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Lupita Nyong'o is taking glamour to a galaxy far, far away.
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In a video included in the coverage package from Vogue, she reveals how many motion-capture dots she needed to sport while filming "The Force Awakens" (at least 168), but her answers about the original "Star Wars" movies and actors will probably be most interesting for fans. Read More »


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Did any of you watch this last night?� I was balling like a big baby by the end.� I am so glad my DH was not awake.� I'm not quite sure what I think about everything that is going on. I didn't watch it much last year so I'm trying to figure everything out.� The last 5 minutes or so just made me so sad.�
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Hated M4 bus lane springs back to life on Monday... but only for exclusive use by Olympic VIPs and their coaches
One of the most notorious symbols of Whitehall's 'war on the motorist' - the controversial M4 Bus lane – springs back into life from Monday for the exclusive use of Olympic VIPs and their coaches, the Government confirmed tonight.
As the stricken M4 re-opened after a week's closure today - but only for cars - the Government's Highways Agency confirmed that Olympic buses carrying athletes, officials and other members of the 'Games Family' will be given a special dispensation to use both the motorway and its resurrected reserved lane.
This is despite a 7.5-ton weight restriction imposed for safety reasons on all other vehicles using the damaged elevated section of the motorway following its partial re-opening in the wake of overrunning structural repairs.
A car is using the bus lane on the re-opened M4 motorway, something which will soon carry a £130 fine as it will be exclusive to VIP Olympic traffic
It means that not only will Olympic buses be exempt from the safety restrictions on weight they will also have exclusive use of the first priority 'Games Lane' to open in Britain to queue-jump jams on the busy motorway.
The lanes have been nicknamed 'Zil lanes' after the limousines used to ferry communist leaders in specially reserved lanes from the Kremlin during the Soviet era in Russia.
The M4 'Zil' lane will ferry Olympic guests from Heathrow to London and the Olympic village which also opens from Monday.
Tonight the Highways Agency confirmed that the restricted 'Games Lane' on the M4 will become operational from 5am on Monday and announcing:' Olympic buses are exempt from the weight restriction from Monday.'
Motorists facing a £130 fine if they stray into the lane.
The lane is in the location of the previous, highly controversial M4 bus lane which operated for 3.5 miles between junctions 3 and 2 on the London-bound carriageway.
Traffic is back on the M4 a week after it was closed for emergency repair works after cracks were discovered on a viaduct
The news came as Labour shadow transport spokesman John Woodcock questioned whether safety corners had been cut under pressure from Downing Street to re-open the stricken six mile section of the M4 between junctions 2 and 3 west of London to avoid political embarrassment – a charge which ministers and the Highways Agency deny.
He said: 'Given the scale of the problem, ministers need to come out and say they are completely confident the crack is fixed.'
The Highways Agency said: 'The M4 is part of the Olympic Route Network (ORN) and provides an important access route for members of the Games Family including athletes, their officials and equipment arriving at Heathrow for their journey to the Olympic Village in Stratford. Some 80 per cent of Games Family arrivals are expected to pass through this way.'
It added: 'The lane will operate from Monday during the period when most of the Games Family will arrive. The M4 Games Lane will have variable signs which allow the lane to be activated when needed for periods between 5am and 10pm.'
Outside these operational periods, the lane can be used by general traffic.
The M4 re-opened to cars on Friday at around 5.30am only, after being closed for nearly a week to repair cracks in what critics termed 'a fiasco' and a 'national humiliation.'
But the agency's weight restriction banning lorries and buses from using it is being waived to make an exception for Olympics visitors heading to the games from Heathrow Airport from Monday – the busiest day for London 2012 arrivals.
The closure caused much headache to Olympics bosses as the link between West London and the Olympic village is vital to ensure smooth transport for participants and VIP guests during the games
The road was closed between junctions 1 and 3 whilst the cracks in the elevated section of the motorway underwent repair work, causing traffic jams and delays
The Highways Agency also admitted repairs to the M4 may not now be finished before the Olympics because they were taking a 'more cautious' approach that could even see the remaining work put on hold until after the games end – prompting fears of more closures after the games have gone.
