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If you search Google News for Jeremy Corbin you'll find that J.K. Rowling can't sleep nights over the prospect of the impending Corbyn romp over Owen Smith in the Labour Leadership election (about which more in a moment). Indeed 'Corbyn is no Dumbledore' and-

One day in the far distant future we'll look back and we WONT LAUGH, LABOUR, BECAUSE THIS ISN'T BLOODY FUNNY.

Now admittedly that last was tweeted at 3:31 in the morning last Wednesday after her earlier tweets had not met the customary adulation.

I'm Not Kidding. Trump actually said that OUT LOUD on national teevee at last night's Commander-in-Chief Forum. Yes, Islam, the next American President just said he's coming to steal your oil. Now stop saying "Death to America". Hahaha.

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Bernie Sanders was too much of a gentlemen to do this, but he probably could have routed Hillary Clinton in the Democratic Primaries by a large enough margin to overcome all the blatant cheating and voter disenfranchisement --- had he added this kind of attack line into his daily campaigning each day:

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Today's update on Jill Stein and the Green Party is chock full of goodness and badness!

Wyoming and North Dakota have both accepted Jill Stein on the ballot, bringing the total number of states where she is on the ballot to 43 plus Washington D.C. We are now awaiting word only from the state of Rhode Island. She now has direct access to 476 electoral college votes. Rhode Island has an additional 4 votes.

If you saw Citizenfour and enjoyed it like me, you were left with one question: "What happened in the weeks after Snowden left the hotel room, and before Moscow?"
The answer to that question is about to be revealed.

"His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, Crown Prince of Bahrain is a major donor to the Clinton Foundation , having pledged millions to the Clinton Global Initiative through the Crown Prince’s International Scholarship Program (CRISP). By 2010, he had given $32 million to the initiative.

It has been over two weeks since I last posted an essay in this series on neo-liberalism. I was both hosting out of town company and traveling during that time. Recently I have experienced a number of technical problems on my end too. I hope to avoid any future time gaps of this length between essays.

For those who may be interested in previous essays on this subject, here are the links to those essays.

Aha! Part of this is regarding the redacted name(s) of the Platte River Networks tech and the "Oh Shit" moment!

From The Hill

When it comes to financial corruption, no one holds a candle to HSBC.
And why stop, when you are Too-Big-To-Jail?
However, there might be limits to flaunting the law.