For all to see. Here's a link to The Guardian's coverage of the Dakota Pipeline Access travesty: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/27/north-dakota-access-pipe...
December 7, July 7, 2016, a day which will live in infamy. No battleships were sunk that day, but the fabric of equality pretenses may have been irreparably torn--allowing the public to clearly see the dual-tiered "justice system" for what it is--a hoax perpetrated upon the people to lull us into believing the now utter bullshit of "equal justice under the law".
The National Basketball Association had its opening night last night. For most this might not be a big deal, but to me it is. I've decided to stop watching NBA basketball games on TV. I'm boycotting. This goes along with other changes I've gone through in my later years such as boycotting the Presidential election and the representative political system, growing my hair long and refusing to think like the bastards want us to think.
After LBJ's landslide in 1964, the Democratic consensus, according to Hunter S. Thompson in Songs of the Doomed, was that "The GOP was doomed, like the Whigs, to a cheap and meaningless fate."
The people standing against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline are being attacked by militarized police, the National Guard, and private security right now in North Dakota. People are being arrested and pepper-sprayed, and tents and tipis are being destroyed.
On the night of July 9, 1943, the first of 160,000 allied troops began landing on the southwest beaches of Sicily. After nearly a full week of fighting that yielded the city of Syracuse and not much more, General George S. Patton was given the task of advancing towards the city of Palermo.
I know, what a shocker, amirite?
Clinton spokesperson Robby Mook to John Podesta on Clinton emails: "[we] were told everything was taken care of" https://t.co/8qr2PoOIAv pic.twitter.com/3lBtrUOZU0
Alexandra Brodsky takes the Alliance Defending Freedom to task in an editorial in the NY Times: Don't Use Girls as Props to Fight Trans Rights. Brodsky is a Skadden fellow at the National Women's Law Center.
"The Russian people are not ready for democracy."
- Putin's chief of staff, Alexander Voloshin
