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The dems give sanders 5 people on the platform committee and he picks a bunch of activists. Typical. A one issue candidate (economy) who doesn't even know how or attempt to deal with his one issue.

Also find it ironic (or comically expected) that the socialist is still taking donations and using other people's money when he has no chance of winning the nomination. His supporters aren't the donor class either who can piss away money.
 
I just got back from voting in a local county elections and I would just like to remind everyone here that those are just as important and as the national elcections please participate in them.

Also side note about my county they need to do away with this county CEO position it's ridiculous.
 
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[h1]Dying Infants and No Medicine: Inside Venezuela’s Failing Hospitals[/h1]By morning, three newborns were already dead.
The day had begun with the usual hazards: chronic shortages of antibiotics, intravenous solutions, even food. Then a blackout swept over the city, shutting down the respirators in the maternity ward.

Doctors kept ailing infants alive by pumping air into their lungs by hand for hours. By nightfall, four more newborns had died.

“The death of a baby is our daily bread,” said Dr. Osleidy Camejo, a surgeon in the nation’s capital, Caracas, referring to the toll from Venezuela’s collapsing hospitals.

The economic crisis in this country has exploded into a public health emergency, claiming the lives of untold numbers of Venezuelans. It is just part of a larger unraveling here that has become so severe it has prompted President Nicolás Maduro to impose a state of emergency and has raised fears of a government collapse.

Hospital wards have become crucibles where the forces tearing Venezuela apart have converged. Gloves and soap have vanished from some hospitals. Often, cancer medicines are found only on the black market. There is so little electricity that the government works only two days a week to save what energy is left.

At the University of the Andes Hospital in the mountain city of Mérida, there was not enough water to wash blood from the operating table. Doctors preparing for surgery cleaned their hands with bottles of seltzer water.

“It is like something from the 19th century,” said Dr. Christian Pino, a surgeon at the hospital.

The figures are devastating. The rate of death among babies under a month old increased more than a hundredfold in public hospitals run by the Health Ministry, to just over 2 percent in 2015 from 0.02 percent in 2012, according to a government report provided by lawmakers.

The rate of death among new mothers in those hospitals increased by almost five times in the same period, according to the report.
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Venezuela: Maduro evokes spectre of foreign threat

Either President Nicolas Maduro genuinely believes there is a credible threat to Venezuela's national security from an unspecified foreign power, or he is delusional.

In what were described as the biggest ever military exercises to have taken place on Venezuelan soil, President Maduro proudly declared that more than 500,000 troops from the armed forces and civilian militias loyal to the government participated in "Operation Independence 2016" over the weekend.

"We have never been more prepared than this," barked the president in a speech evoking Venezuela's military heroes of the past, none more important than Mr Maduro's predecessor in office, Hugo Chavez.

Prepared for what exactly? There is no threat of invasion from Venezuela's neighbours and, while clearly keeping a close eye on developments, Washington is highly unlikely to make any direct intervention.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/16/w...hospitals.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0



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Absolutely terrible what's happening in Venezuela. 
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Hillary won the Washington Primary, but because of their screwy system, which also has a caucus that is used to determine the the share of pledged delegates, the result ends up being 25 Bernie, 9 Hillary.

I wonder how much Bernie will complain about this abortion of democracy. :lol:
 
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RustyShackleford said:
Hillary won the Washington Primary, but because of their screwy system, which also has a caucus that is used to determine the the share of pledged delegates, the result ends up being 25 Bernie, 9 Hillary.

I wonder how much Bernie will complain about this abortion of democracy. :lol:
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Just dues? :lol:

jpzx jpzx government/public sector is always behind the private sector for more reasons than 1. Funding (though this shouldn't be the case for the federal govt), migration is a pain, and you have people who run things that like things the way they are because it's what they're used to and change is bad in their eyes.
 
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Just dues? :lol:

jpzx jpzx and you have people who run things that like things the way they are because it's what they're used to and change is bad in their eyes.
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Those are the worst kind of people to work with. I read a quote once that said something like, "one of the most dangerous things to hear at work is 'but we've always done it this way.'" I definitely agree with that.
 
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Associated Press

Gov't Report: Feds spend billions to run ancient technology

Update at 3:58 AM
By: RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

WASHINGTON (AP)

The government is spending about three-fourths of its technology budget maintaining aging computer systems, including platforms more than 50 years old in vital areas from nuclear weapons to Social Security. One still uses floppy disks.

In a report to be released Wednesday, nonpartisan congressional investigators say the increasing cost of maintaining museum-ready equipment devours money better spent on modernization.

Despite a White House push to replace aging workhorse systems, the budget for modernization has fallen, and will be $7 billion less in 2017 than in 2010, said the Government Accountability Office. The report was provided to The Associated Press ahead of a House oversight committee hearing.

