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Andy Borowitz | Warren's Display of Backbone Threatens Career as Democrat

Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "What some insiders are calling a 'rash display of backbone' last week could endanger Senator Elizabeth Warren's career as a Democrat, leading party operatives say."
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Leaked Documents Show Mexico Authorities "Knew About Attack on Students as It Happened"
Jo Tuckman, The Guardian
Tuckman writes: "Mexican federal authorities had real-time information of an attack on a group of student teachers by corrupt local police, but did nothing to stop the disappearance and probable massacre of 43 people."
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The Detainee Abuse Photos Obama Didn't Want You to See
Noah Shachtman and Tim Mak, The Daily Beast
Excerpt: "The Obama administration is withholding hundreds, perhaps even thousands of photographs showing the U.S. government's brutal treatment of detainees."
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Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing
NPR Staff, National Public Radio
Excerpt: "Earlier this month, after the events in Ferguson, Mo., and Staten Island, N.Y, the White House announced the creation of what it's calling a Task Force on 21st Century Policing."
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110,000 Sign Warren Petition
Kevin Cirilli, The Hill
Cirilli write: "MoveOn officials announced Monday that they have garnered 110,000 signatures on a petition urging Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to run for president in 2016."
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I Was Gang Raped at a UVA Frat 30 Years Ago, and No One Did Anything
Liz Seccuro, The Daily Beast
Seccuro writes: "I was gang-raped at the University of Virginia. I was gang raped at the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity house."
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Surgeon General Finally Confirmed in Major Win Over Gun Lobby
Tara Culp-Ressler, ThinkProgress
Culp-Ressler writes: "On Monday evening, the Senate finally confirmed President Obama's nominee for U.S. Surgeon General, filling a position that's been left vacant for the past 17 months."
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If you lived through Reagan's Reign, you remember how heartless and disgraceful the response was!

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(B) What?? The GOP ignored FACTS??? No, I don't believe it!

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Years ago I wrote that all elections in America center on four basic narratives:

(1) The triumphant individual who overcomes huge obstacles to eventually succeed (the Right says anyone with enough guts and gumption can make it; the Left focuses on equal opportunity.)

(2) The benevolent community that joins together to achieve the common good (the Right celebrates private charities such as "a thousand points of light;" the Left emphasizes public services).

3) The rot at the top, comprised of the privileged and powerful who conspire against the rest of us (the Right focuses on government; the Left, on big corporations and Wall Street).

(4) The mob at the gates that threaten us from beyond our borders (the Right worries about foreign powers; the Left worries more about global trade).

The first and second stories are about hope; the third and fourth about fear.

In the 2014 midterm elections, the two fearsome narratives predominate. Republican’s “rot at the top” is Obama and Obamacare; Democrat’s “rot at the top” should be big corporations suppressing wages and the Right suppressing votes, but they’re not telling that story.

Republicans’ “mob at the gates” are immigrants, terrorists, and Ebola. The Democrat’s “mob at the gates” should be growing totalitarianism and intolerance around the world, but they’re not telling that story, either.

Why aren't the Democrats telling their versions?

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FOX NEWS = UNPARALLELED IGNORANCE

The UNPARALLELED IGNORANCE spewed on FOX NEWS was always good for amusement....NO LONGER!

The Destruction of Public Education has reinforced the appeal of IGNORANCE presented as Entertainment, diminished the capacity for CRITICAL THOUGHT.

Be careful when you quote FOX NEWS....you might just do so to someone with a BRAIN!


Stand for Dr. Vivek Murthy!

It's time to restore intelligence, reason and sanity to GOVERNMENT.

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"You must stand up to the NRA and confirm Dr. Vivek Murthy as surgeon general. With dangerous misinformation about the Ebola virus running rampant, we need a level-headed surgeon general who can authoritatively and calmly lead the federal government’s public response.”

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With Fox News spewing blatant¹ misinformation² with a shameful “racial component”³ to whip Americans into a frenzy about the Ebola virus, it would be useful to have a high-ranking public health official who could calmly and authoritatively communicate what the public needs to know.

And that’s exactly what the surgeon general of the United States is supposed to do.⁴

But because a handful of Senate Democrats caved to the NRA and opposed President Obama’s nominee over his acknowledgement that gun violence is a public health problem, we haven’t had a permanent surgeon general in place since July of last year.⁵

Tell the Senate: Stand up to the NRA and confirm Dr. Murthy as surgeon general now.
Recent polling indicates that the media’s Ebola fear-mongering is working. A Harvard School of Public Health poll found that nearly 40% of Americans think there will be a large scale Ebola outbreak in the United States, and that more than 25% are afraid that they or someone in their immediate family will contract the virus sometime in the next year.⁶

Meanwhile, the real risks are being ignored. Medical personnel who first encountered the only Ebola patient who has surfaced in the U.S. ignored safety protocols, potentially exposing hundreds of people to the disease. Despite having traveled recently from Liberia and exhibiting clear symptoms of the disease, he was sent home with antibiotics. Dr. Thomas Frieden, head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, called this incident a “teachable moment.” And the federal official that should be leading the charge to educate the American people and medical establishment to keep us all safe is NRA-blocked surgeon general nominee Dr. Vivek Murthy.

Given the corporate media's failure to responsibly educate the American people about the real risks associated with the Ebola virus – and the fact that panicking will only make the situation worse – it is more important than ever that we have a level-headed surgeon general in place who can calmly communicate with the American people.

Sign the petition: Tell the Senate to confirm Dr. Vivek Murthy as surgeon general.

Dr. Vivek Murthy is exceptionally well qualified to serve as surgeon general. He currently serves as president of Doctors for America, works as an internist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and teaches at Harvard Medical School. In the past, he started a software technology company that makes clinical trials more efficient and co-founded a non-profit focused on HIV prevention and AIDS education in India and the United States.

That’s why more than 120,000 CREDO activists signed a petition last year urging the Senate to confirm Dr. Murthy as surgeon general, and nearly 1,000 made calls to key Senators with the same demand.

With public health capturing the Americans' attention due to the spread of the Ebola virus, now is the perfect time to pressure the Senate to stand up to the NRA and confirm Dr. Vivek Murthy as surgeon general.

Tell the Senate: Fight the NRA and Ebola at the same time by confirming Dr. Murthy as surgeon general.

1. "Fox 'Expert' Lies About How You Can Catch Ebola," Crooks and Liars, October 4, 2014.
2. "Media Promote Ebola Fear-Mongering Stunt," Media Matters, October 2, 2014.
3. "PBS science reporter: Fox’s Ebola coverage is ‘a level of ignorance we should not allow’," Raw Story, October 5, 2014.
4. "About the Office of the Surgeon General," U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
5. "How the NRA is making the Ebola crisis worse," MSNBC, October 2, 2014.
6. "Poll finds many in U.S. lack knowledge about Ebola and its transmission," Harvard School of Public Health, August 21, 2014.




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