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Topic: Debating ‘House of Cards’ 2:
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Debating ‘House of Cards’ 2:
How to Reap the Cable Whirlwind
New York Times, by DAVID CARR and ASHLEY PARKER
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Posted By:FlyRight, 2/25/2013 4:05:13 PM
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| Welcome back to “House of Cards,” the Recap. Today, Ashley Parker and David Carr take on episode two and tease apart the collaborations between the various estates in Washington. Abundant spoilers so proceed at your own viewing peril. If you missed the first installment, you can read it here. More to come in the next few days and in the meantime, please consider weighing in with a comment below.Episode Two Synopsis: With the help of Zoe Barnes, Frank Underwood plants a story that will prove the undoing of Michael Kern, the president’s pick for secretary of state.
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Foreign Policy as Farce
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American Spectator, by Jeff Babbin
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Posted By: FlyRight- 6/17/2013 7:05:18 AM
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Obama and Syria — this dog ain’t wagging.The Obama administration has reached the unenviable stage in which it’s almost impossible to determine where one scandal ends and another begins.The most recent case in point is President Obama’s decision to kinda sorta intervene in the Syrian civil war that is now in its third year.Consider the statement issued by the brother of CBS News president David Rhodes on Thursday. Ben Rhodes — who readers will remember played a major role in the political revisions to the CIA’s Benghazi talking points —
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Cheney: Snowden is a ´traitor,´
possibly Chinese spy
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Politico, by JENNIFER EPSTEIN
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Posted By: FlyRight- 6/16/2013 11:31:18 AM
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney sees Edward Snowden as a "traitor" for revealing classified information about U.S. surveillance programs and that he´s done some of the worst damage to national security in recent history. "I think he has committed crimes in effect by violating agreements given the position he had. He was a contractor employee, but he obviously was granted top secret clearance," Cheney said on "Fox News Sunday."
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New State Department scandal:
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of trysts with subordinates and hookers
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New York Post, by KATE BRIQUELET
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Posted By: FlyRight- 6/16/2013 10:53:38 AM
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In the latest black eye for the scandal-ridden State Department, a whistleblower claims she was run out of the foreign service after complaining about a consul general’s alleged office trysts with subordinates and hookers.Kerry Howard says she was bullied, harassed and forced to resign after she exposed US Consul General Donald Moore’s alleged security-threatening shenanigans in the Naples, Italy, office. As the post’s community-liaison officer, Howard was charged with keeping workplace peace and advising higher-ups on the state of morale, but when she revealed allegations about her boss, State Department officials swept it under the rug,
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Putin refutes Kraft´s Super
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New York Post, by Page Six Staff
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Posted By: FlyRight- 6/16/2013 7:30:27 AM
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Ring-a-ding-ding! A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin refuted New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft´s claims that the politician stole his Super Bowl ring in 2005, according to CNN. As previously reported by Page Six, Kraft discussed the ring theft at a Thursday awards gala. "I took out the ring and showed it to [Putin], and he put it on and he goes, ´I can kill someone with this ring,´" Kraft told the crowd at Carnegie Hall’s Medal of Excellence gala at the Waldorf-Astoria
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Reuters, by Patrick Temple-West and Karl Plume
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Posted By: FlyRight- 6/16/2013 6:48:57 AM
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A current and a former top tax official have been physically threatened in recent weeks as the scandal over Internal Revenue Service targeting of Tea Party and other conservative groups has gathered steam, people familiar with their situation say.Ousted IRS acting commissioner, Steven Miller, has received such threats, according to a source familiar with his situation. The source declined to elaborate on the nature or the source of the threats.
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The Author of the New York Times
´Plane Crash´ Story on What He Got Wrong
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Atlantic, by James Fallows
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Posted By: FlyRight- 6/15/2013 1:31:05 PM
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Last month, as part of its last-page "Lives" feature, The New York Times Magazine published an article by Noah Gallagher Shannon called "The Plane Was About to Crash. Now What?" It described the author´s experience on a 2011 flight whose track is shown above: It was headed to Denver from Washington´s National Airport, but turned back after 20 minutes of flying time and made an unscheduled landing in Philadelphia.
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How did mainstream media get the
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ZDNet, by Ed Bott
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Posted By: FlyRight- 6/15/2013 1:26:37 PM
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Last week, The Guardian and The Washington Post got their hands on a big story about the National Security Agency and its alleged connection to a handful of giant tech companies. The bombshell stories in both publications carried the by-lines of experienced reporters. The Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald, a well-known political commentator who also holds a law degree, has been covering national security issues for nearly a decade, and the Post’s Barton Gellman is a Pulitzer Prize winner who has a distinguished record covering privacy and security issues.
