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ucrdem's JournalIt isn't over: DOJ still has two investigations into Michael Brown shooting open,
including one into Wilson and another into the conduct of the Ferguson police, and other civil rights groups are also investigating possible civil actions:
By Alessandria Masi@alessandriamasia.masi@ibtimes.com on November 24 2014 10:42 PM
Officer Darren Wilson was not indicted by a grand jury Monday, but the battle for justice in the fatal Ferguson shooting is far from over. The U.S. Department of Justice is conducting its own investigation, the state could revoke Wilson's law enforcement license and several civil rights groups could file civil suits against both Wilson and the Ferguson Police Department.
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There are currently two open Department of Justice investigations related to Brown’s death: One probe into Wilson and the other into the Ferguson Police Department’s practices, according to McClatchy. The first could find Wilson guilty of violating Brown’s civil rights. The DOJ must prove “without a reasonable doubt” that Wilson knowingly and intentionally “deprived” Brown of “a right or privilege protected by the Constitution of laws of the United States,” according to federal law via McClatchy. However, experts don’t believe this is a likely outcome.
“Criminal enforcement of constitutional rights is not something that is easily pursued, Samuel Bagenstos, a University of Michigan law professor, recently told the Associated Press. It really requires building a case very carefully, very painstakingly.”
The DOJ and several civil rights organizations are investigating a possible case against the Ferguson Police Department for mistreatment of protesters who have been almost daily fixtures on Ferguson's streets since August. The DOJ is also investigating the department's practices and relationship with constituents prior to Brown’s death. When protests began, some police officers were seen wearing “I am Darren Wilson” bracelets.
http://www.ibtimes.com/ferguson-indictment-officer-darren-wilson-ferguson-police-department-could-still-face-1728858
Obama announces immigration overhaul shielding 4 million from deportation
Source: Washington Post
By David Nakamura, Robert Costa and David A. Fahrenthold November 20 at 6:17 PM
The Obama administration will begin accepting applications this spring from illegal immigrants who are seeking deferred deportations under President Obama’s new executive action program, and those who qualify will be granted protections for three years, administration officials said.
The officials unveiled new details of Obama’s plans ahead of his prime-time address on Thursday evening as the White House sought to portray his actions as an effort to ensure that the U.S. immigration system focuses on deporting the highest-priority immigrants, such as felons, gang members and recent border-crossers.
Obama is expected to say he will stop deportations for a certain group of illegal immigrants: parents whose children are already U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents. The protection would apply only to parents who have lived in the United States for five years or more.
There are about 3.7 million illegal immigrants who meet those criteria, according to a report from the Migration Policy Institute. Under Obama’s plan, some of them would also be able to apply for work permits, which now are available only to immigrants with legal status.
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According to prepared excerpts, Obama plans to say that mass deportation of the nation’s more than 11 million illegal immigrants “would be both impossible and contrary to our character.”
Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-immigration-plan-will-shield-37-million-from-deportation/2014/11/20/3345d672-70dd-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html
ETA: Updating title to reflect WaPo's edits. Original article title: "Illegal immigrants can start applying for delayed deportations this spring"
Nixon lost to JFK in 1960. Two Kennedy murders later, in 1968, he won.
Hmm. Nixon started out in California as a red-baiting GOP attack rat à la Atwater-Rove, and as Eisenhower's veep, ran the military industrial complex Ike warned us about in his hand-off to Kennedy. As president Nixon ran one dirty operation after another while he and Kissinger carpet-bombed Laos and Cambodia to atoms. And when he finally pulled the plug on Vietnam as he'd promised to repeatedly to get elected and reelected in 1972, an FBI agent ratted him out and that was the end of Tricky Dick.
Watch Nixon lie -- Nixon vs. Kennedy 11/8/1960
Nixon didn't have a liberal bone in his crooked body and doesn't deserve the time of day on DU. He is certainly not to the left of any Democratic president and that nonsense holds about as much water as an Alex Jones podcast.
Just an F.Y.I.
Here are the Third Way elected officials, identified by Third Way:
OUR TEAM - honorary co-chairs:
Sen. Thomas Carper, Senator
Sen. Claire McCaskill, Senator
Sen. Mark Udall, Senator
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, Senator
Sen. Kay Hagan, Senator
Sen. Chris Coons, Senator
Rep. James Clyburn, Member of Congress
Rep. John Dingell, Member of Congress
Rep. Ron Kind, Member of Congress
Rep. Joseph Crowley, Member of Congress
Rep. Jared Polis, Member of Congress
emeritus co-chairs:
Gabrielle Giffords, Former Member of Congress
Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services
Ken Salazar, Former Secretary of the Interior
Jane Harman, Former Member of Congress
Ellen Tauscher, Special Envoy for Strategic Stability and Missile Defense
Blanche Lincoln, Former U.S. Senator
Evan Bayh, Former U.S. Senator
Melissa Bean, Former Member of Congress
link: http://www.thirdway.org/about#
If there are others, by all means add them to the list. But as far as I can tell, other than the Clintons who are supported by Third Way, this is it. Barack Obama is not on this list and there does not seem to be any link between Obama and the DLC or Third Way.
Booker wins 6 more years in NJ, yay.
Every seat counts! 
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/11/cory_booker_beats_jeff_bell_to_win_re-election_in_njs_us_senate_race.html
Rhode Island apparently just returned a Dem senator too per NPR. 
Cory Booker beats Jeff Bell to win re-election in N.J.'s U.S. Senate race
Source: New Jersey On-Line
WOODBRIDGE — Cory Booker, the celebrity Newark mayor-turned U.S. Senator, has won another six years in the Senate.
