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John Kiriakou | An Incompetent FBI Dropped the Ball on Syed Farook

John Kiriakou, Reader Supported News
Kiriakou writes: "The problem here is deep, and it is one of longtime FBI incompetence, mismanagement, and intransigence."
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he FBI has, yet again, dropped the ball. For all the billions of dollars in their budget, for all the metadata they and their intelligence colleagues are collecting on every American citizen, and for all the years they’ve had since the September 11 attacks to recruit informants to infiltrate terrorist groups, two people with ties to Muslim militants were able to perpetrate yet another mass shooting, this time resulting in 14 dead in San Bernardino, California. 

One of the shooters, Syed Farook, was “in contact” with terrorism suspects, but the FBI now admits that it did nothing about it. Indeed, a spokesman said that the contact was “soft,” meaning that it wasn’t frequent. The implication is that Americans aren’t supposed to worry when somebody is in direct contact with a terrorist suspect overseas. It’s not important enough for the FBI to follow up on. Until, of course, that person shoots up a social services center and kills 14 people.

The problem here is deep, and it is one of longtime FBI incompetence, mismanagement, and intransigence.

I wrote in my book, “The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror,” of an incident in which I personally witnessed FBI incompetence – in Peshawar, Pakistan, in 2002, when I was the chief of CIA counterterrorism operations there.

I was part of a team that raided the Taliban embassy in Peshawar that year. As part of our “haul,” we confiscated a set of file folders that contained more than a year’s worth of the embassy’s phone bills. Those bills showed hundreds of calls from the Taliban to phone numbers all across the United States – Buffalo, Kansas City, Sacramento, Tampa, Detroit, and elsewhere. Those calls ended abruptly on September 10, 2001, and then started up again on September 16. 

Who was receiving these calls? Why were they receiving calls from the Taliban? It was possible that they were Afghan nationals with legitimate consular issues. But it was equally plausible that they were working for or with the Taliban in some way, possibly against the United States. Could they have been spies? Were they “sleepers,” tasked with living quiet lives until called upon to carry out an attack? We didn’t know. I informed CIA Headquarters and was told that it was an FBI issue. I then sent the original phone bills to the FBI, with copies to the CIA, and then I returned to my regular business.

Months passed. I returned to CIA Headquarters and, in the summer of 2002, I ran into an FBI agent with whom I had worked in Pakistan. “What happened with those Taliban phone bills?” I asked. The FBI was waiting for Pashto translators to become available. “Pashto translators?” I asked. “But those bills were written in English. That’s how I knew what they were.”

I resigned from the CIA a year and a half later. Again I ran into a former FBI colleague. “Whatever happened to those Taliban phone bills?” “Oh,” he said, “they ended up being shipped to an FBI storage facility in suburban Maryland.” 

Just like in the final scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark, the box of phone bills was never even opened. We’ll never know if there was or is a threat to Americans originating with the Taliban or Taliban sympathizers. We’ll never know why those Americans were in contact with the Taliban immediately before and immediately after September 11. 

This seems to be what happened again last week in San Bernardino. Metadata collection is no substitute for human intelligence and good police work. But even with the information that Farook was in contact with terrorist suspects, the FBI did nothing. This time people died. Heads should roll.

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John Kiriakou is an associate fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies. He is a former CIA counterterrorism officer and a former senior investigator with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

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Mumia Abu-Jamal | A Tale of Two Men
Mumia Abu-Jamal, Prison Radio
Excerpt: "Black men receive hyper-attention when in the presence of cops, so much so that white guys fade into the background of normality, unseen, unchallenged, even when they are carrying arsenals."
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Ted Cruz Isn't Crazy - He's Much Worse
Jeb Lund, Rolling Stone
Lund writes: "But Ted Cruz knows exactly what he's doing. He doesn't even hide it particularly well. Not only is his intelligence one of his favorite selling points, his book undermines any notion that he misspeaks."
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Police Response to San Bernardino Stokes Militarization Fears
Martin Kaste, NPR
Kaste writes: "On the day of the mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., the city's SWAT team was training for an active shooter situation just minutes away from the scene of the massacre."
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ISIS's Oil-Smuggling Operation
Ben Taub, The New Yorker
Taub writes: "In the week since Turkey shot down a Russian jet over an alleged border violation, the rhetoric between the countries has grown increasingly barbed."
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Contrary to Popular Belief, Men Use Planned Parenthood Too - And They Love It
Elizabeth Whitman, International Business Times
Whitman writes: "Republicans have passed a bill on Thursday to cut funding to any entity that 'provides for abortions,' which would effectively cut federal funds for Planned Parenthood. That men depend on Planned Parenthood (and love it) is often overlooked in this heated debate."
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Mark Ruffalo | 'Monsanto Chief Is Horrible'
Mark Ruffalo, EcoWatch
Ruffalo writes: "Monsanto chief is horrible ... And I got to tell him that to his face after his interview on CBS This Morning."
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Charles Pierce | We Sure Are Awfully Free These Days 
 
