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🕯️🗽 Norman Finkelstein ✨ -- 📢 "I can't vote for (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-211123142300.jpeg)them. They murdered 15,000 children"
https://youtu.be/Mk22FFGmBVc
Let's Just Talk with Hammi 3.9K subscribers Nov 1, 2024 #MilitaryStrategy #NormanFinkelstein #MiddleEastCrisis
In this insightful episode, I sit down with political scientist and author Norman Finkelstein to discuss the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the implications of the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Finkelstein examines the progression of Israel’s military strategy toward Gaza, tracing it from past operations to the current crisis, and offers his perspective on the U.S. candidates and what their potential leadership means for the future of American foreign policy in the Middle East and elsewhere.
Join us as Finkelstein shares his unfiltered analysis on one of today’s most urgent issues, providing historical context and a candid look at what’s ahead.
Hashtags: #NormanFinkelstein #GazaGenocide #Palestine #Israel #USPolitics #2024Election #FreePalestine #HumanRights #MiddleEastCrisis #USForeignPolicy #EndTheOccupation #IsraelPalestineConflict #GlobalJustice #MilitaryStrategy #PeaceInTheMiddleEast #PoliticalAnalysis #BreakingNews
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https://youtu.be/qq0JQuo5-Nk
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‘You Can’t Create a Revolution within a Counter-Revolutionary Party’ – Dr. Jill Stein Speaks to The Palestine Chronicle
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US Presidential Candidate 🕊️ Dr. Jill Stein. (Photo: Karan Singh, The Palestine Chronicle)
“We have two greater evil candidates; there is no lesser evil .. We are at the tipping point. It feels like we’re closer now than ever before.” – Dr. Jill Stein
Every four years, politicians and lobbyists urge citizens of the United States to participate in the “most important elections” in the history of the country. Whereas 2024 is no different in that regard, there is in fact a now-or-never sense of urgency looming over the current race to the White House.
On the other side of the world, far removed from the average American’s direct line of sight, Palestine and Lebanon remain in a state of bloody unrest at the hands of the Israeli government.
What’s unique about this ordeal is that social media users and independent media outlets based in the region have been broadcasting the war crimes taking place there on a day-to-day basis, leaving no doubts about the callousness of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s leadership.
For that reason, Netanyahu’s assaults on the surrounding civilian population are crucial to the upcoming elections since the violence in question has always been funded by US taxpayer dollars.
Privy to this pressing threat of war and its broader implications, Dr. Jill Stein has once again stepped up as the presidential candidate for the Green Party in an attempt to put an end to the vicious crusade the Democrats and Republicans are set to persist in.
Her unabated denunciation of the Joe Biden–Kamala Harris administration illustrates that not all Jewish people are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jewish — accordingly, Palestinian liberation is at the center of her campaign for People, Planet and Peace.
On Saturday, October 26, the veteran humanitarian passed through Southern California for the Alex Odeh Memorial Banquet.
Following her speech at the event, Dr Stein spoke to the Palestine Chronicle about her unyielding fight for civil liberties not just in the United States but across the globe.
https://youtu.be/w_5EyqOQsEc
The fact that you’re Jewish and your running mate is Muslim adds a great deal of credibility to your advocacy for Palestinian liberation. What can you tell us about the Jewish solidarity with Gaza that you’ve witnessed on the campaign trail?
From the very start, you had Jewish Voice For Peace out there with the students at the campus protests. At Columbia University, there was a huge community Seder for Passover at the Gaza solidarity encampment. It’s wonderful to see that the opponents of genocide and advocates for Palestinian human rights are basically advocates for humanity, and they’ve made it clear that this is not a religious conflict. Jews and Muslims and Christians and atheists and humanists are all together in this shared cause for humanity, so the notion that it’s antisemitic to oppose genocide, in my view, is the most antisemitic thing one could possibly say.
The issue has never been a conflict of religions; the issue is a matter of Zionism, which is a political ideology basically dedicated to moving people off their land and claiming it. From the get-go, it’s been about ethnic cleansing and massacres that were being conducted against the Palestinian people before the State of Israel was even founded. The world has come to a consensus about how to solve that problem, including the rulings of the International Court of Justice, the United Nations Security Council, etc. People are really quite unified in understanding what needs to be done — we need compliance with international law and human rights, and we need to end not only the genocide but also the occupation as well as the apartheid nature of the Israeli Zionist state.
You were born not long after the Nazi Holocaust, so you remember a world in which Israel existed for decades before Hamas did. How central is Hamas truly to the turmoil in Palestine today?
Not at all. Hamas is just the latest form of resistance. Occupation is not some innocent incidental; it is about abuse and displacement. It is a murderous and vicious way of life, so occupation will generate pushback, like the institution of slavery did. That’s just reality — people may not like that, but if you don’t like that, then you have to fix the underlying cause of it. The Palestinian Liberation Organization were considered the “terrorists” before Hamas, but this is all essentially a resistance to occupation and ethnic cleansing.
Christians, Jews and Muslims lived together peacefully in historic Palestine for millennia. The problem did not arise until Zionists came from Europe and basically began to displace Palestinians. According to the historic archives of the Zionist state, the propaganda surrounding Israel was not true. Israeli historians led the way in surfacing this material and the fact that Zionism was a system of displacement and ethnic cleansing by design. That is the problem. Whether it’s Hamas or some other group, there will be resistance to occupation and ethnic cleansing, so let’s get rid of that resistance by getting rid of the fundamental violation of human rights generating that self-defense.
There seems to be a tug of war over progressive values based on what Israel represents to different groups. How do you respond to people who claim that uncompromising support for Palestinian liberation is tantamount to excusing sexual assault and the oppression of women?
Oh, well that’s been debunked a long time ago. There’s absolutely no evidence that has held up (proving) that the October 7 attacks involved the systematic abuse of women or **** — that didn’t hold up any more than beheaded babies or women having their breasts cut off or the fetuses sliced open from the abdomen of pregnant women. That basically did not hold up, whatsoever.
You know, the abuse of women is totally out of control now, where women are being slaughtered along with children by the thousands in Gaza. That’s where women are actually really being abused and destroyed, so I don’t think this is about trying to single out the violence of October 7. Really, (the region) is so overwhelmed by this unending violence that has happened since October 7 and before October 7. I think trying to narrowly focus on October 7 is just misguided, and people who do that have their eyes closed to the much larger situation. You should not miss the forest for the trees here.
We can absolutely solve this problem of violence, so let’s get focused on that — how we stop the violence and how we prevent the recurrent episodes of violence here by basically putting an end to the systematic abuse of human rights and the massacres of women and children and innocent civilians, and displacement and ethnic cleansing as a way of life. That’s what has to happen. We need compliance with international law and human rights, and when we do that, the other problems will go away.
https://youtu.be/hXYpzhJC7o8
You’ve previously said that the United States can end Israel’s ongoing onslaughts in the blink of an eye. How do you pull the plug on an active operation that so many politicians helped enable?
The fortunate thing is that the American people oppose this in huge numbers. That this genocide is being conducted by our colonial misleaders against the will and intentions of the American people is a violation of basic democratic principles.
Three sets of American laws are being violated by delivering aid to Israel. It is illegal to send aid to any country that is violating human rights, interfering with the delivery of humanitarian aid and not complying with the nuclear weapons treaties — Israel is in violation of the Treaty On The Non-Proliferation Of Nuclear Weapons. On all three counts, providing military aid to Israel is illegal.
Ever since October 7 of last year, the government of Israel has killed thousands of innocent Palestinians, extended that violence to Lebanon and is now on the brink of war with Iran. What do you believe Netanyahu is trying to accomplish here?
He’s trying to stay out of jail. He wants the war to keep going so that the corruption case against him will not come into action. I think he has personal motives here, which may be the most important thing to him, but he has also always kind of pursued a greater Israel through expansion. He’s been begging for a war with Iran for decades.
The man does not have an honest bone in his body. His assassination of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of Hezbollah, took place after Nasrallah had agreed to a ceasefire. In a similar way, they knocked off Ismail Haniyeh, the very moderate negotiator for Hamas. Bibi Netanyahu is very much opposed to anything that would advance the peace process.
What does Israel moving farther and farther away from a peace process entail for the United States?
There hasn’t been much discussion or reporting about the draft, but it was actually reenacted a couple of years ago. Now, people are being automatically registered for it. They won’t be called up until the president decides that we’re at war and we need bodies. How horrific would that be if we start paying not only in money and weapons but also in blood? Biden has expressed support for whatever Israel does — the baton for commander-in-chief has basically been passed to Bibi Netanyahu, who’s been given free rein to do what he wants, so it’s very much of concern.
