Sean Trende: What are Republicans thinking on immigration?
Their plan makes no sense.
The distance between Washington and real America widens.
Continetti on the Big Chide.
Happy Hour Links: Speak Softly
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Friday, January 31, 2014
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Huffington Post links The People"s Cube to Koch Brothers
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Huffington Post links The People"s Cube to Koch Brothers
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Happy Hour Links: Once Bitten, Twice Shy
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Happy Hour Links: Once Bitten, Twice Shy
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Links 10/16/13
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London Zoo’s first Sumatran tiger cub in 17 years found dead next to pool Independent Chuck L:
At 28, Writer Is Youngest to Receive Booker Prize New York Times. Kiwi female novelists do well with the Booker. I liked The Bone People.
Extreme weather ‘keeps people poor’ BBC
Apple Is Said to Cut iPhone 5C Orders Wall Street Journal
Look Out Amazon: More Shoppers Browse Online, Then Purchase in Stores Time
Growing Old in Sweden CounterPunch (Carol B)
The ‘Luxury Bishop’, the bath, and the €31m palace: Free-spending German cleric summoned to Vatican – Europe – World Independent (Chuck L)
Merkel Left to Seek SPD Alliance After Greens Drop Out Bloomberg
ECB’s Draghi: Knowing Too Much About Our Big Banks Could Set Off A Panic Wolf Richter (Chuck L)
Nobel Winner Robert Shiller Demolishes UK’s Help-To-Buy Scheme Ilargi
Shutdown Showdown. Ooh, this is getting ugly!
Debt Talks in Disarray as House Balks New York Times
No Plan B as deadline approaches Politico. Kiss the recovery, such as it was, goodbye.
Who controls the House GOP? No one. Washington Post
Warring GOP factions sink John Boehner plan Politico. He didn’t whip the proposal?!?!
US rating put on negative watch on default fears Financial Times. Subhead weirdly run the empty “Senate leaders optimistic” cant and stock futures are up 7 points. If that isn’t enough to confirm the stock market is unhinged from reality, nothing will. Even if the solons patch up a deal in double plus quick time, the damage of the shutdown, direct and to confidence, is already substantial, and the negotiations have been so ugly that it bodes badly for the next phase of budget talks.
Wall Street puts its money on 1 Nov Guardian. As we’ve been saying….
CME raises deposit on US rate swaps Financial Times
Watch what China does with US debt, not what it says Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph
The default has already begun Felix Salmon
Viewing U.S. in Fear and Dismay New York Times
Declare Debt-Default Extremists “Enema Combatants” CounterPunch (Chuck L)
Short-term debt deal won’t mask big barriers ahead Associated Press
Big Brother is Watching You Watch
On the Prospect of Blackmail by the NSA ACLU (Chuck L)
A Court Order is an Insider Attack Freedom to Tinker
Judge defends Fisa court practices Guardian
There’s an International Plan to Censor the Internet in the Works — Let’s Stop It in Its Tracks Alternet
Glenn Greenwald to leave Guardian Guardian. We put up a short post when the story broke. Go Glenzilla!
Obama admin. projected strong health plan signups Associated Press
The NYPD: Making New York Safer By Spying On Bicyclists, Relief Efforts And Republicans TechDirt (Chuck L)
Geography affects what drugs seniors prescribed Associated Press
Amazon Slapped With Suit by Employees for Unpaid Security Searches NBC 10 Philadelphia (Carol B)
JPMorgan agrees to $ 100m CFTC fine Financial Times. This was a LOT lower than I expected.
Goldman Must Turn Over Female Employee Complaints in Suit Bloomberg. Wow, is Goldman trying to wear the plaintiffs out. A 2010 suit and they are still fighting over discovery? I read the complaint and the allegations were credible and detailed.
Bodies Double as Cash Machines With U.S. Income Lagging: Economy Bloomberg. We said during the worst of the crisis that paid blood (plasma) donations were an indicator of how bad things were, but now we’ve had years of grinding desperation….
Antidote du jour (furzy mouse):
Links 10/16/13
Sunday, October 13, 2013
Links 10/13/13
Readers, I gotta ask: If everything goes pear-shaped four days from now, will you want less Naked Capitalism — or more?
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Water Discovered in Remnants of Extrasolar Rocky World Orbiting White Dwarf Science Daily
U.S. Said to Open Criminal Probe of FX Market Rigging Bloomberg
UK court to hear evidence ahead of landmark Libor ruling Reuters
Markets dance to the tune of easy money FT. The Yellen put.