Charles Pierce, Esquire 
Pierce writes: "On the day that these people opened up on a holiday party, there were two other episodes of multiple shootings in the United States of America." 
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Gun Industry Executives Say Mass Shootings Are Good for Business 
Lee Fang, The Intercept 
Fang writes: "The Intercept reviewed investor transcripts for gun companies, ammunition manufacturers, and sporting stores, and found many instances of industry executives discussing mass shooting incidents and the resulting political dynamics as lucrative." 
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WikiLeaks Releases Trade in Services Agreement (TISA) Secret Documents 
Press Release | WikiLeaks 
Excerpt: "WikiLeaks releases new secret documents from the huge Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) which is being negotiated by the US, EU and 22 other countries that account for 2/3rds of global GDP. Coinciding with the ongoing climate talks in Paris, today's publication touches on issues of crucial relevance including the regulation of energy, industrial development, workers' rights and the natural environment." 
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Texas State Agency Sues Federal Government to Block Syrian Refugees 
Alexa Ura, Texas Tribune 
Ura writes: "Texas has gone to federal court in its efforts to keep Syrian refugees out of the state, filing suit against the federal government and a refugee resettlement nonprofit." 
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CIA Runs Shadow War With Afghan Militia Implicated in Civilian Killings 
Sudarsan Raghavan, The Washington Post 
Raghavan writes: "Months after the Obama administration declared combat operations over in Afghanistan, the CIA continues to run a shadow war in the eastern part of the country, overseeing an Afghan proxy called the Khost Protection Force." 
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Memo to Ted Cruz: Women Use Contraception Too! 
Terry O'Neill, Reader Supported News 
O'Neill writes: "Whether it's calling women who exercise their reproductive rights "contract killers" or ignorantly proclaiming condoms as the only form of birth control worth worrying about, women continue to be disrespected, vilified and subject to horrific violence in the name of political debate." 
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Manslaughter Charges Dropped in BP Spill Case - Nobody From BP Will Go to Prison 
David Kravets, Ars Technica 
Kravets writes: "Today, federal prosecutors moved-and a judge agreed-to drop manslaughter charges against two supervisors aboard the Deepwater Horizon when it exploded." 
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RSN: The Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Undoing of the GOP, Republicans' Playbook on Women Gets Even Scarier, ISIS Recruitment Thrives in Brutal Prisons Run by US-Backed Egypt

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Frank Rich | The Syrian Refugee Crisis and the Undoing of the GOP 
 
Frank Rich, New York Magazine 
Rich writes: "Republican presidential candidates and governors have called for turning away Syrian refugees, Ben Carson has likened them to 'rabid dogs,' and Donald Trump is peddling an urban legend about Muslims cheering the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New Jersey. How can a major American political party do this without incurring some political cost? It can't." 
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What Mayor Emanuel Needs to Learn From the Killing of Laquan McDonald 
Steve Bogira, Chicago Reader 
Bogira writes: "The first thing Mayor Emanuel needs to learn from Laquan McDonald's death is that holding one individual accountable isn't in any way sufficient. This shooting was especially 'hideous,' but Chicago has a systemic problem, which is that police officers who shoot someone unjustifiably can expect to get away with it." 
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All the Stores That Will Make Employees Work on the Holidays 
Bryce Covert and Jess Colarossi, ThinkProgress 
Covert and Colarossi write: "Eleven brands say they will be open on Thanksgiving this year, requiring millions of workers to show up for shifts during the national holiday." 
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Kathleen Turner | Republicans' Playbook on Women Gets Even Scarier 
Kathleen Turner, Reader Supported News 
Turner writes: "Last week, Ted Cruz promoted the endorsement of Troy Newman, an anti-choice leader who has gone so far as to say that a perfectly biblical society would execute its abortion providers. Let that sink in for a moment." 
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Trump Lawyer Warns Republicans About Super PAC Attack Ads 
Reuters 
Excerpt: "Donald Trump's presidential campaign warned the Republican Party on Tuesday about donors pooling funds for attack ads, saying Republicans must treat him fairly if they want to keep him from launching an independent bid." 
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ISIS Recruitment Thrives in Brutal Prisons Run by US-Backed Egypt 
Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept 
Excerpt: "The Egyptian regime is fostering an environment in their prisons that makes them a fertile ground for extremist ideology to flourish." 
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Wild Turkeys Are Tough Old Birds. Here's Why You Should Hunt and Cook Them 
Lexi Pandell, Grist 
Pandell writes: "Though hunting may seem counterintuitive for animal lovers, it can be a more eco-friendly and humane option for Thanksgiving feasts." 
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RSN: Republicans’ Lust for Gold

