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Post-2012-election wrap With Congressional disapproval ratings hovering around 75% one might think there would be a big turnover in Congress. Reporting for Politico Seung Min Kim explains the 5 traits of the House freshman class It wasn’t a wave election, but the 2012 races will sweep in an outsize freshman class nonetheless. The 113th Congress will welcome at least 79 new House members — 44 Democrats, 35 Republicans. That total would grow to 85 new faces in the House if current results in still-uncalled races hold. It will be the largest freshman class of the past dozen years, aside from the 89-member class elected in November 2010. The newest members knocked out more than 20 incumbents. But a large number of retirements and redistricting in key states also helped bring fresh blood to the Capitol. California alone will be responsible for 11 new members in the House. Here are POLITICO’s five traits of the incoming class of House freshmen. Next year’s House Democratic Caucus will achieve a significant milestone: the first in which women and minorities make up the majority. Democratic gains will boost Latino ranks in the House with at least eight new members .... This cycle saw the highest number of Asian-American congressional candidates in history ..... The Congressional Black Caucus will welcome five new members .... And the incoming class of House freshmen will have three openly gay members, all Democrats. ..... Though Democrats fell short of the 25 net seats needed to regain House control, they did manage to narrow the GOP majority. Gains in suburban America were a big reason why. .... House Democrats bragged after Tuesday night that they rolled back the “tea party wave” that swept them out of power in 2010. But plenty of new freshmen are strong conservatives backed enthusiastically by the movement that made its mark in 2010. ..... Six of the comeback specialists are Democrats ousted in the 2010 Republican wave: Bill Foster of Illinois, Alan Grayson of Florida, Ann Kirkpatrick of Arizona, Dan Maffei of New York, Carol Shea-Porter of New Hampshire and Dina Titus of Nevada. .... So all these new members equate to about 18-20% turnover, way lower than the 75% disapproval rating the 112th Congress now enjoys. The Do Nothing Congress will return as the 113th Edition in January with Paulie Ryan leading the obstructionists no doubt from the so-called "Fiscal Cliff" to more climate-change denial. Meanwhile citizens in the NY/NJ area are still dealing with the latest data point of climate change, Hurricane Sandy's aftermath. Over at Slate Katherine Goldstein wonders Is Occupy Wall Street Outperforming the Red Cross in Hurricane Relief? In Sunset Park, a predominantly Mexican and Chinese neighborhood in South Brooklyn, St. Jacobi’s Church was one of the go-to hubs for people who wanted to donate food, clothing, and warm blankets or volunteer help other New Yorkers who were still suffering in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. On Saturday, Ethan Murphy, one of the people heading the kitchen operation, estimated they would prepare and send out 10,000 meals to people in need. Thousands and thousands of pounds of clothes were being sorted, labeled, and distributed, and valuable supplies like heaters and generators were being loaded up in cars to be taken out to the Rockaways, Staten Island and other places in need. However, this well-oiled operation wasn’t organized by the Red Cross, New York Cares, or some other well-established volunteer group. This massive effort was the handiwork of none other than Occupy Wall Street—the effort is known as Occupy Sandy. .... So how did an offshoot of Occupy Wall Street, best known as a leaderless movement that brought international attention to issues of economic injustice through the occupation of Zucotti Park in the financial district last year, become a leader in local hurricane relief efforts? Ethan Murphy, who was helping organize the food at St. Jacobis and had been cooking for the occupy movement over the past year, explained there wasn’t any kind of official decision or declaration that occupiers would now try to help with the hurricane aftermath. “This is what we do already, “ he explained: Build community, help neighbors, and create a world without the help of finance. Horst said, “We know capitalism is broken, so we have already been focused on organizing to take care of our own [community] needs.” He sees Occupy Sandy as political ideas executed on a practical level. DN! sent our their correspondent Mike Burke for this fascinating interview After Sandy, Occupy Movement Re-Emerges as Relief Hub for Residents in Need Interestingly, one of the more active relief efforts that we came across in the Rockaways was done by a group calling themselves Occupy Sandy Relief. And this is a group of—pretty much of alumni from Occupy Wall Street who started organizing really in the hours after the storm, about ways that just, you know, regular members of the community could help. And we talked to one organizer named Catherine Yeager. She lives in the Rockaways, and we talked to her outside of the—a restaurant called the Veggie Island, which had been transformed into a relief hub. And this is part of what she had to say.

CATHERINE YEAGER: ....Right now, the biggest issue that we need is generators, and we need pumps, because we can’t get the electricity turned back on until all of the basements are pumped out. And there’s still—if you walk Rockaway and you knock on any door, someone—every single door, someone is going to need help. The water that came in is toxic, OK? We had water from the beach. I watched the waves that morning. They were already incredibly dirty. The bay and the ocean met every single part of Rockaway during the storm. There was at least two feet of flooding everywhere, sometimes up to six or seven feet of flooding, depending on where you lived. Everyone’s been affected, doesn’t matter who you are, doesn’t matter where you are. Every single person’s been affected. And so, a lot of right now is getting those basements pumped out, debris getting pulled out, you know, sweeping out huge chunks of just gunk and junk, and trying to figure out where it all goes. The boardwalk is destroyed. You know, I watched the boardwalk out my window come rushing down. The water level here got up to about five feet, and the winds were almost 20 miles per hour, so it looks like the ocean coming through this entire place. I watched cars rolling down the street. I mean, it was—it was scary. And out the window, you could see the fire. You could see this huge flame of fire coming from Breezy Point. And they really—I mean, there were, I think, 80 homes lost over there—and just devastated. So, the last couple days have been very inspiring, because we’ve had so many people coming. People are starting to realize that Rockaway was hit as bad as it was hit, and they’re coming to start helping and starting to think about us a little bit more. So, we’ll see what happens. I don’t know when we’re going to get electricity back. I don’t know. ....

Go watch this interview! Ms. Yeager is so articulate and smart!
BUSH CRIME FAMILY NEWS: Robyn Hagan Cain at FindLaw.com tells us Court Dismisses Torture Lawsuit Against Donald Rumsfeld The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a lawsuit this week from two American civilians who claim that they were tortured by the U.S. military in Iraq, Reuters reports. In an 8-3 opinion, the Seventh Circuit concluded that the plaintiffs had no right to sue former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and others in the military chain of command for damages. The en banc decision reverses last year's Seventh Circuit panel ruling that the men could pursue their Bivens claims against Rumsfeld. .... Writing for the Seventh Circuit majority, Chief Judge Frank Easterbrook said that a Bivens remedy is personal, and would not apply to the contractors' case even if the court created a common-law damages remedy against military personnel and their civilian superiors. Though the Supreme Court concluded in Iqbal that cabinet secretaries and other supervisory personnel are accountable for what they do, they are not vicariously liable for what their subordinates do. Knowledge of a subordinate's misconduct is not enough for liability. ...... The contractors' lawyer, Michael Kanovitz, expressed disappointment in the ruling, saying that the decision means "a civilian can never bring a claim to enforce their rights if they are violated by anyone in the U.S. military," Reuters reports. Kanovitz indicated to Bloomberg that Ertel and Vance might petition the Supreme Court for review. Good luck with THAT considering the R.A.T.S. on the SCOTUS. Maybe, just maybe, Obama will get to nominate a couple of decent (non-corporate aka for-the-peeps) judges to the SCOTUS in the next four years (as every Obamabot has beat us over the head with this election season). Don't hold yer breath: Obomber luvs him some extrajudicial killings.
Paul Krugman explains the Delusions of Reason at his NYT blog What’s so strange about this is that everything — everything — that has happened for the past decade has demonstrated the opposite. Modern Republicans are devotees of faith-based analysis on every front. On economics, in particular, they are devoted to supply-side fantasies that keep being refuted by evidence — and their reaction is to try to suppress the evidence. They’ve spent pretty much the whole past four years issuing dire warnings about inflation and soaring interest rates that keep not coming true; they cling to the belief that if only a Republican were in office we’d have a 1982-style recovery even though economists who actually studied past financial crises predicted the slow recovery in advance. And don’t even get me started on climate change. The truth is that the modern GOP is deeply anti-intellectual, and has as its fundamental goal not just a rollback of the welfare state but a rollback of the Enlightenment. Yet there are some wannabe intellectuals who delude themselves into believing that they have aligned themselves with the party of objective (as opposed to Objectivist) analysis. You might think that the election debacle would force some reconsideration. But I doubt it; if the financial crisis didn’t do it, nothing will.
As we have tried to explain over and over again OBJECTIVE REALITY IS IMMATERIAL to the Right Wing and the Greater GOPher electorate. Over at NYMag.com Frank Rich calls it Fantasyland - Denial has poisoned the GOP and threatens the rest of the country too Mitt Romney is already slithering into the mists of history, or at least La Jolla, gone and soon to be forgotten. A weightless figure unloved and distrusted by even his own supporters, he was always destined, win or lose, to be a transitory front man for a radical-right GOP intent on barreling full-speed down the Randian path laid out by its true 2012 standard-bearer, Paul Ryan. But as was said of another unsuccessful salesman who worked the New England territory, attention must be paid to Mitt as the door slams behind him in the aftermath of Barack Obama’s brilliant victory. Though Romney has no political heirs in his own party or elsewhere, he does leave behind a cultural legacy of sorts. He raised Truthiness to a level of chutzpah beyond Stephen Colbert’s fertile imagination, and on the grandest scale. That a presidential hopeful so cavalierly mendacious could get so close to the White House, winning some 48 percent of the popular vote, is no small accomplishment. The American weakness that Romney both apotheosized and exploited in achieving this feat—our post-fact syndrome where anyone on the public stage can make up anything and usually get away with it—won’t disappear with him. A slicker liar could have won, and still might. ..... The blogger Steve Benen, who meticulously curated and documented Mitt’s false statements during 2012, clocked a total of 917 as Election Day arrived. Those lies, which reached a crescendo with the last-ditch ads accusing a bailed-out Chrysler of planning to ship American jobs to China, are not to be confused with the Romney flip-flops. The Etch-A-Sketches were a phenomenon of their own; if the left and right agreed about anything this year, it was that trying to pin down where Mitt “really” stood on any subject was a fool’s errand. ..... Given that Romney had about as much of a human touch with voters as an ATM, it sometimes seemed as if a hologram were running for president.(Do you mean Mitt Headroom? Haha! -Ed.) Yet some 57 million Americans took him seriously enough to drag themselves to the polls and vote for a duplicitous cipher. Not all of this can be attributed to the unhinged Obama hatred typified by Mary Matalin’s postelection characterization of the president as “a political narcissistic sociopath.” ....... This year’s instantly famous declaration by the Romney pollster Neil Newhouse that “we’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers” crystallized the mantra of the entire GOP. The Republican faithful at strata both low and high, from Rush’s dittoheads to the think-tank-affiliated intellectuals, have long since stopped acknowledging any empirical evidence that disputes their insular worldview, no matter how grounded that evidence might be in (God forbid) science or any other verifiable reality, like, say, Census reports or elementary mathematics. No wonder Romney shunned the word Harvard, which awarded him two degrees, even more assiduously than he did Mormon. At the policy level, this is the GOP that denies climate change, that rejects Keynesian economics, and that identifies voter fraud where there is none. At the loony-tunes level, this is the GOP that has given us the birthers, websites purporting that Obama was lying about Osama bin Laden’s death, and not one but two (failed) senatorial candidates who redefined rape in defiance of medical science and simple common sense. It’s the GOP that demands the rewriting of history (and history textbooks), still denying that Barry Goldwater’s opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy” transformed the party of Lincoln into a haven for racists. Such is the conservative version of history that when the website Right Wing News surveyed 43 popular conservative bloggers to determine the “worst figures in American history” two years ago, Jimmy Carter, Obama, and FDR led the tally, all well ahead of Benedict Arnold, Timothy McVeigh, and John Wilkes Booth. The good news for Democrats this year was that the right’s brand of magical thinking (or non-thinking) bit the GOP in the ass, persuading it to disregard all the red flags and assume even a figure as hollow as Romney could triumph........ Nor, for all the panicked Republican talk about trying to make the party more inclusive and rational, is there any evidence that the GOP base wants to retreat a whit, whether on immigration or gay marriage or reproductive rights or the reinstatement of Jim Crow–era roadblocks to voting in states like Florida and Ohio. Or that any Republican leaders with actual power (as opposed to the out-of-office Jeb Bush) want to, either. The right is taking solace from exit-poll findings that more Americans still label themselves conservative than liberal and still think government does too much. A moderate putsch led by Olympia Snowe in exile, or David Frum, David Brooks, and Michael Gerson from op-ed pages, or Meghan ­McCain on Twitter, is not going to get very far. But that’s the Republicans’ plight...... The news business, which we once counted on to vet hoaxes and fictions, is now so insecure about its existential future that it was cowed to some extent by the Scarboroughs, Noonans, and Roves, with most of the networks, not just Fox, ignoring the statistical data of Silver and others and instead predicting a long, nail-biting Election Night. Much more so go read it all! And almost on cue from CBS This Morning we find Condoleezza Rice: GOP sent "mixed messages" throughout election While Rice maintained that the electoral college often skews the reality of an election -- "It was still a close election in the popular vote," she said -- she admitted that there is a need for a "bigger tent for the Republican party." She explained that while the party stands for a lot of things that are "broadly popular with the American people" -- from "fiscal responsibility" to "the possibility of strong national defense," she admitted "clearly we are losing important segments of the electorate." Rice explained, "on the immigration issue ... and probably some issues about women too, some mixed messages were sent. And when you send mixed messages through the narrow funnel that is the media funnel, sometimes people only hear one side of that message. At AlterNet Roy Edroso proprietor of Alicublog asks Why Does the GOP Keep Generating Extremists? During the campaign, instead of tying Democrats to weirdos, the Republicans generated a flood of their own. Again! .... But a weird thing happened: During the campaign, instead of tying Democrats to weirdos, the Republicans generated a flood of their own. Again! And here conservatives turned out to be a big, fat liability for their cause. As Republican after Republican made crackpot comments about rape, contraception, and abortion, the GOP's rightwing brain trust unfailingly followed up and said, yeah, that's what we believe, that's what we've always believed. .... And because the conventional wisdom had always been that autonomous, sexually active women and the men who love them are just a fringe constituency, instead of questioning the wisdom of attacking them, the big brains questioned the wisdom of having Sandra Fluke speak at the Democratic Convention. I always knew this issue was a winner for the Democrats, but now I'm beginning to think that it affected everything else as well. That is, Romney's crackpot economic and environmental policies might have had more traction with voters if so many of them were not convinced that he represented and was listening to a bunch of lunatics who were totally out of touch with how human beings live. .... Haha! Confused? So was Kristen Neel headlines the Sydney Morning Herald! It must be quite a shock for Julia Gillard to find that President Barack Obama's re-election somehow transformed her into Australia's male, Christian president who "actually supports what he says". Confused? So was Kristen Neel, a teenager from Georgia, who gained Twitter infamy in Australia in a matter of hours on Wednesday evening. After news President Obama won four more years, the 18-year-old tweeted: "I'm moving to Australia, because their president is a Christian and actually supports what he says." She has since deleted her Twitter account, but search tool Topsy showed she was retweeted over 1500 times. Before she went offline, Ms Neel tried to explain. "I was referring to the prevous (sic) office that actually had a moral position," she wrote. Australian political and media observers didn't take long to pounce, sending out numerous tweets:

• L@kristenneel_ our "president" is a prime minister, is a woman, and is an atheist. I think you meant Antarctica. Move there. — Gilbert (@post_rock0)
• @kristenneel_ Not one word of that sentence is true. I’m not even angry, I’m impressed.— ABCnewsIntern (@ABCnewsIntern)
• I feel sorry for @kristenneel_. USA, may I suggest more funding to Public Education to avoid another Twitter-tragedy in 4 years time.— Ken Sekiya (@ki_sekiya)

Bwaaahahaaaaa! How did Ms. Neel acquire such a radical non-fact-based idea? Over at that bastion of liberalism NPR's David Folkenflik explains on All Things Considered Friday show Some In GOP Criticize Fox For Failing Its Audience The noted conservative political analyst Michael Barone and conservative columnist George Will each predicted a landslide in the Electoral College for Romney. But they were far from alone. You would've heard a steady diet of such punditry on Fox News for weeks. .....This morning, conservative commentator and former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe" and leveled a charge against his fellow pundits.

DAVID FRUM: The conservative followership has been fleeced, exploited and lied to by the conservative entertainment complex. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Name names.

Frum demurred, though he has pointed to Fox News and Rush Limbaugh in the past. He argued that conservative media have failed their audiences by cheerleading rather than reflecting what was actually happening in the race. .... Romney loyalists had insisted his momentum wasn't being reflected in the most recent polls. But those polls were showing an edge for President Obama, especially in key battleground states. Byron York is the chief political correspondent for the conservative Washington Examiner. He reported from Romney's headquarters on election night.

BYRON YORK: The thing that struck me talking to Romney supporters at the convention center right after he had conceded was that so many of them said they were incredibly shocked at this. They had come to the event expecting Romney to win. They were really stunned when it turned out that he hadn't.

A number of Romney supporters told York Tuesday night they had been influenced both by the campaign's internal polls and very much by what they read in print and heard on the air. The assumption among conservatives, as York found when he pressed Romney's strategists, was that Democrats would not vote at the same levels they did in 2008 in electing Mr. Obama the first time. And that meant many conservatives argued the polls themselves were skewed because they showed a Democratic advantage. But the trade of polling was vindicated. The Examiner's Byron York said there was a logic behind the Republicans' belief, but they were unable to question that thinking at a time they needed to most.

YORK: You had this kind of mutually reinforcing phenomenon going on between the Romney campaign, some influential commentators and then a lot of that commentary then gets repeated in the media at large.

And that's how a defeat foreshadowed by the polls can still come as a surprise to those on the losing end. We harp on constantly IT'S THE MEDIA STOOPID! Let's remember over 57 million people voted the Romney/Ryan ticket nationwide with a good portion of them no doubt FAKE SNOOZE followers, tea-baggers, Ditto-heads and climate-change deniers who we know are Less Informed Than Those Who Read No News! They buy into canards like The War On Women, The War on Science, The War on Big Bird and The War on "Librul Media" especially. We also know from a 2007 study (pdf) by The Center for American Progress and Free Press that "91 percent of the total weekday talk radio programming was conservative, and only 9 percent was progressive" and "Each weekday, 2,570 hours and 15 minutes of conservative talk are broadcast on these stations compared to 254 hours of progressive talk — 10 times as much conservative talk as progressive talk." And since 2007 how many over-the-air progressive stations have since gone dark? The latest casualty now is Portland's Clear Channel-owned KPOJ Progressive Talk Station Flipped to Fox Sports reported by Brad Friedman (see below). We also know about The 6 Monolithic Corporations That Control Almost Everything We Watch, Hear And Read The six corporations that collectively control U.S. media today are Time Warner, Walt Disney, Viacom, Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., CBS Corporation and NBC Universal. Together, the "big six" absolutely dominate news and entertainment in the United States. But even those areas of the media that the "big six" do not completely control are becoming increasingly concentrated. For example, Clear Channel now owns over 1000 radio stations across the United States. Companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are increasingly dominating the Internet. But it is the "big six" that are the biggest concerns. When you control what Americans watch, hear and read you gain a great deal of control over what they think. They don't call it "programming" for nothing. We support helping Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting FAIR.org in their quest of "structural reform [that] is needed to break up the dominant media conglomerates, establish independent public broadcasting, and promote strong, non-profit alternative sources of information." Go there NOW for more resources! /rant we digress.... Bill Schneider discusses Fighting off the counterrevolution at his Reuters blog. The conventional wisdom has arrived: 2012 was a status quo election. President Barack Obama was reelected. Democrats continue to have a majority in the Senate. Republicans still control the House. Only two states changed their presidential votes from 2008 to 2012 (North Carolina and Indiana). Six billion dollars were spent and almost nothing changed! The conventional wisdom is wrong. Things have indeed changed. Voters came out to defend the revolution of 2008. They rejected a return to the old order. The status quo candidate in this election was Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. Romney represented the old order that’s been in power since 1980: the Reagan regime with its power base of older white men. Bill Clinton, the only Democrat to win the White House during that regime, tried to make accommodations with it. They impeached him. All that changed with the revolution of 2008. The New America, led by Obama, came to power. It was a movement of young people, working women, African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, union members, liberals, gays and other groups that had long been denied power. A revolution always faces a counterrevolution. When the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia, they immediately faced a counterrevolution led by the White Army, which was fighting to defend the Czarist regime. When the Obama movement came to power in 2009, a counterrevolution sprang up immediately: the Tea Party. The Tea Party enjoyed a big victory in 2010 when it gained power in Congress and nearly killed health care reform. Tuesday, the New America defeated the forces of reaction. There were some doubts about whether the 2008 majority would show up again. Many Democrats were disappointed in Obama and frustrated by his inability to deliver the hope and change he promised. But they did show up. What drove them to the polls this time was not hope but fear — fear that the Tea Party Republicans would take over the country. Obama continued to draw strong support from women, gays, African-Americans, Latinos, Asian-Americans, liberals and union members. In some cases (Latinos, Asian-Americans, gays), Obama did better than he did in 2008. His big loss was among white men (from 41 percent in 2008 to 35 percent this year). They’re the old regime. The White Army was routed. It retreated to Siberia — in this case, the House of Representatives, where Republicans retained their majority. Why did Republicans hold on to the House? Because the House is fortified against change. House incumbents are difficult to defeat. Their challengers are mostly unknown. Moreover, most state legislatures are controlled by Republicans, and they used their power over redistricting to protect Republican incumbents. It’s hard to call this a status quo election when so many Americans are dissatisfied with the status quo. Karl Rove was the Admiral Alexander Kolchak of the effort to hold back change, the supreme commander of the counterrevolutionary forces. His American Crossroads Super PAC spent more than $100 million on attack ads. According to the Sunlight Foundation, only 1 percent of the candidates supported by his committee won. That is one of the lowest returns on investment of any independent spending group. The Bolsheviks shot Kolchak. Rove was lucky. He just got humiliated on national TV. .... Speaking of Turd Blossom and his "permanent Republican majority" read Samuel P. Jacobs at Reuters Republican strategist Karl Rove's very bad night and see LA Times' Merideth Blake Karl Rove melts down after Fox News calls Ohio for Obama with the MediaIte clip! Priceless! TheWeek.com put together President Obama's re-election: Is there now a permanent Democratic majority? The president's winning coalition of 2008 remains intact — and demographic trends suggest that it will only get larger worth a look. And also check out Der Speigel On-Line for A Commentary by Jakob Augstein America Has Already Lost Tuesday's Election Germans see the US election as a battle between the good Obama and the evil Romney. But this is a mistake. Regardless of who wins the election on Tuesday, total capitalism is America's true ruler, and it has the power to destroy the country. Good item! Finally Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman tells The Dems and pResident Obama Let’s Not Make a Deal To say the obvious: Democrats won an amazing victory. Not only did they hold the White House despite a still-troubled economy, in a year when their Senate majority was supposed to be doomed, they actually added seats. Nor was that all: They scored major gains in the states. Most notably, California — long a poster child for the political dysfunction that comes when nothing can get done without a legislative supermajority — not only voted for much-needed tax increases, but elected, you guessed it, a Democratic supermajority. But one goal eluded the victors. Even though preliminary estimates suggest that Democrats received somewhat more votes than Republicans in Congressional elections, the G.O.P. retains solid control of the House thanks to extreme gerrymandering by courts and Republican-controlled state governments. And Representative John Boehner, the speaker of the House, wasted no time in declaring that his party remains as intransigent as ever, utterly opposed to any rise in tax rates even as it whines about the size of the deficit. So President Obama has to make a decision, almost immediately, about how to deal with continuing Republican obstruction. How far should he go in accommodating the G.O.P.’s demands? My answer is, not far at all. Mr. Obama should hang tough, declaring himself willing, if necessary, to hold his ground even at the cost of letting his opponents inflict damage on a still-shaky economy. And this is definitely no time to negotiate a “grand bargain” on the budget that snatches defeat from the jaws of victory. In saying this, I don’t mean to minimize the very real economic dangers posed by the so-called fiscal cliff that is looming at the end of this year if the two parties can’t reach a deal. .... Nobody wants to see that happen. Yet it may happen all the same, and Mr. Obama has to be willing to let it happen if necessary. Why? Because Republicans are trying, for the third time since he took office, to use economic blackmail to achieve a goal they lack the votes to achieve through the normal legislative process. ...... Mr. Obama essentially surrendered in the face of similar tactics at the end of 2010, extending low taxes on the rich for two more years. He made significant concessions again in 2011, when Republicans threatened to create financial chaos by refusing to raise the debt ceiling. And the current potential crisis is the legacy of those past concessions. Well, this has to stop — unless we want hostage-taking, the threat of making the nation ungovernable, to become a standard part of our political process. So what should he do? Just say no, and go over the cliff if necessary. .... Most of all, standing up to hostage-taking is the right thing to do for the health of America’s political system. So stand your ground, Mr. President, and don’t give in to threats. No deal is better than a bad deal. So this Sunday look for apologists of every stripe too many to list but the only Big Hitter seems to be 0's Senior Campaign Adviser David Axelrod with Face the Bob. Conspicuously absent is KKKARL "I don't need no stinkin subpoena" ROVE, MARCO RUBIO, CHRIS CHRISTIE, MITCH MCCONNELL, JOHN "Crybaby" BOEHNER and GEORGE "LANDSLIDE" WILL among others who hitched their wagon to Paulie and Rawmoney. So spend yer Sunday with all the BTV regulars who have a cornucopia of post election coverage! Peter B has David Caye Johnston and a report on Dark Money, Sam has FDL's DDay, Cliff The News Dissector Schecter and Ari Berman, also on Ring of Fire Radio! Lots of good VIDEO Pap Attacks too! Click anything and be instantly smarter! The Brick TeeVee Crew is expecting temps in the 60's so are cramming in all the outdoor last-before-winter clean-up. Sandy blew away most of our leaves too! But we got the neighbors' leaves instead haha! Last cut for the lawns, too. Plus the new paint is dry at the rehab and now it's onto all the small projects (ugh). The BTV Crew has been busy knocking 'em out one by one though! Now go have a Sunday!
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Monday, November 5, 2012

• Hurricane Sandy coverage including After Sandy, Occupy Movement Re-Emerges as Relief Hub for Residents in Need AND Starting Line of Canceled Marathon, New York’s Staten Island Overcome by Post-Sandy Desperation PLUS As Sandy Relief Lags, Residents from Red Hook to Hoboken Band Together for Community Response and more!
  
