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Some called them traitors, some
terrorists. But the people who shut down the government, at a cost of
over $25 billion have shown their true colors and they are ugly.
What's interesting is that they
have also pissed off big business. That could signal the death knell for
the teaparty, as orgs like the national chamber of commerce invest in
opposing teaparty candidates.
It's going to get interesting.
Opednews will cover the story with a non-partisan (both parties are
corporatists in the duopoly party) way. But we'll be covering a lot
more, because these kinds of actions are so often used to distract
people from other major betrayals, by both parties and the White House.
I'll be going to see the Wikileaks
movie on Friday. I'm reluctant to put out the money because it looks,
from the reviews, that Disney has created a hatchet-job attack on Julian
Assange, treating him as a megalomaniac-- kind of like some MSM
liberals have accused Edward Snowden of being. On Saturday, I'll let you
know whether it's a movie you'll want to support or not.
best,
rob kall
  Daily Headlines
For
years, Scientific American was a trusted and objective source of
scientific knowledge. Until September, 2013, when suddenly it was no
longer so.
What
had been my most reluctant secret was now my defining characteristic.
In LA, a community activist told me I had become the male face of the
domestic violence movement.In Chicago,the wife of a rabbi said I was the
Jewish voice for domestic violence awareness. I have convinced myself
that what I told Deborah is true: If you are brave enough to tell your
story, people will get inspired and help stop the cycle of violence.
the dollar isn't what it used to be
The
Republicans nearly ruined the world economy and, while they were at it,
they rescued President Obama from his miserable failure in Syria. Get
ready for more low comedy in the months to come. Brought to you by the
people who think they they've never been wrong about anything in their
entire lives.
By Sherwood Ross
Hersh Says bin Laden Kill Story "One Big Lie" Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh is writing a book that will say the Obama Administration's tale of the killing of Osama bin Laden is a fake.
By Danny Schechter
So What Was It All About, Really? Who Won, Who Lost in the Shutdown Psychodrama? News Dissector Danny Schechter warns the war will go on.
Senators
John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Mark Pryor (D-Ark.) said on Wednesday
afternoon that their female colleagues can take most of the credit for
driving the compromise that is expected to temporarily reopen the U.S.
government and raise the debt ceiling before Thursday's deadline.
"Leadership, I must fully admit, was provided primarily from women in
the Senate," McCain said after the bipartisan deal was announced.
Kansas
Republican Congressman Mike Pompeo has a problem. The program he'd like
to use to help solve the healthcare crisis in America is...part of
Obamacare already. For Pompeo, an ardent opponent of Obamacare, it's not
clear if the congressman has ever acknowledged that the two clinics
received substantial funding from the law he would like to repeal.
By Vernon Turner
Capitalists Unchained Op-ed addressing the origins of slavery and capitalism in the Western hemisphere via the invention of the sugar industry and how racism is the result of slavery, not the other way around.
a heartwarming 5 minute video worth seeing.
The
government may be back in business, but the big news on the outskirts
of DC is the 24th Great Chesapeake Bay Schooner Race. The race started
at approximately 1400 (that's 2 pm for you landlubbers) on Oct. 17, when
the first warning gun was fired just south of Maryland's Chesapeake Bay
Bridge. Schooners are sailing an historical route, 127 knots from
Baltimore, MD to Portsmouth, VA.
Roadmap for implementing quality preschool: Science Daily
Early childhood education can yield short- and long-term educational, economic, and societal benefits, underscoring the value of expanding publicly funded preschool education, researchers say." Large-scale public preschool programs that are of high quality can have a substantial impact on children's early learning. " Quality preschool education is a profitable investment." Quality preschool education can benefit middle-class children as well as disadvantaged children. The evidence is clear that middle-class children can benefit substantially and that benefits outweigh the costs for children from middle-income as well as those from low-income families. Long-term benefits occur despite convergence of test scores. Upcoming event, "Too Much Evidence to Ignore: New Findings on the Impact of Quality Preschool at Scale," ON October 16, at the New America Foundation in Washington DC.
Many
Jewish artists have been drawn to producing artworks about Jesus and
the crucifixion to express a common connection through the theme of
suffering: Jesus on the cross and other Jews through persecutions, and
particularly the Holocaust. An important exhibit of Jewish Jesus
artworks at a 1942 exhibit in NYC (Puma Gallery) has slipped into
oblivion.Hopefully, these artworks can be found and resurrected for
public viewing.