The M4 lane is part of up to 30 miles of priority 'Games Lanes', the rest of which will go live from July 25 as part of the 109 mile 'Olympic Route Network' in London. Drivers straying into the Games face a £130 fixed penalty fine.
From Monday motorists will start to feel the full impact of Olympic gridlock as up to 1,300 sets of traffic lights in the capital are 're-phased' to give priority to Olympic routes. Transport for London warned: 'From mid-July, motorists should avoid central London, around the Olympic Route Network and Games venues'.
A Highways Agency spokesman said: 'The expectation is that the M4 Games Lane will kick in from Monday as part of the Olympic Route network. Olympic coaches will be exempt from the weight restriction.'
Transport Secretary Justine Greening was sent to the site on Thursday before the M4 re-opened
Justifying the move, a spokesman said that they knew how many Olympic buses there were and how many people were aboard, they could stagger convoys to ensure that too many were not using the elevated section at the same time.
The notorious M4 Bus Lane imposed by Labour Transport Secretary John Prescott was originally opened in June 1999 and reserved for buses and licensed black taxis. It became known as the 'Blair lane' when, within days of its opening, the former Prime Minister's official car avoided a traffic jam and swung into the empty bus lane and past the queues for 'security reasons'.
The new Coalition Government scrapped the hated lane after taking office in 2010 as then Conservative Transport Secretary Phillip Hammond pledged to 'consign to the dust-bin of history this hated symbol of the Prescott era.'
From Monday, however, it is resurrected life for the duration of the Olympics for the benefit of VIPs.
Work on the M4 cracks began originally in March but motorway was closed for a week when the original work created a new crack which closed the road.
Prime Minister David Cameron demanded to be fully briefed as the Thursday deadline for re-opening passed, sending Transport Secretary Justine Greening to the site.
The Highways Agency said: 'It was safe to open the road to cars. Safety has not been compromised. There was no political pressure to hope the road before it was safe to do so.'
Roads Minister Mike Penning blasted Labour and other critics for 'scaremongering' over suggestions that engineers might have been bounced f by the Government into re-opening the M4 when it wasn't totally safe to do so, saying those who spread such tales should be 'ashamed' of themselves.
Speaking at the worksite on the M4 Mr Penning assurance motorists that the bridge was safe stressing: 'Don't be scared. Scaremongers will be scaring you. Structural engineers have specifically done all the work.
'No structural engineer in this country is going to say, "Minister, you can open that bridge" unless they are certain it is perfectly safe. Anyone saying it isn't safe is scaremongering and they should be ashamed of themselves.'
He also denied political pressure had prompted the swift reopening of the motorway: 'There was absolutely none at all; structural engineers don't work that way. You can say what you like to them but it's their reputation and their careers, their job is about safety.
'Yes we have a commitment to have this open not only for the Olympics but for the people of London and this country because it's a major route in and out and of course I wanted it open but I said it would open when it was safe and this morning it was safe for seven and a half tons.'
He added: 'I've just passed a message from the Prime Minister to the hard working engineers to thank them for what they have done 24/7 to get this motorway open.'
The Highways Agency said: 'Drivers are reminded that a weight restriction exists between junctions 3 and 2 in both directions as a result of ongoing repair work on the Boston Manor Viaduct.'
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PHILADELPHIA - Matt Ryan would love to stick around Philadelphia to catch a World Series game Sunday, but he's got a job to do.
PHILADELPHIA - Brian Westbrook's name popped up more in the Eagles' injuries reports lately than the postgame stat sheet.
FLOWERY BRANCH - It took Jamaal Anderson, the NFL's No. 8 overall draft pick last year, 22 games to get his first career sack for the Atlanta Falcons.
FLOWERY BRANCH - Jason Elam never misses a chance to watch Tiger Woods.
FLOWERY BRANCH - The Atlanta Falcons' mix of rookies and holdovers were not expected to have success on offense in 2008.