Janet Joy Paul Krugman, Times. “So Yellen is, if you like, a member of my tribe here….” Exactement.
The 41 Most Unusual Economic Indicators Business Insider
Shutdown Showdown
Talks between White House and House break down as action shifts to Senate McClatchy. “Senators believe that the differences have narrowed to the point where disagreements can be broadly listed on a sheet of paper, meaning compromise is possible.” That is the Grand Bargain part.
Reid, McConnell launch bipartisan talks on ending shutdown WaPo
Obama watches, waits for Congress’s best offer Politico
Dear Bernanke: Please Use Your Powers To End The Debt Limit Crisis Alan Grayson, Reuters
Rand Paul – “Cold Turkey Balanced Budget is a Good Thing” Warren Mosler. “Deep down, I suspect most of Congress believes what Rand Paul believes.”
All of the Possible Outcomes of the Debt Ceiling Fight Explained Truthout
Obama and Democrats, united by shutdown, looking for gains beyond it WaPo. The TPers just had to throw Obama in the briar patch, didn’t they?
Treasury Default Firewall Hatched in 2011 Crisis: Credit Markets Bloomberg
Anti-government anger fuels long-shot Maryland breakaway bid Reuters. Bless their hearts.
How Many People Have Signed Up For Health Insurance on the Federal Health Insurance Exchanges? Health Care Policy and Marketplace Review. 5,000 (!). That would makes the Daily Mail’s meagre estimate of ~50K from HHS sources off by an order of magnitude. “In summary, big market share health plans are getting maybe 50 enrollments per day per state from the feds and that little bit of new business is a mess.” Ouch.
Obamacare: No information in CMS training materials for navigators about narrow networks Corrente
ACA plan costs vary up to 20% across state Hays Post. Kansas.
Maine Goes Rogue on Importing Prescription Drugs Bloomberg
Reviewing Obamacare coverage: Week 2 CJR (week one).
Struggling with Precarity: From More and Better Jobs to Less and Lesser Work The Disorder of Things
Fast Food Workers Win a Union…through Zoolidarity BeyondChron
I got hired at a Bangladesh sweatshop. Meet my 9-year-old boss Toronto Star
How the machines will pick the best workers in the future Marginal Revolution. For some definition of “best.” And “worker.”
U.S. power outage shuts down food stamp program in 17 states Reuters. Devolution.
Fast Track: New Report Proves Difficulty of Defending the Indefensible Public Citizen
Arafat poisoning claim backed by journal Al Jazeera (Foppe)
Malala Yousafzai tells Obama drones are ‘fueling terrorism’ McClatchy
Dispute on immunity for U.S. troops blocks Afghan-U.S. security pact Reuters
China Exports Unexpectedly Drop Reuters. “Murky.”
In China, parents bribe to get students into top schools, despite campaign against corruption WaPo
Mobility is no answer to dispersion Interfluidity
Punished by Fate The Epicurean Dealmaker
Breast Cancer: Catching Up With Amy Berman, a Woman Who Chose Life Over Longevity Angry Bear
Antidote du jour:
Links 10/13/13
Tuesday, September 24, 2013
Greek army, police probed over links to neo-Nazi party
Published time: September 24, 2013 14:47
Greece’s army is being accused of helping to train the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party’s paramilitary wing. The revelation comes as top policemen have been fired after the murder of a left-wing activist by a Golden Dawn fan provoked mass protests.
Greek media first started publishing stories detailing the involvement of the country’s elite forces in training its most controversial neo-fascist organization, which is allegedly linked to large-scale racial violence against immigrants in the wake of the country’s economic meltdown.
Greek Defense Minister Dimitris Avramopoulos decided to take action against the rise of fascist activity after last week’s murder of Pavlos Fyssas, a popular anti-fascist rapper, by a Golden Dawn supporter who confessed to the killing immediately after his arrest.
“In Golden Dawn, we have an entire military structure with at least 3,000 people ready for everything,” a party member told the local Sunday Vima newspaper, while another of Greece’s prominent dailies on Monday published photos of military exercises and men in balaclavas at secluded training grounds. The Ethnos newspaper also reported that a few of the men holding knives and wooden clubs were actually trained by members of Greece’s elite special forces – themselves sympathizers with Golden Dawn’s cause.
