I’m curious whether Greenwald/Guardian declined to publish Snowden’s new claims about US hacking in Hong Kong and mainland China, which appeared in the South China Morning Post.
I’ve got a really high threshold when it comes to things said by politician’s teenage children. But when they’re going by the online handle ‘n1ggerkiller’ and spouting anti-Semitic and homophobic slurs I think that passes the threshold.
Rep. King calls for jailing of Glenn Greenwald. Greenwald calls King a supporter of terrorism. And the kicker is that Greenwald’s at least half right.
House set to vote on nationwide ban on abortions past 20 weeks.
“I regard your forum as Democratic Party propaganda and your personal attacks against me as similar to attacks made by the Nazi Party against Jews when the Nazi Party was gaining power in Europe or attacks made by the Communist Party against non-Communists.”
More from, I guess, Not TPM Reader RW …
At some point during the last general election cycle, your discussion group started sending your advertisement for discussion points to my Juno e-mail account. I started discussing the topics of discussion and was evidently tolerated at that time because I predicted that the Romney campaign was going to fail and that the Republicans were done as a political party and would come out of this election about like the Federalists did out of the election of 1800.
The AP has more details on Pope Francis’ comments confirming the existence of a Vatican “gay lobby.” Read More
Sen. Tester all but supporting Snowden leak. “First of all, Snowden probably shouldn’t have done what he did. But the fact of the matter is is I don’t see how that compromises the security of this country whatsoever. And quite frankly, it helps people like me become aware of a situation that I wasn’t aware of before because I don’t sit on that Intelligence Committee.” Read.
GOP Rep. returns to always successful efforts to discuss pros and cons of rape.
I’m late to this. But I hadn’t heard the plans to build a new Central American canal – through Nicaragua and funded by a Chinese consortium – are so far advanced. Amazing mix of issues of engineering, geography, faltering US economic clout and political initiative, China’s economic rise and the long memory of Daniel Ortega.