Republican National Committee To CNN, NBC: Cancel Hillary Clinton Programming

All this is is an admission that the GOP has an anti-Hillary documentary in the works and they want to prevent any counter-narrative documentaries to be aired, The GOP Primary Debate threat against CNN and NBC is just a diversionary tactic. Additionally, if the GOP wants less coverage of their candidates this is the way to go about it. If I was an executive at one of the threatened networks I would simply reduce the number of reporters I have covering Republican Candidates during the primary season ... that would be a fair trade-off for a GOP Debate boycott.
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Kick Egypt Off the Foreign Aid Dole: Americans Shouldn't Subsidize the Praetorian Military or Muslim Brotherhood

I don't think it was a coup that took place in Egypt against Morsi. Was it a coup when the Philippine Military turned on Ferdinand Marcos after millions of Filipinos poured into the streets to oust him during the People Power Revolution of 1986? I don't think so, and the outcome of the Snap Election was contested, by Marcos, and he didn't surrender his office as President. No, Marcos, like Morsi, was ousted by The People of their respective countries with aid of the Military. In the Philippines case, however, they had Corazon Aquino waiting in the wings to assume the Presidency (having been elected) and ousted President Marcos (who had claimed to have won re-election), was sent into exile. Then President Reagan stood by Marcos until the very end, and at no point declared there was a coup against Marcos, or cutoff US Aid to the Philippines because of his ouster. The final determination in Egypt on this event will be based on whether or not the Military aggressively pushes for elections to hasten transition to Democracy. If the Egyptian Military doesn't relinquish power, then the author has a legitimate case for declaring what occurred "a Coup".



It is hard for me to believe that someone from the CATO Institute would overlook the Suez Canal when considering kicking Egypt to the curb.



Disengagement with Egypt might resolve to the very kind of outcome we are trying to avoid. Patience is key.
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U.S. Issues Worldwide Travel Alert

So, like Joan Crawford, Bin Laden has risen from the grave? "Catholic Schoolgirls put away their mascara ... "
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Hillsdale College President Larry Arnn Under Fire For Calling Minority Students 'Dark Ones'

It's a"Post-Racial" world ... ahem.
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Exclusive: Dozens Of CIA Operatives On The Ground During Benghazi Attack – The Lead With Jake Tapper

Well, this isn't actually surprising. I recall at one of the first House Committee hearings that Republicans held in order to embarrass the Administration they ham-handedly outed that the CIA had a station in Benghazi. I have a few questions associated with this recent revelation:



1)Were the 35 Intelligence personnel at the Benghazi site all CIA or were some Private Intel Contractors?



2)Do we know why Ambassador Stevens was going to Benghazi on 9/11/2012? I believe Secretary Clinton said he traveled there about 2% of the time.



3)Did anyone in Benghazi know that Ambassador Stevens was coming to the CIA site or was it a surprise visit?



4)Had the CIA or Private Intel Contractors retained any local pro-Gaddafi militiamen in their employ?



5)Could the ambush have been a political hit via a Private Intel Firm related to the US Presidential Election, if some of the 35 mentioned 'CIA' were actually private contractors?
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Ariel Castro Sentencing: 'I Am Not A Monster' (VIDEO)

Castro may have been sentenced to life plus 1000 years, but watching him today he obviously doesn't believe he did anything wrong. Grim.
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Gag Me With Lawrence Summers

With the midterm election next year, if I were a Republican I would want President Obama to nominate Larry Summers, because with all of the deregulation work he was involved with during the Clinton Administration, the Republicans could easily use Summers confirmation hearing as an opportunity to pin the economic collapse and following misery the American people experienced in its wake on the Democrats ... and that would be a very difficult stain to wash out by November 2014. Juxtapose Larry Summers smiling face, and record with collapsed buildings in Detroit for instance. The GOP wouldn't get the same mileage off of Yellen.
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House Democratic Women To Obama: Nominate Janet Yellen For Fed Chair

I'm hoping there are Democratic Men supporting Janet Yellan as well, or we have the wrong Democratic Men in office.
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Scott Walker: Wisconsin GOP Considering Expanding Anti-Union Restrictions To Police, Firefighters

Wisconsin is 44th in job creation in the United States, the political leadership in Wisconsin is more focused on reprisals against workers to to suit the needs of their Wealthy and Corporate sponsors than meeting the needs of the workers of Wisconsin and their families. It is time for the people of Wisconsin to look out for themselves, since their elected representatives have obviously lost interest in doing so. What workers in Wisconsin need to do is form a non-partisan Unified Labor Guild, comprised of Union and Non-Union Workers, the Unemployed, and Retirees. These individuals understand what families in Wisconsin need more that the status quo elements in Madison. The people of Wisconsin need to meet amongst themselves and determine what they and their families need from practical observation, and leave the hot-breath of the politicians outside the meeting room as they do so. Once the people in a Unified Labor Guild identify their needs they can then seek out individuals to represent them and deliver on their expectations, and bestow upon them the privilege of elected office. It is the people of Wisconsin's State, not the politicians, and that confusion must be addressed and clarified.



