The Evening Blues - 10-22-19
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 10/22/2019 - 1:45pmhow much longer can Julian even survive?
Submitted by wendy davis on Tue, 10/22/2019 - 9:07am*EXCLUSIVE* footage of #Assange in prison van after extradition hearing pic.twitter.com/sm3MnK7ud3
— Ruptly (@Ruptly) October 21, 2019
‘I can’t think properly’: Assange disoriented as court rejects delay for extradition proceedings’, 21 Oct, 2019, RT.com
Tuesday Open Thread ~ Whiplash
Submitted by Anja Geitz on Tue, 10/22/2019 - 4:08am
“Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night.” ~ Margo Channing

Hillary Clinton is obviously a Russian Asset
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 10/21/2019 - 6:43pmHillary is "sowing divisions" in the Democratic Party, and isn't that all that is required to be "proven" as a Russian Asset?
It appears that Hillary doesn't have people intimidated anymore.
Bernie came to Tulsi's defense.
Latin America's Revolt Spreads
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 10/21/2019 - 4:44pmI wrote about the spreading Latin American protests bit more than a week ago.
In that short period of time there's been three crucial developments.
The Evening Blues - 10-21-19
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 10/21/2019 - 2:19pmThe rise of the stupid
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Mon, 10/21/2019 - 12:27pmOne of the things that became most clearly visible upon the election of Donald Trump to the Presidency back in '16 is that the American system benefits the stupid.
Tulsi Scores 1st Qualified Poll for 5th Debates--3% in Iowa (USA Today)
Submitted by apenultimate on Mon, 10/21/2019 - 11:49amThis poll was conducted after the 4th debate, but before the Hillary Clinton blast:
USA Today/Suffolk Poll of Iowa
She exactly tied with Harris and Klobaucher and was ahead of O'Rourke and Yang.
the Novichok™ Chimera fades further
Submitted by wendy davis on Mon, 10/21/2019 - 9:19amThe White Queen to Alice: ‘Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast’
First, a few excerpts from ‘New Developments in the Skripal Case Reveal it for the Sham it Always Was’, Oct. 16, 2019, James Oneill, journal-neo.org
Oneill brings the unbelievable narrative of the Skripals’ having been poisoned by ‘a highly toxic substance where only minute quantities are required to cause an almost instant death, and yet they went to a pub, to a restaurant, and to a lake to feed some ducks. He spends time wondering why in the world some Russian Agents would poison a spy that the Russians had already repatriated to the UK, as well as his (assumedly) innocent daughter, there to visit her father before her upcoming wedding.