As part of the ensuing public outrage at these recent developments, the leader of the left-wing Syriza party, Alexis Tsipras, was quoted as saying that the government “thought [Golden Dawn] was a little snake and they patted it… now it’s about to choke us.”
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s government insists it is doing what it can to curtail Golden Dawn’s extremism, while President Karalos Papoulis told local media that his top priority would be to eradicate neo-fascism in Greece. “From the time I was a young man I fought fascism and Nazism,” Britain’s Guardian newspaper reported Papoulis as saying. “It is my supreme duty as president of the republic to defend democracy and the Greek people from the storm that is approaching.”
Meanwhile, a separate investigation into possible police collusion with Golden Dawn’s activities got under way following the Sept. 18 murder of Fyssas. Five top police officials, along with the chiefs of the two Athens neighborhoods where Fissas was murdered, were fired on Monday, a police statement said.
Four other police officials in the central city of Evia were suspended for failing to take action over armed men showing up frequently at Golden Dawn’s offices, the Interior Ministry said. The suspensions came after the resignation of two senior members of the police force, allegedly for personal reasons.
The stabbing of Fyssas by a supporter of the neo-Nazi party shone a light on suspicions that the country’s law enforcement was turning a blind eye to extremism, with allegations that the Greek police have been infiltrated by members of Golden Dawn.
Golden Dawn has denied any involvement in Fyass’s murder, however.
Greece’s economic crisis has created much social, economic and political unrest, radicalizing large sections of the population. As well as growing left-wing protests, the crisis has also resulted in far-right groups fomenting racial hatred and seeking to blame foreigners and the left for the country’s economic collapse. Golden Dawn’s recent surge in popularity has coincided with its fierce anti-immigrant campaign and its alleged organization of beatings of immigrant street vendors and other non-Greeks. Golden Dawn officials insist they are not involved in racist attacks.
In the aftermath of Fyssas’s murder, and following a clampdown on Golden Dawn’s activities, party spokesman Ilias Kasidaris accused the government and media of waging an unfair war against the organization because it suddenly started to gather so much positive attention. The party’s ratings have sunk by 2.5 percentage points following Fyssas’s murder, however.
“Golden Dawn has been radically strengthened, it has passed 20 percent [in the polls] and in a few months it will lay claim to the biggest municipalities in the land. We will not stop. We have justice on our side and more than a million Greeks,” Kasidaris said.
Despite Kasidaris’s remarks, support for Golden Dawn has begun to wane, followed by increasing calls to ban it. This comes as politicians are accusing Greece’s police of failing to investigate the possibility that the neo-Nazi party had infiltrated its ranks.
Golden Dawn’s leader, Nikos Mihaloliakos, says attempts to ban it would not be successful.
“Golden Dawn is everywhere. It has spread to every city, to every village,” Mihaliliakos said in a live video address on the party’s website. “It’s in every neighborhood and you will not be able to contain it. Deal with it!”
Mihaliliakos also accused Greece’s political establishment of staging a campaign against the party.
Golden Dawn is increasingly called a fascist organization, but the party insists it is not, even though it has a logo resembling a swastika. Giving extra support to the idea of Nazi links, Mihaloliakos has publicly denied the Holocaust.
At first an obscure, small far-right group, Golden Dawn gained in strength following Greece’s economic collapse in the last five years. Starting out as an organization hardly anyone took seriously, they gained 18 seats in parliament in the June 2012 election, although a Monday poll showed that many Greeks believe it is a threat to democracy. Nearly half the people surveyed describe the party as a “fascist organization,” while just over 30 percent similarly call it a “criminal organization” disguising itself as a political party. In the poll, 17 percent referred to it as a “populist nationalist movement.”
Greek army, police probed over links to neo-Nazi party
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Happy Hour Links: Overcompensating
So much for “cheap” insurance plans under Obamacare.
Where county executives make more than the average citizen.
House Republicans look to add more ladies to their ranks.
Happy Hour Links: Overcompensating
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Report links Germany to NSA
Michael Dalder / REUTERS
A former monitoring base of the U.S. National Security Agency in Bad Aibling south of Munich, Germany, is seen in a July 10 photo. Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended Germany’s cooperation with U.S. intelligence, dismissing comparisons of its techniques to those used in communist East Germany.
By Andrew Rafferty, Staff Writer, NBC News
German intelligence agencies have used a secret National Security Agency program as part of a U.S. effort to detect possible terrorist activities across the globe, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday.
