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John Kiriakou | The Saudi Jihadist Campaign in American Prisons

John Kiriakou, Reader Supported News
Kiriakou writes: "I'm a Saudi watcher. I've followed politics and developments in Saudi Arabia for the past 25 years, first at the CIA, then at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and finally as a writer and commentator."
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Trump Has Secretive Teams to Roll Back Regulations, Led by Hires With Deep Industry Ties
Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, and Danielle Ivory, The New York Times
Excerpt: "President Trump entered office pledging to cut red tape, and within weeks, he ordered his administration to assemble teams to aggressively scale back government regulations."
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Trump Aides Recruited Erik Prince, Founder of Blackwater, to Devise Options for Afghanistan
Mark Landler, Eric Schmitt and Michael R. Gordon, The New York Times
Except: "President Trump's advisers recruited two businessmen who profited from military contracting to devise alternatives to the Pentagon's plan to send thousands of additional troops to Afghanistan, reflecting the Trump administration's struggle to define its strategy for dealing with a war now 16 years old."
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ACLU Files Suit Against White House Election Fraud Commission
Scott Neuman, NPR
Neuman writes: "The American Civil Liberties Union is suing President Trump's vote fraud commission, charging that the body isn't following federal law requiring it to be open to the public. The lawsuit joins a growing number concerning the commission that have been filed by civil liberties groups in recent days."
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Key Republican Vows to Shut Down Government Unless Congress Funds Trump's Border Wall
Esther Yu Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress
Lee writes: "House Freedom Caucus chairman Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) is willing to let the government shut down unless Congress passes a budget that funds the construction of a border wall along the southern U.S. border, Breitbart News, a far-right publication closely allied with the White House, reported Monday."
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Fighting the Wrong Enemy: Why Americans Hate Muslims
Ramzy Baroud, Middle East Monitor
Baroud writes: "Two officers sought me from within a crowd at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. They seemed to know who I was. They asked me to follow them, and I obliged. Being of Arab background, often renders one's citizenship almost irrelevant."
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2.7 Million People Want National Monuments to Remain Protected
Center For Biological Diversity
Excerpt: "As the Trump administration's 'review' of 27 national monuments draws to a close, more than 2.7 million people have flooded the government comment website saying that they want national monuments to remain protected."
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Ted Cruz Just Got Busted Breaking Federal 

Election Law

The Senate's most hated member has been revealed as one of its 

shadiest.

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Ted Cruz Just Got Busted Breaking Federal Election Law

In a rare unanimous decision, the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) agreed that Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) violated federal election law in his lone campaign for Senate in 2012. The FEC has yet to disclose what if any penalty Cruz will face.

The FEC determined that Cruz improperly dealt with $1.1 million in campaign loans from Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, which he had claimed as his own money.

Election law allows candidates to provide personal resources to their campaigns and take out loans without limit so long as they are properly disclosed. Facing a tough primary battle, Cruz boasted that his commitment was such that he would liquidate his personal assets to fund his campaign, but questions arose when auditors found Cruz’s personal contribution far exceeded the value of the assets he had sold.

While Cruz did put about $300,000 of his own money into the campaign, the FEC found that he concealed bank loans of more than $1 million, which the voters had a legal right to know about.

A spokesperson for the Cruz campaign dismissed the crimes as an “inadvertent” mistake, but this fits a disturbing pattern of high-ranking Republican officials who wailed about Hillary Clinton’s legal handling of emails while breaking the law to get elected.

This may seem like a textbook case of hypocrisy — a lawmaker showing brazen contempt for the laws he deems inconvenient — but this is a man who shut down the government right after taking office. In reality, Ted Cruz has shown remarkable consistency in his disdain for our laws and disrespect for the people they are in place to protect.

Those people would be wise to replace him in next year’s Congressional Elections.

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/05/26/ted-cruz-just-got-busted-breaking-federal-election-law/

Rep. Rob Bishop selling your land? Carly Fiorina runs for office when no one will hire her, anyone paying attention to what GOP offers?

Occupy Democrats

Another example of atrocious leadership from the U.S. House.

After Taking Bribes From Oil & Gas Polluters, GOP Congressman Vows To Sell Off National Parks

Representative Rob Bishop (R-UT), the chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, has announced his intention to kill the Land and Water…

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‪#‎GOPPlannedShutdown‬

Meme Credit: Worley Dervish

Groundhog Day

I’ll be honest: I don’t know if the Republicans are going to shut down the government this week – or if they’ll kick the can to December and try to do it two weeks before Christmas instead. But I do know this: So long as the Republican Party gets to set the agenda in the Senate and the House, and the Tea Party holds them hostage, we’ll keep reliving this twisted version of Groundhog Day over and over again. That’s why I’m doing everything I can to take back Democratic control of the Senate, so we stop wasting our time trying to defund Planned Parenthood clinics or gut Wall Street reforms and get back to fighting to level the playing field for working families. Your grassroots support helps make this all possible. Can you chip in $5 – or whatever you can afford – to help us raise $25,000 before the September 30th deadline? This past weekend, I went to the University of Wisconsin to talk to students about why we need Russ Feingold’s help to pass student loan reform. And here’s the reality: Every day that the Republican leadership fights about defunding women’s health clinics – or whether the janitors and cafeteria workers in government buildings should get paid this Thursday – is a day we’re not working to help our kids who are getting crushed with debt, or help seniors who are trying to make it on Social Security, or help workers who are living in poverty on the minimum wage.  We know what we need to do to put this country back on the right track – but we need Democrats to help us do it. Thanks to your grassroots support, I’m criss-crossing the country to talk about what we believe in and to raise money and rally volunteers for Democratic candidates and state parties. Your help gives us the chance to grow our team and spread the word about the issues and candidates we care about. I’m fighting my heart out each and every day, but I can’t do it alone. We’re a team – and if we want real change, we’ll do it together. Please donate now before the September 30th deadline to help us keep fighting to level the playing field for working families. Your support really makes a difference. Thank you for being a part of this, Elizabeth

