At the end of last week a US District Judge Thomas Schroeder issued a preliminary injunction that says two students and an employee at University of North Carolina campuses must be allowed to use restrooms matching their gender identity.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5102467567001/what-impact-will-new-clinton-em...
It's Fox News (whaddja expect?)
What impact will new Clinton emails have on the election?
Yesterday while reading, I ran across this little bit of widely accepted propaganda, to whit, "tax relief." Of course progressives will recognize this as the bullshit excuse for tax cuts.
From Reuters:
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has found breaches in Illinois and Arizona's voter registration databases and is urging states to increase computer security ahead of the November presidential election, according to a U.S. official familiar with the probe.
I had a laugh, but did not see any value to writing a comment there. I am sure most of us would like to live in a real democracy. But, what would it take to make such a thing really work?
“The Spoiler” Speaks -
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein on her campaign and building an alternative to the two corporate parties.
Stein's analysis of the Sanders campaign:
You mentioned this voter revolt within this wider climate. How much of this do you attribute to the Bernie Sanders campaign? Do you consider his campaign a success despite how it ended?
War is a Racket said General Smedley Butler. I'd amend that to say ALL War is a Racket. Some might argue there are exceptions, like WWII or maybe the Civil War, but no, in the end those wars were about power and wealth among the ruling clite. They would not have happened except at the whims of those at the very top. Butler told it like it is when he said he was nothing more than a "gangster for capitalism" during his highly decorated Marine career.
UPDATE:
Such scary language! Grrrrr!
Yes, yes, it all looks bad, the whole HRC selling State Department access to Clinton Foundation donors thing. But that's how the game is played, you poor pathetic fool! What kind of a naif thinks this isn't the dynamics of interactions between politicians and their funders and which has been such since time immemorial? (SPOILER: the Smoking QPQ starts at Paragraph 9)
So says Neera Tanden, 'a longtime Clinton confidante and influential policy-politics-communications adviser' who leads Center for American Progress.
From POLITICO
