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Bernie Sanders supporters noticed votes mysteriously disappearing during the Kentucky primary on Tuesday. The Kentucky primary was so close that the delegates will be split evenly between Sanders and Hillary Clinton, with each getting 27 delegates apiece, according to AP. But Sanders is considering asking for a recount, while others are pointing out suspicious things that happened during the primary itself. Did election fraud happen during the primary or was everything merely the result of glitches and technical errors? Meanwhile, Democratic candidate Roque De La Fuente has noticed the same thing happening with his votes in different states.
Here’s what you need to know.
1. Sanders Said He’s Considering a Recount in Kentucky
2. Sanders Somehow Lost 2,000 to 5,000 Votes in Kentucky During the Primary
3. Votes in Pike County Disappeared
4. Roque De La Fuente, a Democratic Presidential Candidate, Shared Screenshots as He Mysteriously Lost Votes in Other States
5. A Similar Problem Was Also Reported in Marion County, Oregon, Where Clinton Gained 11,000 Votes
http://heavy.com/news/2016/05/votes-disappear-kentucky-primary-reassigned-fraud-what-happened-bernie-sanders-roque-de-la-fuente/amp/
Bernie needs to request a recount. It won't change the delegate count much but we need to see what's going on once and for all.
Hillary Clinton full CNN interview (part 1)
For those interested.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/video/news/hillary-clinton-full-cnn-interview-part-1/vi-BBtfz7P
China says it's ready if US ‘stirs up any conflict’ in South China Sea
Source: CNBC
BEIJING — China's attempts to claim a nearly 1.4-million-square-mile swathe of open ocean are without precedent and probably without legal merit, but Beijing continues to assert its right to the economically critical zone — and increasingly puts its claims in military terms.
Speaking to a small group of reporters in Beijing on Thursday, a high-ranking Chinese official made his warning clear: The United States should not provoke China in the South China Sea without expecting retaliation.
"The Chinese people do not want to have war, so we will be opposed to [the] U.S. if it stirs up any conflict," said Liu Zhenmin, vice minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. "Of course, if the Korean War or Vietnam War are replayed, then we will have to defend ourselves."
The so-called "nine-dash line" that China has drawn over most of the South China Sea — a gargantuan territorial claim that stretches about 1,200 miles from its shores — would give Beijing control over a zone that's estimated to handle about half of global merchant shipping, a third of the planet's oil shipping, two-thirds of global liquid natural gas shipments, and more than a 10th of Earth's fish catch. The Obama administration, backed by several Asian governments and entities such as the Brookings Institution, argues that such massive ocean claims at great distance from land are "inconsistent with international law."
Read more: http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/19/china-says-its-ready-if-us-stirs-up-any-conflict-in-south-china-sea.html
Clinton Delegate Claims 'Manipulation' at Nevada Dem Convention That Angered Sanders Supporters
"An awful lot has been said about the chaos at the Nevada convention last week.
"Debbie Wasserman-Schultz wants you to believe that there was incredible violence and that was all that there was at Nevada, with Bernie Bros threatening to tear down the whole house and set it on fire,” said the Young Turks host John Iadarola.
There was more to it than that, he pointed out. "They don’t actually show that the rules were clearly manipulated. There’s video evidence which we’ve shown. They won’t admit that and all the news reports about it won’t admit that either," Iadarola added.
Iadarola realizes that people might not take his word for it, so he located a HIllary Clinton delegate who was also shocked and dismayed by last minute rule changes and shady goings on.
“We had done absolutely everything—done it on time, had the state office confirm it a- and mysteriously in an email that went out Wednesday our names weren’t there," said Clinton delegate Pat Barrett. "When I went to try to correct it, I was given lots of various information - really no one seemed to now what was going on.”
“Eventually, I ended up in a long line outside the credentials committee room. Everyone got to go in - it was very interesting - but I stood and waited for four hours. They put [my name] back on [the list] and then an hour later when we were voting in the district rooms, my husband’s name was mysteriously taken off again,” Barrett revealed.
But why did the names disappear in the first place? "
http://blogs.alternet.org/election-2016/watch-hillary-clinton-delegate-confirms-corruption-nevada-democratic-convention
Happy birthday Malcolm X
I found Malcom's autobiography at just the right moment in my life and it has helped tremendously. Just want to show the brother some love.
Words I try to live by.
Probably my favorite picture of X and could anybody else get a reaction like that from Muhammad Ali?
