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Jester Messiah
Jester Messiah's Journal
Jester Messiah's Journal
July 1, 2016
If you want to speak, but can't, or know you shouldn't...
Just pretend it's a "silent thread." Post a "." for the title and leave the body blank. After all, if you have been silenced, then you must be silent.
June 19, 2016
Three (Bronx) Cheers for Hillary!
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/worlds_largest_fart-in_planned_for_hillary_clintons_acceptance_speech_in_ph
World’s Largest ‘Fart-In’ Is Planned for Hillary Clinton’s Acceptance Speech in Philadelphia
Philadelphia: Cheri Honkala, the leader of the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign, announced that her group was organizing the worlds largest fart-in to be held on July 28 at the Wells Fargo Center during Hillary Clintons anticipated acceptance speech for the Democratic nomination.
We will be holding a massive bean supper for Bernie Sanders delegates on American Street in my Kensington neighborhood on the afternoon of July 28, she said. We are setting up a Clintonville there, modeled on the Hoovervilles of the 1930s where the poor and unemployed built shanty towns. The Sanders delegates, their bellies full of beans, will be able to return to the Wells Fargo Center and greet the rhetorical flatulence of Hillary Clinton with the real thing.
We will be holding a massive bean supper for Bernie Sanders delegates on American Street in my Kensington neighborhood on the afternoon of July 28, she said. We are setting up a Clintonville there, modeled on the Hoovervilles of the 1930s where the poor and unemployed built shanty towns. The Sanders delegates, their bellies full of beans, will be able to return to the Wells Fargo Center and greet the rhetorical flatulence of Hillary Clinton with the real thing.
Three (Bronx) Cheers for Hillary!
http://www.truthdig.com/eartotheground/item/worlds_largest_fart-in_planned_for_hillary_clintons_acceptance_speech_in_ph
June 6, 2016
http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/06/sanders-clinton-foundation-223915
Conflict of interest: Sanders assails Clinton over Foundation
If you asked me about the Clinton Foundation, do I have a problem when a sitting secretary of state and a foundation run by her husband collects many millions of dollars from foreign governments, governments which are dictatorships
yeah I do, Sanders said in an interview Sunday morning on CNNs State of the Union.
Sanders cited Saudi Arabia, a contributor to the foundation, which he notes restricts civil liberties. You dont have a lot of respect there for opposition points of view for gay rights or womens rights, he said.
Sanders cited Saudi Arabia, a contributor to the foundation, which he notes restricts civil liberties. You dont have a lot of respect there for opposition points of view for gay rights or womens rights, he said.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/2016-dem-primary-live-updates-and-results/2016/06/sanders-clinton-foundation-223915
June 4, 2016
You don't get offered immunity for collecting stamps.
Pagliano is complicit in something. The other shoe's gonna drop. The question is, will the Democratic Party be up shit creek when it does?
June 2, 2016
Shadier and shadier...
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/281925-clinton-it-aide-to-plead-fifth-in-email-case
Clinton IT aide to plead Fifth in email case
Questions about Paglianos role in Clintons bespoke email arrangement ramped up after he accepted a deal for immunity from the federal government as part of his cooperation with the FBIs ongoing investigation into Clintons setup.
Yet very little is known about Pagliano and how he maintained the server at Clintons New York home.
The IT expert has previously refused to answer questions on Capitol Hill, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights before the House Select Committee on Benghazi and rejecting requests from leaders of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees to answer their questions.
Yet very little is known about Pagliano and how he maintained the server at Clintons New York home.
The IT expert has previously refused to answer questions on Capitol Hill, invoking his Fifth Amendment rights before the House Select Committee on Benghazi and rejecting requests from leaders of the Senate Judiciary and Homeland Security committees to answer their questions.
Shadier and shadier...
http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/281925-clinton-it-aide-to-plead-fifth-in-email-case
June 1, 2016
The Clinton family. Fighting for you. Oh, uh wait... nope, just fighting you.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/bill-clinton-gave-six-figure-speech-vulture-fund-apollo
Bill Clinton Gave a Six-Figure Speech to a Controversial Vulture Fund as His Wife Ran for President
On May 12, 2015, the private equity firm Apollo Global Management announced that it was unloading the remainder of its stake in Noranda Aluminum. Apollo had gained control of the Tennessee-based company in a 2007 leveraged buyout and had subsequently followed a familiar playbook in the cutthroat world of corporate takeovers: It saddled Noranda with the debt it had used to buy the company and then extracted large dividends. As Noranda struggled to stay solvent, Apollo eventually cashed out of the firm. In early 2016, the debt-riddled aluminum company declared bankruptcy, shut down its largest smelting plant in Missouri, and laid off hundreds of employees.
