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Tuesday, November 12, 2019

RSN: Norman Solomon | Biden and Bloomberg Want Uncle Sam to Defer to Uncle Scrooge

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RSN: Norman Solomon | Biden and Bloomberg Want Uncle Sam to Defer to Uncle Scrooge

Joe Biden and Michael Bloomberg. (image: Getty/Reuters)

Norman Solomon, Reader Supported News
Solomon writes: "The extremely rich Americans who are now frantically trying to figure out how to intervene in the Democratic presidential campaign make me wonder how different they are from the animated character who loved frolicking in money and kissing dollar bills while counting them."
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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., depart a press conference at the Capitol on Oct. 2. The impeachment inquiry enters a new phase this week with the start of public hearings. (photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

The Ukraine Impeachment Inquiry Begins a New Phase This Week: What You Need to Know
Philip Ewing, NPR
Ewing writes: "House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her lieutenants are turning a new page in their impeachment inquiry this week based on a principle familiar to classics scholars: repetitio mater studiorum. 'Repetition is the mother of all learning.'"
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Protesters in Manhattan marched on October 26, 2019, for the preservation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, the Obama-era program that protects immigrants who came to the US as children from deportation. (photo: Erik McGregor/LightRocket/Getty Images)

The Battle Over DACA Comes to the Supreme Court
Nicole Narea, Vox
Narea writes: "The fate of some 670,000 immigrants hangs in the balance."
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After passing a fetal-heartbeat bill, members of the Missouri House throw papers in the air to mark the end of the legislative session. (photo: The New York Times/Redux)

Abortion After the Clinic
Irin Carmon, New York Magazine
Carmon writes: "As Republican lawmakers try to legislate it out of existence, the future of reproductive healthcare may be at home."

EXCERPT:

hen Leana Wen introduced herself to America as the new president of Planned Parenthood last fall, she had a story she liked to tell — one that showed exactly why abortion access mattered. It was a sad tale of “a young woman lying on a stretcher, pulseless and unresponsive, because of a home abortion.” Wen, an emergency physician who had been plucked from Baltimore’s Health Department to take over the century-old institution, said the young woman had arrived at her ER in “a pool of blood” because “she didn’t have access to health care, so she had her cousin attempt an abortion on her at home. We did everything we could to resuscitate her, but she died.”

Wen was talking about a time when abortion was technically legal, yet the story rhymed with the pre-Roe era, when doctors and lawyers spoke of being radicalized by women filling their wards with blood and desperation, the same nightmare the familiar pro-choice rhetoric warns will soon be upon us. Behind the scenes, however, a vanguard of the abortion-rights movement implored Wen, directly and through intermediaries, to stop talking about “home abortion” in such dire terms. Not because they weren’t horrified by what had happened to that woman, not because they didn’t want better for her, but because these activists — doctors, lawyers, even people running abortion clinics — have concluded that “home abortions,” or, in their preferred nomenclature, “self-managed abortions,” need to be normalized in the abortion-rights conversation. And they didn’t think the president of the most visible pro-choice organization in the country should be scaremongering about it.

Peter King. (photo: NBC News)

New York's Peter King Becomes 20th Republican to Announce Retirement From US House
Susan Heavey and Richard Cowan, Reuters
Excerpt: "Peter King is one of a dwindling number of centrist Republicans in a chamber that has become increasingly polarized."
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The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, gives a speech at the presidential hangar in El Alto on Sunday. (photo: Enzo De Luca/AP)

Bolivian President Evo Morales Resigns After Election Result Dispute, Allies Claim "Coup Attempt"
Dan Collyns, Guardian UK
Collyns writes: "In a televised address, Bolivia's president of nearly 14 years said he was stepping down for the 'good of the country,' but added in an attack on opponents whom he had accused of a coup attempt: 'Dark forces have destroyed democracy.'"
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Reports detailing the massive environmental, economic, and human consequences of unfettered global warming have come at a fast and furious pace. (photo: AP)

Global Leaders Are Facing One of the Scariest Years of Climate Change Yet
Cristine Russell, Undark
Russell writes: "One year ago, the international scientific community could hardly have expected that Greta Thunberg, a teenager from Sweden, would become one of its greatest allies. Since beginning her weekly 'School Strike for the Climate,' the petite 16-year-old has skillfully used her public appearances and powerful social media presence to push for bolder global action to reduce carbon emissions."
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Monday, April 15, 2019

POLITICO Massachusetts Playbook: NEAL’S Tax Day — MARATHON Monday — TRAHAN’s loophole — Boston’s OTHER housing crisis

NEAL’S Tax Day — MARATHON Monday — TRAHAN’s loophole — Boston’s OTHER housing crisis

Apr 15, 2019

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BY STEPHANIE MURRAY

Presented by NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts

GOOD MORNING, MASSACHUSETTS. It's Marathon Monday!

