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When America's Oligarchy made the declaration that it opposes dictatorships the only word that comes to mind is; hypocrisy.

It takes at least 4 or 5 years to develop a successful vaccine so I wondered why it seemed to take only a few months to develop the Covid vaccines and on the TV program; Going Underground on RT on Nov 17th I learned the history of the new NRA vaccine technology.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was founded after WW II 75 years ago with the goal of protecting with a military force and modern weaponry the Allies in Europe so that mean boogieman Russia would leave them alone.

A decade has gone by and the US Department of Justice is still persecuting and prosecuting Julian Assange for revealing horrific war crimes being committed by that blood soaked war criminal Oligarchy in Washington DC.

One can only marvel at how profitable a Pandemic can be.Big Pharma, Amazon and the techie industries have been making tax free billions more since the arrival of the Covid virus began because that greedy corrupt Oligarchy in Washington DC is so fond of these Robber Barons since they have been so generous with their campaign contributions.

During the Covid Pandemic the San Diego County Libraries closed so I was unable to continue my blogs and being an incredibly opinionated individual that was a real downer. Now the San Diego County Libraries have opened I intend to continue ranting and raving until I get my Republic back!

"Kum ba yah" ("Come by Here") [kumbaya] is an African American spiritual [song]of disputed origin... with ties to enslaved West Africans. The song is thought to have spread from the islands to other Southern states and the North, as well as other places in the world. The song was originally an appeal to God to come and help those in need.

QAnon Fake Native Mascot Jake Chansley When left unchecked, stereotypes may lead to discriminatory behavior. Acknowledging stereotypes, however, and the psychological impact they can have is the first step in breaking down those beliefs... Amy MorinJake Chansley, yes that is his real name.

Going to the memory cloud for this...the mist dissipates sometime on or around 1988.Having relocated to Chicago, connections to things native were, for us, found at the Northside Indian Center. My wife and I were invited there in support of Native Rights issues.At the meeting was a group unfamiliar to me called "Witnesses for Nonviolence".

The day has finally come -- Donald Trump's twitter account @realDonaldTrump has been permanently suspended. Trump has been breaking Twitter's rules for years but they have been reluctant to fully kick him off their social network as not to unvoice the President of the United States, until now.

On a day that will go down in infamy, an armed mob stormed the United States Capitol in an unprecedented coup attempt against our country. These anarchists, wrapped in both American and Confederate flags, are traitors to the United States, pure and simple.

Well, to begin, as an amateur sleuth, restricted to finds on the Internet, I wouldn’t dare attempt to stamp any determination of mine with absolute certainty. But a picture has definitely been painted and from it a whole lot can be inferred. First let’s start at 2014; that was the year Flynn was terminated from the Obama administration as head of the DIA.

Over 8.9 million Americans have contracted the Covid-19 virus and over 230,000 Americans have died. The virus is surging across America again with projections that 500,000 Americans overall will die by the end of February, but around 130,000 of those lives could be saved if everybody were to wear masks.

In the past 3 ½ years of the Trump presidency we have been witnessing an ongoing American tragedy with the final act still being written in the months before and beyond the November election.

So, a brief history here on transgender rights, at least back to the early 1990's - the part of which I personally participated in.There has been, for much of the history of the movement, a lot of friction between the LGB and T elements of our LGBTQ community. A lot of this has to do with the lack of support for the trans community from the LGB's.I came out in 1993, as a 23 year old.

The Donald Trump anthem Donald Trump,Donald Trump,We worship you Donald Trump.Give us Guns, Give us War, Donald TrumpThere is nothing we won't do for you, Donald TrumpDonald Trump,Donald Trump,We worship you Donald Trump.Hang them high, Hang them low, Donald TrumpNazis, The KKK, and Vigilanties will vote you, Donald Trump.Donald Trump,Donald Trump,We worship you Donald Trump.

