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Paul Krugman | Thinking About the Trumpthinkable

Paul Krugman, New York Times
Krugman writes: "You have a party whose domestic policy agenda consists of shouting 'death panels!', whose foreign policy agenda consists of shouting 'Benghazi!', and which now expects its base to realize that Trump isn't serious."
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lan Abramowitz reads the latest WaPo poll and emails:

Read these results and tell me how Trump doesn’t win the Republican nomination? I’ve been very skeptical about this all along, but I’m starting to change my mind. I think there’s at least a pretty decent chance that Trump will be the nominee.

Here’s why I think Trump could very well end up as the nominee:

1. He’s way ahead of every other candidate now and has been in the lead or tied for the lead for a long time.

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No, You're Not Paranoid: The Koch Brothers Really Are Spying on You
Katie Herzog, Grist
Herzog writes: "There's a secret intelligence network funded by evil billionaire brothers determined to choose the next American president. No, that's not the plot of the new James Bond movie - it's life in the U.S.A. circa 2015."
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2 Palestinian Americans Barred From Southwest Flight After Passenger Claims to Feel 'Unsafe'
Nicole Rojas, International Business Times
Rojas writes: "Two Palestinian Americans were barred from boarding their flight home from Chicago on November 18th after a fellow passenger claimed to feel afraid to fly with them."
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Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fritakis | Official Vote Tally on Ohio's Pot Issue Deemed "Statistically Impossible"
Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fritakis, Reader Supported News
Excerpt: "The 'stolen election' controversy over this month's officially defeated Ohio pot legalization referendum has gone to a new level."
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he "stolen election” controversy over this month’s officially defeated Ohio pot legalization referendum has gone to a new level.

“The results are not only impossible but unfathomable,” stated Ron Baiman, Assistant Professor of Graduate Business Administration at Benedictine University, where he teaches economics and statistics.

The Columbus Free Press asked Baiman to calculate the odds of the official vote count of Ohio’s Issue 3, to legalize marijuana, being correct – compared to the tracking polls charting voter preference leading up to this year’s November election. The Free Press supplied Baiman with poll results taken prior to the election by noted pollster Jon Zogby.

The polls leading into the November 3 vote showed the referendum passing. But the official results claim it lost by 2:1.

The standard assumption with such polling is that the undecided voters in the poll would have potentially gone 50-50. Thus half of them would be voting no and the other half would be voting yes on Issue 3. Baiman pointed out that with such an assumption being probable, the odds against the referendum losing 2:1 go through the roof. They are, he said, “one in a trillion.”

The analysis showed that even if the most illogical outcome is assumed – that every single undecided voter in the polls voted against Issue 3 – it is still statistically impossible to accept Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted’s official tally as being credible.

If the Zogby poll was accurate, says Baiman, one would expect the official outcome as reported by the state once in every 105,000 elections.

As general rule, undecided voters do not tend to split more than 60-40 percent in favor of one side or the other.

Pre-election tracking polls are performed using a random and representative sample. They accurately reflect how voters of various demographics are likely to vote. All such polls do contain a margin of error. The Zogby poll has a 4.9 percent margin of error, which leaves the official outcome of the Issue 3 vote still very far out of the realm of reasonable statistical probability.

Another Issue 3 poll done by the Kitchen Group showed a closer split between the yes and no vote. It was conducted one week before Election Day, with a random survey of more than over 1000 Ohioans. The odds that Husted’s official tally is correct based on the Kitchen poll are even heavier than with the Zogby poll…in this case yielding a result that would be expected only once in once in every 799,000,000 elections. [see attachments]

There can be only two explanations for this.

Ohioans can assume that the well-funded corporate multimillionaire growers backing Issue 3 who hired highly-regarded pollsters were given made-up drivel as the poll results. Or, Ohio’s notoriously corrupt, antiquated and highly-vulnerable voting system was hacked or manipulated by partisans like Ohio’s Secretary of State Husted.

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Stranded Migrants Block Railway, Call Hunger Strike
Yannis Behrakis, Reuters
Behrakis writes: "Moroccans, Iranians and Pakistanis on Greece's northern border with Macedonia blocked rail traffic and demanded passage to western Europe on Monday. One Iranian man, declaring a hunger strike, stripped to the waist, sewed his lips together with nylon and sat down in front of lines of Macedonian riot police."
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Homicide on the Rise in Mexico: 47 People Killed Everyday
teleSUR
Excerpt: "According to official figures, the number of preliminary inquiries and investigations for homicide in Mexico went from 13,149 to 14,069 this year, which translates to a staggering 47 murders a day."
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Only 3 Northern White Rhinos Left on Earth After Death of Nola at San Diego Zoo
Maureen Nandini Mitra, Earth Island Journal
Mitra writes: "Nola, one of the last four Northern White Rhinos remaining in the world, died at San Diego Zoo Safari Park Sunday following a bacterial infection."
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RSN: Mississippi Locks Up More People Per Capita Than China and Russia Combined, ISIL Beheaded Two Americans, Mexican Drug Cartels Killed 293 Americans from 2007 to 2010

