Emergency call centers are in desperate need of funding and new technology. Until we upgrade our 911 system, we should at least create more informative PSA’s.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “911” / Last Week Tonight / John Oliver / 05.15.2016 ☮
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Category Archives: Politics
INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM: “Bernie and Beautiful at Sanders Portland Headquarters” / TYT Politics / Jordan Chariton ☮
TYT Politics Reporter Jordan Chariton (@JordanChariton) reported from Senator Bernie Sanders Portland, Oregon headquarters on May 15th, 2016.
PLUTOCRACY: “Welcome to 1984” / Chris Hedges ☮
The artifice of corporate totalitarianism has been exposed. The citizens, disgusted by the lies and manipulation, have turned on the political establishment. But the game is not over. Corporate power has within its arsenal potent forms of control. It will use them. As the pretense of democracy is unmasked, the naked fist of state repression takes its place. America is about—unless we act quickly—to get ugly.
“Our political system is decaying,” said Ralph Nader when I reached him by phone in Washington, D.C. “It’s on the way to gangrene. It’s reaching a critical mass of citizen revolt.”
This moment in American history is what Antonio Gramsci called the “interregnum”—the period when a discredited regime is collapsing but a new one has yet to take its place. There is no guarantee that what comes next will be better. But this space, which will close soon, offers citizens the final chance to embrace a new vision and a new direction.
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Top U.S. and World Headlines — May 16, 2016” / Democracy Now! / Amy Goodman ☮
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Trump’s a Pantomime Dame Without the Dress” / Jonathan Pie ☮
Jonathan Pie wonders whether the Donald actually qualifies as a “human, let alone an American,” based on his skin colour.
EDITORIAL: “Real Time with Bill Maher: New Rule – Don’t Blame Liberals for Trump” / 05.13.2016 ☮
HYPOCRITIC CHRISTIAN PEDOPHILIA PROJECTION: “Anti-Gay Pastor Arrested for Child Porn” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur, Ana Kasparian, Katie Halper, and Jimmy Dore ☮
An anti-gay pastor in Arkansas is in a lot of trouble. He has been arrested on 70 counts of child porn.
“Meet Dave Reynolds. He’s the recently fired pastor of the Cornerstone Bible Fellowship in Sherwood, Arkansas currently facing 70 counts of distributing, possessing or viewing child pornography.
He’s also vehemently anti-gay.
The 40-year-old pastor, who has preached that marriage is between a man and a woman and that all homosexual activity is a sin, was arrested this week after police received a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children that a social media account in Sherwood was storing pages and pages (and pages and pages) of images of kiddy porn.
The account allegedly belonged to Reynolds.
In March, Reynolds informed elders at Cornerstone Bible Fellowship that he was under investigation for child porn possession. When they asked if he had engaged in viewing the material, Reynolds told them he had “not knowingly done so.”
POLITICAL COMMENTARY: “Bernie Sanders Shreds Alan Greenspan to His Smug Face” / Jimmy Dore ☮
Bernie Sanders told Alan Greenspan in 2003 that he is “way out of touch with the needs of the middle class and working families of our country.” Mr. Greenspan responded with characteristic smugness. Five years later, Alan Greenspan admitted he found a “flaw” in his economic model.
What Explains Andrea Mitchell’s Treatment Of Bernie Sanders?
DEMOCRATIC PARTY ESTABLISHMENT CORPORATOCRACY: “A WARNING to the Democratic Party Establishment” / The Young Turks / Cenk Uygur ☮
Corporations should NOT rule OUR politics. Establishment politicians have lost touch with the people. Corporations should NOT control OUR country. The movement is NOT about Bernie Sanders it’s about PROGRESSIVE values.
DEMOCRATIC PARTY ESTABLISHMENT CORPORATOCRACY: “Let’s Call Establishment Dems What They Are . . . REPUBLICANS” / Ring of Fire / Mike Papantonio and Thom Hartman ☮
The Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia is going to be sponsored by the worst of the worst. Healthcare lobbyists, proponents of fracking, and even Comcast will be hosting the event, as DNC chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz has decided to lift the convention’s ban on lobbyists. America’s Lawyer Mike Papantonio talks about the fall of the Democratic Party with Thom Hartmann.
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