Confirmation: This Man is not NormalBefore you take a teaspoon of bleach or ask your doctor for a 5cc shot of Lysol, take a moment. I understand for his supporters that waiting on your signed check from Donald J. Trump, makes you feel as special as Stormy Daniels; however, staring into the sun, or spending hours under a UV lamp will not cure you of the coronavirus.

Many odds makers now consider Bernie Sanders as the favorite Democratic nominee to take on Trump. For many in the progressive media, the self-described socialist and Independent is already the “presumptive nominee” having a solid ground game carried over from the 2016 race and a consistent progressive message that especially appeals to 18-29 demographic.

All eyes are on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence as they hold the first public impeachment hearings against President Donald Trump since they launched their investigation into his actions regarding the release of aid authorized by Congress to the country of Ukraine.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi formally announced an impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump after explosive revelations that he withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Ukraine and pressured the Ukrainian President to investigate his top political rival in exchange for him releasing the aid.

The Democratic Party strategy for winning the presidency and Congress in 2020 should follow the same formula that won them 40 additional House seats in the 2018 election – make health care the number 1 issue, support broad based likeable candidates, and target independents and moderate Republicans in purple and red states and districts.

Donald Trump, a rich kid who received five deferments from the Vietnam draft, somehow decided that now was a good time to resurrect his feud with the deceased war hero. Trump has been in a public spat with Senator McCain's daughter in recent days, which culminated in an unhinged rant against McCain's family for not thanking him for giving them the funeral that Senator McCain wanted.

House Democrats followed through on one of their biggest campaign promises in 2018 and passed a sweeping election reform bill that takes a crack at campaign finance, ethics, and voting rights reforms in one fell swoop. The bill would transform voting as we know it, notably making election day a national holiday and dramatically expanding early voting nationwide.

The Republican Party has devolved into the Party of Trump, where Trumpism is embodied by a populist and unlikely ragtag alliance of rabid racist nativists, anti-intellectualists, overt flag waving patriots, religious zealots, rich oligarchs and corporatists finding common ground to unabashedly defend everything their feared and heralded leader says and does, facts be damned.

Donald Trump's former "fixer" and personal lawyer Michael Cohen unloaded on his onetime hero in a 30-minute opening statement where he, among a myriad of other things, called the President of the United States a "racist" and a "conman" who only cares about himself.

On this day in 1958, the John Birch Society was founded in Indianapolis by Robert H.W. Welch, Jr. Another one of the founding members was a chemical engineer named Fred C. Koch, who started a company in 1940 named the Wood River Oil and Refining Company, which later became Koch industries.

It's a well known fact that Vladimir Putin has long held a grudge against America in general, and Hillary Clinton in particular.This morning's New York Tines contained a LENGTHY article (a touch over 10,000 words) about the extent of Russian meddling in our 2016 presidential election. It's worthwhile to set aside some time, and read as much of it as you can.

A prominent scientist has issued a warning for governments to evacuate the west coasts of North and South America because of the disaster at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/11/04/david-suzuki-fukushima-warning_n_4213061.htmlObviously governments are not going to do this. Other not-so-well known scientists have denounced this claim.

Nothing says peace like 60 dead Palestinians.The reason that peace has been so difficult to maintain in the Middle East is that the land known as Palestine has a VERY long history.For starters, the region was among the earliest in the world to see human habitation, agricultural communities and civilization.

About 20 years ago, I came across a profound article about the Four Irreligions. I wish I could direct you to the original source, but it seems not to be easily found. The four irreligions can be better said as “the state when a religion strays too far away from its original message.

"A Perceived Conclusion"The reason behind "Fact, fiction and the gray" " Liberty, Freedom and being "ok"" "The crack whore conundrum" and "Annie, get 'chur guns!!!" is to point out that the way we attack every lion in our lives is not based on factual evidence. They are based on some scientific evidence but mostly on our experiences and how we attacked them before.