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FOCUS: Paul Krugman | Republicans’ Lust for Gold 
 
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Krugman writes: "It’s not too hard to understand why everyone seeking the Republican presidential nomination is proposing huge tax cuts for the rich. Just follow the money." 
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t’s not too hard to understand why everyone seeking the Republican presidential nomination is proposing huge tax cuts for the rich. Just follow the money: Candidates in the G.O.P. primary draw the bulk of their financial support from a few dozen extremely wealthy families. Furthermore, decades of indoctrination have made an essentially religious faith in the virtues of high-end tax cuts — a faith impervious to evidence — a central part of Republican identity

But what we saw in Tuesday’s presidential debate was something relatively new on the policy front: an increasingly unified Republican demand for hard-money policies, even in a depressed economy. Ted Cruz demands a return to the gold standard. Jeb Bush says he isn’t sure about that, but is open to the idea. Marco Rubio wants the Fed to focus solely on price stability, and stop worrying about unemployment. Donald Trump and Ben Carson see a pro-Obama conspiracy behind the Federal Reserve’s low-interest rate policy.

And let’s not forget that Paul Ryan, the new speaker of the House, has spent years berating the Fedfor policies that, he insisted, would “debase” the dollar and lead to high inflation. Oh, and he has flirted with Carson/Trump-style conspiracy theories, too, suggesting that the Fed’s efforts since the financial crisis were not about trying to boost the economy but instead aimed at “bailing out fiscal policy,” that is, letting President Obama get away with deficit spending.

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A Particularly Ugly Dinner with Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee and the Gang

Dispatch from Des Moines.

ESQUIRE.COM|BY CHARLES P. PIERCE

A Particularly Ugly Dinner with Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee and the Gang

DES MOINES—On Friday night, seven of the Republican contenders for president gathered around a mock Thanksgiving table on a stage at the front of an enormous ballroom, which was filled to the gunwales even though the year's first winter storm had come rolling out of Nebraska that afternoon. "Satan," joked Bob Vander Plaats, "is trying to disrupt our plans tonight. But it was laid on my heart that the people who would show up tonight were the people who really love this country."

Vander Plaats is the head of the Family Leader Foundation. If you are a Republican candidate for president, and you run afoul of Vander Plaats and his legions, you are not going to get out of Iowa alive. They shake the hay with more enthusiasm, they bang their Bibles more vigorously than just about any group of people anywhere in the country, and they control the caucus process, if anyone does. Which is why the seven people who want to be president were sitting there at the table behind papier mache autumn leaves with Frank Luntz sitting in the Daddy chair at the end, and feeding them a series of questions that included the following:

"When was the last time you cursed god?"

(I have to say that when Rick Santorum was asked this question, he gave a touching–and deeply honest–account of the death of his infant son, Gabriel, and how that had come to shake his faith. No joke. It was authentically moving.)

And…


"Is there anything you can tell me that would help me deal with this loss [of his father, in 1996]?"

And, at the beginning, when the gathering was disrupted several times by immigration rights protesters, Mike Huckabee took advantage of the situation to remind people that this never happens at liberal gatherings, as though the Republican party wasn't the breeding ground in which the very concept of ratfcking was born, and as though there weren't all those patriots showing up at events early in the president's term with questions about health care reform and automatic weapons. But the whole point, according to Luntz and the other folks at table, was to demonstrate Christian civility in the campaign, and to show those showboating Leninists at CNBC how to run a political discussion.

