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AP’s Today in History for January 13th
Japan apologizes; Douglas Wilder of Virginia is sworn in; “J’accuse” published;Composer Stephen Foster dies.
Breakfast Tune Rhiannon Giddens – Wayfaring Stranger
Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below
- New Documents Reveal a Covert British Military-Intelligence Smear Machine Meddling In American Politics
Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism: Mark Ames, Max Blumenthal
- “Shameful” Trudeau Accused of Violating First Nations Rights Over Gas Pipeline
Andy Rowell, Common Dreams
- Single Payer Not Single Payer
Russell Mokhiber, Counter Punch
- <NEWLY RELEASED FOIA DOCUMENTS SHED LIGHT ON BORDER PATROL’S SEEMINGLY LIMITLESS AUTHORITY
Max Rivlin-Nadler, The Intercept
- The Mystery Military Bases the Pentagon Doesn’t Want You to Know About
Nick Turse / TomDispatch, Truthdig
- How a NeoCon-Backed “Fact Checker” Plans to Wage War on Independent Media
Whitney Webb, MPN News
- Obama’s Education Secretary Arne Duncan Slams LA Teachers for Strike
Glenn Sacks, Counter Punch
- I Was Sexually Harassed on Bernie Sanders’s 2016 Campaign. I Will Not Be Weaponized or Dismissed.
Giulianna Di Lauro Velez, The Intercept
- Thoughts on Warren and Sanders: How Much Change Is Needed in 2021?
Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism
- Kamala Harris Tells Big Lie: That 2012 Mortgage Settlement Was a Good Deal for Homeowners
Yves Smith, Naked Capitalism
- Democratic Party Voters Are Becoming More Pro-War Than Republicans
Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept
Something to think about over coffee prozac
Man pleads guilty after alligator threat
BRIDEPORT, Conn. (AP) — A man who police say placed a 3-foot alligator on top of another man in Connecticut as part of an extortion attempt has pleaded guilty to reduced charges.
The Connecticut Post reports 30-year-old Isaias Garcia, of Garland, Texas, entered his plea Thursday to unlawful restraint.
Garcia originally faced kidnapping, assault and larceny charges in what police said was one of the strangest cases they have investigated.
Authorities say a 21-year-old man called his aunt in April to say he had been kidnapped and his abductor was demanding $800.
Police say she received a photograph of him face down in a bathtub, with an open-mouthed alligator on top of him.
Authorities later arrested Garcia at a Shelton hotel.
He faces up to one year in prison during his sentencing March 15.