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  By Robert Reich RobertReich.org (9/30/17) Oh sure, he has the title and he has the bully pulpit – from which he’s bullying everyone from NBA players to people protesting white supremacists to DACA kids. But he’s not actively governing the United States. That work is happening elsewhere – in Congress, the courts, the Fed, the career civil service, lobbyists, and in the states. Or it’s not happening at all. It’s not just that Trump lost the epic battle to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act. Trump never understood the Affordable Care Act to begin with, and played no…

“In my view, every person on this planet shares a common humanity. We all want our children to grow up healthy, to have a good education, have decent jobs, drink clean water and breathe clean air, and to live in peace. That’s what being human is about.” By Bernie Sanders Reader Supported News Service (9/22/17) Bernie Sanders’ address at Westminster College in Missouri was a historic renunciation of U.S. foreign policy and military might on which it is based since World War II. It was nothing less than a gauntlet thrown down. From Vietnam to Iraq, Sanders lays bare the…

  By John Feffer Nation of Change (9/28/17) Germany got its very own electoral shock this week when the far right won 13 percent of the vote in country’s parliamentary elections. For the first time in more than half a century, the far right will be represented in the German parliament, with more than 90 seats. Although it’s now Germany’s third most popular party – behind the Christian Democrats (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SDP) – the Alternative for Germany (AfD) is still too toxic to become part of a ruling coalition. But the AfD will have influence well beyond…

Kathleen Vinehout: College Professor, Dairy Farmer, State Senator. Running for Governor to put People First. Kathleen Vinehout (9/25/17) Just a few minutes ago in Black River Falls I announced my candidacy for Governor. It was an honor to be joined by so many supporters for this celebration.   If you haven’t seen our announcement video, click here to view it on our new website and share with your friends and neighbors.   I am running for Governor to turn the state’s priorities upside down.   I am running for Governor to put people first. At the center of state policy….

  Obama did not sell out – he simply is going along with the colonial model of capital oppression by means of authoritarianism and  imposed currency. [Collecting His Pay! After Failing To Prosecute Bankers, Obama Cashes In With Wall $400k Street Speeches 9/21/17] The “establishment” of private property during the colonial time period that continues to this day is not understood well by present day ‘capitalists’. They neither understand or consider that destruction of community self-reliance, self-sufficiency was the aim of and the use of imposed capital systems on otherwise communal people. http://cas2.umkc.edu/econ/economics/faculty/Forstater/papers/Forstater2005/RiPE%20Forstater.pdf To not acknowledge the role of capital as a…

  By David Ferguson The Raw Story (9/24/17) CNN media critic and “Reliable Sources” host Brian Stelter said on Sunday that President Donald Trump’s controversial remarks from an Alabama rally on Sunday have only served to galvanize the world of professional sports against him. “I was talking to an NFL source this afternoon,” said Stelter, “who said, ‘If President Trump thought he could divide the NFL, he was wrong.” Sunday has seen players and team owners linking arms in support and solidarity to protest U.S. police brutality. “It’s the opposite of what Trump was talking about on Friday night,” Stelter said. Watch the video,…

Before we found ourselves under the tyranny of Scott Walker and his GOP Hoods one party rule over this state, sportsmen and women used to have a say in our hunting, fishing and other recreational regulations. Not anymore, Walker and the Hoods know better than you what’s good for your sport. And they don’t think you should have any say in how your sport is regulated: Due to provisions inserted into the 2017-’19 state budget, hunters in Wisconsin are no longer required to place a carcass tag on deer or turkeys they kill. In addition, waterfowl hunters no longer need…

  By Julia Angwin ProPublica (9/22/17) On Thursday, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced several steps to make political ads on the world’s largest social network more transparent. The changes follow Facebook’s acknowledgment earlier this month that $100,000 worth of political ads were placed during the 2016 election cycle by “inauthentic accounts” linked to Russia. The changes also follow ProPublica’s launch of a crowdsourcing effort earlier this month to collect political advertising from Facebook. Our goal was to ensure that political ads on Facebook, which until now have largely avoided scrutiny, receive the same level of fact-checking by journalists, advocacy groups and political opponents as…

Coop Members, Your Right To “One Member – One Vote” is at RISK! Ask Sen. Kathleen Vinehout ‘WHY?’ Call Sen. Vinehout and ask her why she is still a cosponsor of Assembly Bill 353, A cooperative-destroying piece of legislation, that removes the historic coop principle of “one member-one vote” and replaces it with one where the number of votes a member gets is based on how much product the member buys. CALL Vinehout   (608) 287-9883   ASK her WHY   From Assembly Bill 353: “This bill allows a cooperative holding company and its cooperative subsidiaries to base members’ voting…

  By Simon Haeder The Conversationn (9/19/17) At the end of July, the nation held its collective breath as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) looked poised to achieve his most formidable parliamentary accomplishment: the repeal and replacement of the Affordable Care Act. But Republican hopes were dashed by one of their own, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who cast the deciding vote that appeared to decisively derail the multi-year effort. McCain called to return to “regular order,” to work through committees, to bring in and listen to experts, to be open and transparent, and perhaps most importantly, to at least listen to both parties….

    By Jake Johnson Common Dreams (9/20/17) Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Tom Price once remarked that “tough choices” must be made to reduce “waste” in government spending. Apparently, in Price’s mind, frequent and lavish private flights don’t qualify as wasteful spending, but programs that provide life-saving healthcare to millions of Americans do. According to a Politico report Tuesday, Price “last week took private jets on five separate flights for official business, at a cost of tens of thousands of dollars more than commercial travel.” Based on sample flight rates, the cost for Price to fly commercial would have been somewhere between…