’ and yet, by lowering standards, increase risk of total financial loss. In the second half Max interviews Dominic Frisby, author of “Bitcoin: The Future of Money?” about the hunt for Satoshi, the importance of bitcoin and the future of money.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/kr677-keiser-report-copyright-cartels/" target="_blank">[KR677] Keiser Report: Copyright Cartels</a> We discuss the best of times, the worst of times – depending upon which side of castle walls one lives. On one side of the walls (where times are worst), a man who could previously command a wage must now work for free. On the other side of the wall (where times are best), the richest man in the world seeks monoculture and copyright cartels and the most famous couple (for the moment) want to copyright big bottom selfies. In the second half Max interviews Robert Kennedy Jr about Waterkeeper Alliance, US elections, fracking and the future of democracy.<br />
• THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/07/the-truth-about-markets-28-june-2014/" target="_blank">The Truth About Markets – 28 June 2014</a> Stacy Summary: We talk about bogus collateral driving global housing bubbles. <a href="https://ia902509.us.archive.org/19/items/TaM28062014/TaM-28062014.mp3" target="_blank">Download show HERE</a> (mp3) <br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It’s been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show’s important milestones, as well as preview some of the exciting projects to look for in the near future. ........ The show on Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A., still called Antiwar Radio, has now moved to join their Sunday morning public affairs line up (8:30 am pt - http://kpfk.org), and remains the largest source of listeners, with 15,000-20,000 people tuning in weekly. The future: Liberty Express Radio is growing and bringing me along for the ride. The great Charles Goyette hooked me up with Alan Butler and the Liberty Express earlier this year, and what has been the daily replay there from 3-5 eastern time has become my best listened-to show. And now they’re adding my friend Tom Woods to the lineup from 2-3 PM. That does it. I’m making the switch! Starting Monday, October 14, the live show is moving to 3-5 PM Eastern time on LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/10/28/102814-trita-parsi/" target="_blank">10/28/14 Trita Parsi</a>: Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, discusses his article “<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/10/27/the-biggest-threat-to-a-nuclear-deal-isnt-irans-hardliners/" target="_blank">How Congressional Hawks Plan to Kill Obama’s Iran Deal</a>.”<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/11/07/110714-hugh-handeyside/" target="_blank">11/07/14 Hugh Handeyside</a>: Hugh Handeyside, a Staff Attorney for the ACLU National Security Project, discusses how the government’s “<a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175919/tomgram%3A_shamsi_and_harwood%2C_an_electronic_archipelago_of_domestic_surveillance/" target="_blank">suspicious activity reports</a>” (SAR) wrongfully flag innocent Americans as potential terrorists; and the <a href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security-technology-and-liberty/broken-no-fly-list-process-needs-fixing" target="_blank">ACLU’s legal fight against the No Fly List</a>.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/11/05/110514-philip-giraldi/" target="_blank">11/05/14 Philip Giraldi</a>: GFormer CIA officer Philip Giraldi discusses how the Republican victory in midterm elections will effect US foreign policy going forward.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/11/03/110314-john-feffer/" target="_blank">11/03/14 John Feffer</a>: John Feffer, co-director of Foreign Policy In Focus, discusses the <a href="http://fpif.org/rebellion-east/" target="_blank">rebellion within the ranks of NATO countries</a> in the former Warsaw Pact, which are refusing to take an ultra-hawkish stance against Russia, much to the chagrin of Washington Post pundits.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/11/03/110314-ray-mcgovern/" target="_blank">11/03/14 Ray McGovern</a>: Former CIA analyst Ray McGovern discusses <a href="http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/specialseries/2014/10/day-israel-attacked-america-20141028144946266462.html" target="_blank">Al Jazeera’s investigation of Israel’s attack</a> on the USS Liberty in 1967; LBJ’s personal involvement in the coverup; and why even Mearsheimer and Walt didn’t discuss the USS Liberty in their groundbreaking investigation of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374531501" target="_blank">The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy</a>.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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• two newly elected members of the U.S. Senate, Rep Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) and Rep Cory Gardner (R-CO)<br />
• Sen John Barrasso (R-WY), Chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee<br />
• Rep Xavier Becerra (D-CA), Chairman of the House Democratic Caucus<br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>Election 2014 Preview Sunday!</b> We're running way late as the 1st Annual All Hallows Eve Heavy Metal Costume Ball kicked ass! We're still regrouping from the horror! Stay tuned and check back later today for our missive. Election Day is this Tuesday November 4th! OHIO VOTERS We recommend NINA TURNER for Ohio Secretary of State and ask you watch this clip from November 10, 2012 by MSNBC's Melissa Harris-Perry <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/tv/melissa-harris-perrys-open-letter-to-ohio-sec-jon-husted-courts-not-fooled-by-your-shenanigans/" target="_blank">Melissa Harris-Perry’s Open Letter To Ohio Sec. Jon Husted: Courts Not Fooled By Your ‘Shenanigans’</a> <font color=purple>“Dear Secretary Husted,” she began. “It’s me, Melissa. Can I call you Jon? How you feeling today? Still a little sore, I’d imagine. Getting beaten so forcefully with all that backlash had to sting a bit. Probably going to leave a mark. After all, you spent the better part of this year throwing the full force of your power as secretary of state into restricting the right of some Ohioans to vote.”</font> WATCH this video from MSNBC on MEDIA-ITE's link and VOTE FOR NINA TURNER! (hat-tip to WRUW-FM's Meryl Johnson for snagging this clip on her Saturday Public Affairs show <a href="http://wruw-stream.wruw.org/archives/128/454.mp3" target="_blank">"It's About Justice" (mp3)</a>.) We'll be back later for this week's screed so stop back later. In the meantime check out all our regulars especially BradBlog for all the voter-suppression news this election season including Brad on The Big Picture with Thom Hartmann! See you soon! TURN BACK YER CLOCKS as we FALL BACKWARD!<br />
<center>~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~</center>ZeroHedge.com reposts this item from Michael Sauga, originally posted at <a href="http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/capitalism-in-crisis-amid-slow-growth-and-growing-inequality-a-998598.html" target="_blank">Der Spiegel</a>: <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-11-02/zombie-system-how-capitalism-has-gone-rails" target="_blank">The Zombie System: How Capitalism Has Gone Off The Rails</a> <font color=blue>............. Today, no one talks anymore about the beneficial effects of unimpeded capital movement. Today's issue is "secular stagnation," as former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers puts it. The American economy isn't growing even half as quickly as did in the 1990s. Japan has become the sick man of Asia. And Europe is sinking into a recession that has begun to slow down the German export machine and threaten prosperity. Capitalism in the 21st century is a capitalism of uncertainty, as became evident once again last week. All it took were a few disappointing US trade figures and suddenly markets plunged worldwide, from the American bond market to crude oil trading. It seemed only fitting that the turbulence also affected the bonds of the country that has long been seen as an indicator of jitters: Greece. The financial papers called it a "flash crash." ......................... According to the latest Global Wealth Report by the Boston Consulting Group, worldwide private wealth grew by about 15 percent last year, almost twice as fast as in the 12 months previous. The data expose a dangerous malfunction in capitalism's engine room. Banks, mutual funds and investment firms used to ensure that citizens' savings were transformed into technical advances, growth and new jobs. Today they organize the redistribution of social wealth from the bottom to the top. The middle class has also been negatively affected: For years, many average earners have seen their prosperity shrinking instead of growing. Harvard economist Larry Katz rails that US society has come to resemble a deformed and unstable apartment building: The penthouse at the top is getting bigger and bigger, the lower levels are overcrowded, the middle levels are full of empty apartments and the elevator has stopped working. It's no wonder, then, that people can no longer get much out of the system. According to polls by the Allensbach Institute, only one in five Germans believes economic conditions in Germany are "fair." Almost 90 percent feel that the gap between rich and poor is "getting wider and wider." In this sense, the crisis of capitalism has turned into a crisis of democracy. Many feel that their countries are no longer being governed by parliaments and legislatures, but by bank lobbyists, which apply the logic of suicide bombers to secure their privileges: Either they are rescued or they drag the entire sector to its death...........</font> Read all of this very long and detailed essay!<br />
And here's another comment and reminder to see the new movie "Kill The Messenger". JAMES DiEUGENIO at ConsortiumNews.com explains <a href="http://consortiumnews.com/2014/10/16/kill-the-messenger-rare-truth-telling/" target="_blank">‘Kill the Messenger’: Rare Truth-telling</a> <font color=darkred>Exclusive: Much of modern American filmmaking is escapist and vapid, but not “Kill the Messenger,” the new movie recounting the brave Contra-cocaine reporting by Gary Webb and his subsequent destruction at the hands of the mainstream media, writes James DiEugenio.</font><br />
GOT SOLAR? JEFF SPROSS at ThinkProgress.org/climate finds <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/17/3580892/solarcity-solar-bonds/" target="_blank">An Innovative New Way For Normal People To Invest In Solar Power</a> <font color=navy>........ The country’s biggest solar services firm and its leading installer of rooftop solar systems, SolarCity announced on Wednesday that it’s now offering bonds online to everyday investors, the New York Times <a href="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/solarcity-offers-bonds-online-to-ordinary-investors/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0" target="_blank">reported</a>. ........... The new direct-to-consumer bonds are admittedly smaller and come with lower rates than the bonds SolarCity has sold in the traditional market. ........... By giving everyday investors a stake in the energy source, solar bonds can also serve as an implicit marketing program or awareness-raiser for solar power and green policy. “If you have some skin in the game, then you’re going to want [solar] to succeed in the same way as when you invest in a stock, you want that stock to be successful,” Amy Davidsen, the U.S. executive director of The Climate Group, a non-profit organization that seeks to promote clean energy technology, <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2014/oct/15/solar-bonds-clean-energy-crowdfunded-solarcity" target="_blank">told</a> The Guardian. “[This] will include supporting policies to help support clean energy.” A similar dynamic <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/10/03/3575371/hsbc-solar-battery-germany/" target="_blank">has played out</a> in Germany, where citizens locally own about half of the country’s renewable power capacity, meaning they benefit from the returns on the investment. That’s kept support high for Germany’s green energy policies, even as they’ve arguably helped contribute to high residential electricity bills, thanks to some quixotic design choices. SolarCity’s situation is a bit different — its raising capital to install solar systems, as opposed to offering ownership in the systems themselves — but the end effect of giving the bond customer a personal stake in the social and economic fate of renewable power more broadly. ..............</font><br />
For more climate news we go to Truth-Out.org and <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26909-as-casualties-mount-scientists-say-global-warming-has-been-hugely-underestimated" target="_blank">Dahr Jamail | As Casualties Mount, Scientists Say Global Warming Has Been "Hugely Underestimated" </a> <font color=green>As we look across the globe this month, the signs of a continued escalation of the impacts of runaway anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) continue to increase, alongside a drumbeat of fresh scientific studies confirming their connection to the ongoing human geo-engineering project of emitting carbon dioxide at ever-increasing rates into the atmosphere. A <a href="http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26317-the-world-is-warming-faster-than-we-thought.html#.VDKZ9SldUeZ" target="_blank">major study recently published</a> in New Scientist found that "scientists may have hugely underestimated the extent of global warming because temperature readings from southern hemisphere seas were inaccurate," and said that ACD is "worse than we thought" because it is happening "faster than we realized." As has become predictable now, as evidence of increasing ACD continues to mount, denial and corporate exploitation are accelerating right along with it. ....................</font> Read on for much more from Dahr Jamail!<br />
<center><font face=courier color=blue size=6>• • • ELECTION 2014 • • • </font></center>IAN MILLHISER at ThinkProgress.org/justice exposes this <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2014/10/31/3587321/ohio-supreme-court-justice-vote-for-me-because-i-am-a-republican-who-will-uphold-gop-laws/" target="_blank">Ohio Supreme Court Justice: Vote For Me Because ‘I Am A Republican’ Who Will Uphold GOP Laws</a> <font color=maroon>......... At a campaign event on Saturday, however, Justice Judith French of the Ohio Supreme Court displayed some unusual candor in a speech introducing the state’s Republican Gov. John Kasich. “I am a Republican and you should vote for me,” French told the gathered crowd. In case there was any ambiguity to what Justice French meant by this statement, she then went on to argue that her vote is needed to keep the state supreme court <a href="http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/10/27/justice-french-defends-comments.html" target="_blank">in the hands of justices who will uphold a Republican agenda</a>: <i> “Whatever the governor does, whatever your state representative, your state senator does, whatever they do, we are the ones that will decide whether it is constitutional; we decide whether it’s lawful. We decide what it means, and we decide how to implement it in a given case. “So, forget all those other votes if you don’t keep the Ohio Supreme Court conservative,” French said.</i> French has since walked back these remarks, claiming that “I’m not going to support Republican legislation; I’m not going to support Democratic legislation. It’s not my role.” In reality, however, her original statement is a fairly accurate reflection of how judges with highly partisan preferences tend to decide cases, at least when those cases are politically charged............</font><br />
Here are a few more from ThinkProgress:<br />
<ul><li>ARI PHILLIPS <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/02/3587561/climate-denying-weather-channel-co-founder-goes-on-cnn-is-clearly-wrong-on-all-points/" target="_blank">Cable News Ignores Dire New Report On Climate Change, Features Rant From Unhinged Climate Denier</a> John Coleman, who co-founded the Weather Channel in the 1980s and is affiliated with the Heartland Institute, tells CNN's Reliable Sources that "if you get down to the hard, cold facts there’s no question about it – climate change is not happening."<br />
<li>ARI PHILLIPS <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/02/3586202/california-fracking-ban/" target="_blank">Why Oil And Gas Giants Are Trying To Buy Three Local Elections In California</a> "To allow a single industry, whatever that industry might be, to introduce that magnitude of risk to the local groundwater supply makes no sense to me." <br />
<li>JOE ROMM <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/11/02/3587485/climate-panel-final-plea/" target="_blank">World’s Scientists Warn: We Have ‘High Confidence’ In The ‘Irreversible Impacts’ Of Climate Inaction</a> The world’s top scientists and governments have issued their bluntest plea yet to the world: Slash carbon pollution now (at a very low cost) or risk “severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts for people and ecosystems.” <br />
<li>KIRA LERNER <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/election/2014/10/31/3586805/ballot-initiatives-2014/" target="_blank">10 Issues Voters Will Be Deciding On Election Day, From Minimum Wage Bumps To Marijuana Legalization</a></ul>NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and DEREK WILLIS at the NYT <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/03/us/politics/a-flood-of-late-spending-on-midterm-elections-from-murky-sources.html" target="_blank">A Flood of Late Spending on Midterm Elections, From Murky Sources</a> <font color=DarkViolet>A stealthy coterie of difficult-to-trace outside groups is slipping tens of millions of dollars of attacks ads and negative automated telephone calls into the final days of the midterm campaign, helping fuel an unprecedented surge of last-minute spending on Senate races. Much of the advertising is being timed to ensure that no voter will know who is paying for it until after the election on Tuesday. Some of the groups are “super PACs” that did not exist before Labor Day but have since spent heavily on political advertising, adding to the volatility of close Senate and House races. Others formed earlier in the year but remained dormant until recently, reporting few or no contributions in recent filings with the Federal Election Commission, only to unleash six- and seven-figure advertising campaigns as Election Day draws near. Yet more spending is coming from nonprofit organizations with bland names that have popped up in recent weeks but appear to have no life beyond being a conduit for the ads. ..................... At least 90 political nonprofits, super PACs and outside groups did not spend any money until the beginning of October, according to a New York Times analysis.<b> Among them are 18 groups that did not exist in September</b>, and that had collectively spent almost $9 million through Thursday. Several are spending money they did not have on Oct. 15, the last day before Election Day for which super PACs must disclose contributions. ...................... The money is particularly hard to track when it is not spent on television or radio ads. A network of five super PACs, all registered in Virginia but with names like Alaska Priorities, Colorado Priorities and Iowa Priorities, was formed in early October, each listing as treasurer a former aide to Senator John Cornyn of Texas, the second-highest-ranking Republican in the Senate. According to the Sunlight Foundation, some of the groups <a href="http://sunlightfoundation.com/blog/2014/10/09/five-new-super-pacs-appear-linked-to-gop-senate-leadership/" target="_blank">appear to be making automated phone calls</a> targeting Democratic Senate candidates in their states. One call reportedly attacked Senator Kay Hagan of North Carolina as an “extreme liberal,” while another accused Senator Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana of “printing money like there’s no tomorrow and making everything cost more for average people like me.” ..................</font>
JOHN NICHOLS at TheNation.com <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/187481/most-cynical-political-ploy-2014" target="_blank">The Most Cynical Political Ploy of 2014</a> <font color=DarkSlateBlue>The American Future Fund is an enthusiastically conservative organization that each election season fills the airwaves with ads hailing right-wing causes and socially conservative Republican candidates while ripping Democratic officials and contenders. But, this fall, the dark-money group is also jumping into battleground states with social-media campaigns hailing third-party candidates, legalization of marijuana and “our progressive values.” Confused? Don’t be. In close races, those third-party candidates might just pull a few votes away from Democratic contenders, who are specifically attacked in the ads. Yes, that’s playing the margins. But when money is no object, every strategy gets tried. Welcome to the brave new world of hyper-cynical, win-at-any-cost, big-money politics. This is how it works................... According to <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/detail.php?cmte=American+Future+Fund" target="_blank">the Center for Responsive Politics</a>, the group “received more than 92 percent of its 2012 revenues from two organizations connected to Charles and David Koch.” This year, one of the primary Koch-backed groups says it is <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2014/10/23/koch-linked-group-launches-pro-weed-campaign-for-north-carolina-libertarian-candidate/" target="_blank">moving money elsewhere</a>; but the American Future Fund remains flush with cash.
As a footnote, <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/detail.php?cmte=American+Future+Fund" target="_blank">the Center for Responsive Politics</a> reminds us, “As a nonprofit organization organized under section 501(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Service code, American Future Fund does not have to disclose its donors.” Nor does it have to abide by the standards that most Americans associate with politics. It can pretty much write its own rules. And so it has. ...................</font>
Over at Alternet.org STEVEN ROSENFELD gives us <a href="http://www.alternet.org/election-2014/8-biggest-election-lies-year" target="_blank">8 of the Biggest Election Lies This Year</a> <font color=maroon>Only in the last weeks of a federal midterm election are voters being told that right-wingers are really feminists, Democrats want to cut Social Security benefits, a pro-gun Democrat wants to take your guns away, and Republicans have had enough with billionaires spending big money in political races. These are just a few leading examples from the “Don’t Be Fooled” department, where Republicans—and a few Democrats—are making some absurd claims in an effort to provoke people to stop thinking and vote their prejudices and fears. Crazy claims usually surface at the end of elections, when the press isn’t able to catch them all, and the 2014 midterms are no exception. That’s especially true in non-presidential elections, where there aren’t national themes captivating the public, but far more locally focused contests. What follows are eight claims from 2014’s “Oh really?” department. </font>
Also at Alernet.org Executive Director of the Center for Media and Democracy Lisa Graves the publisher of PRWatch.org, SourceWatch.org, KochExposed.org, OutsourcingAmericaExposed.org, and BanksterUSA.org has this profile on a <a href="http://www.alternet.org/corporate-accountability-and-workplace/corporate-hitmans-top-10-tips-trashing-progressives-and-their" target="_blank">Corporate Hitman's Top 10 Tips For Trashing Progressives And Their Causes</a> <font color=SaddleBrown> <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Rick_Berman" target="_blank">Rick Berman</a>, the king of corporate front groups and propaganda, has been caught on tape detailing his attacks on public-interest groups in the labor and environmental movements, including on efforts to increase the minimum wage for workers. As noted in a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/31/us/politics/pr-executives-western-energy-alliance-speech-taped.html" target="_blank">story</a> by Eric Lipton at The New York Times, Berman and a colleague met with energy company executives at Colorado Springs’ posh Broadmoor Hotel in June to raise money from them to attack groups representing citizens concerned about clean water, clean air, and the future of the planet. But Berman's "win ugly" tactics apparently did not persuade all of his prospective clients for his lucrative business of creating tax-exempt non-profit front groups that then contract with his for-profit PR firm to give corporations cover for his attacks on their opponents. The way Berman profits from this arrangement has spawned a <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/news/2012/11/11886/web-berman-front-groups-subject-irs-complaint" target="_blank">legal complaint</a> to the IRS. An audio tape of Berman and his associate, Jack Hubbard, has been provided by a person at the Broadmoor event to the Center for Media and Democracy, which publishes PRWatch and has long tracked Berman's <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Rick_Berman" target="_blank">deceptive PR operations</a>. Readers can listen to the <a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/images/c/cb/Berman_presentation.mp3" target="_blank">full tape here</a> and read the <a href="http://www.prwatch.org/files/berman_transcript.pdf" target="_blank">transcript here</a>. ..........</font>. Here's just one of Berman's "tactics": <font color=SaddleBrown>9. Give corporate cash "total anonymity." Berman reassured his audience that he can keep their role in these tactics secret: "We run all of this stuff through nonprofit organizations that are insulated from having to disclose donors. There is total anonymity. People don't know who supports us. We've been doing this for 20 something years in this regard. And to the degree to anybody is concerned about that I will tell you there are all sorts of ways, all sorts of firewalls that have been established to get this done on an anonymous" basis. He added: "I am religious about not allowing company names to ever get used. At least I'm not going to allow them to get used. And I don't want companies to ever admit that because it does give the other side a way to diminish our message." </font>
GREG PALAST lets us <a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/look-up-your-name-on-the-crosscheck-voter-purge-list/" target="_blank">Look up your Name on the Crosscheck Voter Purge-List</a> <font color=darkblue>My investigative report, <a href="http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/double-voters/" target="_blank">JIM CROW RETURNS: Millions of Minority Voters Threatened by Electoral Purge</a>, is the most-read story ever on Al Jazeera America’s website. If you haven’t read it yet – the results of a six-month intensive investigation – read it now. And tonight, Thursday, at 9pm, watch my reports on this investigation on Al Jazeera America's <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">America Tonight</a> (enter your zip code to find it on your TV). The Palast team has ripped the lid off “Interstate Crosscheck” – a system used by 27 states, almost all under Republican control, which claims to find illegal “double voters,” those who vote in the same election in two different states. It took us months, but we got our hands on 2.1 million of the names of the so-called “double voters” accused by Crosscheck. Are YOU a <a href="http://projects.aljazeera.com/2014/double-voters/interactive.html?" target="_blank">criminal double voter?</a></font> Go there now to watch the video report and read more! Also see Monday's interview with Palast on DN! <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/11/3/jim_crow_returns_interstate_crosscheck_program" target="_blank">Jim Crow Returns: Interstate "Crosscheck" Program Could Strip Millions of the Right to Vote</a>.
