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http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dailykos.com
Its global traffic rank is tanking.
Want to see something really funny in the light of Correct The Record shills? Alexa, because of its agreements with backbone providers, is able to discern traffic patterns that are otherwise invisible to the public.
What's #4 on related sites? Brock's mediamatters.org. It's like visit Brock for the daily talking points and then dump them on DailyMarkos.
People, it's ALL about Clinton's biggest donor, Haim Saban, dropping money to defeat Edwards, even though Edwards endorsed Clinton. Why? Because Edwards is not sufficiently pro-Israel. https://theintercept.com/2016/04/25/pro-israel-billionaire-haim-saban-drops-100000-against-donna-edwards-in-maryland-senate-race/
Elizabeth Warren's "progressive-ism" clearly ends at our nation's borders, as this article makes all too clear. Which should come as no great surprise, considering that Ms. Warren was a loyal Republican throughout the Reagan and Bush I presidencies. Her gutlessness in terms of refusing to endorse her supposed ideological soulmate Bernie Sanders merely represents more evidence that she is at bottom just another pandering and cynical politician. No moral person could offer such unqualified support for the criminal Israeli apartheid regime. Wouldn't be a bit surprised if Hillary taps her to be VP - they are truly two birds of a feather.
Just a note, your link goes to a different email. The passage above about donations from those who have given "pay to play letters" (?) going into the "operating account" (??) is to be found here:
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/20665
I, too, look forward to an explanation. Anyone have any thoughts? What would be the importance of making SURE donations from those who have submitted "pay to play" letters go into the "operating account"? Is there something special from a legal or FEC perspective that makes putting donations there different?
>Christopher Hitchens once pointed out that while everyone considered Obama a powerful and memorable speaker, nobody could ever seem to remember a single specific line from any of his orations, a good sign he’d in fact said nothing at all.
Not too different from what I've said multiple times: Obama used a lot of words to say absolutely nothing at all.
>Obama biographer David Garrow concludes, “while the crucible of self-creation had produced an ironclad will, the vessel was hollow at its core.”
Obama's iron-clad will made him president..., after which he did absolutely nothing of any note that helped ordinary Americans..., but he did do a lot to help the one tenth of one percent, multiple corporations, banks, and the military-industrial-mercenary complex. [Wasn't it The Shock Doctrine video, made in 2009, that pointed out that mercenaries now outnumber US military personnel in the Mideast by a huge number, including one mercenary outfit that does nothing but monitor the other mercenary groups?]
What does a bloodless coup look like? See the largest country in South America, Brazil, supposedly democratic under the watchful eye of the world what is in store for us. These representatives were in D.C. the day after the vote for impeachment meeting with our congress critters. No different than Cheney holding the February meeting after the 1st Bush inauguration with oil company execs discussing the overthrow of Iraq. The coup is worldwide, and it the representation for people being overthrown. Civil dialogue is easily suppressed. Be civil, but be serious as a heart attack. The narrative here will be the same as the oligarchy treated OWS or BLM. It is us who is their enemy. Matthews, DWS, Maddow, Krugman, Obama, Reid, Pelosi, Feinstein, Franken, this list would cover the 1% of the people, who want 99% of the say over how the revolution should be muted.
oh, and btw, she takes money from Big Booze. https://theintercept.com/2016/01/06/wasserman-schultz-fueled-by-booze-pacs-blasts-legal-pot/
literally no one is against medical marijuana except for conservative shills and people who live under rocks. I hope Tim Canova hits her real hard on this one, along with payday lending.
Yesterday I read at DU a post about why Neera Tanden should not be on the platform committee at the convention - she was a Hillary pick. It outlined a few reasons including this email from wikileaks https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/11950
Tanden writing to HRC asking for help selling a public option less Obamacare to the left. I assume that email was part of the 30,000 - the bombshells don't all have to be illegal - some can just be infuriating.
Here's the DU link http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512044191
Thank you! I'm a learned optimism gal to the core. & the Learned Optimism guy values pessimism in its place, no doubt of that. So his style of research also suggests Bernie is winning, even if the machines are rigged: http://m.dailykos.com/story/2015/06/21/1395185/-Optimism-Research-Political-Victories
And thank you, this is a helpful encapsulation of the limits of pessimism: > Defeatism. There can be a fine line between being a pessimist and being a realist. One is playing the odds in the hope that being right will lessen the blow of an undesirable outcome (it doesn't), the other is ignoring the odds because the world is filled with completed Hail Marys, miracle come-from-behind and out-of-nowhere stories, and until the buzzer it's not over unless you think it is. Reality is only what HAS happened, not what the odds predict should happen.
