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Is Jeremy Corbyn The UK's Bernie Sanders?

As we mentioned yesterday, the right-of-center, Wall Street-owned New Dems are making a play to assert themselves within the Democratic congressional caucus. They are following in the footsteps of the Tony Blair New Labour wing of the UK's Labour Party, which took over the party but has more recently lost support by inching further and further right.

Questions Remain: CNN Saw an ISIS flag at London's Gay Pride Parade and Wondered Where the Outrage Was

"[T]he only bad mimicry I could see was CNN's impression of a reputable news organization."-- Paul Coombs, creator of the London Pride dildo flagby NoahCNN wonders where the outrage is? I've got your outrage right here, CNN. I'm outraged that you exist, and I have been for over 20 years! Yeesh, and some people think that FOX is the only cable news outlet that sees things that are not there, jumps the shark, and reports on them.Sure, FOX is the master of such things.

“The Mythology of American Democracy” by Carroll Quigley (1972)

[Source: Perspectives in Defense Management, Winter 1972-1973 ] Originally posted by www.carrollquigley.net THE MYTHOLOGY OF AMERICAN DEMOCRACY By Carroll Quigley I COULD easily make this talk a self-praising, Fourth of July oration, vintage 1880. But that’s not what you want and that’s not what I am qualified to give you. I am going to give you an historical view of the […]

This pseudo-"scientific" way to cut a cake is the sort of thing that makes people think scientists are idiots

Is this what happens when you've never had a birthday party?by Ken"Is This A Scientifically Superior Way To Cut Cake?" asks Elite Truong on WNYC's "Sporkful" blog ("It's Not for Foodies, It's for Eaters"), and while I undoubtedly wouldn't have seen this crackpot video if not for the blogpost, which can therefore be held to task for actually giving this sad person the attention he seems to crave so desperately, now that I have seen it, I have to say I'm glad someone blew the whistle on it.This Alex Bello

REFLECTIONS ON THE ORIGINS AND MEANING OF AMERICA’S INDEPENDENCE DAY

 America’s Independence Day: The Founding Fathers saw popular voting as endangering property ownership. Democracy was viewed by most the same way Washington viewed the “scum” who started the Revolution around Boston. It took about two hundred years of gradual changes for America to become anything that seriously could be called democratic. Even now, what sensible person would call it anything but a rough work still in progress.

 

Why no on should be surprised when America behaves as an international bully