UPDATED: Hillary open to re-supporting TPP

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Thursday October 15, 2015 · 12:16 PM PDT

2015/10/15 · 12:16

UPDATE: Here's the entire video with the quote, which is from today:

http://livestream.com/...

Go to about 4:40 and see for yourself...

hmmmm...

Of course she also thinks all the details were made public a week ago

Is this old news... or what?

For those that think this is fake or whatever, here's more footage from the same event, which happened today:

http://www.msnbc.com/...

Same outfit and hair

Here's the entire Q&A - which is on her schedule btw - but for some reason there's no sound.

CNN says Hillary won, but there's one problem...

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Wednesday October 14, 2015 · 2:37 AM PDT

2015/10/14 · 02:37

Winner: Hillary

Amazing, congrats Hillary, you won...

But I wonder... remind me, who owns CNN?

Oh right, Time Warner... say. you don't think they have a preferred candidate do you? I mean talk about conflict of interest...

Let's just have a look.

Oh, Time Warner, is one of Hillary's biggest donors... well, hmm...

What about the NYTimes, who also said Hillary won?

Clinton Donated $100K to New York Times Group the Same Year Paper Endorsed Her

Oh sure, that was 2008, I'm sure there's no impropriaty now...

New York Times’ Top Shareholder Is a Clinton Foundation Donor

Slim, a Mexican telecom tycoon whose net worth of nearly $80 billion makes him the second richest man in the world, became the top shareholder of the New York Times earlier this year after he doubled his shares to take control of 16.8 percent of the company.
Not only has Slim contributed between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000 to the Clinton Foundation, but his company Telmex has contributed an additional grant between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000 through its foundation. Slim has also pledged $100 million to the Clinton Giustra Sustainable Growth Initiative, a collaboration between the Clinton Foundation and Canadian mining tycoon Frank Giustra.

In addition to the charitable giving, Hillary Clinton was paid between $250,000 and $500,000 for a speech she gave to Slim’s Telmex Foundation.

I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that every online poll, including the Time Magazine one that had 140,000+ votes, had Sanders as the CLEAR winner at 59%. Hillary is at ... well, look for yourself

But I'm sure that Democrats, who supposedly think money is so corrosive in politics, will ignore this...

Nothing to see here folks, move along...

Jeb Bush staffer was the Trump gotcha girl at "No Labels"

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Tuesday October 13, 2015 · 5:56 AM PDT

2015/10/13 · 05:56

Or at least so says pro-Trump mouthpieces on the right:

During an appearance at a Jon Huntsman “No Labels” event, a female audience member named Lauren Batchelder played the role of a female antagonist toward candidate Donald Trump.
However, Ms. Batchelder is not just an average audience member. She’s a paid political operative of the GOP and a paid staff member of Team Jeb Bush

Here's the infamous clip:

That woman is a Jeb Bush staffer...

https://www.linkedin.com/...

She also APPARENTLY - clams the right - scrubbed her social media after being outted online...

More info:

http://theconservativetreehouse.com/...

How will Trump respond?

US-backed Kurdish forces 'committing war crimes against Syrian civilians'

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Tuesday October 13, 2015 · 2:29 AM PDT

2015/10/13 · 02:29

US-backed Kurdish forces have forcefully displaced thousands of Syrian civilians, mostly Arabs, and demolished villages in northern Syria, often in retaliation for the residents’ perceived sympathies for Islamic State and other militants, Amnesty International has said.
Amnesty said its findings were based on visits to 14 towns and villages in the provinces of Hassakeh and Raqqa this summer, areas under Kurdish control. It said the abuses amount to war crimes.

The rights group said at least two villages were entirely demolished. In at least eight other villages, the residents were forced to leave and were sometimes threatened with being shot or targeted in US airstrikes. It said the victims were mainly Arab, but also included Turkmens and other Kurds.

Lama Fakih, an adviser to Amnesty, said the Kurds’ treatment of civilians amounted to collective punishment.
She said: “In its fight against Isis, the [Kurdish administration] appears to be trampling all over the rights of civilians who are caught in the middle.”