She knew full well. She wrote about security measures in her book, Hard Choices (irony in that title). Read this gem of an interview and excerpts and pass it around:
Although Clinton admits she is “not the most tech-savvy person,” she also describes “falling in love with my iPad,” even as she acknowledges that new technologies, including more widespread use of cell phones and ever expanding social media channels, are tools that are “in and of themselves value-neutral. They could be forces for bad as easily as for good, just as steel can be used to build hospitals or tanks, and nuclear power can either energize a city or destroy it.” She adds that we must “act responsibly to maximize technology’s benefits—while minimizing the risks.” Ways she and her staff were advised to minimize those risks included leaving “BlackBerrys, laptops—anything that communicated with the outside world—on the plane, with their batteries removed to prevent foreign intelligence services from compromising them” when they visited places like Russia. She was also advised to keep sensitive material confidential by reading it “inside an opaque tent in a hotel room. In less well-equipped settings we were told to improvise by reading sensitive material with a blanket over our head. I felt like I was ten years old again, reading covertly by flashlight under the covers after bedtime.” http://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/5-revelations-from-hillary-clintons-new-memoir-hard-choices/
Guests on MSNBC's Hardball have given a total of $79k to the campaign of Kathleen Matthews. https://theintercept.com/2016/03/11/chris-matthewss-hardball-guests-have-given-79050-to-his-wife-kathleens-congressional-campaign/
The Sanders progressive in the primary race for MD-08 is, unless I'm mistaken, Jamie Raskin. https://jamieraskin.com/
Some friendly coordination between the DNC, Politico, Hillary for America, and Amalgamated Bank regarding the Hillary Victory Fund:
>Ken Vogel at Politico is doing a follow up story on the Hillary Victory Fund and wants us to get back to him by Sunday. Bolded and underlined below are his questions. I've inserted draft answers to some but have left others blank. Appreciate in advance your feedback.
. >Are we coordinating with HFA on these as well? I think it would be helpful to know what they are going to say. Also, let's reach out to Amalgamated and make sure they don't say something dumb. Do you have a contact there or would you like me to reach out to Sam Brown who I know?
. >Spoke to Clinton campaign. They agreed that we should highlight all the ways the state parties benefit from DNC infrastructure improvements. They are checking with Elias on some of the other questions.
. >I also put some thoughts on the questions below in red. Obviously, you should play with the specific language you'd like to use if you want to go back to him with more. I think the point that there is a lot of HVF money allocated to states that hasn't been sent to them yet because it is for general election purposes is a good one, and the reason that they're sending money to us so far is because we are building the infrastructure that is necessary to support the programs that they will be running later. Of course, if you want to go back to him with more of the below, may want to coordinated/check with HFA to make sure we're on the same page and saying the same things.
Whenever anyone says Sanders can't get enough delegates, reply, "Neither can Clinton." That puts the focus on the Superdelegates--and it might be good to remind people who these include: https://theintercept.com/2016/02/17/voters-be-damned/
An interesting thread: Problem brewing in Rhode Island
http://hubpages.com/politics/Bernie-Saying-the-Hillary-Cheating-is-Disgraceful-is-Not-Enough
working link. the Comptroller is a Hillary superdelegate? why the fuck can't Americans get up in arms about how compromised this whole process is?
if what happened really is illegal, then he needs to hold Hillary's feet to the fire and make her speak out about it.
We're growing, the word is getting out despite their attempts to silence us. The ground beneath that monolithic establishment is shifting, there's movement all over the world, and we're headed in the right direction, working toward a noble cause. And a virtuous man came forward to tell others what we already knew, and like us, once they see the truth they can't forget it. He's the messenger, a long-distance runner, who's brought us together to carry that message forward. The PTB are at a disadvantage right now, living in their echo chamber they can't understand or believe what they're being confronted with, which makes it harder for them to come up with 'new' ways to get over on us or hide their corruption. And they're arrogant and full of hubris - and if past is prologue they're doomed if they think they can compete with the gods, who don't look favorably on that kinda shit. (BTW I'm reading Sun Tzu's The Art of War and getting some insight on how wars are won. Its not so much the number of warriors but the amount of preparation and careful assessment of the enemy's strengths and weaknesses that brings success; and he stresses the importance of seeking a way to end the war quickly - so now's not the time to slow down - 'depressed' is a state of mind - go hug the kids.) Onward Celeste.
this email talks about possibly using a clip of Hillary from msnbc. Luis Miranda states his opinion on the clip:
>From: Miranda, Luis Sent: Friday, May 20, 2016 12:06 PM To: Jakubiec, Matthew; Walker, Eric; Comm_D Subject: RE: Video Request: MSNBC segment on how 16 was not as bad as 08
>Since there was such a heavy Bernie piece in here let's not touch it.
so much for impartiality.
Anyone know how much impact this might have in California? Bernie Sanders Supports Legal Weed in California
There's also this: Police and Prison Guard Groups Fight Marijuana Legalization in California
Go read the responsive pleading here:
https://www.scribd.com/document/319904496/Justice-Department-Reply-brief-7-29-16
State in its response did essentially say HRC and her aides didn't take the courses because there was no official record of them having done so in all three of the databases it maintains for such purposes.
It says what the Daily Caller's report says it does.
This was the same plaza as where Occupy Oakland was Frank H. Ogawa Plaza
Feb 9, 2012 was "overall a good day" for Clinton.
Except for that damn Bernie Sanders:
>The press stories so far are real solid (will forward a couple more in a sec), but Sen Sanders and Rep Cohen have both issued statements portraying the report as finding "flaws" or "raising serious concerns" about our KXL review. Perhaps to be expected given they called for this investigation.
Why is he always so mean to her? All she wanted was one little pipeline.
Yeah I was going to run with http://spirit-project.com/
just because I am more comfortable in python land, if you want to powow I would be down, I have a server and the domain name just sitting there.