Joe Biden told a crowd at Southern Connecticut State University on Friday that the country can't afford eight years of the current Republican administration."We're in a battle for the soul of this nation," Biden said.If he chooses not to run, Biden said, it will be because there’s a better candidate or he’s not emotionally ready.

This is the truth that President of the United States is bringing a real change in the shape of world politics through his truth and this is the reason that now people of tribal areas situated on Pak-Afghan border are fully supporting him. Actually corrupt rulers of Pakistan are still using the menace of terrorism for earning dollars.

Lost in the coverage of the Special Counsel's indictments of over a dozen Russian individuals and companies is something Bernie or busters and Jill Stein voters would rather not talk about - Russia knew they were upset that Hillary was the nominee and exploited their anger with fabricated and sensational stories.

It didn't take a long for Congress to realize that the 18th amendment was a huge mistake. Officially, prohibition started on January 17, 1920, exactly 98 years ago last Wednesday. It was repealed by the 21st amendment on December 5, 1933.The guy who benefited the most from Prohibition was Al Capone, who was worth as much as $1.

Highly recommend this documentary to everyone. It is not a political documentary, it a humanitarian documentary.I shall say upfront I was skeptical about it because I studied film making in college and learned that is so easy to make so-called documentaries that are really just propaganda films.

An unarmed black teenager took a box of cigars from a convenience store. He was pulled over by police and tried to run away. He was shot six times and died at the scene.A black 12 year old was playing with a bb gun. Police arrived on the scene and shot him to death seconds later.A suspected drug dealer has his home raided by SWAT teams.

They left Sargent Johnson behind. He was found two days later , a mile away from where the fight took place. These fucking private contractors , the illegal private army run by Eric prince the evil criminal who has his own army is most likely the cowards who left Sargent Johnson behind. His beacon was on , he was alive. We must have a autopsy and a full investigation. This is explosive.

msnbc.com/brian-williams/watch/language...This interview with Columumia University's Linguistics, Professor McWhorter, is interesting because he's not a politcian, he is strictly focused on how donald trump speaks and how we can better understand trump when he he talks.Example: "Nobody knew" = Trump didn't know, and assumes if he didn't know, then nobody else did either.

As far as on how "White Supremacy" started; I don't think it is an sole US problem.All of it already started by the Catholic church during the "crusader" time ; murder everyone who's not catholic or "white". Plenty of examples: Murder all the Inca's, Aztecs etc. and convert them of what is left; that is why S. America speaks Spanish and is predominantly Catholic. Here in N.

Donald Trump has been a really bad businessman over a span of 48 years, contrary to his self-promoted and populist image of a successful businessman.

"Real Time" host Bill Maher has had it with how Republicans have a different set of rules when it comes to how they respond to what the President says now that he is a member of their own party, so he brought out Obama impersonator Reggie Brown to read some of Trump's most memorable quotes. What followed is eight minutes of cringe worthy hilarity.

It must be extremely difficult and depressing to be a cabinet secretary in the Trump administration. Not only do you have to defend the indefensible in your day-to-day activities, but you also have to be hauled into a cabinet meeting and heap praise on your boss in order to help feed his ego and keep your job.This is the world we now live in.

Both Charles Blow and Paul Krugman had excellent articles this morning about Trumpcare 2.0 :https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/opinion/republican-death-wish.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-right-region®ion=opinion-c-col-right-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-right-regionhttps://www.nytimes.

star-telegram.com/news/politics-governm...I feel so bad for Ted Cruz's family and daughters. I don't blame Trump, I fault Cruz for requiring his family to show up to a dinner that symbolizes that Cruz has brought his wife to Trump's dinner so she can suck his dick while their daughters watch.

Throughout his campaign, Donald Trump’s hate-filled vitriol emboldened scores of his more rabid supporters, and hate crimes against Muslims, Hispanics, and Jews increased almost immediately. One of the most recent examples occurred on February 20, when more than 170 headstones in a Jewish cemetery in the St. Louis suburb of University City were vandalized.

