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This evening's music features songs about elections and their consequences. Enjoy!
Alice Cooper - Elected
"Electioneering"
I will stop
I will stop at nothing
Say the right things
When electioneering
I trust I can rely on your vote
When I go forwards you go backwards and somewhere we will meet
Riot shields
Voodoo economics
It's just business
Cattle prods and the IMF
I trust I can rely on your vote
When I go forwards you go backwards and somewhere we will meet
-- Radiohead (Philip James Selway, Edward John O'brien, Jonathan Richard Guy Greenwood, Thomas Edward Yorke, Colin Charles Greenwood)
News and Opinion
An outstanding essay by Zephyr Teachout worth reading in full:
What ever happened to 'of the people, by the people, for the people'?
The super-rich have just bought another election. They own American democracy.
One early morning in Brooklyn a few months ago, when I was still running for governor of New York, I encountered a man talking to himself, agitated and loud. As I passed him on the sidewalk, he turned to me and started muttering, a blend of insults and epigrams. And then, just as I was about to vanish down the stairs into the subway, he yelled with a full throat:
"I am the captain of my ship. I am the master of my soul."
I was shaken, and not a little moved. This man is all of us, protesting that we still have control over ourselves despite the obvious evidence otherwise.
Because I was on the way to a political event, I felt it more broadly. We – America – we are that man, yelling about our own self-government, broadcasting these elections, trying in bluster to defy this simple, terrifying truth: we are not governed by ourselves. We have given up control of the ship.
The United States is facing more inequality than in 80 years. We have increasingly segregated schools, and fewer good jobs, and more hunger, fear and powerlessness. A few very wealthy interests – the wealth is so secretive and concentrated that the numbers are difficult to parse – have made clear that they intend to keep stripping our country of its resources and taking it for themselves. The 1% owns more than a third of the wealth in America, and four years ago, the Citizens United decision gave constitutional permission for corporate America to shamelessly enter politics.
Now, in the face of this quickly separating society, modern American political reporters are facing the difficult challenge of covering politics when politics itself has fundamentally changed. Are they reporting on a democracy or an oligarchy? In the frenzy preceding the elections on Tuesday, this schizophrenia has been on special display, when in one moment, reporters write about how this or that candidate lacks “charisma”, and five minutes later about how, really, palatability to big funders is the sole determiner of who runs for office.
[In case you were wondering where the quote in the article comes from, it is from "Invictus," by William Ernest Henley. Here it is:
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.]
The Priciest Midterms Ever, Brought to You by "Dark Money" and Election Finance Out of Control
Hat tip to divineorder, there's more to the article than I can fairly extract, so here's a teaser:
Here’s how we beat the right: How progressives withstand Fox News, the last Obama defenders, and chart a new future
Each year the middle class grows smaller, the democracy grows more corrupt and the chance of stopping global warming in time to save ourselves or our planet grows dimmer. You can’t run forever on the slogan “Die Slower! Vote Democratic!” Time’s running out on the democracy and the middle class, just as it is on global warming.
In the words of political upstarts everywhere, it’s time for a change. If it comes, it will be from within the Democratic Party, or rather from the progressives who still reside there. But for all the talk of a “populist revolt,” progressives have yet to spark one. If Democrats win the Senate on Tuesday, that’s unlikely to change. If they lose, progressives might wake up, which would be the best thing to happen to the Democrats in a long time. It may not feel like much consolation, but it’s true.
Let me be clear. There may be scant evidence of it lately, but it matters who runs the Senate. You don’t throw away a race on a theory; who knows if even losing the Senate would be a shock sufficient to revive Democrats? But we do know our politics grows ever more vicious and empty and that we are in desperate need of serious political debate. We know Wall Street colonized the Democratic Party and the Democratic Party colonized the left, and that we’ll have no such debate without a stronger, more independent progressive movement to help set its agenda. ...