MEETING DEADLINES — Today marks the first big deadline of the 2020 campaign cycle: Fundraising numbers for the first quarter of the year are due to the FEC. Some candidates have rolled out their totals early, among them Sen. Elizabeth Warren, who pulled in $6 million over the last several months.

In Massachusetts, a number of other big dates are just down the pike.

Rep. Seth Moulton set himself a deadline to decide whether he's running for president by the end of the month. But talking to reporters on Friday, it seemed like Moulton's would-be campaign pitch is already solidified. "I'm the only person announced or unannounced who's even talking about national security right now," Moulton said after a town hall in North Andover. Former GOP Gov. Bill Weld has set a similar end-of-April deadline for a presidential primary bid.

And today might be Tax Day, but Rep. Richard Neal set a different deadline for President Donald Trump to hand over his taxes — April 23. The Ways and Means chairman requested six years of the president's tax returns earlier this month, but the Trump administration ignored the first deadline for Neal's request. If the president skips out on the April 23 date, the next step is likely a subpoena for the documents.

Have a tip, story, suggestion, birthday, anniversary, new job, or any other nugget for the Playbook? Get in touch: smurray@politico.com.

CONGRATULATIONS TO EVERYONE MAKING THAT LEFT ON BOYLSTON, AND BE SURE TO CHEER EXTRA LOUD FOR THESE CHAMPS IF YOU SEE THEM ON THE RACE ROUTE — Lizzy Guyton, Jon Chesto, Danny Condon, Tyler O'Day, Eileen O'Connor, George O'Malley, Amy Sennett, Dan Koh, Gina Fiandacca, Heather Gasper, Nora Dohret, Gina Christo, Larry Tobin, Scott Zoback, Steve Roman, Stacy Hodes Roman, Kelsey Smithendorf, Tim O'Leary, Layth Elhassani, Emily Izzo, Jim Sweeney, Reilly McGreen, Chrissy Raymond, William Evans, Debbie Panek, Leah Potash, Jeanne Caron, Jamie Hoag, Dana Shulman, Andy Burnham and volunteer Dave Perry.

TODAY — Rep. Joe Kennedy III visits EY Technologies and attends a rally for Stop & Shop workers in Fall River. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh attends the Boston Marathon. Sen. Elizabeth Warren campaigns in South Carolina.

A message from NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts:

Abortion is key to equality. All people deserve care without shame, stigma, or unjust barriers. The ROE Act affirms the fundamental belief that living a safe and healthy life is a basic right. Abortion opponents are misrepresenting efforts to protect abortion access, using inflammatory, insulating language to score political points. Learn more

DATELINE BEACON HILL

- "House budget adds $30 million to help nursing homes stay open," Associated Press: "The plight of struggling nursing homes is getting the attention of state lawmakers. The House Ways and Means Committee is calling for $30 million in rate increases for nursing homes in its proposed state budget for the fiscal year starting on July 1. Along with that extra money is a plan to create an emergency task force to study the financial stability of nursing facilities. The Massachusetts Senior Care Association has warned that 35 nursing homes around the state are at risk of closing this year, on top of 20 that permanently shut their doors last year."

- "The Massachusetts Lottery Is Getting A Tech Upgrade," by Zeninjor Enwemeka," WBUR: "The Massachusetts Lottery is getting a much needed tech boost. The lottery will replace its IT system Sunday — for the first time in 20 years. It's a critical change for a system that handles millions of lottery transactions each year. The new IT system will connect with more than 7,500 new lottery terminals that have already been rolled out over the last year."

FROM THE HUB

- "For foster parents, chaotic state system makes job even harder," by Kay Lazar, Boston Globe: "But instead of doing everything possible to assist foster parents like Suzor, the state has done little to lighten their load, and in many ways has made the work even tougher. Some 2,000 families have stopped accepting foster children in the past five years — almost as many as the total number of foster families currently in the system. The departures have further strained the longstanding gap between available foster homes and the thousands of abused and neglected kids who need a safe haven."

