Wisconsin Governor,
Scott Walker is potentially in a lot of trouble upon the release - - making
public - - of 27,000 E mails, which sounds like an awful lot and four hundred
documents. These reveal a whole secret
routing system in City Hall or whatever where Walker was a county clerk in 2010
where he sheiled himself from campaign corruption practices, or running the
campaign right out of City hall.
Apparently a lot of these E mails had “homophobic slurs” and anti women
and anti Black E mails, plus a whole lot of strong-arming and pressure to do
things which are illegal. But the
strange thing is the State legislature will never bring impeachment charges
against Gov Walker because it’s all Republicans in gerrymandered districts. And now the District Attorney or AG or
whoever- - is undecided whether to file charges against Walker and the
concencus is that if Walker escapes charges he will be even MORE popular with
the Republican establishment because he either escaped charges or “outsmarted”
the other side. People want to know if
Gretta Van Sustrin of FOX news will now have Governor Walker on their show and
ask adversarial questions. Or will FOX
news just not cover this story at all.
It would seem that the Wisconsin legislature has no moral problem with
allowing illegal acts as long as he is a republican What I’d like to know is whether Walker even
in 2010 had secret plans to do what he did against labor unions, pension funds
and teacher’s unions. Will Walker be
the happy alternative to Governor Christie- - or is he now excluded as a
candidate, too?
A Nebraska judge
blocked construction of the Trans-Canada pipeline due to a ruling of hers on
eminent domain that sided with three big Nebraska land owners who brought their
case to court. And they won. Now the pipeline will be delayed at least two
years as the appeals go through, and President Obama will be spared even having
to weigh in on this issue while he is in office. It would seem as if even Ed Schultz is
starting to waver on this issue- - now thinking that being for the pipeline
might not be such a hot idea. All of the
callers to almost any radio show are universally against the pipeline. It doesn’t matter if you have a half a dozen
good reasons why you’re against it- - all Ed can say is “Most of those half
dozen I heard yesterday- - so by virtue of that- - those half dozen reasons are
no longer valid”. Many people like to
use the “old news” argument. If
something isn’t “fresh” within hours, like produce, it’s considered “old”.
I was listening to Mike
Papentonio and Thom Hartman on Media Player.
It would seem that it’s still hard to get certain Judicial posts
confirmed, and despite using the “nuclear option” these unfilled judicial posts
remain. It seems many appointments are
ready to roll. They have already been
cleared in committee with landslide votes in their favor. So what’s the hold up? Papentonio says that most of the Judges that
Obama appoints are corporate types that side with Big Money and Wall Street,
though they might be more liberal on social issues. What we need in the White House is a democrat
who is not afraid to stand up for Democratic party values, and not a “George
Bush light”, if that. I guess there is
good news that President Obama has announced he’s not going to cut Social
Security - - any further.
I am still freaked out
by this whole “Polar vortex” thing, however it’s caused. I had trouble following Thom Hartman’s
explanation of what’s causing it, except now he is saying that the Gulf Stream
is moving too fast- - and warmer rising air pushes the normal polar air down
into the United States. It’s something
to do with some methane gas compound. I
am still a little freaked out by the lopsided Super Bowl and how such a good,
seasoned team such as Denver, who has been to the superbowl many times before,
could fall completely flat on their face.
Of course you all know the magic “rapture of the faithful” numbers of 10
– 12 – 14. Even if I did have to look
over my own writings for cryptic clues to find it. It’s not your garden variety two day old new
moon astronomical formation. Perhaps you
noticed that. It could well be that this
election of 2014 IS the ultimate make or break election that determines the future
of America.
. Maria Alekhina, another member of the group,
tweeted photographs of blood dripping down the face of a supporter after the
whipping. Other photos showed red marks across Tolokonnikova's chest. Konstantin Perenizhko, a deputy to the
regional Cossack military leader, described the performance as a “some sort of
a cheap provocation,” Reuters reports.
On Thursday, band members said they were returning to Moscow to attend
the verdicts in a trial of 20 people arrested after clashes on the eve of
Putin's inauguration to a third term in 2012.
The performance-art collective, made up of a loose grouping of
feminists, has called for a boycott of the Sochi Olympics, arguing that Putin
has exceeded his authority and is restricting human rights. Pussy Riot's
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina spent nearly two years in prison on
charges of hooliganism for their protest in Moscow's main cathedral in
2012. Pussy Riot's new video, called
"Putin will teach you how to love the motherland", was posted on
YouTube and features a song and footage of the band's protests. The band described some of its Sochi
experience in the song: "Sochi
locked down/the Olympus under surveillance/Of guns and crowds of
cops." Members told a news conference
their treatment in Sochi is symptomatic of dissent being stifled in
Russia. "The Olympics has turned
the police state into a total police state and the authoritarian regime into a
totalitarian regime with preventive arrests," Tolokonnikova said. "The
Olympics has created an environment of sweeping violations of human rights in
Russia. We are banned from speaking out here."Ukraine suffered its bloodiest day since Soviet times on Thursday with a gun battle in central Kiev as President Viktor Yanukovich faced conflicting pressures from visiting European Union ministers and his Russian paymasters. Three hours of fierce fighting in Independence Square, which was recaptured by anti-government protesters, left the bodies of over 20 civilians strewn on the ground, a few hundred meters from where the president met the EU delegation. Riot police were captured on video shooting from a rooftop at demonstrators in the plaza, known as the Maidan or "Euro-Maidan". Protesters hurled petrol bombs and paving stones to drive the security forces off a corner of the square the police had captured in battles that began on two days earlier. Kiev's city health department said 67 people had been killed since Tuesday, which meant at least 39 died in Thursday's clashes. That was by far the worst violence since Ukraine emerged from the crumbling Soviet Union 22 years ago. The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Poland met for a marathon four hours with Yanukovich and extended their stay to put a roadmap for a political solution to opposition leaders. Diplomatic sources familiar with the discussions said it involved a temporary government until fresh elections. "About to start a meeting with the opposition so as to test proposed agreement," tweeted Polish minister Radoslaw Sikorski. Meanwhile their EU colleagues agreed at an emergency meeting in Brussels to move ahead with visa bans and asset freezes on those deemed responsible for the violence, Italian Foreign Minister Emma Bonino said. In a sign of dwindling support for Yanukovich, his hand-picked head of Kiev's city administration quit the ruling party in protest at bloodshed in the streets.
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