• The Nation's Ari Berman In Tight Race, 11th-Hour Voter ID Laws, Suppression Could Decide Ohio and Other Swing States
  

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

• Brentin Mock, lead reporter for Voting Rights Watch 2012 & Myrna Pérez, senior counsel in the Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice In Key Florida Battleground, Tea Party-Linked "True the Vote" Challenges Voters at the Polls
  AND Election (Suppression) Day 2012: From ID to Intimidation, How to Protect Your Rights at the Polls
  
• Investigative reporter Greg Palast In Ohio, African-American Turnout Threatened by Reduced Early Voting and Faulty Ballots
  
• Kim Barker, reporter for ProPublica In Landmark Ruling, "Dark Money" Group Tied to Citizens United Ordered to Reveal Its Donors
  

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

• Campaign 2012 Obama Re-Elected to 2nd Term with Near Sweep of Battleground States
  
• Jealous and Flanders Election 2012: Ben Jealous, Laura Flanders on Obama’s 2nd Term & the Future of Progressive Politics
  
• Scahill & KucinichJeremy Scahill and Dennis Kucinich: In Obama’s 2nd Term, Will Dems Challenge U.S. Drones, Killings?
  
• Justine Sarver, executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy CenterFrom Marriage Equality to Legalizing Marijuana, Election Day Ballot Measures Won by Movements
  

Thursday, November 8, 2012

• Juan González Juan González: Critical Role in Obama’s Re-Election Heralds New Era of Decisive Latino Vote in U.S. AND Puerto Rico Referendum Approves U.S. Statehood for 1st Time, But Results Show Divided Views
  
• Democracy Now! producer Renée Feltz and Democracy Now! fellow Martyna Starosta Without Power and Aid, Low-Income Residents of NYC’s Lower East Side Struggle in Storm’s Aftermath
  
• John Nichols John Nichols: Overwhelming Obama Victory Not Just a Mandate for the President, but for Progressives
  
• Denver Nicks, journalist and author Bradley Manning Offers to Plead Guilty to WikiLeaks Charges if Gov’t Drops Espionage, Enemy Case
  

Friday, November 9, 2012

• Mick Dumke, reporter for Chicago’s alternative newspaper, the Chicago Reader. After Historic Votes Legalizing Marijuana, Colorado & Washington Prepare for Federal Gov’t Showdown
  
• Smiley and West Tavis Smiley, Cornel West on the 2012 Election & Why Calling Obama "Progressive" Ignores His Record AND ON-LINE EXCLUSIVE Part 2: Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West Call on Obama to Host a White House Conf. on Ending Poverty
  
• READ Amy Goodman at TruthDig Now the Work of Movements Begins he election is over, and President Barack Obama will continue as the 44th president of the United States. There will be much attention paid by the pundit class to the mechanics of the campaigns, to the techniques of microtargeting potential voters, the effectiveness of get-out-the-vote efforts. The media analysts will fill the hours on the cable news networks, proffering post-election chestnuts about the accuracy of polls, or about either candidate’s success with one demographic or another. Missed by the mainstream media, but churning at the heart of our democracy, are social movements, movements without which President Obama would not have been re-elected......
  

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

STOP the ACHE Appalachian Community HEALTH EMERGENCY Advocating for government action and protection of the public from the health crisis in mountain top removal communi ties

Lawmakers concerned about the health effects on humans from mountaintop removal coal mining set forth legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives today. Representatives Dennis Kucinich (OH), Louise Slaughter (NY), Maurice Hinchey (NY), Earl Blumenauer (OR), Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA), John Yarmuth (KY), Lynn Woolsey (CA), Judy Chu (CA), Raúl Grijalva (AZ), James Moran (VA), Michael Honda (CA), John Conyers (MI), and Keith Ellison (MN) introduced the Appalachian Communities Health Emergency (ACHE) Act H.R. 5959 which would place a moratorium on permitting for mountaintop removal coal mining until health studies are conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services. The ACHE coalition presently consists of participants from Coal River Mountain Watch, Mountain Health and Heritage Association, and Christians for the Mountains. “We encourage you, if you’re concerned about mountaintop removal’s effect on your community’s health, to join us in making your voice heard,” said Allen Johnson, executive director of Christians for the Mountains. “Please contact us, learn about the issue, and take action to protect your community.”

Community-Wealth.org community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity. Featuring Community Wealth Building in Action: The Cleveland Model Something important is happening in Cleveland. The Democracy Collaborative—the host of C-W.org—in partnership with the Cleveland Foundation, the Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Shorebank Enterprise Cleveland, the City of Cleveland, and the city's major hospitals and universities—is helping to implement a new model of large-scale worker-owned and community-benefiting businesses. The Evergreen Cooperative Initiative is beginning to build serious momentum in one of the cities most dramatically impacted by the nation's decaying economy. Increasingly, this model is being referred to nationally as The Cleveland Model. Initial planning is now underway to assist other cities in Ohio and nationwide to replicate and adapt this innovative approach to economic development, green job creation, and neighborhood stabilization. Find more many resources at Community-Wealth.org!
NET NEUTRALITY! SaveTheInternet.com Declaration of Internet Freedom Tired of fighting bad bills like SOPA, PIPA and CISPA? Want to stand up against those who are trying to control what we do and say online? It's time for something different. A group of more than 1,500 organizations, academics, startup founders and tech innovators has come together to produce a Declaration of Internet Freedom, a set of five principles that put forward a positive vision of the open Internet. Our goal: Get millions of Internet users to sign on to this Declaration. Build political power for Internet users to make sure that we get a seat at the table whenever, and wherever, the future of the Internet is being decided. It's time to stop playing defense and start going on the offensive. The open Internet is central to people’s freedom to communicate, share, advocate and innovate in the 21st century. But powerful interests want to censor free speech, block the sharing of information, hinder innovation and control how Internet users get online. And all too often, people in power are making political decisions behind closed doors about how the Internet should operate — and they're doing this without the involvement of actual Internet users. The result: policies that could close down the open Internet and destroy our freedom to connect. It’s time for us to reclaim the Internet for its users. Take action now and sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom..
CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: No more silent majority. The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the Center for Economic and Policy Research (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) to monitor the media’s coverage and representation of the American Majority views as they go into covering the big deficit fight. But we want to enlist YOU too. Send us accounts of unbalanced coverage in the national media and in your local newspapers and television. Call up reporters, editors, assignment people and tell them when they are under-representing the views of the American Majority. We should have at least half the experts, pundits, quotes and real people represented in their coverage. In a debate as important as the one we are going into, we can’t allow the media to ignore the American Majority. Much more at www.ourfuture.org
MOVE TO AMEND! www.movetoamend.org SIGN HERE NOW! And check out more actions on the Move to Amend Calendar featuring David Cobb's Barnstorming Tour! Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site www.savedemocracy.net GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is running again in FL-8! Help out at CongressmanWithGuts.com
SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT See CourageToResist.org and Bradley Manning Support Network UPDATE! BuzzFlash Commentary Military Makes a Mockery of Bradley Manning’s Right to a Speedy Trial September 28, 2012: “PFC Manning’s statutory and constitutional speedy trial rights have been trampled upon with impunity,” writes David Coombs, defense lawyer for accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower Bradley Manning, in a new motion posted to his blog yesterday. The 117-page comprehensive motion takes a long and thorough look at the ways in which the Convening Authority and prosecution have utterly failed to act according to their obligations to provide Manning a speedy trial. Coombs concludes that the only remedy for these extremely long delays is a dismissal of charges with prejudice. At the time of Coombs’ filing, Manning had been imprisoned for 845 days. Coombs emphasizes just how long this is......
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• This Week (ABC) Host George Stephanopoulos
  • Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.
  • Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga.
  • ROUNDTABLE: Fox News anchor Greta van Susteren, Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., Rep. Donna Edwards, D-Md., The Wall Street Journal's Paul Gigot, and The Nation's Katrina vanden Heuvel.
  

  
  

• Face The Nation (CBS) Host Bob Schiefer
  • Senior Campaign Adviser David Axelrod
  • Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.
  • ROUNDTABLE: Vanity Fair's Dee Dee Myers, Harvard University's David Gergen, The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan and CBS News Political Director John Dickerson.
  

  
  

• 60 Minutes (CBS)
  • Belle Harbor - The residents of this New York City shoreline neighborhood have suffered more than their share of tragedy, but continue to show a unique strength and grace even after being devastated by Superstorm Sandy. Scott Pelley reports. Clem Taylor, Magalie Laguerre-Wilkinson, Robert Anderson and Nicole Young are the producers.
  • Three Million Open Jobs - As millions of Americans remain unemployed, U.S. manufacturers are having trouble filling jobs requiring the skills to operate their high-tech machinery. Byron Pitts reports. David Schneider is the producer.
  

  
  

• Meet the Press (NBC) Host David Gregory
  • Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture NBC is buying Microsoft's 50 percent interest in the MSNBC website for an undisclosed amount. MSNBC.com will be rebranded as NBCNews.com, and readers who logged into MSNBC.com late Sunday were automatically redirected to NBCNews.com. Microsoft is preparing to launch its own news service this fall. Although he declined to provide many details about the operation general manager of MSN.com Bob Visse said the news staff will be about the same size as the roughly 100 people who created original content for the MSNBC.com. "There is no question that we are going to have more flexibility to make our own decisions," said Vivian Schiller, NBC News' chief digital officer. "This is really an amicable breakup. We think competition will make us better." Okay then.
  • Democratic Policy Committee Chairman Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
  • member of the “Gang of Six” during the debt ceiling debate, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK).
  • NBC's Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent Andrea Mitchell
  • CNBC's Jim Cramer on What Happens if They Can't
  • ROUNDTABLE: Rep.-elect Joaquìn Castro (D-TX); Republican strategist Steve Schmidt; presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin; Washington Post’s Bob Woodward, and NBC News Political Director and Chief White House Correspondent Chuck Todd.
  

  
  

• State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN) At 9 AM ET, Candy talks to the power players: politicians, business leaders and international newsmakers who will make Monday morning's headlines. At NOON ET, Candy wraps it all up with fresh interviews and the best of the earlier hours.
  • New York Rep. Peter King
  • NJ Sen. Bob Menendez
  • California Gov. Jerry Brown
  • ROUNDTABLE: former GOP presidential candidate Jon Huntsman, WA Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, former Commerce Secretary and Romney campaign adviser Carlos Gutierrez and American Values President Gary Bauer.
  

  
  

• HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid
  
  Headon Radio with Bob Kincaid 6 PM Eastern, 3 PM Pacific, 2300 GMT. Duration: 3 hrs. To be part of Conversation Radio on Head-on Radio, call toll-free (877) 443-2366, or use our Liberal community line at 304-658-3333. Email bob [at] headonradio [dot] com during the show!
  • PRAYER MEETIN' WEDNESDAY!!!!! Bob and callers go over election results! Listen HERE NOW! Amen to the White Rose Society! Donate to Head On HERE! And join Coal River Mountain Watch at www.crmw.net!
  

