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Number Nine, No. Nein., #9

I’d play it for you except no one on YouTube seems to have any interest unless it’s reversed (Paul and Ringo are still alive, John and George are dead). It’s too bad in a way because it’s a really pivotal experiment in early electronic music techniques by what is clearly the most popular band ever …

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Our Good Friends- The House of Saud

60 Minutes- 28 Pages CBS This Morning- Saudi Response This week’s damning “60 Minutes” report shows just how absurd our War on Terror is by Marcy Wheeler, Salon Thursday, Apr 14, 2016 11:30 AM EST On Sunday, a “60 Minutes” report newly refocused attention on 28 pages of the Joint Congressional Inquiry into the 9/11 …

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The Appearance Of Corruption

To Protect Clinton, Democrats Wage War on Their Own Core Citizens United Argument by Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept Apr. 14 2016, 10:36 a.m. (The) key argument of the right-wing justices in Citizens United has now become the key argument of the Clinton campaign and its media supporters to justify her personal and political receipt of …

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Who’d A Thunk?

Chicago Police Dept. Plagued by Systemic Racism, Task Force Finds By MONICA DAVEY and MITCH SMITH, The New York Times APRIL 13, 2016 Racism has contributed to a long, systemic pattern of institutional failures by this city’s police department in which police officers have mistreated people, operated without sufficient oversight, and lost the trust of …

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Our First “Black” President’s #BLM Fail And Neoliberal Apologist Tour

Black Lives Matter Activist: Bill Clinton’s Defense of “Superpredator” Policies Dehumanizes Us Hillary and Bill and Paul Krugman Race to the Right to Stop the Bern By William K. Black, New Economic Perspectives April 8, 2016 In the last week, Hillary and her surrogates have pivoted hard right and retreated to their long-held positions on …

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Targeted Killing

Inside the Kunduz hospital attack: ‘It was a scene of nightmarish horror’ by Emma Graham-Harrison and Dr Kathleen Thomas, The Guardian Sunday 10 April 2016 12.00 EDT As the attack planes returned again and again, and the hospital collapsed and burned, MSF staff inside the hospital, in Kabul and in the United States put in …

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A Riddle Wrapped In A Mystery Inside an Enigma

Global Tax Haven Network Means Americans Can Hide Wealth At Home The looming mystery behind the Panama Papers: How did the largest document leak in history even happen? By Marcy Wheeler, Salon Thursday, Apr 7, 2016 01:18 PM EST “Hello. This is John Doe. Interested in data?” That line — apparently written in English and …

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Panama

The Panama Papers Could Lead to Capitalism’s Great Crisis Rana Foroohar, Time April 4, 2016 Mossack Fonseca was working with big name financial groups like UBS, HSBC, Société Générale, and many others to help elites from the Communist Party leadership of China, to soccer star Lionel Messi, to global financiers hide cash in offshore havens …

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The Panama Papers

If you paid attention to anything besides College Basketball and Major League Baseball this weekend, well, I pity you for one thing. In Sports at least you can usually tell what the score is. In other news is the biggest leak in history, measured by volume, not necessarily by impact. Like a majority of ‘breaking’ …

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A Consultation With Dr. Stein

A Sick Society

Debate: Trump v. Sanders

April Fools!

Seeds of Revolution

Paul Ryan Sorry for Calling Americans “Takers.” Let’s Talk About the Real Takers. By Lynn Parramore, Naked Capitalism Posted on March 31, 2016 “There was a time when I would talk about a difference between ‘makers’ and ‘takers’ in our country, referring to people who accepted government benefits,” said the speaker. “But as I spent …

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