Robert Kennedy Jr. gave a speech at the Waterkeepers Alliance conference. He gave it in a style that a Kennedy would do with hard hitting words that are the truth.
There was many who got together this past Labor Day Weekend to plan and help with Bernie Sanders campaign in the South West Coastal area of Florida. Like the rest of South Florida this area is trending blue. There will most definitely be a big turnout for a Sanders rally in this area.
I know this is true because I see it often. The fact is that the poor is getting poorer. We need to re think TANF or bring back a system like we had before "ending welfare as we know it."
NBC pole shows Sanders momentum is still going. No ceiling yet.
It is interesting to see how the media has tried to pretend he is not a serious candidate. They like to talk all around him with out mentioning his name. They still won't admit that he is appealing to voters on his own merits. The meme the media is pushing is she is losing votes because of the email nothing scandal. I like Clinton and will vote for her in the general, but I like Sanders better and will vote for him in the primary.
The media spends more time on the Republican race even in this clip.
Our President is a very clever person. I wonder just how many Republican heads exploded in Congress today?
The Obama administration on Wednesday awarded more than $1 million in grants to Planned Parenthood to help promote ObamaCare, a move that is drawing GOP criticism at a time when the healthcare provider is under congressional investigation.
I hope everyone takes the time to read this well written article about Du Pont and how companies have gotten away with contaminated communities and hurting the health of people.
My parents always reminded us growing up that August 14 was the end of WWII, the day Japan had surrendered. I almost forgot about it until I just looked at the date on the computer as I made my internet rounds before I went to bed. For my parents this a very important date, and they wanted us to understand how it shaped their lives.
My mother said that day everyone was waiting to hear if Japan was going to surrender. The two atomic bombs had been dropped the week before and Japan was given an ultimatum to surrender or we would drop more. My dad was on Saipan so my mother was glued to the radio for days. She was listening to WKDKA from Pittsburg because that was the big station in her area, helping with the clean up after dinner when the news came from CBS New York. She and her sisters dropped everything they were doing and jumped in the Dairy truck and headed to town to celebrate. My grandparents had a dairy and vegetable farm. Gas was rationed then so they only used the dairy truck because they made daily deliveries with it and was able to have more gas for it.
Firedoglake is going to change. It sounds like Jane is hanging up her boxing gloves. She has had several major health issues that she has survived. The latest was a hip replacement.
Steven Rosenfield takes a look at the media's lack of understanding with the current political mood.
But there is one explanation you won’t find among the politicos who are parsing the interior numbers in polls—such as the negative approval ratings, or appeal by race and gender. That explanation is that the political spectrum is changing, or stretching toward its blunter extremes, which also accounts for the muted enthusiasm for both party's leading establishment candidates, Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush.
Look at these numbers. At this point in time 90,345 RSVPS's at 3.344 sites. Some of the site are large halls. I had to change the numbers while posting this. They are climbing tonight.
Here is the site with the interactive map as to where you can go to attend the Nationwide Organizing Event. I hope the media is paying attention to this. You know they are convinced that he is not a major player in this election. After all he is not going to buy any of their air time so how could he possibly be a serious candidate?
Michael Hudson is a professor of economics at the University of Missouri at Kansas City. He has been an advisor in helping with this debt crises in Europe. He wrote a very good article for Counterpunch a few days ago and there is a follow up video interview that I think will help explain some missing information that is not being talked about right now concerning the Troika and Greece.
With Greece on the edge of financial and social implosion, eurozone finance ministers met to decide on the country’s fate and on what to do about its debt crisis, after experts from the troika of creditors said that new fiscal rigour proposals from Athens were good enough to form “the basis for negotiations”.
This is a big F'ing deal if you are a young women working for Hobby Lobby and any other far right religious owners of a company.
Under the new rule, a closely held for-profit company that objects to covering contraception in its health plan can write a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services stating its objection. HHS will then notify a third-party insurer of the company's objection, and the insurer will provide birth control coverage to the company's female employees at no additional cost to the company.
The League of Women Voters filed this case 5 years ago after the GOP held Legislators failed to follow the Fair Districting state constitutional amendment. Instead they held secrete meetings and sent emails to political operatives and pretending to comply with the law. The results was gerrymandered districts. It has been fought all the way up the court system and now 8 congressional districts have been ordered to be redrawn and submitted to the court for approval.
All you have to do is stick your feet out from under the covers. There is a scientific reason for this. Many people do like to stick a foot out from under the covers.
Now you can bore your self to sleep counting sheep or arguing with ducks on TV. This might just do the trick and send you off to dream land.
My parents always reminded us growing up that August 14 was the end of WWII, the day Japan had surrendered. I almost forgot about it until I just looked at the date on the computer as I made my internet rounds before I went to bed. For my parents this a very important date, and they wanted us to understand how it shaped their lives.