- "In tight labor market, employers going to great lengths to attract workers," by Katie Johnston, Boston Globe: "In low-wage sectors where wages and job quality have lagged for years, pay is rising, benefits are improving, part-time hours are turning into full-time work, and schedules are becoming more flexible and stable. One restaurant chain started closing before the MBTA stopped running to accommodate workers who rely on public transportation to get home. A long-term care facility reallocated some of the physically demanding duties required of nursing assistants to allow older employees to continue working."

- "Uber, Lyft trips to airport keep rising," by Bruce Mohl, CommonWealth Magazine: "MASSPORT OFFICIALS said Uber and Lyft vehicle trips to and from Logan International Airport are up 29 percent so far this year, and indicated on Friday they are determined to deal with the congestion by moving ahead with a plan to hike ride-hailing fees at the airport and concentrate all pickups and drop-offs in the central parking garage. The rapid growth of the ride-hailing apps at Logan is astounding. They first started serving the airport on February 1, 2017, and provided 4.8 million passenger trips during the remaining 11 months. The number of trips increased to 7 million last year, an increase of 46 percent."

- RELATED: "Don't blame Uber and Lyft for congestion," by Christina Fisher, CommonWealth Magazine: "NOT LONG AGO, many of us who live and work in Boston had to plan our days around times the T would run, hope that a taxi scheduled the night before would show up in the morning to help us catch an early flight, or coordinate rides from the nearest train station to visit loved ones. Fortunately, we have more alternatives to choose from now, including ridesharing, which has transformed and simplified traveling in Boston. In a few short years, it has become an essential service that both residents and visitors rely on every day, including for trips to and from the airport. However, consumers could soon see unwelcome changes that would limit their options."

- "Boston's Other Housing Crisis: The Cemeteries," by Nora Caplan-Bricker, Boston Magazine: "To the untrained eye, Greater Boston's most illustrious cemetery, the nearly 200-year-old Mount Auburn, looks full: There are plaques, pillars, and sarcophagi in all directions and statuary posing in every copse of trees. But if you ride around the cemetery with CEO Dave Barnett, you begin to spot the once-imperceptible openings. That's because Barnett has become an expert in finding new grave space in a cemetery—and a city—that is quickly running out of room."

- "Steve who? How far Wynn Resorts is going to distance itself from its founder," by Mark Arsenault, Boston Globe: "The ancient Romans called it damnatio memoriae, the damnation of memory. It was the rather extreme act of punishing someone by attempting to erase every trace of them from the historical record, so future generations would never know they had existed. Ambitious, if that person was the emperor or some other big shot. Did it ever actually work? If it did, we wouldn't know. A couple of thousand years later, Wynn Resorts is overseeing a modern version of the memory scrub."

IT'S NOT EASY BEING GREEN

- "The Green New Deal is more than a resolution — it's a revolution," by Sen. Ed Markey, Boston Globe: "Extreme weather fueled by climate change is wreaking havoc across the country, but Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell and his Republican caucus are making a mockery of the debate on climate action. Republicans and President Trump may choose to be in denial about the consequences of climate change, but to everyday Americans the climate crisis isn't politics, it's life and death."

WARREN REPORT

- "Elizabeth Warren tells Stop & Shop shoppers, 'Do not cross the picket line,'" by Shira Schoenberg, Springfield Republican: "U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat running for president in 2020, delivered donuts and coffee to picketing Stop & Shop workers in Somerville on Friday, and urged shoppers to take their business elsewhere. "Do not cross the picket line," Warren said. "Understand people on the picket line are not just fighting for their families. They're fighting for all our families. They're fighting for basic fairness and equality in this country." On Thursday, the unions representing 31,000 Stop & Shop workers across Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut voted to go on strike ."

DATELINE D.C.

- "Q&A: Rep. Ayanna Pressley On Her First 100 Days In Congress," by Kimberly Atkins, WBUR: "U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley talked to WBUR'S Kimberly Atkins about her first 100 days in Congress, during which she questioned President Trump's former personal attorney Michael Cohen, filed or co-sponsored 115 bills and spoke on the House floor about the struggles she and her families have faced."

- "THESE HOUSE DEMOCRATS PLEDGED NOT TO TAKE CORPORATE CASH — BUT THEY'RE USING A LOOPHOLE TO DO IT ANYWAY," by Lee Fang, The Intercept: "ONE POLITICIAN WHO cited these loopholes in the pledge to take corporate money is Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Mass., who was elected last November. "I firmly believe that we need to root out the corruptive influence of money in politics which is why I refuse to take any money from corporate PACs," Trahan wrote last year, when she was a candidate, as a way to explain how she differs from others in the race. In the run-up to Election Day and in the following months, however, Trahan accepted campaign cash from trade association PACs representing beer wholesalers, as well as grocery, hotel, hospital, and cable industry groups."

