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May 15, 2017

Fired FBI Director James Comey in 2014: "You cannot trust people in power" - Oh really

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/james-comey-fired-fbi-director-in-2014-60-minutes/

The FBI director is given a 10-year term so they can lead in a way that's "not influenced by the political winds," James Comey told 60 Minutes in 2014.
Comey also said the founding fathers "divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest" because people in power cannot be trusted.

May 14, 2017

Watch - The dubious friends of Donald Trump: Part 1 - the Russians - Part 2: The King of Diamonds

May 12, 2017

James Comey, You Just Got Trump'd! - The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

May 12, 2017

Trump money laundering in the Netherlands: Paper trail could be the end

Source: dutchreview.com

You see, Trump used to be a “successful” businessman – given you ignore all the bankruptcies and lawsuits – and did many investments through a company called Bayrock. Guess where this Pokémon-sounding investment company is headquartered? Tax Haven Holland!
Oh, and ZEMBLA has all the little receipts – it’s pure money laundering, by setting up in the Netherlands in 2007, it laundered $1,5 million dollars. And the company is in hot water already, the State of New York is doing investigations into their tax fraud, large scale tax fraud – and Donald is a key figure. According to attorney F. Oberlander – prosecuting on behalf of New York State – the maximum jail term could be as long as 30 years! But it doesn’t end there! There’s more! This was just the appetizer!

Read more: https://dutchreview.com/news/international-news/trump-money-laundering-in-the-netherlands/

May 12, 2017

Sanders endorsed candidate voted to bar ACA from funding abortions, and requiring parental consent

For much of his first term, Mello’s positions were conventionally pro-life. In 2010, he voted to ban abortions after 20 weeks and to introduce new screening requirements. In 2011, he voted to bar the health exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act from funding abortions; supported a ban on using telemedicine to perform abortions; and voted to change a parental-notification requirement to one requiring parental consent. All of these bills were opposed by Planned Parenthood—and, given the realities of Nebraska politics, all easily passed.

What’s more interesting is what happened next—and what didn’t. In 2012, Mello voted with Planned Parenthood on two out of three bills tracked by the group—and was excused from voting on the third. After that, Mello, who had become the influential chair of the state legislature’s budget committee, voted with Planned Parenthood 100 percent of the time. By 2015, the group was celebrating a “fourth straight year…without enacting any new abortion restrictions in Nebraska, thanks largely to committed women’s health advocates engaged in the legislative process.”

https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/04/25/why-was-heath-mello-thrown-under-bus

Mello’s critics, including Hogue, are absolutely right to argue against any political calculus that involves selling out women’s rights—including the right to control their own body. And to oppose calls to “balance” those rights against some imaginary gain for the working class (as if women didn’t make up a majority of the working class). Americans tried that once with slavery—and it didn’t work out well. But no one has a right to use abortion, or Heath Mello, or the working people of Omaha—black, brown, and white—who see him as their champion, as pawns in some Democratic Party power game.

Like many of his supporters—including some of his most fervently pro-choice ones—Mello told me that he would like abortion to be a private matter between a woman and her partner, or her conscience. So long as women’s rights are under threat, that can’t happen. But when I ask Mello if, when he says he “will not restrict women’s reproductive care,” that includes abortions, he doesn’t equivocate: “Of course. I thought that was obvious.”

February 18, 2017

There are no Sanders movement - GE voting numbers - millenials turnout rate is down and more diverse

CIRCLE’s analysis of the national exit poll data also suggests that levels of racial and ethnic diversity among the youth electorate were consistent with the previous two presidential elections: overall, millennial voters are more diverse than the rest of the electorate.

About half the number of eligible voters between the ages of 18 and 29 (whom we’ll refer to as “millennials,” although millennials also include people in their early-to-mid-30s) cast ballots in this election. That rate falls well below the estimated general voter turnout rate of roughly 58 percent. About 55 percent of those millennial voters supported Clinton, as compared to the 60 percent who supported Obama in 2012, according to CIRCLE’s analysis. Conversely, youth support from Republicans remained relatively constant: Trump got about 37 percent of the youth vote, roughly equivalent to what Mitt Romney received in 2012.

https://ww2.kqed.org/lowdown/2016/11/14/how-millennials-voted/

That gap in millennial support this year is evident in the increase in support for third-party candidates (from 3 percent nationally in 2012 to 8 percent this year) and potentially lower voter turnout, particularly in swing states. Although millennials nationwide still favored Democrats by 18 points, that margin of support was 5 percentage points lower than in 2012, and more than 20 points lower in some of the swing states that Obama won and Clinton lost.

February 18, 2017

Midtterm elections 2018: All 33 seats in Senate class 1 + All 435 voting seats in House up for grabs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_elections,_2018#

The 2018 United States elections will mostly be held on Tuesday, November 6, 2018. These midterm elections will take place in the middle of Republican President Donald Trump's term. All 435 seats in the United States House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the United States Senate will be contested. 39 state and territorial governorships and numerous other state and local elections will also be contested.

Class 1 consists of:

States with a Class 1 senator: Arizona, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classes_of_United_States_Senators#Class_I

It won’t be a surprise if the election will be a protest vote against the mad "trumpish" delusional polarized politics, with health care, environment, economic reforms, anti corruption and openness “ie..show the taxes,” as the centerpiece.
democratic and independent voters will show up in masse and give the repubs a clear and definitive message.

February 18, 2017

PEW: 56% of Americans disapprove of Trumps job performance. 46% disapprove STRONGLY.

56% of Americans disapprove of Trump’s job performance. 46% disapprove STRONGLY. It’s not just Beltway elitists over our G’town cocktails

http://www.people-press.org/2017/02/16/in-first-month-views-of-trump-are-already-strongly-felt-deeply-polarized/

https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/832928605910990848

February 16, 2017

Establishment Democrats Order Sanders to Fall in Line, Play Nice

Source: The Observer

Rift between reform oriented progressives and establishment widens

On February 14, an anonymous senator criticized Sen. Bernie Sanders in an interview with The Hill for calling out the 13 Democratic senators who did not support his amendment to export cheaper prescription drugs from Canada and abroad. Additionally, Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer scheduled a meeting with Sanders and the senators to chastise Sanders. The Hill reported, “Democratic sources say Schumer convened the meeting not only to salve rankled feelings but also to send a message to the Vermont senator: Play nice with others.

Read more: http://observer.com/2017/02/bernie-sanders-progressives-establishment-democratic-party/

January 31, 2017

Trump consier executive order - deporting immigrants if dependent on government assistance.

Source: Apnews

7:40 p.m.

President Donald Trump is considering an executive order that would target some immigrants for deportation if they become dependent on government assistance.

The Associated Press has obtained a copy of the draft order that calls for the identification and removal "as expeditiously as possible" of any legal immigrant who relies on certain kinds of public welfare benefits.

The order, if signed, would also focus the government's efforts on blocking immigrants who are likely to become reliant on government benefits.

The White House did not immediately comment.

Immigrants already must prove financial independence before they are allowed into the United States. The draft order signals the administration is considering not only cracking down on immigrants in the U.S. illegally, but also some living in country legally.

Read more: https://apnews.com/8c0b3e103fd044ad9cbb07e3275acf47/The-Latest:-House-aides-advised-on-Trump-immigration-order

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