I understand why people believe sexual predators before victims. I did | Ijeoma Oluo | Comment is free | The Guardian

We have to believe victims, even if we are hurt and ashamed by what they say. It’s necessary to face that pain and that shame in order to protect the innocent and get justice for those who have been harmed. The pain and heartbreak that the families of rapists face should never be an excuse for turning your back on victims – and I know just how devastating acknowledging the truth can be.

via I understand why people believe sexual predators before victims. I did | Ijeoma Oluo | Comment is free | The Guardian.

Debunking The Republican Liars – Republicans ‘Small’ Government – Some For Me But None For Thee – ‘Joni Ernst’s Family Got Hundreds Of Thousands In Farm Subsidies’

still believe that Fox viewers never check facts and don’t care if they are not telling the truth, as long as it is what they want to hear.

The Last Of The Millenniums

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‘Senator Joni Ernst forgot to mention the teeny-
tiny $460,000 in federal subsidies her family
received via the farm subsidy program’.

‘The District-Sentinel reports’:

“The truth about her family’s farm roots and
living within one’s means, however, is more
complex”.

“Relatives of Ernst (née: Culver), based in Red
Oak, Iowa (population: 5,568) have received over
$460,000 in farm subsidies between 1995 and 2009″.

“Ernst’s father, Richard Culver, was given $14,705
in conservation payments and $23,690 in commodity
subsidies by the federal government–with all but
twelve dollars allocated for corn support”.

“Richard’s brother, Dallas Culver, benefited from
$367,141 in federal agricultural aid, with over
$250,000 geared toward corn subsidies”.

“And the brothers’ late grandfather Harold Culver
received $57,479 from Washington—again, mostly
corn subsidies—between 1995 and 2001. He passed
away in January 2003″.

“The Sentinel cross-referenced the Environmental
Working Group farm subsidy database with open
source information to verify the Culvers’…

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Was Leon Brittan A Paedophile ?

upper class elitist and Tory – what else could he be but someone who thought he could do whatever he wanted to people with less power and position than him. one of his former friends wants to lower the age of consent to 13 years of age – so Tories are for sex by older elitist men with children, if that is their wiish.

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Leon Brittan has died, he was aged 75.

You’ll find fulsome obituaries elsewhere and perhaps even praise but I want to focus on the truth, or not, of the allegations that Leon Brittan was a paedophile.

Over the last two years there have been many rumours and news stories alleging that Leon Brittan was a paedophile, though you may not have realised as he has invariably been euphemistically alluded to as “a former senior Tory cabinet minister” or something similar. There had been some concern among journalists, and even this blogger, that the continued and ubiquitous use of this term might itself have become so synonymous with Leon Brittan that its use might itself have precipitated legal action if Lord Brittan decided to take that route.

The allegations are not new they go back to the early 1980s at least, as Bernhard Ingham, former press secretary to Margaret Thatcher, has…

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American Folk Blues Festivals 1963-1966: The British Tours – YouTube

Recorded live for TV broadcast throughout Britain, these historic performances have been unseen for nearly 40 years. Filmed with superb camera work and pristine sound, 14 complete performances and 4 bonus performances are included by Sonny Boy Williamson, Muddy Waters, Lonnie Johnson, Big Joe Williams, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Sugar Pie DeSanto, Howlin’ Wolf, Big Joe Turner, Junior Wells, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe.

Between 1963 and 1966 huge British tours were undertaken by the likes of Muddy Waters, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Howlin’ Wolf, and Junior Wells. This release in the American Folk-Blues Festivals gathers footage from these tours, providing an amazing document of a historic time.

via American Folk Blues Festivals 1963-1966: The British Tours – YouTube.

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