Sigh

A video has emerged showing Peshmerga soldier shooting dead a captured fighter from the Istamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group.

Execution

In the report, the Dutch-Kurdish commander of the Kurdish People’s Defence Force, Serdar Dosky, a former member of the Dutch Socialist Party, is heard saying the Kurds do not take prisoners of war, but kill them.
“We give them the bullet. A bullet costs 50 cents. We give them a second bullet to get rid of them,” he told the reporter Jan Eikelboom, under the assumption the TV camera had stopped recording. But his voice was still being recorded, and the Dutch reporter decided it was too important not to report what Dosky said.

“So you are not taking prisoners?” Eikelboom asks Dosky. “Ah, no, not in my forces, nowhere actually. Let’s be honest - simply nowhere. We don’t want prisoners.”

From 2014

Poll

16 votes Show Results

What's your favorite thing the US military does?

16 votes Vote Now!

What's your favorite thing the US military does?

Paying proxies that kill civilians

0 votes

Bombing civilians with dones

2 votes

Betraying "allies" when the public mood shifts

3 votes

Lying to the public about criminal behavior

1 vote

"Losing" trillions of dollars

1 vote

Fearmongering and manipulating the US media

0 votes

Ignoring vetrans

0 votes

It's hard to choose - they're all amazing.

9 votes

Gun Violence Reduction Poll - Please Vote!

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Monday October 12, 2015 · 3:03 AM PDT

2015/10/12 · 03:03

I'm going to run two gun related polls, please vote and recommend so we can learn about ourselves as a group.

Thanks!

IMPORTANT NOTE: I have a feeling people will WANT to vote the lowest number, HOWEVER, only vote for a number that you would support policies around.

Example 1: You may believe that background checks, and assault weapons bans are the appropriate solution and they could stop 30% of violence; in that case choose 70%

Example 2: You may think removing handguns is the appropriate solution and that that would stop 60% of violence; in that case choose 40%

Example 3: Voting that "None" is acceptable would mean you support removing EVERY gun off the street, full stop. So if you couldn't support that, don't vote "None". However, if you do think that is appropriate, vote "None".

DATA:

The numbers come from here: Gun Violence

Here's a more comprehensive look at 2014's data:

Total Number of Incidents 51,742
Number of Deaths 12,563
Number of Injuries 23,017
Number of Children (age 0-17) Killed/Injured 3001
Mass Shooting 283
Officer Involved Shooting 3,213
Home Invasion 2,604
Defensive Use 1,584
Accidental Shooting 1,598

Gun Suicides (2012): 21,175

Suicides (2012)

Poll

39 votes Show Results

Realistically, how much gun violence is acceptable in the US?

39 votes Vote Now!

Realistically, how much gun violence is acceptable in the US?

The current amount: 12,563 dead / 3001 kids

10 votes

90% of current: 11,307 / 2700 kids

0 votes

80% of current: 10,050 / 2400 kids

0 votes

70% of current: 8.794 / 2100 kids

0 votes

60% of current: 7,537 / 1800 kids

0 votes

50% of current: 6,281 / 1500 kids

0 votes

40% of current: 5,025 / 1200 kids

1 vote

30% of current: 3,769 / 900 kids

0 votes

20% of current: 2,513 / 600 kids

5 votes

10% of current: 1,256 / 300 kids

3 votes

None

20 votes

Counterintuitive US Homicide Facts - Please Read

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Saturday October 10, 2015 · 6:07 AM PDT

2015/10/10 · 06:07

Here's some claims often made people about crime, which are easily to disprove. Many of them SEEM counterintuitive to many people on both sides of the aisle:

Claim: The majority of murder is black on black.

Fact: According to the FBI, the number of White on White murders is significantly higher:

White on White: 2,509
Black on Black: 2,245

White on Black: 189
Black on White: 409
H/L* on White : 532
H/L on Black : 76
Black on H/L : 87

* Hispanic/Latino

Black on Black Crime

Claim: Europe has LESS violence because it's more homogenous.

