Advertisement

At first glance, Hillary Clinton's speeches to Goldman Sachs, which she refused to show us but WikiLeaks claims to have now produced the texts of, reveal less blatant hypocrisy or abuse than do the texts of various emails also recently revealed. But take a closer look.

Clinton has famously said that she believes in maintaining a public position on each issue that differs from her private position. Which did she provide to Goldman Sachs?

Yes, Clinton does profess her loyalty to corporate trade agreements, but at the time of her remarks she hadn't yet started (publicly) claiming otherwise.

I think, in fact, that Clinton maintains numerous positions on various issues, and that those she provided to Goldman Sachs were in part her public stances, in part her confidences to co-conspirators, and in part her partisan Democratic case to a room of Republicans as to why they should donate more to her and less to the GOP. This was not the sort of talk she'd have given to labor union executives or human rights professionals or Bernie Sanders delegates. She has a position for every audience.

Joe DeMare flyer

Joe DeMare, the Green Party candidate, has been excluded from the Columbus Senate debate. Joseph DeMare is the 2016 Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate in Ohio. Join the Green Party in front of the Channel 10 Studios to demand Freedom of Speech in the U.S.!

Monday, October 17, from 6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

WBNS 10TV 770 Twin Rivers Dr. Columbus, OH 43215

https://www.facebook.com/events/1700885076897629/

Kevin Boyce talking into a mic

As a candidate for Franklin County commissioner, State Representative Kevin Boyce (D-Columbus) has questionable fitness for the position because of documents released this year concerning his 2009 to 2010 tenure as Ohio’s state treasurer. The documents include an independent investigation report on the treasurer’s office, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, and other public records.

Boyce is running against Republican Terry Boyd to be on Franklin County’s board of commissioners. The three commissioners are responsible for a $1.35 billion annual budget providing health care, public safety, economic development, human services, and other essential functions for the nation’s 30th-largest county.

While state treasurer, Boyce was in charge of the nation’s sixth-largest treasury and responsible for investing and protecting $250 billion in state assets. The documents show major failings in his job performance, resulting in the largest bribery and kickback scandal in the state government’s history.

Project Censored logo and statue of liberty

Project Censored has chosen Search Engine Algorithms and Electronic Voting Machines Could Swing 2016 Election as the 4th "Most Censored Story of 2016" with contributions by Free Press writers and editors Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman. 

"Because courts have ruled that source code is proprietary, private companies that own electronic voting machines are essentially immune to transparent public oversight, as Harvey Wasserman and Bob Fitrakis documented," Project Censored wrote. "On Democracy Now! and elsewhere, Wasserman and Fitrakis have advocated universal, hand-counted paper ballots and automatic voter registration as part of their 'Ohio Plan' to restore electoral integrity."

Every year for 40 years, Project Censored, located at Sonoma State University in California, has chosen the 25 most censored stories of the year. 

To read about Project Censored and their top censored stories of 2016, go to:

For fans of hilarious, often off-color comedy, Kevin really can’t wait: So head on down to the multiplex to laugh your head off at Kevin Hart: What Now? Much of it is a concert film in the tradition of Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy’s earlier forays into this category of semi-documentary filmmaking of a live performance by a comedian. However, Hart’s standup routines are wittily sandwiched between an opening credit montage and sequences that are rib-tickling genre spoofs featuring Halle Berry, Don Cheadle and Daily Show and Hangover alum Ed Helms (as a token Caucasian?).

 

There are some inventive sight gags in the opening scene that are reminiscent of visualizations Woody Allen previously spoofed, although Hart, who also executive produced What Now? (which was directed by veteran Hart helmer Leslie Small), does so in an original way. But most of this film is shot in a sports stadium (which I am deliberately not naming in order to avoid giving a corporate plug) where an animated, at all times engaging Hart delivers a number of his routines.

 


As the evidence mounts that we are fast approaching the final point-of-no-return beyond which it will be impossible to take sufficient effective action to prevent climate catastrophe – see 'The World Passes 400 PPM Threshold. Permanently' http://www.climatecentral.org/news/world-passes-400-ppm-threshold-permanently-20738


 

Juan Manuel Santos is not a grassroots advocate for disarmament and the abolition of war. He's someone who has used war but been willing to turn to peace. He is not in need of funding for his work toward global disarmament and peace because he doesn't do such work and because he is wealthy. He also is one side of a very tentative and precarious peace effort; why the Nobel Committee would give a prize to one side only in such a situation without considering the harm it could do to the process I do not know.

This is a better pick than many other recent picks, which have gone to either major war makers like Barack Obama or the European Union or to do-gooders whose good deeds were not related to war and peace at all, like Kailash Satyarthi, Malala Yousafzai, or Liu Xiaobo.

But this pick follows the pattern of giving the prize to high office holders rather than peace activists that has plagued the Nobel for decades.


 

A new film called Disturbing the Peace tells the story -- unknown to most Americans but painfully familiar to others -- of Israel and Palestine. Of the many films I've seen, this is one of the best. It presents both sides without equating them. It opens itself to a broad audience without boring anybody.

A jury trial for racial justice organizer Tynan Krakoff is set to begin on Wednesday, October 12 in the Franklin Country Municipal Court. Krakoff is facing charges related to his involvement in a July protest against police-involved shootings.

Krakoff, 28, was arrested during a march to the Columbus Division of Police building in downtown Columbus on July 21. The protest was organized by Showing Up for Racial Justice, in collaboration with the People’s Justice Project. Over 150 residents marched down the street without a permit, demanding justice for Henry Green.

Krakoff was the only protester arrested. He faces three misdemeanor charges: disorderly conduct, failure to obey a police officer, and pedestrian in the roadway. These charges could bring a maximum of one year in county jail or $2,000 in fines.

“We’ve seen black folks around the country put their bodies on the line to fight for black lives, and for an end to racial disparities and police violence. We are seeing more and more white people ready to take action and show up in meaningful ways as well,” said Z! Haukeness, Midwest Regional Organizer of Showing Up for Racial Justice. 

Pages

Subscribe to Freepress.org RSS