But but but... she KNEW about the importance of balancing the utility of tech with security issues. She wrote about that in her 2014 memoir. I keep posting this bit because it belies her "everyone did it" excuse or any posturing that she didn't know it was a problem. See highlighted section especially:
Although Clinton admits she is “not the most tech-savvy person,” she also describes “falling in love with my iPad,” even as she acknowledges that new technologies, including more widespread use of cell phones and ever expanding social media channels, are tools that are “in and of themselves value-neutral. They could be forces for bad as easily as for good, just as steel can be used to build hospitals or tanks, and nuclear power can either energize a city or destroy it.” [THIS!>>>>She adds that we must “act responsibly to maximize technology’s benefits—while minimizing the risks.” [<<<<THIS!] Ways she and her staff were advised to minimize those risks included leaving “BlackBerrys, laptops—anything that communicated with the outside world—on the plane, with their batteries removed to prevent foreign intelligence services from compromising them” when they visited places like Russia. She was also advised to keep sensitive material confidential by reading it “inside an opaque tent in a hotel room. In less well-equipped settings we were told to improvise by reading sensitive material with a blanket over our head. I felt like I was ten years old again, reading covertly by flashlight under the covers after bedtime.” [http://www.barnesandnoble.com/blog/5-revelations-from-hillary-clintons-new-memoir-hard-choices/]
Yet, there is no such thing as a Democratic coup America supports around the world, most often clandestine, always bloody. Dollars for Bodies. I will not watch a moment of the Olympics in Brazil. Not only because of the scrubbing in Rio of the poor in slums to put on a happy face for the world, but because of democracy being subverted. Hillary has a chance to get out in front of this vs working from behind like in Honduras. Largest country in South America and crickets here? Yes siree Markos, have to be vigilant for those democratic socialist hippees attempt at spreading humanity.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/bread-and-circuses
>A phrase used by a Roman writer to deplore the declining heroism of Romans after the Roman Republic ceased to exist and the Roman Empire began: “Two things only the people anxiously desire — bread and circuses.” The government kept the Roman populace happy by distributing free food and staging huge spectacles. ( See Colosseum.)
>Note : “Bread and circuses” has become a convenient general term for government policies that seek short-term solutions to public unrest.
Anonymous is very much engaged in anti-TPP efforts. Just don't expect to hear about in in US MSM.
There has been some little division in those parts lately. Some members of Anonymous have said the latest announced goal, OpTrumpTruth violates the group's long-held nonpartisan status.
The people in Congress, all of them, but especially the corporatist dems in the Senate, along with Barack Obama, need to receive as many personal letters or emails as we can send. They apparently need to be reminded, with their recent abominable behavior, of who really sent them there, and that THIS IS NOT OK. If we need a round of impeachment proceeding, (the Republicans are quietly watching all of this, looking for a perfect opening), whatever. AND, THEY OWE BERNIE A PUBLIC APOLOGY, NOT ONE THAT'S HIDDEN AWAY, ATTEMPTING A PRIVATE "DEAL". Bernie's been and is our leader, but they need to understand that we will make a lot of "messy" (thanks, Bernie!) noise. THEY ALSO OWE PUBLIC APOLOGIES TO ALL WHO VOTED FOR BERNIE. Too many people have died for this country's liberty. They all know that fraudulent elections have taken place in one state after another, and they have been complicit with their silence, as has the media. It appears right now that there is at least one honorable man in Washington. Let's see if there are any more. The folks who populate such books as Dark Money and The Shock Doctrine DO NOT RUN THIS COUNTRY, it is a representative democracy, and they had better start listening to the people who pay them. If they have chosen poor "friends" who are putting the heat on to keep the cookie jar full, that's just too bad. They need to use better judgement in selecting their "friends".
Aren't words fun? Feel free to copy any that you like!
Oh, you want to see callous? I found some banter between two DNC staffers about a DWC event in Knoxville where retirees were contacting them about attending. It was snide and awful. I'll have to find those again and post it.
On Edit: Found these -
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/20603
https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/20193 (Apparently the retirees' paltry donation of $50 raises question as to whether they should be allowed at the DWS event. Fortunately for these old folks, Scott Comer is going to do "the Christian thing" and allow them entry.)
Pretty damned good with a nascent middle class. They suffer though from the same oligarchs that we have here. And look at Brazil this last couple of weeks. Coups are sprouting up everywhere.
Good article about Brazil:
theres also Greenwald's Stages article. He has seven stages but we'll be in a perpetual recycling of 5, 6 and 7 through June no doubt.
The collective freakout at the rumor that Aristide might visit Haiti after the earthquake was interesting. It's like the entire world was placed on alert.
I assume it was a Windows server. If so, there is a log called the "event viewer" that would show all access to the server. I'm not a hacker, but my company does a lot of work on Windows computers at an admin level, and I'm familiar with these things.
A simple google search "modifying windows event logs" returned this and this which talked about a couple of commercial tools to modify the event log (e.g. to delete your log-ins and remove your tracks). If I can find this on a google search, I'm sure hackers have tools to delete their log-ins. In the end, the event log is just a file. If Windows can modify it, someone else can too. It looks like Windows has security to avoid that, but I'd be very surprised if it can't be circumvented.
The main point of security is to not let people get on the server in the first place, through firewalls, hiding yourself (not returning pings, for example), really difficult passwords. If someone can get to the Windows event log, you've already been hacked.
