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Andy Borowitz | Ted Cruz: "The Dream of Keeping Poor People From Seeing a Doctor Must Never Die" 
 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "Acknowledging that the government shutdown was coming to an end, an emotional Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) took to the Senate floor today to make an impassioned speech, telling his colleagues, 'The dream of keeping poor people from seeing a doctor must never die.'" 
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US-Russia Tensions Rise as Congress Votes to Tighten Sanctions 
Bill Chappell, NPR 
Chappell writes: "The move comes the day after the U.S. Congress gave bilateral approval to a new slate of sanctions on Russia over its interference in the 2016 election. Those sanctions also include punishments for Iran and North Korea. The legislation specifies that President Trump can't ease the sanctions without congressional approval." 
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"Far From Over": Senate Narrowly Defeats Obamacare Repeal, but More Attacks on Healthcare Loom 
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "The healthcare fight is really far from over, because we can expect $1.5 trillion in cuts, is what's being proposed to Medicaid in the Republican budget, and another almost $500 billion cut to Medicare, which the Republicans are proposing to voucherize and privatize in the bill." 
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'Going Full Circle': Trump's MS-13 Gang Crackdown Risks Unleashing New Cycle of Violence 
Oliver Laughland, Guardian UK 
Laughland writes: "The notorious gang has become a focal point of Trump's immigration effort - but critics say innocent people are being swept up, causing greater upheaval and violence." 
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Detroit Activists Want a State of Emergency Declared Over Water Shutoffs 
E.A. Crunden, ThinkProgress 
Crunden writes: "A study says water shutoffs have hurt the public health of residents - and some are demanding action." 
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Video Shows Border Officers Encouraging Teen to Drink From Bottle Containing Liquid Meth, Causing His Death 
Brian Ross, Brian Epstein and Cho Park, ABC News 
Excerpt: "A government surveillance video obtained by ABC News has shed new light on a tragic incident at the U.S.-Mexico border, sparking outrage from members of Congress who help oversee U.S. Customs and Border Protection." 
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A Koch-Funded Fossil Fuel Group Is Putting Out Anti-Electric Vehicle Videos 
Samantha Page, ThinkProgress 
Page writes: "Last month, Fueling U.S. Forward put out a heart-wrenching video about how batteries use cobalt mined by children. This week, they put out another video, claiming that taxpayers are subsidizing rich white men (yes, this is an ad from the Koch brothers) to buy Teslas. There is a lot wrong here." 
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DemocracyNOW! : Pakistani Education Activist Malala Yousafzai Becomes Youngest Winner of Nobel Peace Prize

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Pakistani Education Activist Malala Yousafzai Becomes Youngest Winner of Nobel Peace Prize Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai and Indian child rights activist Kailash Satyarthi have jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize. At age 17, Yousafzai is the youngest person ever to win a ... Read More →

Ferguson October: Activists Call for Nationwide Convergence to Demand Justice for Michael Brown Demonstrations over the police killing of an unarmed teenager in St. Louis, Missouri, continued for a second night ahead of a national weekend of action in nearby Ferguson over the police ... Read More →

Detroit Faces "Humanitarian Crisis" as City Shuts Off Water Access for Thousands of Residents We are on the road in Detroit, broadcasting from the "Great Lakes State" of Michigan, which has one of the longest freshwater coastlines in the country. But its residents are ... Read More →

"I Am Coming to the End of a Long Journey": Legendary Detroit Activist Grace Lee Boggs in Hospice As we broadcast from Detroit, Michigan, we get an update on Grace Lee Boggs, the 99-year-old activist, author and philosopher based in Detroit. She is considered a legendary ... Read More →

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Malala Yousafzai, Kailash Satyarthi Win Nobel Peace Prize West African Leaders Plead for Aid to Combat Ebola ISIS Militants Continue Assault on Kobani Despite U.S.-Led Strikes Yemen: 47 Killed in Blast Targeting Shiite Houthis Central African Republic Sees Worst Violence in Months Hong Kong: Fresh Rally Held After Government Cancels Talks New Voter ID Laws Blocked by Courts in Wisconsin, Texas Protests Continue over Police Shooting Near Ferguson Ahead of Weekend of Action Drug Lord Arrested in Mexico; More Mass Graves Found Near Iguala Former Haitian Dictator "Baby Doc" Denied State Funeral After Protests Estonia Legalizes Same-Sex Unions in First for Former Soviet State Microsoft CEO Suggests Women Shouldn’t Ask for Pay Raises Wells Fargo Settles Claims It Denied Home Loans to Recent Mothers New York City Airplane Cleaning Workers Strike over Unsafe Conditions

Americans Duped into Another Bogus War! Bread & Circus?

Bread & Circus All Over!

It is doubtful many will be offended since it is doubtful those who MIGHT be offended can read....or think....


Beyond misleading the nation into war again, Ferguson is in the news AGAIN!


Dear Ferguson:

Please find someone with common sense to lead your community!

The world is watching your White Supremacy...does not play well!

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Greenwald and Hussain | The Fake Terror Threat Used to Justify Bombing Syria

Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept
Excerpt: "After spending weeks depicting ISIS as an unprecedented threat -- too radical even for Al Qaeda! -- administration officials suddenly began spoon-feeding their favorite media organizations and national security journalists tales of a secret group that was even scarier and more threatening than ISIS, one that posed a direct and immediate threat to the American Homeland. Seemingly out of nowhere, a new terror group was created in media lore."
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History's Largest Trade Agreements Are Being Negotiated in Secret
Alvaro Guzman Bastida, Al Jazeera America
Bastida writes: "With NAFTA still untouched, Obama faced the decision to appoint the chief U.S. negotiators for the two largest trade agreements in history. And he picked Wall Street bankers for the job."
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Why Obama Can't Say His Spies Underestimated ISIS
Eli Lake, The Daily Beast
Lake writes: "In an interview that aired Sunday evening, the president told 60 Minutes that the rise of the group now proclaiming itself a caliphate in territory between Syria and Iraq caught the U.S. intelligence community off guard. Obama specifically blamed James Clapper, the current director of national intelligence."
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Judge Won't Stop Detroit Water Shutoffs, Says No Right to Free Water
Robert Snell and Steve Pardo, The Detroit News
Excerpt: "U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes on Monday refused to block the city from shutting off water to delinquent customers for six months, saying there is no right to free water and Detroit can't afford to lose the revenue."
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California Adopts Historic 'Yes Means Yes' Rule on Sexual Consent
Associated Press
Excerpt: "The governor of California, Jerry Brown, has signed a bill that makes the state the first in the United States to define when 'yes means yes' and adopt requirements for colleges to follow when investigating sexual assault reports."
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Ferguson Demands High Fees to Turn Over Michael Brown Shooting Files
Jack Gillum, Associated Press
Gillum writes: "Officials in Ferguson, Missouri, are charging nearly 10 times the cost of some of their own employees' salaries before they will agree to turn over files under public records laws about the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown."
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WHO: Premature Deaths Multiply as Climate Changes
Daniel Cusick and ClimateWire, Scientific American
Cusick writes: "The World Health Organization predicts that an additional 250,000 people will die annually between 2030 and 2050 from conditions caused or exacerbated by climate change, the Geneva-based agency reported yesterday in an update of climate mortality estimates."
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