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Bernie Sanders | Why We Must Listen to Pope Francis 
 
Bernie Sanders, Reader Supported News 
Sanders writes: "Pope Francis forces us to address some of the major issues facing humanity: war, income and wealth inequality, poverty, unemployment, greed, the death penalty and other issues that too many prefer to ignore." 
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Delaware Officials Investigating Fatal Police Shooting of Man in Wheelchair 
Ciara McCarthy, Guardian UK 
McCarthy writes: "State investigators in Delaware are looking into the fatal shooting by police of a man in a wheelchair, which was captured in cellphone video footage." 
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Pope Decries "Shameful and Culpable Silence" on US Arms Sales "Drenched in Innocent Blood" 
Dan Froomkin, The Intercept 
Froomkin writes: "Pope Francis on Thursday gently scolded Congress on a variety of issues, from immigration to foreign policy, but on one unexpected topic - the weapons sales that fuel armed conflicts around the world - he couldn't have been much more blunt." 
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Boehner, GOP to Fast-Track Defunding of Planned Parenthood as Deadline Nears 
Rebecca Shabad, Peter Sullivan and Bernie Becker, The Hill 
Excerpt: "Top House Republicans hope to convince their members to keep the government open by using a fast-track process known as reconciliation to try to defund Planned Parenthood." 
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Police Investigator Beaten by Chicago Police After Turning off Dash Cam 
Justin Glawe, The Daily Beast 
Glawe writes: "A man who investigates the Chicago Police Department for a living was beaten by officers once they discovered what he did, according to a lawsuit filed in federal court." 
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China to Adopt Cap and Trade System to Limit Carbon Emissions 
Steven Mufson, The Washington Post 
Mufson writes: "Expanding on a pilot project in seven Chinese cities, the cap-and-trade program will impose a nationwide ceiling on emissions from the most carbon-intensive sectors of the Chinese economy and require companies exceeding their quotas to buy permits from those that have sharply reduced emissions." 
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Nermeen Shaikh and Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "Since the 1990s, Exxon has spent millions of dollars funding efforts to reject the science its own experts knew of decades ago." 
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"Did you guys fall down, hit your heads, and think you woke up in the 1950s?...."

There is no way to defend the Republican irrational conduct. 

Republicans continue to prove they are incapable of governing. 

Elizabeth Warren shared Planned Parenthood Action's photo.

Sometimes I look around the Senate and think: Did you guys fall down, hit your heads, and think you woke up in the 1950s? I simply cannot believe that in 2015, the Senate would consider shutting down the government to defund Planned Parenthood and women’s health care. So Ted Cruz wants a big fight over defunding Planned Parenthood? I say: Bring it on, Ted. I’ve lived in a world with backward-looking ideologues interfering in women's health. We’re not going back. Not now - not ever.

Planned Parenthood Action

Sen. Ted Cruz seems to like shutting down the government as a means of trying to take away health care from people (remember 2013 and the Affordable Care Act)?He's threatening to do it again over funding for Planned Parenthood health centers and the patients they serve.

We're with U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren: ‪#‎BringItOnTed‬! http://ow.ly/SbGjo

GOP Government Shutdown, Silence at Yemen Genocide, Eliminating Social Security

Horse Plus Humane Society via News of the Horse

 

In the News - Way to go heroes!

PG&E Workers Care for Horses in Fire Zone - News of the Horse

A KTVU reporter covering the massive fires in California came across a most heart touching moment. Two electric workers for PG&E took a moment out of...

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Foreign Policy, Sanders-Style: Backing Saudi Intervention

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Michael W. Stowell

Got the "Bern?" - - - "The political reaction to the killing spree in Yemen that now eclipses the murderous assault on Gaza by Israel, has not only been met with indifference but many leftists and radicals in the U.S. have given their support to Bernie Sanders who said very clearly that under his administration the Saudi’s would be given even more latitude to carry out military operations in the Middle-East. The Sanders’ position is that the Saudi’s needed to get their “hands a little dirty.” For Bernie and his supporters, the mischief that the Saudi government and private individuals have been engaged in across the region financing groups like ISIS wasn’t dirty enough."

The Yemen Tragedy and the Ongoing Crisis of the Left in the United States

“… it is Western propaganda that is capable of mobilizing the masses for whatever ends or goals anywhere in the world. For whatever reasons, it can...

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Howard Scott Pearlman

‪#‎BernieSanders2016‬

The Daily Beast

“He’s like an eighth-grade girl. As an educator who works with children, it’s an amazing thing to watch.”

Bully Experts: Trump’s an 8th-Grade Girl

Don’t let the combover fool you. Donald Trump’s rhetorical style is straight out of middle school.

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Bernie Sanders To Strike A Blow For Justice By Introducing Bill Banning Private Prisons

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) will introduce a bill tomorrow that takes a major step towards justice for all by banning private prisons.

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Alan Grayson

Help us fight back against the Republican temper tantrums. Sign the petition to shut down the shutdowns now: http://bit.ly/1M7vonv

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Kudos to Mr. Waters to speaking out.

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