That same day in 2015 that Apollo disposed of its stake in Noranda, Bill Clinton pocketed $250,000 for a speech to one of its subsidiaries, Apollo Management Holdings.
That same day in 2015 that Apollo disposed of its stake in Noranda, Bill Clinton pocketed $250,000 for a speech to one of its subsidiaries, Apollo Management Holdings.
The Clinton family. Fighting for you. Oh, uh wait... nope, just fighting you.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/bill-clinton-gave-six-figure-speech-vulture-fund-apollo
June 1, 2016
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/why-bernie-sanders-must-address-email_b_10218114.html
Why Bernie Sanders Must Address the Top Secret SAP Intelligence on Clinton’s Email Server
Bernie Sanders, before the California Primary, should address the fact that Top Secret and SAP intelligence was found on a private server; utilized because Clinton intentionally chose to hide personal emails. Since even Chuck Todd isnt buying the convenience excuse, theres an obvious element of premeditation regarding owning the server. Furthermore, knowing that shed be receiving Top Secret intelligence only adds to the belief that Clinton risked national security (by utilizing an unencrypted server), for the sake of hiding emails from Republicans, or the public.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/h-a-goodman/why-bernie-sanders-must-address-email_b_10218114.html
June 1, 2016
http://bold.global/charlie-may/2016/05/31/22070/
Superdelegates Supporting Hillary Clinton Risk a Donald Trump Presidency
Its time for the Democratic Party to come to terms with Hillary Clintons wrongdoings, fabrications, and blatant neglect.
The Office of Inspector Generals report released Wednesday is the most crucial piece of evidence thats been seen to date suggesting Clinton has broken federal law through unauthorized use of a private email server.
Now, while the IG continues to state she has broken policies, they fail to talk about the fact that the policies she has broken were designed around the Federal Records Act of 1950. By violating the policy, Clinton has not only violated the law, but also consistently denied doing so publicly numerous times.
Superdelegates within the Democratic Party need to take the findings of this report, and her visibly inconsistent defense, into serious consideration.
The Office of Inspector Generals report released Wednesday is the most crucial piece of evidence thats been seen to date suggesting Clinton has broken federal law through unauthorized use of a private email server.
Now, while the IG continues to state she has broken policies, they fail to talk about the fact that the policies she has broken were designed around the Federal Records Act of 1950. By violating the policy, Clinton has not only violated the law, but also consistently denied doing so publicly numerous times.
Superdelegates within the Democratic Party need to take the findings of this report, and her visibly inconsistent defense, into serious consideration.
http://bold.global/charlie-may/2016/05/31/22070/
June 1, 2016
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-bernie-activism-20160531-snap-story.html
Bernie Sanders' sober social activism wins him fans in California
I spoke with a college-age woman waiting in line at the Bakersfield fairgrounds. She wore a reversed baseball cap over her long, magenta-tinted hair, jeans ripped at the knees and a black muscle shirt touting Bernie for President. Her name was Cela Ayres. I asked her why this rumpled old guy with unruly white hair had become such a political phenomenon among millennials. Ayres said that other candidates Hillary Clinton in particular try to connect with young voters by awkwardly relating and using gimmicks like Snapchat.
Bernie just says what relates to us, Ayres told me. He doesnt try to relate to us, he gets us.
Bernie just says what relates to us, Ayres told me. He doesnt try to relate to us, he gets us.
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/topoftheticket/la-na-tt-bernie-activism-20160531-snap-story.html
June 1, 2016
First, Hillary is imploding amidst a rash of bad news -- from her bloated speaking fees to her dubious control over her potential co-president husband to this latest installment in the email saga that won't die.
Second, Sanders often beats presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in head-to-head polls. The Manhattan mogul has pulled even with Clinton in many national canvasses.
And in the all-important California primary on June 7, Sanders and Clinton are in a statistical dead heat.
But most importantly, Sanders, like President Barack Obama eight years ago, has spawned a passion and an eagerness that has energized the Democratic party far more than Clinton's.
http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2016/05/theres_nothing_super_about_hil.html#incart_river_index
It's time for Democratic super-delegates to give Bernie Sanders a second look
First, Hillary is imploding amidst a rash of bad news -- from her bloated speaking fees to her dubious control over her potential co-president husband to this latest installment in the email saga that won't die.
Second, Sanders often beats presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump in head-to-head polls. The Manhattan mogul has pulled even with Clinton in many national canvasses.
And in the all-important California primary on June 7, Sanders and Clinton are in a statistical dead heat.
But most importantly, Sanders, like President Barack Obama eight years ago, has spawned a passion and an eagerness that has energized the Democratic party far more than Clinton's.
http://www.pennlive.com/opinion/2016/05/theres_nothing_super_about_hil.html#incart_river_index