As
long as Israel refuses to acknowledge its possession of nuclear weapons
or even that it has produced weapons-grade materials, it is difficult,
if not impossible, to engage it in any meaningful arms control or other
nuclear-related diplomacy.
By Eric Zuesse
Hillary Clinton: Joe Biden Wouldn't Have Done the Bin Laden Raid Hillary's campaign is in full swing.
Most
people believe only those who have experienced war can know
post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). But those living in the impact
zone of BP's 2010 oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico know
differently. BP's attempts to minimize the amount of compensation it
pays to those affected is not helping to improve what now are chronic
psychological, community, and personal impacts along the Gulf coast.
There's
the comic twist that's included in the government shutdown. While more
than a million regular government workers are going without a paycheck,
the Congress critters who forced the furlough continue to collect their
$174,000 in annual pay. Some lawmakers are donating their checks to
charity, but four out of five are happily pocketing theirs.
By Paul Craig Roberts
Original Pakistani TV Bashir Interview and Massimo Mazzucco's 9/11 Documentary 
There
is evidence that the story of the killing of Osama bin Laden and his
burial at sea is false. Also, people who have been promoting 9/11 truth
for many of these years will see that their labors have been
well-rewarded: There is now a high-quality, carefully-documented film
that dramatically shows the official story about 9/11 to be a
fabrication through and through.
By Tom Engelhardt
Tomgram: Kramer and Comerford, Shutting Down Americans While this country's creditor nations twitched, the global bankers were worried, too, and in campaign mode. In Washington for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund, a number of them were predicting that a congressional unwillingness to raise the debt ceiling could take down what global "recovery" there had been since the Great Recession.
The
Repubs decided to fall on their sword, accept the inevitable & vote
to reopen the gov't. Not before causing unnecessary harm to fed'l
workers, nat'l park employees & businesses that were directly
impacted by the madness on Capitol Hill where a small handful of zealots
held the country hostage to its arcane beliefs. The absurd nonsense is
over for now that is until the next fiscal deadline & the tea party
crazies try again.
By Amy Fried, Ph.D.
Tea Party Rage and the Shutdown as Projected Dependency Disparate theories converge when we see the rage of the Tea Party, and the resulting hostage-taking shutdown, as a case of projected dependency. This is what happens when humans - and animals - are treated as natural resources, rather than sentient beings.
Lost
in the celebration over the Nobel Peace Prize to the UN agency
eliminating the Syrian government's chemical weapons is the question of
who was really behind the Aug. 21 poison-gas attack near Damascus.
Relevant to that mystery is the recent U.S. pressure to control key UN
agencies including the prize recipient.
Hail
the Age of Apocalypse, well beyond the 20th C.'s Age of Anxiety or the
19th C.'s Great Awakening. While belief systems diverge widely
partisans rounding out the edges sound a similar drum: our world is
crashing -- doomed by financial, cultural, religious and/or
environmental collapse. The end isn't just near but encircling us, and
doomsday criers only wonder that the terminal patient is still
breathing.
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Guantanamo detainee sues the government.
The
U.S. is not Greece and not likely to become Greece. It is bigger and
its debt-to-income ratio is smaller. Greece tried austerity (imposed by
the EU) and its debt-to-income ratio rose. That's not surprising--in
fact, it was anticipated. The U.S. should push for growth through
capital investment, human-capital investment, and tax incentives for
U.S. businesses abroad to come back home.
Eight Requirements for Conquering the World
You may form your own opinion as to which nation presently meets the eight requirements I have posited as necessary preconditions for conquering the people of the world. You may also want to speculate on the part China might play in relation to such a nation.
The
rich have never been richer, while we have an all-time record number of
people in poverty and prison. There is no need to be struggling in such
hardship. There is more than enough wealth to fix our problems and
evolve society for the benefit of all. For all the problems we face,
there are effective solutions--being held back due to corruption. How
much longer will we keep banging our heads against this same old wall?
Letter to European Friends: Understanding "The Stupid" in U.S. Politics
Precis: Here are informative hints, and some historical contexts, to help decipher the current bizarro world of Washington, D.C. It's a 50-year-long descent into Republican partisan warfare, with some post-Civil War resentments added to the Tea Party mix. Read it and weep.  Best News Links from the Web
AUDIO...Near
the end of the vote, members and staff were startled when someone who
appeared to be a House stenographer suddenly went to the microphone and
started to yell. She was quickly escorted out, but House floor staff
looked visibly shaken. The woman made references to God, as well as
Freemasons having written the Constitution.