This week's BTV LAST WORD goes to Truth-Out.org's VICTORIA COLLIER with this news analysis <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/27204-computerized-vote-rigging-is-still-the-unseen-threat-to-american-democracy-it-s-time-to-change-the-system" target="_blank">Computerized Vote Rigging Is Still the Unseen Threat to US Democracy: It's Time to Change the System </a> <font color=blue>Our article in Truthout last week, <a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/27080-top-10-epic-reasons-why-americans-should-give-a-sh-t-about-voting" target="_blank">Top Ten Epic Reasons Why You Should Give a Sh*t About Voting</a>, elicited quite a few comments from readers voicing concern that ballots may not be correctly or honestly counted by our "black box" computer voting systems - and we would never know. The Internet is already roaring with stories of visible attacks on democracy so far in the 2014 elections: <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">40,000</a> mostly minority voters purged from Georgia's voter roles and <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">thousands more</a> in 26 other states, <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">up to 600,000 Texas</a> voters disenfranchised due to new Voter ID laws, and the attempts to override the <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">electoral college</a> in gerrymandered blue states like Michigan. We can fight this fraud because <i>we can see it</i>, like the part of the iceberg that is above the water. But yes, there is more below.
Exactly two years ago Harper's Magazine published a cover story "<a href="http://www.democracymovement.us/how_to_rig_an_election" target="_blank">How to Rig an Election</a>," (written by this author) detailing the hidden threat to democracy posed by our electronic vote counting systems. Easily rigged and hacked, these computers are controlled by a handful of shady corporations, some with criminal records, who fight to keep their vote-counting software a "trade secret." <b>Computerized Voting Today Ensures That Americans Cannot Oversee or Verify Their Own Elections.</b>.................................. However, currently no one is fully verifying our elections, least of all the federal government. <a href="http://www.eac.gov/about_the_eac/commissioners.aspx" target="_blank">All four commissioner seats are vacant</a> in the federal Elections Assistance Commission (EAC), created in 2002 to help set voting standards and best practices, and to accredit electronic voting systems testing labs. <a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/2013/12/12/13993/kill-election-assistance-commission" target="_blank">Republicans are actively attempting</a> to kill this agency altogether. <b>We Need to Establish Across-the-Board Standards for Voting That Uphold the Most Fundamental Principles of Democracy: Full Transparency and Public Oversight</b>........................</font> Please read ALL of this for the shocking details BradBlog.com, BlackBoxVoting.org and so many others have been screaming about for over a DECADE, what Brad calls "faith-based voting". So get busy and start at VotersUnite.org <a href="http://www.votersunite.org/takeaction/handcounted.asp" target="_blank">Take Action: Demand Paper Ballots, Hand Counted! </a> Be sure to tune in DemocracyNOW.org for full election coverage beginning at 7 pm EST. We'll be back next week to assess the damage of Tuesday's election results and what the lame duck state and federal sessions may bring. See you then!
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<p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/27/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, October 27, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Carissa Guild, a nurse with Doctors Without Borders</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/27/back_from_west_africa_a_us" target="_blank">Back from West Africa, a U.S. Nurse Says Quarantining Medical Workers Threatens Ebola Response</a> <br />
<li><b>Jeffrey Sachs, leading economist and the director of The Earth Institute at Columbia University & Nancy Kass, professor of bioethics and public health at Johns Hopkins University</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/27/from_fear_mongering_to_crippling_debt" target="_blank">From Fear-Mongering to Crippling Debt, Lapses in Politics and Health Hurt Global Effort on Ebola</a> <br />
<li><b>Mumia Abu-Jamal </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/27/mumia_abu_jamal_speaks_out_from" target="_blank">Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks Out from Prison on Pennsylvania’s New Law Censoring Convicts’ Speech</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/28/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, October 28, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Ihsaan Gardee, executive director of the National Council of Canadian Muslims</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/28/attack_on_canadian_parliament_fuels_anti" target="_blank">Attack on Canadian Parliament Fuels "Anti-Terror" Laws, Ignoring Ties to Mental Illness, Drug Abuse</a> <br />
<li><b>Allan Nairn, journalist and activist</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/28/as_indonesias_new_president_takes_office" target="_blank">As Indonesia’s New President Takes Office, Cabinet Includes Officials Tied to Atrocities of Old</a><br />
<li><b>Sheldon Krimsky, co-editor of the new book, <i>The GMO Deception: What You Need to Know about the Food, Corporations, and Government Agencies Putting Our Families and Our Environment at Risk</i></b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/28/monsanto_bigag_spend_millions_to_fight" target="_blank">Monsanto, BigAg Spend Millions Fighting Colorado, Oregon Ballot Measures to Label GMO Foods</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/29/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, October 29, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Antonio French, St. Louis alderman of the 21st Ward</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/29/will_mike_browns_killer_avoid_charges" target="_blank">Will Mike Brown’s Killer Avoid Charges in Ferguson? Cops Stockpile Riot Gear Amid "Troubling" Leaks</a> <br />
<li><b>Shane Bauer, award-winning investigative journalist and senior reporter at Mother Jones magazine</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/29/arming_the_warrior_cop_from_guns" target="_blank">Arming the Warrior Cop: From Guns to Drones, Inside the Booming Business of Police Militarization</a> His cover story is "<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/swat-warrior-cops-police-militarization-urban-shield" target="_blank">The Making of the Warrior Cop</a>." <br />
<li><b>Antonio Buehler, founder of Peaceful Streets Project</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/29/is_filming_a_police_officer_a" target="_blank">Is Filming a Police Officer a "Domestic Threat"? Austin Activist on Trial for Videotaping an Arrest</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/30/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, October 30, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Lawrence Gostin, university professor and faculty director at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/30/showdown_over_ebola_will_quarantines_of" target="_blank">Showdown over Ebola: Will Quarantines of Healthcare Workers Harm the Fight Against Epidemic?</a> <br />
<li><b>Justin Elliott, reporter for ProPublica & Richard Rieckenberg, former disaster expert with the Red Cross</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/30/the_red_cross_secret_disaster_charity" target="_blank">"The Red Cross’ Secret Disaster": Charity Prioritized PR over People After Superstorm Sandy</a> See this new investigation by ProPublica and NPR <a href="http://www.propublica.org/article/the-red-cross-secret-disaster" target="_blank">The Red Cross’ Secret Disaster</a><br />
<li><b>JAndy Kroll, senior reporter for Mother Jones magazine</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/30/is_your_judge_for_sale_dark" target="_blank">Is Your Judge for Sale? Dark Money Groups Pour Millions into Judicial Races to Reshape Courts</a> His latest investigation is "<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/judicial-elections-citizens-united-karl-rove" target="_blank">Is Your Judge for Sale?</a>" <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/31/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, Friday, October 31, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now! co-host and New York Daily News award-winning columnist. </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/31/public_health_v_civil_liberties_debate" target="_blank">Public Health vs. Civil Liberties: Debate over Ebola Quarantines Harkens Back to AIDS Panic in 1980s</a> <br />
<li><b>Gayle McLaughlin, mayor of Richmond, California, member of the Green Party</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/31/how_to_buy_a_city_chevron" target="_blank">How to Buy a City: Chevron Spends $3 Million on Local California Election to Oust Refinery Critics</a> <br />
<li><b>Howie Hawkins, Green Party candidate for New York governor</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/31/gubernatorial_candidate_howie_hawkins_calls_for" target="_blank">Gubernatorial Candidate Howie Hawkins Calls for a "Green New Deal for New York"</a> <br />
<li><b>Eric Lichtblau, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for The New York Times</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/31/the_nazis_next_door_eric_lichtblau" target="_blank">The Nazis Next Door: Eric Lichtblau on How the CIA & FBI Secretly Sheltered Nazi War Criminals</a><br />
</ul><p><img src="http://grittv.org/wp-content/themes/grit/images/logo.gif" height=100 alt="GRITtv" /> <a href="http://www.lauraflanders.com/grittv/" target="_blank">GRITtv</a> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">www.grittv.org</a> with Laura Flanders </br > »»» <b>VIDEO OF THE WEEK</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?video=walter-mosley-between-socialism-and-capitalism" target="_blank">Walter Mosley: Between Socialism and Capitalism</a> This week author and critic Walter Mosley joins The Laura Flanders Show to talk socialism, capitalism and his latest crime novel Rose Gold, which doesn't shy away from race, class and other heavy issues.......... more! <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE SPORT!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></b></font></font> </br > »»» <b>NASCAR on ESPN</b> NASCAR Sprint Cup Series NSCS at Texas pres. by Federated Auto Parts at the Texas Motor Speedway! Coverage begins at 3 pm et </br > »»» <b>FOOTBALL NIGHT on NBC</b> Ravens @ Steelers 8:30 pm et</br > »»» <b>MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL on ESPN</b> Colts @ Giants 8:30 pm et </br > »»» <b>MLB WORLD SERIES on FOX</b> Congrats to the San Francisco Giants winning this year's Fall Classic! </br > <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ACTION!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font></br > <font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i> <p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>! <p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <font color=red><b>ACTION! <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_break/" target="_blank">Stop the FCC from Breaking the Internet</a> The Federal Communications Commission is proposing rules that would kill — rather than protect — Net Neutrality and allow rampant discrimination online. Under these rules, telecom giants like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon would be able to pick winners and losers online and discriminate against online content and applications. And no one would be able to do anything about it. We must stop the FCC from moving forward with these rules, which would give the green light to ISPs eager to crush Net Neutrality. The agency can preserve Net Neutrality only by designating broadband as a telecommunications service under the law. Anything else is an attack on our rights to connect and communicate. Tell FCC Chairman Wheeler to throw out his proposed rules. Demand nothing less than real Net Neutrality.</b> SIGN NOW at <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_break/" target="_blank">Stop the FCC from Breaking the Internet</a> at freepress.net NOW. </font> Join the Day of Action on May 15! The Internet will rise up online and take to the streets. <a href="http://act.freepress.net/survey/DC_May_15/" target="_blank">SIGN UP HERE</a> to learn more! <p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW! <p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org <p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>! <p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information! <p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Bradley Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/uncategorized/chelsea-manning-on-containing-isis-in-guardian-op-ed" target="_blank">Chelsea Manning on containing ISIS in Guardian op-ed </a> <i>September 16, 2014. Chelsea Manning's Guardian op-ed, "How to make ISIS fall on its own sword" ....... </i> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/chelsea-manning-receives-courageous-peacemaking-award" target="_blank">Chelsea Manning receives Courageous Peacemaking Award</a> <i>October 22, 2014 . The Center for Conscience in Action will honor Chelsea Manning and Oklahoma peacemakers in a program on Sunday, October 26 .......</i> <p><font size=3><b>DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION</b></font> <a href="http://tjmf.flipswap.com/" target="_blank">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. </a> For more information, go to <a href="http://www.tjmartellfoundation.org" target="_blank">www.tjmartellfoundation.org</a> <p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!! <p><center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br > <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick_teevee_test.jpg" alt="brick_teevee_test.jpg" /></br > The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br > THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br > Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,350 US Military Dead as of Oct. 31, 2014</a> </br > <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br > <font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><p>
<li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus and Democratic National Committee Chair Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: ABC News contributor and Democratic strategist Donna Brazile, ABC News political analyst Matthew Dowd, ABC News contributor and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, and ABC News’ Cokie Roberts, plus analysis from FiveThirtyEight editor-in-chief and ABC News special contributor Nate Silver and Fusion’s Alicia Menendez. <br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky<br />
• Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn<br />
• ROUNDTABLE I: CBS News Elections Director Anthony Salvanto and CBS News Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes<br />
• ROUNDTABLE II: Jonathan Martin of The New York Times, Peggy Noonan of The Wall Street Journal, Tavis Smiley of PBS, Mark Halperin of Bloomberg Politics and Kim Strassel of The Wall Street Journal<br />
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<li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• November 2 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. PT.<br />
• Recruiting for ISIS - Converts to radical Islam in London are so dedicated that one tells Clarissa Ward he can't love his own mother because she is not a Muslim<br />
• Blake Shelton - To those who think America's most popular music sounds the same, the country music star says "get over it"<br />
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<li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
• Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky.; <br />
• Kaci Hickox, the nurse who treated Ebola patients in Sierra Leone and contested state-imposed restriction on her in Maine after her return home.<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: tba (fyi the MTP site DOES NOT post their guest lists in advance anymore)<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN)</b> Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY)<br />
• former Reagan and George H.W. Bush White House Chief of Staff James Baker<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: former Governors Ed Rendell and Haley Barbour, and Democratic and Republican Party spokesmen Mo Elleithee and Sean Spicer.<br />
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<li type=square><b>HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid</b><br />
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• FRONT PORCH FRIDAY!! Featuring the Malloy/H.O.R.N. Skype Group Halloween Special! Listen here NOW! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(31-10-2014).mp3" target="_blank">Friday, October 31st, 2014</a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.crmw.net</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT</b> With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!<br />
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• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10903" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - October 28, 2014</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Climate Change and Election 2014: High stakes on energy, the environment, and global warming ... All that and more in today's Green News Report! ..... IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): Australia breaks heat records - again; BP oil spill left big oily 'bathtub ring' on seafloor; Shell wants 5 more years to drill in the Arctic; How can we get power to the poor without frying the planet?; More storms mean more sewage overflows in Wisconsin; Japan town votes to re-start nuclear plants; Amid CA drought, bruising battle over water ... PLUS: U.N. climate change draft report warns risks of 'irreversible' damage... and much, MUCH more! <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10891" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - October 21, 2014</a> Republican candidates continue to dodge the climate change question; Mountaintop removal coal mining promotes lung cancer; 'Significant' oil spill in Louisiana bayou; 2014 on track to be hottest year on record; PLUS: LEGO breaks up with Shell Oil... All that and more in today's Green News Report!<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10896" target="_blank">Christie: GOP Governors Needs to Control 'Voting Mechanisms' in 2016</a> NJ Governor and 2016 Presidential hopeful offers interesting reason why Republicans in three key states need to win in 2014... <br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10906" target="_blank">SCOTUS Voter Suppression and the Touch-Screen Vote-Flipping Time Warp: KPFK 'BradCast'</a> Ready, set, VOTE! (If you can.) <br />
• BRADCAST! VIDEO! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10906" target="_blank">Deja Vu All Over Again. Again.</a> Brad's appearance this week on Thom Hartmann's 'Big Picture' TV show, as touch-screen votes starting flipping across the country yet again... RELATED: BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10908" target="_blank">GOP v. Registration Nation</a> 50,000 new voter registrations said 'missing' in GA; Millions of voters threatened by faulty GOP 'Crosscheck' database scheme; About that 'non-citizen' voter 'study' at WaPo that all the RWers are talking about... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10901" target="_blank">NM 'Motor Voter' Registration Rates Dive Under GOP SoS</a> Facing tight re-election bid, 'voter fraud' fraudster and Sec. of State Dianna Duran stands to benefit from failed, unlawful new reg process in race against Dem challenger... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10904" target="_blank">Touch-Screen Votes Reportedly Flip R to D in MD</a> Diebold systems have been failing in Maryland since the state was the first to install them (and cover up their failures) in 2002. So why should 2014 be any different?... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10905" target="_blank">Why Dems Shouldn't Get Too Excited About Encouraging Pre-Election Polls in GA</a> A very brief reminder of the state's long and disturbing history with 100% unverifiable Diebold touch-screen voting systems... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10905" target="_blank">Touch-Screen Votes Flipping in Arkansas. Again.</a> Year after year the state's $30 million ES&S iVotronic voting system has failed voters. So why should this year be any different? Because now they have a terrible plan to deal with it... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10911" target="_blank">Mitch McConnell Sends Sleazy 'ELECTION VIOLATION NOTICE' Letter to (Some) KY Voters</a> The man who wants to lead the U.S. Senate approves of this message. And so the Dirty Tricks begin... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10912" target="_blank">TX GOP Photo ID Voter Suppression Working Nicely</a><br />
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<li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b><br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <br />
<ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• 31 Oct 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/ray-mcgovern-arrested-prevented-from-entering-ny-ymca-to-see-petraeus-event/" target="_blank">Ray McGovern Arrested, Prevented From Entering NY YMCA to See Petraeus Event</a> Our friend and former CIA analyst Ray McGovern arrested, prevented from attending NYC discussion panel with David Petraeus, Max Boot… <br />
• 28 Oct 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-pennsylvania-shreds-first-amendment-in-effort-to-silence-mumia-abu-jamal/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: FBI Uses Seattle Newspaper for Spoof in Investigation</a> The FBI used a dummy news story from a Seattle newspaper to dupe a suspect in an investigation in 2007….<br />
• 29 Oct 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-attacks-in-ottawa-jerusalem-draw-quick-tags-of-terrorism/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: FBI Wants Even More Unchecked Power</a> –FBI hopes to broadly expand its authority to hack into computers anywhere, using an obscure Justice Dept panel… <br />
• PBC News & Comment 16 Oct 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-attacks-in-ottawa-jerusalem-draw-quick-tags-of-terrorism/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Super-Secret Stingray Surveillance System isn’t Secret in Charlotte Anymore</a> Charlotte’s Observer exposes use of Stingray cellphone dragnet system, not limited to terrorism cases as local officials thought….. <br />
• PBC News & Comment 17 Oct 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-u2s-bono-apologizes-to-itunes-users-and-many-important-stories-too/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: U2’s Bono Apologizes to iTunes Users, and Many Important Stories, Too!</a> Bono’s apology, plus exposure of possible corruption at top of NSA, Stingray deployed in Washington, DC–lots to report today…..<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast October 30, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/10/28/journalist-reese-erlich-offers-informed-comment-on-americas-new-war-in-syria-iraq/" target="_blank">Journalist Reese Erlich Offers Informed Comment on America’s New War in Syria, Iraq</a> <br />
• PBC Standard Podcast October 28, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/10/30/one-year-after-his-bogus-arrest-roger-shuler-talks-about-the-cost-of-journalism-in-alabama/" target="_blank">One Year After His Bogus Arrest, Roger Shuler Talks About the Cost of Journalism in Alabama</a> Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio explains the new law that was rammed through the legislature and signed today by the desperate governor of Pennsylvania, aimed at silencing Mumia Abu-Jamal. <br />
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<li type=square><b>Ring of Fire Radio</b><br />
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Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/ <b>hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder</b><br />
Ring of Fire Radio - GoLeft TV - Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, Sam Seder - Politics, Commentary, and News.<br />
<a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weekend-on-ring-of-fire-radio-16/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire October 16, 2014</a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
»» No post this week so tune in for more info!<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-week-on-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv-2/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV!</a> Sundays at NOON! <br />