There’s this notion that Kamala Harris is bad but Donald Trump is far worse. Would the Middle East look any different under a Republican presidency or do you think it’s already as bad as it can get?
How much worse can it get than the genocide that’s being conducted right now? I mean, you could nuke Palestine. Will Trump do that? Who knows? To me, it’s just such propaganda to say that one is better or worse than the other. The current administration is committing genocide right now, and Harris is a part of that. Then, you have Donald Trump saying that he’ll finish the job, but who knows what that means because he’s also trying to sell himself as a peace president right now. You’d be a fool to believe either of them. We should not be in the business of measuring genocides against each other.
So yeah, Donald Trump did interfere with the peaceful transition of power after the last election, but the Democrats try to throw political competition off the ballot. That’s not okay either. We don’t have to wait for Donald Trump for fascism to arrive in this country when the heads of peaceful protesters are being bashed in on college campuses simply because they are expressing the will of the people and the rulings of the International Court of Justice. Making a case for Donald Trump being better or worse is absolutely nonsense. We have two greater evil candidates; there is no lesser evil.
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There are Democrats such as Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar who have taken a stance similar to yours on Palestine. Do you feel an affinity with them or view their involvement with the Blue Party as still being part of the problem?
I think they’re definitely part of the solution, but they would accomplish a lot more if they weren’t encumbered by the Democratic Party, which is going to pull the rug out from under them. We have to build power at every turn, because where did Bernie Sanders go with his campaign? He headed the budget committee, but everything he did there was basically dumbed down and tossed out. You can’t create a revolution within a counter-revolutionary party. There are just too many mechanisms within — you are accountable to big money and to a leadership that will not provide you appointments, committee membership or the money that they distribute. You’re essentially powerless if you’re trying to fight for the right thing from inside the Democratic Party, which simply isn’t based on those principles.
We don’t have time to keep shilly-shallying around and watching Bernie Sanders get savaged twice. I think it should have been enough for anybody to see that was the best they could possibly do, and even the best didn’t amount to a hill of beans. If you try to run a campaign with integrity as a Democrat or Republican, every trace of it disappears once it is over. We have a grassroots party that is not controlled by money. The Green Party doesn’t accept big money or use any of the loopholes for legalized corruption — there are a whole lot of those loopholes, but we don’t use them. We are what we say we are and we’ll do what we say we’ll do, which the other parties don’t. We’re trying to encourage people to break off this abusive political relationship that they’re in right now.
The United States is directly responsible for reducing Gaza to rubble over the past year. Do you also consider it the country’s responsibility to remedy those damages and help rebuild the Strip?
Absolutely. I mean, who else is going to do it? The parties responsible have to do it, which is the State of Israel and the US. There are also others who’ve chipped in and sold weapons to Israel. France just pledged 100 million euros in support of Lebanon, so that’s a start. We need both humanitarian aid as well as reconstruction, and they have to happen emergently. It’s a tragedy that this magnificent and historic place has been purposefully destroyed.
What do you believe is the actual reason behind the United States’ undying support for Israel?
Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger said it very well: Israel is the unsinkable battleship for the US in the Middle East. Why does the US need a battleship? To control Middle Eastern oil. That is really an application of the United States’ basic foreign-policy framework, which has been described as “full-spectrum dominance.” We must dominate all resources as well as all potential areas of conflict and competition — that is our country’s foreign policy in a nutshell.
It’s absolutely disastrous and it still applies. On that account, we are headed toward nuclear war on three fronts right now, and we’re not going to get out of here alive if that’s allowed to persist.
Do you support a two-state solution or a one-state solution?
Right now, we have one apartheid state; I think we need one democracy. As for a two-state solution, the logical question would be to ask how that would look different from what we have now. Palestine now has representation and strong support in the United Nations, but can that work when it hasn’t for so many decades? Ultimately, it’s hard to believe this is going to get solved without one democratic state that brings justice, equality and dignity to all its citizens.
The United States government pumps billions of dollars into the Israeli military every year. Based on the plans you’ve charted out for your presidency and the data you have about these spendings, what issues within the US could that money be used for instead?
We’re spending half of our congressional budget on the endless war machine and the Pentagon. If you add up the costs of taking care of our wounded soldiers for the Veterans Administration, nuclear weapons as part of the Department Of Energy, the FBI, customs and border protection, it’s more like 60–65% of the budget. It is just like robbing us blind, so we need to cut that budget at least in half and put those dollars into healthcare for everyone through a Medicare for All system. We bailed out the crooks on Wall Street, so we can bail out victims of that same economy by putting an end to student and medical debt. We need at least 15 million units of quality, environmentally sound housing — so-called “social housing.” And of course, we need a Green New Deal to combat the climate crisis.
Right now, power is held by politicians who are unaccountable to the people. They are bought and paid for by AIPAC, war profiteers and Wall Street, so it behooves the American people to stand up for what it is that we want and need. The genocide itself is a microcosm of our imperial foreign policy, which has left no money to treat the emergencies that Americans are dealing with. 50% of Americans right now are struggling to keep a roof over their heads and meet their monthly rent or mortgage. 50% are within one or two paychecks of being evicted, and the number of people who are subject to eviction and homelessness are absolutely skyrocketing now.
That’s just one issue. We also need rent control. We need a tenant bill of rights. There are many things that can be done, some of which need resources while others don’t, but our government is instead serving the real estate industry and private equity that is buying our homes, taking them off the market and driving the prices up. The system that is serving the war profiteers right now is also serving Big Pharma and health insurance companies.
One out of every three eligible voters did not vote in the 2020 presidential race. Who are those voters? They are younger, lower income and of color — the people who are the most marginalized are not voting because the zombies being rammed down their throats do not serve their interests. There’s a lot of voting power out there if we can get the word out. As a grassroots campaign, we encourage people to volunteer because it’s all about phone banking, flyers, door knocking and tabling to just get the word out and let people know that we can stop the genocide in Gaza and the endless war machine. We can stop the squandering of a trillion dollars a year that should be cut in half so we have the funds here at home for public higher education and to ensure that there’s a $25-an-hour minimum wage. The war abroad is also a war at home, against democracy and against working people.
MSNBC, CBS and The New York Times are just some of the major outlets that have published alarmist articles about your presidential bid. How important a role do you think the mainstream media has played in hindering your reach across the country?
I think they’re doing us a favor. Every time they smear us, more and more people wake up. To tell you the truth, I don’t read the articles because I don’t really care what they think. They’ve been saying the same stuff about me for a long time because they’re very scared, and I consider it quite an achievement that they’re now taking out these really dumb ads against me. If you read the social-media commentary about the attacks against us, people are pretty furious for the most part … except when it’s a dedicated Democrat audience, like MSNBC. These smears really push people in the opposite direction. For example, the YouTube comments under our interview with The Breakfast Club are just off the charts. It’s thousands and thousands of people saying, “I wasn’t going to vote, but now I’m going to register Green and vote for Jill Stein and Butch Ware.”
We are at the tipping point. The uprising is going really strong, more than I’ve ever seen. Now, it’s just a question of when we get to the breakthrough point. It feels like we’re closer now than ever before.
(The Palestine Chronicle)
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/you-cant-create-a-revolution-within-a-counter-revolutionary-party-dr-jill-stein-speaks-to-the-palestine-chronicle/
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Why Kamala Harris must be defeated
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For their role in underwriting these crimes against humanity, Biden and Harris alike deserve to be voted out of office – as a bare minimum punishment. Their pathological dishonesty and grotesque virtue signaling only add to their reprehensibility.
Anyone with a shred of morality must see this as a basic, irreversible red line.
Liberals will retort: What about Trump? Wouldn’t he be worse than Biden and Harris?
Frankly, it is a moral obscenity that so many of my fellow Americans can proclaim so blithely that there is something “worse” than an actively unfolding genocide.
But let us address the question directly. Today there is only one administration that is currently strategizing for simultaneous nuclear confrontation with China, Russia and North Korea.
There is only one administration that has made the reckless expansion of NATO the lynchpin of its foreign policy agenda.
And as Israel pushes for a full-scale war with Iran and Lebanon, the US is likely to become a direct participant: because there is one administration that has sent aircraft carrier strike groups to the region to protect Israel. That is the Biden-Harris administration.
On these terms, the Democratic Party’s leadership and army of willing functionaries must be treated not only as guilty of genocide but as a unique existential threat to humankind. ... ...
This does not excuse the Republican Party, which has been a joint partner with the Democrats in supporting and funding Israel’s genocidal rampage against the Palestinians.