Of course all this doesn't prove that Clinton was or wasn't hacked. Proof that she was hacked would be huge of course, but the main problem for Clinton is that if she had not set up a private server, we wouldn't be looking to see if she was hacked. She mishandled gov't documents just by having a private server, whether the server was hacked or not.
Clinton: "OK, it was a mistake to take that car. But I didn't wreck it. And I washed it before I brought it back."
I'd like to see us fight for a constitutional right to health and medical care. http://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/a-constitutional-right-to-health-247449 Such a right could be the lynchpin for demanding things that affect health, like infrastructure that doesn't deliver unhealthy water, better labor policies so people can take breaks instead of wearing diapers, better environmental choices, etc.
In Charles Duhigg's great book The Power of Habits, he talks about how the CEO of Alcoa makes safety his focus, allows anyone within the org to call him personally with new safety proposals, and in so doing, grows the safety, profits and production of the co by some amazing percentage. I think a focus on health would be pretty similarly great for America, stimulating society well beyond health itself.
Has anyone been able to find any wrongdoing apart from media conspiracy/anti-Bernie bias in this leak? I'm looking for election fraud, dirty money, etc. So far, I've only seen the leak about how they were trying to rig RI and the minor Honeywell leak.
What's really cool is the stuff over at The Intercept about Bernie's outreach to the Arab-American communities in MI and elsewhere--he also is taking an even-handed approach to the I-P conflict, which resonates too.
https://theintercept.com/2016/03/09/bernie-sanders-promises-level-playing-field-on-israel-palestine/
Until he gets it crossposted, here's a link to the original Dr. Jeff Masters article on Weather Underground- which is certainly worth a read in its own right...
In contrast, Amazon refuses to delete the 1-star review for this book:
https://www.amazon.com/77-Billion-One-Election-Fraud/dp/1539309371
even though the one-star review claims they gave the score because they did not receive the book.
To rub some salt in there, I added a 5-star review (after reading the book) stating I gave such a high score to offset the BS 1-star and my review was deleted.
Glenn Greenwald has also been warning about this... since February!
So glad you brought up the Black Panthers and COINTELPRO. There is a great documentary film, Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution, that we all should watch. I'm not at all new to the topic (first started reading about COINTELPRO in Summer of 1999) but this film taught me many things I did not know.
My biggest problem is nothing clear is in this poll. Hard to believe they shift Male/Female 4+ to Male, and Sanders drops 3 points.
one more...
4) revised TPs for HPSCI (September 15, 2012)
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/16734
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/16618 (the please print one)
BTW, for any of the emails in WikiLeaks you can click on the tab "View email" to see a cleaned up version of each email or "View original PDF" to see the original PDF of each email.
For those who won't go Over There...
>The Department of Education will send letters to 387,000 people they’ve identified as being eligible for a total and permanent disability discharge, a designation that allows federal student loan borrowers who can't work because of a disability to have their loans forgiven.
In short, if you're on permanent disability and have student loans, there MAY now be a form to fill out to get those loans forgiven.
The capitulation of what were once viewed as progressive Dems is sad, but Joan has been moving to the Center since the last election. Demos was a real surprised.
Then again, today there was a reminder on how CAP also reigned in the writers at Think Progress once CAP and AIPAC got into bed together.
I'm hesitant to cheer lead for the Intercept, but their article ties back to a 2012 Nation article. https://theintercept.com/2015/11/05/leaked-emails-from-pro-clinton-group-reveal-censorship-of-staff-on-israel-aipac-pandering-warped-militarism/
And here is a slightly longer list from Lee Fang's article on the Supedelegates supporting Clinton who are simply lobbyists for Goldman Sachs, TransCanada (Keystone XL), NewsCorp, etc. It's an article that should be circulated wide and far: https://theintercept.com/2016/02/17/voters-be-damned/
This e-mail is all formatted to shit, someone with more free time, please fix it? Some info I found at the bottom, more info at top of the e-mail but don't have time to read it: https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/216
>There is theoretically a “two hats” argument that you could try to make here. The “two hats” rule is that even if you are an agent of the DNC, you are not subject to the DNC’s fundraising rules when you’re not wearing your DNC hat. For example, the DNC is not allowed to raise money for charitable organizations at all. However, the Chair is permitted to raise money for her breast cancer charity as long as she doesn’t do so in her capacity as DNC Chair.
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>Her DNC fundraising and her charitable fundraising need to be completely separate. If someone were paid by both the DNC and the Host Committee, there is an argument that they would have two hats and could raise for both organizations, but I would strongly advise against it because it would be very difficult to separate the two fundraising activities. At some point I know that Kerrigan did some fundraising for the Host Committee and justified it by having the Host Committee pay him a consulting fee, but they only did it because they were in such a bad place with the fundraising and absolutely needed it.
About to get back to work, but here is an e-mail from a guy that doesn't know how to log on to his account properly and is willing to go against protocol if it makes things easier. God these people are foolish... no wonder the DNC got hacked.
Emails like this one confuse me: https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/4091
How many times did DWS claim the DNC was neutral? Regardless of whether Sanders was right or wrong, shouldn't it be Hillary's camp that responds with counterargument, not the DNC itself?