Democrats call the election historic but can’t say why. It’s hard to enlist people to an agenda you can’t articulate, or make them care who runs a government that has stopped working. Voters see politics as a cesspool and Congress as a sideshow. So do progressives, yet they act as if the next Democrat in line will get us where we need to go. Here’s some really good news: the merry-go-round on which they’re trapped can’t run without them. Not only can they get off, but if they do, it stops for good.
Regardless of how Democrats do on Tuesday, many progressives will rush to hop on another horse. Someone should stop them. The time has come for progressives to hit the pause button on electoral politics, to take some time to reexamine their agenda, rethink their strategy and recognize their power.
Congressman warns of 'civil war' among Democrats unless Obama acts on immigration
A Democratic congressman who has led the drive for immigration reform said Monday that Latino voters could punish the party’s candidates in the midterm elections and warned of a “civil war” among Democrats unless Barack Obama uses his executive authority to suspend deportations of undocumented migrants.
Speaking on the campaign trail in Colorado on the eve of the elections, Representative Luis Gutiérrez, a key figure in the push for immigration reform on Capitol Hill, said the president’s decision to delay action on immigration has sapped enthusiasm among Hispanic voters.
Gutiérrez, who represents Illinois’ 4th congressional district, said he believed the president would deliver a promised executive order “before Christmas”. But he gave a dire warning about the consequences for Democrats should Obama choose not to act swiftly and in broad terms, saying the costs would be considerably worse than the expected drop in turnout among Latinos and could result in people leaving the party.
“This problem that you see, politically, is nothing in comparison to the civil war that will be created politically in the Democratic party should the president not be broad and generous in his use of prosecutorial discretion,” he said. “Because Latinos will not be deciding whether or not they vote, but whether or not they are in the Democratic party.”
GOP Threatens a Senate Takeover, But State Votes Could Bring Rejection of Right-Wing Agenda
Hackers Could Decide Who Controls Congress Thanks to Alaska’s Terrible Internet Ballots
When Alaska voters go to the polls tomorrow to help decide whether the U.S. Senate will remain in Democratic control, thousands will do so electronically, using Alaska’s first-in-the-nation internet voting system. And according to internet security experts, including the former top cybersecurity official for the Department of Homeland Security, that system is a security nightmare that threatens to put control of the U.S. Congress in the hands of foreign or domestic hackers.
Any registered Alaska voter can obtain an electronic ballot, mark it on their computers using a web-based interface, save the ballot as a PDF, and return it to their county elections department through what the state calls “a dedicated secure data center behind a layer of redundant firewalls under constant physical and application monitoring to ensure the security of the system, voter privacy, and election integrity.”
That sounds great, but even the state acknowledges in an online disclaimer that things could go awry, warning that “when returning the ballot through the secure online voting solution, your are voluntarily waving [sic] your right to a secret ballot and are assuming the risk that a faulty transmission may occur.”
That disclaimer is a pre-emptive admission of failure, says Bruce McConnell, who served until 2013 as the top cybersecurity officer for DHS. “They admit that they are not taking responsibility for the validity of the system,” McConnell told The Intercept. “They’re saying, ‘Your vote may be counted correctly, incorrectly, or may not be counted at all, and we are not taking any responsibility for that.’ That kind of disclaimer would be unacceptable if you saw it on the wall of a polling place.” ...
Alaska isn’t alone: About half of the states currently allow electronic return of ballots for active duty military or overseas voters, mostly via traditional, unencrypted e-mail, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures. Just this week, a Rutgers University study described the emergency e-mail balloting procedure instituted in New Jersey in 2012 for displaced voters after Hurricane Sandy as a disaster, with thousands of ballots not counted or counted improperly.
Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Thailand
One of the founders of Pirate Bay has been arrested under an Interpol warrant as he was crossing into Thailand from Laos.
Hans Fredrik Lennart Neij, who uses the alias TiAMO, was detained on Monday by Thai immigration police at a checkpoint in Thailand’s Nong Khai province.
Neij, along with other Pirate Bay co-founders, was convicted of aiding copyright infringement by a court in Sweden in 2009. He fled the country after being released on bail.
Regional immigration police commissioner Major General Chartchai Eimsaeng said a US-based film association had hired a Thai lawyer to search for Neij, and his photo had been given to immigration police in Nong Khai.