But the fact remains that the Biden-Harris administration is uniquely responsible for the genocide in Gaza. Harris is not some powerless bystander in this equation. She is an active and willing participant in it. ... ...
It also means that Democratic Party elites recognize they must try to assuage the guilty consciences of some of their voters if they are to have a chance of beating Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, the Biden-Harris administration continues to arm the Israeli regime as it razes the Gaza Strip and assaults the West Bank; deliberately slaughters children, dawn worshippers and journalists; and provokes Iran and Hizballah, accelerating the current massive bombardment of Lebanon in the reckless hope of precipitating a regional war in western Asia. ... ...
Voters who are gravitating to the Republican Party are undergoing a distinctly different transition: toward a form of isolationism or imperial retreat. Each side has its own contradictions – especially when it comes to Israel – but the two constituencies are not exactly the same.
Indeed, the Democratic Party base’s opposition to the genocide in Gaza is the one glaring exception that clashes against the wider war agenda pushed by party elites. This exception is currently being drowned out by a much stronger impulse to support Harris, no matter the cost in Palestinian lives.
In the final analysis, those Americans and institutions that most embrace the ideology of empire, regardless of political affiliation, embody the most insidious and vicious form of white supremacy.
That said, Trump too must be held to account for his actions: from his embrace of Israeli Prime Minister (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-150224164602.png) Benjamin Netanyahu, to his urging of Israel to “get the ☠️ job done” quickly in Gaza, to his gloating that he has done more for Israel than any US president in history. His groveling toward the (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-120422122619-6812456.gif) Zionist forces in American society and global politics, exemplified by his dependence on the Adelson family for campaign funding, deserves unequivocal condemnation. ... ...
The last crucial element of this dynamic is that of America’s own history. ... ...
🗽 True freedom
It is for this reason that the Democratic Party has invested an enormous amount of energy to present itself as the torchbearer of that same legacy.
The attempt to portray Harris as the continuation of freedom fighters like Fannie Lou Hamer and Diane Nash is not merely a distortion of history. It is an ideological attack upon the American people at the exact moment when so many of us are reaching toward the memory of the Civil Rights movement as a resource and guide to help us in this moment of profound crisis. Here, Harris’ identity as a woman of color gives an air of legitimacy to the Democratic Party, as if it is steering us safely to progress, democracy and freedom. ... ...
Moreover, one must distinguish the Democrats’ (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622153114-13822364.jpeg)fatuous moral posturing today from the 🕯️ courageous moral choices once made by participants in the 1950s-’70s Black freedom movement to (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-230622123301.gif) struggle and sacrifice for the sake of humanity.
The Democratic Party is saying, in effect, that the legacy of the Civil Rights movement is compatible with war and genocide (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-110422162337.gif): a genocide whose architects are explicitly defending 💵🎩 Western civilization and white (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-110422205132-6451602.gif) supremacy. It does not take a genius to realize that this is a preposterous and exceedingly dangerous notion. (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-070223170821-21832348.png)
In taking his stand against the US war in Vietnam, 🕊️ Martin Luther King Jr. declared that war is the antithesis of democracy. He recognized that America’s (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202719-1406786.gif) rulers had become fundamentally more interested in managing and protecting an empire than upholding a basic social (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F3-250817122408.gif&hash=7369bd0259407468db21ed2f9126cf05bc33045e) contract with their own citizens.
Today, the US government’s unrelenting support for Israel as it undertakes a genocidal crusade – against the wishes of the majority of Americans – exposes the brutal truth of King’s message.
What it comes down to is this: Are we truly so powerless, so meekly acquiescent, that we will allow these atrocities to be performed in broad daylight, repeatedly, in our name? ... ...
In the immediate future, this must mean defeating Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party. Whether it means not voting, voting third party, or anything else, we must be willing to say – to both parties – that we do not accept the terms of their “democracy” of war. (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-050422133908.gif)
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https://electronicintifada.net/content/why-kamala-harris-must-be-defeated/49016
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AGelbert
It will be a cold day in Hell before either "Lawyer" Kamala Harris or "Finish the Job" Donald Trump even pay lip service to, never mind actually abidng by, INTERNATIONAL LAW:
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Carrefour is complicit in Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza and in its apartheid against Palestinians everywhere.
Earlier this month, we exposed the French retailer’s lies to its shareholders and the general public. During Carrefour’s AGM 2024, it assured its shareholders that it had not opened stores in the occupied Palestinian territory (OPT). Carrefour has at least one open branch in Modi'in-Maccabim-Re'ut — an Israeli settlement classified by the UN and even the EU as partially located on occupied Palestinian territory, a war crime under international law.
The ICJ historic ruling in July, finding Israel guilty of apartheid against Palestinians and maintaining an illegal occupation and annexation of Palestinian territory, has confirmed that ending the complicity of states, corporations and institutions with Israel’s regime of illegal occupation and apartheid is not just a moral obligation but also a legal one.
milo > AGelbert
The supreme irony is that Anthony Blinken insists we are fighting for an "international rules-based order".
AGelbert > milo
Well, if you carefully parse exactly what the "Rules" of the "Rules based order" Blinken claims to be defending ACTUALLY ARE, there is more Orwellian legerdemain to Blinken's posturing than irony:
Eric Weinstein quote (emojies and reference to Orwell by Agelbert 😁):
The rules-based international order is an interlocking series of agreements, tacit understandings, explicit understandings, and clandestine understandings about how the most 😈🎩 important structures"keep the world free of war" (SEE: ORWELL) and keep 💵🍌🐽markets open. There has been a system in place, whether understood explicitly or behind the scenes or implicitly, that says the purpose of the two American parties is to 🐍 prune the field of populist 🕯️🗽🕊 candidate[/b]s so that whatever two candidates exist in a faceoff are both acceptable to that world order.
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Orwell PREDICTED The Malice Aforethought "Rules-Based" International WAR for Profit "Order" (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/geopolitics/us-politics/msg2322/#msg2322)
milo > AGelbert
The most important of the rules is that the US reserves the exclusive right to break any of the rules. Other nations do not enjoy that privilege.
For example we categorically refuse to ever ne brought before the International Court of Justice. We are above that law.
AGelbert > milo
Yep. Mafia is US. Empires always go to Hell in a handbasket when they get so corrupt that they violate the social contract for the overwhelming majority of the populace. We are there.
It's genna get UGLIER and UGLIER as this monstrosity of a system continues to spasm with more and more drastic, socially destructive attemtps to maintain its "👿 We Da 🦍 Boss" Vulture Capitalist Fascist tyranny.
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🕯️🗽🕊️ Dr. Cornel West | UNAPOLOGETIC
https://youtu.be/KVRNS3VQAuE
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“That’s part of an (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202719-1406786.gif) empire that has grown rich and grown powerful but refuses to grow up” - Cornel West.
In an impassioned and lengthy conversation, Dr Cornel West unapologetically shares moments from his life that shaped him and his ideas and inspired his decision to run as a US presidential candidate.
He reflects on his upbringing in the West household, the influence that his parents had on him, how his grandmother was left to bleed to death on the stairs of a whites-only hospital at the age of 31 and how his uncle was lynched.
Dr West also speaks about the influence that Malcolm X and Dr Martin Luther King had on him, his years studying and teaching at Harvard, Princeton and Yale, and how the civil rights movement has evolved throughout his life. He addresses his “critical” support for and eventual disillusionment with Barack Obama, as well as the reasons behind his current presidential run, Israel’s war crimes in Gaza and the “hypocrisy”, “mendacity” and “criminality” of the US political system.
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00:00 - Intro and welcome
01:29 - Growing up in the West household (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-120422122257-657398.png)
11:04 - On Malcolm X and MLK and the impact they had on Prof West
14:32 - Student life at Ivy League schools in the 70s
19:50 - Harvard and the civil rights movement
26:34 - The (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-230124141201.png) US' philosophical (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-080822134118-17091258.gif)(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-020623123855-24412004.png) problem
30:14 - On becoming a globalist and getting arrested
35:47 - Conflict with 🐍 Lawrence Summers
46:21 - Overcoming cancer 👍 and 😒 Barack Obama
57:07 - Reviewing Obama, drone wars, Nafta
01:01:20 - Bernie, Trump and riots in the capital
01:04:45 - Why Cornel West is running for president
01:11:55 - What is real joy
01:19:17 - A year of campaigning
01:26:14 - Addressing controversies and death threats 😕
01:32:00 - Is your candidacy just making it more likely for Trump to win? (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-050422145218.gif)
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September 4, 2024
Campaigning Against Genocide
(w/ Dr. Jill Stein (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-110422180554-644315.gif) & Butch Ware (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-110422180554-644315.gif))
https://youtu.be/aO7RCSXakQ4
This interview is also available on Rumble and podcast platforms.