What do you mean Huma didn't remember yesterday? I'd like to read about it if there's a link. I did a little research on Patrick Kennedy and came up with a couple of links:
https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/emailid/15727
Does anyone know what a fob is? Apparently, Patrick Kennedy helped Pagliano get hired at State, even though there were some questions about whether it was okay since he had worked for HRC as IT. Kennedy also helped distribute fobs, that allow remote access to State Dept. emails. Not sure if these are related.
> Jill Stein says "Trump says dangerous things. Hillary actually does them."
Well put! That goes right along with Roger Waters: "[Hillary] might become the first woman president to drop a f---ing nuclear bomb on somebody”.
Hillary Clinton, Stalwart Friend of World’s Worst Despots, Attacks Sanders’ Latin American Activism
>It seems that, overnight, Clinton and her supporters have decided that Sanders’ opposition to Reagan-era wars against Latin American governments and rebel groups – a common liberal position at the time – is actually terribly wrong and something worthy of demonization rather than admiration, because those governments and groups abused human rights. Whatever else one might say about this mimicking of right-wing agitprop, Hillary Clinton for years has been one of the world’s most stalwart friends of some of the world’s worst despots and war criminals, making her and her campaign a very odd vessel for demonizing others for their links to and admiration of human-rights abusers.
Glenn Greenwald at the Intercept
He's now a lobbyist , or to be more accurate, he is a senior advisor to a health care lobbying firm even though he's not a registered lobbyist. He has totally given in to the dark side (sound of heavy breathing). Read more here.
EpiPen's patents are expired/expiring, but the first attempts at a generic alternative are being held up:
Here is a link to the "formal complaint" It contains examples of the texts (without phone numbers redacted). and a link to more examples.
https://www.scribd.com/doc/312844982/160516-Letter-DNC-RBC-NVDemsConvention
Not sure if anyone will ever be able to count an "exodus" as I don't even know if you can actually delete an account over there, and more importantly I don't think that level of info will be published very often if ever. Besides, coming over here doesn't mean I won't read over there as well. I might stop that, and not visiting the site is something that can be seen ... sort of ...
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/dailykos.com ... right now it says "all the good info is behind a paywall" AND it says 1336 global 276 United States (as a ranking).
Well, it's a great start! Kudos to you for this undertaking. My suggestions are two. 1) I think the R's have also moved right on economic issues (though maybe "right" isn't the correct term—perhaps neo-liberal, or anti-Keynesian). And 2) I believe the shift on the R side happened with Reagan, so 1980 would be the key date on that side. According to Thomas Frank the main factions within the Democratic party were already agreed on need to neuter labor prior to Clinton, but for different reasons. Clinton took it in a neoliberal direction.
Also, Anoa Changa on The Benjamin Dixon Show discusses the #WeAreTheLeft erasure of the diverse supporters of Bernie Sanders and the establishment, neo-liberal agenda of the open letter's signatories.
He turned himself to dirt with what he did, not what apologists claimed he couldn't do because of Republican obstruction:
There is an absolutely fascinating book that explains, in layman's terms, all the key theoretical claims of the neoliberal model, and how dubious they are. It also charts the history of how this model took hold in the field of economics. The book is Zombie Economics by John Quiggin. You can read the table of contents on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Zombie-Economics-Ideas-Still-among/dp/0691154546/
Ok, ok...I can't take credit for that one! Saw it on a Facebook group I think, it said: Bernaste - def. -The bern in you recognizes the bern in me. :)
I borrowed a book from my bro-in-law that he highly recommended, called "Mindfulness in Plain English", by Henepola Gunaratana. I've only just started reading that, so I can't speak to it too much, but so far so good.
/r/meditation and /r/yoga are great resources as well. Through them, I found an app called Headspace that's like 'Meditation for Dummies'. It has free mini-sessions of beginning guided meditation, AND it's pretty customizable - I have mine set to send me "Mindful Moments" twice throughout the day - just nice little messages that will pop up and remind you to stop, think, breath. :)
Regarding Katrina, have you read The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Kline? She describes how the establishment finds ways to capitalize on natural or created disasters. I've often wondered how the "deniers" of climate change are actually beside themselves with glee at the prospect of all the riches that will come their way. Of course, they will all collect on the highest spot, not realizing that food and fresh water ultimately disappear for them, too. Can you imagine how high the walls will have to be for their gated communities?!
So I'm sure every one here has seen this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_k6YAEU-eDE
from the article here
http://usuncut.com/politics/new-york-primary-disaster/
And all the shit that went down in Arizona and Nevada is out there too. It's not going away. If it does start to mysteriously disappear off the www then I would really start to reevaluate my bug out plan. But for now it's still out there. Share it far and wide. Use it in the up coming states. This is right out of The Art of War. Use your enemies perceived strength and use it to your advantage.
Do we need UN observers overseeing not only over the America's General elections (Gore v. Bush and the supreme court anyone?), but our primaries also? Boy, wouldn't the blow the establishments mind?
I haven't started a company manufacturing pitchforks and Guillotines. Maybe I should. Shit, if things go bad maybe I can become a rich fuck. I'd rather try to turn this another way. I don't want all my younger family member caught up in the MIC not to have to be ordered to turn their sites on me or us.
To me, this fight was not about Bernie. I think it was about Bernie pointing out some basic facts to some of us that maybe we have forgotten, and that the younger generation understands implicitly.
It's broken.
We need to fix it. How we chose to do this is the real question.
