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a joint project by the Intercept & the NYT

Submitted by wendy davis on Thu, 11/21/2019 - 11:47am

Via the Intercept (8:31):

Calling all sleuths who are intrigued by Media Brands!  Both versions I’ve linked below are far too long for me to read, rather than scan, although at least the NYT version doesn’t include the massive, eye-searing photos the Intercept version does. 

Here are a few questions readers and watchers might want to consider:  How were TI and the NYT able to verify these 700 pages of documents as ‘authentic’ (albetit Maz Hussain’s claim at DN! below)?  Is this simply more anti-Iranian (‘now “our new enemy” a Risen said) Imperial agitprop?  Given they’d allegedly been ‘leaked’ to TI anonymously, who had ‘leaked’ them?  Were they hacked or even created by enemies of Iran?  That would be a long list, yes?

Things I Learned from the Dem Debate

Submitted by Not Henry Kissinger on Thu, 11/21/2019 - 1:18am

Elizabeth Warren is like Aunt Eller with an empty picnic basket.

I looked deep into Pete Buttigieg's eyes, but could not see his soul. I did hear him tell me that he wants to start a movement for moderate Republicans. So there's that.

Joe Biden's solution to the problem of violence against women is to "keep punching at it and punching at it and punching at it". Joe also does a mean Knute Rockne wax figure impression.

I Think Bernie's About To Take Off. Seems Warren's Campaign Is On Its Heels In Defense, Admits It Didn't Think It Needed A Healthcare Plan, And A Dark Money Campaign Event Is Held For Her In Iowa.

Submitted by Mark from Queens on Tue, 11/19/2019 - 1:48pm

There's not a lot of theorizing here. I just threw this together from various things I'm seeing, and from trying to glean as much as possible as to where it all stands in terms of moving this country Left.

Tuesday Open Thread ~ I'll Take Potpourri for $100

Submitted by Anja Geitz on Tue, 11/19/2019 - 3:13am

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“It was a stern night landscape. The sound of the freezing of snow over the land seemed to roar deep into the earth. There was no moon. The stars, almost too many of them to be true, came forward so brightly that it was as if they were falling with the swiftness of the void. As the stars came nearer, the sky retreated deeper and deeper into the night clolour. The layers of the Border Range, indistinguishable one from another, cast their heaviness at the skirt of the starry sky in a blackness grave and somber enough to communicate their mass. The whole of the night scene came together in a clear, tranquil harmony.”
~ Yasunari Kawabata, Snow Country

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