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Bernie Sanders’ campaign team has slammed reports of voting irregularities at the New York state primary as “absurd” after more than 125,000 Democrats were unable to cast their ballots due to a mixture of broken voting machines, missing ballots and purged voter rolls.
The figure of 125,000 accounted for voters registered in Brooklyn, the district where Sanders was born. Continue reading “Sanders’ campaign condemns NY voter irregularities that leave 125,000 Democrats disenfranchised”
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Shortly after Woodrow Wilson took office there began in Colorado one of the most bitter and violent struggles between workers and corporate capital in the history of the country.
This was the Colorado coal strike that began in September 1913 and culminated in the “Ludlow Massacre” of April 1914. Eleven thousand miners in southern Colorado … worked for the Colorado Fuel & Iron Corporation, which was owned by the Rockefeller family. Aroused by the murder of one of their organizers, they went on strike against low pay, dangerous conditions, and feudal domination of their lives in towns completely controlled by the mining companies. … Continue reading “Ludlow Massacre: April 20, 1914”
The Daily Sheeple – by Piper McGowin
Come on, guys. What are they doing here? Obviously something showed up over the horizon of the planet just before NASA decided to cut the International Space Station’s live feed. What is this?
Better yet, what lame explanations are they going to make up to explain away what this is (like they always do)? Continue reading “NASA Cuts Int’l Space Station Live Feed As Horseshoe UFO Appears Over Earth’s Horizon”
The Battles of Lexington and Concord, fought on April 19, 1775, kicked off the American Revolutionary War (1775-83). Tensions had been building for many years between residents of the 13 American colonies and the British authorities, particularly in Massachusetts. On the night of April 18, 1775, hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache. Paul Revere and other riders sounded the alarm, and colonial militiamen began mobilizing to intercept the Redcoat column. A confrontation on the Lexington town green started off the fighting, and soon the British were hastily retreating under intense fire. Many more battles followed, and in 1783 the colonists formally won their independence. Continue reading “April 19, 1775 Battles of Lexington and Concord”
Americans for Tax Reform – by John Kartch
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A $1,000 per gun tax should serve as a “role model” for states, according to the governor of the U.S. territory of the Northern Mariana Islands, which imposed the $1,000 gun tax earlier this month. An idea first endorsed by Hillary Clinton in 1993, steep gun taxes have now taken hold in Cook County, Ill. the city of Seattle, and now a U.S. territory. Continue reading “$1,000 Gun Tax Pushed as “Role Model” for States”
Southern-style justice captured on camera shows police in North Carolina raiding a family home and arresting four people after they allegedly smelled cannabis.
In a now-deleted Facebook post, Vera McGriff detailed how eight police officers “bum rushed” her home in Durham city on April 8, after she denied them entry for failing to produce a search warrant, which is a Constitutionally-protected right. Continue reading “Cannabis ‘smell test’ used by police to raid house & assault ‘suspects’”
As “whiteness history month” progresses at Portland Community College, the question that has been posed over and over is “how do we dismantle whiteness?”
Well, during one of the sessions on Tuesday, April 12th, the speaker accidentally let it slip that getting rid of white people is the answer. Continue reading ““Whiteness” Speaker Reveals True Goal: Eliminating White People”
The US and UK media have descended into pure parody with their reporting of the recent Russian jet “buzzing” of USS Donald Cook, American Navy missile destroyer that “strayed” into Russian waters in the Baltic Sea.
The USS Donald Cook was 43 miles from Russian Naval base in Kaliningrad when the Russian jets “buzzed” the US naval destroyer. A Russian display of aerial dexterity that has sent the US and UK into a tail spin. Continue reading “American Warship Sails “Dangerously Close” to Russia”