https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CnN1zSLv54

seems clear enough, in the obscure and corrupt way of party politics.
jude

If SB469 passes it will seriously harm our health and take away local control of cellphone tower locations. The science on this has shown that cellphone radiation causes cancer and other illnesses....

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So the weakening, declining American Empire bombs the weaker, struggling-for-survival countries of Syria and Afghanistan, with your tax dollars. Then it threatens the nuclear-armed North Korea. In...

Alexandra Bruce's list - right on it as usual. Highly recommended. Jude

The hills are alive with the sounds of psychological warfare. We're living in a real-life 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers'....

Hmm...a piece making the rounds on social media and originating with a (rather far left) "news" and opinion site.

Snopes has a brief but good write up on it (labeling it "mostly true" )....

Here's a link to the whole interview: https://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-03-05-17-n729271

You're correct: I only referenced the "no Trump collusion" part of the interview. Here's...

Thanks, Edward. Just as I was starting to think that the RussiaGate hysteria was perhaps starting to wind down, it's refreshing to see another evidence-free assertion of Russian meddling in the...

you guys are working from the headline, not the article. There's no claim that they are parallel in anything but the times they lived in - not their characters, not their policies, not their...

I am reminded of a line from Gary Johnson when he was on NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" some years ago. He was asked what it meant to be a Libertarian. He responded with an anaology of driving on...

Here's a chance to see how easily and well RCV works; the Academy uses it--why not the US electorate?

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Clinton Aide: Protesters Don’t Want $15 An Hour

A former aide to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama cautioned the...

I can't say I really agree with the analysis. Nor that there is any reason to point to.

I will say their are countless reasons, and a few I see as important:


We dared to elect a black man...

First of all, I did not vote for Trump so please don't egg my house... I'm responding to this thread because I'm growing tired of the extremes of party politics ... I want to know when Republicans...

Hmm. It's pretty clear Russian hacking was involved in the election. And as outraged as we should be... it also makes us hypocrites. How many elections has the US interfered in? How many assinations...

Some fair points. And maybe some failures in expressing myself.

re: "soft and lazy" . Kind of complicated ironically. A lot of people from these areas have a very strong work ethic. But for...

This article from The Guardian is spot-on and should be read widely, IMO.

What So Many People Don’t Get About the U.S. Working Class
Joan C. Williams
November 10, 2016

My father-in-law grew...

I agree with you, Edward, about Bernie. But I take issue with a) the Russian hack (a liberal fantasy) and b) the idea that the people who voted for Trump have "filthy soul[s]". That's the kind of...

Rebecca Solnit describes the situation we're in, in this article at theguardian.com, and enumerates several of the opportunities we had to avoid the future we're living out:...

I neither see how, nor why immpeachment at this point in prudent.

While in the House it only takes a simple majority (of those present and voting) to make the case for impeachment, it takes a...

"[....] The primary function of Democrats and Republicans alike is to take care of business. The primary function is not to take care of communities. The primary function is not to take care of the...

With trumps ban on Muslim immigrants today, I was thinking, again, of the Grateful Dead's 1975 "Blues for Allah" album.

Some of you may know, many more probably not, that this album was homage to...

Indeed. But let us be honest- with ourselves and each other. We have all turned a blind eye to lies from politicians when it suits our purpose...some far, far larger then this.

Well, to be fair- it also passed the House in 2015. Did not pass the Senate then. Time will tell if does this time. If it does it will be interesting... many scholars believe the law would be...

I find this essay insightful and thought-provoking, providing (at least one) perspective on the era we've been in since the fall of the Berlin wall, and which we now seem to be closing out. There...

Obama's time is nearly up. Here's what I've written him at whitehouse.gov:
PLEASE release Chelsea Manning, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Leonard Peltier and pardon Edward Snowden--none of whom have...

​Write Obama at whitehouse.gov, and ask him to pardon Edward Snowden, Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu-Jamal and Chelsea Manning before he leaves office.

https://secure3.convio.net/lcv/images/content/pagebuilder/11536.gif URGENT: Energy Transfer Partners, the corporation building the Dakota Access...

1) Are the methods of hacking the vote presented below actually possible in the United States as they appear to be?

2) Why are basic voting issues such as gerrymandering, types...

Time is running out! Even if we get the president we voted for, she's unlikely to do anything controversial while she can still get flack for it--and, of course, Trump isn't even going to consider...

To my understanding, the first part of the effort is to forward a state-wide ballot initiative that proposes to change the Constitution of CA (not the US) to state that CA is not an inseparable part...

Worth a view, can be seen on Netflix in the free month trial.

The Untold history of the United States-- Oliver Stone

The series is a reexamination of some of the under-reported and darkest...

Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. -Voltaire, philosopher (21 Nov 1694-1778)

N.Y Times EDITORIAL, Nov. 19, 2016, Keeping the Drillers From Sacred Grounds
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD

A ceremony all too familiar to American Indian tribes — the signing of still another agreement...

yep, even if we CalExit we'll still have people who can't agree on what's factual. It's not just flyover folks and coastal elites who have different sets of facts they accept as reality.

Yes, let's leave, but not just because Trump was elected president ... I did not vote for him but I'm the first one to admit that our media is bought and paid for so how can we trust any information...

Social Security is a Ponzi scheme.

As is the idea that debt (as in a specific example of the unfunded liabilities of the pension schemes that are rampant in this state) is "no big deal" - just...

Worth your time and consideration
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https://www.globalresearch.ca/fighting-the-real-deplorables-corporate-financiers-big-agriculture-big-pharma-what-are-the-solutions/5556820

No broken windows or burned cars please.

I had to look up what MSM stands for. (Mainstream Media) Acronyms that are not explained are not helpful.

JWM,
If you collect Social Security, and you move to, say, the UK, you would continue to receive your checks, even in a foreign country, which California, after a Calexit, would then be.
One...

https://www.waccobb.net/forums/waccobb/keep90days/2016-11-13_18-07-11.pngHi, everyone. I read through the various replies to this idea, and didn't notice any mention of Ecotopia. Did I overlook it?...

You're solving the wrong problem. The problem is Federalism: centralizing power and control (and money) in the federal government. Each party, when it gets control, wants more power centralized so...

Haven't we had enough of tearing each other apart? There are people in this state that are on welfare or on Social Security or SSDI, or who depend on Medicare and Medi-cal and food stamps. And to be...

The following article by a distinguished journalist helps put the Trump victory in a larger international context.

Democrats, Trump, and the Ongoing, Dangerous Refusal to Learn the Lesson of Brexit

https://www.facebook.com/mmflint/posts/10153913074756857 :

Morning After To-Do List:

1. Take over the Democratic Party and return it to the people. They have failed us miserably.

2. Fire...

thad, you understand that hillary's coronation is assured? that ongoing wars and $1 trillion for nuclear weAPONS IS ASSURED? that TPP is more than likely? that your lifetime will NOT see any...

President Stein... wouldn't it be wonderful.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huGpJ_U8Rys

mentally astute, emotionally neutral, morally clean - SO different from the 2 candidates.
GIVE GREENS...

Most people do not know the IMPORTANCE of voting for a third party is, and can SAFELY DO WHEN THEIR STATE IS ALREADY DECLARED FOR THE CANDIDATE OF THEIR CHOICE. Here is the reason:

Just 5 percent...

Save the date! Tuesday, Nov. 15!

For those of you who wish to locally support the Standing Rock Sioux against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) in a day of action:
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