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Talking points on minimum wage vote.

Q: Why did you vote against increasing minimum wages? A: I voted against the estate tax cuts. Q: But you voted against increasing the minimum wage! A: No, I voted against cutting the estate tax.

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Starve the Beast.

No - not Government. Terrorism! I was thinking for a while now, how to counter that "War on Terror" catch-phrase. Make no mistake. It's a powerful one. It's probably the most powerful tool of deception...

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Terrorist plot foiled in Germany, too.

This story is already old news (but the only recent in English I found): http://service.spiegel.de/... It appears, that one of the suspects has been snatched, and a second attempt of a terrorist attack...

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"The Surge" - more masons can't save the sculpture

If you were to write the speech for George W. Bush, in which he probably will want to sell "The Surge" to the nation - how would you try to hide the fact, that doing now what might have worked three...

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Attacking Iran - a market perspective.

Sorry for this short diary. But if you follow that link to a research document of ING wholsale bank called Attacking Iran - The market impact of a surprise Israeli attack on its nuclear facilities...

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Break the vicious circle - no profits during wartime.

Why is it so hard to end this war? Is it, because it is a source of profits for so many people? Or, at least, a few but influential ones? Four years after the start of the war, all those pleas for...

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Dial a Glacier - Listen to Global Warming Live.

Dial +49 89 3791 4058  and you'll be connected to a microphone on the Vernagt Glacier in the Austrian Alps, where you can listen to the sound of the melting glacier. This is part of the art...

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Nicholas Kristof: Good Framing on Global Warming and Terror

Behind the NYT subscription firewall, Nicholas D. Kristof in his column The Big Melt does a good job in framing the bogus 'controversy' about Gobal Warming with: If we learned that Al Qaeda was...

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Feel disenchanted? Adopt a European!

This is an appeal to all Kossacks who will never ever vote for candidate X, should he or she make the nomination: Please consider adopting a European. Please vote for a Democrat on our behalf. Even if...

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Which is Better - Experience or Judgement?

Now that the "plagiarism" thing has officially been booed off stage, and the "just words" meme just won't stick, we'll probably see the "lack of experience" meme be beaten to death over the course of...

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Why Negative won't work this time.

Negative campaigning needs to accomplish two things: The negative must to stick with the candidate The voter must have a positive feeling after not buying into/breaking with the candidate The second...

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Your Campaign is in Trouble When You're Making the Point of Your Opponent

Frank Rich's column in the NYT may well have been a deadly blow to the Clinton campaign. Because here it is, out in the open: Hillary Clinton's campaign proves the point of her opponent: Experience is...

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Vernunft wird Unsinn, Wohlstand Plage (Goethe)

"Reason becomes unreason, abundance torment" Goethe, Faust, Part I, Scene 4 It is only reasonable to look for a new approach when the old one was failing.  And looking for new approaches the Clinton...

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Joe Biden talks to empty chair in Charlotte (Transcript)

Just imagine, that Joe Biden would take the stage in Charlotte, talking to an empty chair, and mocking the hell out of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan. I know full well, that won't happen, but it sure would...

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Most underrated Biden quote: "…where we promote the private sector, not the...

Towards the end of his brilliant speech, Joe Biden just buried the conservative talking-points of how only they understood, and stood for, the private sector: …A future, where we promote the private...

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Jews deported from Minneapolis?

No - and apologies for the flashy headline.But a heart 'thank you!' to the folks in Minneapolis who shamed a Nazi-themed party by re-enacting the deportation of jews before the restaurant.Protest at...

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An Implosion Too Early?!

The slow-mo implosion of Donald Trump seems to have switched into real-time mode.A reason to celebrate for democrats … or is it?What if (and that’s a big IF) Donald Trump really should decide or be...

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Putin's 'Moonshot Project' named Trump...

You think that ‘disruptive thinking’ is exclusive to Silicon Valley nerds and entrepreneurs?!That ‘moonshot projects’ are the exclusive arena of guys like Elon Musk, Larry Page, Sergey Brin or Mark...

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Democracy at the Tipping Point

Nothing more than a heads up to a commentary at DER SPIEGEL (...don’t panic — it’s in English):Democracy at the Tipping PointUltimately, indifference is deadly. The apathy. The feeling of impotence....

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It's 'Conspiracy Myth' not '-theory'.

Cory Doctorow had an interview in German ZEIT Online on conspiracies in times of the coronavirus crises (no English version that I know of, try some online translation if interested).Since I’m...

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