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CPAC Panel: ‘Celebrate’ Citizens United Ruling

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

nationofchange.org - By Michael Beckel - Feb. 11 (News Report) - Anonymous political speech. Foreign money in U.S. elections. The proliferation of super PACs. How grave a threat do any of things pose to American democracy? Not much, according to a panel of conservative attorneys, who gathered Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. The high-profile legal minds on the CPAC panel largely agreed that the changes to the campaign finance landscape are grounds for celebration.

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Maddow: Does Ron Paul’s Delegate ‘Sneak Attack’ Strategy Undermine Voter Will?

Sat, 11 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

infowars.com - Feb. 11 (News) - You Tube | Doug Wead on The Rachel Maddow Show MSNBC 2/10/12

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50-State, $25B Mortgage Settlement: Relief for Struggling Homeowners or Bailout for Big Banks?

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Feb. 10 (News Analysis) - The U.S. Justice Department has unveiled a record mortgage settlement with the nation's five largest banks to resolve claims over faulty foreclosures and mortgage practices that have indebted and displaced homeowners and sunk the nation's economy. While the deal is being described as a $25 billion settlement, the banks will only have to pay out a total of $5 billion in cash between them. We speak to one of the settlement's most prominent critics, Yves Smith, a longtime financial analyst who runs the popular finance website, "Naked Capitalism." "The settlement, on the surface, does look like it's helping homeowners," Smith says. "But, in fact, the bigger part that most people don't recognize is the way it actually helps the banks with mortgages on their own books... The real problem is that this deal is just not going to give that much relief." [includes rush transcript]

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Why Wall Street Should Stop Whining

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Matt Taibbi - Feb. 10 (News Analysis) - When I read things like this I'm simultaneously amazed by two things. The first is the unbelievable tone-deafness of people who would complain out loud, during a time when millions of people around the country are literally losing their homes, that their bonuses - not their total compensation, mind you, but just their cash bonuses, paid in addition to their salaries and their stock packages - are barely enough to cover the mortgage payments for their new condos, the taxis they take when walking is too burdensome, and their girlfriends with expensive tastes. The second thing that amazes me is that Sherman is buying all this.

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Keystone Pipeline Facts

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Robert Redford - Feb. 10 (News Analysis) - 'Joe Nocera's op-ed in the New York Times yesterday deserves a response and a reiteration of the facts surrounding the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. ...Let's put the rhetoric aside, and simply focus on the facts. Nocera wants us to believe that approving this pipeline is a matter of national security. ... The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would not make the United States of America safer. Why? It would not make us safer, because the majority of the processed oil was already scheduled for export to foreign countries. That's right, this Keystone XL pipeline's Canadian tar sands oil would have

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How Conservative Elites Stoke Racist Anxieties to Gain Power and Split Blacks and Whites

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Chauncey DeVega - Feb. 10 (News Analysis) - Newt Gingrich calling Obama a “food stamp president,” Rick Santorum implying that African Americans are parasites who leach off of white people, and Ron Paul’s old newsletters, which describe black men as monstrous beasts (“giant negroes” who stand ready to attack whites at any moment), are examples of this phenomenon on the national stage.

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Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzón Disbarred in Trial Seen as Retaliation for Trailblazing Human Rights Work

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Democracy Now - By Amy Goodman - Feb. 10 (News Report) - Spain’s most famous judge, Baltasar Garzón, has been disbarred for 11 years after being found guilty of ordering illegal monitoring. Garzón is known for taking on global human rights cases under the doctrine of universal jurisdiction, with actions including ordering the arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998, indicting Osama bin Laden for the 9/11 attacks, and probing the abuse of U.S. prisoners at Guantánamo Bay. Garzón cannot appeal his disbarment, which effectively ends his career as a judge. We speak to Human Rights Watch's Reed Brody, who observed Garzon’s trial in Madrid. Brody says the case marks "a massive attack on the independence of the judiciary and on a very brave judge." [Rush transcript to come. Check back soon.]