  
  

• YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT
  
  The Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen: 6 minutes of green news, politics, analysis & snarky comment! BOOKMARK greennews.bradblog.com NOW!
  • 'Green News Report' - November 1, 2012 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: With Hurricane Sandy recovery underway, Bloomberg endorses Obama, Romney is heckled, and the impacts of climate change finally begin to dawn on corporate media and public officials; PLUS: Planning ahead for a climate changed future ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
  • IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): CIA's Climate Change Security Report Delayed Due To Hurricane Sandy; Winter Storm May Hit In Early November, Possibly On Election Day; Energy company CEO: Why do we have to talk about climate change today?; Australia Rejects Calls From The Fossil Fuel Industry To Roll Back 20 Percent Renewable Energy Target; Exxon And Shell Earn $54 Billion So Far In 2012, After Taking $800 Million In Annual Tax Breaks; KFC UK will no longer source from Asia Pulp & Paper ... PLUS: The Onion: Nation Suddenly Realizes This Just Going To Be A Thing That Happens From Now On ... and much, MUCH more!
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! BREAKING: Portland's Clear Channel-owned KPOJ Progressive Talk Station Flipped to Fox Sports By Brad Friedman on 11/9/2012 - This is horrible. Tonight, without warning, Clear Channel Communications-owned 620 AM KPOJ in Portland, Oregon, one of the most progressive cities in one of the nation's most progressive states, has flipped from it's years-long progressive news and talk format over to Fox Sports as of 5:30pm local time. KPOJ was the only commercial progressive talk radio station in Portland. The city will still have several other Rightwing talk radio stations, including one owned by Clear Channel, and they already have two sports stations, but the Bain Capital-owned media conglomerate is now killing yet another progressive voice from our publicly-owned airwaves. .....
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! The Day After: About Those Voting Machines... We've got a lot of mopping up to do around here today, tomorrow and in the days and weeks ahead. There are still races outstanding, recounts apparently coming and, despite encouraging reported results yesterday, an electoral system left in shambles. If you haven't noticed or guessed, yes, we intend to hold President Obama to this remark (and many more) from his victory speech last night......
  • BRADCAST UPDATE! KPFK 'BradCast': Election 2012 Mop Up, Reform Begins; Bob Fitrakis on OH's Secret Vote Software Today on my KPFK/Pacifica Radio show: My take on what did and didn't go right and wrong during yesterday's 2012 elections --- there was plenty of each --- and what now needs to be done about it all. Plus, investigative journalist Bob Fitrakis from Ohio's Free Press on OH Sec. of State Jon Husted's secret, uncertified, "experimental" software installed on vote counting systems in 39 counties just days before the 2012 election, and Fitrakis' state and federal lawsuits to try to block it...
  

  
  

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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.
  • Holiday Break and Website Changes
  
  To my valued listeners: We are making some changes to the website and our terms, effective in January. We will continue to offer free podcasts–my new daily news and commentary. Our in-depth interviews will be available for $1 per episode, or to subscribers who pay $5 per month or more. Loyal listeners who simply can’t afford it should send an email to peter@peterbcollins.com, as we will be offering a limited number of scholarships to our friends who are hurting during these tough times. More information will be posted as we complete the revisions. I’m grateful to each of you for listening and supporting this work, and hope that the new model will enable us to keep it going well into the future. All the best, -pbc
  • PBC Standard Podcast November 7, 2012 Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist David Cay Johnston Reveals Corporate Scams, Large and Small, That Cost Us Billions
  • PBC Standard Podcast November 8, 2012 Public Citizen’s Taylor Lincoln Reports on “Dark Money” in 2012 Senate Races
  

  
  

• Ring of Fire Radio
  
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/ hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder
  Ring of Fire Radio - GoLeft TV - Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, Sam Seder - Politics, Commentary, and News.
  This week on Ring of Fire November 9, 2012
  • Larry Hanley, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union, will be joining us to talk about organized labor’s role in this year’s election.
  • Author Ari Berman will discuss the problems voters faced at the polls, and how we can solve those problems before the next election.
  • Alternet Washington correspondent Adele Stan will tell us how the Romney campaign pushed the limits on conservative hate talk.
  • And “Delirium” author Nancy Cohen will join us to discuss how the GOP’s war on women backfired miserably for Republican candidates.
  • VIDEO! THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio “Call us if you have a personal story about Fraud on Taxpayers or False Claims for Payment made by Corportations at 1-866-389-FIRE (3473)or contact us by email at info@ringoffireradio.com if you have evidence of fraud that robbed taxpayer dollars. If our government is paying too much due to fraud by a corporation, Ring of Fire wants to do a story on it.”
  • VIDEO! Papantonio: Exposing The Climate Criminals (VIDEO)
  • VIDEO! Papantonio: Obama’s First Step; REPLACE ERIC HOLDER (VIDEO)
  • VIDEO! Papantonio: GOP’s “Hate Everything Strategy” Backfires (VIDEO)
  • VIDEO! Papantonio: Extremist GOP No Longer Relevant In Politics (VIDEO)
  Papantonio: Extremist GOP No Longer Relevant In Politics (VIDEO)
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  Ring of Fire Radio Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts 8-11 et Sunday evenings on Chicago's Progressive Talk WCPT AM & FM and 4 pm et on Sirius/XM 167 featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."
  

  
  

• Majority Report with Sam Seder Streaming LIVE weekdays 11:30 am et @ Majority.fm!
  
  • November 5, 2012 Markos Moulitsas & Occupy Sandy
  • November 6, 2012 Janeane “Katherine Harris” Garofalo
  • November 7, 2012 Ari Berman & David Dayen With the Wrap Up
  • November 8, 2012 Ryan Grim, Progressive Wins
  • November 9, 2012 Casual Friday, Cliff Schecter & Andy “Obamabot” Kindler
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• On the Edge with Max Keiser Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
  
  "HI Y'ALL! Tell the people! Tell the people!"
  WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts "The Truth About Markets" on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s "People & Power" series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power. Read Max Keiser: 'Barack Obama is clueless. Mitt Romney will bankrupt the country' by
  Robert Chalmers at The Indepentdent! "Some call Max Keiser a 'traitor' but America's most outrageous political pundit is about to become the most widely watched newscaster on the planet. Here, he explains why he won't be voting in Tuesday's US election."
  • VISIT PirateMyFilm.com!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!
  • NEW! MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! MaxKeiserTV PLUS here is Max Keiser’s official Facebook page And here is the official Keiser Report page
  • The official Facebook pages for Max Keiser & Keiser Report 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. Max Keiser & Keiser Report PLUS Stacey Herbert
  • The “Keiser Report” has been begging europe to do this for years by maxkeiser READ European Banks Preparing To Boycott Big Three Rating Agencies (zerohedge.com)
  • Vulture Capitalism & Reverse Vulture Capitalism by maxkeiser - Caught in the battle between hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer and Argentina, some hedge funds complain that they are being held hostage. Bondholders who agreed to a 70 percent hit as part of Argentina’s debt restructuring are concerned they might not get paid all they are owed if Singer’s Elliott Management gets its way. Gramercy Funds Management, one of the bondholders that agreed to accept 30 cents on the dollar when Argentina defaulted in 2001, said as much to Manhattan federal court Judge Thomas Griesa yesterday. “We’re the ones being held hostage,” Sean O’Shea, Gramercy’s attorney, told Griesa at a hearing. Elliott had asked the judge to lift a stay that would require Argentina to pay up to $1.3 billion to Elliott in December, when Argentina makes payments to other bondholders. READ Hedgies held ‘hostage’ by pirate Singer
  • Denninger: The end of the self-delusional game we’ve been running for the last three decades. That endpoint is here, now and today. In the post election hype, Denninger keeps it real. The post-neo-liberal bubble that popped in 2007 is continuing to implode. READ The “New Normal” In Pictures
  • Why Bankers Own the World’s Gold by SilverVigiolante - The real conclusion that must be internalized is that, while buying precious metals and other tangible assets can be an excellent way of exiting the fiat currency paradigm, we mustn’t forget that central bankers own the world’s gold. They have been in a position to accumulate for centuries, and through conniving and contrivance have ensured that their stashes are the biggest on the planet. READ Why Bankers Own The World’s Gold
  • KEISER REPORT [KR363] Keiser Report: Rip It Up & Start Again! We discuss electing ‘powerless’ governments which then proceed to rip up social contracts and illegally transfer debts to private citizens, who, in turn, accept the ‘moral responsibility’ to keep the corporate welfare Queens rolling in their sacrosanct perks. If government is not ‘legally empowered’ to reduce the pay of bankers who destroyed and continue to run Anglo Irish bank, how were they ever ‘legally empowered’ to transfer the private debts between two private parties to the public? In the second half, Max Keiser talks to Simon Rose of SaveOurSavers.co.uk about the attempt to try capitalism without capital and how the erosion of savings is costing the economy not only capital but jobs and growth.
  • KEISER REPORT [KR364] Keiser Report: Triple-Dip Recession Nightmare We discuss Goldfinger at the New York Fed in Lower Manhattan where Germany’s gold did not dissolve in the Hurricane Sandy floods, but $13 trillion in paper assets did. They also discuss Treasury secretaries and Goldman CEOs as the stuff of nightmares. In the second half, Max Keiser talks to Ned Naylor-Leyland about Germany’s gold, JP Morgan’s shorts, Bart Chilton’s ‘investigation’ and whether or not Brown’s Bottom was actually a way to cover up a shortage of gold in London.
  • KEISER REPORT [KR365] Keiser Report: Wacko Wizard World We discuss central bankers and governments from Iceland to Argentina attempting to tilt the global pinball game so that the ball goes in the ‘right’ hole while ‘invincibility’ tattoos fail to protect from the guns and knives of financial weapons in the real world. In the second half, Max Keiser talks to Tuur Demeester of Macrotrends.be about the recent report from the European Central Bank suggesting they are concerned about the new breed of decentralized digital currencies threatening their seignorage rights. They also discuss the financial jungle of Argentina where capital controls and economic chaos prove a great testing ground for new currencies
  • ON THE EDGE On the Edge with Danny Schechter
  • THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS [TaM-1257] The Truth About Germany’s Gold Download show HERE (mp3)
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• ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton
  LIVE (9-11am Pacific, 12pm - 2pm Eastern) Plenty of archives too!
  Listen at antiwar.com/radio
  • Pepe Escobar June 30, 2012: Globetrotting journalist Pepe Escobar discusses his article “Syria and Turkey’s Phantom War;” Turkey’s violation of Syrian airspace in a purposeful, measured provocation and test of Syria’s defenses; the near-invocation of NATO Article 5 and a wider war (an attack on one NATO country is an attack on all); looking for ways to bypass the UN on Syria, since China and Russia won’t let an interventionist resolution pass the Security Council; grand plans for NATO expansion in the official “Assured Security, Dynamic Engagement” plan; counterrevolutions in the Middle East and South America, as the US looks to rebuild its portfolio of client states; and how Qatar has become the new superpower in the Middle East, surpassing even Saudi Arabia.
  • SCOTT HORTON July 5, 2012: Scott says goodbye to Antiwar.com. Scott Horton is the former host of Antiwar Radio. Visit his blog Stress. Due to budget cuts Scott lost his gig at AntiWarRadio.com! Whoa! See ScottHortonShow.com for archives! Send emails to Scott at scotthorton.org to help Scott keep his podcast going!
  • Many more interviews at Antiwar Radio!
  

  
  

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  • Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chairman, Senate Intelligence Committee
  • ROUNDTABLE: Democrats Sen. Kent Conrad (D-ND), and Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Republicans Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) and Rep. Tom Price (R-GA).
  

