I want to drop back to the end of October to note this from U.S. House Representative Tulsi Gabbard:
October 30, 2019
Press Release
Washington, DC—Yesterday, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (HI-02) introduced H.Res.662.
The resolution calls on the Federal Government to declassify and
release information regarding the September 11, 2001 attacks in order to
ensure a full public understanding of what happened and who was
involved.
“Though
Al Qaeda attacked us on 9/11 over 18 years ago, the American people
still do not have the truth about Saudi Arabia and who helped Al Qaeda
carry out these attacks,” said Rep. Tulsi Gabbard.
“The truth is being withheld from the families of those who were killed
on 9/11, and from the American people. Full disclosure of these facts
is not only necessary for these families, it is essential for our
national security and to keep the American people safe. The Trump
Administration must put the interests of the American people first, and
release this information now.”
Background: A similar resolution, H.Res.663,
was introduced in the 115th Congress by former Rep. Walter Jones
(NC-03). Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Rep. Jones worked closely on national
security, cost of war, and counter-terrorism issues. Together, they led
bipartisan legislation to end Presidential wars as well as prohibit the U.S. from arming terrorists through counterproductive programs in which terrorist groups — including those affiliated with Al Qaeda — were armed and trained using American taxpayer dollars.
About Rep. Tulsi Gabbard:
Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard is serving her fourth term in the United
States House representing Hawaii’s Second District, and serves on the
House Armed Services and Financial Services Committees. She previously
served on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Homeland Security
Committee. She was elected to the Honolulu City Council in 2010, and
prior to that at age 21, was elected to the Hawaiʻi State Legislature in
2002, becoming the youngest person ever elected in the state. Tulsi
Gabbard has served in the Hawaiʻi Army National Guard for 16 years, is a
veteran of two Middle East deployments, and continues to serve as a
Major. Learn more about Rep. Tulsi Gabbard...
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It is beyond time for the U.S. government to tell the truth to the American people. The efforts, for example, to protect the government of Saudi Arabia are shameful. The U.S. government is answerable to the American people, not to some foreign government.
We are now 18 years past September 11, 2001 and it is disgusting that members of Congress have to attempt to pass laws so that the American people can receive the information that should already be public.
It is past time that the U.S. government remove the gag order on whistle-blower Sibel Edmonds.
And do not give me nonsense about (like the shameful move the A.C.L.U. recently made) the need to protect whistle-blowers because a leaker who observed nothing is being criticized by the president when you make no effort, all these years later, to allow Ms. Edmonds to speak about what she actually observed and what she testified to Congress about.
This is C.I.'s "Iraq snapshot:"
Friday, November 15, 2019. Rape enabler Deval Patrick continues his
pursuit of the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, protests
continue in Iraq, MSNBC struggle to portray the campaigns of Bernie
Sanders and Elizabeth Warren accurately or fairly, and much more.
In the US, the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination continues. Rape enabler Deval Patrick has entered the ring. SLATE's Jim Newell offers:
Deval Patrick
If only theories mattered.
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In the US, the race for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination continues. Rape enabler Deval Patrick has entered the ring. SLATE's Jim Newell offers:
Deval Patrick
If only theories mattered.
Unlike certain would-be candidates considering
entrances into the race whose names rhyme with Doomberg and Pillory, the
former Massachusetts governor can, at least, draw up a plausible theory
on paper for his newly launched candidacy. The field still lacks a
formidable center-left consensus candidate who can bridge the party from
Joe Biden on one end and Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders on the
other. Pete Buttigieg is trying to do it, but his base is too lily-white
to break out after New Hampshire. Patrick—who, like Buttigieg, is
trying to push against both the center and the left in his early messaging—would,
in theory, have some purchase in New Hampshire, given his history as
governor of the neighboring state to which many Granite Staters commute,
and, in theory, translate that into a strong finish in South Carolina,
where he could, again in theory,
have a relative advantage as a black American. Aren’t these neat
theories? Can’t you see how an unemployed consultant needing a paycheck
might excitably pitch it to Patrick? How wealthy donors, in a lather
about Elizabeth Warren, might be taken with it? It’s so neat, so
consultant-driven, and so pitchable to dumb donors that the Surge is
comfortable predicting that Patrick is doomed to go absolutely nowhere. To wit.
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How is No One in the lame stream media talking about this!?
Deval Patrick fired leaders of the Massachusetts Sex Offender Registry in 2014 for trying to register Patrick’s brother in-law for a 1993 California rape conviction.