(And if you have any doubts that the CNBC crew has found a place of honor in the Great Hall of Conservative Paranoia, you would be disabused of them last night. Maria Bartiromo and John Harwood are hanging on the wall there now, right next to portraits of Saul Alinsky and Lois Lerner.)

There was unction in the extreme, and no little sanctimony, and the now very familiar recitation of the dystopian landscape created by eight years of the Obama Administration and of the nearly unstoppable acceleration of the handbasket taking the country to hell. The Savior was summoned on a number of occasions, not all of them relevant to his gospel mission on Earth. But the real meat on the Thanksgiving table got served up when Luntz wrenched the discussion away from sacred platitudes and into the realm of national security and foreign affairs. The clouds of incense were dispersed. The preacher masks all dropped. To a person, the seven Republican candidates came right up to the edge of accusing the president of the United States of treason and of being in sympathy with the murderers in France and in Mali. Right up to the edge, they all walked. Then they winked and took baby steps back, but everybody in the hall, all of the good Christians who'd come out in the snow, got the message.

They all signed onto the conservative talking point with the dumbest ass of all–that the president refuses to say the magic words, "radical Islamic extremism." (All of them were unanimous that "political correctness" was now not merely a nuisance, but a clear and present danger to national security.) Asked if Secretary of State John Kerry should resign over remarks he had made the other day comparing the attacks in Paris to the murders at Charlie Hebdo, Mike Huckabee replied, "I'd like Barack Obama to resign if he's not going to protect Americans, but rather respect Islam." Carson called the president an "armchair quarterback who is interfering tremendously" with the military in its efforts to roll back Daesh. After warning us of the rising Islamic caliphate, Santorum said, "We have a president who won't even call ISIS 'Islamic.' Nor will he even identify them as a state. This is delusional, and it's costing lives."

"The deeper problem," said Marco Rubio, "is that the president will not recognize this for what it is. This is a civilizational struggle between those of us who believe in freedom and liberty and radical jihadists."

(Why? Everybody in the hall knew why. Somewhere, the real birth certificate is still out there calling, calling.)

The worst of them, predictably, was Ted Cruz, whose code was easiest to break. "Barack Obama isn't an armchair quarterback," Cruz said. "It's worse than that. The policies he's advancing are helping the other team." Asked by Luntz what the president's motivation might be, Cruz replied, "Look, I am neither a psychologist nor a priest."

(He didn't have to say anything. Most of the crowd knew already.)

"What I will say is, look, this is a president who, on the national stage, said he doesn't have time for American leadership or America winning. I gotta say FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan were rolling over in their graves at a president saying he doesn't have time for America winning."

(Like so much of what the Tailgunner says, this is a nearly obscene mischaracterization of what the president actually said. He was talking about not having time for phony slogans about "America winning" of the kind out of which the Tailgunner has made an entire political career.)

Cruz wasn't finished yet. "It's important to understand, number one, that President Obama today is serving as an apologist for radical Islamic terrorism. Now, what does an apologist mean, because you're right, that is a serious charge. An apologist is someone who gives a rationalization, a justification, tries to explain it. I remember last year I was at the National Prayer Breakfast, and it was the day after, you'll recall, the Jordanian pilot was lit on fire by ISIS. And President Obama stood in front of the National Prayer Breakfast and said, well, yes, ISIS has done some terrible things, but Christians and Jews have also done some bad things. And then he invokes the Crusades and the Inquisition. Now, last I checked, both of those ended hundreds and hundreds of years ago. I don't think it's asking too much to ask the president to stay in the current millennium. And that is exactly the argument the terrorists make."

This is gamey, awful stuff, reminiscent of the charges back in the 1950s that Dwight Eisenhower was a Communist dupe. But this kind of thing is thoroughly mainstreamed now, so much so that they don't even have to say it outright any more. It's been a long time since it was considered cricket to discuss a sitting president in terms like this in a political campaign but, as has been the case since 2009, the usual rules do not apply to this president, and this campaign is nowhere near as ugly as it's going to get. It changed over the last two weeks, and all of the well-dressed friends of Jesus at the Thanksgiving table there on stage have declared themselves along for the whole damn ride.