FLOWERY BRANCH - There's the youthful-looking general manager, who could pass for a ballboy with his spiked hair and faint attempts at growing a mustache.
FLOWERY BRANCH - Earning a spot on the Atlanta Falcons' 53-man roster gave Brian Finneran a great sense of accomplishment.
ATLANTA - Matt Ryan had just pulled off an improbable comeback when someone questioned his credentials.
ATLANTA - Jason Elam stood on the sideline with head bowed, figuring he had cost the Atlanta Falcons a win.
ATLANTA - Kyle Orton's gaudy passing day last week didn't distract the Atlanta Falcons.
FLOWERY BRANCH - The Atlanta Falcons listed Roddy White as questionable for Sunday's game against Chicago after the receiver missed a second straight practice Friday.
FLOWERY BRANCH - Falcons linebacker Michael Boley can only hope his problems off the field don't affect his next NFL contract.
FLOWERY BRANCH - The first five games of Mike Smith's career as a head coach have proved he was serious about bringing a run-first emphasis back to the Atlanta Falcons.
FLOWERY BRANCH - Don't expect much emotion from Matt Ryan.
FLOWERY BRANCH – The Atlanta Falcons game against the Chicago Bears at 1 p.m. on Sunday at the Georgia Dome is a sell out. The Falcons, who rank second in the NFL in rushing (180.6 yards per game) are looking to improve their home record to 3-0 this season. Atlanta won its first road contest of the 2008 season 27-24 against the Packers last Sunday in Green Bay, Wisc.
FLOWERY BRANCH – The Atlanta Falcons game against the Chicago Bears at 1 p.m. on Sunday at the Georgia Dome is a sell out. The Falcons, who rank second in the NFL in rushing (180.6 yards per game) are looking to improve their home record to 3-0 this season. Atlanta won its first road contest of the 2008 season 27-24 against the Packers last Sunday in Green Bay, Wisc.
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FLOWERY BRANCH - Atlanta Falcons receiver Roddy White returned to the team Thursday and said he was encouraged about his role following a meeting with coach ...
Atlanta Falcons receiver Roddy White skipped practice Wednesday for an undisclosed personal matter, while the team addressed concerns that he's not happy with a ...
The Atlanta Falcons placed wide receiver and return specialist Devin Hester on injured reserve-designated to return with a turf toe injury on Tuesday.
Coach Dan Quinn has been trying to get the Atlanta Falcons to start games fast.
ATLANTA - Devonta Freeman just wanted a chance.
ATLANTA - Falcons coach Dan Quinn estimates there may be about 10 NFL players who make such devastating impacts in games they must be accounted for ...
FLOWERY BRANCH - Falcons coach Dan Quinn said Thursday he expects receiver Julio Jones will be "ready to rock" on Sunday against the Houston Texans despite ...
While leading the Atlanta Falcons to a surprising 3-0 start, first-year coach Dan Quinn has shown he can get a little emotional on the sideline.
New coach Dan Quinn has the Atlanta Falcons believing they can win.
ARLINGTON, Texas - Julio Jones glided over the goal line on a diving touchdown. That quieted a Dallas crowd riled up by early hopes that the ...
ARLINGTON, Texas - Matt Ryan and Julio Jones have Atlanta on the kind of roll Tony Romo and Dez Bryant were enjoying with Dallas before long-term ...
FLOWERY BRANCH - Roddy White knew the Falcons' comeback win over the Giants last week was not the time to complain about the end of a ...
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Mass shootings are the fastest growing sport of cowards in America
The cowards I refer to are not the shooters. The cowards are the politicians living in such fear of the NRA they are unwilling to respond to the majority cry for background checks, sensible regulation of access to guns in the United States.
Never forget!
Barack Obama put words to the desperation of millions of Americans – and the despair of the rest of the world – after another mass shooting at a school in Oregon on Thursday, the latest of nearly 1,000 since his reelection in 2012.
"Somehow," the president said, "this has become routine.