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Calamity Voting Special! Before we preview Tuesday's coming calamity at polling places across the country there was another election - in Venezuela! At GlobalResearch.ca Prof. James Petras explains Beyond President Chavez Electoral Victory: Socialism in a Rentier State ..... Reaffirming the socialist objective of the Bolivarian Revolution as a strategic goal depends first of all making the Ministries and their sub-officials accountable to their constituents via empowered citizens councils and professionally trained oversight committees of ‘users of the services’. Current abuses, corruption, inefficiencies, non-delivery of services are chronic, politically costly and mock the socially progressive projects promised by President Chavez. Periodic ‘renovation’ and replacements of Ministers, civilians by military, provide at best a temporary respite: but under conditions of unchecked power, the rentier culture and mentality promptly reasserts itself in the same dysfunctional behavior. Citizen oversight with the power to sanction errant officials provides a more permanent corrective. The centrality of mal-administration has enormous political consequences; it probably accounted for over half of the minority popular vote which defected to the opposition. It is a mistake to attribute the 45% vote for the opposition as a call for a return to neo-liberalism: in fact it represents a protest vote of Chavez sympathizers against officials who mismanage funds and who appoint incompetent party cronies. It was a vote against Ministers who spend billions but can’t keep the oil flowing, lights on and the water running. Above all the anti-Chavista protest vote was a response to the Ministers of Interior and Defense, civilian or military, who have failed to reduce the crime rate – in the streets, in the private suites and in the public offices...... Good read!
As much of New York, New Jersey and other states dig out from Hurricane Sandy (lots of communities even in Ohio are still without power) Scott DiSavina of Reuters explains how Sandy slows nuclear plants, oldest declares alert NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hurricane Sandy slowed or shut a half-dozen U.S. nuclear power plants, while the nation's oldest facility declared a rare "alert" after the record storm surge pushed flood waters high enough to endanger a key cooling system. Exelon Corp's 43-year-old New Jersey Oyster Creek plant remains on "alert" status, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) said early Tuesday. It is only the third time this year that the second-lowest of four emergency action levels was triggered. The alert came after water levels at the plant rose by more than 6.5 feet above normal, potentially affecting the "water intake structure" that pumps cooling water through the plant, an NRC spokesman said. Those pumps are not essential since the reactor has been shut for planned refueling since October 22. However, a further rise to 7 feet could submerge the service water pump motor that is used to cool the water in the spent fuel pool, potentially forcing it to use emergency water supplies from the in-house fire suppression system to keep the rods from overheating. On Tuesday, an NRC spokesman said the levels reached a peak of 7.4 feet -- apparently above the threshold. As of 6:10 a.m. EDT waters were at 6.5 feet, with the next high tide at 11:45 a.m. He said the company had moved a portable pump to the water intake structure as a precaution, but has not needed to use it. Exelon said in a statement that there was no danger to equipment and no threat to public health or safety. ..... Despite the alert -- which is a serious but not catastrophic event that signals a "potential substantial degradation in the level of safety" -- the U.S. nuclear industry was broadly seen having passed the test. About a dozen alerts have been issued in the past four years, according to NRC press releases. On Tuesday morning, the NRC said that Entergy Corp's Indian Point 3 automatically tripped offline at about 10:41 p.m. last night due to fluctuations in the power grid caused by the storm, while Public Service Enterprise Group Inc's Salem Unit 1 was manually shut down at 1:10 a.m. due to a loss of "condenser circulators" due to the storm surge and debris. ..... Among other units, Constellation Energy Nuclear Group's 630-MW Nine Mile Point 1 nuclear power reactor in upstate New York did shut due to a problem putting power onto the grid, although it was not clear whether the trouble was related to the storm. In addition, Sandy caused power reductions at both units at Exelon's Limerick nuclear plant in Pennsylvania and one unit at Dominion's Millstone plant in Connecticut. Watch nuclear expert Arnie Gundersen at Democracy NOW! Nuclear Plants from Virginia to Vermont Could Be Impacted from Massive Hurricane Sandy.
At Alternet Nomi Prins explains How Wall Street Won the Election Long Before The First Vote Was Cast ...Obama hasn’t brought ‘sweeping reform’ upon the Establishment Banks, nor does Romney need to exude deregulatory babble, because nothing structurally substantive has been done to harness the biggest banks of the financial sector, enabled, as they are, by entities from the SEC to the Fed to the Treasury Department to the White House. For the record, both missed, or don’t get, that nearly 32% of that Treasury debt is reserved (in excess) at the Fed, floating the banking system that supposedly doesn’t need help. The ‘worst economic period since the Great Depression’ barely produced a short-fall of an approximate average of $200 billion in personal and corporate tax revenues per year, according to federal data.) ..... The most consistent political platform is that big finance trumps main street economics, and the needs of the banking sector trump those of the population. We have a national policy condoning zero-interest-rate policy (ZIRP) as somehow job-creative. (Fed Funds rates dropped to 0% by the end of 2008, where they have remained since.) We are left with a regulatory policy of pretend. Rather than re-instating Glass-Steagall to divide commercial from investment banking and insurance activity, thereby removing the platform of government (or public) supported speculation and expansion, props leaders that pretend linguistic tweaks are a match for financial might. We have no leader that will take on Jamie Dimon, Chairman of the country’s largest bank, JPM Chase, who can devote 15% of the capital of JPM Chase, which remains backstopped by customer deposit insurance, to bet on the direction of potential corporate defaults, and slide by two Congressional investigations like walks in the park. ....... See Max Keiser and Ring of Fire below for interviews with Nomi Prins! Over at AmericaBlog John Aravosis explains how the Red Cross had to divert staff to deal with Romney’s phony “relief effort” As we warned earlier, because the Romney campaign preferred a political stunt to actually helping Hurricane Sandy victims, the Red Cross is now busy wasting valuable resources processing donations from the Romney campaign that its own Web site admits it does not want. As you’ll recall, Mitt Romney, after promising not to campaign today, campaigned anyway. And to add insult to injury, he used the pretense of Hurricane Sandy to hold campaign events wrapped in a cloak of “storm relief.” Not surprisingly, Romney then turned his “relief” events today into what the campaign called “victory rallies,” including a Romney campaign propaganda video and the distribution of t-shirts saying “Obama, You’re Fired!” ..... In fact, Mitt Romney used the suffering of millions of Americans as a shield to fend off criticism that this was a political event. But it was a political event, as countless reporters attested. (And it was more than a shield. He used people. He used their suffering to advance his own ambition. And he got caught.) The other way that Romney attempted to camouflage his campaign event as a “relief effort” was by, yet again, asking people to bring donations of supplies that the Red Cross has said repeatedly it does not want, and in fact, they’ve said it will impede hurricane relief efforts. And I quote from the Red Cross Web site:

Unfortunately, due to logistical constraints the Red Cross does not accept or solicit individual donations or collections of items. Items such as collected food, used clothing and shoes must be sorted, cleaned, repackaged and transported which impedes the valuable resources of money, time, and personnel.

And that’s what happened as a result of Mitt Romney’s little hurricane stunt earlier today. We learn via a tweet from CNN’s Jim Acosta that the Red Cross is now having to spend staff time dealing with the collected food and other items the Romney campaign gathered today: [.....] .... The Red Cross outright told anyone else doing what Romney did today, to collect financial donations or blood – not supplies. It was a subtle rebuke to the Romney campaign, and an effort by the Red Cross to undo the damage Romney has already done in sending the message to the American people that the Red Cross needs us to donate food, when they don’t, and it will actually hurt their relief efforts by diverting necessary manpower. And that is exactly what happened today, now that the Red Cross is having to “work with the Romney campaign to process this donation of supplies,” instead of focusing on the actual victims of Hurricane Sandy who need their help in the eastern United States. MORE MITT HEADROOM PREVARICATIONS: Christian Science Monitor runs Reuters' Bernie Woodall Jeep not moving to China, Mr. Romney Jeep is not moving to China and out of the United States, Chrysler executives reaffirmed Tuesday after it became an issue in the US presidential campaign. Mitt Romney said that Chrysler was thinking about moving all Jeep production from Ohio to China during a rally last week. Chrysler Group LLC Chief Executive Sergio Marchionne reaffirmed on Tuesday that the company is not moving Jeep vehicle production out of the United States to China after it became an issue in the U.S. presidential campaign. Chrysler in an Oct. 25 blog post had already rejected a statement made that day to a crowd in Ohio by Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, that Chrysler was thinking of moving all Jeep production from Ohio to China. Marchionne told employees by email on Tuesday, "I feel obliged to unambiguously restate our position: Jeep production will not be moved from the United States to China." Romney, speaking last week to a crowd in Defiance, Ohio, said that he had read a news article that said Chrysler's Jeep brand is considering moving "all production to China." Later, the Romney campaign aired an advertisement that did not repeat the move of production from Ohio but said that Chrysler is considering making Jeeps in China, which Chrysler has said. U.S. President Barack Obama's campaign, in its own ad, said Romney was making a "false claim" and noted that Chrysler had challenged Romney's statement. ..... Romney's ad and his comments in Defiance state that Chrysler has been taken over by an Italian company. Chrysler is based in Auburn Hills, Michigan, outside Detroit. Defiance is about an hour's drive to the a main Jeepplant in Toledo, Ohio. .... "We will invest more than $1.7 billion to develop and produce the next-generation Jeep SUV, the successor of theJeep Liberty -- including $500 million directly to tool and expand our Toledo Assembly Complex and will be adding about 1,100 jobs on a second shift by 2013," his email to employees said. Marchionne said that Chrysler, including Jeep, has added 11,200 jobs in the United States since 2009. "Jeep assembly lines will remain in operation in the United States and will constitute the backbone of the brand," said Marchionne in the email. "It is inaccurate to suggest anything different." "Inaccurate" indeed. How about "bald face lie"? Hard to believe Willard's dad was head honcho at U.S. auto manufacturer American Motors! What's up with Willard's War on Auto Factory Workers? As Greg Palast explains in The Nation Mitt Romney's Bailout Bonanza .... Romney has done a good job of concealing, until now, the fact that he and his wife, Ann, personally gained at least $15.3 million from the bailout—and a few of Romney’s most important Wall Street donors made more than $4 billion. Their gains, and the Romneys’, were astronomical—more than 3,000 percent on their investment. .... Delphi, once the Delco unit of General Motors, was spun off into a separate company in 1999. Alone, Delphi foundered, declaring bankruptcy in 2005, after which vulture hedge funds, led by Silver Point Capital, began to buy up the company’s old debt. Later, as the nation’s financial crisis accelerated, Singer’s Elliott bought Delphi debt, as did John Paulson & Co. John Paulson, like Singer, is a $1 million donor to Romney. Also investing was Third Point, run by Daniel Loeb, who was once an Obama supporter but who this summer hosted a $25,000-a-plate fundraiser for Romney and personally donated about $500,000 to the GOP. As Delphi was in bankruptcy, making few payments, the bonds were junk, considered toxic by the banks holding them. The hedge funds were able to pick up the securities for a song; most of Elliott’s purchases cost just 20 cents on the dollar of their face value. By the end of June 2009, with the bailout negotiations in full swing, the hedge funds, under Singer’s lead, used their bonds to buy up a controlling interest in Delphi’s stock. According to SEC filings, they paid, on average, an equivalent of only 67 cents per share. Just two years later, in November 2011, the Singer syndicate took Delphi public at $22 a share, turning an eye-popping profit of more than 3,000 percent. ..... Yet without taking billions in taxpayer bailout funds—and slashing worker pensions—the hedge funds’ investment in Delphi would not have been worth a single dollar, according to calculations by GM and the US Treasury. Altogether, in direct and indirect payouts, the government padded these investors’ profits handsomely. The Treasury allowed GM to give Delphi at least $2.8 billion of funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to keep Delphi in business. GM also forgave $2.5 billion in debt owed to it by Delphi, and $2 billion due from Singer and company upon Delphi’s exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The money GM forgave was effectively owed to the Treasury, which had by then become the majority owner of GM as a result of the bailout. Then there was the big one: the government’s Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation took over paying all of Delphi’s retiree pensions. The cost to the taxpayer: $5.6 billion. The bottom line: the hedge funds’ paydays were made possible by a generous donation of $12.9 billion from US taxpayers. ..... Romney has slammed the bailout as a payoff to the auto workers union. But that certainly wasn’t true for the bailout of Delphi. Once the hedge funders, including Singer—a deep-pocketed right-wing donor and activist who serves as chair of the conservative, anti-union Manhattan Institute—took control of the firm, they rid Delphi of every single one of its 25,200 unionized workers. Much more! And in Alternet The following is an excerpt from Greg Palast’s new book, Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: How to Steal an Election in 9 Easy Steps, including a comic book by Ted Rall and an introduction by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (7 Stories Press, 2012). READ Billionaires & Ballot Bandits: Karl Rove and the Republican Dark Art of Election Theft Good Item! If you're still not sure who to vote for pResident refresh your memory at MultipleChoiceMitt.com! Haha!
With California's Proposition 37 GMO Food Labeling hanging in the balance on Tuesday check out this new documentary Genetic Roullette When the US government ignored repeated warnings by its own scientists and allowed untested genetically modified (GM) crops into our environment and food supply, it was a gamble of unprecedented proportions. The health of all living things and all future generations were put at risk by an infant technology. After two decades, physicians and scientists have uncovered a grave trend. The same serious health problems found in lab animals, livestock, and pets that have been fed GM foods are now on the rise in the US population. And when people and animals stop eating genetically modified organisms (GMOs), their health improves. This seminal documentary provides compelling evidence to help explain the deteriorating health of Americans, especially among children, and offers a recipe for protecting ourselves and our future. Good item! Go Prop 37!
AND here's a MUST WATCH short film the99percentmovie.com! Tell EVERYBODY to watch BEFORE TUESDAY!
The Common Dreams staff report Dr. Jill Stein the Green Party Candidate Arrested at Tar Sands Blockade in Texas and Taradacktyl at republicandirtytricks.com explains Chris Hedges is Voting Green, But I’m Voting For Obama – Here’s Why Normal people (non-Republicans) know that despite the incessant right wing propaganda labeling the President with the charge of “socialist,” Barack Obama is far from even being a liberal. But I’m voting for him on Election Day. Here’s why. Responding to Chris Hedges' post at TruthDig.com Why I'm Voting Green that radio host Mike Malloy read on-air last week Taradactyl writes You see, I’m a member of the working class. I have to LIVE – on the ground – in this corrupt, corporate, system… and I’m not willing to watch the baby-steps of progress be undone “on day one” by a Republican president. Given the options, I will do what little I can to stop it. (Whether the Republicans steal it will be revealed on Election Day – that’s another conversation altogether). But it seems Hedges thinks we can’t try to maintain the little progress we’ve gained AND build a political movement as a counterweight to corporate power at the same time. He might be right if we all simply choose to vote and go home, but voting is just the least we can do. Activists know that the real work takes place every day – not just Election Day.We just don’t vote and go home. Our job is to scream and yell to educate and wake up the people who do think their work is done. ........... But, it seems pretty naive to me, on one hand, for Hedges to lament that our fellow citizens are propagandized victims of the corporate state and, on the other hand, demand these same propagandized dupes rise up and throw off the shackles they don’t even realize are restraining them. That seems just as unrealistic as that “Occupy Vision” which called for “no cops,” “a non hierarchical society” and “the end of the monetary system.” Sorry. That’s not going to happen today. Let’s work to get money out of politics first… and let’s try as hard as we can to not lose the slim gains we’ve made by voting for a candidate who, although a product of the corrupt system, won’t completely slit our throats. Trust me. If Jill Stein had a realistic shot, I would be all in. But I operate in the Reality-Based Community. Frankly, as you read the Hedges article on the air, I also kept thinking of your words: “unless you’re a member of a targeted group, Fascism isn’t so bad.” You see, I do live in this nation as a member of a targeted group. ...... Yes. Obama is a corporatist. Yes. Yes. Yes. Sorry Mr. Hedges is so disappointed. Me too. But the New Gilded Age didn’t happen overnight and it isn’t going away overnight either. But unless Mr. Hedges is advocating bloody revolution to overthrow this corporate oppression, his “protest vote” seems more like political equivalent of “the mouse that roared.” You know me, Mike. I hope to live to see the day where we truly have a government and society that works for all. I WILL CONTINUE to push my country from the outside through political movements and I will spend the rest of my life working to make the dream of an economically vibrant and politically free middle class come to fruition… In the meantime, I will fight to maintain our gains. I’m still voting for Obama…. And will STILL meet you at the barricades.
Barricades? Barricades! Get thee to a polling place with yer VidCam/SmartFon! Watch the Chain of Custody of yer precinct's ballots after the polls close as they make their way to your Board of Elections and their hackable, un-auditable Central Tabulators like GEMS! Follow them! DO IT! Man the Barricades of OUR VOTING RIGHTS at the source!
As voters go to the polls or cast an absentee ballot this week The Free Press has some very disturbing breaking news. We urge you to read these right away.