MARIJUANA IN MASSACHUSETTS

- "Mass. marijuana industry is mostly corporate and white. Inside one Boston battle to change that," by Boston Globe Spotlight Team: "Massachusetts was the first state in the nation to make social justice goals a cornerstone of marijuana legalization. But two years in, those equity provisions are giving way to old inequities, small players are being squeezed by the bigger national ones, and the question of which minority entrepreneur most deserves the neighborhood's trust is proving to be hard to discern, a Spotlight Team review shows."

- P.S. If you use medical marijuana or CBD (or if you're a health professional who has worked with it), we want to hear from you. Tell us your story and a reporter might reach out.

ABOVE THE FOLD

— Herald: "TOLL ROAD," — Globe: "FLEET OF FEET," "Tight job market, widening benefits," "On this round of glory, Tiger finds himself," "A district takes neighborly turn."

FROM THE 413

- "Has Morse Begun to Telegraph His next Move?" by Matt Szafranski, Western Mass Politics & Insight: "On a seasonably brisk spring day, College Democrats had assembled in the basement of Clark University's student center for their annual convention. There was drama, but that did not concern their guests, including one who was a few years out of college himself, Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse. College Dems events were familiar territory for Morse. He was among several young electeds who spoke, including the area's rep David LeBoeuf and Boston City Councilor Michelle Wu. This visit came amid rising chatter here, and back in the 413, about his interest in higher office such as the seat held by US Representative Richard Neal."

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- "A unique civics lesson," by Joshua Solomon, Greenfield Recorder: "Walking down Main Street, a handful of Frontier Regional High School students saw the family of the deceased walking to grab a bite. Both had just left a murder trial at Franklin County Superior Court. "It's something you see in the news," Erin Senn, 16, said of the trial she and her classmates watched Wednesday. "You read about it. You watch it on TV." The students were in court on a field trip for their street law class at Frontier. The family was there in support of Amanda Glover, the 47-year-old woman who was killed in her Wendell home two years ago."

THE LOCAL ANGLE

- "How a Verizon Cell Tower Began a Furious Debate in Wayland," by Julie Suratt, Boston Magazine: "When Verizon Wireless started negotiations to build a 141-foot tower there several months earlier, they had every reason to think it would be a home run. After all, the proposed location—a nondescript, 2,000-square-foot plot of land on a heavily wooded, 15-acre property, bordered by miles of undeveloped wetlands and the Sudbury River—seemed the ideal spot to close a service gap in southwest Wayland. What could possibly be wrong with that?"

- "Councilors seek assurances as Quincy considers major land deal," by Erin Tiernan, Patriot Ledger: "As city councilors review a complicated land deal that could pave the way for the development of a state-of-the-art medical complex in Quincy Center while requiring the investment of millions in tax dollars, some are seeking assurances that residents' interests won't be overridden by those of a private developer."

- "Tensions rise as Stop & Shop talks continue," Salem News:"Tensions between Stop & Shop and unionized workers rose this weekend as police were called to several stores when tempers began to fray. Although talks between Shop & Stop officials and United Food and Commercial Workers were scheduled to resume Sunday morning, workers remained on the picket line all Sunday. Thousands of the supermarket's unionized employees walked off the job on Thursday over what they say is an unfair contract."

MEDIA MATTERS

- BostInno hired Rowan Walrath to cover the city's startups. Walrath previously worked at Wired magazine in San Francisco. Link.

MAZEL! To Rachel Dec, who is headed to the University of Chicago to attend the Harris School of Public Policy this fall. Tweet.

HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY - to former Rep. Chester Atkins, Lina Francis, Joe Rospars, founder and CEO at Blue State Digital and an adviser to Elizabeth Warren's campaign; Tom Werner, Ilya Rasner, Rebecca Pearcey and Laura Chester.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY - to Asher MacDonald, special assistant to Rep. Seth Moulton.

DID THE HOME TEAM WIN? Yes and yes! The Red Sox beat the Orioles 4-0. The Celtics beat the Pacers 84-74.

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A message from NARAL Pro-Choice Massachusetts:

We all deserve the freedom to control our bodies, our families, and our futures. Abortion is fundamental to our equality. But even in Massachusetts, people seeking abortion care face unjust barriers every day.