»» Attorney Chris Paulos will tell us about the corruption at the IRS, where the agency was giving corporations unjust breaks and privileges.<br />
»» David Haynes will talk about the damage that Bush caused to the judiciary, specifically the problems coming out of the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals.<br />
»» Linda Lipsen, the CEO of the American Association for Justice, will discuss her organization’s new project to expose lawsuit hypocrites like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and FedEx – companies that abuse the legal system, and try to block YOUR access to justice.<br />
»» Howard Nations will talk about the Republicans crying that Obama is an “imperial” president, ignoring the previous 8 years of the Bush administration.<br />
»» And we’ll talk about the dangerous consequences of right wing hate talkers like Michael Savage.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-week-on-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv/" target="_blank">Ring of Fire’s Weekly Rewind</a> Posted on August 9, 2014 by Ring of Fire - Ring of Fire’s top stories from the past week.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/glenn-greenwald-why-privacy-matters/" target="_blank">Glenn Greenwald: Why Privacy Matters</a> by Joshua Schwitzerlett<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/george-carlin-knew-the-truth-about-republicans/" target="_blank">George Carlin Knew the Truth About Republicans</a> <br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/11/thom-hartmann-millions-of-black-hispanic-asian-voters-have-been-purged/" target="_blank">Thom Hartmann: Millions of Black, Hispanic & Asian Voters Have Been Purged</a> <br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/outrageous-chris-rock-video-about-where-the-wealth-is-in-america/" target="_blank">Outrageous Chris Rock Video about Where the Wealth is in America</a> by Amy Eddings - In his classic special “Never Scared,” Chris Rock explains the difference between being rich and being wealthy,... <br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/chris-christie-says-gop-can-only-win-if-they-control-who-votes/" target="_blank">The Criminal Sociopath Bankers are in Another Fraud Frenzy even after being given a Prosecution Break</a> by Amy Eddings - <br />
Prosecutors in Washington and New York City are reopening investigations into Standard Chartered, the giant British bank... <br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/papantonio-prison-time-is-only-solution-for-wall-street-thugs-video/" target="_blank">Papantonio: Prison Time Is ONLY Solution for Wall Street Thugs (VIDEO)</a><br />
• Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the "Podcast" tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/blogengine/" target="_blank">Ring of Fire Radio</a> Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, <b>rebroadcasts 7-10 et Sunday evenings on <a href="http://www.chicagoprogressivetalk.com/listen/" target="_blank">Chicago's Progressive Talk WCPT AM & FM</a> and 4 pm et on Sirius/XM 167 featuring The PAP Attack! </b> "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week." <br />
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<li type=square><b>Majority Report with Sam Seder</b> Streaming LIVE weekdays 12 NOON et @ <a href="http://Majority.fm" target="_blank">Majority.fm</a>! <br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/10-27-14-the-ebola-elections" target="_blank"> 10/27/14 The Ebola Elections </a> <br />
• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/10-28-14-jessica-bruder-the-end-of-retirement-when-you-can-t-afford-to-stop-working" target="_blank">10/28/14 Jessica Bruder: The End of Retirement: When You Can't Afford To Stop Working</a> <br />
• WEDNESDAY - Moving Day<br />
• THURSDAY Moving Day<br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/10-31-14-halloween-special-mr-goes-right-wing" target="_blank">http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/10-31-14-halloween-special-mr-goes-right-wing</a> A Republican Candidate in Texas says that he wants black voters not to vote but instead spend their Food Stamps. Through a computer glitch the Majority Report was replaced by the Ken, Ken & Ken show, Ryan Grim of the Huffington Post joined the Ken Ken & Ken show, Ryan triad to explain why the Democrats are failing, debating Benghazi, why does Ryan hate America and want Black to vote more. Ken Ken & Ken gave financial advice. Ken Ken & Ken breakdown some "brilliant" Dennis Prager comments on the War on Women and they took your calls and IMs!<br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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<li type=square><b>KEISER REPORT</b> Podcasts and more @ <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/" target="_blank">MaxKeiser.com</a>!<br />
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<b>"HI Y'ALL! Tell the people! Tell the people!"</b><br />
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 <a href="http://www.karmabanque.com/" target="_blank">KarmaBanque</a> a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. <br />
• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport" target="_blank">Keiser Report</a> <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/child-poverty-jumps-by-2-6-million-in-developed-world-since-2008-while-number-of-global-billionaires-doubles/" target="_blank">Child Poverty Jumps by 2.6 Million in Developed World Since 2008, While Number of Global Billionaires Doubles</a> by Michael Krieger — The “Great Recession Scorecard” is out. Two headlines. Two very different realities: “A report by Unicef says the number of children entering poverty during the recession is 2.6 million greater than the number who have been lifted out of it.”<br />
& “The super-rich club has become less exclusive, with the amount of billionaires doubling since the financial crisis, according to a report from global charity Oxfam. There were 1,645 billionaires globally as of March 2014, according to Forbes data cited in the Oxfam report, up from 793 in March 2009.” Read more <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/10/30/child-poverty-jumps-by-2-6-million-in-developed-world-since-2008-while-number-of-billionaires-doubles/" target="_blank">HERE</a>...........<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/goldman-and-blackstone-enter-spanish-real-estate-pain-and-suffering-for-poor-people-immediately-ensues/" target="_blank">Why We’re Poorer: Inflation and Deflation Are Now Globalized</a> by Charles Hugh Smith — We’re being hit with a double-whammy: Wages are under deflationary pressure, and almost everything else is exposed to inflationary pressure. As correspondent Mark G. observed in Globalization = Permanent Instability, it’s impossible to understand inflation and deflation now except in a global context. Read the rest <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/why-were-poorer-inflation-and-deflation-are-now-globalized/#more-75485" target="_blank">HERE</a> ............<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/florida-cop-rapes-20-year-old-woman-at-gunpoint-while-on-duty/" target="_blank">Florida Cop Rapes 20-Year Old Woman at Gunpoint While on Duty</a> by Michael Krieger — Earlier this week, I published a post titled: <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/10/29/video-of-the-day-watch-as-8-police-officers-fire-46-shots-and-kill-a-homeless-man-in-broad-daylight/" target="_blank">Video of the Day – Watch as 8 Police Officers Fire 46 Shots and Kill a Homeless Man in Broad Daylight</a>. In that article, I warned: <i>As long as the worst amongst us continue to get away with their criminality, the more of it we will see. In fact, the more brutal and cartoonish it will get.</i> Unfortunately, it didn’t take very long. Meet Stephen J. Maiorino, the Florida cop who raped a 20-year old woman at gunpoint while on duty. By the way, he was previously named “Officer of the Month” by the department in 2010, and has appeared in the TV show “Cops.” You can’t make this stuff up. Read more <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/10/31/florida-cop-rapes-20-year-old-woman-at-gunpoint-while-on-duty/" target="_blank">HERE</a>...........<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/day-after-msm-mocks-maxkeiser-for-calling-bankers-murderers/" target="_blank">Day after MSM mocks @maxkeiser for calling bankers ‘murderers,’ Brit banker slashes throat & nearly decapitates two women</a> by Stacy Herbert — Stacy Summary: Truly remarkable. Literally the day after the Independent mocks Max for calling bankers ‘murderers’ a British banker from Bank of America Merrill Lynch is arrested for the gruesome murders of two women. Who is always right? Who is always wrong? ........ <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank"><a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">BTV</a></a><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/hongkong/11203291/British-man-arrested-over-Hong-Kong-double-murder.html" target="_blank">BTV</a> and the grisly scene left behind. <br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/at-least-130k-march-against-austerity-in-ireland/" target="_blank">At Least 130k March Against Austerity in Ireland</a> by Dublin Eileen — WATER, of which we are made, is very fundamental to the Irish people. The holy wells within us spoke and, soaked today in rain water, we took to the streets to say that this gift of nature is a human right for all. Many thanks to the <a href="http://detroitwaterbrigade.org/detroit-rallies-dublin-water-charges/" target="_blank">Detroit Water Brigade</a> who marched in solidarity with us today. <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-29859942" target="_blank">Tens of thousands of people have taken part in nationwide protests against the introduction of water charges in the Republic of Ireland.</a><br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/kr672-keiser-report-nudging-bludgeoning-pigeoning/" target="_blank">[KR672] Keiser Report: Nudging, Bludgeoning & Pigeoning</a> Both of us in a double-header discuss nudging citizen-consumers like pigeons and mental patients into behaving as the technocratic elite wish them to behave – more consumption, more selfies, more fatal masturbation. This behavioural outcome is achieved through rewarding desired behaviour with plastic trinkets and poker chips which make the subjects being controlled feel empowered by their decisions to behave as their controllers had wanted them to. We look at examples of successful nudging in the UK where the electorate is bought off with games of chutes and property ladders for correct behaviour. If nudging does not work, however, there is always bludgeoning as is done in the US where the Inland Revenue Service has been seizing the bank deposits of non-complying citizen-pigeons who have not incurred massive debts.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/kr673-keiser-report-unequal-justice-system/" target="_blank">[KR673] Keiser Report: Unequal Justice System</a> Stacy Summary: We look at the moral crisis of our time as they compare the treatment of a man on welfare benefits imprisoned for six weeks for stealing £12.60 worth of Salisbury steaks versus the High Frequency Trading outfit fined $1 million without any admission of guilt for stealing an unknown amount of money from other NASDAQ investors. This unequal system of justice has led to zombie capitalism which has gone off the rails and inspired ‘suicide bankers.’ In the second half Max interviews Dr. Bob Gill and Peter Bach, director of <a href="https://www.startjoin.com/nhs_selloff" target="_blank">Sell Off</a>, the story of the stealth privatization of the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. <br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/11/kr674-keiser-report-naughty-banking-boys/" target="_blank">[KR674] Keiser Report: Naughty Banking Boys</a> We discuss how, in the words of Laura Ingalls Wilder, once you begin being naughty, it is easier to go and on and on, and sooner or later something dreadful happens. And in a world of very naughty bankers, many dreadful things have happened. In the second half Max interviews Dan Collins of TheChinaMoneyReport.com about the emerging post-dollar order as evidenced in the newly launched Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank and the Shanghai-Hong Kong Connect scheme. They also discuss how in China Jim Rickards went viral and how steel costs as much as cabbage<br />
• THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/07/the-truth-about-markets-28-june-2014/" target="_blank">The Truth About Markets – 28 June 2014</a> Stacy Summary: We talk about bogus collateral driving global housing bubbles. <a href="https://ia902509.us.archive.org/19/items/TaM28062014/TaM-28062014.mp3" target="_blank">Download show HERE</a> (mp3) <br />
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<li type=square><b>The Scott Horton Radio Show</b><br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It’s been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show’s important milestones, as well as preview some of the exciting projects to look for in the near future. ........ The show on Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A., still called Antiwar Radio, has now moved to join their Sunday morning public affairs line up (8:30 am pt - http://kpfk.org), and remains the largest source of listeners, with 15,000-20,000 people tuning in weekly. The future: Liberty Express Radio is growing and bringing me along for the ride. The great Charles Goyette hooked me up with Alan Butler and the Liberty Express earlier this year, and what has been the daily replay there from 3-5 eastern time has become my best listened-to show. And now they’re adding my friend Tom Woods to the lineup from 2-3 PM. That does it. I’m making the switch! Starting Monday, October 14, the live show is moving to 3-5 PM Eastern time on LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/10/28/102814-trita-parsi/" target="_blank">10/28/14 Trita Parsi</a>: Trita Parsi, president of the National Iranian American Council, discusses his article “<a href="http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2014/10/27/the-biggest-threat-to-a-nuclear-deal-isnt-irans-hardliners/" target="_blank">How Congressional Hawks Plan to Kill Obama’s Iran Deal</a>.”<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/10/29/102914-grant-f-smith/" target="_blank">10/29/14 Grant F. Smith</a>: Grant F. Smith, director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, discusses his <a href="http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/lawsuit-spotlights-us-charities-that-fund-israels-secret-nuclear-weapons-program-280645892.html" target="_blank">federal lawsuit</a> demanding the release of a 1987 DoD study on Israel’s nuclear weapons program; and why he wants to end the US government’s pretense of ignorance about Israel’s nukes.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/10/29/102914-gareth-porter/" target="_blank">10/29/14 Gareth Porter</a>: Gareth Porter, an award-winning journalist and author of Manufactured Crisis, discusses how an Iran nuclear deal hinges on Obama’s willingness to fight for an end to sanctions.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/10/29/102914-nebojsa-malic/" target="_blank">10/29/14 Nebojsa Malic</a>: Nebojsa Malic, a regular columnist for Antiwar.com, discusses how Ukraine’s elections manufactured legitimacy for the current regime; the neo-Nazis killing civilians in eastern Ukraine; and the small group of US foreign policy elites who stir up trouble all over the world.<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/10/31/103114-ray-mcgovern/" target="_blank">10/31/14 Ray McGovern</a>: Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst turned peace activist, discusses <a href="http://rt.com/usa/201323-ray-mcgovern-arrest-debrief/" target="_blank">his arrest Thursday night</a> while trying to gain entry to see former CIA director David Petraeus speak in New York City.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>fauxnews </b><br />
• former Massachusetts Governor and 2012 Presidential nominee Mitt Romney. <br />
• Sen Ben Cardin (D-MD)<br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>Halloween 2014 Preview Sunday!</b> Last week NYT columnist PAUL KRUGMAN posted an essay in Rolling Stone <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/in-defense-of-obama-20141008" target="_blank">In Defense of Obama</a> <font color=darkblue>.......But now the shoe is on the other foot: Obama faces trash talk left, right and center – literally – and doesn't deserve it. Despite bitter opposition, despite having come close to self-inflicted disaster, Obama has emerged as one of the most consequential and, yes, successful presidents in American history. His health reform is imperfect but still a huge step forward – and it's working better than anyone expected. Financial reform fell far short of what should have happened, but it's much more effective than you'd think. Economic management has been half-crippled by Republican obstruction, but has nonetheless been much better than in other advanced countries. And environmental policy is starting to look like it could be a major legacy. I'll go through those achievements shortly. First, however, let's take a moment to talk about the current wave of Obama-bashing. All Obama-bashing can be divided into three types. One, a constant of his time in office, is the onslaught from the right, which has never stopped portraying him as an Islamic atheist Marxist Kenyan. Nothing has changed on that front, and nothing will. There's a different story on the left, where you now find a significant number of critics decrying Obama as, to quote Cornel West, someone who ''posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit.'' They're outraged that Wall Street hasn't been punished, that income inequality remains so high, that ''neoliberal'' economic policies are still in place. All of this seems to rest on the belief that if only Obama had put his eloquence behind a radical economic agenda, he could somehow have gotten that agenda past all the political barriers that have con- strained even his much more modest efforts. It's hard to take such claims seriously. Finally, there's the constant belittling of Obama from mainstream pundits and talking heads. Turn on cable news (although I wouldn't advise it) and you'll hear endless talk about a rudderless, stalled administration, maybe even about a failed presidency. Such talk is often buttressed by polls showing that Obama does, indeed, have an approval rating that is very low by historical standards. But this bashing is misguided even in its own terms – and in any case, it's focused on the wrong thing. .......</font> Read on for more Krugster at Rolling Stone. We at Brick TeeVee fall into Krugman's Category #2 ''posed as a progressive and turned out to be counterfeit''. Push-back on Krugman came quickly and the BTV Editors grabbed a few. First off we go to Bill Black with a detailed examination at NewEconomicPerspectives.com <a href="http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/10/krugmans-bashes-progressives-criticizing-obama-grounds-criticizes-obama.html" target="_blank">Krugman’s Bashes Progressives for Criticizing Obama on Grounds that He Criticizes Obama</a> <font color=navy>......... Krugman does not, in this column, explain the consequences and implications of the disaster that Obama tried so hard to inflict on us. First, it would help the reader to inform them that achieving the Grand Bargain became Obama’s top domestic priority. It would have aided the reader for Krugman to explain that as part of the Grand Bargain Obama was also trying to inflict austerity on the U.S. in response to the Great Recession. Had Obama succeeded he would have thrown the Nation back into a second Great Recession – for the reasons that Krugman has often explained. This would have doomed his reelection chances and caused catastrophic losses to the Democratic Party in other 2012 elections. Readers doubtless would have found it useful to know that that Obama ran for office on the promise of protecting Social Security and Medicare from the cuts he sought to inflict. They also would find it useful to know that once Obama legitimized attacking the safety net programs it would make them fair game for unilateral Republican attacks on the safety net when they took control of the White House. Krugman blames Obama’s effort to enter into the Grand Betrayal as occurring because Obama was “naïve.” He presents no support for that claim. Contemporaneous press accounts – based on leaks from the White House – revealed that Obama was motivated by a desire for fame. The Grand Bargain was to be his legacy and the fact that the Grand Bargain betrayed his supporters was the factor that demonstrated that he was a statesman. Democratic Presidents establish that they are “serious” by publicly betraying and deriding their progressive base. Krugman defines Obama’s critics as illegitimate. Krugman labels Obama’s critics as engaging in “Obama-bashing.” Krugman goes on to label progressive critics of Obama as “Obama-bash[ers]” by mischaracterizing the criticisms and then dismissing straw man arguments that he crafts as not requiring refutation because the criticisms are obviously not “serious.” ...............In this column I’ll address only the portion of Krugman’s arguments for which I have some expertise........</font> Black's critique is very long so do read this after reading Krudman's piece. Also very long is this item from Thomas Frank at Salon.com <a href="http://www.salon.com/2014/10/19/thomas_frank_paul_krugmans_sloppy_wet_kiss/?source=newsletter" target="_blank">Thomas Frank: Paul Krugman’s sloppy, wet kiss </a> <font color=blue>Paul Krugman is easily the best newspaper columnist at work today; for years, he has been the only American columnist who matters. His relentless, one-man war on austerity, I believe, should have earned him a second Nobel Prize. As Salon readers know, Krugman has for years been willing to criticize the Obama administration. However, in a much-discussed <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/in-defense-of-obama-20141008" target="_blank">essay</a> the economist published in Rolling Stone last week, he reverses himself and declares that Obama has won him over; that the president is “one of the most consequential and, yes, successful presidents in American history.” What makes Krugman’s article peculiar is that he now derides as irresponsible “Obama-bashing” some of the <a href="http://neweconomicperspectives.org/2014/10/krugmans-bashes-progressives-criticizing-obama-grounds-criticizes-obama.html" target="_blank">very criticisms of the administration</a> that he himself has made over the years........</font> Very good with lots of links Thomas Frank pulls from Krugman's own writings so read this in whole as well! <br />