Good night, and good luck.
If anyone is interested, Reddit just released an official Android app.
Installing it now to see what it's like. So far I've been very happy with Reddit Is Fun, if you need an alternative Android app for Reddit.
Good advice. Didn't say I was convinced. They could just be playing up things that are normally ignored/downplayed.
On the other hand, as far as the over-the-top protests, the DNC and their allies do send people out to take part:
> Yes, but going forward, when our allies screw up and don't deliver bodies in time, we either send all our interns out there or we stay away from it.. we don't want to own a bad picture:
Exactly. ACA is a boondoggle whose primary purpose is to guarantee the profits of for-profit insurers. Health is a legitimate public good. Which God gave these companies the right to insert themselves between the people and the government "of, by, and for" the people? Screw them! They are leaches and deserve to be destroyed.
Access to buying insurance is not health coverage... especially not under "Obamacare" where high deductible make that insurance too expensive to use.
Here he is on Social Security. Notice he's not saying anything about turning it into a means based entitlement system:
>Social Security is an insurance program and at the same gathering he explained it this way. "Social Security faces a problem: 77 million baby boomers are set to retire. Now I know there are some Republicans who would be just fine with allowing these programs to wither and die on the vine. The way they see it, Social Security and Medicare are wasteful "entitlement programs." But people who think this way need to rethink their position. It's not unreasonable for people who paid into a system for decades to expect to get their money's worth — that's not an "entitlement," that's honoring a deal." The truth is; Social Security is strong, sturdy, resilient and worth protecting. According to the Social Security Administration, 38% of the income that retirees receive comes from these benefits.
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/is-donald-trumps-new-plan-for-social-security-crazy-2015-10-09
That's a great read too.
I've been following the work of Paul Babiak and Robert Hare since Hare wrote Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us
Here is the ultimate "money quote" courtesy of Ken Griffin in an interview with the Chicago Tribune the ultrawealthy have "insufficient influence" in government. See for yourself at http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-03-11/business/ct-biz-0311-confidential-griffin-web-version-20120311_1_american-crossroads-politics-republicans-and-democrats
Besides being a founder of Karl Rove's American Crossroads SuperPAC, he is also funding Future 45 which attacked Bernie early. See https://theintercept.com/2016/02/17/hedge-fund-billionaires-fund-super-pac-ad-against-bernie-sanders-and-minimum-wage-hike/
Hillary may select Fink, the billionaire CEO of the Wall Street investment firm Blackrock.
That is one of my biggest concerns about her--the people she would appoint to guard the hen house. This will not reassure you:
Who is Joel Benenson? http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/hillary-clinton-strategist-attacks-bernie-sanders-anti-wall-street-ad-while-his
https://theintercept.com/2016/02/08/hrc-inner-circle-lobbyists/
He makes Mark Penn look like a "True Progressive."
Wednesday June 1st - I am going. It should be a large crowd - It is a very big field - There should be large number of people from all over the mid-peninsula and South Bay. Any way to find out how many have signed up so far?
Could either be in the Soccer field (oval) or in the main field. The entrance is through the parking lot adjacent to the fields.
Dunno if this was shared or not, found them saying to not link Trump to House and Senate Republicans: https://wikileaks.org/dnc-emails/emailid/6145
>He just doesn’t want to link the House and Senate Republicans to Trump.
>His broader point: the campaign does not want to connect Trump and the Republican Party. They want to make Trump look even more extreme than the rank-and-file Republican Member of Congress. Otherwise, in their mind, Trump will come across as less scary than he really is.
I respectfully disagree to some parts. The issue as I see it (mostly from this link HERE is that Mika said DWS should step down. The DNC then reached out to Chuck Todd to ask him to talk to Mika on Morning Joe and ask her to stop saying that DWS should step down. They offered some reasons why Mika's argument was wrong and also offered to have DWS (I believe) call up Mika so the two could talk. Chuck didn't think it would help but said it couldn't get worse. That's my take.
>On January 1, 1943, the American folk music legend Woody Guthrie jotted in his journal a list of 33 “New Years Rulin's." Nowadays, we'd call them New Year's Resolutions. Adorned by doodles, the list is down to earth by any measure. Family, song, taking a political stand, personal hygiene -- they're the values or aspirations that top his list. ......
>.1. Work more and better
>.2. Work by a schedule
>.3. Wash teeth if any
>.4. Shave
>.5. Take bath
>.6. Eat good — fruit — vegetables — milk
>.7. Drink very scant if any
>.8. Write a song a day
>.9. Wear clean clothes — look good
>.10. Shine shoes
>.11. Change socks
>.12. Change bed clothes often
>.13. Read lots good books
>.14. Listen to radio a lot
>.15. Learn people better
>.16. Keep rancho clean
>.17. Dont get lonesome
>.18. Stay glad
>.19. Keep hoping machine running
>.20. Dream good
>.21. Bank all extra money
>.22. Save dough
>.23. Have company but dont waste time
>.24. Send Mary and kids money
>.25. Play and sing good
>.26. Dance better
>.27. Help win war — beat fascism
>.28. Love mama
>.29. Love papa
>.30. Love Pete
>.31. Love everybody
>.32. Make up your mind
>.33. Wake up and fight
From http://www.openculture.com/2014/01/woody-guthries-no-frills-doodle-filled-list-of-new-years-resolutions-from-1943.html and https://twitter.com/uncleblabby/status/947547038006304768.
