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Tonight's music is a continuation of last night's theme, songs that are loosely attached to the idea of home. Enjoy!
Muddy Waters - My Home Is In The Delta
"At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get very far."
-- Muhammad Ali
News
Bill Black Reports: LIBOR and HSBC
The bar is set by the Senate Democrats - a constitutional amendment will be required to right the wrong of Citizens United, nothing less will do. One would imagine that this interpretation of the facts is greatly to the liking of the 1%, giving them a significant period of advantage to work their will.
“I have reached the conclusion that a constitutional amendment is necessary,” Durbin said. “It is an uphill battle. It may take years.”
Constitutional amendment required to undo Citizens United, Senate panel told
It will take a constitutional amendment to reverse the flood of independent money inundating American elections in the aftermath of the US Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United decision, a Senate Judiciary subcommittee was told on Tuesday.
New laws alone will not be enough to counter the impact of the 2010 high court decision establishing that corporations have a First Amendment right to make independent political expenditures during election season, witnesses told the panel.
The hearing of the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Human Rights arises in a particularly heated election season in which new political spending enabled by Citizens United has played a prominent role. The hearing was chaired by Sen. Richard Durbin (D) of Illinois and was entirely a production of Democratic members of the Senate.
Anaheim police fire on media as unrest continues
Anaheim Police officers reportedly fired pepper balls and bean bags at demonstrators and journalists Tuesday night during the latest round of protests against last weekend’s police shootings.
Freelance journalist Tim Pool posted a video of himself and another journalist, Amber Lyon, being fired upon, an incident he first mentioned while live-streaming the protests Tuesday night. Pool also said during his live-stream that he was fired at after identifying himself as a media member. Staff members at KFI-AM also reported via Twitter that they were fired upon.
Judge says it's OK to use your seized phone to impersonate you and entrap your friends
A federal judge has upheld the practice of police using seized phones to impersonate their owners, reading messages and sending sending entrapping replies to contacts in the phone's memory, without a warrant. The judge reasoned that constitutional privacy rights don't apply to messages if they appear on a seized device -- even if the messages originated with someone who has not been arrested or is under suspicion of any crime.
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opinion
"Robin Hood Tax" Makes Case in DC
Wall Street Icon Sandy Weill: Break Up The Big Banks
Former Citigroup Chairman and CEO Sandy Weill on Wednesday called for the breakup of the nation’s biggest banks.
“What we should probably do is go and split up investment banking from banking, have banks be deposit takers, have banks make commercial loans and real estate loans and have banks do something that’s not going to risk the taxpayer dollars, that’s not too big to fail,” Weill said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box”
Weill, a legend of Wall Street who invented the so-called financial “supermarket,” said breaking up the banks would shelter taxpayers and depositors from risky investments. Weill called for greater transparency: “There should be no such thing as off balance sheet.”
TPM hyperventilates over standard-issue partisan posturing, calling it "bold." They must have a severe case of election fever.
Dems Push Ahead With Bold Bush Tax Cut Strategy
An elaborate Kabuki dance to control political messaging will continue in the Senate Wednesday over whether all or only some of the Bush tax cuts should be extended. ... Senate Democrats had been taunting Republicans for days to allow an up-or-down vote on extending the Bush tax cuts for middle income earners only. Before today Senate Republicans had refused to do so, preferring instead to filibuster the Democratic measure. ...
“The only reason we won’t block [the Democratic bill] today is that we know it doesn’t pass constitutional muster and won’t become law,” he said on the Senate floor. McConnell is referring to the Constitution’s origination clause, which stipulates that revenue raising bills must have their first reading in the House — not the Senate.
If the Democrats’ bill passes — as Reid is signaling it would — the issue gets automatically kicked back to House, putting Speaker John Boehner on the hook for taking middle income tax cuts hostage in order to preserve tax cuts for the rich.
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin'
Senator Sanders Asks Obama: Will You Defend Social Security?
Austerity's Big Winners Prove To Be Wall Street And The Wealthy
A Little Night Music
Etta James - Down Home Blues
Johnny Billington - Down Home Blues
T-Bone Walker - Plain Old Down Home Blues
Kid Bailey - Mississippi Bottom Blues
Robert Johnson - Rambling On My Mind
Lightnin' Hopkins - Goin Back Home
The Dillards - The Old Home Place
Mountain Rhythm - Blue Ridge Cabin Home
Mudboy and the Neutrons - Angel Band
Gary P. Nunn - London Homesick Blues
Gus Cannon - Poor Boy, Long Ways From Home
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGee - Bring it on home to me
Big Bill Broonzy - Backwater Blues
Back Door Slam - Come Home
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