“We’re going to win. We’re going to win so much. We’re going to win at trade, we’re going to win at the border. We’re going to win so much, you’re going to be so sick and tired of winning, you’re going to come to me and go ‘Please, please, we can’t win anymore…. And I’m going to say ‘I’m sorry, but we’re going to keep winning, winning, winning, we’re going to make America great again.

The world renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir (MoTab) is under attack by one of their own. Jan Chamberlin, a five-year veteran of the choir has resigned in protest because her church accepted an invitation by Donald Trump for the choir to sing at his inauguration. Participation by choir members is voluntary. Chamberlin could have just opted out, and no one would have noticed.

Since 1937, the inauguration of our Presidents have taken place on January 20. Prior to that time, they were held on March 4. This has been an extraordinary election, which means that the inauguration date NEEDS TO BE CHANGED back to March 4.I mailed the attached letter to Senator McCain yesterday.

Four seats if Secretary Clinton wins the White House or five seats if she doesn't. That's the magic number Democrats need in order to retake control of the Senate next January and eight states will determine whether or not that happens.Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Indiana, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, and Nevada.

The brown shirts of the Nazi Party (Sturmabteilung) operated from 1920 to 1945. Their primary purposes were to provide protection at Nazi rallies, disrupt the meetings of opposing parties, and intimidate Slavic and Romani citizens, unionists, and Jews.

Would you want your daughter to be the subject of "locker room" talk if that talk was about sexually assaulting women? Donald Trump wants to be President of the United States and the President is a role model for young children.

Alec Baldwin debuted his inner Donald Trump in a way only he could during Saturday Night Live's season opener and he did not disappoint. He, along with Kate McKinnon playing the par of Hillary Clinton, relived the first Presidential Debate that showed nearly 100 million viewers that Donald Trump is, in fact, a man baby. (Credit to Jon Stewart for coming up with that description.

The Clinton Foundation has been the topic of seemingly endless media attention ever since Secretary Clinton announced her intention to run for President, but what the media has been eerily silent about is the other Clinton Foundation that the family runs - The Clinton Family Foundation.

Shortly after President Obama was first inaugurated, Nate Silver wrote an article titled The Two Progressivisms. Understanding the difference between the two can go a long way towards bridging the divide between Bernie and Hillary supporters as we head towards November.Reformative vs.

Sometimes we forget. Like the studs in the walls of our homes, what supports our way of life, for the most part, goes unnoticed. We hear politicians use the word “freedom” as many times as they say “and” these days, but not many focus on one of the most important words of all, liberty.

President Obama has had more than his fair share of zingers directed at the 2016 Republican Presidential nominee throughout the years and his speech at the Democratic National Convention was no different. Donald Trump may have won the nomination, but there is no chance of him ever winning a fight against President Obama."Comb Over Here!"

For those of us who were first introduced to Senator Tim Kaine at the Miami Clinton/Kaine rally at Florida International University expecting a boring “Mike Pence like” white guy speech, we were surprised and blown away. We witnessed an energetic, animated, and smiling Tim Kaine give an inspiring speech captivating all of us with his every word.

Bernie Sanders won the Washington state Democratic caucus by a “yuge” margin of 46 points, his largest margin of victory in his campaign. However, what is less known is that the highly publicized record voter turnout of 244,458 for the caucus was still relatively small compared to the much higher voter turn-outs for primaries and general elections.

Hillary Clinton extending an olive branch to loyal Obama supporters by choosing to keep Vice President Biden on her ticket in would all but guarantee her winning the Presidency in November.Think about it for a second.

Donald Trump, slum lordThe publication titled “The Nation” just published a book report on a book titled, “Evicted”, written by a sociologist named Matthew Desmond, a graduate student in Milwaukee who spent 15 months living among Milwaukee’s poorest citizens.

