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Monthly Archives: November 2014
Benghazi House Investigation Report Released in “Friday Document Dump”
By Elaine Magliaro The Associated Press reported on Friday that the House Intelligence Committee’s two-year investigation into what happened in Benghazi in 2012 found that the CIA and the military had acted properly when responding to the 2012 attack on a U.S. diplomatic … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Media, Politics, Propaganda, United States
Tagged Behghazi, CIA, Congress, House Intelligence Committee, House of Representatives, State Department
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Stay Classy Grievance Syndicate!
Posted by Bob Stone Ferguson Protesters Erupt Outside Police Department: ‘What Do We Want? Darren Wilson! How Do We Want Him? Dead!’ Protesters in Ferguson, Mo., have taken to the streets and chosen not to wait for a grand jury’s decision before clashing with … Continue reading
Posted in Courts, Crime, Education, Law Enforcement, Racism
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Matt Taibbi on JPMorgan Chase, Too Big to Fail, AIG, Jamie Dimon, and How Bankers Stay Out of Jail
By Elaine Magliaro Breaking the Set host Abby Martin spoke with investigative journalist Matt Taibbi recently about JP Morgan Chase whistleblower Alayne Fleischmann who came forward to expose how the bank knowingly sold toxic mortgages to investors and how the Justice Department used … Continue reading
POETRY FRIDAY: John Clare’s “Autumn” Read by Richard Burton
Posted by Elaine Magliaro
2014 Midterm Election: The “Screw You” Strategy Was a Winner! (With a Mark Fiore Video)
By Elaine Magliaro Political cartoonist Mark Fiore thinks that humans “are a little hard to figure out sometimes, and that makes for an interesting Democracy.” Fiore was puzzled by the results of the recent midterm election. Imagine people voting against their … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Politics, Society, United States
Tagged 2014 Midterm Election, Mark Fiore, Mitch McConnell, President Obama, Voting
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Preparations Are Being Made for the “Coming Storm” in Ferguson, Missouri
By Elaine Magliaro On Monday, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency. The FBI also issued a bulletin “warning of likely violence across the country as a St. Louis County grand jury concludes its investigation of Ferguson police … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Media, Propaganda, Society, United States
Tagged Darren Wilson, FBI, Ferguson (MO), Governor Jay Nixon, Ku Klux Klan, Michael Brown
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Senators Ted Cruz and Al Franken…and John Oliver Opine on the Subject of Net Neutrality
By Elaine Magliaro Last week, Senator Ted Cruz wrote an op-ed for the Washington Post titled Regulating the Internet threatens entrepreneurial freedom. In his piece, Cruz claimed that one of the greatest regulatory threats to the Internet was net neutrality. … Continue reading
A Taste of Bermuda: A Recipe for Rum Swizzles
By Elaine Magliaro I hadn’t enjoyed drinking a Rum Swizzle since 1969–the year my husband and I honeymooned in Bermuda–when I got the idea to search for recipes for the cocktail on the Internet recently. I selected one recipe that I tweaked a … Continue reading
Posted in Edible Flowers, Libations, Recipes
Tagged Cocktails, Libations, Rum Swizzle Recipe
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Frank Serpico Tells How Some Police Are “Still Out of Control” in Recent Politico Article
By Elaine Magliaro NOTE: I want to thank Michael Beaton for calling my attention to the Politico article titled The Police Are Still Out of Control, which was written by police whistleblower Frank Serpico. ABOUT FRANK SERPICO Frank Serpico–born on … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Media, Society, United States
Tagged Blue Wall, Ferguson (MO), Ferguson Police, Frank Serpico, Knapp Commission, NYPD, police, Police Corruption, Police Departments, Serpico
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