The ROE Act affirms the fundamental belief that living a safe and healthy life is a basic right - as is the freedom to define our own path. Abortion opponents have been misrepresenting efforts to protect access to abortion care, using inflammatory and insulating language to score political points.

With Roe v. Wade under threat like never before, our state has a duty to lead the way in protecting access to abortion care. Together, we can ensure that all people have access to abortion care without shame, stigma, or barriers. Massachusetts must lead by passing the ROE Act! Learn more

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Tuesday, December 1, 2015

White Domestic Terrorism, Rothschild Takeover, et al

Interesting!

SOLDIERS FOR PEACE INTERNATIONAL

Since the Second World War, the US government is probably the greatest terrorist CRIMINAL of all times. It:
BOMBED Hiroshima-Nagasaki (1945) 90,000–146,000 people killed in Hiroshima and 39,000–80,000 killed in Nagasaki

BOMBED China in 1945-46 and again in 1950-53
BOMBED Korea in 1950-53
In Korea, nearly 3 million civilians were murdered by the USA and its allies. Civilians were murdered at No Gun Ri and many other places. The USA supported the fascist puppet regime in South Korea. The South Korean government carried out genocide against both North and South Korean people.
BOMBED Guatemala in 1954, 1960, and 1967-69
BOMBED Indonesia in 1958
Up to one million innocent civilians died in Indonesia after the CIA put Suharto into power in Indonesia. At least one third of the population of East Timor died after the USA gave Suharto permission to invade that country.
BOMBED Vietnam in 1961-73
North Vietnam did not want a war. The US military-industrial complex made sure that there was a war. Through the Phoenix Program, hundreds of thousands of Vietnamese were tortured to death in “interrogation centers”. These torture centers were built by the United States. Women were always raped as part of the torture before being murdered. This terrorism, rape and mass-murder was the policy of the USA. The My Lai massacre itself was an operation of the Phoenix Program. Up to 5 million Vietnamese were killed in the Vietnam war.
BOMBED Congo in 1964
BOMBED Laos in 1964-73,The United States Air Force dropped the equivalent of a planeload of bombs every eight minutes for nine years on the people of Laos — from 1965 to 1973. OVER 2,000,000 TONS.This was some of the heaviest aerial bombardment in world history.Estimated civilian deaths: 500,000 men, women and children.
BOMBED Peru in 1965,
BOMBED Cambodia in 1969-70,
BOMBED El Salvador throughout the 1980s,
BOMBED Nicaragua throughout the 1980s,
BOMBED Lebanon in 1983-84,
BOMBED Grenada in 1983,
BOMBEDBosnia in 1985,
BOMBED Libya in 1986,
BOMBED Panama in 1989,
BOMBED Iraq in 1991 and later
BOMBED Sudan in 1998,
Former Yugoslavia in 1999,
BOMBED Afghanistan in 1998 and 2002.
BOMBED and DESTROYED Iraq 2002-2006
BOMBED and DESTROYED Libya in 2011
DESTROYED Syria
On 9 11, 1973, Salvador Allende, the President of Chile, was killed in an American-sponsored coup, led by General Augusto Pinochet. Pinochet's rise to power, organised by the CIA and Henry Kissinger, began nearly twenty years of military dictatorship that led to thousands of deaths. 30,000 people were massacred in the weeks following this September 11th, as Pinochet tried to wipe out those who opposed fascism.
The Congo was given a military dictatorship thanks to the CIA assassination of Patrice Lumumba. The Congo conflict has led to at least 3 million deaths.
In Cambodia, America (and Britain) backed Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot who killed nearly 2 million Cambodians.
Brazil, Guatemala, El Salvador, Ecuador, Uruguay, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Haiti, Greece, Iran... All of these and more suffered from torture and death as a result of American 'intervention.'
Many thousands of Afghan and Pakistani civilians have died as a result of U.S. led air and drone strikes in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Many Germans died after the end of World War II due to the harsh policies of the USA. A survey conducted by the German government stated that some 1.4 million German prisoners died in captivity; many of them died in American captivity.
"Since before the end of WWII the United States Corporate Mafia Government has been hell bent for total world domination, by any and all means necessary, no matter how brutal — including the slaughter of as many millions of innocent civilian men, women and children as it takes to accomplish that goal." www.hrw.org file a case inside America by your office and in the international criminal court and UN Human Rights Council to trial all elected American public officials who abused themself worldwide to bring JUSTICE PEACE LOVE RULE OF LAW TO ALL VICTIMS !!
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