Mark your calendars for March 1, 2016 because that is the date the Republican Party will likely be signing their 2016 death warrant by making a Donald Trump nomination virtually unstoppable.Ten largely southern and deeply conservative states head to the polls on Super Tuesday and every indication is that Donald Trump will be having a very good day in the vast majority of those states.

“One of the most tragic things that happened yesterday, a beautiful day, was that I was talking to a woman who said that she wouldn't want to be me for anything in the world. She wouldn't want to live today and look ahead to what it is she sees because she's afraid. Fear is always with us but we just don't have time for it. Not now.

Beltway media and politicians alike have already begun writing Bernie Sanders 2016 obituary after his loss to Secretary Clinton in the Nevada caucuses, but what they seem to be forgetting is that they began writing his 2016 obituary since he threw his hat into the ring last fall.

The unexpected death of Justice Scalia throws a wrench into an already volatile 2016 election and what happens next will largely depend on a variety of factors and political calculations made by President Obama and the Republican controlled Senate.Here are some scenarios that can happen as the President and Senate battle it out over who will replace the late justice.

Nobody is talking about one crucial aspect of Ted Cruz's eligibility to become President --whether Ted Cruz ever technically became a citizen in the first place, or that he might have obtained his citizenship much later through the naturalization process.

Thugs. Un-American. Criminals.These are words the media has used to describe minorities who are standing up for their basic human rights.

ISIS, the Qur’an and the Bible: Fundamentalists versus Modernists“ISIS is No. 1 enemy of Islam” -- Saudi Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdul Aziz al-SheikhAs of this writing every notable Islamic organization in the world has condemned ISIS, not only for the attacks in Paris, but also the ISIS inspired San Bernardino mass killing by husband and wife, Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik.

With the steady increase in the Republican support for Ben Carson, especially in Iowa, it is time to take a closer look at what Ben Carson has said that has caused his popularity to rise with Republicans.In Iowa Carson leads Donald Trump by 12 to 14 points in the polls of October 26th.

The top two contenders for the Democratic Presidential nomination are about as different as they come. Secretary Clinton, the unquestioned front runner, is a true politician. Senator Sanders, a formidable challenger, is an unabashed Democratic-Socialist and refuses to participate in the typical mud-slinging that has defined our politics for decades.

First and Foremost I am a Hillary Clinton supporter, long time Democrat and a female. I have campaigned walked precincts, ran Democratic organizations for many, many years and can not once remember a Candidate, with the experience, talent and knowledge that I knew would take us to the next level, promote and advance the programs of the last President and begin to right this Country.

The Republican clown car officially has its top ten candidates selected for the first Presidential debate of the 2016 election cycle and the nation will soon be given a glimpse of the comedy that will be the Republican primary.

We go to war because it’s so easy. It’s as simple as that.

"They ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right. The judgment of the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit is reversed." And just like that, marriage equality is the law of the land.Today is a day millions of our citizens--both gay and straight--will never forget.

"After they drove the car into the ditch, made it as difficult as possible for us to pull it back, now they want the keys back. No! You can't drive. We don't want to have to go back into the ditch. We just got the car out." -- President Obama slamming Republicans on the campaign trail, May 2010.

“We as Americans and as humans have very selective hearing and very selective memory. We only hear what we want to hear and disregard the rest.” – Frank Luntz, Republican strategist...

The question, “Is trade good for America?” may seem a little trite to some, but in watching and listening to the heated rhetoric on the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement, it is a question that one might ask to gauge how much the public has become so polarized on this issue.

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943.Sometimes the future is beyond even a CEO’s power of imagination. Sales of personal computers, tablets and smart phones worldwide in the year 2014 topped 2.4 billion, with 88 percent of sales attributable to tablets and smart phones.

The tide is turning and it is turning much faster than many realize.

