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12-15-14 News Notes

TRNS News Notes is brought to you by Victoria Jones. Victoria Jones is the Chief White House correspondent and global analyst of the Washington DC based Talk Radio News Service, where her insight and analysis are made available to over 400 news talk radio stations around the country and internationally. In the News Sydney cafe siege Cheney not sorry over CIA torture Torture report: Fallout Shutdown avoided: Govt funded - mostly Thousands march in nationwide protests Hanging effigies / lynching? Kerry in Europe: Full plate - Middle East Obamacare sign-up deadline today South Sudan: One year on in war [...]

By nicolesandler|December 15th, 2014|Tags: Cheney, hack, obamacare, protest, Sony Pictures, Sydney, torture|Comments Off

Weed and Music

I usually appreciate Fridays as much as the next person, knowing that with the weekend comes some down time. But this week, I really needed it. The end of the week that gave us "rectal rehydration" and other images that we can never erase from our minds couldn't come soon enough. But it wasn't only the torture report. We saw the Democrats cave, yet again. They let the Republicans get away with pushing through a massive spending bill with a number of truly heinous provisions shoved in, literally at the last-minute in the dead of night behind [...]

By nicolesandler|December 12th, 2014|Tags: Cromnibus, Gregg Alexander, Jacob Dylan, marijuana, New Radicals, Peter Hecht, pot, The Wallflowers, torture, Weed, Weed Land|Comments Off

The Good, The Bad and the Really Ugly

Nicole discusses the latest news- encompassing the good (Malala accepted her Nobel Peace Prize yesterday), the bad (Congress is about to undo protections from the banksters), and the ugly (torture). Vice News' Jason Leopold and She's History's Amy Simon guest

By nicolesandler|December 11th, 2014|Tags: Amy Simon, Cosby, Cromnibus, Dodd-Frank, Elizabeth Warren, jason leopold, rape, rectal feeding, spending bill, torture|Comments Off

What I will not write about today: Infuriating news + snark chaser

Sometimes I get so frustrated and/or disheartened and/or annoyed by some of the news stories of the day that I can’t bring myself to write about them. Here are a few recent reports that made my blood pressure hit the roof. I am avoiding delving into them at length out of concern for my physical and mental health. CIA torture report not likely to result in reforms or prosecutions: "The Justice Department has cast the matter as a closed case... Federal prosecutors will not reopen their investigation of whether criminal laws were broken by CIA guards and interrogators for mistreating [...]

By nicolesandler|December 11th, 2014|Tags: BushCo, Cromnibus, Dick Cheney, George W Bush, GOP fail, injustice, Jeb Bush, John Boehner, Koch brothers, offshore tax havens, President Obama, torture, torture report, U.S. Congress, what I will not write|4 Comments

12-11-14 News Notes

TRNS News Notes is brought to you by Victoria Jones. Victoria Jones is the Chief White House correspondent and global analyst of the Washington DC based Talk Radio News Service, where her insight and analysis are made available to over 400 news talk radio stations around the country and internationally. In the News Govt funding runs out: Hello Congress? Democrats incensed over Dodd-Frank curbs Donors to parties get tenfold increase Senate CIA torture report: Fallout - Cheney Fallout: Hayden slams report State Dept slow to release Hillary Clinton files Benghazi panel chair defends inquiry Senators warn AG on fake cellphone [...]

By nicolesandler|December 11th, 2014|Tags: CIA, Cromnibus, Dodd-Frank, Elizabeth Warren, Hayden, torture|Comments Off

Happy Human Rights Day… or Not

Irony of ironies - As we're still digesting the sickening torture repeat released yesterday, today is Human Rights Day. Go figure. Nicole speaks with Crooks & Liars' Susie Madrak about it. The Nation's Chase Madar weighs in on international law, and on the domestic front, why it's virtually impossible to indict a cop.

By nicolesandler|December 10th, 2014|Tags: Chase Madar, CIA, Dianne Feinstein, Geneva conventions, rectal feeding, Susie Madrak, torture, torture report, waterboarding|Comments Off

Torture Tuesday

The long-awaited CIA Torture Report is to be released today. Nicole discusses it and its implications with Emptywheel.net's Marcy Wheeler in hour one, and Digby in the second hour.

By nicolesandler|December 9th, 2014|Tags: Bush, Cheney, CIA, Digby, emptywheel, Heather Parton, Marcy Wheeler, report, torture|Comments Off

12-9-14 News Notes

TRNS News Notes is brought to you by Victoria Jones. Victoria Jones is the Chief White House correspondent and global analyst of the Washington DC based Talk Radio News Service, where her insight and analysis are made available to over 400 news talk radio stations around the country and internationally. In the News Sexual threats, power drill in CIA torture report Cromnibus bogs down: Does shutdown loom? Shutdown: Risks grow higher with each hour Obama: Protests "necessary" LeBron James T-shirt / Protests Tamir Rice family wants criminal charges New curbs on racial profiling by feds Obamacare consultant to be grilled [...]

By nicolesandler|December 9th, 2014|Tags: CIA, Cromnibus, obamacare, protests, racial profiling, shutdown, Tamir Rice, torture|Comments Off

F Words: FOIA, Ferguson, FCC, Facts

Nicole kicks off Thanksgiving week with a look at the news- from the fight over immigration reform to the wait for a Grand Jury decision from Ferguson. Howie Klein joins in to talk about alternatives to Hillary Clinton, and Vice News' Jason Leopold reports on Ferguson, the CIA's torture report and the FCC's cozy relationship with the industry they're supposed to be regulating.

By nicolesandler|November 24th, 2014|Tags: Bernie Sanders, Chuck Hagel, Elizabeth Warren, Family, Ferguson, foia, Howie Klein, immigration, jason leopold, Obama, Thanksgiving, torture|Comments Off

11-20-14 News Notes

TRNS News Notes is brought to you by Victoria Jones. Victoria Jones is the Chief White House correspondent and global analyst of the Washington DC based Talk Radio News Service, where her insight and analysis are made available to over 400 news talk radio stations around the country and internationally. In the News Immigration: Obama to shield 4 million Republican preax Democratic preax TV nets skip Obama address: WH slams Wicked weather: More to come CIA torture report in trouble Acting Secret Service head on Hill: Grilled Obama pitches high-speed internet for schools Judge strikes Montana gay marriage ban NBC [...]

By nicolesandler|November 20th, 2014|Tags: CIA, Cosby, immigration, marriage, Obama, Secret service, snow, torture|2 Comments

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