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Posted By: smcchk- 6/19/2013 12:41:02 AM
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A group of whistleblowers, including a number of aviation experts, have come forward in a new documentary to claim that the official explanation for the crash of TWA Flight 800 was wrong and a gas tank explosion did not bring down the flight off the coast of Long Island 17 years ago. However, the six whistleblowers, all part of the original investigation team, stopped short of saying the plane was shot down. Flight 800, a Boeing 747, had just taken off from JFK airport with 230 people aboard on July 17, 1996 enroute to Paris when it exploded
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Benghazi Whistleblower Lawyer Says
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Cybercast News Service, by Fred Lucas
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 6/18/2013 8:06:14 PM
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An attorney whose firm represents two Benghazi whistleblowers said Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, lied to the Senate when he said there was never a “stand down” order during the Benghazi attack on Sept. 11, 2012. “What was fascinating is that he explained his lie to them,” Joe DiGenova, an attorney representing one of the whistleblowers, told CNSNews.com. “He actually said they were sent to Tripoli. They were needed in Benghazi,” said DiGenova, a former U.S. attorney, now with the Washington firm of DiGenova & Toensing.
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Obama: ´If Catholics Have
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Cybercast News Service, by Terence P. Jeffrey
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/19/2013 3:46:48 PM
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Likening religious schools to segregation--a racist system that forced blacks to attend different schools and use different facilities than whites in the American South--President Barack Obama told a town hall meeting for youth in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Monday that there should not be Catholic and Protestant schools because such schools cause division. "Because issues like segregated schools and housing, lack of jobs and opportunity--symbols of history that are a source of pride for some and pain for others--these are not tangential to peace; they’re essential to it,"
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Edward Snowden Is In The
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Business Insider, by Brett LoGiurato
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Posted By: StormCnter- 6/18/2013 5:34:23 AM
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Amid a steady rise of backlash, Edward Snowden, the 29-year-old former National Security Agency contractor who was the source of a spring of leaks about the agency´s surveillance methods, conducted a live chat on The Guardian´s website Monday morning. Judging from some of the pointed questions he´s been asked and the reaction to newly leaked revelations over the past few days, it´s clear that much of the sympathy and support Snowden had built up for his early exposures is eroding. Many Americans supported his decision to leak information about a pair of National Security Agency surveillance programs, which, he detailed, gathered information
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G8: Barack Obama looks like
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Telegraph [UK], by Alex Spillius
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Posted By: JoniTx- 6/19/2013 4:58:06 AM
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Listening to Barack Obama give his speech in Belfast on Monday, it was hard not to stifle a yawn. I kept waiting for the part when he would say something interesting, but, about three quarters of the way through, realised it wasn’t going to come. Judging from television pictures some of his young audience felt the same, after the initial rush of euphoria of receiving the rock star president in their midst had passed. This is not surprising, for we had already heard this number about the inspirational role of the Northern Ireland peace process and the Emerald Isle’s
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Obama: You Can´t Fathom
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Weekly Standard, by Daniel Halper
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Posted By: Desert Fox- 6/18/2013 5:30:04 PM
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Charlie Rose last night asked President Obama his new Syria policy. The president first objected to it being called a new policy. "I´m not sure you can characterize this as a new policy. This is consistent with the policy that I´ve had throughout," he said. Obama then explained the goal is regional stability, and especially in Syria. "Really, what we´re trying to do is take sides against extremists of all sorts and in favor of people who are in favor of moderation, tolerance, representative government, and over the long-term, stability and prosperity for the people of Syria," said Obama.
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How Democracies Perish, Deathbed Edition
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American Thinker, by Daren Jonescu
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Posted By: steveW- 6/18/2013 6:11:46 AM
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This is the thirtieth anniversary of the publication of How Democracies Perish, an analysis of the spread of world communism by Jean-François Revel, one of freedom´s most serious French defenders since Tocqueville. At the heart of this work, Revel details "The Tools of Communist Expansion," among which the most relevant for understanding our current situation comes in Chapter 16, "Ideological Warfare and Disinformation." The profound simplicity of Revel´s nuts and bolts account of totalitarianism´s Cold War advance, far from being obsolete
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