"The reporting is routine. My response here at this podium ends up being routine. The conversation in the aftermath of it," Obama trailed off, at once frustrated and spirited at the White House. "We've become numb to this … We talked about this after Columbine and Blacksburg; after Tucson, after Newtown; after Aurora, after Charleston."
The words mark a long list of tragedy. Since Obama's reelection to a second term in November 2012 – which itself was followed by the shooting of 26 people including 20 children at Sandy Hook elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, just a few weeks later – there had been 993 mass shooting events in the United States . Thursday's attack, at Umpqua community college in the town of Roseburg, was No 994. Almost 300 of them have occurred in 2015.
The numbers go deeper than the statements, as the president said…
…The number of firearm homicides in 2013, the last year for which the Center for Disease Control (CDC) has statistics, was 11,208. The year before Sandy Hook, it was 107 fewer than that.
That's just intentional homicides. Firearms are the cause of death for more than 33,000 people in America every year, according to the CDC; a number that includes both accidental discharge, murder and suicides, which are on the increase, especially in states with lax gun-control laws, according to the New England Journal of Medicine.
That means guns kill more people in America every six hours than terrorist attacks did in the entire year of 2014.
On top of that, in 2010 more than 73,000 Americans were treated in hospitals for firearm-related injuries, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
Eloquence means nothing. Republicans revel in the wash of bloodshed. Every murder, every child killed by accident, every drive-by shooting means the stupid vote stays solid for Republicans. They know Congress hasn't the courage to act, to lead.
Eloquence means nothing to Blue Dog Democrats invested more in cowardice than courage. They fear the stupid vote will be rounded up against their potential corral of sensible voters. They fear that even more than losing their share of blood money doled out to every politician who says "how high?" whenever the NRA says, "JUMP".
Just a touch of political economy…
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, though he has been short on specifics, has promised to produce an economy that grows 4 percent or more a year. His top economic advisers were leading decision-makers in the administration of his brother, President George W. Bush, when the rate of expansion never reached 4 percent. The only time over the past half-century that such growth was achieved for four consecutive years — the length of a presidential term — was under Bill Clinton.
No, this is not a ringing endorsement of the average Democrat understanding of economics – and, especially, political economy. Given the paucity of thought and understanding we're allowed with the two old parties, this is what we have.
At least Al Hunt has managed to keep his sense of humor, the theater of the absurd, while covering the truckloads of horse manure that passes for social and economic analysis in the popular press, our political punditry and, most of all, Congressional ideologues and demagogues.
Thanks, Al Hunt
The US Is an "oligarchy with unlimited political bribery" says former president
Former president Jimmy Carter said Tuesday on the nationally syndicated radio show the Thom Hartmann Program that the United States is now an "oligarchy" in which "unlimited political bribery" has created "a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors." Both Democrats and Republicans, Carter said, "look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves."
Carter was responding to a question from Hartmann about recent Supreme Court decisions on campaign financing like Citizens United.
HARTMANN: Our Supreme Court has now said, "unlimited money in politics." It seems like a violation of principles of democracy. … Your thoughts on that?
CARTER: It violates the essence of what made America a great country in its political system. Now it's just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and congress members. So now we've just seen a complete subversion of our political system as a payoff to major contributors, who want and expect and sometimes get favors for themselves after the election's over. … The incumbents, Democrats and Republicans, look upon this unlimited money as a great benefit to themselves. Somebody's who's already in Congress has a lot more to sell to an avid contributor than somebody who's just a challenger.
Just in case you feel good about the snow job we get on a daily basis from the leaders of the two old parties in the White House and Congress. They fill the air with blather and bluster about our constitutional tradition, free speech in action, the benefits we enjoy as a free people.
It has as much legitimate content as the average infomercial on network TV sold as filler in between fictional cop shows, comedies about fools and so-called reality TV. If you believe any of it – you are the fool.
Jimmy Carter continues to get my vote as the leading ex-president over the last century. He has the courage to tell the truth about everything from our phony foreign policy to criminal behavior in Congress.
Going for a record: 204 mass shootings in 204 days — in 2015, so far
Never Forget
…The headlines all start to sound the same after awhile. Seven people shot inside Louisville nightclub. Four men shot in Suffolk early Sunday morning. Two dead, two hospitalized in Brice Street shooting.