“Genocide is the moral imperative of our era,” declares Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein in this episode of The Chris Hedges Reports as she continues her campaign for the U.S. presidency. Joined by running mate, Professor Butch Ware, the two make their case as to why they should earn the vote of every disenfranchised American, stuck in the woes of personal domestic struggles and the atrocities committed abroad on their behalf by a self-serving empire.
Stein’s view is clear when looking at how the election is shaping up: “Forget the lesser evil, there is no lesser evil. You have two genocidal candidates, one conducting genocide right now and the other promising to finish the job.”
Stein and Ware hammer down that while the military-industrial complex may seem like a foreign policy issue, tackling it is key to unlocking solutions at the domestic level. Stein says the bloated defense budget, which reaches into the trillions of dollars when all expenditures are accounted for, is one of the primary obstacles she aims to take down. “This is why we are not providing for the health care, the housing, the education, getting people out of debt, dealing with the climate emergency, ending the carceral state and having a restorative system of justice and addressing the issues of poverty and hopelessness, which drive crime in the first place,” she explains.
Ware remarks that the dynamic between Americans who feel trapped into voting for Democrats out of fear of Trump is deeply toxic, fueled by the narcissism of the candidates themselves. “As soon as you sign on the dotted line, they get right back to business, murdering people with your tax dollars, putting it in their pocket, letting your neighborhoods dissolve and break down,” Ware tells Hedges.
Ware makes clear that there is a choice for resistance and dissent on the ballot in November: “We have to end this toxic cycle of abuse, because they have people spellbound into thinking that there is no way to resist, but you absolutely can resist right now by voting 🕊 Green.” (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-050422145344-560693.png)
(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-090422150144.png)AGelbert COMMENT:
AS a Christian , I am bound by my FAITH in CHRIST's 🕊️ Matthew 7:12 ☝🏻 COMMAND, to clearly state that Jill Stein and Butch Ware MUST be voted for. The Democratic Party AND the Republican Party are VICIOUSLY GENOCIDAL, Vulture Capitalist MIC front groups.
NOTE: YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS (You will want to save the following info. You never know when TPTB will try to erase it).
EVERYTHING repeated ad nauseam about Hamas "atrocities" on October 7, 2023 IS A COMPLETE MORALLY BANKRUPT FABRICATION to "justify" GENOCIDE, cynically and maliciously rebranded as "Israel has a right to defend itself".
NEWS FLASH: The IDF is ATTACKING civilian men women and children in Gaza and the West Bank, NOT "defending" squat!
Below is the link (after removing the spaces placed to get past the link censor) to the DETAILED TRUTH about who did what and who killed who during the October 7, 2023 Military Operation by Hamas.
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On the 7th, it is crucial to understand that there were no direct attacks on civilians, only collateral damage. Out of the 1148 total names on Haaretz dataset, 473 military and 675 were civilians.
Read more:
https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/who-can-you-trust/resisting-brainwashing-propaganda/msg2299/#msg2299
https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/geopolitics/war-provocations-and-peace-actions/msg2154/#msg2154
This is relevant:
Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, May Golan and Netanyahu are ALL birds of a feather.
The Chris Hedges Report
The War on Gaza – 3.12.24 August
https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/geopolitics/war-provocations-and-peace-actions/msg2302/#msg2302
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The(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-110422205132-6451602.gif)rules-based international (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-310822143514.png) order is an interlocking series of agreements, tacit understandings, explicit understandings, and clandestine understandings about how the most (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622210450-1415528.gif) important structures (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-120422122619-6812456.gif) "keep the world free of war" (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202533-1394275.gif)((https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-050422133654.gif) SEE: ORWELL) and keep 💵🎩🍌🐽😈 markets (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-110822203938-17581013.png) (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-010922192452.gif)open. There has been a system in (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-240422195344-10001203.jpeg) place, whether understood explicitly or behind the scenes or implicitly, that says the purpose of the two American parties is to 🐍 prune the field of populist 🕯️🗽🕊 candidates so that whatever two candidates exist in a faceoff are both acceptable to that (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202719-1406786.gif) world order.
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When it has a chance to run like this, infinite war and destruction on a (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-140822180731-18941713.jpeg) planetary scale are empire’s natural and only instincts. It has no goodness left in it to release when left unchecked. (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/who-can-you-trust/corruption-in-government/msg2172/#msg2172)
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27 August 2024 🕯️ Michael F. Brown Power Suits
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Vice President Kamala Harris rejected protesters’ demand outside the Democratic National Convention that the US stop arming Israel’s Gaza genocide. Carlos Berríos PolancoSIPA USA
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There is a stark recognition among many anti-genocide protesters that Democrats are responsible for the worst of what humans can do to fellow humans. Democrats will now be associated with (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-310822143514.png) genocide for a whole generation of young people and (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-120422122233-6542048.gif) protesters.
Democrats walked all over delegates trying to get more public recognition of the horrors faced by Palestinians. There is, however, much greater anger at what the Democratic leadership is doing to Palestinians – knee-deep in genocide as Biden and Harris are – than Democrats negotiating with the Uncommitted Movement encountered in Chicago.
“For a Palestinian to address the Democrats in the middle of the Democrat Holocaust in Gaza, is like a Jew addressing the Nazi Party in the middle of the Nazi Holocaust,” Abunimah (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-120422122257-657398.png) wrote on X, formerly Twitter.
He argued that demanding a Palestinian speak at the DNC – and thus burnish the Democrats’ false image as the party of peace, love and diversity – was a diversion from the only demand that matters: ending the flow of weapons to Israel from the Democratic administration in the White House.
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https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-f-brown/democrats-palestinians-drop-dead
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The Racket | 🦅 Presidential Candidate 🕯️🗽🕊️ Jill Stein on (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202540-1395150.gif) Fighting The (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-110822203938-17581013.png) (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-120422122619-6812456.gif) US War Machine
https://youtu.be/Gs3CqUWmNUU
A/POLITICAL 7.81K subscribers Aug 23, 2024
In the third episode of The Racket, Journalist and Author Matt Kennard speaks to American physician, activist, and Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein @JillStein2024. They discuss US foreign policy, corruption and empire, renewed fears of Nuclear war and Julian Assange & Edward Snowden's place in The White House.
The Racket is a series of interviews based on the book The Racket: A Rogue Reporter vs The American Empire by Matt Kennard, available to purchase via Bloomsbury: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/racket-...
The series examines the power of the US empire around the world and its attempts to control nations via war and economic strangulation.
Throughout Matt Kennard and guests will investigate the violent colonial beginnings of the most powerful nation in history, the tightening of its global stronghold post World War II, the crushing of dissent via CIA interference and its various ongoing wars around the world from a range of perspectives.
Matt Kennard is co-founder and chief investigator at Declassified UK, a news outlet investigating British foreign policy. He was a fellow and then director at the Centre for Investigative Journalism (CIJ) in London. He has worked as a staff writer for the Financial Times in Washington DC, New York, and London. He is the author of three acclaimed books: Irregular Army (2012), The Racket (2015) and Silent Coup (2023).
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Wednesday, August 7, 2024
The Real Elon Musk Revealed: (https://ongoingclassstruggle.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-real-elon-musk-revealed.html#more)
(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-090422150144.png) AGelbert COMMENT: 🐗 Musk is, like most U.S. 🐷 Bilionaires, a Government 😈 WELFARE 🐵💰 QUEEN.
What makes him and his elite scum 🐽 ilk dangerous to we-the-people is not so much his his brazen Empire cheerleading, rampant greed and calloused disregard for employee adequate wages and working conditions, but the IDEOLOGY he shares with those in our DUOPOLY CORRUPTED GOVERNMENT.
They are ALL Social Darwinists. Altruism, equity, empathy, inclusion are ALL actions and behaviors CONDEMNED as "STUPID" by these morally inverted Social Darwinist BASTARDS! That is why they can continually come up with fresh outrages and not bat an eye when we are aghast at their in-our-faces malice aforerthought. If this is hard for you to wrap your head around, just think of their world view as, 'Orwellian Mens rea'. Yeah, they actually think is is "socially destructive" to NOT be DOG EAT DOG SOCIALLY DESTRUCTIVE!
So, you are wasting your time if you think you can appeal to the "better angels" of Musk, Harris, Biden, Blinken, Trump, Netanyahu, christo-fascists (and any other brand of fascist, Zionist or not), etc., et al.