Obama
signs bill to raise the debt ceiling and reopen the government; federal
employees should expect to work Thursday. The Senate overwhelmingly
ratified the deal Wednesday evening, 81 to 18, with more than half of
Senate Republicans voting yes.
Journalists
Jeremy Scahill and Laura Poitras will be working with Glenn Greenwald
on a new media venture funded by billionaire eBay founder Pierre
Omidyar, according to sources familiar with the matter. Scahill, a
dogged investigative journalist who focuses on national security, and
Poitras, a filmmaker who has extensively covered surveillance issues,
had already been in discussions with Greenwald about starting a venture
together when Omidyar approached with a similar vision for a new media
outlet, sources said.
The
drone campaign in Pakistan -- often depicted as the CIA's exclusive
domain -- relies heavily on the NSA's ability to collect enormous
quantities of e-mail, phone calls and other fragments of intelligence.
The documents released by Edward Snowden provide the most detailed
account of the intricate collaboration between the CIA and the NSA in
the drone campaign.
Susan
Collins, a moderate Republican in her third term, was the leader of a
bipartisan group of 14 senators -- six of them women -- who developed a
compromise to end the 16-day partial federal shutdown and temporarily
raise the debt ceiling so the nation isn't on the brink of default.
House
Speaker John Boehner) admitted defeat in the government shutdown and
debt ceiling battles, releasing a statement on Wednesday afternoon
signaling that the House will not block the bipartisan Senate deal to
end the crisis. Boehner made it clear that he is not finished fighting
against the Affordable Care Act. "Our drive to stop the train wreck that
is the president's health care law will continue. We will rely on
aggressive oversight that highlights the law's massive flaws and smart,
targeted strikes that split the legislative coalition the president has
relied upon to force his health care law on the American people."
Matt
Kibbe, president of the national tea party group FreedomWorks, lashed
out at the Senate deal as a capitulation to President Obama and Senate
Majority Leader Harry Reid. "I think it's a total surrender to what
Harry Reid always wanted," said Kibbe, whose organization aggressively
pushed the effort to use a stopgap budget deal to undermine the
Affordable Care Act. The plan could have worked, he said, if the GOP
leadership had stood firm.
Democracy After the Shutdown - MICHAEL P. LYNCH NYTimes.com
"Here's the question we should be asking right now: What next? Even if the immediate crises -- the partial shutdown and the looming debt default -- are resolved, we will still be living in a dangerous political moment. The danger in question is because of the recent emergence of a political philosophy -- and I mean that in the loosest sense -- which threatens to unravel our joint commitment to a common democratic enterprise....Social contracts don't have to be made for democratic intentions. After all, Hobbes himself was no democrat: he thought the body politic was best headed by a monarch. That's the real danger we are now facing. Not just the shutdown, but the rise of the shutdown strategy. By unraveling the threads of our joint commitment to shared governance, it raises the chances those threads will be rewoven into something else: something deeply, and tragically undemocratic.
Mariana
Martinez, Psy D. interviews Anne McKnight, MSW, EdD on the effect of
generational family stresses and how the resulting impact/dysfunction
of it can result in extreme behavior in any one given individual within
the family
apan
was lashed by a powerful typhoon Wednesday which claimed the lives of
at least 17 people and left many more unaccounted for in its wake, with
gales and torrential rain wreaking havoc along the eastern seaboard and
sparking emergency procedures at the stricken Fukushima nuclear power
plant. Local authorities said they fear the death toll may rise on the
tiny island, as a number of houses collapsed in the typhoon, potentially
leaving more bodies buried in the rubble and debris, they said.
Court Rejects Appeal Bid by Writer in Leak Case
The case of James Risen, an author and Times reporter, is expected to set up a Supreme Court appeal in a major test of press freedom.
An
ambitious new study describes the full chain of events by which ocean
biogeochemical changes triggered by humanmade greenhouse gas emissions
may cascade through marine habitats and organisms, penetrating to the
deep ocean and eventually influencing humans. Factoring in predictable
synergistic changes such as the depletion of dissolved oxygen in
seawater and a decline in productivity of ocean ecosystems, no corner of
the world ocean will be untouched by climate change by 2100.
The
world has reacted mostly with disbelief that a superpower could fall
into such dysfunction. A common question crossing continents remains
quite simple: The Americans aren't really that unreasonable and
self-destructive, are they?
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