The shootings happen so often, the circumstances become so familiar, that we tune them out. One dead, five injured in west Columbus shooting. Four shot in grocery store ambush. One dead, four injured in Stockton shooting.
Every now and then a particularly heinous crime makes us pause and reflect. Nine dead in shooting at black church in Charleston. Four marines, one sailor killed in attacks on Chattanooga military facilities. Gunman opens fire on Louisiana movie theater.
The Mass Shooting Tracker, a crowd-sourced project of the anti-gun folks at the Guns Are Cool subreddit, lists 203 mass shooting events so far in 2015. Add in the shooting at a Louisiana movie theater last night and you get 204. Incidentally, yesterday was the 204th day of the year…
The Mass Shooting Tracker is different from other shooting databases in that it uses a broader definition of mass shooting. "The old FBI definition of Mass Murder (not even the most recent one) is four or more people murdered in one event," the site's creators explain. "It is only logical that a Mass Shooting is four or more people shot in one event."…
These shootings have become so common that they typically don't even make national news. Do you remember the four people shot in Cincinnati earlier this month? How about the seven in Cleveland, or the nine in Fort Wayne? Unless you live in these areas, you probably didn't even hear about them…
Will anything change? Probably not. The Charleston shooting did produce a fruitful national conversation — not on guns, but on the symbolism of the Confederate flag, which the shooter adopted as a banner of his racist beliefs. It took 150 years and a national tragedy for the country to reach something like a consensus on the meaning of a battle flag.
"Those who live in America, or visit it, might do best to regard [mass shootings] the way one regards air pollution in China: an endemic local health hazard which, for deep-rooted cultural, social, economic and political reasons, the country is incapable of addressing," The Economist wrote in response to the Charleston massacre. "This may, however, be a bit unfair. China seems to be making progress on pollution."
Republicans now control the cemetery vote
It turns out that one of the Grand Old Party's biggest—and least discussed—challenges going into 2016 is lying in plain sight, written right into the party's own nickname. The Republican Party voter is old—and getting older, and as the adage goes, there are two certainties in life: Death and taxes. Right now, both are enemies of the GOP and they might want to worry more about the former than the latter.
There's been much written about how millennials are becoming a reliable voting bloc for Democrats, but there's been much less attention paid to one of the biggest get-out-the-vote challenges for the Republican Party heading into the next presidential election: Hundreds of thousands of their traditional core supporters won't be able to turn out to vote at all.
The party's core is dying off by the day.
Since the average Republican is significantly older than the average Democrat, far more Republicans than Democrats have died since the 2012 elections. To make matters worse, the GOP is attracting fewer first-time voters. Unless the party is able to make inroads with new voters, or discover a fountain of youth, the GOP's slow demographic slide will continue election to election. Actuarial tables make that part clear, but just how much of a problem for the GOP is this?…
By combining presidential election exit polls with mortality rates per age group from the U.S. Census Bureau, I calculated that, of the 61 million who voted for Mitt Romney in 2012, about 2.75 million will be dead by the 2016 election. President Barack Obama's voters, of course, will have died too—about 2.3 million of the 66 million who voted for the president won't make it to 2016 either. That leaves a big gap in between, a difference of roughly 453,000 in favor of the Democrats…
"I've never seen anyone doing any studies on how many dead people can't vote," laughs William Frey, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who specializes in demographic studies. "I've seen studies on how many dead people do vote. The old Daley Administration in Chicago was very good at that."
RTFA for details and especially variables critical to both of the two parties if anyone is to take advantage of demographics.
One thing is certain. Dead people don't vote, at least not as much as they did in Chicago in 1960. Core Republican voters not only oppose change, they fear progress. Core Democrats not only support change broadly, they welcome progress and equal opportunity.
Republicans hope for a narrow discussion of anything but the foolishness that actually guides their decision-making.
