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The great British Brexit robbery: how our democracy was hijacked

jamie

This was in The Guardian yesterday.
Wake up America. Shit is getting real up in here.

…”It also reveals a critical and gaping hole in the political debate in Britain. Because what is happening in America and what is happening in Britain are entwined. Brexit and Trump are entwined. The Trump administration’s links to Russia and Britain are entwined. And Cambridge Analytica is one point of focus through which we can see all these relationships in play; it also reveals the elephant in the room as we hurtle into a general election: Britain tying its future to an America that is being remade – in a radical and alarming way – by Trump.

There are three strands to this story. How the foundations of an authoritarian surveillance state are being laid in the US. How British democracy was subverted through a covert, far-reaching plan of coordination enabled by a US billionaire. And how we are in the midst of a massive land grab for power by billionaires via our data. Data which is being silently amassed, harvested and stored. Whoever owns this data owns the future.”…

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Fukushima: Japanese Government Guilty Of Destroying Pacific Ocean

jamie

Japan should be prosecuted for the damage to the oceans, and be forced to spare no expense to stop the flow of radioactive waste into the ocean. IMMEDIATELY.
Containment, encapsulation…no option should be excluded and penalties must increase drastically as time passes. This situation is just fucking ridiculous and the World tacitly allowing it without penalties is unforgivable.

http://bit.ly/2pQGeeC

Bernie Mocked For Not Being Corrupt

jamie

If that’s all they can mock him for, then mock away. The truth is, Bernie is one of the few in DC who are standing up for YOU. Democratic Socialism is not Communism, as the right would have you believe. Democratic Socialism is democratic like Capitalism, but unlike Capitalism, requires an evolved sense of priorities, whereby society agrees that we need to take care of each other’s basic, human needs first…and then decide where to spend the rest.
It means you don’t put building schools and hospitals in third world countries before making sure everyone has access to the best healthcare and education available here at home. It requires that we consider that for the price of a few F-35s every American could be guaranteed a living wage. Take away a few tax breaks for fossil fuel megacorps, and every child in America could be guaranteed a great education with a four year college degree.
Most of our leaders are so busy lining their own pockets and the pockets of their cronies, they’ve long since forgotten who they represent and why. We should treasure Bernie as the National Hero that he is, and put him in the Whitehouse in 2020…. Or sooner.
#Impeach45 #Bernie2020

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Killer Drones in the Empire State

jamie

So yeah, now they’re using the commercial airport in Syracuse NY for “drone pilot training”, putting military reaper drones in the air above the finger lakes and the State Capitol of NY…Or pretty much anywhere in the Northeast. If you ask me, it amounts to illegal surveillance by the military at best, complete breach of posse comatatis at worst.

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