Welcome to Video News. Last night was the last of the Repugnant National Convention, Hallelujah! Stephen Colbert is still the best - except, of course, when he is replaced by Jon Stewart! Whoo hoo!! Welcome to network TV, Jon:
Also watch the pro-Hillary ads which run:
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Finally have wifi. Looks like I missed a lot, so I will be reading and catching up. What can I tell you about Philadephia? It' too damn hot!
My daughter and I arrived yesterday. I am back on prednisone for my illness so that was perfect timing as always. But I did finally meet Alison Wunderland and so far she has been the highlight of the trip for me. A million stories and all of them fascinating.
The rush to control borders and stop migration by excessive rhetoric and measures is non productive at best and generally counter productive.
You have Trump in the US we have Marine LePen over here, the let's hide behind walls brigade as it were. It's as if we can somehow cut ourselves off from the world in general, even if our governments have caused a lot of the problems in the first place.
Nearly all in attendance were former supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders.
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Stein called on [Bernie's] former supporters to join her in continuing the political revolution he started.
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The so-called left wing French government is looking more and more like its neoliberal US counterpart, and the similarities are hardly complimentary. With the news of the horrendous terrorist truck attack in Nice still fresh in the media and in people’s minds, another story about France flew below the radar. On July 1st France broke its own record for the number of its citizens incarcerated, with almost 70,000 people in prison.
Google searches for a third-party candidate spiked by 1,150%