My goodness. No no and no again. This is a dealbreaker for me. Deval Patrick's former brother-in-law gets prison time in rape, kidnapping
In 2014, Deval Patrick fired the head of the state’s Sex Offender Registry Board because she questioned why Patrick’s brother in law wasn’t required to register for a 1993 spousal rape conviction. #Trump2020
Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick’s Ex-Brother-In-Law Gets Prison For Rape
So Deval Patrick fired some ppl to protect his brother-in-law, who went on to rape (another) woman in 2019.
And Mike Bloomberg said some nasty s**t about women.
Bernie Sanders must be *REALLY* surging in Dems' internal numbers for them to run these two losers. Chrissakes. 
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In 2014 Deval Patrick fired leaders of his state's Sex Offender Registry for trying to force his brother in law to register due to being convicted of rape in California in 1993.
In 2019, that same rapist was sentenced to 6 years for another rape....
twitter.com/mldauber/statu…
In 2014 Deval Patrick fired leaders of his state's Sex Offender Registry for trying to force his brother in law to register due to being convicted of rape in California in 1993.
In 2019, that same rapist was sentenced to 6 years for another rape....
Dear Kamala Harris,
You didn't hear this from me but the word on the street Deval Patrick protects sexual predators, please prosecute that ass for me.
Thanks,
Rape and Molestation survivor
Deval Patrick, when is rape a family matter? Your BIL raped your sister not once but twice. You demoted a whistleblower because he wanted to register him as a sex offender. If you do that what would you do as president?
For those confused by "family matter,'' refer to this HEAVY article and how the response by Deval's campaign was to insist this was a family matter and the children!!!! the poor children!!!! They never knew and now they did wah!!! Wah!!!! Wah!!!!
If you're convicted of a crime -- and, yes, rape is a crime, don't whine that your children found out about it because of the press. You were convicted of a crime. That was a public case. Maybe you talk to your children about it. But you don't whine, "They reported on my being convicted!!!! Oh the babies, the poor little babies!!!"
Grow the hell up.
And we don't need a rape enabler, a rape apologist, running for the White House. Any person even aware of optics would be insisting Deval drop out. That months after this rapist brother-in-law was sentenced Deval is thinking of running speaks of something far worse than mere arrogance.
Deval Patrick spoke at my Graduation. Come to find out that he’s a rape apologist?!? Disgusted.
Add this to the misogyny
In 2014 Deval Patrick fired leaders of his state's Sex Offender Registry for trying to force his brother in law to register due to being convicted of rape in California in 1993.
In 2019, that same rapist was sentenced to 6 years for another rape. 1/
So the Democratic big donors still don't get that being a rape enabler is disqualifying, and they throw us Deval Patrick. This is why we need a Warren or a Bernie.
Deval Patrick's former brother-in-law gets prison time in rape, kidnapping
People out here stannin for Deval Patrick?
Please go sit the f**k on down.
Deval Patrick fired the leader's of the Sex Offender Registry in his state in 2014.
Why?
Tried to register his bro-in-law as a sex offender.
Dude raped Deval's sister.
Spousal rape.
CANCELLED
Meanwhile, at IN THESE TIMES, Branko Marcetik maintains:
Once known as the lone, forthright voice of liberalism
on cable news, MSNBC began a lurch to the center in 2015 with its new
chairman, Andrew Lack, going on a conservative pundit hiring spree and
shedding the network’s “Lean Forward” branding.
Even so, MSNBC is positioned to have an outsized influence on the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. According to the Norman Lear Center, liberals watch MSNBC at (respectively) three and 10 times the rate of more moderate and conservative viewers. After Fox News, MSNBC is the most-watched cable news network, beating out CNN. What’s more, the median age of MSNBC’s audience is 65—and older voters turn out in high numbers in primary contests.
Even so, MSNBC is positioned to have an outsized influence on the 2020 Democratic presidential primary. According to the Norman Lear Center, liberals watch MSNBC at (respectively) three and 10 times the rate of more moderate and conservative viewers. After Fox News, MSNBC is the most-watched cable news network, beating out CNN. What’s more, the median age of MSNBC’s audience is 65—and older voters turn out in high numbers in primary contests.
To understand how MSNBC may be shaping the 2020 election, In These Times analyzed the network’s August and September coverage
of the Democratic presidential contest’s leading candidates—Sen. Bernie
Sanders, former Vice President Joe Biden and Sen. Elizabeth Warren. We
focused on the network’s flagship primetime shows: The 11th Hour
with Brian Williams, All In with Chris Hayes, The Beat with Ari Melber,
Hardball with Chris Matthews, The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell and The Rachel Maddow Show.
In These Times tallied how often the three candidates were discussed and logged whether the coverage was positive, negative or neutral. For example, while poll results by themselves (whether favorable or unfavorable to a candidate) were simply logged as neutral, commentary about a candidate “surging” was logged as positive and “stagnant” as negative. Clips and previews for upcoming segments were not included.