GAO said it found problems across the government, not just in a few agencies. Among those highlighted in the report:

- The Defense Department's Strategic Automated Command and Control System, which is used to send and receive emergency action messages to U.S. nuclear forces. The system is running on a 1970s IBM computing platform, and still uses 8-inch floppy disks to store data. "Replacement parts for the system are difficult to find because they are now obsolete," GAO said. The Pentagon is initiating a full replacement and says the floppy disks should be gone by the end of next year. The entire upgrade will take longer.

- Treasury's individual and business master files, the authoritative data sources for taxpayer information. The systems are about 56 years old, and use an outdated computer language that is difficult to write and maintain. Treasury plans to replace the systems, but has no firm dates.

- Social Security systems that are used to determine eligibility and estimate benefits, about 31 years old. Some use a programming language called COBOL, dating to the late 1950s and early 1960s. "Most of the employees who developed these systems are ready to retire and the agency will lose their collective knowledge," the report said. "Training new employees to maintain the older systems takes a lot of time." Social Security has no plans to replace the entire system, but is eliminating and upgrading older and costlier components. It is also rehiring retirees who know the technology.

- Medicare's Appeals System, which is only 11 years old, but facing challenges keeping up with a growing number of appeals, as well as questions from congressional offices following up on constituent concerns. The report says the agency has general plans to keep updating the system, depending on the availability of funds.

- The Transportation Department's Hazardous Materials Information System, used to track incidents and keep information relied on by regulators. The system is about 41 years old, and some of its software is no longer supported by vendors, which can create security risks. The department plans to complete its modernization program in 2018.

GAO estimates that the government spent at least $80 billion on information technology, or IT, in 2015.

However, the total could be significantly higher. Not counted in the report are certain Pentagon systems, as well as those run by independent agencies, among them the CIA. Major systems are known as "IT investments" in government jargon.

"Legacy federal IT investments are becoming obsolete," GAO concluded. "The federal government runs the risk of continuing to maintain investments that have outlived their effectiveness and are consuming resources that outweigh their benefits."

The report also profiled aging systems operated by the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Energy, Homeland Security, Justice, State, and Veterans Affairs.

The White House has been nudging agencies to identify obsolete systems and start replacing them, but GAO said that clearer, more specific goals and timetables are needed. A starting point could be recent legislation supported by the White House to create a revolving fund of $3 billion for replacing or upgrading older technology. It seems certain that President Barack Obama's successor will have to grapple with the issue.

"The federal government is years and in some cases decades behind the private sector," Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, said in a statement.

"Taxpayers deserve a government that leverages technology to serve them, rather than one that deploys insecure, decades-old technology that places their sensitive and personal information at risk."
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A media that doesn't hold a government accountable is not a democracy just so we're clear. I think once we find out why the IRS quote "can't" update their systems, along with DOD contracting concerns, much will probably unravel and info will either be highlighted and disseminated with effort. Or not.

An informed public is not a phenomenon people with a lot of power/access to informational tools operating in several enclosed insular environments, incl. cultural environments, should fear. An informed public is not your worry, what's worrisome is the leveraging of the tools when those with the tools play their hand like Moneymaker in any year but '03. The luck runs die w/o learning from procedural malfunctions and barriers. Over time.

It's about meeting at the reality and not officially fragmenting the middle ground shared by one side's running from problems, leaving the largest of the two bodies out of the loop continuously even when it's visibly and tangibly dire. There's a misdiagnose that happens when fear of a possible utilization of info the public should be wary of/should be priveliged to for the overall safety and health of both sides.





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Not surprised..... government being government...
 
I imagine it being only slightly better than whatever politics forum they have on 4chan :lol:

Speaking of the Middle East a few pages back,former Israeli PM and defense minister Ehud Barak warned that the "seeds of fascism" are being sowed thanks to their new Hard right governing coalition with an Ultranationalist in charge of Defense...

"Israel Has Been Infected by the Seeds of Fascism, Says ex-Prime Minister Ehud Barak"
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.720715
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Some folks have been saying the country's been drifting towards fascism for years now but to hear it from someone of such stature and from the inside drives the point home. It is a little ironic coming from a man who imposed the blockade on Gaza a while back but the point is still valid.

The French may as well toss those Palestinian peace talk plans into the trash now :smh:. I wouldn't be surprised at all if the conflict escalated even more and their was another Intifada over the next few years unfortunately |I
 
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RustyShackleford said:
rillo561 said:
Nike Jordan said:
r/politics is a cesspool.
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That place is wild, it went from being a good source of info with a center left lean. Then it swung hard right with a racist flavor. Then it went Bernie crazy.

Those dudes are loony as hell, and can't decide which way they want their loon to go.
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That's the internet for you. I posted it more for this specific post:




Here's another one, 80something articles about the email stuff from different sources.





I hate the main subs on Reddit, I go for the smaller lesser known ones as there's better conversation and material in general but there's random good stuff in the big subs like what I posted.
 
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Certain topics (religion, racism, politics, ...) almost automatically turn into a cesspool of ignorance the more people are in a discussion.

Given Reddit's huge amount of users, I'm not expecting much meaningful discussion to go on there.

Can Hillary be disqualified from the election over this report?
 
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