2016 U.S. Presidential Race: No Transparency: CBS News Doctors Their Video & Interview With Bill Clinton - " A Race To the Bottom Of The Barrel" : Current Poll Results of 2016 Presidential Race - - UPDATES 09/14 : " New Study Debunks Mexico's Line on Ayotzinapa Students, Again" - "Mexican Official Leading Ayotzinapa Investigation Resigns"

And that isn't the only thing these two bozos have in common...don't fool yourselves Mexico, Hillary voted for the extension  and tightening of the border wall and against real immigration reform, doh.  Note: Still no real coverage in the Mexican MSM of Dr. Jill Stein.

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One of the complaints against the 2016 U.S. Presidential election is that the corporate press has glamorized and promoted their favored candidate (Hillary Clinton), showcased and actually helped give popularity to another (Donald Trump), defamed and  minimized a third (Bernie Sanders) and completely ignored 'third party' candidates except in the case of Dr. Jill Stein where it was widely reported that arrest warrants for her and her running mate had been issued in North Dakota for their participation in the anti-Dakota Pipeline protests.


It is fair to say that in the MSM Mexico press 'third party' U.S. candidates are completely ignored, Donald Trump is well hated (which he should be), but there is not a great deal of investigative reporting on Hillary Clinton - so in essence, she is favored having almost gained Sainthood. This next report concerning CBS News will never be found in the Mexican press.


Keeping in mind the U.S. favoritism and censorship of the 2016 U.S. Presidential contest, it should not come as a surprise that CBS News edited the recent transcript and video clip of Bill Clinton discussing Hillary's health after her collapse on 09/11:



The Hill (BTW, you can have their reports sent to your email for all the latest)

 CBS News edits transcripts of video clip of Bill Clinton discussing Hillary's health

As expected:

" Three IT specialists involved with Hillary Clinton’s private email server on Tuesday refused to testify before the House Oversight Committee on deletions of some of Clinton’s emails.

One of these three, Bryan Pagliano — the former State Department employee who set up the server — defied a subpoena and failed to appear at the hearing altogether. The other two, engineers at the outside firm that managed Clinton’s server, appeared under subpoena but invoked their Fifth Amendment rights in response to every question. "

The Hill

Clinton IT aide pleads Fifth, skips hearing

Bryan Pagliano is especially good at pleading the fifth, he's had lots of practice.  Oh what the heck, right?  After all it is his constitutional right.

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Wait a minute, are Brian Pagliano and/or his associates somehow related to Johnny Dio ?

UPDATE/EDIT 09/15: Added:  Latest Polls of U.S. Presidential Race


Of course it can be argued that polls are a pain in the neck: who takes the poll, what type of poll, the general nature of the questions asked, the demographic nature of the poll, etc.  Still polls can be interesting and unfortunately in many cases, persuasive.


That said, Mike's opinion of this entire Presidential race (and being a Federal employee he cannot even have a "2016: We Are Screwed" bumper sticker on his car ) is probably the best description I have heard to date.  Mike says of this 2016 U.S. Presidential election:  "It is a race to the bottom of the barrel." For Spanish speaking people who do not understand this idiom, "bottom of the barrel" means the least desirable.  I know, your modismos are more poetic.


In Mexico we are reading and hearing about the overwhelming unpopularity of Pena Nieto and his administration but there is little to no focus on the incredible distrust and unpopularity of both Trump and Clinton in the United States.  Let's take a look at the current status of the U.S. Presidential candidates Clinton and Trump  in various polls- and I need to add that even if Clinton pulls this off and actually wins in November it will hardly be a Truman-esque victory despite the outcome of upcoming "debates" (which we all know are pure bullshit).



From Common Dreams: Many people argue that even though this article is probably true, it may also be an effort to sway voters away from third party candidates like Jill Stein or write-ins for Bernie Sanders (the sell out King) to change their plans and vote for Clinton out of pure desperation.  Not so for us.


'President Donald Trump': Latest Polls Indicate Clinton Could Actually Lose This Thing


From The Hill:

Polls Darken For The Democrats

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FROM MEXICO:



UPDATES/EDIT 09/14:  From teleSur:  Go to the link to watch videos and read related reports:

"New Study Debunks Mexico's Line on Ayotzinapa Students, Again" 



 Pasted Translation:

New Study Debunks Mexico's Line on Ayotzinapa Students, Again

A fire scientist found no evidence of a blaze large enough to consume the bodies of the 43 disappeared students. 

A new independent study is the latest forensic evidence to rebut the Mexican government’s claim that the 43 disappeared Ayotzinapa students were burned in a garbage dump, lending credence to claims by human rights groups that authorities have conspired to cover up the truth to conceal their own complicity.