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg's 6-Page Dissent of the Texas Voter ID Law Decision

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Reader Supported News
Ginsberg writes: "The potential magnitude of racially discriminatory voter disenfranchisement counseled hesitation before disturbing the District Court's findings and final judgment. Senate Bill 14 may prevent more than 600,000 registered Texas voters from voting."
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Overwhelming Majority of Political Money Comes From Groups With Undisclosed Donors, to Conservative Efforts
Clyde Haberman, The New York Times
Haberman writes: "Beyond its durable imprint on American civic life, the Watergate scandal of four decades ago left its mark on political language. For one thing, that suffix will not go away. Commit a major folly, and you can count on some headline writer describing it as Whatever-gate."
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Harvey Wasserman | When Solartopia Transcends King C.O.N.G.
Harvey Wasserman, EcoWatch
Wasserman writes: "A green-powered future is our only hope. A planet run by King CONG—Coal, Oil, Nukes & Gas—cannot be sustained."
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ISIS Cited as Michigan Village's Police Push for Secrecy
Jason Ditz, AntiWar.com
Ditz writes: "Oakley has 290 residents. They also have over 100 police, for some reason. Those police are also, more or less entirely anonymous. Who those police are or what they are doing is a mystery, even to the village trustees."
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Mississippi Locks Up More People Per Capita Than China and Russia Combined
Jerry Mitchell, The Clarion-Ledger
Mitchell writes: "The state had 686 inmates per 10,000 population in 2013, which was more than China's 121 and Russia's 475, according to the International Centre for Prison Studies."
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There Are Only 6 White Rhinos Left in the World, and Only 1 Breeding Male
Loulla-Mae Eleftheriou-Smith, Independent UK
Eleftheriou-Smith writes: "The northern white rhino has become a step closer to extinction after one of its last breeding males died in Kenya, leaving only six of the species now left in the world."
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ISIL Beheaded Two Americans, Mexican Drug Cartels Killed 293 Americans from 2007 to 2010
Musa al-Gharbi, Al Jazeera America
al-Gharbi writes: "While there other organized groups whose depravity and threat to the United States far surpasses that of ISIL, none have engendered the same kind of collective indignation and hysteria. This raises a question: Are Americans primarily concerned with ISIL’s atrocities or with the fact that Muslims are committing these crimes?"
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CLG: US Army withheld promise from Germany that Ebola virus wouldn't be weaponized, German journo: European media writing pro-US stories under CIA pressure

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21 October 2014

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Previous edition: 'Mutant Ebola warning: Leading U.S. scientist warns deadly virus is already changing to become more contagious,' which Google relegated to the sp*m bin. See: Google Filter Instructions for CLG Newsletter.

US Army withheld promise from Germany that Ebola virus wouldn't be weaponized 20 Oct 2014 The United States has withheld assurances from Germany that the Ebola virus - among other related diseases - would not be weaponized in the event of Germany exporting it to the US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases. German MFA Deputy Head of Division for Export Control Markus Klinger provided a paper to the US consulate's Economics Office (Econoff), "seeking additional assurances related to a proposed export of extremely dangerous pathogens." Germany subsequently made two follow-up requests and clarifications to the Army, according to the unclassified Wikileaks cable.

Germany Requests Assurances on Virus Export (WikiLeaks) 15 Dec 2009 From: Germany Berlin To: Secretary of Defense | Secretary of State "For Official Use Only" --A German firm has applied for the approval of the export of 184 genetic elements with nucleic acid sequences of viruses for the production of recombinant viruses. The viruses will be used in optical imaging to identify host factors required for viral replication. The recipient in the USA is, according to the enclosed end use certificate, the Department of the Army "US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID)" Fort Detrick, Maryland...The goods are controlled by the Australia Group and are subject to compulsory export approval (List position C1C353A). This matter concerns the complete genome of viruses such as the Zaire Ebola virus, the Lake Victoria Marburg virus, the Machupo virus and the Lassa virus, which are absolutely among the most dangerous pathogens in the world. The delivery would place the recipient in the position of being able to create replicating recombinant infectious species of these viruses. Because of the particular criticality of these goods, the German federal government practices an exceptionally restrictive approval policy for such exports...The enclosed end use certificate is on the letterhead of the U.S. Army. The required official seal is missing, however.

Hagel orders military medical team, led by USNORTHCOM, to get ready for quick response to more Ebola cases in US --The members of the 30-member military team will be selected and led by Northern Command Commander Gen. Chuck Jacoby. 19 Oct 2014 The Defense Department said Sunday that it is preparing a quick-response medical team to help health-care professionals should the Ebola virus spread in the United States. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel ordered the training of the 30-member team and said the effort was in response to a Department of Health and Human Services request...The U.S. military is working to build medical centers in hard-hit Liberia and may eventually send as many as 4,000 soldiers to West Africa.

