DNC Leaked Emails Edited?

The leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee (DNC) were published by Wikileaks in July of 2016. As of this post, they've been public at least sixteen months. The revelation caused immense turmoil within the organization.

• Think Progress (07/24/2016): Debbie Wasserman Schultz Resigns From DNC In Wake Of WikiLeaks Email Dump 
• Brazile under siege after giving Clinton debate question 

Some people maintain the emails were hacked by Russia while others suggest the emails were leaked from within the DNC.

A Previous post here at Empire Dusk suggests the possible players involved in leaking the emails.

Meanwhile, in all this time, no one disputed the authenticity of the emails, either directly, or implied through behavior. No one suggested the emails may have been edited or otherwise modified, until Donna Brazile revealed her new book in a post on POLITICO.

Now, amid the clarion call that it's Russia, Russia, Russia, after sixteen months of scrutiny and exposure, it's being suggested that the emails were edited.

• The Hill (11/03/2017) Russia-linked hacker edited DNC email to call it 'confidential': report 
• Salon (11/03/2017) The DNC’s emails weren’t only hacked, they were edited: report 
• The Washington Examiner (11/03/2017) At least one document hacked by Guccifer 2.0 was edited to draw reporters' attention: Report 

Whether or not the Russians or anyone else hacked or leaked the emails, didn't change the facts of the emails, and the facts of the emails are apparently authentic enough to have resulted in the changes of leadership at the DNC. Despite the Associated Press' (AP) sychophantic report.

Is "Cut It Out!" Code Speech?

So far the record is not good for leaders telling other people who are rich and powerful to "cut it out." I can only assume that the phrase actually is code for "I couldn't care less" or "have at it" or "carte blanche."

Propublica: Hillary Clinton’s Mixed Record on Wall Street Belies Her Tough ‘Cut it Out’ Talk

Radio Free Europe: On Hacking, Obama Says He Directly Told Putin To 'Cut It Out'

Maybe it's a combination of the aforementioned phrases plus a caveat such as " you can burn the peasants but please spare me."

Facts Versus Agendas

Facts Versus Agendas The worst medicine for the media is an honest politician.
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Washington Post Ran 16 Negative Stories on Bernie Sanders in 16 Hours	Media Displays Open Contempt as Bernie Sanders Racks Up Major Victories
Bernie Sanders Teaches Fox News How to be Decent Human Beings	Bernie Sanders vs. ISIS
It’s Now Sexist to Ask Hillary Clinton Not to Interrupt During a Debate	Sanders Clarifies Comments on Poverty and Race: ‘I Know About White Poverty’
In One Quote, Bernie Sanders Tried to Explain His 'Ghetto' Comment — And It Backfired	Hillary: I'm against bad behavior, not business

The main-stream media steps up its game aganist Bernie Sanders

The "Bernie Bros" Shill Gallery

BuzzFeed News

The Bernie Bros Are A Problem And The Sanders Campaign Is Trying To Stop Them

There are always trolls on the Internet, but some trolls are plants.

The New Republic

The Sanders campaign knows the “Bernie Bros” are a problem.

"Bernie Bros" allegedly infiltrate Clinton Campaign Rallies.

The Atlantic

Here Comes the Berniebro

Trying to Conscript regular Internet trolls into the ranks of "Berniebros"

Boston Globe

College students backing Clinton are frustrated with ‘Bernie Bros’

The "Bernie Bros" Army Invades College Campuses. One Sanders supporter becomes a "Bands of Bernie Bros."

The Slot

Bernie Sanders' Campaign Is Concerned About the 'Berniebro,' As They Maybe Should Be

The origin of the Term "Berniebro" is identified as being coined from The Atlantic in October. This article identifies them as "his social media goons."

Paul Krugman - The New York Times

Health Wonks and Bernie Bros

Even a (quickly becoming formerly) respected economist like Paul Krugman isn't above the overgeneralization.

Student Activism

Here’s Why Bernie Bros are a Thing. Here’s How to Fix It.

Hillary's people are not being aggressive, they are being Passive-Aggresive.

Medium Corporation

‘Bernie Bros’ are real, and ignoring that doesn’t change anything.

An attempt to counter-argue the refutation that "Bernie Bros" are somehow organized by the Sanders Campaign.

BBC

Bernie Sanders supporters get a bad reputation online

Note

The Stranger - SLOG

Bernie Bros: Same Old Trolls, Brand New Name?

AMBIGUITY: Not much detail in this article, but it seems to suggest that All Bernie Sanders male supporters are trolls.

I don't pay attention to main-stream media anymore since I earned my BA in Communication and recognized the media for what it really is.

I woke up this morning to a post by The Intercept on my Facebook feed: The “Bernie Bros” Narrative: a Cheap Campaign Tactic Masquerading as Journalism and Social Activism.