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Komen Fundraiser Calls for CEO Nancy Brinker to Quit

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

readersupportednews.org - By Karen McVeigh - Feb. 10 (Opinion) - Ellis refers to her disappointment even as Brinker reversed the funding decision. "Brinker's words struck me as vague and hollow – no future commitment to Planned Parenthood and no specific apology to the low-income women who would have become the collateral damage from the defunding," Ellis wrote. "I also don't believe Brinker and her board when she claims that Komen's decision wasn't political."

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Earth Station for Sale - Slide Show - NYTimes.com

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:53:19 -0800

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Taibbi: Mortgage Fraud Settlement is More Like a Bailout Than Justice

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

AlterNet - By Kristen Gwynne - Feb. 10 (News Analysis) - Tabbi says that as more of the banks' bad behavior is exposed, it will become obvious that they must shut down to pay for their crimes, because the reparations necessary would bleed them dry. This settlement, he says, is a "kewpie doll" for victims of banker greed, and won't "stem the tide or turn the tables for these people."

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Teachers Behaving Badly - KDVR

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

kdvr.com - By No Byline - Feb. 10 (Editorial) - Slideshow of teachers who have been arrested.

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League of Conservation Voters: George Allen Named to Dirty Dozen

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

action.lcv.org - Feb. 10 (Press Release) - Former Virginia Senator George Allen earned an abysmal 1% LCV lifetime score during his time in the Senate. Additionally, Allen has received nearly $500,000 from oil and gas interests. This is Allen's 3rd time on the Dirty Dozen, having been named to the list in 2000 and 2006.

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US Marines posed with Nazi symbol in Afghanistan

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Yahoo! News - Feb. 10 (News) - The Marine Corps on Thursday once again did damage control after a photograph surfaced of a sniper team in Afghanistan posing in front of a flag with a logo resembling that of the notorious Nazi SS — a special unit that murdered millions of Jews, gypsies and others.

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Survey Paints Portraits of Black Women In America

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Block Party: BELIEVE Campaigner Brings Hip-Hop and His Message Into Neighborhoods That Need It Most | Baltimore City Paper

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:01:31 -0800

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Baltimore Believe campaign: 10 years after the Believe campaign, Baltimore is safer and stronger - baltimoresun.com

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Adele explains how she swore without her voice (Video) - Celebritology 2.0

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Meltdown: Earth Rapidly Losing Ice Cover - Olga Belogolova - NationalJournal.com

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

National Journal - By Olga Belogolova - Feb. 09 (News Report) - Glaciers and ice caps outside of Greenland and Antarctica are losing nearly 150 billion tons of ice each year, contributing to an annual 0.4 millimeter rise in sea levels globally, according to a study done by the University of Colorado at Boulder.

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Op-Ed Columnist: Money and Morals

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Paul Krugman, New York Times - Feb. 09 (Opinion) - Conservatives have started telling us that the growing inequality is about a decline in morals. But it’s mainly about money.

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What NASA's Blue Marble Photo Reveals About Climate Change

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:39:00 -0800

Mother Jones - By Bill McKibben - Feb. 08 - In fact, it's likely that the week that photo was taken will prove "the driest first week in recorded US history." Indeed, it followed on 2011, which showed the greatest weather extremes in our history—56 percent of the country was either in drought or f

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Asia's highest mountains have lost no ice in past 10 years, study shows

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

The Guardian - By Damian Carrington - Feb. 08 (News Report) - The world's greatest snow-capped peaks, which run in a chain from the Himalayas to Tian Shan on the border of China and Kyrgyzstan, have lost no ice over the last decade, new research shows. The discovery has stunned scientists, who had believed that aro

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Capitol Assets: Some legislators send millions to groups connected to their relatives - Washington Post

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By Scott Higham, Kimberly Kindy, David S. Fallis - Feb. 08 (Investigative Report) - .. the practice has continued unabated, the Post found.

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Mindful Eating at the Blue Cliff Monastery - Slide Show

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:57:31 -0800

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Anti-drug ad campaign focuses on reality - Baltimore Sun

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

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Case proves justice system works despite its problems - Baltimore Sun

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Sun - By Michael Olesker - Feb. 08 (Opinion) - Martin, the Southeastern District city cop charged with taking about $300 from a Spanish-speaking immigrant named Felix Guevara, was thus found not guilty of robbery but was nailed on the lesser charges of theft under $300 and misconduct in office.

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