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Happy Thanksgiving to our protectors at Standing Rock.

In North Dakota, right now is the largest gathering of Native American tribes since 1876 at the Battle of Little Bighorn - also known as Custer’s Last Stand. If you don’t know that story, spoiler alert - it doesn’t end well for Custer. As these land and water protectors brave the cold, give mind to them as we enjoy all that has been given to us.

I love Thanksgiving. I love the food, I love the family and the friends, I love the atmosphere. I love the feeling about how proud I am to be American. It’s true, it’s not hokey. Family. Friends. Warm food, warm feelings. Nothing in this moment can stir that. Except in realizing that we risk continuing to bastardize this day in not acknowledging the great sacrifice American Indians have paid for us. Dakota means “ally” or “friend”. Give thanks for the land you stand on, because as the good Lord makes us stewards of the earth, it is the land of the original natives that we give thanks for. And somehow this fight continues on and on.

Support Standing Rock at www.standwithstandingrock.net. Make a phone call, sign the petition, write a check.

Music provided by the Free Music Archive with Creative Commons Licensing. Today’s music is from The Daizy Factory.

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Category:Comedy and News Analysis -- posted at: 11:55am CET

This is my real, raw, unedited reaction from the election from Donald Trump to the United States of America.

I still cannot believe it, but it is very, very real. Get involved.

Do something.

BE THE CHANGE.

email me greg@majorityvillain.com if you are like many who KNOW they need to be a part of that change, but do not know where to start. Welcome to the family.

Direct download: President_Elect_Donald_J_Trump.mp3
Category:Comedy and News Analysis -- posted at: 8:25pm CET

As the 2016 presidential election comes to a close there remains at least one thing most Americans can agree on — we are glad it is almost over.


(Featured photo courtesy of Ted Eytan on Flickr)

Their candid antithesis makes most think they are deeply opposed candidates, but in the end they may not be as different as you think. Just reflect on what they haven’t discussed in the debate! Aside from a handful of minutes about climate change, nothing about Afghanistan, not one critique of Israel’s settlements in Palestine, Standing Rock and #NoDAPL, Yemen, Black Lives Matter, police violence, or economic inequality? Crickets.
That’s because the Commission on Presidential Debates or CPD limit competition from outside candidates, and because the Democrats and Republicans own the CPD, we only ever see Dems/GOP debate.
Frank Fahrenkopf Jr. helped to found the CPD and push out the League of Women Voters… He’s still there today, but it might surprise you to learn he served as president of the American Gaming Association, worked for a firm supporting the TPP and TTIP, and even sits on the board of directors for 7 NYSE companies heavily invested in media - all during his tenure as CPD chair. Wow.

http://sirrealdeal.newsvine.com/_news/2015/11/01/34582184-statement-by-nancy-m-neuman-president-league-of-women-voters-league-of-women-voters

http://www.revolvy.com/main/index.php?s=Hogan%20%26%20Hartson&item_type=topic


http://www.opensecrets.org/lobby/firmsum.php?id=D000059877&year=2013


http://www.hoganlovellsbrexit.com/_uploads/downloads/Brexit_shaping_your_future_IV.pdf


http://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/person.asp?personId=1147597&privcapId=226571820&previousCapId=6859654&previousTitle=The%20Gabelli%20Dividend%20&%20Income%20Trust


http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/10/climate-change-got-exactly-2-seconds-time-final-debate


Email greg@majorityvillain.com and Twitter @majorityvillain.

Direct download: Robbing_America__The_CPD.mp3
Category:Comedy and News Analysis -- posted at: 7:40pm CET

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