The Associated Press projects that Booker, a Democrat who took office just one year ago after winning a special election, has defeated his Republican challenger, Jeff Bell, to win a full six-year term.
Booker’s win extends Democrats’ winning streak in New Jersey U.S. Senate races to 38 years.
Booker, 45, served as Newark mayor for seven years before winning last year’s election to replace the late U.S. Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.). A high-profile politician before winning the office with deep relationships with Holllywood actors, tech gurus and Wall Street financiers, Booker kept a low profile for the last year as he sought to learn the ropes in the U.S. Senate.
Bell, 70, was New Jersey’s Republican U.S. Senate nominee in 1978 and ran unsuccessfully for the party’s nomination in 1982. In 1983, he moved to northern Virginia, and worked as a political consultant and conservative policy wonk in Washington. Bell moved back to New Jersey in February to challenge Booker.
Read more: http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/11/cory_booker_beats_jeff_bell_to_win_re-election_in_njs_us_senate_race.html
Yay.
DECISION 2014: Biden to visit San Bernardino County
BY JEFF HORSEMAN / STAFF WRITER
The Press-Enterprise, Oct. 27, 2014
• What's at stake: Democrat and Redlands Mayor Pete Aguilar is running to represent the 31st Congressional District, which stretches from Redlands to Upland. Opposing him is Republican homeland security consultant and political strategist Paul Chabot of Rancho Cucamonga.
The 31st's incumbent, Rep. Gary Miller, R-Rancho Cucamonga, is not seeking re-election.
• Why it's competitive: Democrats think the district is ripe for the taking. President Barack Obama carried the 31st two years ago, and there are more registered Democratic voters in the district than Republican voters. But projected low voter turnout and highly motivated conservative voters could hurt Aguilar.
Vice President Joe Biden will be in San Bernardino County on Saturday at a get-out-the-vote event for a local Democratic congressional candidate, underscoring the national significance of the Inland race and perhaps Democrats’ nervousness about the outcome.
Biden will be campaigning for Redlands Democrat Pete Aguilar, the Aguilar campaign announced Monday. Details of the visit were not available, although Aguilar spokeswoman Tatiana Winograd said the event was not a fundraiser.
“The Inland Empire’s middle class needs a voice in Congress, and I am excited to join the vice president for an event centered around the issues at stake in this election,” Aguilar, the mayor of Redlands, said in a statement.
A statement from Republican Paul Chabot, Aguilar’s opponent, called Biden’s visit “shocking last-minute desperation.”
http://www.pe.com/articles/aguilar-752899-biden-chabot.html
Nice rundown here:
Quand on a tout, on est trop plein. -- Joseph Joubert
When you have everything, you are too full (satisfied).
2 - It also can be used to create a passive sentence. Technically, it's not a passive sentence, because on acts as the subject; however, because the perpetrator is not mentioned, it is passive in spirit:
On a bu tout le vin.
All the wine was drunk.
3 - It also is used to say 'we' in an indirect way:
On mange maintenant, ou on regarde le film d'abord ?
She we eat now, or watch the film first?
4 - Normally in written French, on becomes l'on when it follows et or a word ending in a vowel:
Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime, il faut aimer ce que l'on a. -- Roger de Bussy-Rabutin
When you don't have what you love, you must love what you have.
http://www.languageguide.org/french/grammar/pronouns/
US opposes Iran's presence at French-hosted conference on Iraq
Source: Reuters via France24
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday it was "not appropriate" for Iran to join talks on confronting Islamic State militants, as he appeared to play down how fast countries can commit to force or other steps in an emerging coalition.
Latest update : 2014-09-13
Kerry met Turkish leaders to try to secure backing for U.S.-led action against Islamic State militants, but Ankara’s reluctance to play a frontline role highlighted the difficulty of building a willing coalition for a complex military campaign in the heart of the Middle East.
As he tours the region to gather support for President Barack Obama’s plan to strike both sides of the Syrian-Iraqi frontier to defeat Islamic State Sunni fighters, Kerry said Shi’ite Iran should have no role in talks on how to go about it.
Accusing Iran of being “a state sponsor of terror” and backing Syria’s brutal regime, Kerry said it would be inappropriate for Iranian officials to join an Iraq conference in Paris on Monday to discuss how to curb a jihadist movement that has seized a third of both Iraq and Syria. Tehran has described the coalition as “shrouded in serious ambiguities”.
“Under the circumstances, at this moment in time, it would not be right for any number of reasons. It would not be appropriate given the many other issues that are on the table in Syria and elsewhere,” he told a news conference in the Turkish capital Ankara.
Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20140913-us-opposes-irans-presence-french-hosted-conference-iraq-kerry/
Meanwhile, French President Hollande arrived in Baghdad Friday to offer France's support for Iraqi anti-Isis efforts. The Paris conference starts on Monday:
Islamic State crisis: Obama threatens action in Syria
Source: BBC World
US President Barack Obama says he will not hesitate to take action against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria as well as Iraq.
In a nationally televised speech outlining his strategy against IS, he said that any group that threatened America would "find no safe heaven".
He also announced that 475 US military personnel would be sent to Iraq but said they would not have a combat role.
IS controls large parts of Syria and Iraq after a rapid military advance.
Its fighters have become notorious for their brutality, beheading enemy soldiers and Western journalists on video.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-29152129
just a quicke because I didn't see this in LBN, but if it's already been posted lock away
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