Social Darwinists believe that ethics based principles are 'limitations pretending to be virtues'. To them, ethics are 'feel good illusions' that humans invented to pretend our species has empathy. To Social Darwinists, empathy is irrefutable evidence of inexcusable weakness. To them, all who are guided by ethics are deluded fools that should be eliminated from the human 'apex predator' gene pool for the "good" of our species.
Social Darwinists believe that the dictum, “survival of the fittest” (a term coined not by Charles Darwin but by sociologist Herbert Spencer), means that only the "fittest" should survive. Darwin's book published later ("Descent of Man") made it clear that Darwin completely supported the morally bankrupt views of Spencer.
The ideology of the Social Darwinist is indistinguishable from the despicable ideology of NAZI Germany, clearly exemplified in their brutally enforced morally bankrupt concentration camp law: “Eat your own bread, and if you can, that of your neighbor.”
Netanyahu is the most OBVIOUS poster boy for the Social Darwinist Ideology, but he is NOT a statistical outlier within TPTB "club" that Musk belongs to.
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AGelbert (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202545-13961729.png) REMINDER: Jeremy Scahill has repeatedly warned Democrats about the 💵🎩🍌☠️ political and economic system (SEE: DUOPOLY) that the Democratic Party Elite SERVES. Here is a four year old article by him that turned out to be painfully accurate in predicting Biden's morally bankrupt M.I.C War profiteering, Genocide supporting DESPICABLE policies (emojies by 🤠 me):
INTERCEPTED
October 21, 2020 with 🕯️🗽 Jeremy Scahill
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From the very beginning, Donald Trump’s entire schtick about standing up for the downtrodden, the hard workers, the ordinary people of this country was a scam. One nonstop four-year 😈💰 grift. 🦀 Trump has used his political career and his time as president to enrich himself and his cronies. But more than that, he has served as a Pied Piper for the most extreme anti-worker, anti-poor agendas of the Republican Party. And he dug deep into the well of the most vile aspects of U.S. politics and history to win power. It was this weaponizing of hate that allowed Trump and his allies to manufacture the state of grave danger that so many poor and working people now find themselves in in this country. The extreme economic injustices of the past four years were produced on the rhetoric of white nationalism, xenophobia, racism, sexism.
But simply voting Trump out of office will not wipe any of this away. Many of these factors, while intensified during this administration, have persisted through both Democratic and Republican administrations. Both parties are beholden to corporate interests, even if one is more brazen and successful at producing dividends for the ultra-rich.
The hard truth we must all face is that the 💵🎩🍌☠️ political and economic system Trump has exploited and utilized will continue on in perpetuity unless the people of this country 🗽 bravely muster the collective will to challenge its very existence.
American Mythology: The Presidency of Donald Trump (Part Six: The Looting (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622210450-1415528.gif) of the Nation)
10/21/2020 30 min
Full 🔊 Podcast or article: (https://theintercept.com/2020/10/21/intercepted-american-mythology-trump-profits/)
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🔴 MICHAEL HUDSON & JILL STEIN ON ISRAEL-HEZBOLLAH WAR, NATO VS. RUSSIA & CHINA: UNTHINKABLE IS HERE
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July 22, 2024 By CHRIS HEDGES
My Thoughts on 🦍 Biden Dropping Out
Joe Biden was discarded by the same billionaire class he assiduously served throughout his political career. Barely able to stumble his way through the words on a TelePrompter and not always cognizant of what is happening around him, his billionaire supporters pulled the plug. He was 🦖🎩 (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-110822203938-17581013.png) their 😈 creature – he has been in federal office for 47 years - from start to finish. He was used as a foil to defeat Bernie Sanders in the 2020 primaries and was anointed as the candidate in 2024 in a Soviet-style primary campaign. The (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-120422122619-6812456.gif)🦖🎩 billionaire class will now anoint someone else.
Democratic Party 🐒🐵 voters (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-100823181638.png) are stage 🗽😉 props in this political farce. 👿 Donald Trump, unlike 🐍 Kamala Harris or any other 🦍 apparatchik the billionaire class selects as a presidential candidate, has a genuine and committed base, however fascistic.
In Hitler and the Germans, the political philosopher Eric Vogelin dismisses the idea that Hitler — gifted in oratory and political opportunism but poorly educated and vulgar — mesmerized and seduced the German people. The Germans, he writes, supported Hitler and the “grotesque, marginal figures” surrounding him because he embodied the pathologies of a diseased society, one beset by economic collapse and hopelessness. Voegelin defines stupidity as a “loss of reality.” The loss of reality means a “stupid” person cannot “rightly orient his action in the world, in which he lives.” The demagogue, who is always an idiote, is not a freak or social mutation. The demagogue expresses the society’s zeitgeist.
Biden and the Democratic Party are responsible for this zeitgeist. They orchestrated the deindustrialization of the United States, ensuring that 30 million workers lost their jobs in mass layoffs. As I write in America, The Farewell Tour, this assault on the working class created a crisis that forced the ruling elites to devise a new political paradigm. Trumpeted by a compliant media, this paradigm shifted its focus from the common good to race, crime and law and order. Biden was at the epicenter of this paradigm shift. Those undergoing profound economic and political change were told that their suffering stemmed not fromrampant militarism and corporate greed but from (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202527-13931485.png) a threat to national integrity. The old consensus that buttressed New Deal programs and the welfare state was attacked as enabling criminal Black youth, “welfare queens” and other alleged social parasites. This opened the door to a faux populism, begun by 😈 Ronald Reagan and 😈 Margaret Thatcher, which supposedly championed family values, traditional morality, individual autonomy, law and order, the Christian faith and the return to a mythical past, at least for white Americans. The Democratic Party, especially under 😈 Bill Clinton and 😈 Biden, became largely indistinguishable from the establishment 🐘👿 Republican Party to which it is now allied.
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The Democratic Party refuses to accept its responsibility for the capture of democratic institutions by a rapacious oligarchy, the grotesque social inequality, the cruelty of predatory corporations and an unchecked militarism. The Democrats will anoint another amoral politician, probably Harris, to use as a mask for outsized corporate greed, the folly of endless war, the facilitation of genocide and the assault on our most basic civil liberties. The Democrats, tools of Wall Street, gave us Trump, and the 74 million people who voted for him in 2020. They look set to give us Trump again 😬😟. ☝🏻 God 🙏🏼 help us. (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-121022140312-20561315.jpeg)
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/my-thoughts-on-biden-dropping-out/comments
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(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202545-13961729.png) Joe Biden drops out of US presidential race
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/7/21/us-election-2024-live-news-joe-biden
(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040422164718-5381960.png) AGelbert NOTE: Kamala Harris is polling LOWER than BIDEN! So, Biden's support of Harris is a formality.
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The corporate elite AIPAC toadies running the "Democratic" (LOL!) Party want someone with better polling numbers that is (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202719-1406786.gif) as supportive of the (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202719-14071062.gif) IDF Genocide in Gaza as Genocide Joe or Killer Kamala. Regardless of who these morally bankrupt (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/who-can-you-trust/corruption-in-government/msg1119/#msg1119) (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-080822134118-17091258.gif) 🐍 AIPAC toadies come up 🐒 with, the equally shameless (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-120422122619-6781750.png) Genocide enabler (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-240422193742-835209.jpeg) Trump will probably win the (s)election.
WHY? 🤷♂️ (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-080422121331.gif)
Trump GOT to where he GOT to in 2016 BECAUSE Hillary and company STOLE the nomination from Senator Sanders. That was a CRIME that Schiff sat on for two and a half YEARS! (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-080422121435.png)
I shudder at the prospect of Trump returning to power, but, as it looks now with his polls, Weimer Obama/Hillary/Biden et al are fully responsible for helping that low down Facsist Hitler wannabe Trump GET THERE (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-250422163150-10512004.png) by bailing out Wall Street and the Bankers, NOT the we-the-people victims of said Bankers, fomenting budget breaking wars, supporting Genocide in Gaza, denying Medicare for all, denying a LIVABLE minimum wage and a PROPERLY, increased for actual inflation, Social Securiity pension system. (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622153109-13672051.gif)
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All people of good will in the USA KNOW that the "Democratic" (LOL!) Party ELITE OWNS the Trump return to the White House. (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-050422135315.png)
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Gather not my soul with sinners, nor my life with bloody men: In whose hands is mischief, and their right hand is full of bribes. -- Psalm 26:9
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JULY 16, 2024 By JIM BUIE
All Hail King (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-250422163150-10512004.png) Trump & (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-080822141006-1726249.png) J.D. Vance? (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-080822134120-1716808.gif) (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202733-1411803.gif)
The stuff of legend, mythology and the curse of Tecumseh
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“I’m not supposed to be here,” Donald Trump told the NY Post. “I’m supposed to be dead,” repeating “I’m supposed to be dead.” If he had not turned his head slightly to the right to read a chart on illegal immigrants, he would be dead, he told reporter Michael Goodwin. The assassin’s bullet only grazed his ear. “The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle,” Trump said.
