The Breakfast Club (Drugged orangutan and other bad ideas)

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AP’s Today in History for March 24

NATO launches airstrikes over Yugoslavia; Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska; Elvis Presley inducted into US Army; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens on Broadway.

Breakfast Tune Cat on a Leash – Fiddle & Banjo

Something to think about, Breakfast News & Blogs below

Progressives Refuse to Back Down as DCCC Moves to Kneecap Primary Challengers
Jake Johnson, Common Dreams

Progressives made clear they have no intention of backing down to the party establishment after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee on Friday threatened to cut off funds to firms and strategists that support primary challengers against incumbents.

“The DCCC can do anything it wants to try to prevent the next generation of Democrats from taking power. They will not succeed,” Sean McElwee—co-founder of Data for Progress, which is recruiting progressives to oust conservative Democrats—said in a statement.

The new policy was included in the DCCC’s list of vendor hiring standards, which state that the organization “will not conduct business with, nor recommend to any of its targeted campaigns, any consultant that works with an opponent of a sitting member of the House Democratic Caucus.”

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• With Help of Democrats, Regulators Move to Gut ‘Last Line of Defense’ Against Wall Street Gambling
  Jake Johnson

• Broadway’s “Hamilton” and the Willing Suspension of Reality-Based Moral Consciousness
  ELIZABETH KEYES

• US Killing Civilians With ‘Impunity’ in Hidden War on Somalia: Report
  Eoin Higgins

• Alarm over leaked US database targeting journalists and immigration activists
  Amanda Holpuch and Lauren Aratani

• The Disrespect Of Floating Stacey Abrams As Joe Biden’s Running Mate
  Maxwell Strachan

• U.S. MERCENARIES ARRESTED IN HAITI WERE PART OF A HALF-BAKED SCHEME TO MOVE $80 MILLION FOR EMBATTLED PRESIDENT
  Matthew Cole, Kim Ives

• DCCC Promises To Blacklist Firms That Work With Candidates Challenging Incumbents
  Daniel Marans

• Book Review: Other People’s Blood On Paul Volcker
  Tim Barker

• Beto O’Rourke Is the Candidate For Vapid Morons
  Shane Ryan

• There Is No Downside to Impeaching Trump for Democrats
  Ian Welsh

• Millennials Are the Most Indebted Generation. They Can Thank Joe Biden.
  Mark Provost

• Elizabeth Warren Versus Joe Biden
  Ruth Conniff

• Decrying ‘War Being Waged Against Working People,’ Sanders Joins Striking Union Members at UCLA
  Jessica Corbett

Something to think about over coffee prozac

 
Drugged orangutan found in Russian’s airline luggage
Agence France-Presse
 

A Russian tourist attempting to smuggle a drugged orangutan out of Indonesia in his suitcase to bring home and keep as a pet has been arrested in Bali, police said on Saturday.

Andrei Zhestkov was detained in Denpasar airport late on Friday while passing through a security screening before a planned flight back to Russia.

Suspicious officers stopped him and opened his luggage to find a two-year-old male orangutan sleeping inside a rattan basket.

“We believe the orangutan was fed allergy pills which caused him to sleep. We found the pills inside the suitcase,” Bali conservation agency official I Ketut Catur Marbawa said.

“[Zhestkov] seemed prepared, like he was transporting a baby,” he added.

The 27-year-old also packed baby formula and blankets for the orangutan, Marbawa said.

Police also found two live geckos and five lizards inside the suitcase.

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