Thanks to my favorite recovering Republican
Warren 1 — 0 Republicans + Obama
Senate Democrats have dealt President Barack Obama a stinging setback on trade by blocking efforts to begin full-blown debate on his initiatives.
All but one Senate Democrat defied the president Tuesday by voting to prevent consideration of his request for "fast track" trade authority. Such authority would let Obama present trade agreements that Congress could ratify or reject, but not amend.
Proponents needed 60 votes to thwart a Democratic filibuster, but managed only 52 in the 100-member Senate.
Obama's supporters say they will try again, possibly starting in the House. But Tuesday's vote highlighted the deep divide between Obama and the many congressional Democrats who say trade deals hurt U.S. jobs.
Keep on rocking in the Free World.
Just as NAFTA was passed under Clinton, essentially a Republican bill was offered with hopes for sufficient Blue Dog Democrats climbing on board to get it through.
Regardless of the rationales offered by President Obama, the only reason for passing fast track legislation is to inhibit an up-or-down vote in Congress. Especially in the case where a bill is anti-democratic, against the will and needs of workingclass families.
This may not be up to the stage of crystal ball forecasting; but, it surely is nice to see Democrats try to act like they haven't forgotten their workingclass base, entirely.
Is this the end of the tale? Hardly. It won't take dramatic progressive change in White House trade policies to get the average Dem to cave. And I expect cave they will. They owe as much to corporate lobbyists as do Republicans. Their accountability is still the kind defined by accountants – not workingclass heros.
Analysis of party affiliation — which continues to decline
Democrats hold advantages in party identification among blacks, Asians, Hispanics, well-educated adults and Millennials. Republicans have leads among whites – particularly white men, those with less education and evangelical Protestants – as well as members of the Silent Generation…
The share of independents in the public, which long ago surpassed the percentages of either Democrats or Republicans, continues to increase. Based on 2014 data, 39% identify as independents, 32% as Democrats and 23% as Republicans. This is the highest percentage of independents in more than 75 years of public opinion polling…
When the partisan leanings of independents are taken into account, 48% either identify as Democrats or lean Democratic; 39% identify as Republicans or lean Republican. The gap in leaned party affiliation has held fairly steady since 2009, when Democrats held a 13-point advantage…
Race and ethnicity. Republicans hold a 49%-40% lead over the Democrats in leaned party identification among whites. The GOP's advantage widens to 21 points among white men who have not completed college…and white southerners… The Democrats hold an 80%-11% advantage among blacks, lead by close to three-to-one among Asian Americans…and by more than two-to-one among Hispanics…
Gender. Women lean Democratic by 52%-36%; men are evenly divided…Gender differences are evident in nearly all subgroups: For instance, Republicans lead among married men…while married women are evenly divided…Democrats hold a substantial advantage among all unmarried adults, but their lead in leaned partisan identification is greater among unmarried women…than among unmarried men…
Education. Democrats lead by 22 points…in leaned party identification among adults with post-graduate degrees. The Democrats' edge is narrower among those with college degrees or some post-graduate experience…and those with less education…Across all educational categories, women are more likely than men to affiliate with the Democratic Party or lean Democratic. The Democrats' advantage is 35 points…among women with post-graduate degrees, but only eight points…among post-grad men.
Generations. Millennials continue to be the most Democratic age cohort; 51% identify as Democrats or lean Democratic, compared with 35% who identify with the GOP or lean Republican. There are only slight differences in partisan affiliation between older and younger millennials. Republicans have a four-point lead among the Silent Generation…the most Republican age cohort.
Religion. Republicans lead in leaned party identification by 48 points among Mormons and 46 points among white evangelical Protestants. Younger white evangelicals…are about as likely older white evangelicals to identify as Republicans or lean Republican. Adults who have no religious affiliation lean Democratic by a wide margins…Jews lean Democratic by roughly two-to-one…The balance of leaned partisan affiliation among white Catholics and white mainline Protestants closely resembles that of all whites.
The biggest change in partisan affiliation in recent years is the growing share of Americans who decline to affiliate with either party: 39% call themselves independents, 32% identify as Democrats and 23% as Republicans…
The rise in the share of independents has been particularly dramatic over the past decade…
I was a founding member of the Young Republicans Chapter in my home town. That lasted about six weeks.
