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This Day in History
Pink Floyd releases its best-selling album “The Wall”; Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Dick Clark born; World Trade Organization’s meeting met by 40-thousand protesters;
Breakfast Tunes
Something to Think about over Coffee Prozac
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
German spy chief says Russian hackers could disrupt elections Security experts join Jill Stein’s recount effort Canada approves controversial Kinder Morgan oil pipeline Belgium and Netherlands agree to swap land to simplify border Firms such as Kellogg’s, Unilever and Nestlé ‘use child-labour palm oil’ Standing Rock protesters hold out against extraordinary police violence Kellogg pulls ads from Breitbart News: site isn’t ‘aligned with our values’ Intelligence experts urge Obama to end Edward Snowden’s ‘untenable exile’
Breakfast Blogs
Trump Is Trying to Distract Us From … Something Charles Pierce, Esquire Politics
McCain Has One Way to Prevent Torture under Trump — Oppose Pompeo and Sessions
Trump hired Tom Delay’s lawyer to give him ethics advice digby aka Heather Digby Parton, Hullabaloo
FAA Restricts Drones Flying Over Pipeline Protests Spocko, Hullabaloo
Use your leverage? You bet they will Tom Sullivan, Hullabaloo
David Brooks’ High and Holy Church of Both Siderism driftglass, at his blog
A Chess Genius Or A Two-Year-Old Prone To Temper Tantrums? Echidne, at her blog
Congress Will Be Trump’s Accomplices Scott Lemieux, Lawyers, Guns and Money
Yes, Many Trump Voter Are Going To Lose Their Healthcare. No, They’re Not Going To Blame Him. Steve M., No More Mister Nice Blog
AT&T Just Showed Us What The Death Of Net Neutrality Is Going To Look Like Karl Bode, Techdirt