Wednesday, October 17, 2012

news from 18-24jun12


in early-mid June, NPR's Steve Inskeep went on a road trip from Tunisia to Cairo and looked at the progress of the consequences of last year's Arab Spring, culminating in the botched election of last weekend in Egypt. There's nearly an hour of great updating and such here, lots going on.

here's the quick one-two where Rachel Maddow throws out the idea that there is anything to the fast&furious allegations: it's all about what the NRA wants.

Bill Moyers has Matt Taibbi and most happily Yves Smith on this weekend, (28 minutes); they really do a number on the whole fiscal charade that would be the once holy credit markets... the central wall street finance sector that runs our banking system. They didn't even have to mention that Moody's downgraded fifteen banks last week. This is all prelude but is still really great if you don't know.

nuns on the bus go to Paul Ryan's office to say something (3 minutes) about the ridiculous right-wing 'budget': nuns on tour!

This would be a great place to put up the whole section on the nuns protesting on budget cuts in Venice, too. Dividing up the convent I talked about a couple weeks ago but this time in 1519 and how they protested and tried to stop it. If you want it I can send it.

and united colors of benetton wants to buy and rehab Venice's  Fundaco de Tedeschi. Today. There was a spot on NPR on that last week.



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