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Our own MADDY finds out how the <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/oct/18/humble-potato-poised-to-launch-food-revolution" target="_blank">Humble spud poised to launch a world food revolution</a> <font color=green>Dutch team is pioneering development of crops fed by sea water - In a small army field-hut Dr Arjen de Vos shows off his irrigation machine with pride. Pipes lead out to several acres of muddy field, where only a few stragglers from the autumn harvest of potatoes, salads, carrots and onions are left. The tubes are lined with copper to stop corrosion because – in a move that defies everything we think we know about farming – de Vos is watering his plants with diluted sea water. Las week the project beat 560 competitors from 90 countries to win the prestigious USAid grand challenge award for its salt-tolerant potato. “It’s a game changer,” said de Vos. “We don’t see salination as a problem, we see it as an opportunity.”...........</font> Sez MADDY "Two observations: These spuds are non GMO. #hallelujah And, if the human race is to be saved, it will be in no small part due to people who live in countries other than the US of A.". Indeed! We see pre-salted French Fries in our future! Now for the REALLY SCARY STUFF! <img src="http://www.websmileys.com/sm/aliens/hae18.gif" alt="frank" /> If you missed NYT's James Risen on DN! go back and watch <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/14/james_risen_prepared_to_pay_any" target="_blank">James Risen Prepared to "Pay Any Price" to Report on War on Terror Amid Crackdown on Whistleblowers</a> AND <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/14/james_risen_on_nsa_whistleblower_edward" target="_blank">James Risen on NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden: He Sparked a New National Debate on Surveillance</a>. NOW check out Thom Hartmann's <a href="http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/conversations-wgreat-minds-p1-james-risen-how-billions-meant-iraq-vanished-without-trace" target="_blank">Conversations w/Great Minds P1 - James Risen - How Billions Meant for Iraq Vanished Without a Trace</a> AND <a href="http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/conversations-wgreat-minds-p1-james-risen-how-billions-meant-iraq-vanished-without-trace" target="_blank">Conversations w/Great Minds P2 - James Risen - The Quiet Military Industrial Rich</a> PLUS <a href="http://www.thomhartmann.com/bigpicture/conversations-wgreat-minds-p3-james-risen-did-saudi-arabia-finance-911" target="_blank">Conversations w/Great Minds P3 - James Risen - Did Saudi Arabia Finance 9/11</a>. Then read Risen's latest <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/world/investigation-into-missing-iraqi-cash-ended-in-lebanon-bunker.html?_r=0" target="_blank">Investigation Into Missing Iraqi Cash Ended in Lebanon Bunker</a> <font color=indigo>WASHINGTON — Not long after American forces defeated the Iraqi government of Saddam Hussein in 2003, caravans of trucks began to arrive at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on a regular basis, unloading an unusual cargo — pallets of shrink-wrapped $100 bills. The cash, withdrawn from Iraqi government accounts held in the United States, was loaded onto Air Force C-17 transport planes bound for Baghdad, where the Bush administration hoped it would provide a quick financial infusion for Iraq’s new government and the country’s battered economy. Over the next year and a half, $12 billion to $14 billion was sent to Iraq in the airlift, and an additional $5 billion was sent by electronic transfer. Exactly what happened to that money after it arrived in Baghdad became one of the many unanswered questions from the chaotic days of the American occupation, when billions were flowing into the country from the United States and corruption was rampant. Finding the answer became first the job and then the obsession of Stuart W. Bowen Jr., a friend from Texas of President George W. Bush who in 2004 was appointed to serve as a special inspector general to investigate corruption and waste in Iraq. Before his office was finally shut down last year, Mr. Bowen believed he might have succeeded — but only partly — in that mission. Much of the money was probably used by the Iraqi government in some way, he concluded. But for years Mr. Bowen could not account for billions more until his investigators finally had a breakthrough, discovering that $1.2 billion to $1.6 billion had been stolen and moved to a bunker in rural Lebanon for safe keeping. “I don’t know how the money got to Lebanon,” Mr. Bowen said. “If I knew that, we would have made more progress on the case.”...........</font> Good on JAMES RISEN for continuing to throw bricks at the wealthy and powerful despite threats of <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/17/james-risen-obama-greatest-enemy-press-freedom-generation" target="_blank"> jail over his reporting of a botched intelligence operation that ended up spilling nuclear secrets to Iran</a> calling the Obomber Administration <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-wheres-the-justice-at-justice.html" target="_blank">“the greatest enemy of press freedom in a generation”. </a> Get Risen's new book <i>"Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War"</i> aka Yer Tax Dollars At Work donchaknow. Norman Soloman has this review at Alternet.com <a href="http://www.alternet.org/books/james-risen-challenges-greed-power-and-endless-war-national-security-state" target="_blank">James Risen Challenges the Greed, Power and Endless War of the National Security State</a>. <img src="http://www.websmileys.com/sm/aliens/hae18.gif" alt="frank" /> Next up in the SCARY Dept. is the new docu-drama KILL THE MESSENGER based on the VERY REAL story GARY WEBB uncovered about the Iran-Contra-LA-crackcocaine-drugs-for-weapons-cia-olivernorth TRUE STORY called “Dark Alliance” and published on the then-new nacent internet by the San Jose Mercury News with links to documents and more. Here' is a copy of the original Gary Webb reporting: <a href="http://www.mega.nu:8080/ampp/webb.html" target="_blank">The Dark Alliance: Gary Webb's Incendiary 1996 SJ Mercury News Exposé</a>. After an entire generation some things the corporomedia can never let go and this is one TRUTH they CANNOT let go. We go to The Rancid Honeytrap for a dissection of the media blowback <a href="http://ohtarzie.wordpress.com/2014/10/18/remembering-gary-webb/" target="_blank">Misremembering Gary Webb</a> <font color=FireBrick>I suppose I shouldn’t be shocked that eighteen years after Dark Alliance was published, the release of a film about investigative journalist Gary Webb would inspire a new round of smears. Nevertheless, I am. In my <a href="http://ohtarzie.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/the-intercepts-ryan-devereaux-is-no-gary-webb/" target="_blank">last post</a> I stressed how the government’s own investigations largely vindicated Gary Webb’s series. Implicit in this, of course, is the obvious point that these investigations only took place because of his reporting. By any normal human standard, that makes him uniquely accomplished as journalists go, and you’d think our media culture might see some practical merit in unequivocally recognizing that, if only to market their own commitment to the truth while neatly compartmentalizing Contra drug trafficking and Webb’s ostracism as uniquely Reaganesque. <b>That Webb is still being smeared almost two decades after “Dark Alliance” on the pages of the New York Times, The Washington Post and by ‘advocacy’ simulacra like The Intercept, shows how little chance elites are willing to take in validating a <u>bullshit-proof</u> purchase on reality.</b> Of course, Webb’s story remains highly combustible because <b>it is singularly rich in valuable lessons: that the Intelligence Community executes policy objectives without even the pretense of oversight or ethical constraints; that the Drug War clearly has never been about preventing drug abuse; that the intelligence apparatus regards poor, black Americans with the same murderous contempt it regards Nicaraguan socialists and anyone else of no use to the ruling class; and that the mainstream media is a fraud, a highly sophisticated instrument of ruling class disinformation that can shift into propaganda overdrive whenever conditions require it. </b> Many of the leading players in elite journalism’s own dark alliance with the CIA to destroy Webb continue to ply their trade — Walter Pincus, Howard Kurtz, Tim Weiner and Tim Golden among others –and that itself, apart from everything else, limits how much fault any socially and professionally savvy reporter can find. The system of rewards and punishment that fortifies those mens’ long careers and destroyed Webb’s now guides discussion of his legacy. <b>Among the first to obediently tailor a Kill The Messenger tie-in to these constraints was The Intercept‘s Ryan Devereaux</b> — discussed in my last post — and after publication of his velvet-gloved hit piece, journalists in higher places followed suit. .............. By far, the best antidote to new injections of old poison is getting the true measure of Dark Alliance and its aftermath, which is enduringly fascinating, revealing and horrifying. It also provides an instructive backdrop to the pernicious clowning of the <a href="http://ohtarzie.wordpress.com/2014/09/07/the-celebrity-left-wars/" target="_blank">Celebrity Left</a>. The difference between Webb’s courageous interrogation of racism and power and the exhausting banality of Greenwald’s one-note showboating, the careerist narcissism of <a href="http://olaasm.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/at-the-intersection-of-gamergate-weevgate-abusers-their-knowing-apologists/" target="_blank">Weevgate</a>, and the bad faith of David Graeber’s anarcho-imperialism could not be more stark. So, inspired by a friend who solicited resources on Webb, I’m providing the following links to things I used in writing my last post and some good material I’ve discovered since. I recommend starting with “Dark Alliance” itself. The Democracy Now interviews and the Cockburn/St. Clair excerpt from their book Whiteout are particularly worth your time. The Huffington Post surprisingly stands out as doing the best reporting to tie in with the film by far and both pieces listed below are worth reading. I invite people to share other resources that I can add via updates........</font> Go there NOW and tell yer peeps! And See The Movie "KILL THE MESSENGER" NOW! Joanne Laurier also reviews <a href="https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/10/17/kill-o17.html" target="_blank">The Gary Webb story in Kill the Messenger: Shedding light on CIA criminality and conspiracy</a>. Good item! <img src="http://www.websmileys.com/sm/aliens/hae18.gif" alt="frank" /> Our last Halloween Preview is the new docu-drama by LAURA POITRAS <a href="https://citizenfourfilm.com/" target="_blank">citizenfour</a> which opened in selected cities this weekend which documents the trails and travails of the Edward Snowden revelations on the global network of U.S. spying on EVERYBODY and their data collection methods, most if not all still in operation! GO SEE THIS MOVIE! Watch Laura Poitras on DN! <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/23/citizenfour_inside_story_of_nsa_leaker" target="_blank">Citizenfour: Inside Story of NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Captured in New Film by Laura Poitras</a> and the follow-up with The Intercept's Jermy Scahill <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/22/noam_chomsky_at_united_nations_it" target="_blank">Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater Execs Remain Free as Guards Convicted for Killing 14 Iraqis in Massacre</a> It's very brief and Jeremy covers a whole lot of ground in minutes so best to read his piece <a href="https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/22/blackwater-guilty-verdicts/" target="_blank">Blackwater Founder Remains Free and Rich While His Former Employees Go Down on Murder Charges</a>. Scahill is pretty much the go-to expert on Blackwater so pick up his book <a href="http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/blackwater-jeremy-scahill/1101059387?ean=9781568583945" target="_blank">Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army </a> and of course his Academy Award nominated film <a href="http://dirtywars.org/" target="_blank">Dirty Wars</a>. <img src="http://www.websmileys.com/sm/aliens/hae18.gif" alt="frank" /> The cover-ups continue to this day for war crimes as outlined by The Guardian's Trevor Timm <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/22/torture-obama-cover-up-cia" target="_blank">The truth about torture is Obama never wants you to find it: If America is so opposed to Bush-era atrocities, why does it keep covering up the evidence to protect the CIA?</a> So there you have it and we've only scratched the surface of the criminality, obfuscation and coverups that have happened in the past decade and ARE HAPPENING RIGHT NOW under the guise of "spreading democracy". If you still watch, read or listen to gummint-bought papers and media TURN OFF YER TEEVEE and stick to Brick TeeVee for REAL news and opinion! The BTV compound is shaping up nicely for our 1st Annual All Hallow's Eve Heavy Metal Costume Ball! Get yer flyers here!<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.billorightsman.com/docs/AllHallowsEve2014flyerBLACK.pdf" target="_blank">All Hallows Eve BLACK</a> very cool!</ul>Also be sure to visit our regulars especially SAM SEDER with JAMES RISEN and SCOTT HORTON with FAIR'S PETER HART on the corporomedia's pushback on the "Kill The Messenger" movie! We'll be back next week for a preview of the mid-term elections and more! Happy Halloween! We'll see you next week! <center><img src="http://www.thesmilies.com/smilies/halloween/bat.gif" alt="flying bat" /> <img src="http://www.thesmilies.com/smilies/halloween/bat.gif" alt="flying bat" /> <img src="http://www.thesmilies.com/smilies/halloween/bat.gif" alt="flying bat" /></center></font> <center><img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/gonzo-111x191.png" height="75"></center><p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ALERTS!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font> <p><img src="http://www.democracynow.org/images/nav/dn_logo.png" height=100 alt="Democracy NOW!" /> <p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/20/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, October 20, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Anita Sarkeesian, media critic and executive director of Feminist Frequency</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/20/women_are_being_driven_offline_feminist" target="_blank">"Women Are Being Driven Offline": Feminist Anita Sarkeesian Terrorized for Critique of Video Games</a> <br />
<li><b>Olga Kravtsova & Jon Alpert co-directors of the “Media Enabled Musketeers”</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/20/media_enabled_musketeers_russian_american_filmmakers" target="_blank">Media Enabled Musketeers: Russian & American Filmmakers with Disabilities Document Shared Struggles</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/21/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, October 21, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Richard Falk, just completed a six-year term as United Nations special rapporteur on Palestinian human rights</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/21/after_ignoring_isis_assault_on_kobani" target="_blank">After Ignoring ISIS Assault on Kobani, U.S. Launches Major Strikes & Arms Turkey’s Kurdish Foes</a> <br />
<li><b>More Richard Falk</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/21/former_un_special_rapporteur_richard_falk" target="_blank">Former U.N. Special Rapporteur Richard Falk on the Legitimacy of Hope in the Palestinian Struggle</a><br />
<li><b>Noelle Hanrahan, investigative journalist and the founder and producer of Prison Radio</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/21/mumia_abu_jamal_speaks_out_from" target="_blank">Mumia Abu-Jamal Speaks Out from Jail on New Pennsylvania Law Silencing Prisoners</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/22/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, October 22, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Noam Chomsky</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/22/in_un_speech_noam_chomsky_blasts" target="_blank">In U.N. Speech, Noam Chomsky Blasts United States for Supporting Israel, Blocking Palestinian State</a> <br />
<li><b>Noam Chomsky</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/22/noam_chomsky_at_united_nations_it" target="_blank">Noam Chomsky at United Nations: It Would Be Nice if the United States Lived up to International Law</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/23/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, October 23, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Film-maker Laura Poitras</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/23/citizenfour_inside_story_of_nsa_leaker" target="_blank">Citizenfour: Inside Story of NSA Leaker Edward Snowden Captured in New Film by Laura Poitras</a> <br />
<li><b>The Intercept's Jeremy Scahill</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/22/noam_chomsky_at_united_nations_it" target="_blank">Jeremy Scahill: Blackwater Execs Remain Free as Guards Convicted for Killing 14 Iraqis in Massacre</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/24/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, Friday, October 24, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Elena Sokova, executive director of the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/24/obama_promised_a_world_without_nuclear" target="_blank">Obama Promised a "World Without Nuclear Weapons," But May Now Spend $1 Trillion on Upgrades</a> <br />
<li><b>Robert Kelley, associated senior research fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/24/former_weapons_inspector_in_iraq_raises" target="_blank">Former Weapons Inspector in Iraq Questions Claims that Iran Hiding Nuclear Tests</a> <br />
<li><b>Robert Kelley, associated senior research fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/24/european_privacy_in_the_age_of" target="_blank">European Privacy in the Age of Snowden: We Need a Debate About What Intelligence Agencies Are Doing</a> <br />
</ul><p><img src="http://grittv.org/wp-content/themes/grit/images/logo.gif" height=100 alt="GRITtv" /> <a href="http://www.lauraflanders.com/grittv/" target="_blank">GRITtv</a> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">www.grittv.org</a> with Laura Flanders </br > »»» <b>VIDEO OF THE WEEK</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?video=debunking-the-gandhi-myth-arundhati-roy" target="_blank">Debunking the Gandhi Myth: Arundhati Roy </a> On The Laura Flanders Show: Author/activist Arundhati Roy on the Annihilation of Caste, B.R. Ambedkar and the Western myth of Mahatma Gandhi. And Glenn Greenwald addresses diversity concerns about his new media venture TheIntercept.com......... more! <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE SPORT!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></b></font></font> </br > »»» <b>NASCAR on ESPN</b> NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Martinsville pres. by AutoZone! Coverage begins at 1:30 pm et </br > »»» <b>FOOTBALL NIGHT on NBC</b> Packers @ Saints 8:30 pm et</br > »»» <b>MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL on ESPN</b> Washington @ Cowboys 8:30 pm et </br > »»» <b>MLB WORLD SERIES on FOX</b> It's the San Francisco Giants vs. Kansas City Royals in this year's Fall Classic! Last two games at Kaufman Stadium Tue & Wed. All games begin at 8:07 pm et</br > <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ACTION!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font></br > <font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i> <p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>! <p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <font color=red><b>ACTION! <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_break/" target="_blank">Stop the FCC from Breaking the Internet</a> The Federal Communications Commission is proposing rules that would kill — rather than protect — Net Neutrality and allow rampant discrimination online. Under these rules, telecom giants like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon would be able to pick winners and losers online and discriminate against online content and applications. And no one would be able to do anything about it. We must stop the FCC from moving forward with these rules, which would give the green light to ISPs eager to crush Net Neutrality. The agency can preserve Net Neutrality only by designating broadband as a telecommunications service under the law. Anything else is an attack on our rights to connect and communicate. Tell FCC Chairman Wheeler to throw out his proposed rules. Demand nothing less than real Net Neutrality.</b> SIGN NOW at <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_break/" target="_blank">Stop the FCC from Breaking the Internet</a> at freepress.net NOW. </font> Join the Day of Action on May 15! The Internet will rise up online and take to the streets. <a href="http://act.freepress.net/survey/DC_May_15/" target="_blank">SIGN UP HERE</a> to learn more! <p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW! <p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org <p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>! <p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information! <p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Bradley Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/uncategorized/chelsea-manning-on-containing-isis-in-guardian-op-ed" target="_blank">Chelsea Manning on containing ISIS in Guardian op-ed </a> <i>September 16, 2014. Chelsea Manning's Guardian op-ed, "How to make ISIS fall on its own sword" ....... </i> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/press/chelsea-manning-receives-courageous-peacemaking-award" target="_blank">Chelsea Manning receives Courageous Peacemaking Award</a> <i>October 22, 2014 . The Center for Conscience in Action will honor Chelsea Manning and Oklahoma peacemakers in a program on Sunday, October 26 .......</i> <p><font size=3><b>DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION</b></font> <a href="http://tjmf.flipswap.com/" target="_blank">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. </a> For more information, go to <a href="http://www.tjmartellfoundation.org" target="_blank">www.tjmartellfoundation.org</a> <p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!! <p><center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br > <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick_teevee_test.jpg" alt="brick_teevee_test.jpg" /></br > The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br > THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br > Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,349 US Military Dead as of Oct. 22, 2014</a> </br > <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br > <font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><p>
<li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases <br />
• House Homeland Security Committee Chair Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Texas<br />
• Former National Counterterrorism Center Director Matthew Olsen<br />
• Texas Land Commissioner candidate George P. Bush<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson, Echelon Insights co-founder and Daily Beast contributor Kristen Soltis Anderson, and ESPN senior writer LZ Granderson<br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases<br />
• CBS Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook<br />
• Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., House Intelligence Committee chaiman<br />
• ROUNDTABLE I: Mike Morell, former deputy director of the CIA and a CBS News contributor, David Ignatius of the Washington Post, and CBS News Foreign Correspondent Clarissa Ward<br />
• ROUNDTABLE II: CBS News Elections Director Anthony Salvanto, CBS News Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes, CBS News Political Director John Dickerson, David Leonhardt, editor of The New York Times The Upshot and Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report<br />
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<li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• October 26 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. PT<br />
• Breeding out disease - Genetic testing and in vitro fertilization are making it possible for scientists to weed out dangerous and often deadly diseases from the gene pool<br />
• Foo Fighters - Foo Fighters' Dave Grohl seeks the roots of American music for a project that brought him to New Orleans<br />
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<li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
• Senator Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.<br />
• Senator Rob Portman, R-Ohio<br />
• Dr. Rick Sacra, the American doctor successfully treated for Ebola he contracted while working in Liberia.<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: tba<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN)</b> Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• Dr. Anthony Fauci, director the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health<br />
• Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif<br />
• Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif.<br />
• Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.<br />
• Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: CNN Political Commentators Newt Gingrich and Stephanie Cutter join The Hill's A.B. Stoddard and political predictor Sam Wang.<br />
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<li type=square><b>HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid</b><br />
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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!<br />
• FRONT PORCH FRIDAY!! Featuring the Malloy/H.O.R.N. Skype Group! Listen here NOW! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(24-10-2014).mp3" target="_blank">Friday, October 24th, 2014</a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.crmw.net</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT</b> With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!<br />
