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Hillary is also memorialized in what has become the crime capital of Europe: right off the street named for her husband is a store named "Hillary,"featuring women's clothing modeled after the putative Democratic party nominee for President. Pantsuits figure prominently. As Vice puts it: "While former President Bill Clinton has had a boulevard named after him, it's without a doubt that his wife's the real star out here." Why is that?

As Gail Sheehy pointed out in her biography of Hillary, it was Mrs. Clinton who hectored her husband into bowing to a chorus of neoconservative and liberal interventionist voices and finally giving the order to bomb the former Yugoslavia. Traveling to Kosovo when Serbs in the northern part of the country were demanding some form of local autonomy to stave off violent attacks by Kosovar ultra-nationalists, Mrs. Clinton reassured her hosts that the US would stand behind Pristina: "For me, my family and my fellow Americans this is more than a foreign policy issue, it is personal."

But then suppose there was a tourist from Germany who was roaring drunk and belligerent and he asks me, "Hey man, I need another beer! Got a buck?" And then I gave him that dollar you just gave me and THEN I came back to you AGAIN and asked for ANOTHER dollar. Would you not say unto yourself, "This is ridiculous! I just gave Jack a buck and he gave it away! Now he asks for another dollar?! The nerve of this guy!" But then suppose while you're thinking this, I reach into my pocket for something, pull it out, and a thousand bucks fall out of my pocket.

Far-fetched? Of course, it is. I haven't got a thousand dollars or one dollar, for that matter. But where this is not far-fetched is with the United States government. This is precisely what they do with taxation. Now, our illustrious President Obama is giving billions of dollars of our tax money to terrorists in Syria. Oh, beg pardon, the "Syrian moderates". They have not yet graduated from ISIS High School and took their U.S.-supplied weapons with them. If the government has money enough to just dole it out to the equivalent of Middle Eastern street gangs, then one thing becomes painfully apparent: We are ALL being taxed TOO MUCH.

... who have made rape accusations against Bill Clinton, Trump escalated his attack on Hillary and Bill Clinton in an interview with WaPo in which Trump called the circumstances of Vincent Foster's death "very fishy."

"He had intimate knowledge of what was going on," Trump said of Foster's relationship with the Clintons. "He knew everything that was going on and then all of a sudden he committed suicide."

As a reminder, Vince Foster, a longtime friend of the Clintons, was deputy White House counsel in the first few months of Clinton's presidency.  He was found dead from a gunshot wound to the mouth in July 1993. The three official investigations into Foster's death concluded he committed suicide as he suffered from depression, however unproven theories have constantly swirled that the Clintons were involved in Foster's death.

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The Washington Post was not pleased, saying that "Trump is reviving some of the ugliest political chapters of the 1990s with escalating personal attacks on Bill Clinton’s character, part of a concerted effort to smother Hillary Clinton’s campaign message with the weight of decades of controversy."

So concludes America's leading Russian expert, Professor Stephen Cohen (Princeton and New York University).  http://www.globalresearch.ca/russia-has-not-seen-such-amassing-of-hostile-military-forces-on-its-borders-since-1941/5526562

Professor Cohen asks if Washington is sleepwalking and needs to wake up or whether Washington has gone crazy and intends war.

Pepe Escobar advises Washington to "beware what you wish for: Russia is ready for war." http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article44725.htm

Escobar reports that recently the Rand Corporation, "essentially a CIA outpost," concluded that "Russia could overrun NATO in a mere 60 hours, if not less." On the level of nukes and missile systems, Russia is four generations ahead of the US military/security complex, which is mainly interested in inflating profits with cost overruns. US weapons systems are simply outclassed.

The BFP/Newsbud roundtable takes on the 2016 election. Can elections ever change the system? Does voting the lesser evil result in less evil? If voting isn't the answer, what is? Join Sibel Edmonds, Peter B. Collins, Broc West and James Corbett for this heated discussion on strategy, tactics and ideals.