I was the chairman of the COPE Committee in a couple of UAW Locals. Like just about everyone in any Local 1199 of hospital workers I was a political activist.
I thoroughly resent the fact that New Mexico hasn't open primaries. I have to register as a Democrat to have a voice in choosing who I get to vote for when elections roll around. There is no likelihood the Republican Party will offer anyone I could vote for. Today.
Go back to the first sentence in this commentary – and that was in New England in the 1950's. In the small town I lived in, then, there were honest differences in policy, priorities. Both parties in that town opposed racism, supported my kind of activism in civil rights, civil liberties. Both rejected any serious activism for peace. I became a Progressive Independent.
Democrats have lost most of their backbone since then. Republicans have walked away from any concern for equal rights, opportunity, environment, honest government. I'll usually settle for a Democrat candidate vs. a Republican thug in my neck of the prairie. The Greens haven't a clue. Unfortunately.
Geeks + Democrats = Net Neutrality
Yes – there's still the risk of Big Money court battles ahead
Senior Republicans have conceded…that the grueling fight with President Obama over the regulation of Internet service appears over, with the president and an army of Internet activists victorious.
The Federal Communications Commission is expected on Thursday to approve regulating Internet service like a public utility, prohibiting companies from paying for faster lanes on the Internet. While the two Democratic commissioners are negotiating over technical details, they are widely expected to side with the Democratic chairman, Tom Wheeler, against the two Republican commissioners.
And Republicans on Capitol Hill, who once criticized the plan as "Obamacare for the Internet," now say they are unlikely to pass a legislative response that would undo perhaps the biggest policy shift since the Internet became a reality…
The new F.C.C. rules are still likely to be tied up in a protracted court fight with the cable companies and Internet service providers that oppose it, and they could be overturned in the future by a Republican-leaning commission. But for now, Congress's hands appear to be tied.
The F.C.C. plan would let the agency regulate Internet access as if it is a public good. It would follow the concept known as net neutrality or an open Internet, banning so-called paid prioritization — or fast lanes — for willing Internet content providers.
In addition, it would ban the intentional slowing of the Internet for companies that refuse to pay broadband providers. The plan would also give the F.C.C. the power to step in if unforeseen impediments are thrown up by the handful of giant companies that run many of the country's broadband and wireless networks…
"We've been outspent, outlobbied. We were going up against the second-biggest corporate lobby in D.C., and it looks like we've won," said Dave Steer, director of advocacy for the Mozilla Foundation, the nonprofit technology foundation that runs Firefox, a popular Web browser, referring to the cable companies. "A year ago today, we did not think we would be in this spot."
The net neutrality movement pitted new media against old and may well have revolutionized notions of corporate social responsibility and activism. Top-down decisions by executives investing in or divesting themselves of resources, paying lobbyists and buying advertisements were upended by the mobilization of Internet customers and users.
Our beneficent Telecom rulers and their Republican flunkies will not stop pimping their case, of course. The lies they constructed as part of their agitprop during the campaign to influence the FCC will become a plank in the Republican campaign for the White House in 2016.
Should they win full control of the United States government – those of us who stay behind in the GOUSA to fight a rear-guard action against the building of a Brave New World of Corporatism [Mussolini felt that sounds better than fascism] will no doubt be relegated by law to dial-up, standard def and B&W TV. And flip phones.
Will Democrats walk away from obedience to Wall Street?
America's presidential election is still nearly two years away, and few candidates have formally thrown their hats into the ring. But both Democrats and Republicans are hard at work figuring out what will appeal to voters in their parties' respective primary elections – and thinking about what will play well to the electorate as a whole in November 2016.
The contrast between the parties at this stage is striking. Potential Republican presidential candidates are arguing among themselves about almost everything, from economics to social issues; it is hard to say which ideas and arguments will end up on top. The Democrats, by contrast, are in agreement on most issues, with one major exception: financial reform and the power of very large banks.
