Is there even a way to say that 2020 has put us all through the wringer without sounding like a cliché at this point? Probably not. But boy, has it.
From booksellers to restaurants to boutiques, no business in L.A. has made it through this year unscathed. That s why we designed this holiday shop-small guide, to spotlight our favorite local businesses, makers and products. These shops reflect everything that makes this city great, places that have, despite the Amazon explosion, kept L.A. from turning into a wasteland of big box stores and Walmart parking lots. These are items that you might not find anywhere else from vendors who after this tumultuous year could certainly use some love.
Chicago 7 Art by Mr. Fish.
“The Trial of the Chicago 7,” an Aaron Sorkin film that recently aired on Netflix, brought an important chapter in the history of American activism to screens around the globe. Based on real events, the film dramatizes the 1969 trial of eight activists who were arrested during the Vietnam War protests that took place in Chicago at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, Lee Weiner, John Froines, and Bobby Seale were all charged with attempted incitement of a riot after the Chicago Police Department, under orders from then Mayor Richard Daley, brutally repressed the summer demonstrations. Jon Wiener, the author of “Conspiracy in the Streets: The Extraordinary Trial of the Chicago Seven,” joins Robert Scheer on the latest installment of “Scheer Intelligence” to discuss the case and the Sorkin film.
designed to hurt hillary clinton. representative nunes recently admitted that fbi personnel secretly informed him in september of 2016 when clinton e-mails were found on wiener s laptop. he admitted that fact. he did that days after the e-mails were discovered. there was a leak to him. the timing an context strongly suggested that the goal was to give an outspoken trump ally politically sensitive and highly secretive information to use 4 political purposes. representative nunes appears to have recognized this fact because he never told any of his democratic colleagues on the intelligence committee about it. can you assure us there s no leaks for unauthorized disclo
hillary clinton. we don t know a bloody thing. it s unfair. do you think it s hillary clinton s own fault that this whole e-maile-mail story keeps back to life? she said she made a mistake and she did. the campaign last year i was on record as saying the campaign didn t handle this well. they should have been transparent. these may all be duplicates for all we know. these may be things that were turned over. to blame them for this without knowing what s in there and what they pertain to is i now understand from yahoo! that the director didn t see one of the e-mails himself. there are two head pretty shocking. two headlines i want to post out. first, abedin unsure how clinton e-mails wound up on wiener s computer. abedin swore she gave up all devices containing state department e-mails. how do you read this? i really don t want to
those comparisons and whether the public was moved on all that. i think weiner s gone so beyond the pale it s over. i agree with these guys. the question is, for a lot of us, who care a lot about new york, i lived there for a while, it s a weak field. a lot of good liberal democrats but is somebody exceptional? i think it s a pretty thin group. before we go to a break, the polling in new york indicating right now that anthony weiner is in a different position. in june, 25%, now at 16. quinn is the leader at this point. others like thompson who have called on wiener to get out of the race where we are at the moment. we re going to take a break here. we ll switch gears when we come back. more with our political roundtable, the washington fight over the economy, congress, the white house, the debt ceiling, funding the government. more with our panel after this.