OPINION:
'It Was the State': Unmasking the Official Ayotzinapa Narrative

The 43 teacher-trainee students at the Ayotzinapa school disappeared Sept. 26, 2014 while en route from the violence-plagued state of Guerrero to attend a commemoration ceremony in Mexico City. The government’s official version of events asserts that local police apprehended the students, who had commandeered a bus to travel to a protest, and handed them over to the gang known as Guerreros Unidos, who authorities claim killed the students and burned their bodies in a garbage dump nearly 20 miles south of the town of Iguala. Their remains, they contend, were later dumped in the San Juan River near the town of Cocula.


Forensic evidence, fire investigations, and satellite images have repeatedly cast doubt on the government’s claims.

Another scientist, Australian-based researcher Jose Torero, conducted an experiment using pig caracsses to represent human bodies, Science magazine reported Tuesday. Torero concluded that the immense size of a blaze necessary to burn 43 people was simply not possible in the dump, as each pig carcass added to the inferno decreased its strength, rather than fueling it. A fire big enough to consume 43 bodies, Torero concluded, would've required nearly 60,000 pounds of wood, and there is no evidenced that the dump contained such volume.

OPINION:
Criminalizing the Victims: The Latest Anti-Ayotzinapa Strategy

The government's official narrative has been challenged repeatedly, and ferociously, by family members of the 43 students, human rights advocates, and independent experts formerly involved in the case on behalf of the Inter-American Human Rights Commission. Forensic analyses done on packages of ashes, which federal investigators said they collected from the San Juan River, failed to link the evidence definitively to the 43 victims.


Meanwhile, a federal prosecutor announced Tuesday that the Ayotzinapa investigation has expanded to look into the role of state and federal police, finally acting on calls from family members and independent experts to do so. Special prosecutor Alfredo Higuera told Reuters that investigators took 100 new statements from 19 federal police officers and 39 Guerrero officers in recent weeks.


Throughout the ordeal, family members and supporters continue to protest the government and demand a thorough investigation as the two-year anniversary of the mass disappearance approaches. Relatives of more than 28,000 missing people in Mexico rallied Tuesday in Mexico City to pressure authorities to act decisively by passing new legislation to address the explosion in violence.
The 43 Ayotzinapa students has become an emblem of the crisis of forced disappearance and government corruption in Mexico and attracted widespread international attention. Human rights defenders have stressed that, as a symbolic case, justice for Ayotzinapa is key in the broader fight against systemic violence, forced disappearances, and impunity in Mexico.

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Central America & Mexico Mexico Politics Human rights Ayotzinapa Mexico disappearances and human rights abuses

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 UPDATE/EDIT 09/14:  From teleSur, click the link to watch the video and read related reports:


"Mexico Official Leading Ayotzinapa Investigation Resigns"


Pasted Translation:

News > Latin America

Mexican Official Leading Ayotzinapa Investigation Resigns

Mexico’s director of criminal investigations, responsible for overseeing the Ayotzinapa case, resigned on Wednesday shortly after a new independent study debunked the government narrative on the disappearance of the 43 student teachers.

OPINION:
'It Was the State': Unmasking the Official Ayotzinapa Narrative

During his tenure as director of the Agency of Criminal Investigations, Tomas Zeron de Lucio worked on several controversial cases, Ayotzinapa being the most famous.

 

Forty-three teacher-trainee students at the Ayotzinapa school disappeared on Sept. 26, 2014 while en route from the violence-plagued state of Guerrero to Mexico City. The government’s official version of events asserts that local police apprehended the students, who had commandeered a bus to travel to a protest, and handed them over to a gang known as Guerreros Unidos, who authorities claim killed the students and burned their bodies in a garbage dump nearly 20 miles south of the town of Iguala. Their remains, the government contends, were later dumped in the San Juan River near the town of Cocula.

Forensic evidence, fire investigations, and satellite images, however, have repeatedly cast doubt on the government’s claims. 

The attorney general will investigate Zeron de Lucio’s investigation of the events, the government said Wednesday. Zeron de Lucio had previously refused to resign, as was demanded by Ayotzinapa organizers, sticking with his defense that he adhered to protocol.

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Mexico Mexico disappearances and human rights abuses Central America & Mexico Ayotzinapa Politics

P.S. Despite the promoters unwillingness to accept it, the fact is that gringos are not returning to and buying into Mexico not only because of the outrageous drug war violence and crime but also because of gross human rights abuses and an institutionalized system of denial in Mexico: it scares them. Americans don't even find either U.S. Presidential candidate trustworthy, why in the world would they want to jump from the frying pan into the fire ? 

Staggering numbers of executions on the way.


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