The Democrats' internal disagreement on this issue is apparent when one compares three major proposals to address income inequality that the party and its allies have presented in recent weeks. There are only small differences between President Barack Obama's proposals (in his budget and State of the Union address), those made in a high-profile report from the Center for American Progress, and ideas advanced by Chris Van Hollen, an influential member of Congress. (For example, Van Hollen recommends more redistribution from higher-income people to offset a larger tax cut for middle-income groups.)
Against this backdrop of programmatic unity, the difference of opinion among leading Democrats concerning Wall Street – both the specifics of the 2010 Dodd-Frank financial reforms and more broadly – stands out in bold relief.
But a serious challenge to all of these views has now emerged, in proposals by Senator Elizabeth Warren, a rising Democratic star who has become increasingly prominent at the national level. In her view, the authorities need to confront head-on the outsize influence and dangerous structure of America's largest banks.
Warren's opponents like to suggest that her ideas are somehow outside the mainstream; in fact, she draws support from across the political spectrum. In last month's fight against Citigroup's successful effort to roll back Dodd-Frank, for example, Warren's allies included the House Democratic leadership, the Independent Community Bankers of America, Republican Senator David Vitter, and Thomas Hoenig (a Republican-appointed vice chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation).
Warren's message is simple: remove the implicit government subsidies that support the too-big-to-fail banks. That single move would go a long way toward reducing, if not eliminating, crony capitalism and strengthening market competition in the financial sector. This is a message that plays well across the political spectrum. And growing support for Warren's ideas helps the Federal Reserve and other responsible regulators in their efforts to prevent big banks from taking on dangerous levels of risk.
RTFA. Consider the possibility that the Democrat Party – unlike Republicans – might challenge subservience to Wall Street or be satisfied with populist lip service to core reforms pressed by Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and many others?
U.S. Attorney nails NY State "3 men in a room" culture – with an indictment
Two of the "3 men in a room" — NY Governor Andrew Cuomo, State Assembly Speaker, Sheldon Silver
One day after charging one of New York's leading lawmakers with exploiting his office to obtain millions of dollars in kickbacks and bribes, the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York delivered a stinging condemnation of the culture of corruption in Albany and said the system was set up to breed misdeeds.
The prosecutor, Preet Bharara, speaking at the New York Law School on Friday, castigated how deal-making has long been done in Albany — by "three men in a room" (the governor, the State Assembly speaker and the State Senate majority leader), who work in secret and without accountability to decide most vital issues.
For decades, state government has essentially been controlled by the three leaders. When they emerge from their private meetings, issues are usually settled, with no cause for public debate.
Mr. Bharara said this structure could lead to the kind of corruption outlined in the criminal complaint unveiled on Thursday against Sheldon Silver, a Manhattan Democrat who has been the Assembly speaker for two decades.
If the charges are proved true, he said, then "at least one of the proverbial three men in a room is compromised."
If that is the case, he said, "then how can we trust that anything that gets decided in Albany is on the level?"
By concentrating power in the hands of so few, he said, good people are discouraged from running for office because they know they will have little influence on important matters…
…Mr. Bharara compared the culture in Albany to Wall Street, where he has aggressively pursued insider trading prosecutions.
Rather than trying to work for a greater good, he said, many people focused on where the line is between legal and illegal, and then steered as close as possible to that border without crossing over.
Such a mentality, he said, is a recipe for trouble…
…He urged voters to get angry, to demand change. "My hope is that in bringing the case," he said, "there will be reform."
"That almost happened with the Moreland Commission," Mr. Bharara said, referring to the anticorruption panel established by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo that was looking at lawmakers' behavior when the governor shut it down…
And that governor, Andrew Cuomo was one of those "3 men in a room". Which just may have provided his reason for shutting down the commission investigating New York State corruption.
I doubt he counted on Preet Bharara getting a court order requiring everything from the Moreland Commission to be turned over to the US Attorney — much less carrying the investigation through to the indictment of the man who has been State Assembly speaker for more than 20 years, Sheldon Silver.