(ANTIMEDIA) San Diego, CA — With California finally mattering in an election season, it might be the final state primary before the Democratic race for president is set in stone. Regardless, recent developments have made one thing astoundingly clear: Donald Trump will almost surely defeat Hillary Clinton in a head to head matchup — and that's why a vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for Donald Trump.

It may seem crazy to many, but Donald Trump is now leading — for the first time — in an average of national polls pitting the presumptive Republican nominee against Hillary Clinton. These results come at a time when Trump hasn't even started aggressively attacking her yet; after all, he just finished fending off over a dozen Republican primary yeah girl challengers — a feat thought all but impossible by political experts the world over.

Trump is rising and Hillary is sinking, but this is not a new phenomenon for Clinton — she's been sinking ever since she joined the race for the presidency. Operating almost exclusively on name recognition and gender identity alone, Clinton has seen her enormous lead in the polls over Bernie Sanders evaporate in the last several months, with some national polls even placing his popularity ahead of hers.

This should not be all that surprising in hindsight, with an unknown democratic socialist meteorically rising to catch one of the most well-known names in modern American politics. America is fed up with status-quo politics — and Clinton embodies this bad taste, which is now in a majority of Americans' mouths. But Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump don't. The all-but-guaranteed Clinton presidency now faces a fight from Bernie Sanders all the way to the Democratic convention.

Clinton, like Trump, faces a major favorability problem. Well over half of Americans view her unfavorably, and her honesty and likeability ratings are close to record lows. She's got an ongoing FBI problem (read: email scandal). Trump is running to the left of her on foreign policy, trade, and economy — and to the right of her on immigration. These are all issues that are resonating well for Trump and lackluster for Clinton, who has taken flack for everything from her cozy ties to Wall Street and support of NAFTA to the 1994 crime bill she helped Bill Clinton pass when he was in office.

Trump has only been the presumptive nominee for a few weeks, but he's already overtaken Hillary in the national polls. Considering her utter lack of momentum and enthusiasm, it doesn't take a political scientist to understand this equation looks like a sure defeat for Hillary Clinton.

There has never been another movie like it. The accurate portrayal of the threats to America are so stunningly detailed and accurate that even the most aware of current events will be shocked as to the totality of the revelations.


The backdrop of the movie is situated among an increasingly angry citizenry at home, while America is being turned into a corporation, a corporation primed for a hostile takeover.

The antagonist in the movie is the United Nations, from which the movie makes clear is in charge of the take down and final take over the both the United States government and the American people.

With no other primary candidates to oppose him and the Republican Party rapidly falling into line, Donald Trump is soaring in national polls, while Hillary Clinton's double-digit lead has evaporated in the space of a month. On Sunday, the presumptive G.O.P. nominee passed Clinton for the first time in a weekly average of head-to-head polls, edging the former secretary of state by 0.2 points—a virtual dead heat that is the result of an undeniable and dramatic shift in recent days. Of the last five polls released since Wednesday, three show Trump in the lead: Fox News has the billionaire winning by 45-42; Rasmussen shows him up 42-37; and the latest ABC News/Washington Post survey leans toward Trump by a 46-44 margin.

A "Trump Bump" among Republicans is not surprising. Despite pockets of resistance among many conservative intellectuals, ashen-faced party leaders are predictably swallowing their pride and embracing the front-runner—even if, like Lindsey Graham, they are too embarrassed to endorse Trump in public. House Speaker Paul Ryan may still be sputtering, but the rank-and-file are already looking ahead to the general election.

Clinton, meanwhile, is growing more unpopular by the minute as she faces an unexpected eleventh-hour rally by Sanders. Last month, in the wake of a Super Tuesday shellacking, the Vermont senator indicated he would be dialing back his attacks on the Democratic front-runner to run an "issue-oriented" campaign. But the cease-fire came to an abrupt end last weekend, when Sanders's supporters revolted at the Nevada state convention, reportedly throwing chairs and hurling insults at Democratic officials they accused of tilting the scales for Hillary. Sanders barely apologized, inveighing against the D.N.C. and terrifying party leaders with his newly belligerent tone. Despite the fact that it is practically impossible for the Vermont senator to catch up Clinton, Democrats are now grappling with the prospect of an ugly, drawn-out fight that could roil their own convention in July.

