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malaise's JournalPssssssssssssssst! Security experts join Jill Stein's 'election changing' recount campaign
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/29/security-experts-join-jill-steins-election-changing-recount-campaign<snip>
More election security experts have joined Jill Steins campaign to review the presidential vote in battleground states won by Donald Trump even as she sues Wisconsin to secure a full recount by hand of all of its 3m ballots.
Half a dozen academics and other specialists on Monday submitted new testimony supporting a lawsuit from Stein against Wisconsin authorities, in which she asked a court to prevent county officials from carrying out their recounts by machine.
Stein argued that Wisconsins plan to allow automatic recounting risks tainting the recount process because the electronic scanning equipment involved may incorrectly tally the results and could have been attacked by foreign hackers.
There is a substantial possibility that recounting the ballots by hand will produce a more correct result and change the outcome of the election, Stein argued in the lawsuit in Dane County circuit court. A copy was obtained by the Guardian.
Stein, the Green partys presidential election candidate, is working to secure full recounts in the states of Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, where Trump surprised pollsters by narrowly beating Clinton on his way to a national victory in the electoral college.
A petition from Stein requesting a recount was accepted by Wisconsin last Friday. Her efforts to obtain a recount in Pennsylvania met serious difficulties on Monday as it became clear she needed three voters in each of the states 9,163 voting precincts to request a recount on her behalf, and that deadlines to do so had passed in many precincts.
Could someone on probation head a major Department in the United States?
Isn't Betrayus on Probation as I type?
Brazilian team Chapecoense among those on board crashed plane
OMFG!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/29/plane-carrying-brazilian-footballers-team-chapecoense-crashes-en-route-to-medellin
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Police in Colombia have said 76 people were killed when a plane carrying members of the Brazilian football team Chapecoense crashed in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Initial reports said there were six survivors, including players, a crew member and travelling journalist, but police said one had died in hospital. The plane was carrying 72 passengers and nine crew members.
Chapecoense were flying to play a Copa Sudamerica finals match against Atlético Nacional on Wednesday in Medellin.
Medellins mayor, Federico Gutierrez, said the crash, close to the town of Cerro Gordo, was a tragedy of huge proportions. The Brazilian football confederation said in a statement that it was praying for the passengers and crew.
So Dylan Roof will be allowed to represent himself
Whatever - throw away the fucking keys - hope it ends like Charles Manson - life without parole
Class is class - Jimmy Carter remembers Fidel Castro fondly
http://politics.blog.ajc.com/2016/11/26/jimmy-carter-remembers-fidel-castro-fondly/<snip>
Former President Jimmy Carter had kind words for Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who died Friday, saying in a statement he and his wife remember fondly our visits with him in Cuba and his love of his country.
Castro, who was 90, was long a scourge of the U.S. who brought the Cold War to Americas doorstep. But he and Carter, a Georgia native, had warmer relations.
Carter took a step to normalize relations between the two nations during his presidency, and the two shared several visits, including a 2011 journey where Castro called Carter a friend.
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I loved Fidel and love Jimmy Carter
"...in 2000, Giuliani branded him a murderer but Clinton spoke with him and shook his hand.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/27/fidel-castro-new-york-malcolm-x<snip>
He might have been an enemy of the state, but from a lengthy honeymoon to a midnight meeting with Malcolm X to the adulation of cheering crowds, Fidel Castro found plenty to savour on American soil.
The Cuban communist who was repeatedly targeted for assassination by the CIA visited New York five times during his five decades in power. As the citys Daily News put it on Saturday, he had a love-hate relationship with the centre of global capitalism.
Legend has it that Castro nearly moved to the US as a baseball player after attracting the interest of major league scouts, though there is little hard evidence for this. Instead, in 1948, having married a fellow student, Mirta Díaz-Balart, he arrived for a three-month honeymoon.
The newlyweds spent 10 days in Miami but most of their time in New York, where Castro bought a Lincoln Continental car with electric windows. They eventually went back to Florida and returned to Cuba by boat.
Castro defied 10 US administrations. On his final visit to the country in 2000, Giuliani branded him a murderer but Clinton spoke with him and shook his hand. The Cuban president gave a three-and-a-half hour speech at Riverside church, telling the 3,000-strong audience that he loved the real people of New York.
Well done Huffpo - Why Nelson Mandela Loved Fidel Castro
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/06/nelson-mandela-castro_n_4400212.html<snip>
Americans generally view Nelson Mandela as a hero and Fidel Castro as a villain. Mandela saw things differently.
The South African leaders nationalist and anti-imperialist stances collided head on with the worlds superpower and gave him a lot in common with its Cuban archenemy. Mandela embraced the former Cuban dictator because he opposed apartheid and represented the aspirations of Third World nationalists that the United States undermined across the globe during the Cold War.
Mandelas admiration for the Cuban Revolution only grew with time. Cuba under Castro opposed apartheid and supported the African National Congress Mandelas political organization and the current ruling party. Mandela credited Cubas military support to Angola in the 1970s and 1980s with helping to debilitate South Africas government enough to result in the legalization of the ANC in 1990.
The U.S. government, on the other hand, reportedly played a role in Mandelas 1962 arrest and subsequently branded him a terrorist a designation they only rescinded in 2008. In 1986, President Ronald Reagan vetoed the Anti-Apartheid Act.
Given this history, it shouldnt be surprising that Mandela remained sharply critical of the United States into his later life. When the George W. Bush administration announced plans to invade Iraq in 2003, Mandela said: If theres a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They dont care.
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Irie FM is rocking this morning with the JA-Cuba- Africa connections
Celebrating the birthdate of the great Jimi Hendrix
Was there a greater guitar player ever?
Truth will Out - Sue those women Groper Don the Con
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/nov/26/david-hamilton-found-dead-amid-allegations-of-historical<snip>
On the Mediterranean beaches of Cap dAgde, British photographer David Hamilton was a familiar figure in the 1980s looking for young girls to model for his pictures.
Shopping was the word he used and he knew what he was seeking: young, early teens, preferably blonde, blue-eyed and with pale, almost translucent skin; the epitome of the age of innocence, the title of one of his best-selling books.
Parents rarely refused when he asked if the youngsters could come to his studio to pose, honoured that their child had been spotted by a world-famous artist. But Hamiltons motives, it has been claimed, were far from innocent.
On Friday evening, days after allegations resurfaced that he had raped and sexually abused a number of his young models, the London-born photographer, who had repeatedly denied the accusations, was found dead in his Paris home. Police reported that a bottle of medication was found nearby, and declared that Hamilton, 83, had taken his own life.
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