The US film and music industries have for years pursued strong legal action against sites such as Pirate Bay, which they say aid the illegal distribution of copyrighted material.
Ukraine president in crisis talks with security chiefs over ‘electoral farce’
Ukraine’s president, Petro Poroshenko, is to meet his security chiefs on Tuesday after pro-Russia rebels held elections that proved they would never again be ruled by Kiev.
Separatist leaders in Luhansk and Donetsk claimed victory in the votes in the east of the country, which Poroshenko condemned as an electoral farce and said had violated a peace accord agreed in September.
The Ukrainian president said in televised address late on Monday that he intended to scrap a law that would have offered special status to areas in the east, including those controlled by the rebels.
Kiev says the peace accord provided only for election of local officials under Ukrainian law, and not for separatist ballots aimed at bringing in leaders of breakaway entities who seek close association or even union with Russia. It said it would open criminal cases against the organisers.
The West Is Silent as Libya Falls into the Abyss
Remember the time when Libya was being held up by the American, British, French and Qatari governments as a striking example of benign and successful foreign intervention? It is worth looking again at film of David Cameron grandstanding as liberator in Benghazi in September 2011 as he applauds the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi and tells the crowd that "your city was an example to the world as you threw off a dictator and chose freedom".
Mr Cameron has not been back to Benghazi, nor is he likely to do so as warring militias reduce Libya to primal anarchy in which nobody is safe. The majority of Libyans are demonstrably worse off today than they were under Gaddafi, notwithstanding his personality cult and authoritarian rule. The slaughter is getting worse by the month and is engulfing the entire country.
"Your friends in Britain and France will stand with you as you build your democracy," pledged Mr Cameron to the people of Benghazi. Three years later, they are words he evidently wants to forget, since there was almost no reference to Libya, the one military intervention he had previously ordered, when he spoke in the House of Commons justifying British airstrikes against Islamic State (Isis) in Iraq.
The foreign media has largely ceased to cover Libya because it rightly believes it is too dangerous for journalists to go there. Yet I remember a moment in the early summer of 2011 in the frontline south of Benghazi when there were more reporters and camera crews present than there were rebel militiamen. ... Human rights organisations have had a much better record in Libya than the media since the start of the uprising in 2011. They discovered that there was no evidence for several highly publicised atrocities supposedly carried out by Gaddafi's forces that were used to fuel popular support for the air war in the US, Britain, France and elsewhere.
Foreign governments and media alike have good reason to forget what they said and did in Libya in 2011, because the aftermath of the overthrow of Gaddafi has been so appalling. The extent of the calamity is made clear by two reports on the present state of the country, one by Amnesty International called "Libya: Rule of the gun – abductions, torture and other militia abuses in western Libya" and a second by Human Rights Watch, focusing on the east of the country, called "Libya: Assassinations May Be Crimes Against Humanity".
Tragic Setbacks for U.S. Allies in Iraq and Syria
Western Iraq saw more brutal bloodshed this weekend after the Islamic State massacred 322 people of the Albu Nimr tribe, a Sunni group, including women and children. ... The tribe had been working to fend off ISIS militants, but began to run low on ammunition, food, and fuel last week. Sheik Naeem al-Ga'oud, a tribe leader, had according to Reuters "repeatedly asked the central government and army to provide his men with arms but no action was taken." ...
In response to the mass killing, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered more airstrikes against ISIS-held territories, though details surrounding the timing of new airstrikes remain unclear.
Beyond the lives lost, the success of these "systematic killings" will have a long-term impact on the struggle between ISIS and the Iraqi government. "The fall of the village dampened the Shi'ite-led national government's hopes the Sunni tribesmen of Anbar—who once helped U.S. Marines defeat al Qaeda—would become a formidable force again and help the army take on Iraq's new, far more effective enemy," noted Reuters's Michael Georgy.