Fighting a two front war, with Sanders to her left and Trump to her right, Clinton's unfavorables have risen steadily, reaching a new high in the last week. According to Gallup polling, Clinton is now as disliked by Democrats (29 percent unfavorable) and Trump is unpopular with Republicans (30 percent unfavorable). "If you look at the favorability ratings of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, both of them have very, very high unfavorables," Sanders said in an interview Sunday, characterizing the choice as Americans being forced to pick between the lesser of two evils. "If you look at virtually all of the polls done in the last six, seven weeks, in every one of them, nationally polls and statewide polls, we defeat Trump by larger margins—in some cases, significantly larger margins—than does Secretary Clinton," he continued.

Last year, the United States spent more than $596 billion on the military, a total greater than the next six countries in the world combined. But the Republican-controlled Congress is looking to increase that number for next year.

On Wednesday, the House passed its version of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), allowing for $602 billion to be spent on the country's defense in 2017, but the way the money is budgeted could mean that total military spending could actually end up being far higher.

Under the bill, $18 billion would be moved from the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO), which is currently used primarily to fund operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria, to the general budget to be used for additional troops and equipment. As Politico reported, this would likely leave enough money for such operations only through April, forcing the next president to request additional funding. Thus, the House bill would effectively increase the total military expenditure for next year.

Certainly there's fertile ground for those seeking parallels between the main protagonists of this quintessential political soap opera, and our more flesh and blood "heroes." Like their imaginary foils, the Clintons' moral compass is functionally impaired, so much so one suspects the HoC scriptwriters modeled their lead characters on the Democratic Party's resident "royal couple."

To be sure, a critical assessment of Hillary Clinton's fitness for the Oval Office can't be undertaken absent some reference to the respective roles she and her husband have played in each other's professional lives. Many folks will recall their indelible slogan from Bill Clinton's successful tilt at the top job in 1992, where the campaign pitch to voters was, "Two for the price of one."

Again, one not unlike the mantra the Underwoods might concoct for voters. One wonders why the Clintons have not retooled that hoary old refrain for 2016, and here I'm thinking, "Buy one, get one free" might fit the bill.

....:the economy is rigged and designed to shaft the average American, and buying into the system is only making it worse.

There is a great realignment going on, say what they will.

Mad About Rigged Elections? Mainstream Media Says "You" Are The Problem

by Claire Bernish

Mainstream headlines constantly decry Bernie Sanders supporters for disrupting events in outrage, as if their protests and demonstrations somehow illustrate the devolution of the elections. But that focus by the corporate media utterly negates the consistent and continual reports of fraud and disenfranchisement fueling their ire.

And it's getting ridiculous.

Newsweek, though far from alone, offered a prime example of the obfuscation of the election fraud and questionable campaign tactics by Hillary Clinton in its skewering of Sanders' supporters.

"Get Control, Senator Sanders, or Get Out," Newsweek's Kurt Eichenwald titled his op-ed — which thoroughly blasts the Vermont senator — as if he were somehow responsible for both the electoral chaos and the actions of an irate voting public.

"So, Senator Sanders," Eichenwald writes [with emphasis added], "either get control of what is becoming your increasingly unhinged cult, or get out of the race. Whatever respect sane liberals had for you is rapidly dwindling, and the damage being inflicted on your reputation may be unfixable. If you can't even manage the vicious thugs who act in your name, you can't be trusted to run a convenience store, much less the country."

Really?

A recent investigative series has shown that not only are there states with highly hackable voting machines, but Hillary Clinton tends to do better in counties with said machines. Sure, it may seem like a coincidence, but Lee explains that not only is Hillary outperforming Bernie in these counties, but she's even crushing her own projections! Dubious indeed. This and more on Redacted Tonight.