Friday Show 10-21-16
State Dept. releases Clinton's misdated Benghazi schedule
State Department officials handed over Hillary Clinton's schedules from the days surrounding the 2012 Benghazi, Libya, attack, revealing a mistake on the documents that might have helped to keep them hidden until this week.
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GOP announces unprecedented contempt resolution for Clinton tech firm
Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, said Thursday that his panel planned to hold the firm that managed Hillary Clinton's email server in contempt of Congress, the first time he said his committee has ever taken such an "unprecedented" step to enforce a subpoena.
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Canada walks out on EU trade deal
Canada walked out of talks Friday meant to save a massive trade deal with the European Union, unable to break a deadlock with a small Belgian region that has been defying multinational efforts to have the pact signed next week.
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Anti-U.S. protesters demand action after violent police response
Hundreds of Filipinos protesting Friday outside the presidential palace burned a mock U.S. flag and asked President Rodrigo Duterte to punish police officers for brutally dispersing an anti-U.S. rally and ramming a van into some of the activists.
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Germans are leaving Germany
A growing number of Germans are abandoning neighborhoods in which they have lived all their lives, and others are leaving Germany for good, as mass immigration transforms parts of the country beyond recognition.
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Swedish city to offer returning Isis fighters housing and benefits in reintegration program
A programme to rehabilitate former Isis fighters and other extremists with housing, employment, education and financial support is being trialled in Sweden.
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Risk of ‘Mass Exodus’ of Doctors from Medicare
In what may be the most significant modification to Medicare since the program began in 1966, on Oct. 15, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the final rule for implementing the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA).
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Monday, October 24, 2016
Friday, July 08, 2016
Show Notes 07-08-2016
Thursday Show 7-8-16
Voices naturalized and energized to vote
I had heard Madeleine Albright call it the best day of her life once in a podcast. As I got up at 6:15 on the morning of my own naturalization last week for a ceremony that kicked off at a mystifyingly early 7:30, I wanted see whether what lay ahead would live up to the hype.
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UN Military vehicles on Virginia interstate
The sight of trucks bearing the United Nations logo being carted on Virginia’s highways has set some Internet bloggers asking why – but as one interested reader posted in the comment section of a story about the curious observance: These trucks are made in America and need to be transported for shipment to U.S. seaports.
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U.S. Ran $29,016,900,000 Merchandise Trade Deficit With China in May
The United States ran a $29,016,900,000 merchandise trade deficit with China in May, according to the data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. That was by far the largest bilateral merchandise trade deficit the U.S. ran with any country during the month.
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Medicare trust fund running out of money fast
Medicare’s main trust fund will run dry by 2028, two years earlier than previous estimates, according to a review released Wednesday by the Obama administration.
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Criminal charges eyed in trade of baby body parts
A special congressional panel has referred the University of New Mexico and an abortion business nearby for criminal investigation and possible charges following a review triggered by last year’s release of undercover videos investigating Planned Parenthood’s baby body-parts trade.
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WOMAN GIVES CHILLING, 1ST-HAND ACCOUNT OF MUSLIM RAPE THREAT
Sarah Penskey was in her garage unpacking boxes on a sunny morning in late June when she was approached by several bearded Somali men in their early to mid-20s.
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Voices naturalized and energized to vote
I had heard Madeleine Albright call it the best day of her life once in a podcast. As I got up at 6:15 on the morning of my own naturalization last week for a ceremony that kicked off at a mystifyingly early 7:30, I wanted see whether what lay ahead would live up to the hype.
Read More
UN Military vehicles on Virginia interstate
The sight of trucks bearing the United Nations logo being carted on Virginia’s highways has set some Internet bloggers asking why – but as one interested reader posted in the comment section of a story about the curious observance: These trucks are made in America and need to be transported for shipment to U.S. seaports.
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U.S. Ran $29,016,900,000 Merchandise Trade Deficit With China in May
The United States ran a $29,016,900,000 merchandise trade deficit with China in May, according to the data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau. That was by far the largest bilateral merchandise trade deficit the U.S. ran with any country during the month.