I had to Google search "Bernie Bros" and some of the results are in the box on the left.

I learned my lesson. Now I have no choice but to keep an eye on even the BBC and the New York Times for this acrid Bullshit.

U.S. Uncut: The ‘Bernie Bro’ is a Media Myth. It Needs to Die
Jacobin: The Myth of the Bernie Bro
NYMag - The Cut: The Bernie Bros vs. the Hillarybots

Iowa Caucus 2016

This is a test. I'm not sure if these links will work for people not already a member of the Google+ community.

Here are some of my Google+ Collectiions with articles you might find useful before the Iowa Caucus on 02/01/2016.

Trump Nation: Recent articles about Donald Trump

The Clinton Dynasty: A partial history of Hillary and Bill Clinton, among other Establishment Democrats.

Bernie Sanders 2016: #FeelTheBern

A collection of related articles.

The Ted Cruz Experience: Articles 

Rubio's World: Recent articles about Marco Rubio.

Jeb: The Jeb Bush collection.

The Undercards: Posts about some of the other candidates.

I hope this works.

The Clinton Dynasty: What You Need To Know

The Clinton Dynasty

The Washington Post

TWO CLINTONS. 41 YEARS. $3 BILLION.

Inside the Clinton Dynasty

BallotPedia

Bill Clinton AND Hillary Clinton

Biographies and Legislative Actions

GovTrack

Senator Hillary Clinton

Bill Sponsorship and Senate Voting Record

Money In State Politics

General Search Results for Bill Clinton AND General Search Results for Hillary Clinton

Money at the state level

Open Secrets

General Search Results for William Jefferson Clinton

Some search results may be unrelated. Revolving Door usually implies a political-corporate conflict of interest, AKA Cronyism.

Open Secrets

General Search Results

A world of Intrigue

Vote Smart

Hillary Clinton's Biography and More

See also Votes, Positions, Ratings, Speeches, and Funding

The Washington Post article inspired me to re-post some links for your voting information benefit.

In the end you may be impressed or horrified, but at least you will be informed enough to know you made the right decision when you vote for Bernie Sanders. #FeelTheBern

UPDATE: You must see this: Mother Jones: Hillary Clinton's Strange Definition of "Middle Class"

Oblique Political Strategy: Disparage Your Opponent's Staff to the Media

CNN

Sanders campaign grumbled over debate format changes

"A person who was on the call told CNN" Paris is ahead by 7 hours. The attacks occured at 9:20 PM Paris Time which would be 2:20 PM on Friday Afternoon

Yahoo!

Sanders aide pushes back against CBS switch to foreign policy focus for debate

"A staffer for one of the other campaigns who was also on the call described the exchange to Yahoo News as “heated” and even “bizarre,” and a second source on the call confirmed the nature of the exchange."

Rolling Stone

Rival Campaign: Bernie Sanders Aide Threw 'Fit' About Debate Shift

"A second source told Yahoo News that both the O'Malley and Clinton campaigns were in favor of CBS's decision,..."

Politico

Sanders fights CBS move to change debate format after Paris

"But Sanders' team forcefully opposed any changes – and, to the amazement of the network and the other Democrats who decried his tone-deafness, crowed publicly about limiting the foreign policy component..."

The Hill

Sanders camp spars with CBS over debate: report

But Sanders’s aide, the report said, still objected, and “he got very hot and there was like a five- or seven-minute back and forth and he just wouldn’t let it go,” the campaign source told Yahoo News.

Google Search

"sanders aid has a fit"

The search results can tell the rest of the story.

The Paris Attacks started at 9:20 PM Friday according to CNN, which would be 4:20 PM Eastern U.S. time according to CNN. According to Yahoo, the conference call was on Saturday Morning. If the conference call took place in Iowa that would make sense.

I need to get my time zones figured out:

The entire mass media jumped on this bandwagon. What kind of story is this? It seems like a swarm of Piranhas to a single drop of blood that may or may not even exist.

It's obvious how complicit most of the media is against Bernie Sanders, how likely would something like this be a complete fabrication?

Are Trey Gowdy's Chickens Coming Home to Roost?

Trey Gowdy (R) South Carolina

BallotPedia

Trey Gowdy Profile

. These are all basically profile links, but there may be differences between them.

GovTrack

TreyGowdy Report Card

Open Secrets

Trey Gowdy's Campaign Finance Sources

Politifact

Trey Gowdy's Truthfulness

Vote Smart

Is Trey Gowdy the right candidate for you?

The Washington Post

Inside the mind of Trey Gowdy, the Republicans’ Benghazi prosecutor

Representative Trey Gowdy, the lead on the Benghazi investigation, is getting a little more attention in the Press, so here's some info.

Will the Winds of Hillary's Campaign Stop Changing Direction?

