Day: October 10, 2016

Ralph Nader Interviews Jill Stein

This press is from a fellow WP blogger, Dandelion Salad…..a very informative site if one cares to visit….

This election is the worst reality show on TV….but for some unknown reason the American people cannot see past the 2 clowns in the car…..

There are two other candidates in this fight…..Johnson for the Libertarians and Dr. Stein for the Greens…..

This is an interview about defense spending and defense policies…..

Dandelion Salad with Ralph Nader williambrighenticpa on Sep 18, 2016 Ralph Nader interviewed Jill Stein on September 17, 2016. Ralph and Jill discuss the corporate ownership of the media and the du…

Source: Ralph Nader Interviews Jill Stein: We Need To Cut The Military Budget By 50% + Transcript

After reading this someone will go on some rant about the military and yada yada yada…….but the US still spends more than most other countries combined….

A few weeks ago the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute released its annual yearbook, which assesses the current state of armaments, disarmament, and international security in the world. One point of focus is world military expenditure.

According to SIPRI, in 2015 US military spending fell by 2.4% compared with 2014. It was the fifth consecutive year of decline, though it was one of the lowest annual rates of reduction since 2010, the year in which SIPRI recorded the highest-ever level of US spending. This year is expected to mark a rise in spending.

Source: Military spending by the US has declined, but it still dwarfs that of any other nation — Quartz

Hate to tell you this but without fighting every war around this country would not need to spend so much….but that would make the defense contractors stroke out ……and we cannot have that….now can we?

If you are looking for a place for your vote then please consider the Green Party…..look at their platform.

Source: Platform – www.gp.org

Debate #2: Night Of The Living Dead

Last night we had a full range of entertainment…..NY Giants lost to Green Bay 23-16…..there was a NASCAR race somewhere…..the Japanese GP that Red Bull won………but if you are not into sports then there was the worst reality TV……2016 elections……and the 2nd debate……

The truth is I watched a debate…..never laugh so damn much in a long time…..oh…it was NOT the latest piece of literary crap….nope it was the debate from those geniuses from Bad Lip Reading…….the 1st debate

Now that was entertaining!

But for those people (mostly Trump supporters) without a sense of humor…..I found a breakdown of the clown show last night…….take their word for it ….or make up your own shit…..matters not!

  • Chris Cillizza, Washington Post: He’s got Clinton in his “winners” category because “she went into this debate with massive momentum in the race—much of it caused by Trump’s stumbles—and didn’t make any sort of glaring error that would allow the Republican back into the contest.” Trump, meanwhile, “was much more solid and energetic in this debate than in the previous tilt.” But he lost because while he pleased his base, “we know from polling that his base isn’t nearly large enough to win an election.”
  • Andrew Sullivan, New York: “I’m horrified to say that Trump will survive this, even though he absolutely shouldn’t. I suspect this performance will prevent a total meltdown in his campaign. His Breitbart-style attacks on Clinton will have riled up his base. Her defensive rebuttals were not crude enough to hit home. … He may still win this election.”
  • Guy Benson, Townhall: “He improved, exceeded expectations, decisively won several exchanges. She could have landed a death blow tonight and did not.”
  • Anthony Zurcher, BBC: Clinton “has to view this as an opportunity missed. Her supporters were hoping for a political kill shot that would push Mr Trump’s remaining supporters toward the exit and turn the last month of the campaign into a glorified mop-up operation,” but it never arrived.
  • Van Jones, CNN (via Mediaite): He thinks Trump won the debate but views that as a larger win for Clinton. “The worst possible outcome for Hillary Clinton would have been if she had knocked him out. If she had knocked him out and forced him out of the race, the Republican Party could rally and get somebody else in there.”
  • Alexander Burns, New York Times: Clinton survived the “nuclear attack” of the assault against her husband. And “if Mr. Trump steadied himself as the night went on, he never showed a side of himself that might surprise voters and transform their overwhelmingly negative views of him.”
  • San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board: “Trump not only seemed to slow the bleeding, he might have stopped it. … Will this stem GOP defections? Maybe. Will this win over voters concerned about his temperament and suitability as commander-in-chief? Maybe not.”
  • This Muslim American Life author Moustafa Bayoumi: “I’m a Muslim, and I would like to report a crazy man threatening a woman on a stage in Missouri.”
  • A YouGov poll done in the immediate aftermath had Clinton winning 47% to 42%.

Somewhere there is a die hard Trump supporter that will be thumping their chest at a Trump win…..these are the same people that would find it endearing even if Trump whipped out his penis for all to see……also the same people that bitch that our country is going to Hell….but do not realize the Trump is driving the fucking car.

Not Ready to Vote for Clinton

Remember when at the convention Bernie came out and gave his support to Clinton and he asked for unity…..recall that?

Some of us said….Dream On!  And Bite Me!

As Sanders campaigns for her, diehards are not moved.

Hillary Clinton has a Bernie Sanders problem—and it’s not about the former presidential candidate, who is now giving swing-state speeches telling people to vote for her. The problem is a sizable slice of his most ardent supporters don’t want to.

A new survey of 461 Sanders delegates who attended the Democratic National Convention found that less than one-fifth said they now planned to personally vote for Clinton, whether they lived in a swing state (19 percent) or a safe state (18 percent). One-sixth (17 percent) said that they were undecided.

Source: Most Sanders Democratic Convention Delegates Are Not Ready to Vote for Clinton, New Poll Finds | Alternet

There is lots of whining by Clinton supporters that a vote for an alternative would be handing Trump the election……and vice versa…..that is pure bullshit.

I have always voted for principles and I shall continue to do so until death…..

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What Just Happened in Colombia?

Recently I posted on the Colombian peace deal between the government and the FARC rebels after about 50 years of violence and conflict….but the big story was that the people of Colombia rejected the deal through their vote.

After the news broke the world started asking………. WTF?

This journal is the best of Neocon PR…..keep that in mind while trying to discern what went wrong with the peace deal.

Surprising everyone, Colombians rejected the FARC peace deal because it ultimately rewarded the rebels for years of violence. So now it’s back to the negotiating table to get it right this time.

By a razor-thin margin of less than half a percentage point, Colombian voters narrowly rejected a proposed peace plan that would have formally ended the longest-running war in the Western Hemisphere.

Almost everyone thought the referendum would pass, that it was a mere formality after years of painstaking negotiations in Cuba, but no.

The UK’s Independent calls the vote “Farcxit.” Indeed, the peso crashed hard against the dollar for the same reason the British pound fell after Brexit—international markets hate uncertainty, especially where war and peace are concerned.

Source: What Just Happened in Colombia? | World Affairs Journal

Back to the negotiating table……but first…..there are always 2 ways of looking at any situation…..

The day of 2 October will probably be remembered as the most unexpected plot-twist of Colombia’s history. In a referendum, Colombians voted to against the peace treaty between the government and Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC).

Against all expectations, the NO side won by less than 54,000 votes and obtained a surprising 50.2 per cent majority, rejecting a deal that would have put an end to more than 52 years of internal conflict.

The outcome of the referendum has had three clear consequences. First, the agreements between President Santos and FARC Supreme Commander Rodrigo Londoño, also known as Timochenko, signed in Cartagena on 26 September, are now virtually suspended, and the peace deal is caught in a legal limbo.

Source: Colombia’s two faces — New Internationalist

Colombia needs to be watched….there is more going on than the referendum…..will the ugly face of violence remain?