Germany’s foreign intelligence service and its domestic intelligence agency were equipped with a program called XKeyScore that, according to documents seen by Der Spiegel reporters, was meant to “expand their ability to support NSA as we jointly prosecute CT [counter-terrorism] targets.”
The German news outlet reported that a 2008 NSA presentation described the program as an effective espionage tool that gathers metadata and can retroactively reveal any terms a target has typed into an online search engine.
The program is also capable of receiving all unfiltered data that a target has accessed over several days, including, in part, the content of communications, the magazine said.
Der Spiegel reported that documents reviewed by its writers said Germany has shown an “eagerness and desire” to aid in U.S. global intelligence gathering efforts.
Another document describes Germany’s foreign intelligence service as the NSA’s “most prolific partner” in its intelligence gathering efforts.
The German intelligence agencies and NSA declined to comment to Der Spiegel when asked about the newly reported revelations.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said the country is not a “surveillance state” and has pushed back on questions on whether Germany engages in the broad sweeping intelligence gathering programs that alleged NSA leaker Edward Snowden has revealed to the media.
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Report links Germany to NSA
Wednesday, May 29, 2013
No Texas links for Marine in shooting spree, authorities say
A bullet hole is left in a window after a shooting spree in Texas.
- The Marine in a Texas shooting spree has no known ties to the state, an official says
- Investigators don’t know why Esteban Smith was in Texas, the official says
- Texas authorities killed Smith Sunday after the deadly shooting spree
- He’s also believed responsible for the stabbing death of his wife in North Carolina
(CNN) — The U.S. Marine believed responsible for the stabbing death of his wife in North Carolina along with a deadly shooting spree some 1,300 miles away in Texas had no known ties to the Lone Star State, authorities there said Wednesday.
Lance Cpl. Esteban J. Smith, 23, died Sunday in a shootout with Texas authorities after going on a two-hour rampage that left one person dead and five wounded, according to investigators.
Police in Jacksonville, North Carolina, also believe he stabbed his wife to death.
Authorities don’t know why Smith, an active duty Marine from Bakersfield, California, was 1,300 miles away from his duty station at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, said Tom Vinger, spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
Tuesday, survivors of Smith’s Texas shooting spree said they were thankful to be alive.
“I don’t know how we survived it,” Casimiro Solis told CNN affiliate KTAB.
He said he and his wife, Charlotte Feldman, were on their way to work in Brady, Texas, when a man police identified as Smith came up to them with a “dead blank” look on his face and started firing.
Authorities counted 16 bullet holes in their truck.
Solis said hardware that attaches the shoulder belt to the truck caused one bullet that would have gone through Feldman to instead ricochet into the truck’s top.
“I really thought the side of my face was shot off,” Feldman told the station.
Feldman and Solis suffered only minor wounds in the attack.
In addition to Feldman and Solis, police say Smith killed Alicia Torres, 41, in Eola, Texas, shot at two people in Eden, Texas, and wounded Concho County Sheriff Richard Doane just north of Eden in central Texas.
Smith died in a firefight with state troopers and a game warden who arrived shortly after that incident.
Authorities found an assault rifle, a handgun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition in Smith’s pickup.
Smith’s wife, Rubi Estenania Smith, 21, was discovered dead Sunday afternoon at a motel near Camp Lejeune, according to police in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
Police located Rubi Smith’s body after agents with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service working on the Texas incident found some sort of evidence on Smith and contacted them for help.
Police didn’t describe the evidence.
It appeared she had been stabbed, police said.
Esteban Smith was a Marine rifleman who had served two tours in Afghanistan with the 3rd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division, according to the Marine Corps.
He first deployed to Afghanistan from August 2010 to May 2011, then again from April 2012 until November.
CNN’s Vivian Kuo and Adam Levine contributed to this report.
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No Texas links for Marine in shooting spree, authorities say
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Happy Hour Links: Misdiagnosis
Defending defense.
The first days of Francis.
What happened to Paul Ryan’s star?
No, immigration reform won’t send Hispanic voters to the GOP
Happy Hour Links: Misdiagnosis
Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Happy Hour Links: Soft on Pot
Tom Cotton’s truths about Iraq.
Why did Obama erase Israel’s territory in an online video?
“He wants us armed and stoned.”
Happy Hour Links: Soft on Pot
Monday, March 18, 2013
Happy Hour Links: How Do You Spell Failure?
The New York Times Magazine glosses over reality.
Actually, Hispanics are aligning with Democrats on everything.
Happy Hour Links: How Do You Spell Failure?
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