The Daily Blog Open Mic Tuesday 21st April 2015

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  2. I know, I might even bother to watch the news to see whether the powers deem it entertaining enough to bring it up and give the Nats a roasting on breaking another election promise and hurting kids and families at the same time.

    The Nats really are disgusting.

  3. More on Hillary Clinton…is she a hawk?..is she a flakey?…is she any different from the Republicans?

    http://rt.com/shows/crosstalk/249785-us-elections-clinton-rubio/

    “During the epic political spectacle known as the American presidential election, billions of dollars will be raised and spent. The air waves will be inundated with seemingly competing messages. But at the end of the day is there really any difference between Hillary Clinton and Marco Rubio?”

    CrossTalking with Jessica Tarlov, Stephen Yates, and George Szamuely.

  4. Been pondering a bit on how perpetual wars are supported by the corporate owned main stream media with all their fear mongering and photos meant to numb us down, etc. I just read the below interview with Abby Martin who used to be with “Breaking the Set”. Interesting.
    An information war is on and the West / US are threatened by Russia news and journalism. People are moving towards media and journalism that tells the truth ( and both sides ) and has no need to lie and spread fear based propaganda. The corporate media are loosing and the truth is coming out no matter how many more millions the west plans to spend soon to combat Russian journalism who are presently ———–
    —————- ” winning the information war. ” ————–

    http://mediaroots.org/rt-vs-msm-propaganda-amidst-the-new-cold-war/

  5. The Guardian seems to have twigged that many of its readers are getting a bit bored by the micro-analysis of every move in the UK election. So they’ve started directing non-UK/US/Oz traffic to an International beta version. Usually, I’ve just been going to TGOz, but I probably wouldn’t have seen this Seattle-based article there:

    If federal change is slow, Caulkins [Stever professor of operations research at Carnegie Mellon University] said, then industry will begin to mature in something of a bubble, with big consumer firms in other industries – tobacco or nutrition supplements, perhaps even the alcohol conglomerates – forced to wait on the sidelines until cannabis becomes legal under federal law.

    “How much they’re salivating right now,” he said, “is anybody’s guess.”

    “If the national legislation doesn’t happen for 10 years,” Caulkins said, “that increases the likelihood that the players that end up being large in the cannabis market are ones that are grown within the cannabis market.”…

    the best-guess $50bn valuation of the cannabis market isn’t predictive. It’s already that big. And almost all of it is still illegal.

    The vast majority of the illicit cannabis market has long been controlled by Mexican cartels… “You’re starting to see the cartels get out of the cannabis industry,”… “[The cartels] are good at crime, good at smuggling; they are not good at farming, packaging or managing a marketing campaign.”…

    The market is still unpredictable. John Quelch is a Harvard Business School professor who has studied the marketing of cannabis in Colorado since legalisation.

    “What’s really interesting about the legal marijuana market is that 50% of sales are in edibles,” he said. “This basically means that there is a new segment of consumers who find the concept of smoking a joint somewhat grubby, but if you ingest it through cookies or a drink that is better.”

    Martin said that cannabis “could go the way of the wine industry”.

    http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/apr/20/marijuana-entrepreneurs-business-legalized-industry

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