In Syria, the United States faced another setback in its battle against terrorist groups, when weapons distributed to anti-government rebels ended up in the hands of an al-Qaeda splinter group, Jabhat al-Nusra. The weapons provided by the United States included GRAD rockets and TOW anti-tank missiles. ... The Independent reported that a U.S.-backed rebel group, Harakat Hazm, surrendered on Saturday night "without firing a shot" after al-Nusra attacked the villages it controlled. Some soldiers apparently defected, and the Syrian Revolutionary Front, another group receiving U.S. support, was driven from its strongholds.
Pentagon Downplays Mounting Losses in Iraq, Syria
Major losses on both the Iraqi and Syrian sides of the ISIS conflict emerged over the weekend, with ISIS routing a pro-Iraqi govt Sunni tribe and massacring hundreds of them, while Jabhat al-Nusra, al-Qaeda’s wing in Syria, forced a key US-allied moderate rebel faction to surrender. ...
The Pentagon may want to split hairs here, but the SRF was awash in US weaponry and was repeatedly touted by the administration as one of those “vetted, moderate” factions. The problem was that, like so many of the “vetted, moderate” factions, they couldn’t fight their way out of a paper bag, and were long reliant on Nusra to do the fighting for them. When the US war split them irrevocably from Nusra, it just meant they were going to get taken over, and the real loss is the US weapons.
The Pentagon seems so far content that it can deflect all criticism of its many, many failures in Iraq and Syria by arguing that the war is so open-ended that it is unfair to judge it by “just three months” of failures. It’s unclear how long this excuse will remain viable, though with some officials talking up a 30-year war and the Pentagon now expecting any tangible gains until late 2015, it could be quite some time.
"Chickenshit" Bibi thumbs his nose at Obama by ordering another 500 illegal settler homes in East Jerusalem on top of last week's 1000.
Israel advances plan for 500 more settler homes in East Jerusalem
An Israeli government committee on Monday advanced plans for 500 settler homes in East Jerusalem, an official said, in the face of disapproval from the United States at construction on occupied Palestinian land.
The Interior Ministry panel's preliminary approval of the new homes for Ramat Shlomo, a neighborhood built on West Bank territory captured in the 1967 war and annexed to Jerusalem in a move not recognized abroad, was kept low profile in an apparent bid to avoid friction with Washington.
A week ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered plans for some 600 housing units for Ramat Shlomo and 400 others for Har Homa, another East Jerusalem neighborhood, to be advanced.
Palestinian officials have voiced alarm, echoed in the international community, over the settlements, viewing them as a main obstacle to founding the independent state they seek in the West Bank and Gaza Strip with East Jerusalem as its capital.
Gaza Cut Off From All Sides As 'Collective Punishment' Deepens
Israel and Egypt close border crossings as Gaza struggles to rebuild from Israeli onslaught
Despite widespread calls for increased humanitarian aid and economic activity, the approximately 1.8 million people living in the Gaza Strip have been further isolated from the outside world following Israel's closure Sunday, and Egypt's closure last week, of border crossings into the Palestinian territory.
The Israeli Defense Ministry stated Sunday it has closed its Erez and Kerem Shalom crossings to Gaza in response to a single rocket fire from Gaza, which resulted in no injuries, deaths, or damages. Gisha, a legal center that advocates for Palestinian freedom of movement, reported Monday that both passages remained closed for a second day, save for extremely limited transport of fuel in and medical patients.
The U.S.-backed Egyptian government last week shut the Rafah crossing into Gaza and commenced destroying Egyptian nearby homes to create a so-called "buffer zone" along the border.
Palestinian rights campaigners warn that the closures are especially dangerous as traumatized and displaced Gaza residents struggle to rebuild from Israel’s recent seven-week military assault in which 2,000 Palestinians—at least 75 percent of them civilians—were killed.
Palestinian stone throwers could face 20 years in jail
Israel’s cabinet has approved a law change allowing harsher jail sentences of up to 20 years for stone throwers after tensions erupted again last week in Jerusalem’s Old City.
The move comes after months of rioting in east Jerusalem where Palestinian residents have thrown rocks and fire bombs at police, cars, buses and trains. Over the past 10 days, 110 Palestinians have been arrested by Israeli police in the area.