"During the week of Sept. 20, the FBI received information that Doyle and others were going to meet at Doyle’s residence in Chesterfield, Va., on Sept. 27 “to discuss acting out in furtherance of their extremist beliefs by shooting or bombing the occupants of black churches and Jewish synagogues.”

Correction: Maria Bartitomo now works at the Fox Business Channel, not at CNBC. I meant to say Rick Santelli. In the dim light of the Great Hall of Conservative Paranoia, their portraits looked alike.

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Republicans: Please Stop Helping ISIS, Ted Cruz Babble - can we send him back to Canada?

The Rachel Maddow Show

 

Ted Cruz is convinced: the president "does not wish to defend this country" and Christians don't commit "acts of terror."

He might want to consider the evidence to the contrary.

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Cruz: Obama 'does not wish to defend this country'

In Ted Cruz's mind, President Obama isn't bad at national defense; Obama doesn't even care. But how does Cruz explain the last seven years?

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HUGE news out of Canada, where new Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's government has announced plans to ban oil tanker traffic off northern British Columbia — effectively killing Enbridge's proposed Northern Gateway tarsands pipeline.

Keep the dirty tarsands in the ground!!

Canada to Ban Tankers on North Pacific Coast in Blow to Enbridge

Canada plans to formally ban oil tanker traffic on the northern coast of British Columbia, adding another hurdle to Enbridge Inc.’s Northern Gateway pipeline…

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ISIS, like all terrorist groups, thrives on backlash, and Republicans are delivering the Islamophobic narrative they were hoping for.

Republicans: Please Stop Helping ISIS

ISIS isn't just trying to win physical battles. It's trying to win propaganda battles.

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Kenny Heimbuch Its all a smokescreen to distract us from the fact that the company competing with the Russian Gasprom is Genie Energy. Look at Genie Energy's own website to see its board members: Dick Cheney, Rupert Murdoch etc etc. They're capitalizing on the destabilization of Syria to annex the Golan Heights, while using a culturally divisive narrative to cover this up. This is the root cause of all of this and this is what the MSM should be discussing.

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What Americans thought of Jewish refugees on the eve of World War II

It's a history lesson worth considering now.

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RSN: Agri-Corporations Attempt to Hijack COP21 Climate Talks, Undercover Israeli Troops Raid Hospital, Kill Palestinian in Process,

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Andy Borowitz | Study: Average American Can Stand Four Seconds of Ted Cruz 
 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "In a potential stumbling block for his Presidential ambitions, a new study indicates that the average American can stand only four seconds of exposure to Senator Ted Cruz, the Texas Republican." 
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Hack Reveals Possible Illegal Surveillance of Phone Calls Between Inmates and Their Lawyers 
Jordan Smith and Micah Lee, The Intercept 
Excerpt: "Particularly notable within the vast trove of phone records are what appear to be at least 14,000 recorded conversations between inmates and attorneys, a strong indication that at least some of the recordings are likely confidential and privileged legal communications - calls that never should have been recorded in the first place." 
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Postal Workers' Union Endorses Bernie Sanders for President 
Ken Thomas, Associated Press 
Thomas writes: "Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders secured the endorsement of the 200,000-member American Postal Workers Union on Thursday, marking the largest labor union to back his Democratic presidential campaign." 
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Being 'Black on Campus' - Protests Spread Across US 
BBC News 
Excerpt: "Black students protesting against racism on one US campus, the Columbia campus of the University of Missouri, have attracted global attention all week. The head of the university has resigned. But there are now signs that the online campaign has spread to other campuses across the United States."
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Undercover Israeli Troops Raid Hospital, Kill Palestinian in Process 
Ori Lewis, Ali Sawafta and Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters 
Excerpt: "Israeli undercover forces raided a hospital in the West Bank on Thursday, shooting dead a Palestinian during an attempt to detain another man suspected of carrying out a stabbing, the Palestinian health ministry and doctors said." 
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Greek Debt Crisis: Workers Strike Against 'Unfair' Bailout Terms as Lender Pressure Mounts 
Aditya Kondalamahanty, BBC News 
Kondalamahanty writes: "Greece is set to come to a standstill Thursday, as workers across the debt-ridden country strike to protest the harsh terms set by international lenders in exchange for fresh bailout funds." 
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Vandana Shiva | Agri-Corporations Attempt to Hijack COP21 Climate Talks 
Vandana Shiva, EcoWatch 
Shiva writes: "Today we are faced with two crises on a planetary scale-climate change and species extinction. Our current modes of production and consumption are contributing to what climate change." 
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This, that & Laughingstock House Republicans Set To Try To Repeal Obamacare For The 61st Time

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Sen. Rob Portman thinks federal money should go towards women's healthcare that is "legitimate" and "needed."

