- Top Treasury Official: Government Shutdown May Be Unavoidable | TPMDC
- …a brief government shutdown may be unavoidable as the only feasible way to de-escalate the confrontation over government spending dividing Democrats and Republicans on Capitol Hill. The official said the administration still hopes to avoid such a flashpoint because of the impact it would have on the economy, but added that President Obama will not sign short-term stop-gap government funding measures in perpetuity.
- Senate Blocks Anti-Choice Push; States Keep It Up
- (WOMENSENEWS)–Democrats in the U.S. Senate on Wednesday turned back a House spending bill, lifting the cleaver hanging over funds for Planned Parenthood and other family-planning programs while intensifying suspense about whether Congress can pass a budget in time to keep the federal government open.
- Stripped naked every night, Bradley Manning tells of prison ordeal | World news | The Guardian
- In an 11-page legal letter released by his lawyer, David Coombs, Manning sets out in his own words how he has been "left to languish under the unduly harsh conditions of max [security] custody" ever since he was brought from Kuwait to the military brig of Quantico marine base in Virginia in July last year. He describes how he was put on suicide watch in January, how he is currently being stripped naked every night, and how he is in general terms being subjected to what he calls "unlawful pre-trial punishment".
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- Rachel Maddow Exposes Michigan Republicans Secret War On Democracy
- …Maddow explained that Michigan Republican Governor Rick Snyder is pushing a bill through that will give ultimate governmental power literally to corporations… Synder’s bill not only goes after collective bargaining rights, but does in fact seem to represent the Republicans’ final solution to killing democracy by enabling the replacement of elected officials, dissolving entire city’s government and handing them over to corporations. Snyder calls his “budget bill” a “shared sacrifice,” but it gifts corporations with 1.8 billion in tax breaks while hitting citizens with harder taxes…
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- Record quake unleashes tsunami on Japan | AlterNet
- The strongest earthquake ever to hit Japan Friday unleashed a terrifying 10-metre tsunami that washed away homes and tossed ships inland, with a nuclear plant among multiple sites set ablaze.
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- Live blog: Japan earthquake | Al Jazeera English
- Follow the latest as tsunami warnings are issued around the Pacific Rim following an 8.9-magnitude earthquake off the coast of Japan.
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- NH GOP Senator Says The Mentally Ill Are ‘Defective People’ That Should Be Shipped Off To Siberia
- …The state senator told her “the world is too populated” and that there are too many “defective people.” When Omand asked what should be done with these “defective people” that are mentally ill, Harty suggested sending them to Siberia, something that he said Hitler was “right” to do:…
- The Vicious, Unfounded Accusations That James O’Keefe Rapes Hamsters – John L. Roberson – Open Salon
- 3rd Graders’ Important Job: Editing Their Teacher’s Book – The Bay Citizen
- “We think it’s good for him because he’s doing something he likes to do,” said Rosmeri, 10. “And by doing something he likes to do, he’s teaching us to do it, too.”
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