A Non-Partisan Unified Labor Guild would be able to take the pulse of Wisconsin and develop a meaningful road map for improving the quality of life there for workers and their families.
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Larry Summers Gets 'Full-Throated Defense' From Obama In Capitol Hill Meeting, Lawmaker Says

After Larry Summers work on the Clinton team getting Gramm,Leach,Bliley Act, which eliminated Glass-Steagall, and the Commodities Futures Modernization Act that created the Enron Loophole, and put derivatives beyond the reach of regulators, passed ... it would be an act of sabotage to put Larry Summers in as Federal Reserve Chairman. The only rational I can see for this is that likely, like Tim Geithner, Larry Summers is one of the few individuals that has intimate knowledge of the Global Derivatives Ponzi that keeps the US, and by extension, Global Economy afloat. Wall Street probably believes a person like Janet Yellen, who is a legitimate Economist, as Fed Chair might wind up doing the correct thing for the American Economy and wind up crashing Wall Streets fraud factory, pushing the Global Economy over the cliff as a result.



Let's be clear, Wall Street's day of reckoning is coming no matter who is appointed Fed Chair, and many big players in the Financial sector are fully aware of that. A Larry Summers appointment would just be stalling for a little more time.
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Bradley Manning Found Guilty Of 19 Counts, Not Guilty Of Aiding The Enemy

It is interesting to consider the US Government's thought process. First, I think with Manning and Snowden there is a realization that the ability to maintain secrets today is not as feasible as it was prior to the Internet Age. The path from classified data to mass revelation is only a few keystrokes that can only be identified after the fact, not as they are occurring. Since the Internet exists on a common platform in order to facilitate communication there are millions of IT technicians who understand the mechanics of every computer system on earth at their most fundamental levels. That is Risk incarnate.



So the US Government could have gone the way of labeling what Manning did ... a bank shot of data that was viewed by the enemy ... as Aiding the Enemy, which, as mentioned, would have outlawed investigative reporting on the US Gov, which relies on access to sources with often times classified data. But this Journalistic dynamic provides the US Government with insight of what's coming, because Journalists will seek independent confirmation from the US Government before going forward, and data released goes though an editorial process.



Eliminate that Journalistic outlet and you are left with Kamikaze Leakers who dump data wholesale on the Internet ...like Manning and Snowden.
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Financial Stocks Are On Their Way To Being The Biggest Sector In The S&P 500 Again

Bank stocks should be over a $1000 a share. Look at the cushy deal they get. They can break the law and never be charged. They can be insolvent and use the Federal Reserve to prop them up. They can engage in any unregulated Ponzi they want with no risk. They can offer substandard products to their customers and still turn a profit. They can foreclose on homes that don't even own and get away with it. They are allowed to hold trillions in toxic derivatives on a separate set of books, off their balance sheet. They can ripoff their own stockholders and just shrug. They can launder derivatives from their investment banks to FDIC insured accounts in their commercial banks.



I mean, they can do all the wrong they like, suffer no losses, have the taxpayers provide a safety net, and even pretend they are reputable businesses.



So, with that gold standard, the Banks should be worth $1000 a share. Minimum.



What a success story!
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FERC Accuses JPMorgan Chase Of Manipulating Electricity Market

The US Financial Sector is just organized crime anyway, so this is just more of the same.
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House GOP Defunds ACORN Yet Again, Even Though ACORN Does Not Exist

Can we now safely say that the House Republicans are functionally retarded?
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White House Shoots Back At Obamacare Critics

AHIP certainly has its minions rabid over Obamacare ... Healthcare is about profit to them, not healthcare.
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Anthony Weiner Drops To Fourth Place In New York Mayoral Race: Poll

How could Anthony Weiner have not known his indiscretions would resolve to this? Delusional.
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Mitt Romney On 47 Percent Remark: 'Actually, I Didn't Say That' About Personal Responsibility

Romney should just admit he was in a room of rich people who wanted to hear him bash the lower classes.
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80 Percent Of U.S. Adults Face Near-Poverty, Unemployment: Survey

There is no better argument for jettisoning our Predatory Capitalism System for Social Democracy than this.
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The Worst States To Be Unemployed: 24/7 Wall St.

We are on the brink of a new "Okie" Migration if this nonsense continues. This wave, however, will not be of agricultural workers, but of talented workers of many fields incapable of finding work in their current States due to the economic downturn. This is where these listed States will suffer an economic death spiral, for the unemployed citizens they look down upon as "bums" are a foundation resource for the resurgence of these State's economies. So, far from benefiting from casting a jaundiced, Ayn Randian eye upon their unemployed citizens, these States are insuring that their dislocated talent migrates out, leaving their State in a lower tier, uncompetitive economic dynamic.



I know that the punch line of this brutal joke is that breaking down the quality of life by driving down wages and causing desperation in these noted States will not resolve to an economic windfall ... as Governor Perry of Texas begging companies in California and New York to migrate to his State illustrates. Being the bottom of the barrel, sometimes just means being bottom of the barrel ... not being an "opportunity".
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Mexico Outraged At Video Of City Inspector Humiliating Young Tzotzil Street Vendor (VIDEO)

In this temporary anomaly, called Life, we are all currently sharing, is simple kindness for a downtrodden child so hard?
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