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Segami

Segami's Journal
Segami's Journal
March 2, 2016

Van Jones vs. Jeffrey Lord SMACKDOWN!!






CNN's resident Van Jones vs. Jeffery Lord for Donald Trump fostering and feeding off of anti-black racism.


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March 1, 2016

Hillary Clinton To Voter: 'WHY DON'T YOU GO RUN FOR SOMETHING, THEN?'




Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton responds to a young woman in Minnesota who appears to challenge Clinton on whether she has a plan on addressing diversity of elected officials.

"..So, why don't you go run for something then..."





March 1, 2016

As Super Tuesday Gets Underway, Bernie Sanders DIGS IN For The LONG HAUL




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Following a big primary loss in South Carolina over the weekend, Bernie Sanders promised that he was in the race for the long haul—and then subsequently raised $6 million in one day to amass a total of $42 million in February alone. That's the most any presidential candidate has raised in a single month in 2016, including Hillary Clinton, his chief rival for the nomination.

"Tomorrow, all over the country our campaign is taking on the political establishment," the senator from Vermont told reporters during a press conference in Boston on Monday. "We will do well tomorrow if there is a large voter turnout, if working people, if young people, if people in many cases who have given up on the political process want to stand up and fight back and they come out to vote tomorrow."

Tuesday is one of the biggest primary days of the election season, with voting taking place in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Georgia, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, Wyoming, and American Samoa.

"At the end of tomorrow, I think 15 states will have spoken," Sanders said Monday. "Last I heard, we have a lot more than 15 states in the United States of America, and I think it is more than appropriate to give all of those states and the people in those states a chance to vote for the candidate of their choice."

Recent polls have shown Clinton leading in those states, but more optimistic news for Sanders' campaign came Tuesday morning with a new poll showing that Sanders would win against GOP frontrunner Donald Trump by 55 to 43 percent—an even bigger margin than Clinton, who would win against Trump by 52 to 44 percent, according to the CNN/ORC survey of 920 registered voters. Sanders on Tuesday reiterated his attack against Clinton's reliance on big money donors, stating,

"I don't think real change comes about when your super PAC raises many millions of dollars from Wall Street, from the drug companies, from the fossil fuel industries."

His campaign manager, Jeff Weaver, noted that Clinton finished out the month with private fundraising events in New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, and added, "Our supporters are a firewall protecting Bernie from the Clinton campaign’s wealthiest donors and super PACs. But with the amount of high-dollar fundraisers she's held this month, it's hard to see how we possibly raised more money than Secretary Clinton in February."


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http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/03/01/super-tuesday-gets-underway-sanders-digs-long-haul
March 1, 2016

Columbus, Ohio: GRASSROOTS for Bernie Sanders

vimeo.com/157245081


Our city and our community belong to all of us. Bernie Sanders inspires us to remind one another to get involved, to stand up against injustice, to speak in civil discourse with our neighbors, and to be better community members. Personal politics aside, it is important that we allow ourselves to listen. And when you find yourself energized, take action.

Be creative. Be unique. Our city is what we make it. Let us be better neighbors.


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March 1, 2016

Clinton Will Build Her Biggest Lead on March 15. Bernie Sanders Will ERODE IT After That.




I'm keeping this short to put a very simple idea into your head. Because of the way the Democratic Party voting calendar is structured this year, Clinton's largest lead will occur on March 15. After that, most of Sanders' strongest states will vote.

What this means is simple:

* Hillary Clinton will grow her lead until the March 15 states have voted.

* Bernie Sanders will erase that lead — partly or completely — after March 15.

* How much of Clinton's lead he will erase depends on your not buying what the media is selling — that the contest is over.

* In most scenarios where Sanders wins, he doesn't retake the lead until June 7, when five states including California cast their ballots.

March 15 is the Ides of March; a good way to remember the date. The message — gear up for a battle after the Ides of March, and don't let the establishment media tell you what to think. They won't be right until the last state has voted.

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Now the data. One of the best data-stitians I've come across is a diarist at Daily Kos named MattTX. Matt is very good, professionally good, at this stuff. In a long, carefully-reasoned diary, "How Bernie Sanders can win the Democratic nomination," he lays out six scenarios for the race, in five of which Bernie Sanders wins the nomination (the other is a current baseline with no momentum). He presents them in a parallel fashion, and each presentation differs only in changing a small set of assumptions. Once you understand how to read the first one, you can read the others easily.

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Bottom line — Super Tuesday is upon us, and what's bad for Sanders supporters on March 1 is going to look worse for a few weeks. Stay heartened. Whatever the result in March, this isn't over until June, after Sanders' best states have voted as well.


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http://downwithtyranny.blogspot.com/2016/03/clinton-will-build-her-biggest-lead-on.html
March 1, 2016

Hillary’s Nose in the ER Pinocchio Theater Bernie Sanders NYC RALLY

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Poor Hillary! She's told so many lies her nose has grown enormous and it's so stuffed up she needs surgery to unblock it. Medics Elliot Crown and Marnie Halasa of the Pinocchio theater remove the gross contents: loads of Wall Street money, GMOs, poisons, guns, and lots more creepy , disgusting gunk that keep her from a breath of fresh air. Finally cleared out, we find free Bernie buttons for all. Wondrous street theater, original , educational and funny at the NYC Rally and March for Bernie Sanders, Union Square Park, Feb. 27, 2016.


