The Evening Blues - 9-14-16
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 09/14/2016 - 2:19pm
The secretive influence of corporate cash on politics is both real and provable
Submitted by LaFeminista on Wed, 09/14/2016 - 11:05amReal and provable if our corporate MSM had any interest in so doing, ever.
What we all suspect every time we hear figures about the mass of dark money in politics.
Cops Harassing Citizens at the Request of Oligarchs
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 09/14/2016 - 10:21amCalifornia has no AG Gag laws or regulations, but it has a lot of AG, a lot of which is big and locally powerful. So some people just documented an example of CHP and Fresno Sheriffs trying to enforce one anyway, by harassment and attempted intimidation, on behalf of an enormous cattle feeding operation.
Why I'm Pissed Off
Submitted by Thumb on Wed, 09/14/2016 - 9:40amAnger can look like hate. It's not. Hate is the face we give to fear when we don't want to look afraid. Hate is also the title we give to other people's anger when we don't want to acknowledge why someone is angry.
Hate is a proactive, destructive act, and we [feel we] must destroy what we hate.
Different than being "upset" at a loss that we knew was a potential outcome to any event, anger is a reactive state to a loss that shouldn't have happened.
Colin Powell - "Trump has No Sense of Shame"
Submitted by Big Al on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 11:33pm
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/colin-powell-donald-trump-has-no-...
Only one um, creature, that I know of has been truly able to encapsulate the U.S. political system in a simple to understand manner.
In which we learn more about the role Datto has played in the email saga
Submitted by MsGrin on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 10:45pmFrom The Hill:
Clinton email server company warned about security
One of the companies hired to manage Hillary Clinton’s private server was warned last summer that potentially sensitive information on her machine was not protected with encryption protocols designed to thwart potential hackers, according to new emails released by Congress.
The shocking state of America's poor teens
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 8:55pmThe headline news today was that poverty was down and median wages were finally rising last year.
However, the Urban Institute released a much less reported study today that paints a different picture.
Death rattle of the frackers
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 3:37pmTwo years ago the shale oil fracking industry was on top of the world.
Oil was expensive and the frackers were riding a decade-long boom. The United States have surpassed Saudi Arabia in oil production for the first time in half a century.
The only party-poopers were environmentalists, who complained about poisoned ground water and earthquakes, but no one was going to let them stand in the way of progress.
Climate Change - Systems Overload - Deer in the Head Lights
Submitted by RantingRooster on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 2:53pmPREFACE
This is part 2 of my multi-part (lol) Series of Essay's on Climate Change. Again, this was originally published at TOS, but I have cut the up original, edited it and have changed some things a bit editorially (broadened vocabulary, less expletives). I'm just being upfront about it's "content" differences with the original at TOS.
West Chicago
Submitted by Robyn on Tue, 09/13/2016 - 2:14pmI guess all portents indicated my first essay upon returning from a bout of sickness would concern some death. The Lady Chablis died. Alexis Arquette.
But we're left to believe those were from natural causes. Chablis died after a month in a hospital fighting pneumonia. Alexis was in a coma at Cedars Sinai for four days before passing while listening to David Bowie's Starman.
