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Daily News Digest April 25, 2016
Images of the Day:
Honeypots
We’re #1!
When the Media Feed from Trump’s Trough
Quotes of the Day:
Thursday, while the nation debated the relative size of Republican genitalia, something truly awful happened. Across the northern hemisphere, the temperature, if only for a few hours, apparently crossed a line: it was more than two degrees Celsius above “normal” for the first time in recorded history and likely for the first time in the course of human civilization. — The mercury doesn’t lie: We’ve hit a troubling climate change milestone
After one woman broke his heart, Khalil Abu Rayyan, a 21-year-old Michigan man, contemplated suicide. Then, when he confided his dark thoughts to another woman, she suggested he steer his violence toward other people. Both women, it turned out, were FBI honeypots, and one of the recorded conversations with Rayyan entered into ongoing court proceedings provides a rare glimpse into how federal informants work. The U.S. government now alleges that Rayyan, who has been indicted on federal gun charges, is an Islamic State sympathizer who talked of attacking a church in Detroit. Federal prosecutors have not filed terrorism-related charges, yet they are handling Rayyan’s indictment with the secrecy of a national security investigation. The government has proposed a “limited protective order” that “would have kept sealed anything that even summarized material the government deemed sensitive,” according to a filing by the defense, which has so far refused to accept the proposal. — Listen to an FBI “Honeypot” on the Job
Prometheus stole fire from the gods and gave it to mankind, and suddenly there was light, and warmth, and the gathering at the hearth. The gods never forgave, and ever since periodically they thrust a torch into villains’ hands and watch the hearths burn and bring the roofs down. Civilization weeps, in Troy, Hiroshima, Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, Syria. — The Fire Each Time
The CIA whistleblower returns to join Mnar Muhawesh on “Behind the Headline” to go into greater depth on Saudi Arabia’s role in manufacturing terrorism by re-writing the entire religious history of Islam and engineering hadeeth to serve its own political & oil interests. The effects of these efforts to re-write the history of a faith of over 1.5 billion people to suit the Saudi political agenda that limit women’s rights, promote radicalism and tyrannical leadership –are rippling across the region and the world, through radical groups like ISIS and the Nusra Front. These are some of the very same terror groups the United States claims to be fighting in its so-called “war on terror.” — Former CIA Agent John Kiriakou Takes Us Inside The Saudi Terror Factory w/ Mnar Muhawesh
Video the Day:
Former CIA Agent John Kiriakou Takes Us Inside The Saudi Terror Factory w/ Mnar Muhawesh
U.S.:
President Obama signs $8.7 billion food stamp cut into law By Ned Resnikoff
Oil and Amnesia: Obama and Saudi Arabia’s “Forgotten” Ties to 9/11 by Robert Fisk
‘Honeypot’ Entrapment — FBI Agent Provocateurs:
Listen to an FBI “Honeypot” on the Job: Both women, it turned out, were FBI honeypots, and one of the recorded conversations with Rayyan entered into ongoing court proceedings provides a rare glimpse into how federal informants work. By Trevor Aaronson
True Cost of Covert Killings’ Demanded as Drone Strike Victims Speak Out By Andrea Germanos
Military Spending is the Capitalist World’s Fuel by Pete Dolack 
Bernie Sanders: the Candidate Who Came in From the Cold by Jeffrey St. Clair 
Environment:
Time to Grow Up Into a Living Earth Economy: Humanity has been acting like a willful child, demanding everything and leaving messes everywhere. It is time for our species to take the step to maturity, to acknowledge that care and cooperation are key to happiness — and even survival. By David Korten
Tomorrow is Too Late:
The mercury doesn’t lie: We’ve hit a troubling climate change milestone By Bill McKibben
Ongoing/Big Energy Disasters!:
Energy News:
10:09 AM EST on April 22nd, 2016 | Nuclear Expert: We’ve detected a lot of cases “gargantuanism” in Fukushima — Reporter: “Gigantic beet… it’s almost as big as the upper part of man trying to hold it” — “They’re seeing more and more of this… people are reporting more and more of these abnormalities” (PHOTOS & VIDEO)
Black Liberation/Civil Rights:
Harriet Tubman Armed For Self-Defense
A disgrace before God: Striking black sanitation workers vs. black officialdom in 1977 Atlanta: “This article is a case study of the betrayal of the African American working class by the Black political class brought to power by the Civil Rights and Black Power movements of the 1960’s.”
Labor:
NFL’s Handling of CTE Controversy Shows Compassionate Conservatism of Roger Goodell in Action: The Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision to affirm the NFL’s $1 billion settlement with 5,000 retired players is a coup for the league. The NFL admitted no wrongdoing. CTE wasn’t covered. The threat of further litigation was removed by putting all retirees under the terms of the agreement. By Mark Heisler
Economy:
As Support Plummets, Is EU Moving Closer to Becoming ‘TTIP Free Zone’?: The next round of negotiations over the corporate-friendly trade deal will start in New York next week by Deirdre Fulton writer
GAO: JPMorgan Chase Customers Lost $5.4 Billion to Madoff: Buried in a report released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) was a stunning piece of news. Customers of JPMorgan Chase, the bank that Wall Street analyst Mike Mayo has preposterously called the “Lebron James of banking,” were major victims of Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme — to the tune of $5.4 billion — because of negligence on the part of the bank. By Pam Martens and Russ Martens
World:
If Not Now, When? Young Jews Refuse to Stay Silent on the Occupation This Passover By Sammy Sass
France: A new chapter in the class struggle: A massive protest movement in France has been taking place since February. Sparked by the announcement of a reactionary new “reform” of the labour laws, this movement is mobilising masses of youth. by Jules Legendre
South Africa: The start of the election season – “a delicate time in a dangerous year”: When arguing the Nkandla case, President Jacob Zuma’s senior advocate, Jeremy Gauntlett, said that this was “a delicate time in a dangerous year, societally” and that the Nkandla saga has “traumatized the nation in many ways” — a profound statement which sums up the current state of mind of the ruling class. by Ben Morken
Britain: Steel industry on the brink – Tories impotent to stop this capitalist madness: Constrained by the straightjacket of their own dogmatic subservience to the invisible hand of the free market, Cameron and the Tories have shown themselves to be impotent in halting the decline and downward trajectory of British capitalism. By Adam Booth
Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine: Home Demolitions on the Rise by Richard Hardigan
Health, Education and Welfare:
The Fire Each Time by Luciana Bohne
The Legacies of Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace and Austerity: The Known Soldier