• Romney family and friends will help tabulate the vote count in Cincinnati: Hart Intercivic holds maintenance contracts on their own machines - Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis
  
• Partisan lies about the security of Hart e-voting machines continue to flow from Hamilton County - Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis
  
• Why Romney has already won this electronic election, unless… - Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
  
• Will "experimental" software patches affect the Ohio vote? - Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis
  
• The Free Press confirms installation, secret justification of uncertified last minute election tabulation reporting software in Ohio - Gerry Bello and Bob Fitrakis

Also at the Free Press Why we fight to prevent stolen elections in 2012 and beyond by Election Protection advocates Joan Brunwasser, Sally Castleman, Victoria Collier, Bob Fitrakis, Lori Grace, Emily Levy, Mark Crispin Miller, Greg Palast, Jonathan Simon and Harvey Wasserman With election day less than a week away, the spectre of another stolen election is upon us. The airwaves and internet are at last filling with discussion of this possibility. When the first stories were broken by a handful of us after the fiascos of Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004, there was a stunning silence, followed by a wide range of attacks. Today the warnings about the possibility of another election theft are taken with increasing gravity. The question is deep and profound, with a huge body of research and writing surrounding it. But among the many concerns, two are key: massive disenfranchisement, and manipulation of the electronic vote count. DISENFRANCHISEMENT [.......] ELECTRONIC VOTE THEFT [.......] Until we have money out of politics, abolition of the Electoral College, universal automatic voter registration and universal hand-counted paper ballots, there is no hope for real democracy in this country. As election protection advocates, activists and investigators, we urge everyone to pay very close attention to what happens in this election, to work to prevent the terrible abuses we see forthcoming, and to follow in the coming years with a powerful social movement that will deliver real democracy to this country. Which candidate gets your vote is not our concern here. As Americans, we agree on one thing: all citizens must have their right to a ballot and to have it counted. In the long run, our one best hope for a sustainable future is the power of an fully enfranchised people. We urge you to go to these websites for more Election Protection resources:

• www.blackboxvoting.org
  
• blackboxvoting.com
  
• 866ourvote.org
  
• handcountedpaperballots.org
  
• votersunite.org
  
• electiondefensealliance.org
  

And of course for the most up-to-date Election Protection news and voting process malfunctions read BradBlog.com every day! If you see anything irregular at your polling place contact 866ourvote.org or call 866-OUR-VOTE. You can contact them NOW to volunteer as well, even just to man the phones! Charles Pierce at Esquire is on to the ongoing shinanigans of OH's SoS Jon Husted Isn't Bad for Ohio. He's Bad for Democracy. Good lord, finagling never sleeps....

The directive, issued Friday, lays out the requirements for submitting a provisional ballot. The directive includes a form which puts the burden on the voter to correctly record the form of ID provided to election officials. Husted also instructed election officials that if the form is not filled out correctly by a voter, the ballot should not be counted.

In other words, not only does the state get to put a pain in the voter's ass about the ID, the voter also now has to function as his own election official and as a de facto recording secretary, or his vote doesn't count. ...... Jon Husted hasn't been merely a clumsy partisan (see: Harris, Katherine), and he hasn't simply been a bureaucratic weasel, although he undeniably has been one of those. He has actively, publicly defied the courts, over and over again. Purely out of partisan spite, Husted is draining of public credibility whatever the official result of the election in Ohio turns out to be. This isn't partisan vandalism. It's partisan arson. The electoral process cannot stand much more of this. It's time for a judge to bring this guy to heel. Next Jim Hightower tells us about Romney's Halloween trick on Ohio voters If you really want to scare people this Halloween, go trick-or-treating dressed as an Ohio voting machine. The "black box" e-vote machines that Ohioans will use on November 6 are owned by Hart Intercivic – but that disguises the real owner. Last year, Hart was taken over by an investment fund with the cryptic name of HIG Capital. Peek into HIG, and you'll find that of its 22 American directors, 21 are donors to Mitt Romney's campaign, and a third of them had been money managers at Bain & Company, the hedge fund that gave Mitt his start in corporate plundering. But the enigma within Ohio's machines goes even deeper than these cozy partisan ties suggest, for HIG itself is largely owned by an inscrutable private equity creature called Solomere. Who dat? Solomere was formed by Romney's oldest son, Tagg, and financed by Mama Ann Romney and Uncle Scott Romney, with Papa Mitt himself chipping in $10 million and personally pitching Solomere to other rich investors. Like father, like son – Tagg cloaks the fund's operations through a dark maze of offshore tax shelters. And, now, the son has slipped out of Solomere to be a top campaign manager for his father. This slippery guy gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "playing Tagg." ....... Take a few minutes and listen to Jim's entire rant HERE (mp3) now! OUR LAST WORD goes to Charlie Pierce at Esquire Why I'm Voting to Re-Elect President Obama Because I am going to be in Florida on Election Day, I am voting this morning here in the Commonwealth (God save it!). There is only one vote that I am casting with any measurable amount of enthusiasm. That is the vote I am casting for Elizabeth Warren to be my next United States senator. ..... I am also going to vote for Barack Obama. Without enthusiasm. And without a sliver of a doubt in my mind. ...... However, I am casting my vote for him (again) because of something that Dr. Jill Stein said the other night on TV, when she was being interviewed in the wake of that third-party candidates debate that Larry King hosted. I've known Jill socially for some time, and I admire her, and I agree with her on a marginally greater percentage of the issues than I do with the president. I think a lot of the snark aimed her way is unjustified. She's not responsible for the wankerific fantasies of renegade "progressives." I do not, however, think she is any more likely to become president — or any more qualified to be president — than I am. ......... listening to Stein talk about the glories of the "Green New Deal" she's going to pass through a Congress that is unlikely to differ much one way or the other from the one we have now, well, that makes Barack Obama sound like Huey Long. Still, I thought long and hard about tossing her my vote, because I live in the bluest of blue states, and I felt that, in casting my vote that way, I would absolve myself of complicity in the drone strikes, and in the inexcusable pass given to the Wall Street pirates, and in what I am sure is going to be an altogether dreadful Grand Bargain while not materially damaging the most important cause of all: making sure that Willard Romney is not president. And I might have done it, had Jill not gone on TV and talked about how those people who are voting for the incumbent president simply to make sure that Willard Romney is not president are doing so out of "fear." Horse hockey. It is not fear. It is simple, compelling logic. We have two major political parties. Until that great gettin'-up morning, when purists on both sides of the ideological ditch manage to create workable third parties that look like something more substantial than organized unicorn hunts — which won't happen until we have proportional voting, and I wish you as much luck with that as Lani Guinier had — we always will have two major political parties. One of them is inexcusably timid and tied in inexcusably tight with the big corporate money. The other one is demented. This is not "fear" talking. I watched the Republican primaries. I went to the debates. I saw long-settled assumptions about the nature of representative democracy thrown down and danced upon. I heard long-established axioms of the nature of a political commonwealth torn to shreds and thrown into the perfumed air. I saw people seriously arguing for an end to the social safety net, to any and all federal environmental regulations, to the concept of the progressive income tax, and to American participation in the United Nations, the latter on the grounds that a one-world government threatens our "liberty" with its insurance-friendly national health-care reform bill. I saw Rick Santorum base his entire foreign policy on the legend of the 12th Imam, and I saw Herman Cain and Michele Bachmann actually be front-runners for a while. I saw all of this and I knew that each one of them had a substantial constituency behind them within the party for everything they said, no matter how loopy. When you see a lunatic wandering down the sidewalk, howling at the moon and waving a machete, it is not fear that makes you step inside your house and lock the door. It is the simple logic of survival. Fear is what keeps you from trying to tackle the guy and wrestle the machete away from him. And, as much as it may pain some people to admit it, the president is the only one stepping up to do that at the moment. It is vitally important that the Republican party be kept away from as much power as possible until the party regains its senses again. It is not just important to the advance of progressive goals, thought it is. It is not just important to maintain the modicum of social justice that it has taken eighty years to build into the institutions of our government, though it is. It is important, too, that that you vote for one of these men based on whom else, exactly, he owes. Who is it that's going to come with the fiddler to collect when you get what you've bargained for? ........ On the other hand, Willard Romney owes even more to the Wall Street crowd, and he owes even more to the military, but he also owes everything he is politically to the snake-handlers and the Bible-bangers, to the Creationist morons and to the people who stalk doctors and glue their heads to the clinic doors, to the reckless plutocrats and to the vote-suppressors, to the Randian fantasts and libertarian fakers, to the closeted and not-so-closeted racists who have been so empowered by the party that has given them a home, to the enemies of science and to the enemies of reason, to the devil's bargain of obvious tactical deceit and to the devil's honoraria of dark, anonymous money, and, ultimately, to those shadowy places in himself wherein Romney sold out who he might actually be to his overweening ambition. It is a fearsome bill to come due for any man, let alone one as mendaciously malleable as the Republican nominee. Obama owes the disgruntled. Romney owes the crazy. And that makes all the difference. ..... This is not "fear" talking. This is simply the way things are. It is important to stand against the people and the forces to which Willard Romney owes his political career. It is more important to do that than it is to do anything else. It is more important to do that than to salve my conscience, or make a statement, or dream my wistful dreams of a better and more noble politics. And that is why, today, I will vote for Barack Obama, not because of the man he is not, but because of the man his opponent clearly has become. I will do so without enthusiasm, and without a sliver of doubt in my mind. Well said Charlie! And Tara too! Over the last many months we at Brick TeeVee have pointed out the Klown Kar the GOPher primaries were, who could out-krazy who, who was more anti-abortion, a bigger climate-change denier to who wanted even more guns on the street and more deregulation and more war. The fact-checkers have worked overtime to keep up with the prevarications of the Romney/Ryan campaign's tax "plan" among other daily diatribes coming from that kamp amid the down-ticket GOPher War On Women who carelessly toss out that “if it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down” while the GOPher Platform plank opposes all abortions "seeking a constitutional amendment that would ban abortions with no exceptions for rape, incest, or danger to the life of a pregnant woman". We had to laugh when we saw the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's ad saying Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown voted AGAINST 91% of the Chamber's initiatives! That one ad BACKFIRED and put us solidly in the Sherrod Brown column! What has NOT been mentioned by the Dems in their campaign ads is the GOPher-controlled Do-Nothing Congress openly admitting "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president." while who is to blame for Gridlock in Congress? Blame the GOP sez CNN's Julian Zelizer while Bob Cesca explains at HuffPoAOL Republicans Filibuster Everything, Romney Blames Obama for Not Working With Congress Republicans proceeded to rack up the highest number of filibusters in American history. During the president's first two years in office, the 111th Congress, there were 137 cloture motions filed to end Republican filibusters. During the president's second two years, the 112th Congress, there were 109 motions filed to end Republican filibusters and we still have a few more months to go. 246 total cloture motions. Compare this to George W. Bush's first term when there were a total of 133 cloture motions filed. Not even a handful of "sensible" Republicans had the guts to break ranks and vote with the Democrats. Meanwhile, on the House side, the Republican majority has voted in near-lockstep against almost everything. Click over to see just a partial list of what bills the Rethuglicans filibustered! In short we concur with Charlie and Tara: We'd rather be in the slowly-boiling pot than be thrown into the fire. As Charlie succinctly put it "Romney owes the crazy. And that makes all the difference." Do what you can for Election Protection and GO VOTE ON TUESDAY. (if you haven't already!)

