LOUISIANA: Don't gloat about VOTER FRAUD!
BERNIE SANDERS NOT LISTED ON LOUISIANA BALLOT!
Before you condemn voters for voting against their 'best interests,' please consider the HACK THE VOTE experiences of the past, the voter suppression and outright VOTING FRAUD.
Chris Hood remembers the day in July 2002 that he began to question what was really going on in Georgia. An African-American whose parents fought for voting rights in the South during the 1960s, Hood was proud to be working as a consultant for Diebold Election Systems, helping the company promote its new electronic voting machines. During the presidential election two years earlier, more than 94,000 paper ballots had gone uncounted in Georgia - almost double the national average - and Secretary of State Cathy Cox was under pressure to make sure every vote was recorded properly.
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It is impossible to know whether the machines were rigged to alter the election in Georgia: Diebold's machines provided no paper trail, making a recount impossible. But the tally in Georgia that November surprised even the most seasoned political observers. Six days before the vote, polls showed Sen. Max Cleland, a decorated war veteran and Democratic incumbent, leading his Republican opponent Saxby Chambliss - darling of the Christian Coalition - by five percentage points. In the governor's race, Democrat Roy Barnes was running a decisive eleven points ahead of Republican Sonny Perdue. But on Election Day, Chambliss won with fifty-three percent of the vote, and Perdue won with fifty-one percent.
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Three of the four companies have close ties to the Republican Party. ES&S, in an earlier corporate incarnation, was chaired by Chuck Hagel, who in 1996 became the first Republican elected to the U.S. Senate from Nebraska in twenty-four years - winning a close race in which eighty-five percent of the votes were tallied by his former company. Hart InterCivic ranks among its investors GOP loyalist Tom Hicks, who bought the Texas Rangers from George W. Bush in 1998, making Bush a millionaire fifteen times over. And according to campaign-finance records, Diebold, along with its employees and their families, has contributed at least $300,000 to GOP candidates and party funds since 1998 - including more than $200,000 to the Republican National Committee. In a 2003 fund-raising e-mail, the company's then-CEO Walden O'Dell promised to deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush in 2004.
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The primary author and steward of HAVA was Rep. Bob Ney, the GOP chairman of the powerful U.S. House Administration Committee. Ney had close ties to the now-disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, whose firm received at least $275,000 from Diebold to lobby for its touch-screen machines.
Georgia Pits and Republican Election Fraud Clarified
Koch intimidates employees
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Cornel West: Most Black Politicians These Days Are Neoliberal Politicians
Sarah Mimms, VICE
Mimms writes: "Dr. Cornel West, one of the preeminent public intellectuals on issues of a race and inequality and an avid Sanders supporter, had harsh words for civil rights leaders supporting Clinton's campaign."
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Sarah Mimms, VICE
Mimms writes: "Dr. Cornel West, one of the preeminent public intellectuals on issues of a race and inequality and an avid Sanders supporter, had harsh words for civil rights leaders supporting Clinton's campaign."
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illary Clinton won the South Carolina primary on Saturday night by almost 50 percent of the vote, thanks in large part to her support from the African-American community, which made up a historic portion of the Democratic vote last night. A stunning 86 percent of black voters supported Clinton over Sanders in the first contest between the two candidates in a state with a large black population.
Both candidates have been courting black voters with a series of high-profile endorsements and events in the run-up to not only this race, but looking ahead to the Super Tuesday contests next week. Six southern states, all of which carry large numbers of black Democratic voters, will cast their ballots. But as the campaigns raise questions about each other's commitment to the black community, some of their surrogates are beginning to turn on each other as well.
Dr. Cornel West, one of the preeminent public intellectuals on issues of a race and inequality and an avid Sanders supporter, had harsh words for civil rights leaders supporting Clinton's campaign during an interview with VICE News as he toured South Carolina on Sanders' behalf last week.
West spoke at length of "Brother Bernie's" activism during the civil rights era, while questioning Clinton's commitment to the cause. When asked why some civil rights leaders were backing Clinton's campaign, including Rep. John Lewis, who marched in Selma in 1965, West replied that Lewis and others had lost their way.
"There's no doubt that the great John Lewis of 50 years ago is different than the John Lewis today," West remarked. "He's my brother. I love him, I respect his personhood, but there's no doubt he's gone from a high moment of Martin Luther King-like struggle to now [a] neoliberal politician in a system that is characterized more and more by legalized bribery and normalized corruption. That's what big money does to politics. And the Clinton machine is an example of that."
Lewis' home state of Georgia will vote on Super Tuesday and has 116 delegates at stake, making it one of the most consequential states that will vote next week. In 2008, African-Americans made up more than half of Georgia's Democratic electorate.