Fact: Many nations that are more diverse are much less violent than America.

Diversity

Examples are:

Indonesia
Israel
Chile
Spain
Jordan
Macedonia
Switzerland
Canada
Liberia

Not good enough, well what about America itself? It was obviously less diverse in the 1960's, 70's and 80's ergo the murder rate should've been proportionally lower, right?

Absolutely wrong.

Murder rate now: 4.7

Murder rate* in the 1960's: 5.5
Murder rate in the 1970's: 9.1
Murder rate in the 1980's: 8.7

*averaged

Historical murder rates

Claim: Poor people kill more people than rich people

Fact: When looking at street crime, yes, but when looking at the issue more holistically, the answer is a resounding no.

Basic facts: US business owner negligence kills at least 50-55K Americans a year. the average salary of US (small) business owners is over 70K, while the average worker salary is 50K. (Note: Averaging in corporate owners salaries would raise this number significantly.)

In other words, the people responsible for killing 50-55K workers a year are earning on average 70K a year, which is close to 50% above the average salary in America.

That means that US workers are being killed by their jobs at a rate 3.5X that of the street crime murder rate. Or, put another way the US murder rate for employees is about 16.45, which is higher than the street crime murder rate of almost every African country.

Oh and hey, 90%+ of US businesses are owned by White people.

Data

Data - another source

BREAKING: Obama Administration Ends Pentagon Program to Train Syrian Rebels

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Friday October 09, 2015 · 6:00 AM PDT

2015/10/09 · 06:00

The Obama administration has ended the Pentagon’s $500 million program to train and equip Syrian rebels, administration officials said on Friday, in an acknowledgment that the beleaguered program had failed to produce any kind of ground combat forces capable of taking on the Islamic State in Syria.
Pentagon officials were expected to officially announce the end of the program on Friday, as Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter leaves London after meetings with his British counterpart, Michael Fallon, about the continuing wars in Syria and Iraq.

“I wasn’t happy with the early efforts” of the program, Mr. Carter said during a news conference with Mr. Fallon. “So we have devised a number of different approaches.” Mr. Carter added, “I think you’ll be hearing from President Obama very shortly” on the program.

A senior Defense Department official, who was not authorized to speak publicly and who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that there would no longer be any more recruiting of so-called moderate Syrian rebels to go through training programs in Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates. Instead, a much smaller training center would be set up in Turkey, where a small group of “enablers” — mostly leaders of opposition groups — would be taught operational maneuvers like how to call in airstrikes.

hmmmmmm

Very interesting... and obviously a "great" use of 500 million dollars. Of course it's only 1/54th of the amount we gave in bonuses to Wall St bankers last year, so I guess we got off lightly.

UPDATE: Another day, another school shooting...

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Friday October 09, 2015 · 5:38 AM PDT

2015/10/09 · 05:38

A deadly shooting occurred on Northern Arizona University’s Flagstaff campus early this morning, and the suspected shooter is in custody, according to a university spokesperson.
One person died and three others were wounded in the shooting, the spokesperson said.

It's unclear what sparked the shooting, which took place near Mountain View Hall, a dormitory that houses most of the campus' students involved in Greek organizations.

Residents in Mountain View Hall were asked to stay indoors, according to an emergency alert sent by the university.

Here we go again

UPDATE:

Student Steven Jones identified as Ariz. campus shooting suspect

The shooting overnight at Northern Arizona University was the result of a confrontation between two groups of students, the school's police chief, Gregory T. Fowler, said Friday. One student pulled a gun and shot four others, Fowler said.

http://www.wvtm13.com/...

Blaming the NRA or SCOTUS for gun violence is a copout.

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Monday October 05, 2015 · 9:06 AM PDT

2015/10/05 · 09:06

First the facts, which you all know, but sure, let's read them again:

Between 2001 and 2013 over 400,000 people have been killed by a gun on US soil. In fact by the end of this year it will be more than 450,000 dead.

