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I had a dream tonight that told me discussions on this blog

Submitted by mimi on Mon, 01/30/2017 - 2:04am

go nutty and that's why I am leaving you alone for a while. This blog is beyond my paygrade. Thanks for being kind to me. I will always be kind to the EB too. Get some rest, friends. There will be another life beyond "the Presidents", old ones and curren ones. Thank God, life goes on. Bye.

Who was Dr. Udo Ulfkotte? Yes I mean "was" - "wet work'd?"

Submitted by fakenews on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 10:04pm

CIA tied media whistle blower found dead.

This fellow needs acknowledgement and a mention of who he was and what may have ended his relatively short lived fame.

Udo Ulfkotte had a very short career as a CIA media "associate" but his career after that job as a "whistleblower" on the operation "mockingbird" type assignment was even shorter.

Sunday Train: Is Cuomo Dragging His Feet on the Empire Rapid Rail Corridor?

Submitted by BruceMcF on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 6:43pm

It's been two and a half years since I started working full time for my University here in Beijing, and in that time, the frequency of the Sunday Train dropped from once a week a week with only the occasional missed week, to a few scattered runs during Semester breaks.

Back in January 2014, more than half a year before I started my job in Beijing, the Draft Tier I Environmental Impact Statement for the New York State Empire Corridor High Speed Rail study was signed off on by Joseph Szabo, then Administrator of the Federal Rail Authority. It was released with a comment period through to March 24, 2014.

So, let's catch up to the current state of play. As Albany's Times Union reported on 8 Oct, 2016:

Although the public comment period on the draft of the study ended April 30, 2014, the final environmental impact statement has yet to be released.

Now, the state Department of Transportation, which led the study, says it hopes to have the final document completed by the end of March, agency spokeswoman Jennifer Post said. The Federal Railroad Administration, at the state DOT's request, has extended the deadline to Sept. 30, 2017.

Well, then, haven't missed much. Join me for a look at what is up with the Empire Corridor, and why the NY DOT has been slow-walking the completion of this report, below the fold.

AntiCapitalist MeetUp ... POTUS45* as dupe - a useful idiot ... полезные дураки (polezniye duraki)

Submitted by annieli on Sun, 01/29/2017 - 5:19pm

 

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for example, it should now be standard media practice to confront GOP lawmakers who fetishize the thought of Ayn Rand with her positions against anti-abortionists, much like "papers please" and gun confiscation will be more likely as 'baggers willingly condone more repression because #MAGA or "A Manchurian candidate astride a stalking Trojan horse!"

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