GOP Sen.: Fund Clinics With 'Legitimate' Care, Not Planned Parenthood (VIDEO)

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Stop calling Ted Cruz a conservative: This self-promoting narcissist is a fraud and a nihilist

Labeling Cruz a conservative underestimates how dangerous he is. It's time we called out this Messianic crusader

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Garett Reppenhagen, a Colorado native and U.S. Army veteran, is the Rocky Mountain regional coordinator for the nonprofit Vet Voice Foundation.

The organization empowers veterans to speak out on issues such as jobs, health care and housing.
Conservation is also a topic near and dear to veterans’ hearts, he said, citing recent polls that show a majority of veterans want to protect natural resources and public lands.

“It comes back to why we wanted to serve our country and make that sacrifice in the first place,” Reppenhagen said.

“Conservation of these places is important so future generations have something to explore, and where they can be inspired,” he said.

Vet group lends voice to Thompson Divide issues | PostIndependent.com

A group that encourages Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans to lend their voice to important issues that affect them back home is turning its attention to the…

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Join Bette Midler in telling Bayer to stop selling their bee-killing pesticides. America's bees are in crisis—add your name to help ‪#‎SaveBees‬:http://on.nrdc.org/1F199QQ

Tell Bayer's CEO: Stop Killing Our Bees!

Bayer is the #1 maker of bee-killing pesticides in the world. Tell Bayer's CEO to stop its chemical assault and help save America's embattled bees. Add your voice now.

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Progressives Not Out of Touch: New Poll Shows Americans Really Do Hate the Republican Party

Why is it that only the Republican Party believes it represents American beliefs? Where are they getting their information that somehow this country has become…

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Rude and Rotten Republicans shared PopSugar's video.

 

Think defunding PP won't affect you? Think again!

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Defunding ‪#‎PlannedParenthood‬ is a hot topic these days. If you think it won't affect you, think again.

Why Roger Ailes Wins Big When Media Lets GOP Candidates Get Away With Lying

Carly Fiorina just lied about Planned Parenthood, yet was declared the winner of the second GOP debate.

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Yale Professor Blasts Fiorina: She has a ‘psychopathic denial of reality’

Yale professor Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld blasted GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina on Monday, questioning her fitness to run the country based on her…

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Democrats Call For Immediate End To Benghazi Investigation After McCarthy Admits Fraud

After Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) admitted that Republicans lied about the purpose of the Benghazi investigation, several top Democrats are calling out…

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Ted Cruz was NOT born in the US.
Where are the 'birthers'?

Ted Cruz must show naturalization papers to keep his US Senate seat

Details have been emerging which highly suggest that both Ted Cruz's parents had become Canadian citizens prior to his birth.

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PoliticusUSA shared a link.

 

Laughingstock House Republicans Set To Try To Repeal Obamacare For The 61st Time

House Republicans are foolishly about to try to repeal Obamacare for the 61st time.

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The Rachel Maddow Show

 

Republicans usually pretend their Benghazi committee is about investigating a terrorist attack.

But last night, one of the GOP's top officials accidentally told the truth about what the party is up to.

http://on.msnbc.com/1FHZtdV

GOP leader accidentally tells the truth about Benghazi committee

The man who'll likely be Speaker of the House next month accidentally told the…

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The Rachel Maddow Show

 

Most of the time, it seems Senate Democrats don't care for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).

But once in a while, it seems *Senate Republicans* don't like him, either. Take last night, for example.

http://on.msnbc.com/1OEACLb

On the eve of a shutdown, Cruz annoys his GOP allies

Senate Republicans neither like nor respect Ted Cruz -- and he couldn't be happier about it.

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The Rachel Maddow Show

 

The bad news: Carly Fiorina has thrown her support behind Bush/Cheney-era torture policies.

The worse news: the Republican candidate managed to get practically every relevant detail wrong.

http://on.msnbc.com/1LiSN8A

Carly Fiorina backs Bush-era torture, but flubs facts

It's a problem that Carly Fiorina backs Bush-era torture programs. It's a bigger problem that she misstated every relevant detail.

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