Although it all, dance

Tolstoi, Spooner and Mencken. And a lot of doubt.

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The only good president America has ever had was John F Kennedy. Such a nice guy

That’s a bit debatable, don’t you think?

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There were the founding Presidents, with the symbolically best: Thomas Jefferson. And among the post founding phase Presidents were good ones like William Henry Harrison, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Gerald Ford. Normally it's: The less you intervene in corporatist manner--like para-fascist Roosevelt--the less harm you do.

But at the same time it applies: Ying Yang.

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No “ethnicity” is bound to one party.

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Black Box Voting.org. Civil society checks and balances.

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Big Corporatism (Hillary Clinton) or Big Populism (Donald Trump). Who will win the symbolic vote this year?

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With midterm elections taking place tomorrow, there is a lot of hype and pressure to get out and vote. While some feel that voting is an important civic duty, others argue against participating in, and thereby supporting, what they believe to be a corrupt system. Here are some arguments for and against voting. Pros: Get …

An old satire piece I wrote for the 2014 midterm elections. Still relevant.

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Perspective of anarchyandacupofcoffee.

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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/June_14

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Donald Trump: Hope and change, populist correction, checks and balances. Hillary Clinton: Never change a running system.

The largest and most expensive entertainment event this year comes to its narrated symbolic finale. 

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The only relaxed rational comment on grand narrative elections.

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Nice checks and balances theme.

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[onlinecounsellingcollege]

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Thích Nhất Hạnh (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

This pattern is Hillary Clinton’s largest advantage regarding the elections.

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Sheldon Richman asks, "What is more likely: that Putin is trying -- in an insanely obvious way -- to influence the election, or that someone is trying to make it look as though he is trying to influence the election?"

According to the New York Times and CNN, the FBI has been looking for links between Donald Trump and the Russians. So far, these news outlets report, no links have been found. Sources also tell the NYT and CNN that Russia’s alleged meddling in the election through email hacks has not be intended to help Trump win but only to sow, in CNN’s Evan Perez’s words, “confusion and chaos.” If that’s so, the Russians are incompetent. How would disclosing emails from Clinton campaign chief John Podesta or the Democratic National Committee sow confusion or chaos? We’re learning things about the inner workings of the campaign that we all ought to want to know, and so far not one of the emails has been shown to be phony. Considering that Podesta and the DNC have the original emails, it is hilarious that they refuse to confirm or deny the authenticity of the leak materials. I take that as confirmation. By the way, we have been given no reason to believe the Russian government is the source of the emails that WikiLeaks has disclosed. Clinton may say, and the news media may parrot, that 17 U.S. intelligence agencies have confirmed that Russia and Putin were behind the hacks, but this is untrue – those agencies have not done so. If you want to see why I say this, read Jeremy R. Hammond’s “Is Russia Interfering in the US Election? Why You Can’t Believe the NYT.” It is hard to square two things: 1) that Putin is a crafty ambitious ruler bent on undermining American democracy and 2) that his cyber experts “broke into” the DNC and Clinton campaign and left their “fingerprints” and “calling cards” all over the place. What is more likely: that Putin is trying – in an insanely obvious way – to influence the election, or that someone is trying to make it look as though he is trying to influence the election? As judges tell jurors, don’t leave your common sense outside the deliberation room.

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Companies used Clinton fundraisers to lobby State Department

The nexus among private companies, Hillary Clinton’s Department of State and the Clinton family foundations is closer and more complex than even Donald Trump has claimed so far.

Among the donors to the Clinton foundations who also used Clinton-connected lobbyists at the Department of State:

• Microsoft has given between $1 million and $5 million to the foundations, as the tech giant also lobbied for visa issues, protection of critical infrastructure and cybersecurity, software industry licensing and government procurement.

• Pfizer, one of the world’s top biopharmaceutical companies, has also given between $1 million and $5 million to the foundations, while lobbying for such issues as intellectual property rights overseas and issues related to medicines in Turkey and India.

• ExxonMobil, the global oil and energy company based in Texas, gave the foundations between $1 million and $5 million. The company lobbied the Department of State for issues involving hydraulic fracturing, popularly known as fracking, oil sands and other provisions.

• The Northeast Maglev, a Washington, D.C.-based company that advocates for high-speed, magnetic levitation rail service in the U.S., donated as much as $100,000 while lobbying the Department of State to help provide support for the issue.

• Mexico TV network Azteca and its affiliates donated as much as $375,000 while lobbying for U.S. business opportunities, an education initiative involving students from the U.S., Mexico and Latin America, and other causes.

While the review did not find instances where companies received special favors, each example illustrates the unique challenge the Democratic presidential nominee would face in dealing with potential conflicts of interest if she were to win the White House.

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