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Medicare trust fund running out of money fast
Medicare’s main trust fund will run dry by 2028, two years earlier than previous estimates, according to a review released Wednesday by the Obama administration.
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Criminal charges eyed in trade of baby body parts
A special congressional panel has referred the University of New Mexico and an abortion business nearby for criminal investigation and possible charges following a review triggered by last year’s release of undercover videos investigating Planned Parenthood’s baby body-parts trade.
Read More
WOMAN GIVES CHILLING, 1ST-HAND ACCOUNT OF MUSLIM RAPE THREAT
Sarah Penskey was in her garage unpacking boxes on a sunny morning in late June when she was approached by several bearded Somali men in their early to mid-20s.
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Saturday, August 01, 2015
Show Notes 07-30-2015
Thursday
show 07-30-15
Families
face tough decisions as cost of elder care soars
Doris
Ranzman had followed the expert advice, planning ahead in case she
wound up unable to care for herself one day. But when a nursing-home
bill tops $14,000 a month, the best-laid plans get tossed aside.
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Teens
emergency contraception use increase
The
percentage of teen girls who use emergency contraception, sometimes
referred to as the "morning-after pill," has increased
considerably over the last decade, according to a new report.
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On
June 28, 1914, a young Serbian nationalist named Gavrilo Princip
killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the
Austro-Hungarian Empire, in Sarajevo,Bosnia. Taking place against a
backdrop of escalating tensions in the Balkans, the assassination set
off a chain of events that would lead to the start of World War I
barely one month later.
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Graduates
Sue Rolling Stone Over Retracted Rape Story
Three
University of Virginia graduates and members of a fraternity profiled
in a debunked account of a gang rape in a retracted Rolling Stone
magazine story filed a lawsuit against the publication and the
article's author Wednesday, court records show.
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Stallone
puts 'Rocky,' 'Rambo' memorabilia up for auction
Sylvester
Stallone is parting with memorabilia from the "Rocky" and
"Rambo" movies, but he's keeping the two characters alive
onscreen.
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AP
Investigation: Olympic teams to swim, boat in Rio's filth
Athletes
competing in next year's Summer Olympics here will be swimming and
boating in waters so contaminated with human feces that they risk
becoming violently ill and unable to compete in the games, an
Associated Press investigation has found.
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Chicago
sheriff puts inmates to work demolishing abandoned buildings
A
Chicago sheriff has a new ally in the battle to rid the city of
abandoned properties that attract squatters, drugs and crime: prison
inmates.
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Navy
admiral confirms US pulling aircraft carrier from Persian Gulf this
fall
The
U.S. Navy will not have an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf this
fall for the first time in years, President Obama's nominee to be the
Navy's top officer told Capitol Hill lawmakers
Thursday.
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Court
dismisses lawsuit seeking person hood for 2 N.Y. chimps
Two
chimpanzees will not be freed from a New York state university where
they're used in locomotion studies after a court decision Thursday
dismissed a lawsuit that had sought to afford them legal personhood
rights.
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Saturday, December 22, 2012
Show Notes 12/20/2012
Uncooperative Radio Show Notes:
Thursday 12/20/12
As Connecticut story unfolds: media
struggle with facts
The scope and senselessness of the
Newtown, Conn., school shooting challenged journalists' ability to do
much more than lend, or impose, their presence on the scene.
Obama begins push for new national
retirement system
A recent hearing sponsored by the
Treasury and Labor Departments marked the beginning of the Obama
Administration’s effort to nationalize the nation’s pension
system and to eliminate private retirement accounts including IRA’s
and 401k plans, NSC is warning.
Fast and Furious: the gift that keeps
on giving
More than two years after the murder of
a Border Patrol agent cracked the lid on a gun trafficking scandal
that would bring down careers, hound the attorney general and force
Capitol Hill hearings, the mismanaged Operation Fast and Furious
continues to provide one thing that may haunt the Obama
administration for years: Dead bodies.
What did Mahatma Gandhi think of
violence and self-defense
I WOULD risk violence a thousand times
rather than risk the emasculation of a whole race.
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