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Monday, October 29, 2012

• Bill McKibben, 360.org Bill McKibben on Hurricane Sandy and Climate Change: "If There Was Ever a Wake-up Call, This Is It"
  
• Jeff Masters, Weather Underground & Greg Jones, climate scientist at Southern Oregon University Frankenstorm: Meteorologist Warns Hurricane Sandy an Outgrowth of Global Warming’s Extreme Weather
  
• Arnie Gundersen Nuclear Plants from Virginia to Vermont Could Be Impacted from Massive Hurricane Sandy
  
• Patrick Elie, Haitian pro-democracy activist in Port-au-Prince Hurricane Sandy Kills 51 in Haiti, Leaving Behind Fears of Disease Outbreak and Growing Toll
  

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

• Climate Change & Historic Superstorm Sandy Watch the entire show!
  

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

• Brenda Ekwurzel, Union of Concerned Scientists Global Warming and Sandy: Heating of the Oceans Fuels Record Storm, Leaving Millions Without Power
  
• Sensata Technologies workers Bainport Day 50: Workers at Bain-Owned Plant Ask Romney to Save Their Jobs from Going to China
  
• Tim Murphy, reporter for Mother Jones magazineAs Sandy Recovery Begins, Romney Draws Scrutiny for Campaign Vow to Gut FEMA, Emergency Relief
  

Thursday, November 1, 2012

• Cynthia Rosenzweig, senior research scientist at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies A Crisis Foretold: Studies Warned New York Infrastructure Critically Threatened by Climate Change
  
• Democracy Now! producer Renée Feltz and Democracy Now! fellow Martyna Starosta Without Power and Aid, Low-Income Residents of NYC’s Lower East Side Struggle in Storm’s Aftermath
  
• David Rohde, Reuters journalist David Rohde: Superstorm Sandy Has Exposed New York City’s "Hideous Inequality" His article for The Atlantic is "The Hideous Inequality Exposed by Hurricane Sandy".
  
• Kevin McDermott, Political Reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch As Missouri Senate Race Tightens, New Details Emerge on Todd Akin’s Anti-Abortion Past
  

Friday, November 2, 2012

• Red Hook NY Residents Flooded by Sandy, Residents of Brooklyn Community Red Hook Organize Local Effort for Urgent Relief
  
• Paul Barrett, assistant managing editor at Bloomberg Businessweek "It’s Global Warming, Stupid": As Bloomberg Backs Obama, News Media Ends Silence on Climate Change AND Bloomberg Endorses Obama for White House Despite Misgivings About President’s Effort on Gun Control
  
• Helena Wong, executive director of CAAAV: Organizing Asian Communities NYC’s Chinatown Residents Turn to Community Group for Relief as Storm Isolates Elderly, Immigrants
  

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

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

STOP the ACHE Appalachian Community HEALTH EMERGENCY Advocating for government action and protection of the public from the health crisis in mountain top removal communi ties

Lawmakers concerned about the health effects on humans from mountaintop removal coal mining set forth legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives today. Representatives Dennis Kucinich (OH), Louise Slaughter (NY), Maurice Hinchey (NY), Earl Blumenauer (OR), Lucille Roybal-Allard (CA), John Yarmuth (KY), Lynn Woolsey (CA), Judy Chu (CA), Raúl Grijalva (AZ), James Moran (VA), Michael Honda (CA), John Conyers (MI), and Keith Ellison (MN) introduced the Appalachian Communities Health Emergency (ACHE) Act H.R. 5959 which would place a moratorium on permitting for mountaintop removal coal mining until health studies are conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services. The ACHE coalition presently consists of participants from Coal River Mountain Watch, Mountain Health and Heritage Association, and Christians for the Mountains. “We encourage you, if you’re concerned about mountaintop removal’s effect on your community’s health, to join us in making your voice heard,” said Allen Johnson, executive director of Christians for the Mountains. “Please contact us, learn about the issue, and take action to protect your community.”

Community-Wealth.org community-wealth.org a project of the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland Community-Wealth.org brings together, for the first time, information about the broad range of community wealth building activity. Featuring Community Wealth Building in Action: The Cleveland Model Something important is happening in Cleveland. The Democracy Collaborative—the host of C-W.org—in partnership with the Cleveland Foundation, the Ohio Employee Ownership Center, Shorebank Enterprise Cleveland, the City of Cleveland, and the city's major hospitals and universities—is helping to implement a new model of large-scale worker-owned and community-benefiting businesses. The Evergreen Cooperative Initiative is beginning to build serious momentum in one of the cities most dramatically impacted by the nation's decaying economy. Increasingly, this model is being referred to nationally as The Cleveland Model. Initial planning is now underway to assist other cities in Ohio and nationwide to replicate and adapt this innovative approach to economic development, green job creation, and neighborhood stabilization. Find more many resources at Community-Wealth.org!
NET NEUTRALITY! SaveTheInternet.com Declaration of Internet Freedom Tired of fighting bad bills like SOPA, PIPA and CISPA? Want to stand up against those who are trying to control what we do and say online? It's time for something different. A group of more than 1,500 organizations, academics, startup founders and tech innovators has come together to produce a Declaration of Internet Freedom, a set of five principles that put forward a positive vision of the open Internet. Our goal: Get millions of Internet users to sign on to this Declaration. Build political power for Internet users to make sure that we get a seat at the table whenever, and wherever, the future of the Internet is being decided. It's time to stop playing defense and start going on the offensive. The open Internet is central to people’s freedom to communicate, share, advocate and innovate in the 21st century. But powerful interests want to censor free speech, block the sharing of information, hinder innovation and control how Internet users get online. And all too often, people in power are making political decisions behind closed doors about how the Internet should operate — and they're doing this without the involvement of actual Internet users. The result: policies that could close down the open Internet and destroy our freedom to connect. It’s time for us to reclaim the Internet for its users. Take action now and sign the Declaration of Internet Freedom..
CAMPAIGN FOR AMERICA'S FUTURE American Majority Rejects Washington Austerity Consensus – And We Demand Media Coverage by Roger Hickey, President, Campaign for America's Future: No more silent majority. The Campaign for America’s Future is joining with the Center for Economic and Policy Research (whose Co-Director, Dean Baker blogs regularly about economic bias in the media) and with FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting) to monitor the media’s coverage and representation of the American Majority views as they go into covering the big deficit fight. But we want to enlist YOU too. Send us accounts of unbalanced coverage in the national media and in your local newspapers and television. Call up reporters, editors, assignment people and tell them when they are under-representing the views of the American Majority. We should have at least half the experts, pundits, quotes and real people represented in their coverage. In a debate as important as the one we are going into, we can’t allow the media to ignore the American Majority. Much more at www.ourfuture.org
MOVE TO AMEND! www.movetoamend.org SIGN HERE NOW! And check out more actions on the Move to Amend Calendar featuring David Cobb's Barnstorming Tour! Also visit Rep Alan Grayson's site www.savedemocracy.net GET INVOLVED! And Alan Grayson is running again in FL-8! Help out at CongressmanWithGuts.com
SUPPORT THE TROOPS WHO REFUSE TO FIGHT See CourageToResist.org and Bradley Manning Support Network UPDATE! BuzzFlash Commentary Military Makes a Mockery of Bradley Manning’s Right to a Speedy Trial September 28, 2012: “PFC Manning’s statutory and constitutional speedy trial rights have been trampled upon with impunity,” writes David Coombs, defense lawyer for accused WikiLeaks whistle-blower Bradley Manning, in a new motion posted to his blog yesterday. The 117-page comprehensive motion takes a long and thorough look at the ways in which the Convening Authority and prosecution have utterly failed to act according to their obligations to provide Manning a speedy trial. Coombs concludes that the only remedy for these extremely long delays is a dismissal of charges with prejudice. At the time of Coombs’ filing, Manning had been imprisoned for 845 days. Coombs emphasizes just how long this is......
DONATE YOUR OLD CELL PHONES TO T.J. MARTELL FOUNDATIONHelp save lives. Donate your old & used iPhone, Blackberries, Droid and other phones to help the T.J. Martell Foundations fund life-saving cancer & AIDS research. For more information, go to www.tjmartellfoundation.org CELLULAR PHONE TASK FORCE EDUCATION, ADVOCACY, SUPPORT at CellPhoneTaskForce.org The Cellular Phone Task Force is dedicated to halting the expansion of wireless technology because it cannot be made safe. We provide: education to the public concerning electromagnetic pollution (electrosmog); advocacy for an electromagnetically cleaner environment; support for individuals disabled by radiation from wireless technology and other sources.

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• This Week (ABC) Host George Stephanopoulos
  • White House senior adviser David Plouffe
  • Romney campaign senior adviser Ed Gillespie
  • ROUNDTABLE: ABC News' George Will, Cokie Roberts, Donna Brazile, Matthew Dowd, and Ronald Brownstein of National Journal.
  

  
  

• Face The Nation (CBS) Host Bob Schiefer
  • ROUNDTABLE: Harvard's David Gergen, National Review's Rich Lowry, Vanity Fair's Dee Dee Myers, The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan and our own John Dickerson
  • ROUNDTABLE II: Democratic pollster Anna Greenberg, Republican strategist Leslie Sanchez, Rothenberg Political Report's Stu Rothenberg, University of Virginia's Larry Sabato and CBS News Elections Director Anthony Salvanto.
  

  
  

• 60 Minutes (CBS)
  • The Broken Senate - Current and former senators, including the majority and minority Senate leaders, tell Steve Kroft why the U.S. Senate is bogged down in partisan gridlock. Ira Rosen and Gabrielle Schonder are the producers.
  • McCullough - On the eve of the elections, popular author and historian David McCullough guides Morley Safer on an American historical journey, discovering many issues of today are the same as those of long ago. David Browning is the producer.
  

  
  

• Meet the Press (NBC) Host David Gregory
  • Microsoft, NBC News Dissolve MSNBC.com Joint Venture NBC is buying Microsoft's 50 percent interest in the MSNBC website for an undisclosed amount. MSNBC.com will be rebranded as NBCNews.com, and readers who logged into MSNBC.com late Sunday were automatically redirected to NBCNews.com. Microsoft is preparing to launch its own news service this fall. Although he declined to provide many details about the operation general manager of MSN.com Bob Visse said the news staff will be about the same size as the roughly 100 people who created original content for the MSNBC.com. "There is no question that we are going to have more flexibility to make our own decisions," said Vivian Schiller, NBC News' chief digital officer. "This is really an amicable breakup. We think competition will make us better." Okay then.
  • White House Senior Adviser and architect of President Obama’s 2008 campaign, David Plouffe
  • House Majority Leader and representative from key battleground state Virginia, Rep. Eric Cantor (R)
  • Chuck Todd unveils the final NBC News/WSJ Poll before the election
  • ROUNDTABLE: Mayor Cory Booker(D-Newark); MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough; GOP strategist Mike Murphy; TODAY co-host Savannah Guthrie; and NBC Special Correspondent, Tom Brokaw.
  

  
  

• State of the Union With Candy Crowley (CNN) At 9 AM ET, Candy talks to the power players: politicians, business leaders and international newsmakers who will make Monday morning's headlines. At NOON ET, Candy wraps it all up with fresh interviews and the best of the earlier hours.
  • Former White House Chief of Staff, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel
  • key Romney adviser, Ohio Senator Rob Portman
  • ROUNDTABLE: Former Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, Democratic strategist Steve Elmendorf, CNN Senior Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash, and PBS’ Gwen Ifill.
  

