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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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Democrats: To Beat Trump, You Need to Buck Your Leadership

This essay is for rank-and-file Democrats.. Many of you are focused on the 2020 election, which you hope Trump will lose. Of course. But you cannot trust the leadership of your party to do what it takes to make that happen.

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We Don’t Have a Working DemocracyWhat happened, how we can fix it

Since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, the vote theft party’s started. They’re removing voters from rolls even more aggressively, especially in

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We Don’t Have a Working DemocracyWhat happened and how we can fix it — Palast on Real News Network

Since the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act in 2013, the vote theft party’s started. They’re removing voters from rolls even more aggressively, all over America, especially in the preclearance states that had additional protections under the VRA.

Jacqueline Luqman interviews Palast for the Real News Network

As a result, last year alone, 14 million voters were purged from the voter rolls. This changes elections, because it’s not just anyone’s vote that gets stolen. Overwhelmingly, these are voters of color, young voters, and low income voters — in other words

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