US troops deployed to battle Ebola in West Africa WON'T be equipped with Hazmat suits --Soldiers from 101st Airborne Division will be given only masks and gloves --Commander of US troops in Africa said soldiers do not need the full suits 20 Oct 2014 Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division deployed to Ebola hotspots in West Africa to battle the deadly disease will not receive full protective Hazmat suits for their mission [of ensuring the pandemic takes hold in West Africa, so USociopaths can seize the oil]. Instead, the troops will be given only masks and gloves to protect them from the potentially fatal virus, General David Rodriguez said at a Pentagon briefing. General Rodriguez said that soldiers' health will be monitored through surveys and taking their temperatures on their way in and out of camps. If a serviceman does get sick, they will be flown home [the U.S.] immediately for treatment.

New Ebola Guidelines for Hospitals to Require Full Body Cover 19 Oct 2014 New, more stringent hospital guidelines for treating Ebola patients will require full body coverings and mandate that health-care workers be monitored while putting on and taking off protective garb, a top U.S. health official said. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, which is part of the National Institutes of Health, said the new guidelines will be "much more stringent" and require that no skin be exposed...The U.S. has designated Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Mont., and Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha to handle Ebola cases.

120 people being monitored for Ebola in Texas 20 Oct 2014 About 120 people are now being monitored for possible infection with Ebola because they may have had contact with one of the three people in Dallas who had the disease, Texas health officials said Monday. Officials said 43 of 48 people on an original watch list have passed the 21-day maximum incubation period for the viral disease and are now in the clear.

Obama Could Resume Bush-Era Acceptance of Torture 19 Oct 2014 When the Bush administration revealed in 2005 that it was secretly interpreting a treaty ban on "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" as not applying to C.I.A. and military prisons overseas, [CIAciopath] Barack Obama, then a newly elected Democratic senator from Illinois, joined in a bipartisan protest. But the Obama administration has never officially declared its position on the treaty, and now, President Obama's legal team is debating whether to back away from his earlier view. It is considering reaffirming the Bush administration's position that the treaty imposes no legal obligation on the United States to bar cruelty torture outside its borders, according to officials who discussed the deliberations on the condition of anonymity.

German journo: European media writing pro-US stories under CIA pressure 19 Oct 2014 German journalist and editor Udo Ulfkotte says he was forced to publish the works of intelligence agents under his own name, adding that noncompliance ran the risk of being fired. Ulfkotte made the revelations during interviews with RT and Russia Insider. "I ended up publishing articles under my own name written by agents of the CIA and other intelligence services, especially the German secret service," Ulfkotte told Russia Insider..."That article was how Gaddafi tried to secretly build a poison gas factory. It was a story that was printed worldwide two days later."

CF-18s to join U.S. F-15s and other aircraft in NORAD exercise 20 Oct 2014 The Canadian NORAD Region is hosting the flying portion of the NORAD exercise VIGILANT SHIELD from Oct. 20-26 at 5 Wing Goose Bay, in Newfoundland and Labrador, NORAD has said in a news release. More from the release: This year's annual exercise, held at 5 Wing Goose Bay, will include about 550 participants from the Canadian Armed Forces, the United States Air Force, and the United Stated Air National Guard.

In Canada, Terrorism Concerns Arise After Car Hits 2 in Military 21 Oct 2014 A hit-and-run car crash that injured two members of the Canadian Armed Forces in a small Quebec city on Monday morning quickly prompted widespread speculation that the motive might have been terrorism-related. A sedan struck the two people, one of them apparently in uniform, as they walked in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu, a city south of Montreal that is home to several military facilities...An unusual question in the House of Commons, which arose shortly after the crash, raised suspicions that what at first appeared to be a violent assault involving an automobile might have been an act of terrorism. Randy Hoback, a member of the governing Conservative Party who represents a district in Saskatchewan, asked Prime Minister Stephen Harper about "unconfirmed reports of a possible terror attack against two members of the Canadian Armed Forces."

Suspected radical killed after driving into two Canadian soldiers 21 Oct 2014 A young man killed by police after smashing a car into two Canadian soldiers in a Quebec supermarket parking lot was known to authorities as a suspected radical. The 25-year-old suspect "was known to federal authorities" and "authorities were concerned that he had become radicalised", police spokesman David Falls said in statement. One of the two soldiers is in critical condition in the hospital in Saint-Jean sur Richelieu, about 40km south-east of Montreal, while the other was just lightly injured.

Occupy London protesters start week long demonstration in Parliament Square 18 Oct 2014 Protesters from Occupy London have begun a week long demonstration in Parliament Square. The group have pitched tents and are displaying placards highlighting more action to be taken on a number of issues including the NHS, inequality and poverty. The occupation is expected to last until October 26.

Death of Northern White Rhino Leaves Only Six Left in Existence 19 Oct 2014 A 34-year-old male northern white rhino has died in a wildlife conservancy in Kenya, leaving on six northern white rhinos left in the world. Suni, one of four northern white rhinos living in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, was the first-ever northern white rhino to be born in captivity. He arrived at the conservancy in 2009 from Dvůr Králové Zoo in Czech Republic as part of a breeding program along with another male and two females. The cause of his death is yet to be determined.

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