  
  

• HEAD ON RADIO with Bob Kincaid
  
  Headon Radio with Bob Kincaid 6 PM Eastern, 3 PM Pacific, 2300 GMT. Duration: 3 hrs. To be part of Conversation Radio on Head-on Radio, call toll-free (877) 443-2366, or use our Liberal community line at 304-658-3333. Email bob [at] headonradio [dot] com during the show!
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• YOUR GREEN NEWS REPORT
  
  The Green News Report with Brad Friedman & Desi Doyen: 6 minutes of green news, politics, analysis & snarky comment! BOOKMARK greennews.bradblog.com NOW!
  • 'Green News Report' - November 1, 2012 IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: With Hurricane Sandy recovery underway, Bloomberg endorses Obama, Romney is heckled, and the impacts of climate change finally begin to dawn on corporate media and public officials; PLUS: Planning ahead for a climate changed future ... All that and more in today's Green News Report!
  • IN 'GREEN NEWS EXTRA' (see link): CIA's Climate Change Security Report Delayed Due To Hurricane Sandy; Winter Storm May Hit In Early November, Possibly On Election Day; Energy company CEO: Why do we have to talk about climate change today?; Australia Rejects Calls From The Fossil Fuel Industry To Roll Back 20 Percent Renewable Energy Target; Exxon And Shell Earn $54 Billion So Far In 2012, After Taking $800 Million In Annual Tax Breaks; KFC UK will no longer source from Asia Pulp & Paper ... PLUS: The Onion: Nation Suddenly Realizes This Just Going To Be A Thing That Happens From Now On ... and much, MUCH more!
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! War on Democracy: Quick Shots, 10/25/2012 Wrong date in AZ; Purge in IN; Fake purge in FL; Vote-flipping in VA; Kochs team up with God; Voter suppression in TN?; TX AG hates U.N. observers; Really dumb election official in VA...
  • BRADBLOG UPDATE! U.S. Dept. of Justice Will Monitor Polls in 23 States During Tuesday's Presidential Election On Friday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that its Civil Rights Division will be deploying "more than 780 federal observers and department personnel to 51 jurisdictions in 23 states for the Nov. 6, 2012, general election." Their news release, posted in full below, notes that "The Voting Rights Act prohibits discrimination in the election process on the basis of race, color or membership in a minority language group." .........
  • BRADCAST UPDATE! Guest Hosting 'Malloy Show' Tuesday! One week until Election Day, so imagine what we'll be talking about on the nationally-syndicated Mike Malloy Show as I guest host while Mike and Kathy take another rare night off.
  Scheduled tonight (so far):
  
  • ARI BERMAN of The Nation, on the voter suppression we'll be facing next Tuesday. (Weather and power permitting!)
    
  • VICTORIA COLLIER, author of Harper's November cover story: "How to Rig an Election" on the fight against corporations and their proprietary electronic voting systems having taken over our once-public elections. (And the pushback against her article from the left since it's publication.)
    
  • MATT PASCARELLA, Project Director at VideoTheVote.org on how you and your cell phone camera just might save Election 2012!
    
  • PLUS! Breaking Hurricane Sandy news, lots of updates from the War on Democracy, and as many of your calls as we can possible get to over your public airwaves at 877-520-1150 and your tweets to @TheBradBlog!...
  Listen to these mp3's! HOUR 1; HOUR 2; HOUR 3. • MORE BRADCAST! Brad Discusses Hacking the Vote on 'RT America' VIDEO: 'Can E-Voting Machines Be Hacked?' RT America Asked. 'Of Course,' I Told Them.

• The Peter B. Collins Show PODCAST!
  
  Listen at PeterBCollins.com!
  The Peter B. Collins Show covers American news and politics from the Left Coast. Veteran talk radio personality Peter B. Collins, based in San Francisco, delivers fresh interviews, commentary and analysis on a range of important topics, with views and voices you don’t often find in the corporate media.
  • Holiday Break and Website Changes
  
  To my valued listeners: We are making some changes to the website and our terms, effective in January. We will continue to offer free podcasts–my new daily news and commentary. Our in-depth interviews will be available for $1 per episode, or to subscribers who pay $5 per month or more. Loyal listeners who simply can’t afford it should send an email to peter@peterbcollins.com, as we will be offering a limited number of scholarships to our friends who are hurting during these tough times. More information will be posted as we complete the revisions. I’m grateful to each of you for listening and supporting this work, and hope that the new model will enable us to keep it going well into the future. All the best, -pbc
  • PBC Standard Podcast October 25, 2012 Boiling Frogs: Eric Draitser Details Austerity Programs in Europe, and What Austerity Looks Like in US
  • PBC Standard Podcast October 29, 2012 Brad Friedman’s Final Pre-Election Update on Possibilities for Election Fraud, and Backbiting from the Side of Potential Victims; Gary Chew Reviews ‘Cloud Atlas’
  

  
  

• Ring of Fire Radio
  
  Find us at http://ringoffireradio.com and http://goleft.tv/ hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder
  Ring of Fire Radio - GoLeft TV - Robert F. Kennedy, Mike Papantonio, Sam Seder - Politics, Commentary, and News.
  This week on Ring of Fire November 2, 2012
  • Rolling Stone contributor Tim Dickinson will be joining us to talk about the energy industry insiders that are dictating Mitt Romney’s energy strategy.
  • Progressive radio host Shannyn Moore will join us to talk about the Koch Brothers’ unholy alliance with the radical religious right.
  • Author Nomi Prins will tell us why the winner of this year’s election won’t be Obama or Romney, but Wall Street bankers.
  • And blogger and author Chauncey DeVega will be joining us to discuss the challenges President Obama has faced as the first African American president of the United States.
  • VIDEO! THE HISTORY OF CORPORATE CORRUPTION & FRAUD with Robert Kennedy Jr & Mike Papantonio “Call us if you have a personal story about Fraud on Taxpayers or False Claims for Payment made by Corportations at 1-866-389-FIRE (3473)or contact us by email at info@ringoffireradio.com if you have evidence of fraud that robbed taxpayer dollars. If our government is paying too much due to fraud by a corporation, Ring of Fire wants to do a story on it.”
  • VIDEO! Papantonio: Mitt Romney, Mormonism, and Perpetual War (VIDEO) During the presidential debate on foreign policy, Mitt Romney made it clear that if elected, he’ll lead this country into more unwinnable, endless wars than the former Bush administration. His views on war are shaped by both the neo-cons running the GOP, as well as his religion, and Mike Papantonio recently spoke with Frank Schaeffer, author of “Crazy for God”, about why war hawk Republicans and the Mormon faith are a bad mix.
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  Ring of Fire Radio Ring of Fire, hosted by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Mike Papantonio and Sam Seder: Saturdays at 3 o’clock Eastern, rebroadcasts 8-11 et Sunday evenings on Chicago's Progressive Talk WCPT AM & FM and 4 pm et on Sirius/XM 167 featuring The PAP Attack! "We’ll bring you the stories that the mainstream media didn’t feel like reporting this week."
  

  
  

• Majority Report with Sam Seder Streaming LIVE weekdays 11:30 am et @ Majority.fm!
  
  • October 29, 2012 No Show Monday
  • October 30, 2012 Frederick Kaufman, Bet the Farm
  • October 31, 2012 Matt Stoller,The Progressive Case Against Obama
  • November 1, 2012 Sam, Hurricane Sandy & Romney’s Lying Final Days
  • November 2, 2012 Casual Friday, Cliff Schecter & Rob Delaney
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• On the Edge with Max Keiser Podcasts and more @ MaxKeiser.com!
  
  "HI Y'ALL! Tell the people! Tell the people!"
  WHO IS MAX KEISER? Max Keiser is a financial expert, Prediction Markets analyst, inventor and filmmaker. He is the creator of the Hollywood Stock Exchange (HSX) the first Prediction Market. Max Keiser co-hosts "The Truth About Markets" on ResonanceFM 104.4 in London. He also produces and presents documentary films covering markets and finance for Al Jazeera’s "People & Power" series. Max Keiser started his career on Wall Street in 1983. He is the creator of KarmaBanque a site that enables activists to challenge corporate power.
  • VISIT PirateMyFilm.com!!! Crowd Funding for Pirates!
  • NEW! MaxKeiserTV on YouTube! MaxKeiserTV PLUS here is Max Keiser’s official Facebook page And here is the official Keiser Report page
  • The official Facebook pages for Max Keiser & Keiser Report 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. Max Keiser & Keiser Report PLUS Stacey Herbert
  • The “Keiser Report” has been begging europe to do this for years by maxkeiser READ European Banks Preparing To Boycott Big Three Rating Agencies (zerohedge.com)
  • VIDEO! Max Keiser on Today with Pat Kenny by maxkeiser - Also featuring Bill Black. VIDEO here Max Keiser on Today with Pat Kenny
  • Catherine Austin Fitts Commentary on Financial Holocaust
  • VIDEO! ON THE MONEY: Jim Rogers Goes Long Russia, BRICS Is A Sham and Analysts Expecting $100+ Oil Soon
  • Why Bankers Own the World’s Gold by SilverVigiolante - The real conclusion that must be internalized is that, while buying precious metals and other tangible assets can be an excellent way of exiting the fiat currency paradigm, we mustn’t forget that central bankers own the world’s gold. They have been in a position to accumulate for centuries, and through conniving and contrivance have ensured that their stashes are the biggest on the planet. READ Why Bankers Own The World’s Gold
  • KEISER REPORT Keiser Report: Give Us Your Money, Or You’re Dead! We discuss a mortgage ‘hustle’ that brings on yet another ‘civil’ lawsuit for Bank of America and a mysterious ‘Triple A’ buyer of a swaption written in ancient gibberish in Britain where the dead cat is bouncing thanks to Queen Latifah Tower. Max Keiser talks to John Logan Jones, a candidate for Maine State Congress, about civil liberties as an economic issue, soldiers trapped in the military by debt and how the price of lobster indicates an imminent financial market crash.
  • KEISER REPORT [KR361] Keiser Report: Fraud by Day, Fraud by Night We discuss Chinese investors pouring money into silver, while American investors pour money into bonds 33 times faster than into equities. They also look at the latest updates to the mystery of there being no Chinese gold bars in the GLD vaults and on the fly by day operations at the Federal Reserve Bank. In the second half, Max Keiser talks to John Butler, author of The Golden Revolution and chief investment officer of Amphora Capital, about German gold and a German exit from the euro.
  • KEISER REPORT [KR362] Keiser Rerport: Wall St. Vomitorium We discuss how Wall Street has won big time with zero interest rate policy and that the biggest winner, JP Morgan Chase, has seen its deposits increase by 46% from 2007 (pre ZIRP) to 2012 and yet its interest expenses declined by nearly 89%. They also discuss the Vomitorium in Florida where Obama’s ‘historic’ mortgage settlement may be used to plug government deficits or political pay rises instead of helping the 11% of mortgage holders in foreclosure. In the second half, Max Keiser talks to former Goldman Sachs banker, Nomi Prins, discuss the lost lessons of the Great Depression.
  • ON THE EDGE On the Edge with Nicole Foss
  • THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETS [TaM1253] The Truth About Trading Your Rights For Some Soon to Be Worthless Shares Download show HERE (mp3)
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• ANTIWAR RADIO with Scott Horton
  LIVE (9-11am Pacific, 12pm - 2pm Eastern) Plenty of archives too!
  Listen at antiwar.com/radio
  • Pepe Escobar June 30, 2012: Globetrotting journalist Pepe Escobar discusses his article “Syria and Turkey’s Phantom War;” Turkey’s violation of Syrian airspace in a purposeful, measured provocation and test of Syria’s defenses; the near-invocation of NATO Article 5 and a wider war (an attack on one NATO country is an attack on all); looking for ways to bypass the UN on Syria, since China and Russia won’t let an interventionist resolution pass the Security Council; grand plans for NATO expansion in the official “Assured Security, Dynamic Engagement” plan; counterrevolutions in the Middle East and South America, as the US looks to rebuild its portfolio of client states; and how Qatar has become the new superpower in the Middle East, surpassing even Saudi Arabia.
  • SCOTT HORTON July 5, 2012: Scott says goodbye to Antiwar.com. Scott Horton is the former host of Antiwar Radio. Visit his blog Stress. Due to budget cuts Scott lost his gig at AntiWarRadio.com! Whoa! See ScottHortonShow.com for archives! Send emails to Scott at scotthorton.org to help Scott keep his podcast going!
  • Many more interviews at Antiwar Radio!
  

  
  

• fauxnews
  • Rich Beeson, the Political Director for the Romney Campaign
  • David Axelrod, the Senior Strategist for the Obama Campaign
  • ROUNDTABLE: Brit Hume, Fox News Senior Political Analyst; Joe Trippi, Former Howard Dean Campaign Manager / Fox News Contributor; Karl Rove, Former Bush White House Senior Adviser / Fox News Contributor; Jeff Zeleny, The New York Times
  

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