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Review: Revolutionary Love by Rabbi Michael Lerner

J. Edgar Hoover called Rabbi Michael Lerner, “The most dangerous man in America.” Get Rabbi Lerner’s new book, Revolutionary Love: A Political Manifesto to Heal and Transform the World, and you’ll know why. You already know America is f’d-up. Here is a

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California must Launch Hostile Takeover of PG&E

PG&E is an academy for accidental arsonists. It’s gotta go. What we need to do in California is launch a hostile takeover, just like Gordon Gekko in Wall Street. Stockholders, executives and banks are making a killing on private utilities, who have you by the bulbs

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Expert: PG&E Blackouts ‘All about Threatening Bankruptcy Judge’

California utility company Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) is blackmailing the judge overseeing their bankruptcy case by instituting widespread blackouts across California, a utility regulation and power industry company expert claims. “The PG&E Blackout Con is all about

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Utility Expert Claims PG&E Blackouts Are ‘All About Threatening the Judge’ in Bankruptcy Case

California utility company Pacific Gas & Electric Co. (PG&E) is blackmailing the judge overseeing their bankruptcy case by instituting widespread blackouts across California, a utility regulation and power industry company expert claims. “The PG&E Blackout Con is all about

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PG&E is a Crime Wave, Not a Power Company

Leaving hospitals, schools and 1 million homes without power — and that means without water — in California is the endgame of deregulation mania. The PG&E greedster bosses should be imprisoned for

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The Las Vegas Shooter, Two Years Later

Paddock. Palast. We sat next to each other at Fernangeles Elementary School, and later at Poly High in Sun Valley, Calif.

Steve was a chess prodigy and a math whiz.

He finally got to use his extraordinary gift to

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Confession: I fixed my kids’ Admission into Top Colleges

Actress Felicity Huffman could be reading this from prison. Huffman got 14 days for paying some smart dude to take her daughter’s SAT. Foolish parents, that’s not how you do it. Bribes and fraud are risky business. Here’s how you do it

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Jim Crow Steals N Carolina 9th CD

Stolen again. Democrat Dan McCready supposedly lost the special election in North Carolina’s ninth Congressional District to Republican Dan Bishop by less than 4,000 votes. However

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PG&E is a Crime Wave, Not a Power CompanyBlackout is Blackmail

Leaving hospitals, schools and 1 million homes without power — and that means without water — in California is the endgame of deregulation mania. The PG&E greedster bosses should be imprisoned for

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Trump’s “Victory”: Uncounted Ballots, Dirty Tricks

The whole story involves uncounted ballots, voter suppression and other dirty tricks.

Investigative journalist Greg Palast has been a bulldog on on these issues, and I rely heavily on his work for what follows.

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