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I firmly believe that denying Bernie Sanders the Democratic nomination for President in 2016 will go down as an event of pivotal historic significance. By forcing one of the most corrupt, dishonest, greedy war-mongerers upon the American public as the only alternative to Donald Trump, the DNC effectively alienated the entire youth of this country from the political process at a crucial moment, and prevented tens of millions of citizens from feeling they have a real choice.
The negative consquences of this tragedy will reverberate for many years, if not decades to come.

“I find the whole thing astonishing and what’s remarkable is the amount of anger whether it’s on the Republican side or the Democratic side,” the Wall Street mogul said at the World Economic Forum in Davos. “Bernie Sanders, to me, is almost more stunning than some of what’s going on in the Republican side. How is that happening, why is that happening?”

This is a topic I’ve written about occasionally over the years. A recent article published by Vocativ adds some interesting information to the discomforting trend.
Vocativ reports:

Can’t really blame them, can you.
Reuters reports:

This is a story that refuses to go away. Recall the post from earlier this month, Backlash Grows Months After the FBI’s Sham Investigation Into Hillary Clinton, in which we learned:

With so much mud being slung from all directions in this circus of an election, it’s often hard to separate fact from fiction. However, on one particular topic there is little doubt. When it comes to the big money crowd, they are definitely “with her.”
The Wall Street Journal reports:

None of the following about the EU will come as a surprise to most of you, but the language used by Otmar Issing is nevertheless pretty remarkable.
The Telegraph reports:

Control of the news media is an instrumental, key feature to any totalitarian government. In contrast, the primary reason this experiment known as the United States has lasted so long under relatively free conditions is due to the preservation of free speech (and press) via the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
In case you haven’t read it in a while, here’s the text:

The Intercept dug up quite a gem from the Pentagon via a Freedom of Information Act request.
Here’s what we learned:

In a press release, the groups highlighted the links between Citigroup—which has lobbied extensively on the TPP, TTIP, and Fast Track authority—and Froman, who they note “received a more than $4 million golden parachute from Citigroup upon leaving the large financial institution to join the Obama administration in 2009.”