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Why This Mouse Will Never Vote Cat

Submitted by mouselander on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 12:06pm

For those feeling a bit depressed and discouraged by yesterday's primary results, I thought the following video might help lift your spirits a bit. It's an animated version of a political fable made famous by the populist Canadian politician Tommy Douglas, who among other things was the main architect of Canada's single-payer health care system, and led North America's first democratic socialist government as premier of the province of Saskatchewan.

Sidney Blumenthal email to Hillary Clinton may be crux of FBI investigation

Submitted by HoundDog on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 11:46am

For those following the FBI investigation of Hillary Clinton the following article will be interesting. "Why Hillary Clinton will be indicted," by Chetan Hebbale, provides the best summary of the possible charges and evidence that I've found so far. Published in the Chicago Journal of Politics it contains several dozen links per page to document a wide variety of sources.

USCCR: Anti-trans bills "discriminatory and potentially dangerous"

Submitted by Robyn on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 11:31am

On Monday the US Commission on Civil Rights called the "bathroom bills" recently passed in North Carolina and Mississippi "discriminatory and potentially dangerous."

North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory recently signed into law H.B. 2, legislation blocking local governments from passing anti-discrimination rules that grant protections to gay and transgender persons. The law also repeals existing municipal anti-discrimination laws which protected LGBT people from bias in housing and employment. Critically, the new legislation also forces transgender people to utilize public bathrooms and changing facilities based on the sex issued on their birth certificates, and not according to their gender identities. This jeopardizes not only the dignity, but also the actual physical safety, of transgender people whose appearances may not match societal expectations of the sex specified on their identification documents.

In Mississippi, Governor Phil Bryant recently signed HB 1523 into law. The new statute is far- reaching and allows people with “religious objections” to deny wedding services to same-sex couples. It also clears the way for employers to cite religion in determining workplace policies on dress code, grooming and bathroom access. The physical safety concerns for transgender people are the same as in North Carolina.

Media concerns...how to reach the people?

Submitted by Lookout on Wed, 04/20/2016 - 10:57am

The mainstream media is electing Hillary Clinton. I think it is purposeful, planned, and intentional. It revolves around profit, because that is the focus of corporations. Maintaining the status quo (especially Citizens United) promotes big media, and profit of the 1% (and really the 0.1%) corporate media mongols. Passing the TPP will accelerate media profits by protecting their “intellectual property” (despite their intellectual bankruptcy). That's why you never hear a MSM TPP story.

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