The protesters are in desperate need of more support as police turn
to riot suppression tactics commonly used in authoritarian
dictatorships. Since beatings, mass arrests, and targeted sexual humiliation
has failed to break the spirit of the protesters, they have turned to
outright violence, using water cannons to soak protesters in freezing
temperatures and unleashing brutal fusillades of rubber bullets and
concussion grenades.
Hundreds have been injured from bullet fire. One protester will lose
her arm after a grenade detonation sliced through her muscles in a
gruesome fashion. Five to six hundred have been treated for hypothermia
after being hit by water cannons. The veterans, however, are undaunted
at the prospect of violence. “Bring Body armor, gas masks, earplugs AND
shooting mufflers (we may be facing a sound cannon) but no drugs,
alcohol or weapons” reads the Facebook page.
For nearly six years, Speaker Paul D. Ryan
has championed the new approach, denounced by Democrats as
“voucherizing” Medicare. Representative Tom Price of Georgia, the House
Budget Committee chairman and a leading candidate to be Mr. Trump’s
secretary of health and human services, has also embraced the idea,
known as premium support.
Green party presidential candidate seeks donations to fund efforts in
Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin over ‘compelling evidence of voting
anomalies’
Stein said she was acting due to “compelling evidence of
voting anomalies” and that data analysis had indicated “significant
discrepancies in vote totals” that were released by state authorities. “These concerns need to be investigated before the 2016
presidential election is certified,” she said in a statement. “We
deserve elections we can trust.” Read the rest