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Andy Borowtiz | Fiorina Has High Name Recognition Among Thousands She Fired

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "One day after the former Hewlett-Packard C.E.O. Carly Fiorina announced her candidacy for the 2016 Republican Presidential nomination, a new poll shows that she enjoys extremely high name recognition among the tens of thousands of former H.P. employees she fired."
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Baltimore Mayor Requests Federal Investigation into City's Police
Oliver Laughland, Guardian UK
Laugland writes: "Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake asks Justice Department to look into ‘patterns and practice’ of police department in the wake of charges over Freddie Gray death."
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John Kiriakou | Letter to Loretto
John Kiriakou, Foreign Policy in Focus
Kiriakou: "Torture whistleblower John Kiriakou bids farewell to incarceration and moves on with his life."
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Excerpt: "Speaking at an AIPAC dinner, the likely Republican presidential candidate reiterated threat to cut UN funding if Security Council acts against Israel."

 

Senator Lindsey Graham talks with reporters. (photo: AP)

Lindsey Graham: "Everything That Starts With 'Al' in the Mideast Is Bad News"

By Haaretz

06 May 15

Speaking at an AIPAC dinner, the likely Republican presidential candidate reiterated threat to cut UN funding if Security Council acts against Israel.

verything that starts with 'Al' in the Middle East is bad news," said U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina at an AIPAC dinner in Boston on Monday. "Al-Qaida, Al-Nusra, Al-Qaida in the Arab Peninsula," said the senator, who may be running for president. 

Graham, who was the keynote speaker at the AIPAC New England Leadership Dinner in Boston, also told the approximately 1,000 pro-Israel attendees, “You will see me in New Hampshire,” former Haaretz investigative journalist Uri Blau has reported on his blog.

 

The problem - linguistically - with Graham's comment is that "Al" is the definite article in Arabic (i.e. equivalent to English's "the"), and usually appears before most Arabic proper nouns, especially place and personal names.

 

As for relations between the U.S., Israel, and Palestine, Graham said: "If the Palestinians will sue one Israeli soldier who risked his life securing Israel, the US will cut all aid to Palestine." Reiterating a pledge he made to AIPAC a few months ago, he also threatened to cut off U.S funding to the UN if the UN Security Council pushes through action on behalf of the Palestinians. "I’m gonna put the United Nations on notice," Graham, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee said in March, adding that he would go after its funding if the organization "marginalized" Israel. "All the money that goes in to support the State Department comes through my committee."

 

Attending the dinner were Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren, Governor Charlie Baker, and Israeli Consul General for New England Yehuda Yaakov, who posted pictures and comments about the event, according to the report.

 

Police Struggle With Loss of Privileged Position
Noam Scheiber, The New York Times
Scheiber writes: "Amid a rash of high-profile encounters involving allegations of police overreach in New York, Baltimore, Cleveland, Ferguson, Mo., and North Charleston, S.C., the political context in which the police unions have enjoyed a privileged position is rapidly changing."
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Freddie Gray Officer Disciplined for Issuing Death Threats
Jon Swaine and Oliver Laughland, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Baltimore lieutenant Brian Rice, who has been charged with manslaughter over Gray’s death, was disciplined over incidents and twice had guns confiscated."
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Fracking Wells Could Pollute the Air Hundreds of Miles Away
Katie Valentine, ThinkProgress
Valentine writes: "Air pollution from hydraulic fracturing operations can likely travel hundreds of miles, even into states with little or no fracking, a new study has found."
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