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I know I’m being paranoid; I think I’m being selfish; I’m probably being delusional.
Donald Trump, with his casual denial of climate change is putting the whole earth’s population in danger of extinction in less than a century.
Hillary Clinton, with her love of conflict and war is putting a significant portion of earth’s population in danger of extinction from the results of nuclear war in the immediate future.
“REQUIEM FOR THE AMERICAN DREAM is the definitive discourse with Noam Chomsky, widely regarded as the most importantintellectual alive, on the defining characteristic of our time – the deliberate concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a select few.
Through interviews filmed over four years, Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented inequality – tracing a half-century of policies designed to favor the most wealthy at the
expense of the majority – while also looking back on his own life of activism and political participation.
New evidence has emerged of crooked Hillary’s untrustworthiness.
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But for media management, election 2016 would be a playing out in public of indecision within the ruling rich 1/10th of 1%, whether to switch to less profitable investing to build up USA, or continue wildly enriching themselves in wars & investing in higher profit rendering low wage 3rd world nations, at the same time helping these nations, led by China, to overtake the US & Europe in economic and political power sooner.
This election is like opening a box of Cracker Jacks.
God only knows what Trump might do.
I take that back, God doesn’t know, and neither does Trump.
In the contradictory and bizarre word salads Trump serves up he is liable to say just about anything. In his speeches and tweets, he often starts with “a lot of people say,” followed by looney tunes claims and ending with, “you can look it up on the Internet.
However, I don’t believe he’d lead us to war.
I have favorite candidates for every office on the ballot, but the two for whom I feel greatest enthusiasm are David Schoales for Windham County Senator, and Mollie Burke, Brattleboro District 2 Representative.
For years while the Clark-Canal Summer Program was going, as a volunteer, Mollie Burke taught art to neighborhood children. Hardly anyone knew about this: She did it solely because she is a good neighbor with love in her heart. Mollie talks with neighborhood people all the time, not just when electioneering. She is approachable, intelligent, responsive. We are fortunate to have an effective representative in the State House, and it is going to a pleasure to vote for her.
With less than four days to go until Election Day, now seems like a good time to get our predictions in as to who the winner will be. Which of the two dubious candidates placed before us for our consideration will be the next president?
Will it be the evil Donald Trump, hated by the media and good people everywhere? Or will it be the beleaguered anti-Trump Hillary Clinton? I know who I think it will be and will post my prediction below.
Who do you think will win the American presidency — and why do you think that?
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U.S. Marijuana Party candidate, Cris Ericson, running for United States Senator, speaks for ten minutes on SAPA TV, Channel 10 in Springfield, Vermont on the subject of a fair marijuana roadside test and race track.
http://www.sapatv.org/sapa-tv-channel-10/
Thursday, November 3, 2016 11:06 PM Cris Ericson – Roadside Marijuana Testing
Friday, November 4, 2016 7:45 AM Cris Ericson – Roadside Marijuana Testing
Saturday, November 5, 2016 3:15 PM Cris Ericson – Roadside Marijuana Testing
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Wikileaks’ released emails prove Hillary knew US close allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar were funding/equipping ISIS while Americans were also being murdered by ISIS, show her pretending Saudis and others were not from the beginning part of US conspiracy to create a fanatical Islamic state in order to destroy Syria and the Shiite government in Iraq. Why this is NOT AN ELECTION ISSUE
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The story points out a couple of times that it is not known what is in those emails. Nor how many there are. .
Should we assume that Abedin was sharing a computer with Weiner? Given that Abedin was the closest advisor to the Secretary of State would she share a computer even with her husband? If they had their own computers is it possible that Weiner knew his wife’s password and stole the emails? Could he be the kind of guy that wanted something that he could use to blackmail for protection?
Windham Co. State Senate Candidates Forum
October 28, 2016
Pre Election Event with Bernie Sanders today, Saturday, 10/29
Doors open at 2:00.
Brattleboro Union High School, Fairground Rd.
Come meet local and statewide candidates including Sue Minter, David Zuckerman, Becca Balint, TJ Donovan, John Moran, Mike Mrowicki, David Deen and Mollie Burke and others.
Act 46 and the Quality of Education and Community
As far as I can see Act 46 is not going to have any measurable impact on the quality of education we provide to our children or, by extension, their lives thereafter.
The driving force behind Act 46 is to hold down school taxes by reducing the per pupil cost of education. This does not mean we will see lower education tax rates. An expectation of a lower tax rate will only prove disappointing and frustrating. We will, however, be persuaded to agree that fewer buildings, higher teacher/pupil ratios and lower administrative costs must add up to more efficient operations. In the end we will sigh and shrug and accept that the Act ought to be beneficial because the cost after consolidation should logically be less than it would have been without consolidation. If precedent holds there will never be any demonstrated evidence that our assumptions are correct.
The Reformer headlined a story this past Monday about a report done by BDCC, the Brattleboro Development Credit Corporation on the closing of Yankee. BDCC has for decades been the first and last word on the local economy and local economic development. The gist of the report was a review of the major problems associated with the closing of a nuke plant. I also read part of the report itself. Maybe I should have read it all. However everything I read focused on what all the major parties involved in the closing and post closing affairs were doing since about 2010, two years before the plant was scheduled to close.
To: Eric Hoppel, WNYT News Director
Answers to questions by candidate Cris Ericsson for U.S. Senator for Vermont
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WNYT QUES. #2
2) What specific steps should be taken to fight ISIS?
Hi! I’m candidate Cris Ericson for United States Senator for Vermont.
First of all, this question presumes that a candidate would agree that steps should be taken to fight ISIS. WNYT presents no facts in evidence to support the basis for this presumption. Just who do you think ISIS is? This is not a football game, where someone declares the team colors and says, “go, fight, win team, go, fight, win!”.
Every now and again, I like to take a step back and see where we are. So here, three weeks from the presidential elections, are some of the news stories that define our present situation. Is it a good situation? I’ll leave that for you to judge.
First, the elections: Trump made a run at it but as I wrote on a piece of paper on June 10 of this year and still see daily on my dresser, “It’s going to be Hillary.” In short, it’s all over but the shouting, but boy are they shouting, daily from the headlines. We happened to catch the 5 o’clock hour on the car radio yesterday afternoon and every newscast led off with a Trump story, strongly anti-Trump at that (not that he doesn’t give people plenty of ammo).
Oct. 13th and I go outside and find one of my campaign signs has been stolen.
Yesterday, I painted a new one; but I do miss the confiscated one, it was entirely a different design.
The new sign says, “1776 – 1936 Marijuana was Legal.”
Vermonters! Watch the U.S. Senate candidates live, sit in the audience Tuesday October 18th @ 5:25
Election Forum at Channel 17 Town Meeting TV in Burlington’s Old North End, Tuesday October 18th @ 5:25
I noticed in the Commons. He makes interesting points about a town appointment that may not be very transparent, which of course raises questions.
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Sec. Hillary oversaw regime change wars in Somalia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, S. Sudan, Syria, Yemen; should be asked to explain new Toyota trucks/heavy weapons coming to ISIS/other terrorists, who have been mass murdering US designated enemies in Assad’s Syria and Shiite wherever they are; why superpower US ‘fighting’ for 5 years can’t defeat ragtag force of 25,000; involved false flags attacks on US to prove innocence?
