The Federal Communications Commission will vote to repeal the National Television Ownership Rule that is supposed to prevent a single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of all TV households in the US. The proposed change sets up a likely court battle over the FCC claim that it has authority to repeal a limit set by Congress.
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What appear to be tire tracks have become visible on the floor of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after the landmark was drained for a second round of repairs ... read more
The Federal Communications Commission will vote to repeal the National Television Ownership Rule that is supposed to prevent a single broadcast station owner from reaching more than 39 percent of all TV households in the US. The proposed change sets up a likely court battle over the FCC claim that it has authority to repeal a limit set by Congress.
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DHS denounces victims of immigration enforcement shootings before facts known
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...This week, and for the fourth time this year, Department of Homeland Security law enforcement officers fatally shot someone on a U.S. street. The initial narrative from the agency checked a familiar box.
The officers acted defensively, said DHS " though other federal agencies withheld comment as investigations commenced. Over the past six months, witnesses and video evidence have painted a fuller, more complex picture of each killing, at times contradicting official claims.
Monday's fatal shooting of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a Colombian immigrant, by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Maine, followed the ICE killing of a Mexican man in Texas, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a week earlier. Officers in unmarked cars pursued both men as they drove, though in both cases, a lack of body-camera footage obscures the full facts.
DHS claims the officer shot at Mr. Durán while "fearing for public safety" during an attempted traffic stop.
"I clearly heard the victim say, I tried to stop,'" witness Daniel Boucher told The Associated Press. ...
Key Takeaways From Donald Trump's Speech Debunked
www.newsweek.com
... In 2022, a group of prominent conservative legal experts"including former federal judges, Republican election attorney Benjamin Ginsberg, former Solicitor General Ted Olson and ex-U.S. Senators John Danforth and Gordon Smith -- released a report titled Lost, Not Stolen, concluding that "Joe Biden was the choice of a majority of the Electors" and that there was "absolutely no evidence of fraud" sufficient to alter the results.
Independent reviews, recounts and audits in key battleground states likewise reaffirmed the certified election results. Investigations by state election officials from both political parties, as well as the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), did not uncover evidence of widespread voter fraud capable of affecting the outcome. ...
Shriekback - This Big Hush (1985)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
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[Verse]
Is there a fire in the sky?
Is there a moon up there?
Is there anything alive now?
This darkness is what I hear
This is a breathless silence
A moment out of time
I see your face in the shadows
The telltale signs are in your eyes
[Chorus]
More than I can hold in my hands
Running through the gaps like water
Aching with a passion inside
Deep as the river
All desire, the ashes and the fire
Turning this night inside and the light from you
[Verse]
Is there a flame in the dark?
Is there a bright hard star?
These creatures look the same now
We freeze wherever we are
We wake alone in the blackness
We sleep wherever we fall
One dream all around us
This big hush infects us all
[Chorus]
Holding up on animal fear
Soaking up the waves underwater
Turned to music no one can hear
Forever in this half light
All desire, the ashes and the fire
Turning this night inside and the light from you
All desire, the ashes and the fire
Turning this night inside and the light from you
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They don't write lyrics like that anymore...
OK, a most serious song ...
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (1985)
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Lyrics excerpt ...
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[Verse 1]
These mist covered mountains
Are a home now for me
But my home is the lowlands
And always will be
Some day you'll return to
Your valleys and your farms
And you'll no longer burn
To be brothers in arms
[Verse 2]
Through these fields of destruction
Baptisms of fire
I've witnessed your suffering
As the battle raged higher
And though they did hurt me so bad
In the fear and alarm
You did not desert me
My brothers in arms
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[Verse 3]
Now the sun's gone to hell
And the moon riding high
Let me bid you farewell
Every man has to die
But it's written in the starlight
And every line in your palm
We're fools to make war
On our brothers in arms
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Trump calls for revocation of ABC, NBC licenses over speech snub
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