Democratic Underground

(09/18/2015)

Hillary's inability to answer ANYTHING directly is infuriating and will be her undoing.

The Hill

(07/23/2015)

Clinton dodges on Glass-Steagall

CNBC

(10/07/2015)

Clinton's quotes favoring Pacific trade pact she now opposes

The era of politics as a popularity contest is drawing to a close. Before the Internet, candidates had the luxury of compartmentalizing and keeping separate, audiences based on social values. It made campaign speech writing much easier. It also made it easy to keep the people fighting among themselves.

Social values such as abortion, gun control, religion in public schools, political correctness, and so on, are all in the tool chest of political power, designed to keep the public from unifying long enough for the Capitalists to create a fascist plutocracy. President Lyndon Johnson was well aware of this strategy

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice your're picking his pocket. Hell, give him someone to look down on and he'll empty his pockets for you." -- Lyndon Johnson

 Compartmentalization no longer works these days as everyone can see the conflicting messages of old-style politics, partly because of the Internet, and partly because the economic stress of 40 years under the thumb of corporate plutocracy has reached critical mass.

It's a new era of honesty, and Bernie Sanders needs no bag of tricks.

The Clinton-Walmart-NAFTA-TPP Connection

While progressives in the media are calling out Rand Paul and others for commenting on Hillary Clinton's age in the run up to the 2016 election cycle, more relevant information telling of Hillary's ambitions are fading into the shadows.

Hillary Clinton served on the board of directors at Walmart from 1986 to 1992. A year later Bill Clinton would be sworn in as President of the United States. On January 20, 1993, and less than a year after that, on January 1, 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) "entered into force."

The results were devastating to America as trade barriers were lifted, allowing over 700,000 jobs to evaporate. Factories shut down and fled the U.S. racing across the borders for the cheapest labor and least restrictive environmental and safety regulations possible. Walmart profits skyrocketed.

If one is ambitious enough, it's possible to see opportunity in suffering. It's even easier if you know you are going to play at least what appears to be a tertiary role in creating that suffering. Thus is born "the various projects of the Bill, Hillary, and Chelsea Clinton Foundation that address economic inequality"


After the 2014 election, with a turnout of only a third of registered voters elected the Republicans for the most part, President Obama is playing out a Faustian allegory. Suddenly he's willing to take executive action on Immigration Reform. Suddenly he's in favor of Net Neutrality, despite appointing a former lobbyist for the cable industry as head of the FCC.

The Devil is breathing down his neck. President Obama must be more motivated to veto the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). If he is certain that Hillary Clinton won't win the presidency in 2016, he can sign the bill and leave public office knowing his future is filled with open doors on Wall Street for him and his family. If Hillary is without competition and is practically guaranteed a win in 2016, he can veto the bill as part of an intermediate political strategy knowing that Hillary will definitely sign the TPP into law and the delays will be forgiven.

There is no disincentive to passing the TPP. It will further destroy the environment, jobs and wages for the American middle class. Maybe the Obama Foundation will start taking donations so they can toss dimes to starving children like John Rockefeller.



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(1) Clinton Remained Silent As Wal-Mart Fought Unions
Jan. 31, 2008
By BRIAN ROSS, MADDY SAUER and RHONDA SCHWARTZ
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4218509&page=1

(2) NAFTA
http://www.ustr.gov/trade-agreements/free-trade-agreements/north-american-free-trade-agreement-nafta

(3) President Bill Clinton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton

(4) NAFTA Shows the Damage Fast Track Could Bring
James P. Hoffa
General President, International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Posted: 01/06/2014 10:40 am EST Updated: 03/08/2014 5:59 am EST
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-p-hoffa/nafta-shows-the-damage-fa_b_4548943.html

(5) Hillary Clinton's Goldman Sachs Problem
She talks populism, but hobnobs with Wall Street.
—By David Corn | Wed Jun. 4, 2014 5:00 AM EDT
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/hillary-clintons-goldman-sachs-problem

(6) The Comcast-FCC Revolving Door
 by Robbie Feinberg on April 18, 2014
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2014/04/the-comcast-fcc-revolving-door/

(7) Did John Rockefeller really hand out nickels and dimes to children?
http://www.thequarterroll.com/Blog/2011/May-2011/john-rockefeller-dimes-to-poor.htm

(8) NAFTA at 20: The New Spin
Nearly 20 years since NAFTA went into effect, its empty promises have been laid bare for the people of Mexico.
By Javier Rojo and Manuel Perez-Rocha, March 14, 2013.
http://fpif.org/nafta_at_20_the_new_spin/

(9) After 20 Years, NAFTA Leaves Mexico’s Economy in Ruins
Published on
Friday, January 10, 2014
by TruthDig.com
bySonali Kolhatkar
http://www.commondreams.org/views/2014/01/10/after-20-years-nafta-leaves-mexicos-economy-ruins