21st Century Wire says…
Those Russians are at it yet again. The United Kingdom’s equivalent of the NSA, better known as GCHQ, issued a letter to all British Members of Parliament (MPs) warning them that Russia could threaten the British electoral processes and necessary action must be taken.
One of the most refreshing things about Wikileaks is that they offer concrete information to back up what most clear thinking individuals believe to be true from the start.
Many believed that the US coalition had committed war crimes in Iraq and Wikileaks provided the evidence.
Many also felt that the DNC was a corrupt organisation, Hillary Clinton was a megalomaniac and that Bernie Sanders was going to be cheated one way or another, irrespective of the votes. Wikileaks proved this to be the case.
The huge leak of information from the CIA just published by Wikileaks gives a fascinating picture of how the CIA goes about its business, though I doubt there is much there which will come as a surprise to most people.
In light of all the swirl of activity around the DNC and Podesta leaks and the various allegations of Russian hacking, two questions however immediately stand out for me.
1. The technology used in the DNC/Podesta leaks is decades old and crude. Are the Russians really so far behind the CIA?
(SHADOWPROOF) Establishment Democrats elected former Labor Secretary Tom Perez to chair the Democratic National Committee. They defeated Representative Keith Ellison and survived a push from the grassroots to take a meaningful step to transform the Democratic Party into a real and actual opposition party.
Bernie Sanders: "Are they going to welcome into the Democratic Party the working class in this country and young people, or is it going to be party of the upper middle class and the cocktail crowd and the heavy campaign contributors?
It's easy to look at Republicans, especially Trumpists, and their information sources-- Fox, Hate Talk Radio, Breitbart...-- and dismiss them as ignorant morons incapable of abstract thought. Remember, abstract thought doesn't come easy to folks with IQs of less than 100-- and half the population, by definition, has 2-digit IQs. If you want to be honest, though, not everyone lacing the ability for critical thinking is a Trumpist...
When Julian Assange’s Wikileaks, published the infamous Clinton and DNC emails during the course of the US Presidential Election, the world learnt a great deal.
People learned that
–Bernie Sanders had his election stolen from him through.
–Hillary Clinton was deeper in bed with Saudi Arabia and Qatar than many suspected.
–‘Pay for play’ was a real scandal.
–Hillary Clinton was hated on a personal level by some of her own supporters/volunteers/workers.
–Donald Trump’s statements about Anthony Weiner and Huma Abedin proved to be correct
Losing US Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton continues to surface from her exile, in spooky video messages and twitter trolling.
This latest video message comes as the Democratic National Committee (DNC) is set to elect the party’s new leader.
“I will always be proud of the campaign we ran, a campaign that was better and stronger.”
HRC praised protests across the US against President Donald Trump…
Buried in the new PPP poll about Trump's fights with the media was a question about town halls. PPP's conclusion is that "Members of Congress who dodge open town hall meetings may be opening themselves up to trouble with their constituents. 81% of voters think they ought to hold town halls, to only 5% who think their members of Congress should avoid them.
The DNC charter says a new chairman has to be elected before March 1st. Saturday is as close to the deadline as they could have gotten. It's been a long race, primarily between the progressive wing represented by Keith Ellison and the status quo establishment wing represented by Tom Perez. Obama has been quietly making calls on Perez's behalf. The energy of the Resistance in fully behind Ellison.This week New Hampshire Democratic Chairman Ray Buckley-- also the chairman of the Democratic chairmen organization-- dropped out of the race and, significantly, endorsed Ellison.
