The hardest news for me to take this week, and it came back like a wallop, was a short bit of analysis on a speech given late last week. It was the US Pres Obama's speech on 'limiting' the NSA/NDI and what they can and can't capture or use. The analysis at the link, squeezes out the most revealing bits of his speech and connects the dots, linking it with a quote from a speech by Martin Luther King Jr, who we celebrated Monday. The President all but said that the US should continue being the world's policeman. I know I never voted for that and also know that not many others would either, if it were properly explained.
Thailand s government declared itself in a state of emergency, after protests have engulfed the capital since November. The government has long vowed to go on with elections Feb 2, which the protestors have also vowed to stop. The protestors who represent most of the country are refusing to accede to any compromise or solution that the government tries as explosions and other disasters rock Bangkok.
The inquiries and political ramifications for New Jersey's Governor Chris Christie continue to expand following allegations his office withheld relief money to the city of Hoboken which was severely hit during the October 2012 superstorm Hurricane Sandy. US Federal prosecutors are subpoening his aides, the NY Port Authority and enlargening the investigation. Christie's Lieutenant Governor Kim Guadagno completely denies the assertions. Right-wing story molders refuse to acknowledge merits of the case.
Terrible chemical leak in West Virginia, makes local water unsafe to drink, cook with, or bathe in. Starting on the Elk River, upstream of the state capital Charleston, the chemical pollution began as a by-product of the coal processing industry. Leaked, uninspected tanks burst, allowing the chemical to flow directly into the Elk River, past the capitol and then flowed into the Kanawha River, then the Ohio River, and is now heading for Cincinnati, Ohio. Hundred of thousands of people have been effected. Ohio Representative and US Speaker of the House John Boehner has been taking $$ from coal industry for decades and refuses to look at regulating the industry. Also, the Ohio EPA rep resigns without comment.
What Are You Afraid Of? The Use of Fear Over Sovereignty For Security, a nyt oped by Peter Ludlow
Old right-wing playbook of 'divide and conquer' is backfiring, says, Robert Reich on Bill Moyers.
Ukraininan, Egyptian, Turkish protests increase again.
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