The story of Trump’s survival now rises to the level of legend or mythology. I’m tempted to re-read Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar” about the emperor who named himself dictator of the Roman Empire for insight into this moment. Caesar’s rule lasted for less than a year before he was famously assassinated by political rivals in 44 B.C.
The classified documents case against Trump has been dismissed by Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee. The other federal cases against him also appear to be in jeopardy. It’s now certain no trials will conclude before the November election.
Will these near-death experiences — both literally and politically — change Trump? His behavior, and that of his supporters at the Republican convention this week, will be the first indication. He looked subdued and almost tearful, with a patch over his right ear, as he silently greeted the crowd on the convention’s first night. ... ...
Shortly after the assassination attempt on Trump, Vance published an incendiary tweet: ... ...
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High Costs Paid 🥺 By Other Presidential Families
Robert Todd Lincoln, the only son of Abraham Lincoln who survived to adulthood, lamented that during his father’s presidency, “I scarcely even had ten minutes quiet talk with him on account of his constant devotion to business." Shockingly, Robert was nearby or a witness to three presidential assassinations — his father’s; that of James Garfield about 16 years later; and William McKinley in 1901. He later refused presidential invitations because “there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present."
Differing Views of Political 🦍 Power
Drawing from the work of the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, President John F. Kennedy and his brother Robert spoke of politics as a noble and honorable profession, representing and mediating a myriad of societal interests with the hope of making the world, or some part of it, a better place. They paid a heavy price — the ultimate sacrifice — for involvement in causes larger than themselves.
Trump’s (and Vance’s) view of political power seems similar not to the gentle Greeks who founded power-sharing democracy but to the Romans who believed in 🦍 domination and amassing power for its 😈 own sake.
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How might this brush with death affect Trump and his extended family? Will he or they foment anger, revenge, and crackdowns on political opponents or, like the Kennedys, develop compassion and empathize with others’ pain? (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-070223145913.png) ... ...
One wonders about the cost of a stressful public life on the families of Presidents Biden and Trump, as well as other leaders.
Who is surprised, given such toxic political rhetoric in America, that actual violence has occurred?
Eras of Political Assassinations in America
The attempted assassination of Trump recalls earlier eras of political violence in America, most notably spanning from November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated to March 1981, when there was an unsuccessful attempt on the life of President Ronald Reagan. JFK’s murder was preceded by the assassination of civil rights leader Medgar Evers in June 1963, and followed by the murders five years later of civil rights activist Martin Luther King and his brother Robert Kennedy, a senator from New York who was running for president, in 1968. In 1972, Alabama Governor George Wallace, running for the Democratic nomination, was shot and crippled at a shopping mall in Laurel, MD. In 1975, two attempts within 17 days were made on the life of President Gerald Ford, both by women. NYT coverage.
The first American political assassination was of President Abraham Lincoln in April 1865, shortly after the Civil War ended. Little more than 15 years later, President James Garfield was assassinated four months after taking office. President William McKinley was assassinated in September 1901, seven months after beginning his second term.
McKinley’s successor, Theodore Roosevelt, was shot in the chest in 1912 while running for a third term as an independent on the Bull Moose Party ticket but was protected by a 50-page copy of his speech in his breast pocket. He finished the speech.
In February 1933, Teddy’s cousin, New York Governor and President-elect Franklin D. Roosevelt was nearly killed in Miami, Fla. The mayor was murdered instead. FDR’s life was saved by a woman.
Legend, Mythology, And Superstition Around Presidential Assassination Attempts
Mythology has been built up around presidential deaths, beginning in 1840. William Henry Harrison was elected president that year, defeating Martin Van Buren, on a campaign slogan of “Tippecanoe and Tyler too.” Harrison was considered the hero of the Battle of Tippecanoe in Indiana. The mythology is that Harrison’s rival, Shawnee leader Tecumseh, put a curse on him and presidents to follow in 20-year cycles. Harrison died in office just three weeks after his inauguration. Every president elected in the 120 years to follow: Lincoln in 1860, Garfield in 1880, McKinley in 1900, Harding in 1920, Franklin Roosevelt in 1940, and Kennedy in 1960, died in office. Ronald Reagan was shot but survived and George W. Bush supposedly broke the curse, although since he lost the popular vote in 2000, maybe Tecumseh didn’t recognize his election. But both Joe Biden and Donald Trump would be the oldest presidents elected and might revive the curse. (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040422173931.png)
A 20-Year (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-280622170247.jpeg) Curse on the 🦅 American President? (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-050422132341.gif)(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-050422132459.gif)
Full article: (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040422164555-532108.png) (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-080822134118-1710799.gif)
https://jimbuie.substack.com/p/attempted-assassinations-take-heavy
Selected COMMENTS:
David Carroll
Interesting piece. Thanks.
Actually if you read Victoria Newland’s husband’s Opinion piece in the Washington Post 7 months ago he basically calls for Trumps assassination in Caesarian terms. Bullseye missed. Matt Taibbi writes an interesting story on how the Democratic has been out to “eliminate “ the outsider Trump in all ways possible in the “Slow Motion Assassination “ a couple days ago. Fittingly it starts with Hillary Clinton in 2016. Go figure.
Let me know what you think. Thanks.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/30/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan/
https://open.substack.com/pub/taibbi/p/the-slow-motion-assassination
Jim Buie > David Carroll
David, I read Kagan's lengthy piece. There is nothing in it that calls for Trump's assassination. He simply outlined the stakes in the election. Matt Taibbi too is way over the top. Trump was shot by a 20-year-old Republican loner quite apparently acting alone. Let's stop accusing "the other" of things for which there is no evidence. That's simply paranoia. I do think the choice of J.D. Vance could lead to an elevated, substantive debate between him and Kamala Harris. Unlike the recent Trump-Biden debate for which media reports focused entirely on appearances rather than substance.
AGelbert > Jim Buie
While you are quite right in making the point, in your admittedly erudite and historically accurate article, that Trump et al is ideologically all in with the Romans, who believed in domination and amassing power for its own sake, I disagree that it is "paranoid" to seriously consider the CUI BONO question in regard to certain members of the Biden Adminsitration. I don't think Retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern is now, or ever has been anything but a hard nose reality based student of history.
Jim, it is time for you to study Secretary of State Blinken's record. If you do not scrutinize him and his neocon partners in, what cannot be sanitized with euphemistic happy talk, Mens rea War Crimes, you will miss the Weimer Fascism Enabling Democratic Party Forest for the Full Blown Fascist Trump Tree.
Sir, Trump GOT to where he GOT to in 2016 BECAUSE Hillary and company STOLE the nomination from Senator Sanders. That was a CRIME that Schiff sat on for two and a half YEARS!
I shudder at the prospect of Trump returning to power, but, as it looks now with his polls, Weimer Obama/Hillary/Biden et al are fully responsible for helping that low down Facsist Hitler wannabe Trump GET THERE by bailing out Wall Street and the Bankers, NOT the we-the-people victims of said Bankers, fomenting budget breaking wars, supporting Genocide in Gaza, denying Medicare for all, denying a LIVABLE minimum wage and a PROPERLY, increased for actual inflation, Social Securiity pension system. You can argue until the cows come home, but all people of good will in the USA KNOW that the "Democratic" (LOL!) Party ELITE OWNS the Trump return to the White House.
It is not "paranoid" to consider the possiblility that a pack of War Criminals within our government, who have everything to lose if vengeful Trump makes it back into the White House, try to "finish the job" some time soon.
AGelbert > David Carroll
Well said. The QUESTION Jim Buie has, for some reason, studiously avoided asking about this assassination attempt on Trump is, as Retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern asks, and I agree, CUI BONO? From what he says in the interview below, Secretary of State Blinken appears to be the PRIME SUSPECT in the Conspiracy to Assassinate Trump.
McGovern knows the score. He finishes the interview by making it clear that he is not suicidal, so if he "dies suddenly", we KNOW Cui Bono (Blinken, Sullivan, Biden et al) (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/geopolitics/key-historical-events-that-you-may-have-never-heard-of/msg2176/#msg2176).