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<b> The Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen:</b> 6 minutes of green news, politics, analysis & snarky comment! BOOKMARK <a href="http://greennews.bradblog.com/" target="_blank">greennews.bradblog.com</a> NOW!<br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10883 target="_blank">'Green News Report' - October 21, 2014</a> IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Rep. Paul Ryan backs away - sort of - from outright climate science denial; Have we reached peak climate change denial?; Turns out natural gas isn't a bridge fuel to a low-emissions future; PLUS: Did a U.S. defense contractor really invent a compact nuclear fusion reactor? Separating fact from fiction... All that and more in today's Green News Report! ..... IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link) Appalachian transition: coalfield residents must help themselves to diversify; Green groups sue over EPA GMO pesticide approval; Hanford nuclear workers reveal shoddy practices; Fact and fiction on the Arctic methane bomb; Risks of cheap water; Los Angeles mayor orders water cuts of 20% amid historic drought; Can Africa bypass the pollution phase of development?; Russian natgas shutdown would not hurt Europe; Autism again linked to air pollution ... PLUS: In Wisconsin, Dark Money Got A Mining Company What It Wanted... and much, MUCH more! ...<br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10872" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - October 14, 2014</a> Coal wins Kentucky's U.S. Senate debate!; Pentagon warns climate change an immediate threat to national security; East Coast cities could see daily flooding from rising seas within 30 years; Wind power the cheapest source of energy; PLUS: It's official: September 2014 was the hottest September on record globally (Don't tell Fox 'News'!)... All that and more in today's Green News Report!<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10859" target="_blank">'BradCast': Special Coverage of WI, TX, AR Photo ID Rulings</a> Trouble keeping up with the on-again/off-again court rulings on GOP voter suppression laws? Brad tries to make sense of it all for ya... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10888" target="_blank">SCOTUS ALLOWS TEXAS' DISCRIMINATORY GOP PHOTO ID LAW TO USED IN MIDTERMS</a> Despite uncontested findings striking down the law as a racially-motivated, 'unconstitutional poll tax', it will be implemented this year... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10889" target="_blank">Congresswoman Sets Impeachment Deadline for Federal Judge Mark Fuller</a> ALSO: Court unseals divorce docs from first marriage, Fuller attorney dismisses abuse allegations as 'rhetorical questions'... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10894" target="_blank">Justice Ginsburg Republishes TX Photo ID Law Dissent After BRAD BLOG Cites Error</a> Turns out U.S. Veterans' Affairs ID can be used to vote under new GOP voting restrictions in TX. Official SCOTUS opinion updated... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10896" target="_blank">Christie: GOP Governors Needs to Control 'Voting Mechanisms' in 2016</a> NJ Governor and 2016 Presidential hopeful offers interesting reason why Republicans in three key states need to win in 2014... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10898" target="_blank">Touch-Screens Flip 'No' to 'Yes' on TN Abortion Measure</a> After the state GOP repealed the law to move to paper ballots, votes now reportedly flipping again on a controversial Amendment to the state Constitution... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10879" target="_blank">Emergency Appeals Filed at SCOTUS to Restore Voting Rights to 600,000 in TX</a> GOP Photo ID law, which lower court found intentionally discriminatory, is different from recent cases before High Court, say plaintiffs...<br />
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<li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b><br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <br />
<ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• PBC News & Comment 16 Oct 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-pennsylvania-shreds-first-amendment-in-effort-to-silence-mumia-abu-jamal/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Pennsylvania Shreds First Amendment in Effort to Silence Mumia Abu-Jamal</a> Pennsylvania shreds First Amendment with new law aimed at silencing Mumia Abu-Jamal; hear Mumia’s reaction and comments from Noelle Hanrahan<br />
• PBC News & Comment 22 Oct 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-attacks-in-ottawa-jerusalem-draw-quick-tags-of-terrorism/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Attacks in Ottawa, Jerusalem Draw Quick Tags of “Terrorism”</a> Before we have any real evidence, officials in Canada and Israel are branding recent attacks as “terrorism”; let’s wait-and-see……<br />
• PBC News & Comment 16 Oct 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-attacks-in-ottawa-jerusalem-draw-quick-tags-of-terrorism/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Super-Secret Stingray Surveillance System isn’t Secret in Charlotte Anymore</a> Charlotte’s Observer exposes use of Stingray cellphone dragnet system, not limited to terrorism cases as local officials thought….. <br />
• PBC News & Comment 17 Oct 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-u2s-bono-apologizes-to-itunes-users-and-many-important-stories-too/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: U2’s Bono Apologizes to iTunes Users, and Many Important Stories, Too!</a> Bono’s apology, plus exposure of possible corruption at top of NSA, Stingray deployed in Washington, DC–lots to report today…..<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast October 22 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/10/22/outspoken-katha-pollitt-stands-up-for-abortion-rights-with-her-new-book-pro/" target="_blank">Outspoken Katha Pollitt Stands Up for Abortion Rights with Her New Book, “Pro”</a> Columnist and author Katha Pollitt dropped by the secret studio for this in-depth interview about the renewed struggle over abortion rights and birth control. <br />
• PBC Standard Podcast October 24, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/10/24/hear-mumia-abu-jamal-denounce-pennsylvanias-unconstitutional-gag-law/" target="_blank">Hear Mumia Abu-Jamal Denounce Pennsylvania’s Unconstitutional Gag Law</a> Noelle Hanrahan of Prison Radio explains the new law that was rammed through the legislature and signed today by the desperate governor of Pennsylvania, aimed at silencing Mumia Abu-Jamal. <br />
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Ring of Fire Radio - GoLeft TV - Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, Sam Seder - Politics, Commentary, and News.<br />
<a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weekend-on-ring-of-fire-radio-16/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire October 16, 2014</a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
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• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-week-on-ring-of-fire-on-free-speech-tv/" target="_blank">Ring of Fire’s Weekly Rewind</a> Posted on August 9, 2014 by Ring of Fire - Ring of Fire’s top stories from the past week.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/glenn-greenwald-why-privacy-matters/" target="_blank">Glenn Greenwald: Why Privacy Matters</a> by Joshua Schwitzerlett<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/george-carlin-knew-the-truth-about-republicans/" target="_blank">George Carlin Knew the Truth About Republicans</a> <br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/with-governors-race-in-a-dead-heat-rnc-co-chair-insults-wisconsin-voters/" target="_blank">With Governor’s Race in a Dead Heat, RNC Co-Chair Basically Calls Wisconsin Voters Stupid</a> by Amy Eddings - Sharon Day, co-chair of the Republican National Committee (RNC), recently insulted Wisconsin voters while speaking about the tight governor’s race at a Republican Party field office in Waukesha. On Monday, according to the <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/279836702.html" target="_blank">Milwaukee Journal Sentinel</a>, Day told the audience, “It’s not going to be an easy election; it’s a close election. Like I said, much closer than I can even understand why.” “I don’t want to say anything about your Wisconsin voters,” said Day, “but some of them might not be as sharp as a knife.”<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/thom-hartmann-fukushima-radiation-testing-positive-on-the-west-coast/" target="_blank">Thom Hartmann: Fukushima Radiation Testing Positive on the West Coast</a> by Ring of Fire<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/chris-christie-says-gop-can-only-win-if-they-control-who-votes/" target="_blank">Chris Christie Says GOP Can Only Win If They Control Who Votes</a> by Guest Blogger <br />
• Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the "Podcast" tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/blogengine/" target="_blank">Ring of Fire Radio</a> Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, <b>rebroadcasts 7-10 et Sunday evenings on <a href="http://www.chicagoprogressivetalk.com/listen/" target="_blank">Chicago's Progressive Talk WCPT AM & FM</a> and 4 pm et on Sirius/XM 167 featuring The PAP Attack! </b> "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week." <br />
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<li type=square><b>Majority Report with Sam Seder</b> Streaming LIVE weekdays 12 NOON et @ <a href="http://Majority.fm" target="_blank">Majority.fm</a>! <br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/10-20-14-dani-mc-clain-why-black-women-are-the-voting-bloc-to-watch-in-the-midterms-brianna-wu-gamer-gate" target="_blank"> 10/20/14 Dani McClain: Why Black Women Are the Voting Bloc to Watch in the Midterms & Brianna Wu: GamerGate</a> <br />
• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/10-21-14-james-risen-pay-any-price-greed-power-and-endless-war" target="_blank">10/21/14 James Risen: Pay Any Price: Greed, Power, and Endless War</a> <br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/10-22-14-chris-christie-sick-of-the-minimum-wage-ebola-craziness-your-problems-with-sam" target="_blank">10/22/14 Chris Christie Sick of the Minimum Wage?, Ebola Craziness & Your Problems With Sam</a> <br />
• THURSDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/10-23-14-carne-ross-a-post-corporate-world-gamer-gate" target="_blank">10/23/14 Carne Ross: A Post Corporate World? & #GamerGate</a> <br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/10-24-14-cliff-schecter-richard-kind-casual-friday" target="_blank">10/24/14 Cliff Schecter & Richard Kind: Casual Friday!</a> <br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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<li type=square><b>KEISER REPORT</b> Podcasts and more @ <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/" target="_blank">MaxKeiser.com</a>!<br />
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<b>"HI Y'ALL! Tell the people! Tell the people!"</b><br />
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 <a href="http://www.karmabanque.com/" target="_blank">KarmaBanque</a> a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. <br />
• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport" target="_blank">Keiser Report</a> <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/goldman-and-blackstone-enter-spanish-real-estate-pain-and-suffering-for-poor-people-immediately-ensues/" target="_blank">Goldman and Blackstone Enter Spanish Real Estate – Pain and Suffering for Poor People Immediately Ensues</a> by Michael Krieger — Less than a month ago, I warned the people of Spain that U.S. financial oligarchs had their sights set on the nation. The post was titled, <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">BTV</a>Your Wall Street Slumlord Arrives in Europe – Goldman and Other Financial Firms Launch “Buy to Rent” in Spain. The effects are already being felt across the poor areas of Madrid. Read the rest <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/10/24/goldman-and-blackstone-enter-spanish-real-estate-pain-and-suffering-for-poor-people-immediately-ensues/" target="_blank">HERE</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/unveiled-threat-a-personal-experience-of-fundamentalist-islam-and-the-roots-of-terrorism/" target="_blank">Unveiled Threat: A Personal Experience of Fundamentalist Islam and the Roots of Terrorism</a> by Janet Tavakoli — In the world of fundamentalist Islam, a woman who refuses to submit is an unveiled threat, especially if she knows how to follow the money - In 1978, Janet Tavakoli, born and raised in the United States, moved to Iran with her husband. The large class divide, grand ambitions of the insecure Shah, discontent among religious leaders, brutality of the dictatorship, and, crucially, an old grudge against the United States, were about to spark the Islamic revolution. A year later, she left her husband and Iran behind and began her career as a globally renowned financial derivatives expert. In 1993, she was in the World Trade Center complex when terrorists detonated a bomb in the parking garage of the North Tower. In September 2014, Tavakoli asked His Excellency Iyad bin Amin Madani, Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), why criminals from so many different countries and cultures continue to band together in the name of Islam to commit mayhem and murder authorized by the highest levels of Islamic clergy. He dodged the question. <a href="http://mybook.to/unveiledthreat" target="_blank">Unveiled Threat</a> is her answer based on her personal experiences and study of the roots of terrorism. Tavakoli follows the trail of money that funds the mayhem. <br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/dr-strangeloves-vision-of-utopia-from-1966-looks-a-whole-lot-like-the-uk-usa-2014/" target="_blank">Dr Strangelove’s vision of Utopia from 1966 looks a whole lot like the UK & USA 2014</a> by Stacy Herbert — Stacy Summary: I’ve read this recent <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/HAPPIDROME-Part-One" target="_blank">blog post by Adam Curtis</a> which has left me feeling quite nauseous! The creepiest bit is the part highlighting Herman Kahn’s vision from 1966 of how to create utopia without violence. Before the clip, here is the info you should read about Herman Kahn who was the founder of the Hudson Institute, an employee of the RAND Corporation and one of the inspirations for the character Dr. Strangelove. Watch the clip here (hopefully non-UK can also watch?) in which he (along with his assistant) sets out how to create a Utopia without violence: [video] Obviously, this ‘Utopia’ has been enacted as populations have willingly given up their privacy in exchange for this ‘Utopia.’ Adam Curtis then goes on to highlight a clip with BF Skinner, also from the same 1966 film on Utopia. <i> The film records an experiment in a mental hospital in San Bernadino – California. The patients are given rewards in the form of plastic fake money if they do what the doctors consider the right social behaviour. They can then use that money at meal-times to buy their way onto a “nice” table – with tablecloth and flowers. Those without the rewards have to eat – as one of the nurses puts it, “in less elegant conditions”. <b> What emerges in the hospital is a new, ordered hierarchy created by a system of reward – but one where the patients don’t feel controlled – instead they feel “empowered” because it was through their actions that they received the reward. Skinner makes clear in the film that he sees this as a model for how to run a future kind of society.</b></i> Watch the clip at the <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurtis/posts/HAPPIDROME-Part-One" target="_blank">BBC link</a> .................<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/metals-markets-silver-miner-fights-back-takes-on-the-bankster-cartel/" target="_blank">Metals & Markets- Silver Miner Fights Back, Takes on the Bankster Cartel!</a> by The Doc — In this week’s Metals & Markets, The Doc & Eric Dubin break down the week’s action discussing: <br />
»» First Majestic Silver takes on the cartel- holds back 35% of Q3 silver production- CEO Keith Neumeyer issues call for silver miners to form their own cartel to put an end once and for all to paper manipulation<br />
»» Russian/ US Geopolitical crisis escalates- Putin warns of MAJOR CONFLICT with US, loss of reserve currency status for dollar<br />
»» Silver market tightens- premiums are on the rise as Royal Canadian Mint begins allocating silver maples, major private mints running production delays on PHYSICAL metal<br />
»» Gold predictably capped at $1250- whats next for gold & silver? <br />
Read more <a href="http://www.silverdoctors.com/metals-markets-silver-miner-fights-back-takes-on-the-bankster-cartel/" target="_blank">HERE</a>......<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/kr669-keiser-report-apocalypse-now/" target="_blank">[KR669] Keiser Report – Apocalypse Now</a> We discuss the horror, the horror of the apocalyptic scenes that central bankers have wrought upon the innocent and the deranged alike. This apocalyptic aftermath of meeting the Colonel Kurtz like central bankers is an economy in which the under-30s are left behind and the pauperization of workers through inflation. We also look at the testimony in the lawsuit by Maurice ‘Hank’ Greenberg in which it was revealed that then Treasury Secretary, Hank Paulson lied to Congress! In the second half, Max interviews Mitch Feierstein of PlanetPonzi.com about how democracy has been vaporised in the UK and the result is the falling wages which have led to protests in the streets of London.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/kr670-keiser-report-market-cycle-horrors/" target="_blank">[KR670] Keiser Report: Market Cycle Horrors</a> We discuss the looming crisis as investors chasing yield have piled into obscure and less-liquid assets leading to sell-offs in the more liquid markets during panics as investors sell what they can. We also discuss Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac and the FHFA (Federal Housing Finance Agency) lowering bank obligations on buybacks in order to spur more subprime lending. In the second half, Max continues his interview with Mitch Feierstein of PlanetPonzi.com about financial markets on the precipice.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/kr671-keiser-report-sinking-british-ship/" target="_blank">[KR671] Keiser Report: Sinking British Ship</a> We discuss the increasingly bankrupt British government as a sinking ship on George Osborne’s river of denial. We also discuss the remedy for the ‘too many poor people’ for democracy problem being global trade deals like TTIP and TPP whereby elected leaders can claim ‘their hands are tied’ by contractual obligations. In the second half, Max interviews Helena Norberg-Hodge of LocalFutures.org about the Economics of Happiness in a time of rising inequality.<br />
• THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/07/the-truth-about-markets-28-june-2014/" target="_blank">The Truth About Markets – 28 June 2014</a> Stacy Summary: We talk about bogus collateral driving global housing bubbles. <a href="https://ia902509.us.archive.org/19/items/TaM28062014/TaM-28062014.mp3" target="_blank">Download show HERE</a> (mp3) <br />
• THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/07/the-truth-about-cold-wars-bad-facelifts/" target="_blank">The Truth About Cold Wars & Bad Facelifts</a> <a href="https://ia902504.us.archive.org/31/items/TaM19072014/TaM-19072014.mp3" target="_blank">Download show HERE</a> (mp3) • Donate to ResonanceFM <a href="http://resonancefm.com/support" target="_blank">here</a>! </p><p><br />
<li type=square><b>The Scott Horton Radio Show</b><br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It’s been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show’s important milestones, as well as preview some of the exciting projects to look for in the near future. ........ The show on Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A., still called Antiwar Radio, has now moved to join their Sunday morning public affairs line up (8:30 am pt - http://kpfk.org), and remains the largest source of listeners, with 15,000-20,000 people tuning in weekly. The future: Liberty Express Radio is growing and bringing me along for the ride. The great Charles Goyette hooked me up with Alan Butler and the Liberty Express earlier this year, and what has been the daily replay there from 3-5 eastern time has become my best listened-to show. And now they’re adding my friend Tom Woods to the lineup from 2-3 PM. That does it. I’m making the switch! Starting Monday, October 14, the live show is moving to 3-5 PM Eastern time on LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-3 PM Eastern!</b><br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/10/22/102214-andrew-cockburn/" target="_blank">10/22/14 Andrew Cockburn</a>: Andrew Cockburn, author of <i>Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy</i>, discusses his article “<a href="http://harpers.org/blog/2014/09/flying-blind/" target="_blank">Flying Blind: The U.S. air-power lobby, botched bombing missions, and bootless combat</a>.“<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/10/23/102314-shane-bauer/" target="_blank">10/23/14 Shane Bauer</a>: Shane Bauer, a reporter in Mother Jones‘ San Francisco bureau, discusses his investigation of a SWAT team training competition in the San Francisco area and his article “<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/swat-warrior-cops-police-militarization-urban-shield" target="_blank">The Making of the Warrior Cop</a>.”<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/10/23/102314-patrick-cockburn/" target="_blank">10/23/14 Patrick Cockburn</a>: Patrick Cockburn, an award-winning journalist with The Independent, discusses the <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-in-kobani-us-loses-patience-with-turkey-and-resupplies-kurdish-fighters-by-plane--then-ankara-allows-reinforcements-through-9807183.html" target="_blank">US airdrop to resupply Kurdish fighters</a> battling ISIS for control of the Syrian border town of Kobani; Turkey’s reluctance to help the Kurds; and the US’s ridiculous anti-ISIS coalition. <br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/10/24/102414-peter-hart/" target="_blank">10/24/14 Peter Hart</a>: Peter Hart, the activism director at Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, discusses the latest <a href="http://www.fair.org/blog/2014/10/21/wash-post-webb/" target="_blank">media hit piece on journalist Gary Webb</a>, who reported on the links between the CIA, the Contras, and the crack epidemic in the 1980s.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>fauxnews </b><br />
• Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases<br />
• New Jersey Governor Chris Christie (R)<br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>Side Saddle Sunday!</b> We totally missed last week as the Brick TeeVee Crew face calamity after calamity, chaos and confusion! We've regrouped somewhat as we prepare the BTV grounds for our first ever All Hallows Eve Costume Ball on Halloween Night! Lots to do still but we finally have a "normal" Saturday evening to put together a semi-normal BTV missive. See all the links below and click ANYTHING to be INSTANTLY SMARTER! <br />
