RSN: Apache Sacred Land Handed to Mining Conglomerate in Arizona, Grand Jury Indicts Kansas City Officer for Shooting Man

Rudy Guiliani has garnered more press coverage with his irrational rants than are justified as a simple google search proves.

Rudy is merely another dysfunctional Republican in sore need of psychiatric care and addressed soley because of Matt Taibbi's brilliant observation below.

Let's HANG IT UP if Republicans can't produce any SANE CANDIDATES.

Do they have any?


White House: We feel sorry for Rudy Giuliani

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/josh-earnest-rudy-giuliani-115368.html#ixzz3SV6nbtdX

Says it all:

Robert Reich
Earlier this week, at a fundraiser for Scott Walker, Rudy Giuliani, the former Republican mayor of New York and failed presidential candidate, said “President Obama does not love America” and “wasn’t brought up the way you were brought up and I was brought up through love of this country." Yesterday Giuliani said his criticism of the President shouldn’t be considered racist because the President was raised by “a white mother.” When asked about Giuliani’s remarks, Walker said only “the mayor can speak for himself.” Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal weighed in with a statement that he “refuses to condemn Mayor Giuliani.”

I’m less concerned about venal remarks made by a foolish Republican politician than I am about the unwillingness of any prominent Republican to condemn them. Political leadership requires setting and enforcing a minimum standard of decency. Is there no principled adult left in the Republican Party?


Rudy's claim to fame was his fanciful version of 9/11, obscuring that he moved his mistress into Gracie Mansion forcing his wife to publicly announce their divorce and much else.

"Little man in search of a balcony.'"

http://www.theguardian.com/.../jul/14/giulianisfirefighting

http://www.nj.com/.../rudy_giulianis_world_of_rhetorical...

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Matt Taibbi | Rudy Giuliani, American Soviet

Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone
Taibbi writes: "'Rudy - and other 'They hate us!' exceptionalist 'Muricans like Eric Erickson and Steve Forbes - are starting to remind me of the frightened, denial-sick communist die-hards I knew as a student in Russia."
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Grand Jury Indicts Kansas City Officer for Shooting Man
Kevin Murphy, Reuters
Murphy writes: "His indictment comes during a period of heightened attention toward officer-involved shootings that has following a grand jury's decision in November not to indict a white Ferguson, Missouri, police officer in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed 18-year-old black man."
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Walmart's Wage Hike Still About Greed
Michael Maiello, The Daily Beast
Maiello writes: "Hold your applause. Even after a new $9 minimum wage policy, the average employee-depending on how many kids he or she has-will live below, at, or barely above the poverty line."
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Russia Urges Cooperation in Fighting ISIS
Fred Weir, The Christian Science Monitor
Weir writes: "The self-declared Islamic State isn't just a Western or Mideast problem, Russia's chief spy said today in Washington. It's a Russian problem, too - and in more serious ways."
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Is the Fairy Tale Ending for Argentina's New Evita?
Uki Goñi, Guardian UK
Goñi writes: "Nisman's death may yet prematurely end her time in office, but Fernández's life story to date reads like a fairytale."
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Apache Sacred Land Handed to Mining Conglomerate in Arizona
Serene Fang, Al Jazeera America
Fang writes: "Oak Flat also sits on top of one of the world's largest deposits of copper ore. Resolution Copper Mining, a subsidiary of British-Australian mining conglomerate Rio Tinto, has sought ownership of the land for a decade, lobbying Congress to enact special legislation on its behalf more than a dozen times since 2005."
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RSN: World's Biggest PR Firm Calls It Quits With American Oil, ache Sacred Land Handed to Mining Conglomerate in Arizona,

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Carl Gibson | How President Obama's Coldness Toward Heating Assistance Ended Up Killing a Vietnam Vet in Michigan

Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News
Gibson writes: "If President Obama had prioritized adequately funding the low-income heating assistance program (LIHEAP) as much as he did funding military interventions overseas, a retired veteran might still be alive today."
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2014 Midterms Most Expensive Election at $3.77 Billion, but Fewer Donors Contributed
Russ Choma, Open Secrets
Choma writes: "The final figures are in: The 2014 election was the most expensive midterm election in history, costing a grand total of $3.77 billion."
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Deep Freeze Sets Records Across Eastern US and Causes 11 Deaths in Tennessee
Jessica Glenza, The Guardian
Glenza writes: "As cold-weather records continued to fall across the eastern US, under the influence of the polar vortex, the human toll mounted."
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Malcolm X Remembered 50 Years After Assassination
Herb Boyd, Democracy Now!
Boyd writes: "This weekend marks the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X, one of the most influential political figures of the 20th century."
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Apache Sacred Land Handed to Mining Conglomerate in Arizona
Serene Fang and Adam May, Al Jazeera America
Excerpt: "A place of great natural beauty, popular among rock climbers and campers, a part of Tonto National Forest known as Oak Flat has been under federal protection from mining since 1955, by special order of President Eisenhower."
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World's Biggest PR Firm Calls It Quits With American Oil Lobby
Suzanne Goldenberg, The Guardian
Goldenberg writes: "The world's largest public relations firm is ending its lucrative relationship with America's powerful oil lobby - after more than a decade and at least $327m in billings."
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RSN: Dick Cheney Was Lying About Torture: Senate Report Confirms It Didn't Work, Sweet Deal: Corporations Get $760 for Every Dollar They Spend on Elections

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Mark Fallon | Dick Cheney Was Lying About Torture: Senate Report Confirms It Didn't Work

Mark Fallon, Politico
Fallon writes: "It's official: torture doesn't work. Waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11, did not in fact 'produce the intelligence that allowed us to get Osama bin Laden,' as former Vice President Dick Cheney asserted in 2011."
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How One Woman Could Hit the Reset Button in the Case Against Darren Wilson
Judd Legum, ThinkProgress
Legum writes: "For a week, the airwaves have been filled with news of the decision by the Ferguson grand jury not to indict Darren Wilson. Prosecutor Bob McCulloch gave a dramatic press conference. Wilson hit the interview circuit. Protesters filled the streets of West Florissant Avenue. But legally speaking, nothing has happened."
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Illinois Bill That Bans Recording Police Awaiting Governor's Signature
Jacob Huebert and Bryant Jackson-Green, Illinois Policy
Excerpt: "There's only one apparent reason for imposing a higher penalty on people who record police in particular: to make people especially afraid to record police. That is not a legitimate purpose."
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Sweet Deal: Corporations Get $760 for Every Dollar They Spend on Elections
Alex Ellefson, AlterNet
Ellefson writes: "The 2012 and 2014 elections were the most expensive in American history and were financed largely by corporate money. So why are American companies so eager to put up so much cash for political influence? Because it pays. A lot."
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2015 National Defense Authorization Act Gives Apache Land to Foreign Mining Corporation
Last Real Indians
Excerpt: "On December 4th, the House passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which included a provision to transfer 2,400 acres of Apache ancestral and ceremonial lands to a foreign mining company."
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We Can Feed the World Without Chopping Down More Forests
Nathanael Johnson, Grist
Johnson writes: "Maybe this is obvious, but expanding our agricultural footprint to feed the growing population - cutting down forests, plowing prairies - is a really bad idea."
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