West repeatedly referred to both Lewis and Rep. Jim Clyburn, who was also involved in the civil rights movement and now represents South Carolina in the House of Representatives, as "neoliberal politicians." The classification, he explained, refers to "a politics that proceeds based on financializing, privatizing, and militarizing."
West said that Clyburn and Lewis had become "too well adjusted to Wall Street." They are now a part of a system, he said, "in which politicians are well adjusted to injustice owing to their ties to big money, big banks, and big corporations, and turning their backs, for the most part, to poor people and working people. Poor people and working people become afterthoughts."
'Most black politicians these days are neoliberal politicians, so it's almost natural for them to side with Hillary Clinton.'
More broadly, West asserted that black politicians supporting Clinton lack the kind of "courage" it takes to support Sanders and to "pursue truth" and justice.
"Most black politicians these days are neoliberal politicians, so it's almost natural for them to side with Hillary Clinton," he said. "But with the neoliberal era coming to a close, four months from now [when the party picks its nominee], you watch how the shift sets in."
Neither Clyburn's office nor Lewis' responded to requests for comment for this story.
West's comments come just eight months after he praised Lewis at a Unitarian Universalists event honoring the congressman, who received a human rights award. At the time, West called Lewis a "moral titan" and suggested that the same young people he now says are more courageous than Lewis could learn something from the congressman.
"When we see you, we see integrity, we see courage and we see someone who is willing to be honest.… Nobody's all the way right, but even when you're wrong, you point it out with that love," West said at the gathering. "What we need is precisely the raw stuff that went into you. How do you translate that to the younger generation?"
The VICE News interview with West this week took place during a trip to South Carolina to examine the role of the black vote in the state as well as the Clinton legacy with black voters in general. Those voters will play a huge role on Super Tuesday, as both candidates compete for approximately one-quarter of the total delegates up for grabs this year.
Clinton Crushes in Louisiana, Sanders Wins in Kansas, Nebraska
Daniel Politi, Slate
Politi writes: "Bernie Sanders ended strong on Saturday, winning the two caucuses of the night in Kansas and Nebraska."
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Daniel Politi, Slate
Politi writes: "Bernie Sanders ended strong on Saturday, winning the two caucuses of the night in Kansas and Nebraska."
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Sparks Fly Over Apple v. FBI Dispute at Major Cybersecurity Gathering
Sara Sorcher, The Christian Science Monitor
Sorcher writes: "It was all anyone seemed to want to talk about. Whether inside the vast exhibit halls or at the after parties at this year's RSA Conference, just about everyone had something to say about the legal dispute between Apple and the FBI."
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Sara Sorcher, The Christian Science Monitor
Sorcher writes: "It was all anyone seemed to want to talk about. Whether inside the vast exhibit halls or at the after parties at this year's RSA Conference, just about everyone had something to say about the legal dispute between Apple and the FBI."
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CPAC2016: Fear of a Muslim Planet Dominates a Mainstream Republican Conference
Zaid Jilani, Intercept
Jilani writes: "'You've got to start shutting down the mosques that are ... practicing sedition,' warned British politician Paul Weston during a session at this week's Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. 'You've got to stop them speaking in Urdu. You've got to put spies in there to see what they're saying.'"
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Zaid Jilani, Intercept
Jilani writes: "'You've got to start shutting down the mosques that are ... practicing sedition,' warned British politician Paul Weston during a session at this week's Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C. 'You've got to stop them speaking in Urdu. You've got to put spies in there to see what they're saying.'"
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Citing New Evidence, Convicted Afghan 'Kill Team' Mastermind Seeks New Trial
Rob Hotakainen, McClatchy DC
"U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs, convicted of masterminding the murders of three Afghan civilians in 2010, asked a military appeals court in Virginia on Friday to consider new evidence in his case that could lead to a new trial."
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Rob Hotakainen, McClatchy DC
"U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Calvin Gibbs, convicted of masterminding the murders of three Afghan civilians in 2010, asked a military appeals court in Virginia on Friday to consider new evidence in his case that could lead to a new trial."
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Children Are Dying From Pneumonia, but Greed Is the Real Killer
Charles Davis, teleSUR
Excerpt: "More than 920,000 children died of pneumonia in 2015, according to the World Health Organization."
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Charles Davis, teleSUR
Excerpt: "More than 920,000 children died of pneumonia in 2015, according to the World Health Organization."
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The Fight to Hear Debate Questions on Climate Change in a State Struggling With Sea Level Rise
Ryan Koronowski, ThinkProgress
Koronowski writes: "Both the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates will be headed to Miami next week in advance of their next primary debates. Local Floridians, already on the front lines of climate change as rising seas spill into their neighborhoods, want them to talk about climate change."
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Ryan Koronowski, ThinkProgress
Koronowski writes: "Both the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates will be headed to Miami next week in advance of their next primary debates. Local Floridians, already on the front lines of climate change as rising seas spill into their neighborhoods, want them to talk about climate change."
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