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March 1, 2016

More DISHONEST ATTACKS From The Hillary Clinton Campaign


PRESS RELEASE


More Dishonest Attacks from the Clinton Campaign



FEBRUARY 29, 2016


BOSTON – Hillary Clinton’s campaign is once again attacking Bernie Sanders’ record, purposefully leaving out the facts and misleading the American people. The latest misinformation campaign implies that Sen. Sanders only opposed the 2007 immigration reform bill because of his concerns about U.S. workers, even though he was fighting that same year to stop corporations from ruthlessly exploiting guest workers.

“It is shameful to see the fabrication of facts and reinventing of history,” Rep. Raúl Grijalva said. “Sen. Sanders is the only candidate in the Democratic presidential race with a detailed immigration plan and a strong, consistent record on immigration policy. This election will be defined by who has the best policy alternatives for the country, not cheap political attacks.”

Here is what Sanders said on the floor of the Senate on July 26, 2007:

“In addition, according to a recent report by the Southern Poverty Law Center entitled ‘Close to Slavery,’ H-2B workers are routinely cheated out of wages; forced to mortgage their futures to obtain low wage, temporary jobs; held virtually captive by employers or labor brokers who seize their documents; forced to live in squalid conditions; and denied medical benefits for on-the-job injuries. Let us not make it worse. Simply put, we must make sure that labor protections for American workers and for foreign workers who are temporarily working in our country – we must make sure these regulations are strengthened, not weakened. Over the long term, I will be introducing legislation to accomplish that goal. But in the interim, we must not take a major step backwards in terms of protecting both U.S. workers and guest workers from unscrupulous employers.”

The League of United Latin American Citizens, the largest and oldest Hispanic organization in the United States, criticized the Clinton campaign for its unfair attacks on Sanders’ vote on the 2007 immigration reform bill.

“I really think it’s unfair for Hillary to make an issue of that vote,” LULAC executive director Brent Wilkes told BuzzFeed News.

According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, “The H-2 guest worker program is inherently abusive and should not be expanded in the name of immigration reform.”

For a list of some of the groups opposed to the 2007 immigration reform bill see below.

* The League of United Latin American Citizens, the largest and oldest Hispanic organization in the United States: “LULAC cannot support a bill that will separate families and lead to the exploitation of immigrant workers,” said the then-executive director Brent Wilkes in a May 2007 statement.

* The Labor Council for Latin American Advancement: “Once Latinos learn of the many onerous provisions included in [this bill] as well as the phony ‘legalization’ program, support turns into opposition,” said Gabriela D. Lemus, the then-executive director in a June 20, 2007 statement.

* The Hispanic Federation: “Congress has a legislative responsibility to produce immigration reform that is both humane and pragmatic. Unfortunately, as it stands, this bill falls short of what our immigrant community and nation needs and expects,” said Lillian Rodriguez López, the then-president of this organization in a June 20, 2007 statement.

* The National Day Laborers Organizing Network: “The Senate should not accept a bill that will worsen the status quo. We need a bill that will benefit this and future generations,” said Pablo Alvarado, the then-president of the organization said in a June 20, 2007 statement.

* The American Immigration Lawyers Association said it “cannot support enactment of the Senate bill in its current form,” in a June 2007 statement.

The AFL-CIO, Teamsters, United Food and Commercial Workers, and other unions also opposed the 2007 immigration bill: “This bill is far from the kind of comprehensive immigration reform that would improve the status quo for either U.S.-born or immigrant workers or their families and, in fact, it is likely to make matters much worse,” said AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard L. Trumka.




https://berniesanders.com/press-release/more-dishonest-attacks-from-the-clinton-campaign/



March 1, 2016

APPLE Wins Major Court VICTORY in its Battle Against FBI in a Case Similar to San Bernardino

Apple today scored a major legal victory in its battle against the FBI when a Magistrate Judge in New York rejected the U.S. Government’s request as part of a drug case to force the company to help it extract data from a locked iPhone. The ruling from U.S. Magistrate James Orenstein was issued as part of the criminal case against Jun Feng, who pleaded guilty in October to drug charges, and is a significant boost to Apple’s well-publicized campaign to resist the FBI’s similar efforts in the case of the San Bernardino killers.

In the case that gave rise to today’s ruling, the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) had seized – but, even after consultation with the FBI, claimed it was unable to access – Feng’s iPhone 5. The DEA and FBI said they could not overcome security measures embedded in Apple’s operating system. The Government thus filed a motion seeking an order requiring “Apple to assist” the investigation “under the authority of the All Writs Act” (AWA) – the same 1789 law the FBI is invoking in the San Bernardino case – by “help[ing] the government bypass the passcode security.” Apple objected, noting that there were currently pending nine other cases in which the Government was seeking a similar order.

Judge Orenstein applied previous legal decisions interpreting the AWA and concluded that the law does not “justif[y] imposing on Apple the obligation to assist the government’s investigation against its will.” In a formulation extremely favorable to Apple, the Judge wrote that the key question raised by the Government’s request is whether the AWA allows a court “to compel Apple – a private party with no alleged involvement in Feng’s criminal activity – to perform work for the government against its will.”

The court ruled that the law permits no such result – both because relevant law contains limits on what companies like Apple are required to do, and because Congress never enacted any such obligations. Moreover, the Judge said of the Government’s arguments for how the AWA should be applied: “the implications of the government’s position are so far-reaching – both in terms of what it would allow today and what it implies about Congressional intent in 1789 – as to produce impermissibly absurd results.”


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https://theintercept.com/2016/02/29/apple-wins-major-court-victory-in-its-battle-against-fbi-in-a-case-similar-to-san-bernardino/

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