<center><img src="http://www.thesmilies.com/smilies/halloween/bat.gif" alt="flying bat" /> <img src="http://www.thesmilies.com/smilies/halloween/bat.gif" alt="flying bat" /> <img src="http://www.thesmilies.com/smilies/halloween/bat.gif" alt="flying bat" /></center>OF COURSE the country is gripping in EEK-bola fear and the Main SCREAM Media MUST do its part to exacerbate this near-zero-per-cent chance YOU WILL BE EXPOSED AND DIE narrative. Leading the pack on the Sunday Funnies is DOCTOR ANTHONY "Tony" FAUCI, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases who gets his own Infectious Disease Control security detail to visit State of The Candy, Meet the Chuck, Face the Bob, This Snafugopolis and FAKE SNOOZE where he will demonstrate how to properly don Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) that most U.S. hospitals <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/news/some-u-s-hospitals-may-be-ill-equipped-to-handle-ebola/" target="_blank">DO NOT HAVE</a>. FSN anchor CHRIS WALLACE reportedly will spray-paint Dr. Fauci with red goop on a FAKE hospital set (like those used by FAKE SPORTS football guys) and laugh hilariously as Dr. Fauci tries to not get the fake blood on his body as he attempts to disrobe his PPE. Watch Chris Wallace FREAK OUT when he gets splashed with the fake red goop! Great laughs! BTV Editor-At-Large MADDY has this one courtesy Josh Marshall's TalkingPointsMemo: <font color=maroon>TPM Reader JM on Rick Scott, hospital preparedness and the "Ebola cart" <a href="http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/its-an-object-of-gallows-humor-for-the-staff" target="_blank">"It’s An Object of Gallows Humor for the Staff"</a> <ul>I have a perspective tying together today’s big news brouhahas. My wife is an ER nurse at a major urban hospital owned by the Hospital Corporation of America, the hospital chain once run by Rick Scott. It’s the largest for-profit medical system in the world, and is of course also notable for its ‘creative billing’ practices in the largest Medicare fraud settlement in history. Scott was booted from the CEO position following that fraud investigation, so he’s not directly responsible for current conditions in those hospitals. But it is obvious to those who work there that the combination of lax training and toxic labor relations ‘leaders’ like him have brought to the company are emblematic of a big problem for US hospitals if a major outbreak of ebola or other infectious disease occurs. My wife’s ER has an ‘ebola cart’ with some lightweight protective gear and written instructions for putting on a PPE, but the instructions are a loose bundle of papers and the pictures don’t match the gear in the cart and has inaccuracies that put them at serious risk. It’s an object of gallows humor for the staff. That’s the totality of their training or preparedness so far. As we all now know, PPEs are not easy to put on and take off correctly. Even though nurses all have experience with standard droplet control (they see TB and HIV all the time), ebola is a special case. They have gone months and months without a nurse education director because no one wants to deal with their management and take the position. Her coworkers are clear that they will refuse to treat an ebola patient because they have woefully inadequate training in the correct procedures and lack proper gear. And yet the head of infectious disease at this hospital went on the local news to proclaim the hospital was ready to receive ebola patients safely. They obviously didn’t bother to speak to a single nurse on the front lines. I’m not particularly panic-y about ebola, even though obviously the family members of ER personnel have a lot at stake in ebola preparedness. But I think that this situation will be the weak link in any major national response. So many of our hospitals are run by lunatics like Rick Scott who seek only the highest profit margin. They do not invest in training, they build charting mechanisms that are good for billing but not treating patients, they constantly fight with their unionized employees, they lie to the public, etc, etc. We like to imagine that competent, highly-skilled medical institutions like Emory will save us, but we have way more Dallas Presbyterians in this country than we have Emorys. You can see exactly this managerial incompetence—and toxic labor relations—woven through the statement released by the nurses at Dallas Presbyterian today. Also see the head of National Nurses United on All In With Chris Hayes for a similar perspective. To put it bluntly: we’ve entrusted our national medical system to the managerial competence and goodwill of the Rick Scotts of the world, and that is much scarier than a podium fan.</ul></font> CAN YOU BELIEVE IT? (If you're unfamiliar with the "Rick Scott-fan-gate" angst see BradBlog <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10876" target="_blank">WTF?!: Florida Gov. Rick Scott Refuses to Come Out on Stage for Gubernatorial Debate [VIDEO]</a>) So for all the brouhaha about the bennies "Obamacare" DO give to the "uninsured" one big sty-in-the-eye is the fact that Big Pharma & Big Med INS COs will reap HUGE $$$$$$$$ in profits <a href="http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/2013/10/biggest-winners-in-obamacare-the-health-insurance-companies-very-progressive/" target="_blank">Biggest winners in Obamacare? The health insurance companies. Very “progressive.”</a> <br />
<center><img src="http://www.againstcronycapitalism.org/wp-content/uploads/ocare-Big-5-565x259.png" alt="obamacare_medinsprofits" /></center><b>Barrack Obama is the largest enabler of the big 5 health insurance companies there has ever been, by a long shot......</b> The For-Profit Health Care "Model" was brought to light on the Big Screen in 2007 with Michael Moore's <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/sicko/" target="_blank">SiCKO</a> so preview that for background info. Of course it shouldn't be poor shtoop Dr. Fauci on the telly but instead the REAL U.S. SURGEON GENERAL, no? Guess what? The U.S. DOES NOT HAVE A SURGEON GENERAL! Why? <a href="http://commonhealth.wbur.org/2014/03/doctors-vivek-murthy-blocked" target="_blank">Doctors ‘Aghast’ That Surgeon General Nominee Blocked For Gun Control Views</a> <font color=navy>In another time and place, a nominee like Dr. Vivek Murthy, with a narrative so akin to conservative politicians like Sens. Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio, would sail through Senate confirmation as the nation’s surgeon general. But in our time and place, special interest groups have hijacked Dr. Murthy’s nomination, as they have the entirety of the American political process. As physicians and students of public service, we are aghast. .......... This new style of McCarthyism comes at a time when the United States leads the world in gun deaths and 15 months after the tragedy at Newtown. After all, even C. Everett Koop, the legendary surgeon general nominated by Ronald Reagan, described gun violence as a public health emergency. But in our America, facts such as these have little impact in the national debate. The NRA’s influence – and that of countless special interest groups like it – cannot be ignored.....</font> Of course this all goes back to the GOPhers plotting to BLOCK each and every move by Obomer that just might move the country forward as outlined in the new <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/25/robert-draper-anti-obama-campaign_n_1452899.html" target="_blank">Robert Draper Book: GOP's Anti-Obama Campaign Started Night Of Inauguration</a> <font color=navy>WASHINGTON -- As President Barack Obama was celebrating his inauguration at various balls, top Republican lawmakers and strategists were conjuring up ways to submarine his presidency at a private dinner in Washington. The event -- which provides a telling revelation for how quickly the post-election climate soured -- serves as the prologue of Robert Draper's much-discussed and heavily-reported new book, "Do Not Ask What Good We Do: Inside the U.S. House of Representatives." ........ For several hours in the Caucus Room (a high-end D.C. establishment), the book says they plotted out ways to not just win back political power, but to also put the brakes on Obama's legislative platform. "If you act like you're the minority, you're going to stay in the minority," Draper quotes McCarthy as saying. "We've gotta challenge them on every single bill and challenge them on every single campaign."..........</font> And challenge they have resulting in the most disfunctional Congress seen in decades. Kevin Drum and Jaeah Lee at Mother Jones figured out <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/11/charts-explain-why-democrats-went-nuclear-filibuster" target="_blank">3 Charts Explain Why Democrats Went Nuclear on the Filibuster</a> <font color=blue>For all practical purposes, Republicans had declared war on Obama's very legitimacy as president, forbidding him from carrying out a core constitutional duty. Begging and pleading and cutting deals was no longer on the table. Eliminating the filibuster for judicial and executive branch nominees was the only option left, and on Thursday that's what Democrats finally did.</font> I guess that's why in part we at BTV refer to the GOPhers as Regressives and Troglodytes! It's fairly obvious to the uninterested observer that the GOPhers have NO INTEREST in uplifting their fellow citizens but would rather take re-election campaign ca$h from transnational corporate conglomerates to do THE EXACT OPPOSITE. Even though the Dems feed at some of the same troughs of "dialing for dollars" Korporate Ka$h by-and-large these Dems are moving the ball FORWARD not BACKWARD like Senators Warren, Sanders, Brown and others down-ticket. Even full-blown corporatists like Mary Landrieu and Dianne Feinstein are nominally better than their tea-bag counterparts. As we move toward Election Day November 4th we ask that you to engage yer friends, neighbors, co-workers and even complete strangers and educate them on the importance of rejecting any and all GOPhers and their REGRESSIVE, DESTRUCTIVE and plain WRONG policies that have all but turned this country into a form of corporate feudalism not seen here in a over a century. The pendulum has swung way too far RIGHT and MUST SWING the other way, and FAST as the human race faces innumerable challenges, starting with global anthropogenic climate change and corporate pillaging of carbon resources followed by the house-of-cards global capitalistic monetary system ready to implode that fuels the corporate pillaging (with OUR tax dollars mind you). So this Mid-Term election is BIG! HUGE! Let the 2014 Election be the one remembered in history as beginning of the Big Pendulum Swing. If we're successful in 2014 we might have a fighting chance GOING FORWARD. Saner heads MUST prevail! <br />
Geeze look at the time! We'll be back with an updated rant later Sunday (barring more catastrophe and chaos) so STAY TUNED! Throw bricks at MARSHA "CRAZY EYES" BLACKBURN of Tennessee on Face the Bob, aptly-named ROY BLUNT on Meet The Toad and TED "death-to-castro" CRUZ on State of The Candy! Click ANYTHING BELOW to be INSTANTLY SMARTER especially Tuesday's DEMOCRACY NOW! with JAMES RISEN and SAM SEDER with RYAN GRIMM from HuffPoAOL on the huge new docu <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/10/kill-the-messenger_n_5962708.html" target="_blank">Kill The Messenger: How The Media Destroyed Gary Webb</a>. More war and peace items later so see you later! Have a great Sunday! <br />
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<p><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/13/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Monday, October 13, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Ferguson October</b> Democracy Now! was there this weekend when thousands of people traveled to St. Louis to take part in "Ferguson October," four days of action calling for justice in Brown’s case and the reform of police practices nationwide. <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/13/thousands_march_in_ferguson_for_police" target="_blank">Ferguson October: Thousands March in St. Louis for Police Reform & Arrest of Officer Darren Wilson</a> <br />
<li><b>Kshama Sawant, Socialist Seattle city councilmember in Seattle</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/13/seattle_marks_indigenous_people_s_day" target="_blank">Seattle Marks Indigenous Peoples’ Day Amid Calls to End Federal Holiday Celebrating Columbus</a> <br />
<li><b>MORE Kshama Sawant</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/13/socialist_city_councilmember_on_nobel_prize" target="_blank">Socialist City Councilmember on Nobel Prize Winner Malala Yousafzai: "Socialism is the Only Answer"</a> <br />
<li><b>Saru Jayaraman, co-director and co-founder ROC United, ROC member Ashley Ogogor in NYC & Eve Ensler, award-winning playwright and author of The Vagina Monologues</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/13/campaigners_call_for_one_fair_wage" target="_blank">Campaigners Call for "One Fair Wage" to Help End Sexual Harassment for Tipped Restaurant Workers</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/14/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Tuesday, October 14, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>James Risen, an investigative journalist with The New York Times</b> We spend the hour with veteran New York Times investigative reporter James Risen, the journalist at the center of one of the most significant press freedom cases in decades. <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/14/james_risen_prepared_to_pay_any" target="_blank">James Risen Prepared to "Pay Any Price" to Report on War on Terror Amid Crackdown on Whistleblowers</a> AND <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/14/james_risen_on_nsa_whistleblower_edward" target="_blank">James Risen on NSA Whistleblower Edward Snowden: He Sparked a New National Debate on Surveillance</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/15/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Wednesday, October 15, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Karen Higgins, registered nurse and co-president of National Nurses United</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/15/as_second_dallas_nurse_diagnosed_with" target="_blank">As Second Dallas Nurse Diagnosed with Ebola, Are U.S. Hospitals Failing Healthcare Workers?</a> <br />
<li><b>Lawrence Gostin, university professor and faculty director at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University & Karen Higgins</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/15/infected_workers_slow_deployment_no_vaccines" target="_blank">Infected Workers, Slow Deployment, No Vaccines: Ebola Response Shows Pitfalls of Privatized Health</a> <br />
<li><b>Tanalís Padilla, associate professor of Latin American history at Dartmouth College</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/15/mexicos_missing_students_were_43_attacked" target="_blank">Mexico’s Missing Students: Were 43 Attacked by Cartel-Linked Police Targeted for Their Activism?</a> <br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/16/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Thursday, October 16, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Michelle Dynes, a nurse and epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/16/a_us_nurse_witnesses_ebolas_ravages" target="_blank">A U.S. Nurse Witnesses Ebola’s Ravages in Sierra Leone, Where Horrific Conditions Claim Lives Daily</a> <br />
<li><b>Leigh Phillips, is a science writer and European Union affairs journalist</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/16/an_unprofitable_disease_in_the_political" target="_blank">An Unprofitable Disease: In the Political Economy of Ebola, Who Lives and Who Dies?</a><br />
<li><b>Amy Hagstrom Miller, ounder and CEO of Whole Woman’s Health</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/16/a_little_shout_of_joy_supreme" target="_blank">A Little Shout of Joy: Supreme Court Lets Abortion Clinics Reopen, Easing Crisis of Access in Texas</a> <br />
<li><b>Katha Pollitt, a columnist for The Nation magazine</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/16/abortion_as_a_social_good_author" target="_blank">Abortion as a Social Good: Author Katha Pollitt Pens New Vision for Pro-Choice Movement</a><br />
</ul><a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/17/headlines" target="_blank">Headlines Friday, Friday, October 17, 2014</a> <ul><li><b>Reginald Holmes, pastor of the New Covenant Christian Church/Alpha and Omega Ministries & Susan Greene, editor of The Colorado Independent</b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/17/in_historic_police_brutality_case_family" target="_blank">In Historic Police Brutality Case, Family of Homeless Denver Pastor Killed in Custody Awarded $4.6M</a> <br />
<li><b>Mike Littwin, longtime Denver Post political columnist who now writes for The Colorado Independent </b> <a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/10/17/in_tight_midterms_facing_low_turnout" target="_blank">In Tight Midterms Facing Low Turnout, Colorado’s Senate Race Could Decide Who Controls Congress</a> <br />
</ul><p><img src="http://grittv.org/wp-content/themes/grit/images/logo.gif" height=100 alt="GRITtv" /> <a href="http://www.lauraflanders.com/grittv/" target="_blank">GRITtv</a> @ <a href="http://www.grittv.org" target="_blank">www.grittv.org</a> with Laura Flanders </br > »»» <b>VIDEO OF THE WEEK</b> <a href="http://grittv.org/?video=roxanne-dunbar-oritz-on-pre-colonial-socialism" target="_blank">Roxanne Dunbar-Oritz on Pre-Colonial Socialism</a> Author and historian Roxanne Dunbar Ortiz joins GRITtv to discuss how the history of genocide of Native peoples affects all people of the US, even today. In Chew On This, Laura talks to Tom Goldtooth about today's solutions to the problem - what does indigenous sustainable society look like? And the F Word with Laura Flanders........ more! <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE SPORT!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></b></font></font> </br > »»» <b>NASCAR on ESPN</b> GEICO 500 from the Taladega Super Speedway! Coverage begins at 2 pm et </br > »»» <b>FOOTBALL NIGHT on NBC</b> 49ers @ Broncos 8:30 pm et</br > »»» <b>MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL on ESPN</b> Texans @ Steelers 8:30 pm et </br > »»» <b>MLB WORLD SERIES on FOX</b> It's the San Francisco Giants vs. Kansas City Royals in this year's Fall Classic! First two games at Kaufman Stadium Tue & Wed then shifts to AT&T Park for the next three games on Fri, Sat, Sun! All games begin at 8:07 pm et</br > <p><font size=4><b><u>BRICK TEEVEE ACTION!</u><font size=1><sub>©</sub></font></b></font></br > <font size=4><b>The 1st Amendment is Our Permit</b></font> <font color=red> Our permit to occupy is The First Amendment.</font> <a href="http://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=4882" target="_blank">Quickly sign the following statement</a> which will be delivered to mayors, police chiefs and major media across the country: <ul><b>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.</b></ul><p><font size=4><b>StrikeDebt.org & RollingJubilee.org!</b></font> <font color=blue>A bailout of the people by the people <a href="http://rollingjubilee.org/" target="_blank">Rolling Jubilee</a> is a <a href="http://strikedebt.org/" target="_blank">Strike Debt</a> 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.</font> <i>ADDENDUM: Naked Capitalism reports <a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/12/tax-authority-confirms-our-doubts-about-occupy-wall-streets-debt-buyingforgiveness-scheme.html" target="_blank">Top Tax Expert Confirms Our Doubts About Occupy Wall Street’s Debt Buying/Forgiveness Scheme</a></i> <p><font size=3><b>Community-Wealth.org</b> </font><a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland</a> <b>Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity.</b> Featuring <a href="http://community-wealth.org/content/cleveland-model-how-evergreen-cooperatives-are-building-community-wealth" target="_blank">Overview: The Cleveland Model—How the Evergreen Cooperatives are Building Community Wealth</a> <font color=blue><b>Something important is happening in Cleveland.</b> 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 <b>The Cleveland Model</b>. 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.</font> Find more many resources at <a href="http://community-wealth.org" target="_blank">Community-Wealth.org</a>! <p><font size=3><b>NET NEUTRALITY! <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/" target="_blank">SaveTheInternet.com</a></b></font> <a href="http://www.savetheinternet.com/internet-declaration" target="_blank">Declaration of Internet Freedom</a> <i> 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. <b>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.</b> 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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internetdeclaration" target="_blank">sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom</a>.</i> <font color=red><b>ACTION! <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_break/" target="_blank">Stop the FCC from Breaking the Internet</a> The Federal Communications Commission is proposing rules that would kill — rather than protect — Net Neutrality and allow rampant discrimination online. Under these rules, telecom giants like AT&T, Comcast and Verizon would be able to pick winners and losers online and discriminate against online content and applications. And no one would be able to do anything about it. We must stop the FCC from moving forward with these rules, which would give the green light to ISPs eager to crush Net Neutrality. The agency can preserve Net Neutrality only by designating broadband as a telecommunications service under the law. Anything else is an attack on our rights to connect and communicate. Tell FCC Chairman Wheeler to throw out his proposed rules. Demand nothing less than real Net Neutrality.</b> SIGN NOW at <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/internet_fcc_break/" target="_blank">Stop the FCC from Breaking the Internet</a> at freepress.net NOW. </font> Join the Day of Action on May 15! The Internet will rise up online and take to the streets. <a href="http://act.freepress.net/survey/DC_May_15/" target="_blank">SIGN UP HERE</a> to learn more! <p><b><font size=3> <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">Stop Media Consolidation!</a></b> </font>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 <a href="http://act.freepress.net/sign/murdoch_powergrab/?source=website_actions" target="_blank">HERE</a> to view our infographic and send a message to the FCC! More info at <a href="http://stopthecap.com/2012/12/05/another-fcc-cave-in-julius-genachowskis-media-consolidation-christmas-gift-to-murdoch/" target="_blank">Another FCC Cave-In: Julius Genachowski’s Media Consolidation Christmas Gift to Murdoch</a> at StopTheCap.com! And Sign Senator Bernie Sanders petition to the FCC <a href="http://www.sanders.senate.gov/petition/?uid=76f1a6c9-0caa-47ce-9171-6b62ccbbfd3a" target="_blank">Protect Media Diversity: Stop Media Consolidation</a>! NEW!!! NATION ACTION! <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/178479/stop-comcasttime-warner-cable-merger" target="_blank">Stop the Comcast/Time Warner Cable Merger</a>! GO THERE NOW! <p><font size=3><b>CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE </b></font> <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2011051909/american-majority-rejects-washington-austerity-consensus-and-we-demand-media-c" target="_blank">American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage</a> by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: <font color=navy><b>No more silent majority.</b> The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the <a href="http://www.cepr.net/" target="_blank">Center for Economic and Policy Research</a> (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with <a href="http://www.fair.org/index.php" target="_blank">FAIR</a> (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. <a href="http://www.ourfuture.org/contact#feedback_form" target="_blank">Send us accounts</a> 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. </font> Much more at www.ourfuture.org <p><font size=3><b>MOVE TO AMEND</b>! <a href="http://www.movetoamend.org/sites/default/files/sign-btn.png" target="_blank">www.movetoamend.org</a> </font> SIGN <a href="http://movetoamend.nationbuilder.com/petition" target="_blank">HERE</a> NOW! And check out more actions on the <a href="http://movetoamend.org/calendar" target="_blank">Move to Amend Calendar</a> for more! <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="https://movetoamend.org/legalize-democracy-film-premieres-free-speech-tv-jan-21" target="_blank">Legalize Democracy Film Premieres on Free Speech TV Jan 21</a> <font color=purple>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. <a href="https://movetoamend.org/dump-citizens-united-event-fstv" target="_blank">Watch live on our website here.</a></font> Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site <a href="http://www.savedemocracy.net/" target="_blank">www.savedemocracy.net</a> GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is BACK in the 113th Congress! Help out at <a href="http://www.congressmanwithguts.com/" target="_blank">CongressmanWithGuts.com</a> and check out his latest effort <a href="http://dontattacksyria.com/" target="_blank">DontAttackSyria.com</a>! <p><b><a href="http://www.represent.us/about" target="_blank">REPRESENT.US</a> IT’S TIME TO GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS SO THE GOVERNMENT CAN REPRESENT US.</b> 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 <a href="http://greenpeaceblogs.org/2013/01/04/the-6-billion-auction-finally-a-plan-to-get-money-out-of-politics/" target="_blank">The $6 Billion Auction: Finally, A Plan to Get Money Out of Politics</a> for more information! <p><b><font size=3>SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT </font></b> See <a href="http://www.couragetoresist.org/x/" target="_blank">CourageToResist.org</a> and <a href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/learn-more" target="_blank">Bradley Manning Support Network</a> From the Bradley Manning Support Network <a href="http://www.privatemanning.org/featured/announcing-the-chelsea-manning-support-network" target="_blank">Announcing the "Chelsea Manning Support Network" </a> <i>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." ..... </i> <b>UPDATE!</b> <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/featured/aclu-preparing-to-sue-army-over-mannings-gender-treatment" target="_blank">ACLU preparing to sue Army over Manning's gender treatment</a> <i>August 12, 2014. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the ACLU of Kansas, and defense counsel David Coombs, sent an official complaint to Ft. Leavenworth, and also notified Defense Secretary Hagel that legal action will be taken soon if the Defense Department does not provide her with proper medical treatment. ....... </i> AND <a href="http://www.chelseamanning.org/uncategorized/chelsea-manning-on-containing-isis-in-guardian-op-ed" target="_blank">Chelsea Manning on containing ISIS in Guardian op-ed</a> <i>September 16, 2014. Chelsea Manning's Guardian op-ed, "How to make ISIS fall on its own sword" .......</i> <p><font size=3><b>DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATION</b></font> <a href="http://tjmf.flipswap.com/" target="_blank">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. </a> For more information, go to <a href="http://www.tjmartellfoundation.org" target="_blank">www.tjmartellfoundation.org</a> <p><font size=3><b>CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE</b></font> EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at <a href="http://www.cellphonetaskforce.org/" target="_blank">CellPhoneTaskForce.org</a> 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 <a href="http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/resonance-beings-frequency/" target="_blank">Resonance: Beings of Frequency</a> <i>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.</i> "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 <a href="http://www.janson.com/rights/2013/01/28/resonance-beings-of-frequency/" target="_blank">HERE</a>!! <p><center><b><font size=3>B R I C K T E E V E E</font></b> </br > <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick_teevee_test.jpg" alt="brick_teevee_test.jpg" /></br > The essential guide for watching government propaganda!</br > THEY report. YOU throw bricks.©</br > Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>!</br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/Iraq/index.aspx" target="_blank">IRAQ: 4,486 US Military Dead as of April 21, 2012</a></br > <a href="http://icasualties.org/OEF/index.aspx" target="_blank">AFGHANISTAN: 2,349 US Military Dead as of Oct. 15, 2014</a> </br > <a href="http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/" target="_blank">The Obameter: Tracking Obama's Campaign Promises</a></br > <font size=4><a href="http://whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MOCK/mockingbird.php" target="_blank">MOCKINGBIRD: The Subversion Of The Free Press By The CIA</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/who-owns-the-media-the-6-monolithic-corporations-that-control-almost-everything-we-watch-hear-and-read" target="_blank">Who Owns The Media? The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read</a></font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article12972.htm" target="_blank">Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media</a> at informationclearinghouse </font></br > <font size=4><a href="http://www.buzzfeed.com/gregorydjohnsen/60-words-and-a-war-without-end-the-untold-story-of-the-most" target="_blank">60 Words And A War Without End: The Untold Story Of The Most Dangerous Sentence In U.S. History</a></font></br > </center><ul><p>
