Not sure why they wanted Powell ...

... but I'm glad some of electoral college electors in this state didn't vote for Clinton.

Darth Vader, Dr. Doom, and Darkseid.

I always thought there was a connection between these three characters. Now I know what the connection is - Jack Kirby.

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/12/why-jack-kirby-is-probably-the-forgotten-father-of.html

Well look who's looking to get fired for whistleblower retaliation.

Why, George Ellard - The guy who called Edward Snowden a 'manic thief':

https://shadowproof.com/2016/12/15/nsa-inspector-general-said-snowden-manic-thief-may-fired-whistleblower-retaliation/

Jesselyn Radack, a whistleblower attorney who has represented multiple NSA whistleblowers, including Snowden and Thomas Drake, told Shadowproof, “Ellard’s proposed termination for whistleblower retaliation confirms what the whistleblowing community has long known: there were no safe and effective internal channels for NSA whistleblowers like Snowden to use. The case for pardoning Snowden is made stronger given Ellard’s now proven record of retaliation.”

Quote of the day - 12-15-2016.

Robert Parry -

... even though The New York Times and other big news outlets are reporting as flat fact that Russia hacked the Democratic email accounts and gave the information to WikiLeaks, former British Ambassador Craig Murray, a close associate of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, told the London Daily Mail that he personally received the email data from a “disgusted” Democrat.
Murray said he flew from London to Washington for a clandestine handoff from one of the email sources in September, receiving the package in a wooded area near American University.

“Neither of [the leaks, from the Democratic National Committee or Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta] came from the Russians,” Murray said, adding: “the source had legal access to the information. The documents came from inside leaks, not hacks.”
Murray said the insider felt “disgust at the corruption of the Clinton Foundation and the tilting of the primary election playing field against Bernie Sanders.” Murray added that his meeting was with an intermediary for the Democratic leaker, not the leaker directly.

If Murray’s story is true, it raises several alternative scenarios: that the U.S. intelligence community’s claims about a Russian hack are false; that Russians hacked the Democrats’ emails for their own intelligence gathering without giving the material to WikiLeaks; or that Murray was deceived about the identity of the original leaker.

Identity Politics RIP? ( .... - 2016).

https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/12/bernie-sanders-nailed-it-on-identity-politics-and.html

Look at the number of media outlets who can't be bothered to read the whole comment -

• TPM
• Vox
• Bustle
• Slate
• The Cut
• The Blaze
• The Observer
• The Guardian

What Sanders actually said -

“It goes without saying that as we fight to end all forms of discrimination, as we fight to bring more and more women into the political process, Latinos, African Americans, Native Americans — all of that is enormously important, and count me in as somebody who wants to see that happen. Right now, we’ve made some progress in getting women into politics — I think we got 20 women in the Senate now. We need 50 women in the Senate. We need more African Americans.

But it’s not good enough to say, “Hey, I’m a Latina, vote for me.” That is not good enough. I have to know whether that Latina is going to stand up with the working class of this country, and is going to take on big money interests. One of the struggles that we’re going to have right now, we lay on the table of the Democratic Party, is it’s not good enough to me to say, “Okay, well we’ve got X number of African Americans over here, we’ve got Y number of Latinos, we have Z number of women. We are a diverse party, a diverse nation....

But, but here is my point, and this is where there is going to be division within the Democratic Party. It is not good enough for someone to say, “I’m a woman! Vote for me!” No, that’s not good enough. What we need is a woman who has the guts to stand up to Wall Street, to the insurance companies, to the drug companies, to the fossil fuel industry. In other words, one of the struggles that you’re going to be seeing in the Democratic Party is whether we go beyond identity politics."

This guy was cheated of the nomination. Had he got it, he would've beaten Trump easily.

Latest corporation to screw people over.

Prudential Financial.

https://shadowproof.com/2016/12/12/wells-fargo-fake-accounts-scandal-spreads-life-insurance-business/

Prudential Financial announced it would suspend the distribution of a low-cost life insurance policy through Wells Fargo. The low-cost life insurance policy, called MyTerm, had been promoted by Wells Fargo since 2014 throughout its large number of retail banking outlets.

The suspension comes shortly after a wrongful termination lawsuit was filed by three former Prudential employees, which alleged that Wells Fargo employees signed up customers for MyTerm life insurance policies without the customer’s knowledge to hit sales goals. The plaintiffs, who worked at Prudential’s corporate investigations division, claim their reports of the fraud led to their termination because Prudential management did not want to take any action that could damage its business with Wells Fargo.

Here's the worse part -

In all, over 5,000 low-level employees have been terminated and are likely never going to work in banking again, while the CEO and the executive responsible for managing the program, Carrie Tolstedt, will walk away with millions upon millions of dollars.

Hillary Clinton=bourgeois feminism? Elite feminism, perhaps? How about white feminism?

Is it really even acceptable to use the term 'feminist' with Clinton at all?

https://shadowproof.com/2016/11/25/overcome-elite-white-feminism-after-election/

Another corrupt leader going down?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_of_Park_Geun-hye

What is this picture?

It's supposed to be Mount Rainier.

Can't see it - as if it disappeared.

Castro - a non-establishment view.

https://consortiumnews.com/2016/12/06/extracting-castro-from-the-demonization/

Quote of the day - 12-05-2016.

From Jefferson Parish Sheriff Newell Normand - 

"This isn’t about race,"

Oh yes it fucking is.

A cautious victory for the Sioux?

http://www.mynews13.com/content/news/cfnews13/news/article.html/content/news/articles/cfn/2016/12/4/army_engineers_rejec.html

Army engineers reject Dakota Access pipeline easement

Before Flint, East Chicago and Newark, there was Smeltertown.

https://www.nrdc.org/onearth/flint-east-chicago-there-was-smeltertown?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=story2&utm_campaign=email

Seminal research done on Smeltertown in the 1970s by the Centers for Disease Control found that 62 percent of children 10 and under living within one mile of the smelter had blood lead levels considered to be “evidence of undue lead absorption.” The residents of Smeltertown would be the first American community to face the grim prospect of lead exposure and its consequences—but they wouldn’t be the last. The communities of Flint, Michigan, the West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago, Indiana, and the schools in Newark, New Jersey, are just three of the most recent examples.

On days like this ..

... I try to remind myself of three things when getting screwed over by large corporations that make a shit-ton of money, but never seem to reward me -

1. Never hate the people - When you do, you see them as less than human. That contempt can really fuck up your judgment which can lead to a messed up future. When being screwed over, remember that's it's a large company, and even though it consists of people, it's all done in the name of that company.
2. Be professional - As personal as things can be, always treat it like business, which means be a professional always. It may hurt a lot on the inside, but you should not let it affect what you need to do, and how you do it.
3. Think about others - As bad as things may be in the sense that those around you or above may be basking in their rewards (just or otherwise), always remember that things can always be worse; and they usually are for others around you.

Gotta love fire-safety in Canadian malls