Midwest Mayhem As Bernie Sanders Expected To Trample Republicans With Huge Event In Iowa

Midwest Mayhem As Bernie Sanders Expected To Trample Republicans With Huge Event In Iowa Republican presidential candidates are getting the headlines for going to the Iowa State Fair, but signs are growing that Bernie Sanders will outdraw them all after his Sunday town hall in Iowa was forced to move to a bigger venue.Read more »      shared from

Friday Fox Follies – Fibs, Frankenstein, and Fabulosity There was a great synchronicity in the Cable Tee Vee Firmament this week. As Jon Stewart stopped climbing Bullsh*t Mountain, an avalanche called Donald J. Trump proved -- once and for all -- that "Fair and Balanced" is nothing but an empty slogan covering for all the other lies Fox "News" tells. Adding to the schadenfreude on the Left? Trump is the Frankenstein monster built in the birther boardroom of the Fox "News" Channel.     Read more » Alabama Poll: Trump Has Big Lead In GOP Race, Clinton is Crushing Sanders in Dem Contest An Alabama poll found Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton enjoying large leads within their respective parties in the 2016 presidential race.     Read more » Speculation That Al Gore Is Considering 2016 Presidential Run Surfaces Then Fizzles Out A BuzzFeed article sparked speculation that Al Gore was considering entering the 2016 race. Sources close to Gore later denied the rumors.     Read more » Midwest Mayhem As Bernie Sanders Expected To Trample Republicans With Huge Event In Iowa Republican presidential candidates are getting the headlines for going to the Iowa State Fair, but signs are growing that Bernie Sanders will outdraw them all after his Sunday town hall in Iowa was forced to move to a bigger venue.     Read more » Jeb Bush Completely Lied About Meeting With Black Lives Matter Activists Jeb Bush's campaign said he met with Black Lives Matter activists before his Las Vegas campaign event, but he didn't.     Read more » The Rise Of Bernie Sanders Has Turned The Democratic Party Upside Down It isn't a coincidence that as Bernie Sanders is being forced to move to a bigger New Hampshire campaign headquarters due to increasing popularity, Democrats are actively searching for more serious candidates to enter the 2016 field.     Read more » Inaction In the Bundy Standoff Legitimizes Anti-Government Sedition In Montana Republicans are guilty of inciting insurrection against the authority of the United States by supporting armed, anti-government militias     Read more » Bush National Security Adviser Backs Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal Former national security adviser Brent Snowcroft says rejecting the Iran deal "is an abdication of America's unique role and responsibility"     Read more »

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Turtle writhes in pain as a drinking straw is pulled from its nose by ocean researchers

This distressing footage shows the dangers of plastic and the detrimental effects it can have on marine wildlife if disposed of irresponsibly.

A male Olive Ridley sea turtle was discovered with a 12cm plastic straw lodged inside its nose in Costa Rican waters.

A research team rescued the turtle and explained, alongside a video of the removal procedure, that they first believed the foreign object was a parasitic worm.

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A research team discovered the male Olive Ridley sea turtle with a 12cm plastic straw lodged inside its nose in Costa Rican waters.

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Sanders to the Second Power

Sanders to the Second Power Tom Hastings: Symone Sanders blasted it over the fence in her eight minutes on the most divisive issue facing the nation and the Sanders campaign—violence against unarmed African Americans. READ MORE shared from

FRIDAY, 14 AUGUST 2015 Sanders to the Second Power Tom Hastings: Symone Sanders blasted it over the fence in her eight minutes on the most divisive issue facing the nation and the Sanders campaign—violence against unarmed African Americans. READ MORE Friend on Facebook Follow on Twitter Forward to a Friend Two Texans in Iraq: An American Sniper and Billy Lynn Walter Moss: As our country struggles whether or not to support President Obama’s proposed Iran nuclear deal—he has said “the choice we face is ultimately between diplomacy or some form of war”—what is most valuable about Fountain’s novel is what it has to say about patriotism and war, especially as contrasted with American Sniper.   READ HERE Black Conservatives Under the Microscope Sincere T. Kirabo: The more recent anti-Black incarnation of the GOP began approximately fifty years ago with the Southern Strategy, a scheme to rally racists disgruntled with the expansion of integrative policies and growing calls for the basic human rights of Blacks.   READ MORE Bread and Circuses Michael T. Hertz: The monied oligarchy does whatever it can to create circuses, dole out portions of bread, and leave most of society hanging in limbo while those with money tend to their yachts, play golf, and control everything they can.   READ MORE White Progressive Colorblindess Scot Nakagawa: The trouble is, too many whites can’t seem to see that white progressive politics is identity politics, which means it is rooted in the white experience, just as much as is Black movement politics, Asian movement politics…all politics.   READ HERE

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A Look at San Diego’s Infrastructure Blues

A Look at San Diego’s Infrastructure Blues

Posted: 14 Aug 2015 10:36 AM PDT

By Doug Porter 

While there is near-universal agreement about the sorry state of San Diego’s infrastructure, building a consensus on the ways and means of getting the job done has proved to be challenging. The Mayor’s office has been very public about wanting a deal to build a new football stadium, but conversations about how to keep the roads to that stadium in shape and the pipes carrying all the recycled beer away have been muted. And then there’s the Convention Center, where monies that could have been used for keeping the building in shape were gambled on an improbable expansion plan.   [Read more...]

