Wednesday in the Age of Reason-Munchausen (1988)

One of May’s senior advisers, Jim Messina, who was Barack Obama’s campaign manager in 2012, derided the YouGov projection later on Wednesday.

https://theintercept.com/2017/05/31/uk-polls-tighten-jeremy-corbyn-mocks-theresa-may-refusing-attend-debate/

United States weighs backing the United Arab Emirates (UAE) plan to seize Hodeidah, it should consider that it could find itself not only potentially complicit in war crimes, but also closely aligned with one of UAE’s key strategic partners sustaining its war efforts in Yemen: Eritrea, a country subject to United Nations sanctions and alleged to have committed crimes against humanity against its population.

https://www.justsecurity.org/41450/uaes-military-naval-reliance-eritrea-war-yemen-riskier-u-s/

“His sentence was reduced by 10 years, and he was later declared a prisoner of war, allowing him access to a telephone, more visiting hours and even a small salary, among other perks.”

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/05/us-military-admits-failures-to-monitor-over-1-billion-worth-of-arms-transfers/

But even among the lengthy list of failings outlined the book, one stands out as particularly flabbergasting: Clinton’s, and by extension her campaign’s, failure to formulate an actual vision for her campaign and presidency.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2017/05/shattered-hillary-clinton-campaign-defeat-trump

Tim Kaine, whose dullness was his chief benefit.

Obama was trying to point out that people respond when you demonstrate that you don’t believe they’re unredeemable.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/features/taibbi-the-democrats-need-a-new-message-w484569

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-05/27/content_29532756.htm

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-05/27/content_29532756.htm

Or that ‘testing’ proves almost nothing. and is a huge waste. he did not test himself.

http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/how-finland-created-one-of-the-best-educational-systems-in-the-world-by-doing-the-opposite-of-u-s.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+OpenCulture+%28Open+Culture%29