What happened last Wednesday deserves another look because I believe it marked a huge pivot point and very few are even talking about it. Last Wednesday the Fed raised rates one quarter of a point but that was not the big story. The big story was the about face the U.S. did geopolitically!
The folks over at the aptly named organization Don’t Comply, took to the streets just outside the Austin Street Shelter in Dallas this weekend to perform, what has now become a revolutionary act – feeding the homeless.
Between Jan. 1 and Dec. 15, 2015, police officers in the United States shot, beat, used stun guns on or otherwise killed an astonishing 1,152 people, according to a recently released reportfrom law enforcement watchdog Mapping Police Violence.
When writing letters doesn't get their attention, when protesting is suppressed, when pleadiing is ignored, then the final revolutionary response by the People to an arrogant non-responsive State is to ignore it.
Now that Graham has exited his backstage campaign, his reason in doing so will become clear soon enough. Tally the number of crushing and demoralizing articles against Graham's bid for the Black House and put them at the parallel of Paul's and his form of measurement will not extend over the horizon as does Paul's. Yet, he suspended his campaign? Now? Why not long ago?
[This was posted by David40 at the PL today, but thought it important enough to bring over here.]
Abby Martin interviews retired U.S. Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former national security advisor to the Reagan administration, who spent years as an assistant to Secretary of State Colin Powell during both Bush administrations. Today, he is honest about the unfixable corruption inside the establishment and the corporate interests driving foreign policy.
If you're not familiar w/ Greg Brannon, he's surprisingly similar to Ron Paul. He's a libertarian type and also a doctor (he delivered more babies than Dr. Paul).
Despite the media-cheerleading of Trump ad-nauseam, his inclination towards religious persecution is what we expect our representatives to defend against by respecting the first amendment we cherish as ‘free people’. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof. Trump’s ideas are not new nor are they historically commendable.