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• ‘The Problem With the Police, In Other Words, Is Not That They Have Unions, But That They Are Police’

A Look at San Diego’s Infrastructure Blues Posted: 14 Aug 2015 10:36 AM PDT By Doug Porter While there is near-universal agreement about the sorry state of San Diego’s infrastructure, building a consensus on the ways and means of getting the job done has proved to be challenging. The Mayor’s office has been very public about wanting a deal to build a new football stadium, but conversations about how to keep the roads to that stadium in shape and the pipes carrying all the recycled beer away have been muted. And then there’s the Convention Center, where monies that could have been used for keeping the building in shape were gambled on an improbable expansion plan.   [Read more...]

Death by a Thousand Cuts Posted: 14 Aug 2015 08:41 AM PDT Losing species to climate change By Sarah “Steve” Mosko / Boogie Green It’s common knowledge that polar bears, and their primary prey the ringed seal, might go extinct this century as the Arctic sea ice melts because rising levels of atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHG) are warming the planet. Hearing this news, many Americans likely felt something akin to, “Gee, that’s a shame,” but the country did little more than shrug its collective shoulders before getting back to business as usual. But news keeps coming about species threatened by climate change via habitats becoming unlivable or collapsing of food webs. The latest sting came from Canadian researchers at the University of Ottawa who concluded that dozens of bumblebee species in North America and Europe could be headed for extinction because the southern reach of their habitat is becoming too hot. The study appeared in the July 10 issue of Sciencemagazine.   [Read more...]

Geo-Poetic Spaces: The Myth of Finance Posted: 14 Aug 2015 08:40 AM PDT The Greek gods have been evicted from Olympus The financial crisis is a mythological boulder Sisyphus can't keep from rolling downhill into red   [Read more...]

‘The Problem With the Police, In Other Words, Is Not That They Have Unions, But That They Are Police’ Posted: 14 Aug 2015 08:38 AM PDT Erik Loomis / Lawyers, Guns and Money Sarah Jaffe has an excellent discussion of the relationship between police unions and the rest of the labor movement at Truthout. UAW Local 2865, which represents California graduate students, has pushed for the AFL-CIO to kick out the one police union that remains in the federation, the International Union of Police Associations (IUPA). This has received some attention and is worthy of more. Jaffe makes a number of key points. First, as the quote I used for the title points out, busting police unions isn’t going to change police behavior at all. The problem is police culture. ...   [Read more...]

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HOW A CENTURY-OLD TECHNOLOGY COULD SAVE THE WORLD

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Arctic drilling not consistent with Obama climate change fight, report says

Aug 14th, 2015

by John Donovan. 

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Arctic drilling not consistent with Obama climate change fight, report says

By: Carl Surran, SA News Editor

• The Obama administration’s crusade against climate change is “inconsistent” with allowing Royal Dutch Shell (RDS.A,RDS.B) to drilling for oil in the Arctic Ocean, environmentalists warn in anew report.
• Pres. Obama has said he will consider climate change implications in deciding whether to permit the Keystone XL pipeline that would help ferry Canadian oil sands crude to U.S. refineries, and Greenpeace and Oil Change International argue the same climate test should be applied to other fossil fuel projects such as Arctic drilling.
• Energy demand models stressing “multiple sources of energy” are flawed too, according to the report, which argues that the Energy Information Administration long-term outlook depicts a scenario that would boost temperatures by at least five degrees celsius.

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Coast Guard Shifts Vessel from Fighting Cocaine Smuggling to Keeping Watch on Arctic Oil Drilling

Coast Guard Shifts Vessel from Fighting Cocaine Smuggling to Keeping Watch on Arctic Oil Drilling

Aug 14th, 2015

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The Obama’s administration decision to allow Royal Dutch Shellto conduct oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean has forced the U.S. Coast Guard to divert ships to the region, including one that had been deployed to catch drug smugglers in the Caribbean.

To protect both the environment and Shell’s drilling crews working in the dangerous Chukchi Sea, the Coast Guard has had to deploy five ships to the Arctic, according to Reuters. Among the ships is the Waesche, which normally patrols the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico looking for drug traffickers.

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