Extremely Helpful Hillary Ally Declares That She Has Advantage With “Ugly Women”
"Washington Post political reporter David Weigel has a new piece up about how Donald Trump might have a chance to do well this November in largely white suburbs that have been reliably Democratic in most recent elections. The piece focuses in particular on Trump's strong primary performance in the area around Philadelphia; one of the sources interviewed is Ed Rendell, who served as both Philadelphia mayor and Pennsylvania governor. Rendell is a Democrat who supports Hillary Clinton, and he makes the case that ... well, see for yourself:
“Will [Trump] have some appeal to working-class Dems in Levittown or Bristol? Sure,” said Ed Rendell, the former Pennsylvania governor and Philadelphia mayor, who won landslides in the suburbs. “For every one he’ll lose 1½, two Republican women. Trump’s comments like ‘You can’t be a 10 if you’re flat-chested,’ that’ll come back to haunt him. There are probably more ugly women in America than attractive women. People take that stuff personally"
http://amp.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2016/05/18/ed_rendell_on_trump_hillary_ugly_women.html
Did the HIV Leaders' Meeting With Hillary Clinton Shortchange Young People and Movement-Building?
For months, HIV/AIDS advocates tried to meet with the Democratic candidates for president. Efforts kicked into high gear in March after Hillary Clinton made a huge gaffe by claiming that Ronald and Nancy Reagan kickstarted the national conversation on HIV/AIDS when in reality they ignored the epidemic while tens of thousands died in the U.S. alone.
HIV advocates from around the country sprang into action in response to Clinton's gaffe, with the intention of meeting with all the candidates to present a plan to end the AIDS epidemic in the U.S. by lowering new HIV infections to 12,000 in 2025.
As a member of ACT UP New York, I was involved in planning discussions before and after the meeting. And, regrettably, I saw a unique opportunity to refocus HIV/AIDS activism squandered. Those most in danger of contracting the disease -- young gay and trans people -- were not visible as equal partners in the process, which seemed to prioritize insider advocacy work rather than the dynamic, open organizing and social media use favored by today's social change movements.
Last Thursday, advocates held a meeting with Clinton in Brooklyn, N.Y., after which Sanders scheduled his own meeting with them for May 25. In the lead-up to the Clinton meeting, one of the bigger questions was who would attend, since the campaign had limited them to 20 attendees. A few veteran AIDS advocates took the lead in deciding on and inviting representatives from an array of non-profits from around the country.
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In the end, there were representatives from groups ranging from local and regional organizations, such as AIDS Alabama and AIDS Foundation of Chicago, to the national LGBT lobbying group Human Rights Campaign. But with only 20 groups represented, we remained concerned about wider community engagement and transparency.
We proposed remedies, such as livestreaming (or broadcasting) the meeting on the web or inviting the press, but were told to temper our expectations for wider participation and transparency. In the end, selected press was invited to the first few minutes of the meeting to report on a general, prepared statement by Clinton consisting of a "we can do better" message.
If older AIDS advocates think that they will inspire the younger generation to join the movement with scripted meetings, then they don't understand that young people are not interested in glossing over politicians' past mistakes and, in this case, letting Hillary Clinton evolve yet again on another issue. Immediately after the meeting, AIDS activist Jason Rosenberg took to social media to express his frustration with the archaic meeting format. He used Twitter, an outlet that the organizers seemingly forgot about or chose to disregard completely"
http://www.thebody.com/content/77608/did-the-hiv-leaders-meeting-with-hillary-clinton-s.html#sthash.NDwcN8q1.dpuf
I thought that this was an interesting article that highlights the struggle going on within many organizations. Old vs new.
Also why only 20 invites?
Yes, Hillary Clinton is beatable in the general election. Just watch this video.
The video above — 13 minutes devoted to Hillary Clinton's shifting position on lots and lots of issues — has been viewed almost 7 million times since it was originally posted by someone named "Michael Armstrong" back in mid-January.
Kathleen Parker, a conservative-leaning columnist for the Post, dedicated a piece to the video on Wednesday. In it, she writes:
Most of the highlights will be familiar to anyone who follows politics — her varying takes on Bosnia, health care, Wall Street, NAFTA — but the juxtaposition of these ever-shifting views is more jarring than one might expect. Politicians count on Americans’ short attention spans (and memories) as much as they do their own policies and/or charms. This video, inartfully titled “Hillary Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight,” clarifies blurred recollections and recasts them in an order that, among other things, reminds us how long the Clintons have been around.
That's right in several different ways. One is that the video doesn't capture Clinton "lying" for 13 minutes as its title states. The second, which largely makes the first point irrelevant, is that what the video does do very effectively is remind you that (a) Clinton has been around the political game for a very, very long time and (b) her positions on things like gay marriage, Wall Street regulation/reform and a host of other issues have changed — often markedly — over time.
And those two facts are what make predictions about how Donald Trump simply has no chance against Clinton in the fall so tenuous. As I have written, there's no question that Clinton — thanks in large part to entrenched demographic and electoral college realities
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/the-fix/wp/2016/05/18/13-minutes-of-video-that-show-why-hillary-clinton-isnt-unbeatable-in-the-general-election/
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