<li type=square><b>This Week (ABC) </b> Host George Stephanopoulos<br />
<a href="http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/13/meet-abc-news-newest-contributor-laura-ingraham/198871" target="_blank">Meet ABC News' Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham</a> <font face=times>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...</font> <br />
• Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases <br />
• Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins<br />
• Archbishop of New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: ABC News contributor and Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, Republican strategist Mary Matalin, EMILY’s List president Stephanie Schriock, and television and radio host Tavis Smiley. <br />
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<li type=square><b>Face The Nation (CBS) </b> Host Bob Schiefer <br />
• Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases<br />
• Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee<br />
• CBS News Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook<br />
• ROUNDTABLE I: Richard Umbdenstock, president of the American Hospital Association, Dr. Robert Wah, president of the American Medical Association, and Jean Ross co-president of National Nurses United<br />
• ROUNDTABLE II: Gerald Seib of The Wall Street Journal, Susan Glasser of Politico Magazine, and Michael O'Hanlon of the Brookings Institution<br />
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<li type=square><b>60 Minutes (CBS)</b> <br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10444" target="_blank">The Fox 'News'-ification of CBS News and '60 Minutes': 'The Cleantech Crash'</a> <br />
• <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2014/04/06/tesla-motor-sound-cbs-apology/7320361/" target="_blank">CBS' '60 Minutes' admits to faking Tesla car noise</a> <br />
• Coming Up Oct. 19 at 7 p.m. ET/PT<br />
• Ending life<br />
• Saving history<br />
• Gold rush<br />
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<li type=square><b>Meet the Press (NBC) </b> Host Chuck Todd <br />
• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
• Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases<br />
• Senator Bob Casey, D-Pa.<br />
• Senator Roy Blunt, R-Mo.<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: tba<br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN)</b> Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• Senator Ted Cruz (R-FL)<br />
• Dr. Anthony Fauci, director the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Kevin Madden, Ana Navarro, LZ Granderson, and Penny Lee.<br />
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<li type=square><b>HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid</b><br />
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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!<br />
• FRONT PORCH FRIDAY!! Featuring the Malloy/H.O.R.N. Skype Group! Listen here NOW! <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/content/kincaid/KincaidShow-(17-10-2014).mp3" target="_blank">Friday, October 17th, 2014 </a> (mp3)! Amen to the <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org" target="_blank">White Rose Society</a>! Bob's show archives at the White Rose <a href="http://www.whiterosesociety.org/Kincaid.html" target="_blank">HERE</a>! Keep Bob on the air! Donate to Head On <a href="http://headonradionetwork.com/contribute/" target="_blank">HERE</a>! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at <a href="http://www.crmw.net" target="_blank">www.crmw.net</a>!<br />
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<li type=square><b>YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT</b> With Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen!<br />
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<b> The Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen:</b> 6 minutes of green news, politics, analysis & snarky comment! BOOKMARK <a href="http://greennews.bradblog.com/" target="_blank">greennews.bradblog.com</a> NOW!<br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10872" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - October 14, 2014</a> IIN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Coal wins Kentucky's U.S. Senate debate!; Pentagon warns climate change an immediate threat to national security; East Coast cities could see daily flooding from rising seas within 30 years; Wind power the cheapest source of energy; PLUS: It's official: September 2014 was the hottest September on record globally (Don't tell Fox 'News'!)... All that and more in today's Green News Report! ..... IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link) Record Antarctic sea ice a 'warning bell'; Australia PM: "Coal is good for humanity"; Sea level rising fastest in 6k years; BPA manufacturers releasing into the air; Renewables driving power generation in Africa; Emissions cuts will fuel 'boom' in Midwest jobs; Louisiana racing to reclaim vanishing lands; Oil tankers spill into Seattle waters... PLUS: Can Progressives, enviros, and scientists save capitalism from the pro-collapse polluters? ... and much, MUCH more! ...<br />
• <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10861" target="_blank">'Green News Report' - October 9, 2014</a> IIN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Sen. Mitch McConnell dodges on climate change: "I am not a scientist"; Republican candidates retreating from climate change denial; U.S. auto fleet achieves record fuel efficiency; PLUS: 'Clean Coal' goes online in Canada - but there's a catch ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10859" target="_blank">Non-KPFK 'BradCast': Special Election Coverage/Primal Scream Edition</a> This year's elections may be decided by the courts even before Election Day: A BradCast special...<br />
• BRADCAST! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10859" target="_blank">'BradCast': Special Coverage of WI, TX, AR Photo ID Rulings</a> Trouble keeping up with the on-again/off-again court rulings on GOP voter suppression laws? Brad tries to make sense of it all for ya... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10854" target="_blank">Federal Court Tosses VA's Ridiculously Gerrymandered Congressional Map</a> Ruling by GW Bush appointee is too late for 2014 election, but redrawn map could result in 2 to 3 new Dem U.S. House seats in 2016... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10856" target="_blank">GAO: Republican Photo ID Voting Restriction Laws Lowered Turnout in KS, TN</a> Dems tout non-partisan government report to underscore need to fix Voting Rights Act, but there's more to story they aren't mentioning... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10857" target="_blank">SCOTUS Overturns 4th Circ, Allows NC to End Same-Day Registration, Counting of 'Wrong Precinct' Ballots</a> 100s already disenfranchised; Nation's worst suppression law to have full trial next year... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10860" target="_blank">ACLU on 'Photo ID Needed to Fly' Canard</a> They nailed federal Judge Easterbrook's lies about WI's Photo ID voting restriction much more succinctly than we did: 'Wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, and wrong again'... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10864" target="_blank">FEDERAL JUDGE STRIKES DOWN TX GOP'S 'UNCONSTITUTIONAL, DISCRIMINATORY' PHOTO ID VOTING LAW</a> U.S. District Court judge permanently enjoins GOP law, finds it discriminates, amounts to a poll tax... <br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10879" target="_blank">Emergency Appeals Filed at SCOTUS to Restore Voting Rights to 600,000 in TX</a> GOP Photo ID law, which lower court found intentionally discriminatory, is different from recent cases before High Court, say plaintiffs...<br />
• BRADBLOG UPDATE! <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=10888" target="_blank">SCOTUS ALLOWS TEXAS' DISCRIMINATORY GOP PHOTO ID LAW TO USED IN MIDTERMS</a> Despite uncontested findings striking down the law as a racially-motivated, 'unconstitutional poll tax', it will be implemented this year... <br />
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<li type=square><b>The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!</b><br />
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Listen at <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/" target="_blank">PeterBCollins.com</a>!<br />
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. <br />
• <a href="http://peterbcollins.com/2011/12/16/pbc-news-comment-friday-december-16/" target="_blank">Holiday Break and Website Changes</a> <br />
<ul>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, -<i>pbc</i></ul>• Peter B Collins, Truthout | Op-Ed <a href="http://truth-out.org/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=14355&Itemid=228" target="_blank">An Insider's View of the Progressive Talk Radio Devolution </a><br />
• PBC News & Comment 16 Oct 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-us-corporate-media-hypes-fear-of-is-stokes-war-fever/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: Obama Ignores Advice from CIA, That Arming Rebels Doesn’t Work</a> Details of CIA study Obama requested show that in over 60 years, CIA record of covert rebel support is failure…<br />
• PBC News & Comment 17 Oct 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/newscomment/pbc-news-comment-u2s-bono-apologizes-to-itunes-users-and-many-important-stories-too/" target="_blank">PBC News & Comment: U2’s Bono Apologizes to iTunes Users, and Many Important Stories, Too!</a> Bono’s apology, plus exposure of possible corruption at top of NSA, Stingray deployed in Washington, DC–lots to report today…..<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast August 20, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/08/20/nyu-prof-mark-crispin-miller-introduces-the-forbidden-bookshelf/" target="_blank">NYU Prof. Mark Crispin Miller Introduces “The Forbidden Bookshelf”</a> Free Preview Clip Activist, author, professor and book lover Mark Crispin Miller returns to invite you to connect with important books on his new Forbidden Bookshelf.<br />
• PBC Standard Podcast October 8, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/10/08/prof-lance-dehaven-smith-explains-how-conspiracy-theory-label-is-used-to-stifle-investigations-and-independent-thinking/" target="_blank">Prof. Lance deHaven Smith Explains How “Conspiracy Theory” Label is Used to Stifle Investigations and Independent Thinking; Chew Reviews “Kill The Messenger”</a> Professor Lance deHaven-Smith of Florida State University talks about his book, <i>Conspiracy Theory in America</i>, and how the negative implications of the label “conspiracy theorists” are used to shut down thinking and expression about obvious conspiracies involving governments and elites. Film reviewer Gary Chew returns to tell us about Jeremy Renner’s new movie, <i>Kill The Messenger</i>. <br />
• PBC Standard Podcast October 15, 2014 <a href="http://www.peterbcollins.com/2014/10/15/activist-and-author-sam-daley-harris-offers-inspiration-and-organizing-tips/" target="_blank">Activist and Author Sam Daley-Harris Offers Inspiration and Organizing Tips</a> Sam Daley-Harris, author of <i>Reclaiming Our Democracy</i> returns to offer some inspiration and empowerment at a time when it’s sorely needed. …. <br />
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<li type=square><b>Ring of Fire Radio</b><br />
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Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/ <b>hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder</b><br />
Ring of Fire Radio - GoLeft TV - Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, Sam Seder - Politics, Commentary, and News.<br />
<a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/listen/this-weekend-on-ring-of-fire-radio-16/" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire October 16, 2014</a> Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts Sunday nights at 8 pm Eastern. <br />
»» best-selling author George Lakoff will be here to explain the importance of message framing.<br />
»» Columnist Tom Eblen will tell us how we’ve gone from a war on poverty to a war on the poor<br />
»» Progressive host David Pakman will join us for a discussion on the buried stories of the week.<br />
»» Farron Cousins will tell us about the bizarre governor’s race in Florida.<br />
»» And Howard Nations will talk about the latest insurance industry scams that are leaving consumers with massive medical debt.<br />
• <a href="https://www.freespeech.org/collection/ringoffire" target="_blank">This Week on Ring of Fire on Free Speech TV!</a> Sundays at NOON! Watch at link! Guests TBA.<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/08/ring-of-fires-weekly-rewind-28/" target="_blank">Ring of Fire’s Weekly Rewind</a> Posted on August 9, 2014 by Ring of Fire - Ring of Fire’s top stories from the past week.<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://www.ringoffireradio.com/the-history-of-corporate-corruption-fraud/" target="_blank">THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD</a> with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio <i>“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.”</i> Also see <a href="http://s.ytimg.com/yts/swfbin/player-vflyJCJXc/watch_as3.swf" target="_blank">Papantonio & Kennedy on Corporate Corruption and Fraud — Pt. 1/4 </a><br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/lewis-black-rants-about-teachers-and-gets-it-100-percent-right/" target="_blank">Lewis Black Rants about Teachers and Gets it 100 Percent Right</a> <br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/thom-hartmann-can-we-stop-another-global-economic-crash/" target="_blank">Thom Hartmann: Can We Stop Another Global Economic Crash?</a> <br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/senate-report-ignores-bush-administrations-role-in-cias-torture-program/" target="_blank">Senate Report Ignores Bush Administration’s Role in CIA’s Torture Program </a> by Amy Eddings<br />
• <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/sea-levels-rising-at-fastest-rate-in-6000-years/" target="_blank">Sea Levels Rising at Fastest Rate in 6,000 Years</a> by Ring of Fire<br />
• VIDEO! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/2014/10/glenn-greenwald-why-privacy-matters/" target="_blank">Glenn Greenwald: Why Privacy Matters</a> by Joshua Schwitzerlett<br />
• Join our blog at www.ringoffireradio.com. You can now SUBSCRIBE TO OUR PODCAST by clicking on the "Podcast" tab at the top of the Ring of Fire blog. Please help support progressive radio by signing up! <a href="http://ringoffireradio.com/blogengine/" target="_blank">Ring of Fire Radio</a> Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, <b>rebroadcasts 7-10 et Sunday evenings on <a href="http://www.chicagoprogressivetalk.com/listen/" target="_blank">Chicago's Progressive Talk WCPT AM & FM</a> and 4 pm et on Sirius/XM 167 featuring The PAP Attack! </b> "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week." <br />
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• MONDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/10-13-14-cj-werleman-why-atheists-fail-to-understand-the-islamic-threat" target="_blank"> 10/13/14 CJ Werleman: Why Atheists Fail to Understand the 'Islamic Threat' </a> <br />
• TUESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/10-14-14-edward-e-baptist-the-half-has-never-been-told-slavery-and-the-making-of-american-capitalism" target="_blank">10/14/14 Edward E. Baptist: The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism</a> <br />
• WEDNESDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/10-15-14-jamie-kilstein-allison-kilkenny-newsfail" target="_blank">10/15/14 Jamie Kilstein & Allison Kilkenny: Newsfail</a> <br />
• THURSDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/10-16-14-ryan-grim-kill-the-messenger-how-the-media-destroyed-gary-webb" target="_blank">10/16/14 Ryan Grim: Kill The Messenger: How The Media Destroyed Gary Webb</a> <br />
• FRIDAY <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/10-17-14-casual-friday-cliff-schecter-isabel-gillies" target="_blank">10/17/14 Casual Friday: Cliff Schecter & Isabel Gillies </a> <br />
• MORE Podcast Interviews at <a href="http://majorityfm.libsyn.com/webpage" target="_blank">majorityfm.libsyn.com</a>! <br />
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WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts "The Truth About Markets" on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s "People & Power" series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of <a href="http://www.karmabanque.com/" target="_blank">KarmaBanque</a> a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. <br />
• VISIT <a href="http://www.piratemyfilm.com/home" target="_blank">PirateMyFilm.com</a>!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!<br />
• MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/MaxKeiserTV" target="_blank">MaxKeiserTV</a> <br />
• <a href="http://maxkeiser.com/2012/08/04/the-official-facebook-pages-max-keiser-keiser-report/" target="_blank">KEISER REPORT ON FACEBOOK</a> 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. <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/maxkeiser" target="_blank">Max Keiser</a><br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/KeiserReport" target="_blank">Keiser Report</a> <br />
»» <a href="http://www.facebook.com/StacyHerbertOfficial" target="_blank">Stacey Herbert</a><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2013/07/assange-how-cryptography-is-a-key-weapon-in-the-fight-against-empire-states/" target="_blank">Assange: How cryptography is a key weapon in the fight against empire states</a> by maxkeiser - READ <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/09/cryptography-weapon-fight-empire-states-julian-assange?CMP=twt_gu" target="_blank">What began as a means of retaining individual freedom can now be used by smaller states to fend off the ambitions of larger ones</a> (guardian.co.uk)<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/stocks-plunge-treasuries-gain-oil-tumbles/" target="_blank">Stocks plunge, Treasuries gain, oil tumbles</a> by Stacy Herbert — Stacy Summary: More turmoil. Has Jim Cramer started yelling at Janet Yellen that “it’s no time to be an academic” blah blah blah. READ <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-15/asian-futures-signal-losses-as-dollar-holds-drop-with-oil.html" target="_blank">Treasuries Gain as Oil Drops Below $80 While Stocks Slide</a> (bloomberg) <i>Treasuries and the dollar climbed, oil fell below $80 a barrel and U.S. futures plunged more than 1 percent in one hour as concern deepened that global growth is slowing. European stocks slid an eighth day in <b>the longest rout since 2003</b> and bonds from Greece to Spain tumbled.</i> To put the European disaster into context: <i> Heck of a job, everyone pic.twitter.com/1YyaVN4c4h — Mark Adomanis (@MarkAdomanis) October 14, 2014</i> AND <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-10-15/paris-s-squalor-pit-gare-du-nord-becomes-french-decline-symbol.html" target="_blank">Paris’s ’Squalor Pit’ Gare du Nord Becomes French Decline Symbol</a> (bloomberg) <i> On a recent afternoon at Paris’s Gare du Nord train station, a man leans against a lamppost with an empty wine bottle at his feet and spouts a jet of pink vomit over a parking bay for public bicycles. Locals hurry by, avoiding looking at the man, while visitors stare in fascinated horror. </i><br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/if-the-us-deficit-is-only-483-billion-why-does-the-government-have-to-borrow-1-1-trillion-to-fill-the-hole/" target="_blank">If the US Deficit is ‘only’ $483 Billion, why does the Government Have to Borrow $1.1 Trillion to Fill the Hole?</a> by WolfStreet.com — We’re shocked and appalled: they’re lying to us, here in the land of open and transparent governance? Read…<a href="http://wolfstreet.com/2014/10/16/if-the-us-deficit-is-only-483-billion-why-does-the-government-have-to-borrow-1-1-trillion-to-fill-the-hole/" target="_blank">If the US Deficit is ‘only’ $483 Billion, why does the Government Have to Borrow $1.1 Trillion to Fill the Hole?</a>. <br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/propaganda-101-how-the-pentagon-is-trying-to-rewrite-vietnam-war-history/" target="_blank">Propaganda 101 – How the Pentagon is Trying to Rewrite Vietnam War History</a> by Michael Krieger — In case you weren’t aware, the Pentagon is set to roll out a 50th anniversary commemoration of the Vietnam War. As a part of this event, the Pentagon intends to rewrite history by whitewashing this period of civil unrest and government shame from American history. The propaganda is so blatant that it has resulted in many of the era’s most well known protestors and activists to come together in order to stop it… Read more <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/10/16/propaganda-101-how-the-pentagon-is-trying-to-rewrite-vietnam-war-history/" target="_blank">HERE</a>......<br />