The NRA is forcing Americas to have guns.

Neither is the Supreme Court.

The NRA is scaring people, yes, but forcing them, no?

SCOTUS is enabling them, but forcing them? Not even close.

If Americans wanted to get rid of their guns, they could - no courts could stop them, neither could the NRA.

Guess what, they aren't.

But - and this is the rub, the NRA and SCOTUS aren't about to change their behavior. No political candidate has a serious plan for saving even 40K of the next 400,000 Americans that will be gunned down by 2030.

So, if Americans want to end gun violence, they really only have ONE realistic choice: voluntarily give up their guns.

Any other meaningful plan has NO political support, and will probably be stopped by the courts.

So -- blaming other people for your problems isn't good enough. Claiming it's OK for YOU to have guns is a joke.

If you have a gun and want gun violence to go down, you are fooling yourself. You are part of the problem. But you don' have to be.

But knowing America, everyone will just keep their own guns, blame the courts or the NRA, or mental illness, or "loopholes" or other BS...

Me? I don't own a gun, I invested my money in Hillenbrand, Inc. instead. They sell 45% of coffins in the US and guess what - business is BOOMING!

Don't pretend the left wants to tackle gun violence

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Friday October 02, 2015 · 4:31 AM PDT

2015/10/02 · 04:31

Here's a list of things that the left in the US wants to do to reduce gun violence in America:

- get rid of armor piercing bullets
- get rid of assault rifles
- no large capacity magazines
- close the gun show loophole
- more and better background checks

Here's a list of which of those will have a meaningful impact on gun violence in America:

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Thursday September 24, 2015 · 5:04 AM PDT

2015/09/24 · 05:04

And, even as the white vote has become increasingly less influential in presidential general elections, Republicans have grown increasingly unable to compete for the Hispanic vote, which is growing by leaps and bounds. In 2004, George W. Bush won (a somewhat-disputed) 44 percent of the Hispanic vote. That dropped to 31 percent for John McCain in 2008. Mitt Romney won just 27 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2012.

If the 2016 nominee gets no better than Romney’s 17 percent of the nonwhite vote, he or she would need 65 percent of the white vote to win, a level achieved in modern times only by Ronald Reagan in his 1984 landslide. Bush’s 2004 winning formula — 26 percent of the nonwhite vote and 58 percent of the white vote — would be a losing formula in 2016, given population changes.

source

So if you're basing your prefrence for Dem nominee based on how well they poll against GOP candidates, stop. National polls are meaningless; it;s not a national vote. It's a state by state vote, and the GOP needs a LOT more non-white voter support than they'll be able to get in 2016 (and probably for the foreseeable future).

Vote - instead - for the person who's vision of America you want to live in... This is your best chance in years to vote for ACTUAL change and progressive policies.

Poll

185 votes Show Results

I'm voting for...

185 votes Vote Now!

I'm voting for...

Hillary, based purely on her policies and ideology

39 votes

Sanders, based purely on his policies and ideology

87 votes

Hillary, based purely on her ability to beat the GOP candidate

37 votes

Sanders, based purely on his ability to beat the GOP candidate

8 votes

Other

14 votes

US troops covered up pedophile ring in Afghanistan... for years...

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Monday September 21, 2015 · 10:29 AM PDT

2015/09/21 · 10:29

And why did they cover it up? They were just following orders.

Because their bosses, who are working for you, told them to.

And the media and the military, and Obama, and the GOP and pretty much everyone, has known about it FOR YEARS.

And it's still going on today.

Systematic child rape, child slavery and worse, often on US military bases... and when a troops DID speak out, they were punished.

If you've ever sat in a WW2 history class, you have been told that Germans tried at Nuremberg weren't forgiven for "just following orders," even when their choices were follow orders or punishment... and yet, most people will pity the troops, because of the difficult position they're in...

Imagine your 8 year old son was taken to a US military base and raped, for fun... would you feel sorry for the Americans guarding the rapists? Would you work with them in good faith?

Sometimes realpolitik isn't good enough - this is one of those times.

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