Category Archives: 2014-02-25

Tuesday / February 25, 2014

“The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.” - Stephen King (See “Skunk Doesn’t Change His Stink”, below.)

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Walker-Gate: Emails Show Walker Aides Ran Illegal Vote-Purging Scheme

When Walker first campaigned, he attacked his opponent for having an aide who was found to be corrupt. Now Walker is surrounded by corruption.       By Anomaly By FreakoutNation (2/22/14) After emails from Governor Scott Walker’s top aides … Continue reading

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Skunk Doesn’t Change His Stink: Walker Caught Breaking Campaign Rules While Running For College President In 1988

(Editor’s Note: It’s beginning to look a lot like New Jersey in Wisconsin these days. It’s taken awhile, but the star struck national media is beginning to look behind the Walker hype. This story made the rounds back in 2011. … Continue reading

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How GTac Mining Routinely Polluted Drinking Water In Spain — And Now They Want To Mine Our Penokee Hills

“Williams was at the mine when the damage happened, and he was responsible as general manager. That is very clear.”       By Barbara With Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative (12/13/14) In an interview on WORT 89.9 on December 30, 2013, host … Continue reading

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Putin’s Post-Sochi LGBT Crackdown Has American Evangelical Connection

Putin policy is drawn from playbook of American evangelicals in the 1990s, which used the specter of homosexuality to create a powerful anti-liberal bloc. By Jay Michaelson The Daily Beas (2/24/14) Inside of Russia, the consensus is that as soon … Continue reading

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“The Paragraph Began to Self-Delete”: Did NSA Hack Computer of Snowden Biographer & Edit Book Draft?

Democracy Now! (2/24/14) Is the National Security Agency breaking into computers and tampering with unpublished manuscripts? Award-winning Guardian journalist Luke Harding says paragraphs of his writing mysteriously disappeared when he was working on his latest book, “The Snowden Files: The … Continue reading

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Still Denying Climate Change? Get Ready As Polar Vortex Wallops Us For Third Time This Winter

Next week is going to be brutal.       By Lindsay Abrams Salon (2/22/14) Remember that time when a giant pattern of Arctic air descended over the U.S. and Canada, freezing everything in its path? Remember when it came back? Yeah, that-s … Continue reading

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Obama Deportees Stuck In No-Mans Land Between Two Countries

“Mexico doesn’t want you, and the U.S. sure as hell doesn’t want you. No human being should live like this.”     By Rosalina Nieves CNN (2/22/14) Tijuana, Mexico (CNN) - Part of the fence separating the United States and Mexico sits … Continue reading

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There’s More To Story Of Arrested Narco Trafficker ‘El Chapo’

Brasscheck TV (2/13/14) George Bush Sr. used to do business with Panama’s Manuel Noriega. In fact, Noriega  was on the CIA’s payroll for years - even though he was a major facilitator of drug running and money laundering. Then Bush Sr. got tired of him and … Continue reading

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AT&T’s ‘Transparency’ Surveillance Report Omits 80 Million NSA Targets

“Not only is this a complete failure when it comes to providing transparency around bulk data being handed over, it is affirmatively misleading.”     By David Kravets Wired (2/22/14) AT&T this week released for the first time in the … Continue reading

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Dept. of Much Needed Humor — Arizona Governor Fears Government Regulation Could Ruin Bigotry and Hatred

By Borowitz The New Yorker (2/13/14) Arizona Governor Jan Brewer said today that she was reluctant to sign an anti-gay “religious freedom” bill passed by the Arizona state legislature this week, telling reporters, “I believe that bigotry and hatred should … Continue reading

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