July 15, 2024
Ray McGovern on the Failed Assassination of Domald Trump
https://youtu.be/cOyKXbhzU-8
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Join Judge Nap Larry Johnson, & Ray McGovern for an in-depth analysis as we examine the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
Judge interrupts his Italy vacation to bring this discussion to the channel. This is a MUST WATCH (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-050422145344-560693.png) edition of #JudgingFreedom
Ray McGovern agrees with me (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/geopolitics/us-politics/msg2171/#msg2171) (The QUESTION to be asked is Cui Bono? (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622153114-13801246.png).
Selected comments by those who ask the same question:
@stevejagger8602 4 hours ago
Thank you Judge.
I am with Ray McGovern on this - who benefits??
@Cochise85 4 hours ago
Ray is 100% correct: Qui Bono? The Entire Democratic Party, not to mention the MSM and Big Tech
July 15, 2024
📢 Ray McGovern on the Failed Assassination of Donald Trump
https://youtu.be/cOyKXbhzU-8
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July 13, 2024 by Associated Press
(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202605-13991014.png)Trump Whisked Off Stage After Apparent Gunshots at Rally — Suspect and attendee are dead; Trump "fine"
(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202545-13961729.png) Donald Trump appeared to be the target of an assassination attempt as he spoke during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, law enforcement officials said. The former president, his ear covered in blood, was quickly pulled away by Secret Service agents and his campaign said he was "fine," the AP reported.
The attack, by a shooter who law enforcement officials say was then killed by the Secret Service, was the first attempt to assassinate a president or presidential candidate since Ronald Reagan was shot in 1981. It comes amid a deeply polarized political atmosphere, just four months from the presidential elections and days before Trump is to be officially named the Republican nominee at his party's convention.
A local prosecutor said the suspected gunman and at least one attendee are dead.
"President Trump thanks law enforcement and first responders for their quick action during this heinous act," spokesman Steven Cheung said in a statement. "He is fine and is being checked out at a local medical facility. More details will follow."
The Secret Service said in a statement that "the former president is safe."
Two officials spoke to the AP on the condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing investigation. They said the shooter was not an attendee at the rally and was killed by U.S. Secret Service agents.
The officials said the shooter was engaged by members of the U.S. Secret Service counterassault team and killed. The heavily armed tactical team travels everywhere with the president and major party nominees and is meant to confront any active threats while other agents focus on safeguarding and evacuating the person at the center of protection.
It's still not clear yet whether Trump was struck by gunfire or was injured as he was pulled to the ground by agents.
Butler County district attorney Richard Goldinger said in a phone interview that the suspected gunman was dead and at least one rally attendee was killed.
Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, was showing off a chart of border crossing numbers during his last rally before the Republican National Convention opens Monday when the apparent shots began.
It took two minutes from the moment of the first shot for Trump to be placed in a waiting SUV.
As Trump was talking, a popping sound was heard, and the former president put his right hand up to his right ear, as people in the stands behind him appeared to be shocked.
As the first pop rang out, Trump said, "Oh," and grabbed his ear as two more pops could be heard and he crouched down. More shots are heard then.
Someone could be heard saying near the microphone at Trump's lectern, "Get down, get down, get down, get down!" as agents tackled the former president. They piled atop him to shield him with their bodies, as is their training protocol, as other agents took up positions on stage to search for the threat.
Screams were heard in the crowd of several thousand people. A woman is heard screaming louder than the rest. Afterward, voices were heard saying "shooter's down" several times, before someone asks "are we good to move?" and "are we clear?" Then, someone ordered, "Let's move."
Trump could be heard on the video saying at least twice, "Let me get my shoes, let me get my shoes," with another voice heard saying, "I've got you sir."
Trump got to his feet moments later and could be seen reaching with his right hand toward his face. There appeared to be blood on his face. He then pumped his fist in the air and appeared to mouth the word "Fight" twice to his crowd of supporters, prompting loud cheers and then chants of "USA. USA. USA."
The crowd cheered as he got back up and pumped his fist.
His motorcade left the venue moments later. Video showed Trump turning back to the crowd and raising a fist right before he is put into a vehicle.
Police began vacating the fairgrounds shortly after Trump left the stage in what local officers described as a crime scene.
The perils of campaigning took on a new urgency after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in California in 1968, and again in 1972 when Arthur Bremer shot and seriously hurt George Wallace, who was running as an independent on a campaign platform that has sometimes been compared to Trump's. That led to increased protection of candidates, even as the threats persisted, notably against Jesse Jackson in 1988 and Barack Obama in 2008.
Presidents, particularly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, have even greater layers of security. Trump is a rarity as both a former president and a current candidate.
President Biden said in a statement that he had been briefed on the shooting and said he was grateful that the former president "is safe and doing well. I'm praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally, as we await further information."
"Jill and I are grateful to the Secret Service for getting him to safety," Biden said. "There's no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it."
After the shooting at Trump's rally, the Biden campaign was pausing all messaging to supporters and is working to pull down all of its television ads as quickly as possible, the campaign said.
Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., posted a photo on X of Trump, his fist raised and his face bloody in front of an American flag, with the words: "He'll never stop fighting to Save America."
North Dakota governor Doug Burgum (R), Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) and Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), the three men on Trump's shortlist for vice president, all quickly sent out statements expressing concern for the former president, with Rubio sharing an image taken as Trump was escorted off stage with his fist in the air and a streak of blood on his face along with the words "God protected President Trump."
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, a Democrat, said in a statement on X that he had been briefed on the situation and Pennsylvania state police were on hand at the rally site.
"Violence targeted at any political party or political leader is absolutely unacceptable. It has no place in Pennsylvania or the United States," he said.
https://www.medpagetoday.com/washington-watch/washington-watch/111081
AGelbert NOTE: (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-080822134118-1710799.gif) Because Trump had turned his head just before the shot, something that CANNOT be scripted in advance, this appears to be a genuine assassination attempt, not a show to jack his polls up. At any rate, Trump's polls are going to jump at least ten points now, so he probably is now pretty much GUARANTEED to take back the White House with a win in the November (s)election.
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That said, IF the shooter turns out to be a PALESTINIAN, or even a non-jewish (of course) lefty American critic of Israel's GENOCIDE in Gaza, I will smell a VERY BIG NETANYAHU (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-150224164602.png) 🐀 RAT (i.e. Mossad False Flag (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-100323192456-23211820.gif)😉😈 attack for the purpose of demonizing Arabs in general, and Palestinians in particular.). Now that Netanyahu's pack of cruel murdering NAZI IDF bastards have been exposed (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/geopolitics/war-provocations-and-peace-actions/msg2162/#msg2162) for their "Hannibal" murderous rampage on July 7, 2023 (that killed MOST of the Israelis that died that day, while Israeli Government LIARS blamed Hamas FALSELY and REPEATEDLY, for MONTHS, for most of the deaths AND sexual violence that NEVER HAPPENED!), they need another (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622153114-13822364.jpeg) BIG LIE to keep most Americans from seeing through their Morally Bankrupt "policy" of methodically murdering Palestinian men, women AND 😱 CHILDREN (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/geopolitics/war-provocations-and-peace-actions/msg2170/#msg2170) (for the last 75 YEARS!) in order to (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202719-14071062.gif) steal their land.
The question to be asked is NOT whether or not this assassination attempt was that of a "lone nut" or some "disgruntled" or "Deranged" person.
The QUESTION to be asked is Cui Bono? (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622153114-13801246.png)
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Year 1800:
"The issue today is the same as it has been throughout all history, whether man shall be allowed to govern himself or be ruled by a small elite." -- Thomas Jefferson
July 19 to July 21, 1944:
Democratic Party Convention Party Boss thwarts Henry Wallace from VP Candidate position in order to position Harry Truman for VP by yelling, "FIRE!" at the Convention.
From April 12, 1945 (Death of FDR when Truman became POTUS) to September 10, 2001:
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"Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, That he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; And shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken; The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth." -- Matthew 24:46-51
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"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! Behold, your house is left unto you desolate. For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord." -- Matthew 23:37-39
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JUNE 27, 2024 BY ROB URIE
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The fact that neither Joe Biden nor his brain trust has picked up a telephone to speak with Vladimir Putin in 2 ½ years of war with Russia suggests that Mr. Putin and Russia might be better served by negotiating an end to hostilities directly with 🦍 Lockheed Martin and 🦍 Northrop Grumman. Biden is failing, corrupt, and he launched a war of choice against Russia that the 🦍 US is losing. He is currently leading a WWII style genocide in Gaza. Impressively, being allied with self-described Nazis in Ukraine while leading a racist genocide in Gaza represents the political program of both American liberals and the radical Right in 2024.