The coverage quickly revealed a pattern. Over the two months, these six programs focused on Biden, often to the exclusion of Warren and Sanders. Sanders received not only the least total coverage (less than one-third of Biden’s), but the most negative. As to the substance, MSNBC’s reporting revolved around poll results and so-called electability.
In These Times tallied how often the three candidates were discussed and logged whether the coverage was positive, negative or neutral. For example, while poll results by themselves (whether favorable or unfavorable to a candidate) were simply logged as neutral, commentary about a candidate “surging” was logged as positive and “stagnant” as negative. Clips and previews for upcoming segments were not included.
The coverage quickly revealed a pattern. Over the two months, these six programs focused on Biden, often to the exclusion of Warren and Sanders. Sanders received not only the least total coverage (less than one-third of Biden’s), but the most negative. As to the substance, MSNBC’s reporting revolved around poll results and so-called electability.
Let's hope they did better with their number crunching than they did with their research on MSNBC's 'history.'
It was never a liberal channel. After hitting the gutter with Mike Savage's hiring, they tried to regroup with Keith Olbermann. Keith was a known sexist who never would have survived in today's #MeToo culture. We didn't quote him, we didn't note him. He was supposedly the biggest liberal on TV (he wasn't). He gets Rachel Maddow on the channel. That would be the same Rachel that supported the Iraq War. That would be the same Rachel who then got an AIR AMERICA show (UNFILTERED) in 2004 where she -- like Al Franken -- would argue that you couldn't talk about withdrawal of US troops from Iraq and the troops were already there so you do nothing. You certainly don't invite on antiwar activists. The closest UNFILTERED came to an antiwar activist was Arianna Huffington -- and even with Arianna they were struggling.
Randi Rhodes would rightly mock and call out Rachel's big Iraq special that she did on MSNBC.
MSNBC got rid of Cenk Uygur in 2011. (Cenk is not a liberal but he was too much for MSNBC.) MSNBC launched one attack after another on Cindy Sheehan -- including Norah O'Donnell's hideous June 2006 attack. MSNBC couldn't find war resisters when other networks could.
They were always loud, they were just never left.
In Iraq, the protests continue.
#Iraq
Today in city Kut south east of #Baghdad, AlAmareh province
People protest against Iran regime puppets
#العراق_ينتقض #IraqProtests
A new development?
A lion joins Iraq’s protests dlvr.it/RJLQg0
MEANWHILE IN #IRAQ
Iraqi protesters bring LION to the protesting areas after security forces intervened protests with Police dogs.
Some may think that's comic or cute. It's not, it's stupid.
The lion is placed in danger, absolutely.
Look closely. Military-grade grenades are killing protesters in Iraq.
More to the point, tear gas and sonic booms are taking place. How is the lion going to react to that? If the lion panics -- a natural response -- might the lion harms people around -- such as the protesters.
Just the fact that danger is possible from this incredibly stupid move could provide the government with cover to shut down the protests.
This was beyond stupid.
Over 310 protesters have been killed in the last month with another 15,000 injured. And into that climate, you're bringing an animal?
Beyond stupid.
In other news, Ali Choukeir (24 MATINS) reports:
Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani said
authorities must respond quickly to the demands of the protesters who
have thronged Baghdad and cities across the mainly Shiite south since
early October in an outpouring of anger over rampant corruption and lack
of jobs.
“If those in power think that they can evade the benefits of real reform by stalling and procrastination, they are delusional,” Sistani said in his weekly sermon, delivered by a representative in the Shiite holy city of Karbala
“What comes after these protests will not be the same as before, and they should be aware of that.”
Mustafa Habib reports:
Breaking: In a tough speech, the senior cleric in #Iraq Ali #Sistani slaps the whole political class:- "I support the demonstrations & condemned the killing-Kidnapping of protesters, and the govt has not implemented any real demand of the #IraqProtests so far. (1)
"Iraqis only found the protest and gave big sacrifices during the demonstrations is the only way to save the country form corruption and devastation by all the political class which turned the country into personal gains by keeping silent about each other's corruption" (2)
"If the political class thinks they can dodge and evade the real reforms, they are delusional, because the situation after the protests will not be like before it, so be careful, but there are doubts about the ability of the political class to implement real reforms" (3)
"A new electoral law must be passed and this law must reflecting the real voter representation, and an independent electoral commission must be established that would gain the trust of voters, this is the way to replace the political class that rules the country after 2003" (4)
"The Iraqi battle for reform is a national battle, not allowed to any regional or international side Interference in this" (5)
Mustafa Habib's reporting frequently appears at NIQASH and they have a number of reports on the protests throughout Iraq on their home page.
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