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Cannabis is the real winner in 2016.

(UR) Cannon Ball, ND — There is an ongoing clash in what is known as North Dakota; an event that is more than simply a protest, it is an intersection of many different ideas and values that transcend the issues that appear to be at the fore: water, land, and oil. One of the unfortunate side-effects […]

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He never held office. Once. And he destroyed the competition. One after another. He changed the landscape of American politics and showed the corrupt mainstream media for what they were. Admit it. You’re in awe. 
Let the overreaction begin. Translation . . . bullshit.

The two-party system has been a problem for a long time.

Liliana Sergura at The Intercept has posted a must-read article on two death-penalty propositions Californians will vote on next Tuesday: Prop 62 takes the death penalty off the table entirely; Prop 66 puts post-sentencing proceedings in death penalty cases on a fast track.

Here's why:

MAKE AMERICA SANE AGAIN. “If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.” Thus spake America’s anarchist sweetheart Emma Goldman. But E-Go never met Lionel and would have certainly changed her tune once she reviewed his courageous, bold and revolutionary platform. For POTUS . . .  LOTUS (Lionel of the United States).

Media coverage of the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline has been hopelessly myopic. Certainly environmental justice, police brutality and the violation of sacred burial grounds are important topics, but no one has addressed the larger systemic issues at play: Native American treaty rights and how their handling portends dismally for the everyone else.

Here's the video.