I don't think the State Department had any idea, even when they sent mail to the Clinton server, what they were looking at. Here's an exchange between Hillary and Huma that's pretty interesting. From Wikileaks, it's dated 2010.
httpS Everywhere - the S in https is important! Yeah, I use it too. The idea is, if https is available at the web site, then request using it. It should be the case but as far I know is still not the case that every website will implement and allow https.
> bitcoin block thingy
Blockchain. There's also a cryptocurrency called Ethereum, that one of my friends swears is going to revolutionize everything. In addition to being traded like a currency, you can also use it to run programs. I think Bitcoin can also be used to run programs somehow, but Ethereum is deliberately being designed to do it.
Wow!
The lyrics to the first includes "where the burnie rows", and in context, "burnie" is a rivulet: https://www.wordnik.com/words/burnie
Rivulets join other rivulets, to form streams, rivers, oceans.
So cool!
Kudos! But I have a question to ask of you all... If you or I apply to be a mail carrier with the U.S. postal service we have to get an FBI background check to see if we have any issues of moral turpitude, criminal links, or unethical acts. Why doesn't Hillary require the same background check? Did you see the 1,200 points raised by Anonymous here https://ghostbin.com/paste/fumkt ? There is plenty here to keep Hillary from becoming a postal carrier!
https://www.docdroid.net/1qtFARi/327697446-ctr-digital-disruption-memo.pdf.html
>Twitter is an important resource for journalists who wish to engage in high-value political discussion. It is also poorly regulated and features several enemy thought-leaders with tens of thousands of followers. We cannot compete with their personal magnetism but the Truth and Safety Council that has been installed will allow us to no-platform (ban, shadow-ban, or threaten) any user. If Twitter is scorched-earth after this election, that’s fine so long as the right woman wins.
>NOTE: Twitter is home to a great deal of upset Sanders supporters who are posing as idealists but are really just engaging in identity politics. They are very susceptible to being trolled because they are generally young, highly emotional, and internally invested.
>Text: Sanders voters are crybabies /Subtext: ANGER-TRIGGERS
>Official memo is “City-Hall” / The Patriarchy / Capitalism
>Sanders voters are effeminate (tissue needed for tears)
>Sanders voters would “move past it” if they were mature.
>Memetic Payload -The central complaint will, since the complainers are failures, be addressed to the same machine that caused the narcissistic injury.
>Facebook - Grandma’s Internet
>Facebook is a pervasive social media that is used by older people and professionals. It is a demographic cross-section that is less activist (on the whole) and less sophisticated (on the whole) than Twitter. It is higher social-capital than the chans or reddit. It is a good place to work on negative social reinforcement. Lacking a down-vote mechanism, you will need to reply to memes with counter-memes or other mockery. If you can infiltrate pro-Trump groups, concern trolling may be effective if your FB wall will support it.
CTR posters are essentially imposters pretending to be individuals with individual identities and opinions.
IF you have a smartphone, there's a good app called Pocket Casts (for iPhone, Android) that I really like. It allows you to slightly speed up the play, and automatically cuts silences. Probably available for Samsung. It does cost something around $2, though there are also lots of free apps, too.
I've only recently discovered podcasts, and am finding soooo much great content.
I feel like it is literally "overkill!" I feel in a state of shock following the "news" of the day, everyday. It's not just here in the US, its worldwide. Mother Earth is crying, care for her. Water is Life. Be kind to each other. It could be so easy for people to live in peace. We must confront the cancer within our society and ourselves honestly, bravely and with eyes open. We have just finished watching the Ken Burns Vietnam series. That was quite the searing emotional experience! But the news cycle is just unrelenting. I am so thankful I read "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Frankyl many years ago. The truths within that book have helped me carry on. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man%27s_Search_for_Meaning
I guess I'm a bit like a broken record player because of how often I plug this, but if anyone hasn't yet seen the documentary based on Naomi Klein's book The Shock Doctrine, you really must do so at the first opportunity. Very appropriately, it was released under the Creative Commons licensing system, so it's available on YouTube for free. Here's a link: https://youtu.be/B3B5qt6gsxY It is quite relevant to what is happening in Venezuela.
> “Appear weak when you are strong, and strong when you are weak.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
Is she trying to do this? Because she's doing it wrong it actually reads like this
>If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected.
So there's a lot she's missing
Edit: nm, I found it. If you search for 'metadata+' or 'Josh Begley', it's there.
I posted a link to the actual response letter. This should be taken down. It is inaccurate and misleading to call this an IRS investigation.
Link again:
https://www.scribd.com/document/319384834/IRS-Response-Clinton-Foundation-July-2016
The IRS commissioner's response was merely a referral of the House Republicans' letter re: the Clinton Foundation to the department of the IRS that handles charities, nothing more. It did not not initiate any investigation. This is seriously misleading. I believe the Clinton Foundation should be investigated but we shouldn't be posting inaccurate and misleading information here.