"If you want to go face to face with me President Obama, I'm ready to go because I have the facts!" – Ed Schultz responding to President Obama for calling out MSNBC for its opposition to the TPP.

Benjamin Netanyahu's reelection left many of those who desperately want a peaceful solution to the decades old Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a sense of despair. The Prime Minister's victory, in many peoples eyes, virtually closes the door on any resolution between the two sides for the foreseeable future with no way of knowing when or if talks between the two sides will start again.

Do you hear that noise? It's the sound of crickets from the birther community after Senator Ted Cruz announced his candidacy for President of the United States. Why, you may ask, should there be any noise from this community over Senator Cruz's eligibility to run for President in 2016? Well, that's because Senator Cruz, unlike President Obama, actually wasn't born in the United States.

When the Senate Intelligence Committee passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act by a vote of 14 to 1, committee chairman Senator Richard Burr argued that it successfully balanced security and privacy.

Aaron Schock didn't see his Congressional career ending like this. To be fair, no Representative envisions resigning in disgrace amid a mountain of scandals they just can't dig out of, but this is especially so for the young gun from Illinois 18th District who had delusions of grandeur for as long as I can remember.

The Republican Leadership in Congress needs an intervention. There's just no other way to put it. How can a party who proclaims they want to open up their tent and be more welcoming to people who aren't old, white men not foresee the terrible optics of ignoring the 50th Anniversary of one of the worst racial injustices in modern history? I get it.

Who exactly is in charge of American foreign policy? President Obama or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu? Any middle-school aged student would easily be able to answer this, but the Republican Congress seems to think differently.

Imagine the top opposition leader in America being gunned down by an assassin outside of the United States Capitol building. Then imagine the President assuming control of the inquiry into the assassination of his fiercest critic who just happens to be one in a long line of critics that meets an untimely demise.

When did Republicans become the party willing to play a game of chicken with our national security? In their ceaseless drive to undermine President Obama at every turn, they have now backed themselves into a corner with no easy way to get out.

Just wondering if anyone has brought up that maybe Congress should no get paid if other federal employees do not get paid?

"The first time you shoot someone, you get a little nervous. You think, can I really shoot this guy? Is it really okay? But after you kill your enemy, you see it’s okay. You say, Great. You do it again. And again. You do it so the enemy won’t kill you or your countrymen. You do it until there’s no one left for you to kill. That’s what war is.

Obama said... Obama promised... Obama lied... Obama should have... Blame Obama... If only Obama would... Obama is a wuss... Obama overshot... I'm so disappointed in Obama... Obama is the lesser of two evils...

Josh Ernest has referred to Obama's proposed budget and executive actions for his last two years in office as "Obama's 4th Quarter", sidestepping any suggestion that it's more about setting the agenda for the 2016 election.

Don't ever think of telling President Obama he is a lame duck. He has too many things he still wants to accomplish before he leaves and beginning the process of lifting up the middle class is at the top of his list.

"In time we hate that which we often fear." - William Shakespeare, Antony and CleopatraOn this Martin Luther King Day and as President Obama prepares for his seventh State of the Union speech, I ponder our political divide and especially how President Obama over these often tumultuous past years has become the focus of that divide, often rearing its ugly head in hate.

Is college a right or a privilege? If President Obama has his way then it will soon be a right for every single high school graduate in this country regardless of income or social class. The premise is simple: extend the already guaranteed number educational years every student is eligible to receive by two.

“We, writers, journalists, intellectuals, call for resistance to religious totalitarianism and for the promotion of freedom, equal opportunity and secular values for all.”This was just part of a collaborative response by French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo to then-French President Jacques Chirac back in 2006.

2014 was a great year for liberals. Marriage equality is sweeping across the nation, the federal courts now have a majority of liberal jurists, America's foreign policy is being reshaped in Obama's image, and both red and blue states voted to choose if they wanted to legalize a plant. Democrats may have lost the Senate, but their priorities surely won in 2014.