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Open Thread Sunday 02-14-16

Submitted by JtC on Sun, 02/14/2016 - 8:34am

Good morning 99percenters!
Morning news dump and music by Buddy Holly.

This is how the CIA botched Iraq post-9/11: Bob Gates, careerist sycophancy, and the real history of the Deep State
A veteran CIA officer explains to Salon exactly where the agency has gone wrong for decades — and the consequences

In a lengthy exchange with Ray McGovern, or when you listen to him speak, a lot comes at you. This is a former C.I.A. officer who, as branch chief in the analysis section, counted daily White House briefings among his tasks. Given his years out in Langley, Virginia—from the early Kennedy days until he retired in 1990—he was witness to the agency’s collapse into a factory producing politically and ideologically motivated “intelligence.” Long before the end, Langley had turned into a building full of “prostitutes”—McGovern’s word “not too strong.”

Justice Scalia Has Died

Submitted by Granma on Sat, 02/13/2016 - 6:43pm

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia found dead this morning in his room at a resort in rural Texas. It appears that his death was from natural causes.
He arrived at the resort Friday. He was 79 years old, had been on the Supreme Court since 1986. There have been few details released as of this afternoon.

DC to require medical providers have LGBTQ cultural competency

Submitted by Robyn on Sat, 02/13/2016 - 2:23pm

photo Caduceus1.pngThis past Tuesday the Council of the District of Columbia unanimously and with little fanfare passed B21-168, the LGBTQ Cultural Competency Continuing Education Amendment Act. When signed by Mayor Muriel Bowser, he district will be the first jurisdiction in the nation to require LGBTQ cultural competency training for all health care providers.

The bill sets a modest but needed floor for such training by requiring any health care professional who is required to receive continuing education to include at least two credits of LGBTQ-related clinical or cultural competency training.

Hellraisers Journal: Socialist Party of America Sends out Three Great Speakers for 1916 Campaign

Submitted by JayRaye on Sat, 02/13/2016 - 12:30pm
Yours for the Revolution,
Mother Jones

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Sunday February 13, 1916
From the Northwest Worker: Kirkpatrick, Walker, and Seidel to Tour for S. P of A. Campaign

Thursday's Northwest Worker of Everett, Washington, reported that three prominent Socialist will be on tour across the nation to advance the 1916 Campaign for the Socialist Party of America:

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