• <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/welcome-to-arcadia-the-california-suburb-where-wealthy-chinese-criminals-are-building-mansions-to-stash-cash/" target="_blank">Welcome to Arcadia – The California Suburb Where Wealthy Chinese Criminals are Building Mansions to Stash Cash</a> by Michael Krieger — <i>In some California communities, 90% of real estate buyers are from China. Yes, 90%. Naturally, many of them are buying multi-million dollar homes in “all cash” transactions. </i>Well it appears that one of those communities is the 57,000 person Los Angeles suburb known as Arcadia. The suburb had a relatively insignificant Asian population of 4% in 1980, but it is now 59%. Of course, I could care less what the ethnic mix of any particular suburb is, but what does concern me is that a lot of the recent money coming in seems to be from questionable characters. The buyers are getting access to U.S. real estate via the EB-5 visa program, and of the 10,000 of these given away this year, 85% went to the Chinese. Oh, and it’s estimated some 20% of these home sit vacant. A great use of resources….. Read more <a href="http://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2014/10/16/welcome-to-arcadia-the-california-town-where-wealthy-chinese-are-building-mansions-in-order-to-park-cash/" target="_blank">HERE</a>......<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/kr666-keiser-report-lucky-chinese-number/" target="_blank">[KR666] Keiser Report: Lucky Chinese Number</a> We host episode 666! The mark of the beast? Or the mark of the financial regulator Nero’s fiddling while markets burn? We discuss the IMF warnings on the speculative bubbles caused by zero percent interest rates but the chaos that could ensue if rates return to ‘normal.’ Whatever that is. In the second half, we discuss 666 being a lucky number in China, where the economy is now bigger than the US, according to World Bank data.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/kr667-keiser-report-trickle-down-terror/" target="_blank">[KR667] Keiser Report: Trickle Down Terror!</a> We discuss the case of trickle down clown terror as the clowns terrorizing California behave like the central banking clowns scaring the global markets. In the second half, Max interviews Professor Antal Fekete of FeketeResearch.com about deflation, bonds, and how it is that the current European depression is worse than the Great Depression of the 1930s when Fekete was a child.<br />
• KEISER REPORT <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/10/kr668-keiser-report-punk-rock-gobbing-from-central-bank/" target="_blank">[KR668] Keiser Report: Punk Rock Gobbing from Central Bank</a> We discuss Johnny Rotten calling Russell Brand a ‘bum hole’ and offer the Keiser Report show as a platform for a debate between the two. Max notes that quantitative easing is the central bank equivalent of punk rock gobbing. We highlight several of the many market distortions similar to the insanity leading up to the 1929 market crash – including $140,000 AUD cats. In the second half, Max continues with his interview of Professor Antal Fekete of FeketeResearch.com about how the 1921 bond market collapse led the US Federal Reserve & Treasury conspiring to illegally introduce open market operation, leading to a situation in which profits in the bond market are risk free while profits in the commodity market are NOT risk free.<br />
• THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/07/the-truth-about-markets-28-june-2014/" target="_blank">The Truth About Markets – 28 June 2014</a> Stacy Summary: We talk about bogus collateral driving global housing bubbles. <a href="https://ia902509.us.archive.org/19/items/TaM28062014/TaM-28062014.mp3" target="_blank">Download show HERE</a> (mp3) <br />
• THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS <a href="http://www.maxkeiser.com/2014/07/the-truth-about-cold-wars-bad-facelifts/" target="_blank">The Truth About Cold Wars & Bad Facelifts</a> <a href="https://ia902504.us.archive.org/31/items/TaM19072014/TaM-19072014.mp3" target="_blank">Download show HERE</a> (mp3) • Donate to ResonanceFM <a href="http://resonancefm.com/support" target="_blank">here</a>! </p><p><br />
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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 <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014 @ 12-3 PM Eastern!</b> <a href="http://scotthorton.org/listen/" target="_blank">HERE</a>.) Plenty of <a href="http://scotthorton.org/all-interviews/" target="_blank">archives</a> too! <br />
• Scott Horton Radio Show <a href="http://scotthorton.org/2013/10/16/progress-report/" target="_blank">Progress Report</a>: All right, yall, welcome <u>back to the show</u> to the inaugural Scott Horton Show progress report! It’s been an eventful year since the show and I (amicably) parted ways with Antiwar.com, so I thought I would highlight just a few of the show’s important milestones, as well as preview some of the exciting projects to look for in the near future. ........ The show on Pacifica KPFK 90.7 FM in L.A., still called Antiwar Radio, has now moved to join their Sunday morning public affairs line up (8:30 am pt - http://kpfk.org), and remains the largest source of listeners, with 15,000-20,000 people tuning in weekly. The future: Liberty Express Radio is growing and bringing me along for the ride. The great Charles Goyette hooked me up with Alan Butler and the Liberty Express earlier this year, and what has been the daily replay there from 3-5 eastern time has become my best listened-to show. And now they’re adding my friend Tom Woods to the lineup from 2-3 PM. That does it. I’m making the switch! Starting Monday, October 14, the live show is moving to 3-5 PM Eastern time on LibertyExpressRadio.com, as well as NoAgenda and my own stream....... <b>New show hours effective 5/26/2014: 12-3 PM Eastern!</b><br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/10/13/101314-dahr-jamail/" target="_blank">10/13/14 Dahr Jamail</a>: Dahr Jamail, a Truthout staff reporter, discusses Baghdad’s vulnerability to an ISIS siege; why the US can’t get its Middle East allies to cooperate in the fight against the Islamic State; and his article “<a href="http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/26703-iraqi-doctors-call-depleted-uranium-use-genocide" target="_blank">Iraqi Doctors Call Depleted Uranium Use ‘Genocide</a>.’”<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/10/17/101714-gareth-porter/" target="_blank">10/17/14 Gareth Porter</a>: Gareth Porter, author of <i>Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare</i>, discusses his article “<a href="http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2014/10/16/when_the_ayatollah_said_no_to_nukes_iran_khomeini" target="_blank">When the Ayatollah Said No to Nukes</a>.”<br />
• <a href="http://scotthorton.org/interviews/2014/10/17/101714-jonathan-landay/" target="_blank">10/17/14 Jonathan Landay</a>: Jonathan Landay, a McClatchy Foreign Staff journalist, discusses the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/14/world/middleeast/us-casualties-of-iraq-chemical-weapons.html?smid=pl-share" target="_blank">New York Times report</a> about chemical weapons found in Iraq between 2004-2011; and why the Bush administration is still wrong about active WMD programs – the supposed reason for invasion.<br />
• Older interviews at <a href="http://www.antiwar.com/radio" target="_blank">Antiwar Radio</a>!<br />
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• Dr. Anthony Fauci, head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases<br />
• Rep Tim Murphy (R-PA), a member of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce<br />
• Michael Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota<br />
• Republican and Democratic national party chairs: Reince Priebus and Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) <br />
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<font face="georgia" size=4> <b>Brick TeeVee Back in the Saddle!</b> Well the Brick TeeVee Crew is glad to see September go! Briefly a tree came down on our power line, ripping the fascia board and gutter, service pole and power meter off the building and we were without power for TWELVE DAYS! And we're still trying to catch up and get things back in order. Plus we have a furnace causing problems, our main vehicle's driver door nearly flew off and needs to be replaced and we have an oven on the fritz on top of all of that! On the happy side of things we managed to construct a new fire pit with new fire brick. We're calling it the Equinox Fire Pit since we built it around the Autumn Equinox AND it's oriented N-S-E-W almost perfectly. We had the inaugural fire two Fridays ago when Da Kid returned from college for the first time. A grand time was had by all! This was done in preparation for the <b>1st Annual All Hallows Eve Heavy Metal Costume Ball</b> on Friday October 31st right here on the BTV compound grounds! If you're so inclined and may be in the CLE OH neighborhood feel free to come party with us and download and print out fabulous FULL COLOR flyers!<br />
<ul><li><a href="http://www.billorightsman.com/docs/AllHallowsEve2014flyerWHITE.pdf" target="_blank">All Hallows Eve WHITE</a> best on orange paper!<br />
<li><a href="http://www.billorightsman.com/docs/AllHallowsEve2014flyerBLACK.pdf" target="_blank">All Hallows Eve BLACK</a> very cool!</ul>So it's not like we've been hiding out or disconnected from global events, it's just that too many BIG things hit us all at once and we're still digging out from all the chaos! Here are some random items we've harvested from the innertubes of the web over these past weeks (in no particular order): <ul><li>Tony Cartalucci globalresearch.ca <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/us-now-admits-it-is-funding-occupy-central-in-hong-kong/5405680" target="_blank">US Now Admits it is Funding “Occupy Central” in Hong Kong</a><br />
<li>Tim Dickinson rollingstone.com <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/inside-the-koch-brothers-toxic-empire-20140924" target="_blank">Inside the Koch Brothers' Toxic Empire</a><br />
<li>Barbara H. Peterson globalresearch.ca <a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/gmo-deregulation-an-act-of-war/25699?print=1" target="_blank">GMO Deregulation: An Act of War</a><br />
<li>Kim Petersen dissidentvoice.org <a href="http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/06/massacre-what-massacre/" target="_blank">Massacre? What Massacre? 25 Years Later: What really happened at Tiananmen Square?</a><br />
<li>Prof. Francis Boyle countercurrents.org <a href="http://www.countercurrents.org/boyle150314.htm" target="_blank">University of Chicago Neo-Nazi Neo-Cons: Obama, Nuland And Ukraine</a><br />
<li>Patrick Martin wsws.org <a href="http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/08/02/pers-a02.html" target="_blank">Obama defends CIA torturers</a><br />
<li>John Robles informationclearinghouse.info <a href="http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37740.htm" target="_blank">Ukraine: Another Piece in US-NATO-EU Neo-Con Puzzle</a><br />
<li>Peter Van Buren tomdispatch.com <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175898/tomgram%3A_peter_van_buren%2C_back_to_the_future_in_iraq/" target="_blank">Tomgram: Peter Van Buren, Back to the Future in Iraq </a><br />
<li>Stephen F. Cohen thenation.com <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/180942/new-cold-war-and-necessity-patriotic-heresy" target="_blank">The New Cold War and the Necessity of Patriotic Heresy </a><br />
<li>Lee Fang thenation.com <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/181601/whos-paying-pro-war-pundits" target="_blank">Who’s Paying the Pro-War Pundits?</a><br />
<li>Juan Cole juancole.com <a href="http://www.juancole.com/2014/09/contradictions-emerging-strategy.html" target="_blank">Top 5 Contradictions in Obama’s Emerging ISIL Strategy</a><br />
<li>Trevor Timm theguardian.com/commentisfree <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/sep/10/american-fear-mongering-war-again-isis" target="_blank">The American fear-mongering machine is about to scare us back into war again</a><br />
<li>Thomas B. Edsall nytimes.com <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/27/opinion/thomas-edsall-the-expanding-world-of-poverty-capitalism.html" target="_blank">The Expanding World of Poverty Capitalism</a><br />
<li>Emily Atkin thinkprogress.org/climate <a href="http://brickteevee.com" target="_blank">‘I’m Not A Scientist’: A Complete Guide To Politicians Who Plead Ignorance On Climate Change</a><br />
<li>Marcy Wheeler consortiumnews.com <a href="http://consortiumnews.com/2014/08/19/cracking-down-on-truth-telling/" target="_blank">Cracking Down on Truth-telling</a><br />
<li>Noura Erakat thenation.com <a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/180783/five-israeli-talking-points-gaza-debunked" target="_blank">Five Israeli Talking Points on Gaza—Debunked </a><br />
<li>Richard Wolff commondreams.org <a href="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/07/16/capitalisms-deeper-problem" target="_blank">Capitalism's Deeper Problem</a><br />
<li>James Ball theguardian.com/technology <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/05/guardian-launches-securedrop-whistleblowers-documents" target="_blank">Guardian launches SecureDrop system for whistleblowers to share files</a><br />
<li>Noam Chomsky tomdispatch.com <a href="http://www.tomdispatch.com/blog/175863/tomgram%3A_noam_chomsky%2C_america%27s_real_foreign_policy/" target="_blank">Tomgram: Noam Chomsky, America's Real Foreign Policy </a><br />
<li>NAOMI KLEIN VIDEO! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLRikyCRu54&feature=youtu.be " target="_blank">Naomi Klein Says "No Nukes!" for Global Warming</a><br />
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• Centers for Disease Control Director Dr. Tom Frieden <br />
• Treasury Secretary Jack Lew <br />
• “Sunday Spotlight”: ABC News’ Bob Woodruff speaks with actor and veterans’ advocate Gary Sinise for the dedication of the American Veterans Disabled for Life Memorial opening in Washington, DC this weekend. <br />
• ROUNDTABLE: CNN “Crossfire” co-host Van Jones, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan, and Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, managing editors of Bloomberg Politics<br />
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• Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health<br />
• Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu<br />
• House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: CBS News Elections Director Anthony Salvanto, CBS News Congressional Correspondent Nancy Cordes, CBS News political director John Dickerson and Jonathan Martin, National Political Correspondent of The New York Times.<br />
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• Coming Up October 5 at 7:30 p.m. ET and 7 p.m. PT<br />
• The Director - FBI Director James Comey speaks with 60 Minutes for his first television interview since taking over the bureau<br />
• The Smartest Dog in the World - Anderson Cooper meets a dog who knows the names of over a thousand different toys<br />
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• <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/15/microsoft-nbc-news-dissolve-msnbc-joint-venture_n_1675071.html" target="_blank">Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture</a> <font face=times>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."</font> Okay then.<br />
• White House Senior Adviser Dan Pfeiffer<br />
• RNC Chair Reince Priebus<br />
• former Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.)<br />
• Dr. Nancy Snyderman on the Ebola outbreak.<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: David Axelrod, Joe Scarborough, Andrea Mitchell and Gwen Ifill <br />
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<li type=square><b>State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN)</b> Sunday at 9 am ET and Noon ET.<br />
• CDC Director Dr. Tom Frieden <br />
• Dr. William Frohna, the Chair of the Emergency Medicine department at MedStar Washington Hospital Center<br />
• Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) <br />
• Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI)<br />
• ROUNDTABLE: Bill Daley, Andrew Card, Mack McLarty and Ken Duberstein<br />
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• Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases<br />
• Sen Kelly Ayotte (R-NH), a member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee<br />
• Dan Bongino, a former Secret Service agent for President Obama<br />
</p></ul>The Brick TeeVee LAST WORD goes to Harvey Wasserman of <a href="http://www.Solartopia.com" target="_blank">Solartopia.com</a> who penned <a href="http://www.theragblog.com/harvey-wasserman-gorgeous-global-march-shows-how-to-win-the-climate-fight/" target="_blank">Gorgeous global march shows how to win the climate fight</a> at TheRagBlog and follows up with <a href="http://prn.fm/harvey-wasserman-win-climate-change/" target="_blank">How We Win on Climate Change</a> at PRN Progressive Radio Network <font color=navy>Okay, so we had this historic march a little while ago. It was…. …joyous, beautiful, exhilarating, inspiring, life-confirming…and in many ways turning point. Now that the dust has settled a bit, we can see that it will change things for a long time to come. It proved to ourselves and the world that we have a huge, diverse, broad-based movement. And that we can put aside our differences and all get along when we have to. We are our species’ ever-evolving immune system. We are the survival instinct that must defeat the corporate profit motive. We are also part of a mighty activist stream that’s campaigned for peace, civil rights, social justice, workers’ rights, women’s rights, gay pride, election protection, No Nukes and so much more. We’ve endured the circular firing squad and want it abolished. Our hard-earned commitment to non-violence allows for a calm internal space and the great power that emerges from it. So in a diverse movement of good people with very strong opinions, we are learning to cut each other plenty of slack. <b>But how do we now build on this? What do we do next? Politically, we operate at two essential levels: the local, and the global.</b> And to stay functional, we need: net neutrality, corporate accountability, election protection, social justice, peace. </br >
<b>1. Local organizing is our ultimate source of power.</b> The green movement has the great luxury of tangible targets. The King CONG corporations (Coal, Oil, Nukes, Gas) need actual land on which to do their dirty work. So we can fight them inch-by-inch, at the source. We can count the number of nukes Nixon wanted to build (1000) and how many we stopped or shut (about 900 in the US; far more worldwide). We can name scores of reactors that didn’t get built, did get cancelled, are now being shut, will soon be stopped. There are also mines undrilled, mountaintops not removed, oil rigs not pumping, fracking wells cancelled, polluting factories greenly altered, and much more we’ve beaten quietly, on the ground. There are also solar panels on rooftops, windmills generating power, electric cars in the pipeline, recycling programs in place, consumption reduced, the overall vision of a green-powered Solartopia becoming ever more tangible. <b>In this movement, “what can I do?” always has a ready answer: fight the polluter next door. Pick one and shut it down!</b> So after our joy walk in New York, we return to our letter writing, phone calling, neighborhood speeches, strategy meetings, classroom educating, town council lobbying, around the corner picket lines, civil disobedience, finance-sabotaging, office seeking, rate withholding, fund raising, dog-that-corrupt-politician work. Some of these fights we may seem to lose, at least for the time being. But it’s never over til we quit, which our survival instinct won’t let us do. A polluter once opened can always be shut if we never give up. So at the grassroots, we are the individual immune cells that fight toxic industrial poisons and cancerous trash at the source. That’s the revolution that’s not televised. </br >
<b>2. But our planet as a whole is now infected with a lethal mega-virus—the global corporation, a metastasized cancer that usurps human rights but shuns human responsibilities.</b> A toxic tumor that demands just one thing: a constant flow of dollars, don’t ask how. If it can make an extra dime by killing the planet, it’s bound to do just that. Big gatherings to fight this menace can be risky, divisive, diverting and expensive. They can come and go without apparent impact. But they can also be amazingly effective, often in ways that are hard to see. Last century, mass strikes built the labor movement. They withstood violent corporate/government assaults. Without them, we would have no unions. In 1932 a “Bonus Army” was attacked by by Herbert Hoover. Two marchers were killed. It seemed a dismal failure. But it opened the door to the New Deal. During World War 2 the mere threat of a mass march by labor leader A. Philip Randolph extracted major civil rights concessions from a reluctant Franklin Roosevelt. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” march changed civil rights forever. LBJ and then Richard Nixon scorned the anti-war gatherings. But both were forced to resign, and Nixon (NEVER forget this!) said those marches stopped him from nuking Vietnam. Civil disobedience at Seabrook, Diablo Canyon and other reactors prompted a flood of cancellations, and opened the door to Solartopia, a green-powered Earth. Ronald Reagan scorned the millions who marched to freeze nuke weapons, but somehow went eight years without using one. Bush/Cheney “ignored” 15 million marchers and attacked Iraq. But what more would they have done had we not marched? Now millions have gathered against global warming. And the day after, Barack Obama attacked Syria. Did we fail? Should we march again soon, this time with massive civil disobedience? </br >
<b>3. As we work this through, there are inter-related issues we can’t avoid:</b> <ul><li>NET NEUTRALITY defines the core nervous system of what’s left of global democracy. The corporations want it killed. This demands everyone’s immediate attention.<br />
<li>CORPORATE PERSONHOOD must die by Constitutional Amendment.<br />
<li>ELECTION PROTECTION demands universal hand-counted paper ballots, an end to Jim Crow vote theft and a ban on the corporate billions that poison what’s left of our democracy.<br />
<li>SOCIAL JUSTICE, including workplace democracy and a universal living wage, means we can all live and work with integrity, no matter our diverse religions, race, gender, sexual preference, etc. Poverty is an unsustainable form of planet-killing pollution.<br />
<li>PEACE means ending the suicidal idiocy of permanent imperial war.</ul>All these difficult issues are essential to the health of our species. We don’t get to a green-powered Earth without bringing them with us. </br >
<b>4. For each of us there’s also a deep internal dimension to this work. Being an activist is itself a great leap of faith.</b> It can have a long list of personal costs. But the rewards—spiritual, of the heart, in terms of inner peace—can be incomparable. If undertaken in good faith, and with success, the ability to do movement work can be one of life’s great gifts. Amazing joy can come with saving our only home. After all, we are seven billion sentient beings, thinking and breathing together, inseparable from each other and the planet that gives us life. One way or another, our Mother Earth lets us know how to undo the damage done by our baser instincts. Our greatest test now is to cure the cancer of the global corporation. To fight it, we might listen to our gut instincts, accept what we’re good at doing, heed our natural passions, respect our comfort zones, heal in concert with our fellow citizen who are struggling to do the same. As the good Dr. Spock once told the young mothers of a new generation, “you know more than you think you know.” <b>No victory is too small to count, no polluter is too big to beat.</b> As we saw on this march, and in so much else we do, when we fly with non-violence and consensus, our living planet gives us generous margins. So the specifics of our next moves are up for a good, healthy debate. But <b>we all know we have no choice but to win.</b> And that as we work our newfound power toward joyful agreement, and a peaceful trust in the will of our species to survive, <b>we cannot fail.</b></font> So there you have it, directly from the man who coined the term "NO NUKES"! YOU have a lot of work to do! WE have a lot of work to do! And it all begins locally by making sure you're registered to vote and VOTING and talking to your neighbors, getting them solid information and changing their minds (one teabagger at a time) so they stop donating to and voting for the The King CONG corporations (Coal, Oil, Nukes, Gas) and their toady candidates. We hope to see you next week (barring any other catastrophe) as we settle into the New Normal. Click away, throw bricks and spead the word! See you next week! <p>~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~</p><p><b>Brick TeeVee - THEY report. YOU throw bricks. ©</b></p><p><b>We're here because you're there. ©</b></p>First brick is on us! <img src="http://www.billorightsman.com/graphics/brick.jpg" width="150" height="150" alt="brick" /> Get your Foam Bricks at ThrowThings.com <a href="http://www.throwthings.com/item.asp?id=171" target="_blank">HERE</a>! </font> <p style="font-size:x-small;"><font face="century gothic">FAIR USE: Regarding postings which may contain material published online by various sources: This site may present material the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We present such material available in an effort to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a "fair use" of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is presented without charge to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. See: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml</font></p>FilthyRichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14523627256442870382noreply@blogger.com0