The al-Aqsa compound, or Temple Mount, has become a central point in the escalating violence in the city. The compound houses Islam’s third-holiest site, but is also a sacred spot for Jews, who refer to it as the Temple Mount because it once housed two Jewish temples.
The compound was closed last Thursday as a security precaution after anti-terrorist police shot dead a Palestinian man who was suspected of having tried to kill a far-right Jewish activist the night before. It was reopened on Friday for Muslim women and men over 50 for Friday prayer but the grounds were closed to other faiths and tourists.
According to Israel’s justice ministry, the proposed change to Israel’s penal code would make it possible for police to charge someone with throwing objects in a manner that is likely to cause harm. A jail sentence of 20 years would be possible. Previously those caught throwing stones could be sentenced to up to two years in jail.
How the No-Fly Zone in Ferguson Became the No-Justice Zone
Ferguson Police Emails Reveal 'Life is Very Rough' for Officers
In the wake of the shooting death of Michael Brown, police officers in Ferguson, Missouri feared that people in the community were "gunning" for them, and officers were having a "rough" time dealing with the news media, according to an email written by Assistant Police Chief Al Eickhoff.
Eickhoff's email was one of only seven internal emails the City of Ferguson turned over to VICE News in response to an open-records request filed in late September for records pertaining to Brown's death and the protests that immediately followed. For those seven emails, the City of Ferguson charged VICE News a fee of more than $1,200.
In a written request, we asked for any emails that contained keywords including Michael Brown, curfew, protest, National Guard, and violence. But according to the City of Ferguson, in the nearly two months between August 9, the day the unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson, and October 3, police and city officials did not write the name Michael Brown in a single email. ...
"All emails from August 9 through October 3 were searched," [City Clerk Megan] Asikainen said after we inquired about the small number of emails containing those keywords in light of Brown's killing and the unrest that followed. "There were several days following August 9 that the City did not have email capability at all. And, even after that, email capability was not up to par for several more days. To be quite frank, city officials could not rely on and could not utilize email as a timely and effective method of communication for some time following the initial server and computer difficulties."
Asikainen was on vacation and could not elaborate further on the nature of the server outage. Lawrence Miskel, the city's human resources manager, told VICE News that almost three months after the apparent email outage, he still does not know what caused it.
The Evening Greens
Here's Another Sobering United Nations Report on Climate Change
Low-carbon energy sources must produce most of the world's power by the middle of this century and fossil fuel burning will need to be almost completely phased out by 2100 in order to avoid "severe, pervasive, and irreversible" damage to the Earth's climate system, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said in its latest report, released on Sunday.
It's the latest in a year-long series of climate studies released by the panel. But some scientist are wondering if these big, consensus documents — released every seven years or so — are the best way to communicate what researchers understand about climate change and move forward the seemingly intractable political stalemate on securing an international climate pact. For decades, climate scientists have been in agreement about the need to address a warming planet. It's the public and some politicians who still need to be convinced. And these reports don't seem to make much of a dent.
"People assume the purpose of these reports is to change the public's mind," Katherine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University, told VICE News. "Clearly that's not happening and clearly that's not what the public needs. One more report is not what's going to change people's minds."
While many people believe that more scientific reports leads to greater knowledge of climate change, which will in turn mean more support for policies that keep fossil fuels in the ground, social science suggests that the release of these high-profile studies can actually deepen the gap between those that understand the science and those they deny that climate change is occurring.
In a paper published in the journal Nature, Yale University professor Dan Kahan found that increased science literacy created more polarization among members of the public, not less.
An individual's feelings on climate change are affected more by personal interests and beliefs, Kahan found, than by increased access to scientific facts — a sociological problem that highlights the difficulty of spreading accurate climate science to the public and informing public policy debates.
IPCC Synthesis Report Stops Short of Naming the Worst Emitters of CO2
India air pollution 'cutting crop yields by almost half'
Air pollution in India has become so severe that yields of crops are being cut by almost half, scientists have found.
