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February 3, 2017

Sanders reopens Dem primary wounds

Of course he does ... divide and conquer

Sanders’s recent swipe against former Vice President Joe Biden has angered Democratic party officials, who are accusing the onetime Democratic presidential candidate of refighting a bitter primary season that ripped the party in two.

The independent senator from Vermont has also infuriated supporters of Tom Perez, a top contender for Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman, after an unprovoked attack against the former Labor secretary.

Sanders, who backs Perez rival Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) for DNC chairman, has shaken up a race that has until now featured few fireworks.

The DNC campaign changed this week after Biden endorsed Perez for chairman. Sanders let loose, saying that it’s time to move beyond the “failed status-quo approach” of Biden and Perez.

http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/317770-sanders-reopens-dem-primary-wounds

January 20, 2017

This Is Why Hillary Clinton Supporters Are Upset About the Womens March

I for one am not happy about this obvious deliberate omission by the organizers who are Sanders devotees.


On Thursday, the organizers of the Women's March on Washington released a list of 27 women who "paved the way for us to march." It didn't take long for people to notice that there was one big name missing from the roster: Hillary Clinton.
The omission of the first woman to run for U.S. president under the banner of a major party sparked a Change.org petition asking the organizers and sponsors to reconsider. "We urge you to include Hillary Clinton" as an honoree "who has inspired women to demonstrate," it reads.

So far, the petition, which also seeks to remind readers about Clinton's long history of fighting for women and children, has 4,658 supporters.

The hashtag #AddHerName soon appeared on Twitter and is still going strong:

http://fortune.com/2017/01/20/hillary-clinton-womens-march/

January 15, 2017

When Trump Planned "Two Trump Towers" in Midtown Atlanta - John Lewis District

Long before Donald Trump was the GOP frontrunner for president, the man with a big personality and distinctive 'doo was merely a real estate mogul out to put his name on high-rises around the world. Back in the boom times before the recession, the Trump-meister set his sites on Atlanta as an excellent place to leave his mark in the form of a glassy two-tower development, reaching up to 47 stories, complete with a three-story "TRUMP" sign looming above Midtown. Hallelujah Alas, it was not to be.

The Donald's plans hatched back in 2006 when markets were high and real estate was booming. Trump billed the development as a "no risk" venture, according to the AJC, espousing just how Titanically unsinkable the Atlanta market was. Local developer Wood Partners got in on the deal, and even as the economy began to stagnate, Trump was bullish, telling the media the project would go forward because, "Atlanta is like New York." And then ... nada.

In 2010, despite around 100 pre-sales, the property was foreclosed on.
http://atlanta.curbed.com/2016/2/15/11029156/donald-trump-towers-atlanta-foreclosure

January 12, 2017

Wikileaks Offers $20,000 To Expose Obama

I found this on sites I've never heard of .... except FOX & Russia Today
Instead of posting either of those here's a British take from the UK Express...

The darling of the left is now the darling of the right.

WIKILEAKS has set it sights on outgoing US President Barack Obama with a $20,000 reward to stop the White House “destroying significant records”.

The website, which notoriously publishes private and classified information, said the reward would be issued for “information leading to the arrest or exposure of any Obama admin agent destroying significant records”.

However the whistle blowing organisation failed to release any more information which suggested the administration had inappropriately destroyed material.

The cryptic message came just minutes after WikiLeaks urged those working under Barack Obama to become whistle blowers, tweeting: “System admins: Don’t let the White House destroy US history again! Copy now, then send to WikiLeaks at your leisure.”

The whistle blowers also attached a leaked 2009 letter from the US National Archives on the missing of two terabyte hard drive disk with Hillary Clinton’s White House administration documents.

The move comes after WikiLeaks published around 28,000 files sent to or received from the Democratic National Committee staff revealing the party’s criticism over potential presidential The whistleblowers also attached a leaked 2009 letter from the US National Archives on the missing of two terabyte hard drive disk with Hillary Clinton’s White House administration documents.

The move comes after WikiLeaks published around 28,000 files sent to or received from the Democratic National Committee staff revealing the party’s criticism over potential presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/750269/Wikileaks-reward-White-House-destroying-significant-records-US-president-Barack-Obama

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