Here is a link to the actual response letter so you can read it yourself:
https://www.scribd.com/document/319384834/IRS-Response-Clinton-Foundation-July-2016
This does not show the IRA has launched an investigation, only that the IRS Commissioner passed along the letter received from House Republicans. It is simply a referral to the department of the IRS that deals with exempt organizations such as charities. Read the letter at this link:
https://www.scribd.com/document/319384834/IRS-Response-Clinton-Foundation-July-2016
I'd love for the IRS to actually launch an official investigation into the Clinton Foundation as much as anyone, but this letter did not do that. Please do not go beyond the facts. It makes this site look bad.
Story: The Intercept
“Women Hate Donald Trump Even More Than Men Hate Hillary Clinton”
Featherstone notes that Bernie Sanders, the only major candidate with a positive net favorability
with both women and men, “is able to channel some of the aggression that men feel in general,
and sometimes with good reason, about politics.... A lot of men are very disenfranchised and mad
about it, and Sanders is mad about it too. And he has a personal style that doesn’t hide that.
He’s pretty tough.”
CNN is hiding the unedited debate. i found this podcast instead. its only the audio but its the best we the people have right now! spread the link!
I see this as the first of many confrontations and skirmishes between this administration and government agencies.
I didn't realize that Markos was capable of writing anything without the word "fuck" in it. This letter to the editor in the Berkley paper sure hits the nail on the head and is very interesting reading. So is the information on this link....
As Jeff Winters says in his book "Oligarchy" oligarchs are interested in the preservation of their wealth. One kind of threat to them is other oligarchs, another is masses of people, another is government that wants to take away their wealth.
As Bernie Sanders said, sitting behind Trump at the inauguration were billionaire after billionaire after billionaire. One most prominent is Sheldon Adelson who will be "directing" Trump's middle east policy. Rebecca Mercer and the Koch brothers are three behind-the-scenes oligarchs pulling the strings. Mercer is particularly involved in picking cabinet members. Look them up. And, yes, there were/are many oligarchs behind Hillary.
For a nuanced explanation analysis of oligarchy try Winters' book:
https://www.amazon.com/Oligarchy-Jeffrey-Winters/dp/0521182980
Or go to Cambridge Univ press, if you don't want to use Amazon.
looks like you can watch it on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/Freeway-Crack-In-The-System/dp/B01EVJMQ2A
Here's another link
http://sockshare.net/watch/EdZ1LXGp-freeway-crack-in-the-system-season-1.html
Thank you for the suggestion.
Now this has become more than an annoyance for me . . . not an obsession, but somewhere in between. I've tried your suggestion, with Opera in private mode. No, account banned within minutes.
What does bojo stand for anyway?
I've tried using a robust VPN.
I've tried using a robust VPN (ProtonVPN) with Chrome incognito mode.
I've tried using a robust VPN with Brave browser.
I've tried using a robust VPN with Tor.
Always the same result . . . banned within minutes to 24 hours. I'd like to know how they are managing this. This has become a challenge.
Ideas? Or if there are no ideas here, can you point me to a subreddit that would have some advice?
Thank you.
By the way, as penance, each time I've gotten booted I've sent Bernie $10.
:-) Ah, another book for my wish list! [I'm for almost anything the Catholic church is against...!] Thank you!
If you don't already have it, another book to recommend: A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance: Portrait of an Age, by William Manchester.
https://www.amazon.com/World-Lit-Only-Fire-Renaissance/dp/0316545562/
It's been about fifteen years since I read it; it's worth a re-read by now. I remember appreciating it greatly because it was interesting enough to read almost all of it at one sitting.
>... focus on the Dem's hacking and stealing the primary from Bernie Sanders!
Yes! Thank you! The primaries could not have been hacked or pre-programmed or voter suppression successful if Dems had not been complicit in all of it. In fact, the Rethugs didn't vary in exit polls, but Her Heinousness had numbers wildly exaggerated from the exit polls, and as that fellow on the film noted, when election officials watch foreign nations vote, anything more than a two percent difference between vote totals and exit polls means fraud has been committed and there's an automatic recount.
>Stolen Democracy: How the Democratic Party Lost the Election and Lost its Soul [May 22, 2017] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8ERFwZoPXE
While you're at it, watch this film, too. It'll depress the hell out of you, but it's a foreshadowing of what ALL reichwingnut politicians of BOTH parties have in store for us if we don't stop them.
>The Shock Doctrine [2009] Documentary by Naomi Klein https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3B5qt6gsxY
>Democrats have done little to advance traditional liberal goals: expanding opportunity, fighting for social justice, and ensuring that workers get a fair deal. Indeed, they have scarcely dented the free-market consensus at all. This is not for lack of opportunity: Democrats have occupied the White House for sixteen of the last twenty-four years, and yet the decline of the middle class has only accelerated. Wall Street gets its bailouts, wages keep falling, and the free-trade deals keep coming.
>With his trademark sardonic wit and lacerating logic, Frank's Listen, Liberal lays bare the essence of the Democratic Party's philosophy and how it has changed over the years. A form of corporate and cultural elitism has largely eclipsed the party's old working-class commitment, he finds. For certain favored groups, this has meant prosperity. But for the nation as a whole, it is a one-way ticket into the abyss of inequality. In this critical election year, Frank recalls the Democrats to their historic goals-the only way to reverse the ever-deepening rift between the rich and the poor in America.
From the publisher's description of Thomas Frank's <em>Listen, Liberal</em>. Sounds like I gotta read this book!
Exactly. And they are still around, but looking at the reviews on Amazon it is caveat emptor. Much better to buy in a real store.