Researchers analysed yields for wheat and rice alongside pollution data, and concluded significant decreases in yield could be attributed to two air pollutants, black carbon and ground level ozone. The finding has implications for global food security as India is a major rice exporter.
Black carbon is mostly caused by rural cookstoves, and ozone forms as a result of motor vehicle exhaust, industrial emissions, and chemical solvents reacting in the atmosphere in the presence of sunlight. Both are “short-lived climate pollutants” that exist locally in the atmosphere for weeks to months, with ozone damaging plants’ leaves and black carbon reducing the amount of sunlight they receive.
The study looked at both the effects of climate change and the two pollutants on crop yields.
“While temperature’s gone up in the last three decades, the levels of smog and pollution have changed much more dramatically,” says Jennifer Burney, an environmental scientist at University of California, San Diego, and co-author of the paper, published in the journal PNAS. “But this was the first time anyone looked at historical data to show that these pollutants are having tremendous impacts on crops.”
Forging a 'Different Path,' Communities Take Fracking Fight to the Ballot
Environmental groups and concerned community members have taken to the streets in their fight to stop fracking—an extraction process they say threatens environmental and public health.
But the issue has made its way to the ballot as well; in communities in California, Ohio and Texas, voters have a chance to enact fracking bans on November 4. ...
If enacted, the Community Bill of Rights, Issue 4 on Youngstown's ballot, would prohibit unconventional oil and gas extraction methods including fracking. ...
Athens, Gates Mills and Kent join Youngstown with similar ballot measures. That makes a record number of municipalities in Ohio trying to enact Community Bills of Rights initiatives, says the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF), which drafted the measures.
A ballot measure to ban fracking also comes to the belly of the oil and gas industry—Texas—where the city of Denton could be the state's first to ban fracking. ...
Their efforts to ban the practice have been vastly outspent by industry groups—another example of a David versus Goliath battle, ban supporters say. ...
Three counties in California—Mendocino, Santa Barbara and San Benito—are also putting a fracking ban in front of voters.
'Unprecedented Mobilization': Hundred Thousand Rise Against Irish Water Tax
Across Ireland, crowds of people took to the streets on Saturday in a mass mobilization against a government austerity scheme to charge residents for domestic water usage.
With over 70 demonstrations planned across the nation, organizers estimated as many as 100,000 Irish citizens are expected to take part in the actions.
The demonstrations follow on the heels of 100,000-strong march in the nation's capital to protest a recently enacted government plan to install water meters on homes and charge residents for private water usage. Angry residents have also begun blocking the water meter installations.
"From Ballyshannon in Donegal to Tralee in Kerry, we are witnessing an unprecedented popular mobilisation which started in Dublin on October 11th, and will only end when domestic water user charges are abolished," said the group Right2Water in a press statement ahead of the Saturday actions. The group says that the historic showing reflects the "level of public anger surrounding the water charges."
Blog Posts of Interest
Here are diaries and selected blog posts of interest on DailyKos and other blogs.
What's Happenin' Is On Hiatus
Heckled by his own party's millionaire donor: Mark Udall campaign hit by friendly fire
An excellent article on Obama's and America's crisis of the loss of compassion and decency:
Why is Obama still locking up so many innocent women and kids on US soil?
Glaring Front Page Error by David Sanger, New York Times as Iran Nuclear Negotiations Near Deadline
Noam Chomsky | The Leading Terrorist State
Facing Up to the Capitalist Within
A Little Night Music
Chicago Beau - Be Careful How You Vote
Tracy Chapman - Talkin' bout a revolution
Otis Redding - Change Is Gonna Come
Bob Marley - Revolution
The Clash - Revolution Rock
Gil Scott-Heron - The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Kaiser Chiefs - I Predict A Riot
R.E.M. - Ignoreland
Ray Davies - Dead End Street
The Who - Wont Get Fooled Again
Steve Earle - The Revolution Starts Now
The Beatles - Revolution
T-Rex - Children of The Revolution
Nickelback - Edge Of A Revolution
Portland Cello Project - Electioneering
Steve Goodman - Election Year Rag
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