I believe that using the electoral college to overturn an election result we don’t like is such a bad precedent that I have unsubscribed from MoveOn.org because they are pursuing this line of action. The recent pronouncement of the Obama administration about Russian hacking is so dangerous that I would prefer to see Donald Trump be sworn into office than have Clinton/Obama be put into office in his stead. The lies about Syria that they have been duping us with is another reason why I think any establishment politician from either party would make a dangerous President at this time. I know it is unlikely, but at this point Donald Trump may be our best hope for avoiding the next war. Whatever other damage he may do to the country may not be as bad as letting ourselves be goaded into a war.

We can recover from a depression or more income inequality, but a nuclear war with Russia may not be something we would ever recover from.

Newslogue has the article Aleppo: One More Way The U.S. Political Establishment Has Lost Control Of The Narrative by Caitlin Johnstone.

The Syrian people will soon be able to start telling their own story, and people telling their own stories never makes the U.S. political establishment look good.
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The U.S. establishment completely lost control of the narrative in 2016, which saw the first ever presidential election determined by the sudden democratization of information that widespread internet access gave the American people.
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What if tomorrow everyone gets together on the internet and says “You know? Money is a conceptual tool invented by humanity to help humanity, and the way it works right now isn’t serving us. Let’s all agree that money works in a completely different way from now on.” Well that would be great for us, but death for the plutocracy we all live under. The billionaires who control everything are only “billionaires” if we all agree that money works a certain way and means a certain thing.

Of course, this article’s take on Syria and Aleppo is one that I have come to realize is more real than what our media has tried to feed us. I have been posting alot about that issue recently.

The third paragraph in the above excerpt is what made me sure that I want to read more from Caitlin Johnstone. This is an idea that I have been preaching since nearly the beginning of this blog.

I found the article Bernie Sanders’ anti-political correctness rant proves the left is learning the wrong lessons from Trump.

Cosigning Trump’s attack on political correctness validates the bigotry of his campaign.

What this article really proves is that the authors of articles like this are the ones learning the wrong lessons. They focus on what drives them away from Trump and they misjudge what attracts many people to Trump.

My response to a post by a pseudo-leftie exemplifies what I mean. His post ponted to the New York Daily News article KING: There’s a huge education level drop-off with the Trump cabinet picks.

Donald Trump will be the first President of the United States in 25 years to not have a graduate degree of any kind.

My response to my pseudo-leftie friend was the following:

And what did we get from the educated people that Obama appointed? Or the ones Bill Clinton appointed? What about the Best and the Brightest that David Halberstam wrote about giving us the Viet Nam mess?

And you wonder why the “least educated” scoff at your claims to a ‘superior education”?

Will the Democratic Party ever be willing to look itself in the mirror? I have seen no evidence, and you are certainly giving a fine display of lack of evidence here.

Now you see why I do not win friends and I do not influence people. What gets into me sometimes?

Naked Capitalism has the article NBC’s Denver Affiliate 9News Apologies on Air to Naked Capitalism.

Thanks so much to the speedy action of the members of the commentariat yesterday. We got an apology from NBC 9 News in Denver for a skit they had put up meant to educate readers about the evils of “fake news”. However, they made Naked Capitalism into an object lesson:

You may have to go to Denver, but apparently you can find a modicum of journalistic integrity in some isolated spots in America.

YouTube has the video RT Accounts from Aleppo Residents.

The fake news reports from Aleppo have been stirring emotions at the latest UN Security Council meeting, with diplomats echoing various claims. RT’s correspondent Lizzie Phelan in Aleppo gauged reaction from locals to the claims of genocide and massacres taking place in the city.

I have also found the RT story As thousands flee E. Aleppo, RT hears stories of those trapped there for years (VIDEO).

Mohamad has come from western Aleppo to pick up Ibrahim, his brother, who was trapped in Sheikh Sa’eed district.

“Four years ago he couldn’t escape, but I did. He was stuck there and thank God we are reunited now,” he tells our crew, meeting for the first time his two youngest nephews who were born in eastern Aleppo.

Oddly, this video shows the same type of buses that are being filled with people who sought refuge whereas they are shown by our press as leaving a pickup site completely empty.

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Of course, these RT reports should be rejected out of hand because they are reported by a Russian news medium. We trust our news media to never lie to us. They and Colin Powell can’t help it that they believed the stories the government told them about the WMD in Iraq before they stampeded us into that war. Our media has at least learned from their mistakes, and is reporting all sides of the conflict in Syria including this one.

And we know that our media’s reports of the Russian hacking of our election is the God’s honest truth.
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Robert Reich has posted Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda on his Facebook page.

PC World has the article Why Russian hackers, not a lone wolf, were likely behind the DNC breach. Here is the “proof” I have been waiting for.

The breach began as far back as last summer and involved malware previously used by two hacking groups known as Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear.

Both are thought to be based in Russia and considered among the best hacking teams in the world, said Michael Buratowski, a senior vice president with Fidelis Cybersecurity, which was called in to examine the malware in the DNC attack.

Wow, this really does it for me “thought to be based in Russia”. Is that definitive or what?

Do I really have to put in the <sarcasm></sarcasm> flags, or can you figure this out for yourselves?

To be sure, there is more in the article than what I emphasized. You can read it yourself to see if you think it is convincing enough to go to war over.

To dig shallower, you can refer to the Info World article Politics bog down US response to election hacks. This article was what led me to the PC World article.

Counter Punch has the article The Democrats “Russia Hacking” Campaign is Political Suicide. Talking abou a New York Times article, Mike Whitney had the following to say:

If there was a Pulitzer Prize for fearmongering innuendo or spurious accusations, the Times would win it hands-down. As it happens, readers have to delve much deeper into the article to find this shocking disclaimer:

“But the campaign officials acknowledge that they have no evidence. The Trump campaign has dismissed the accusations about Russia as a deliberate distraction…..”

“No evidence”???

They got nothing. NOTHING!

I’ll be back shortly after I find the link to the NYT article.

The New York Times article Spy Agency Consensus Grows That Russia Hacked D.N.C. By DAVID E. SANGER and ERIC SCHMITT JULY 26, 2016. (Notice that this is not a new article.)

I don’t find the quote exactly in the context as Mike Whitney implied. This is what I found:

Campaign officials have also suggested that Mr. Putin could be trying to tilt the election to Donald J. Trump. But they acknowledge that they have no evidence.

Asked on Tuesday at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia whether “there’s more to the Trump/Russian relationship that hasn’t come out,” John Podesta, the Clinton campaign chairman, said, “Well, he certainly has a bromance with Mr. Putin, so I don’t know.”

Zero Hedge has the article Former UK Ambassador Blasts “CIA’s Blatant Lies”, Shows “A Little Simple Logic Destroys Their Claims”.

The Kremlin has rejected the hacking accusations, while the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has previously said the DNC leaks were not linked to Russia. A second senior official cited by the Washington Post conceded that intelligence agencies did not have specific proof that the Kremlin was “directing” the hackers, who were said to be one step removed from the Russian government.

Craig Murray, the former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, who is a close associate of Assange, called the CIA claims “bullshit”, adding: “They are absolutely making it up.”

“I know who leaked them,” Murray said. “I’ve met the person who leaked them, and they are certainly not Russian and it’s an insider. It’s a leak, not a hack; the two are different things.

Perhaps the CIA is telling these lies in the hopes that the insider leaker will reveal his or her identity.