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None of this is intended in an electoral frame. Donald Trump has demonstrated himself to be a (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-250422163150-10512004.png) ‘toll booth’ Zionist, having agreed to support Jerusalem as the capital of Israel after receiving $20 million in campaign contributions from Israeli-American Zionists. Now in line to receive another $100 million contribution from 🐍 Miriam Adelson, wife of the late 🐍 Sheldon Adelson, Mr. Trump recently supported a bill to further fund US wars in Ukraine and Israel, assuring its passage. There is little difference between the major party candidates regarding Israel’s genocide, likely because the American MIC is laundering its Federal subsidies through Israel. ... ...
With Zionist settlers in the West Bank now once again ‘clearing’ Palestinians by seizing their land and exiling them, the plan of Israel being revealed is the total extermination of the Palestinian people. Here the Wannsee Conference has bearing. It was the meeting of top Nazis in 1942 to plan the systematic extermination (‘final solution’) of European Jews as WWII was underway, illustrating that the most hateful acts in human history have come in the form of (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-120422122619-6812456.gif) powerful political actors calmly planning the extermination of entire peoples. With Israel now exterminating the Palestinian people, history has come full circle. The persecuted are now the persecutors. That the (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-120422122619-6812456.gif) US is (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-281223163648.png) funding and arming the effort makes it the ultimate state actor in this process of (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-310822143514.png)(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-310822143514.png)(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-310822143514.png)(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-310822143514.png)(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-310822143514.png) genocide.
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🕯️ MAX Blumenthal: 🐍 Israeli 😈 Meddling in US Politics
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MAX Blumenthal : Israeli Meddling in US Politics.
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The American Conservative
May 17, 2024 By Bradley Devlin
Inside Dennis Kucinich’s Political Comeback
The firebrand former presidential candidate is back on the scene. TAC sat down with him.
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For 🕯️🗽🦅🕊️ Kucinich (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-120422122257-657398.png), the modern presidency is proof positive that (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622210450-1415528.gif) institutional forces have, for the meantime, overwhelmed Article II of the Constitution. (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-250422162849-1033113.jpeg)
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“The unspoken question: Is there such a thing as a (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-120422122619-6812456.gif) deep state❓” Kucinich said.
“Of course!” Kucinich continued. “You see in the Pentagon, in the upper echelons of State, and the various think tanks, they try to assume a position of a 💵🎩(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-110822203938-17581013.png) permanent government. Donald Trump’s problem was that his lack of experience in government left him totally vulnerable to being attacked by these interests without even knowing it was happening. There’s a price you pay for not actually knowing how Washington works. It takes a while to understand how Washington works.”
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https://www.theamericanconservative.com/inside-dennis-kucinichs-political-comeback/
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Fighting Russia & China to Last American: Destroying US From 💵🎩😈🍌 Within
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Dialogue Works 134K subscribers May 17, 2024 Interviews
2024 (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-120422122619-6771496.gif) Presidential Candidate:
🕯️🗽🕊️ Dr. Jill Stein -
I'm running for president with the Green Party to offer a choice for the people outside the failed two-party system. We'll put a pro-worker, anti-war, climate action agenda front and center in this election and on the ballot in November.
jillstein2024.com
🕯️🗽 Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He is the author of Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire (Editions 1968, 2003, 2021), ‘and forgive them their debts’ (2018), J is for Junk Economics (2017), Killing the Host (2015), The Bubble and Beyond (2012), Trade, Development and Foreign Debt (1992 & 2009) and of The Myth of Aid (1971), amongst many others.
ISLET engages in research regarding domestic and international finance, national income and balance-sheet accounting with regard to real estate. We also engage in the economic history of the ancient Near East.
Michael acts as an economic advisor to governments worldwide including China, Iceland and Latvia on finance and tax law. He gives presentations on various topics at conferences and meetings and can be booked here. Listen to some of his many radio interviews to hear his hyperspeed analysis of the geo-political machinations of global economics. Travel costs and a per diem are appreciated.
https://michael-hudson.com/
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🕯️🗽🦅🕊️ Cornel West on Capitalism, Ukraine, and his Presidential Run | 🕯️ The Chris Hedges Report
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Dr. Cornel West is running for president. In a wide-ranging conversation on The Chris Hedges Report, West lays out a political vision centering "the least of these." Rejecting the corporate duopoly and its two wings—a neofascist Republican party, and the neoliberal Democrats—West calls for a multiracial alliance of poor and working people against militarism, corporatism, racism, and all other forms of bigotry and oppression.
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January 8, 2024 Alastair Crooke: They 𝐓𝐑𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐋𝐄 𝐎𝐍 𝐌𝟎𝐑𝐀𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐘 In Gaza. Does The (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622210450-1415528.gif) West Truly Believe In Moral Superiority?
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AGelbert COMMENT:
It's the Social Darwinism!
The ROOT cause of Oligarchic Tyranny, now Brazenly Accelerating the Human "civilization" Extinction Train, is the socially destructive ideology of SOCIAL DARWINISM:
Social Darwinists believe that ethics based principles are 'limitations pretending to be virtues'. To them, ethics are 'feel good illusions' that humans invented to pretend our species has empathy. To Social Darwinists, empathy is irrefutable evidence of inexcusable weakness. To them, all who are guided by ethics are deluded fools that should be eliminated from the human 'apex predator' gene pool for the "good" of our species.
Enthusiastic converts to Social Darwinism have, to this day, used the language of evolution to frame an understanding of the growing gulf between the rich and the poor, as well as the many differences between cultures all over the world. The explanation they arrived at, and continue to use to justify biosphere trashing profit over people and planet, regardless of any alligator tear filled mendacious claims to the contrary, is that businessmen and others who are economically and socially successful are so because they are biologically and socially “naturally” the fittest. Conversely, they reason that the poor are “naturally” weak and unfit and it would be an error to allow the weak of the species to continue to breed.
The ideology of the Social Darwinist is indistinguishable from the despicable ideology of NAZI Germany, clearly exemplified in their brutally enforced morally bankrupt concentration camp law: “Eat your own bread, and if you can, that of your neighbor.” The "Apex Predators have a DARWINIAN RESPONSIBILITY to BE as PREDATORILY EVOLVED (SEE: Steal everything that is not nailed down.) as possible" WORLDVIEW is the socially destructive tsunami now engulfing human society.
What all the entrenched insiders among the parasitic, predatory (i.e. Social Darwinist) elites and institutions don't dare admit publicly, though they celebrate that privately, is that to protect themselves from consequence, making the rest of us sacrifice everything else is what they-the-Apex-Predators have a DARWINIAN DUTY to DO.
Frugality and prudence, once accepted by all human cultures as sine qua non, has given way to massive excess by TPTB (and too many of the, brainwashed by the "education system", non-rich populace) and a level of craziness in culture that ethical humans never imagined they would experience.
Our species is on a track to extinction BECAUSE of TPTB's TOTAL embrace of the morally bankrupt SOCIAL DARWINIST IDEOLOGY.
TPTB, blatantly self-serving, corrupt, unaccountable and devoid of any sense of good and evil, will be our doom if they are not stopped.
It's NOT "the economy, stupid!" It's the Social Darwinism (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/who-can-you-trust/corruption-in-government/msg1119/#msg1119), stupid!
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DEC 18, 2023 TD INTERVIEW
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The Green Party candidate on democracy, climate change, Ukraine, why Democrats need to scapegoat left-wing “spoilers” and that night in Moscow the media can’t seem to forget.
Let’s start with the current political mood and situation. Trump is leading his challengers and Biden in the polls. Democrats are nervous and looking anxiously to the courts. Meanwhile, a lot of usual suspects are issuing the perennial warnings about third party candidates. Dick Gephardt, after two decades working as a lobbyist, has popped up as the face of a new group, Citizens to Save Our Republic, that is buying ads across the country to caution voters against the siren songs of third-party campaigns — or they will help elect Trump. There are similar rumblings on the left, including in quarters that believe Democrats should win or lose on their own merits. What do you say to those who are otherwise receptive and sympathetic to the Green Party platform and critique, but also believe conditions demand a united front behind the Democrat, given the unique threat they believe a second Trump administration poses to the remaining institutions and norms of what passes for American democracy, as degraded as they may be?
JILL STEIN: The way it’s going, Biden is going to lose on his own, even without third parties. The fact that we are being smeared and targeted reflects the Democrats’ vulnerability and failure to address their loss of support. It’s a fallacy that Greens and other progressive candidates take votes away from Democrats. Largely what we’re doing is bringing people out. In 2016, we received 1.4 million votes, but seven million Democratic votes crossed over for Trump. The bigger problem was the 100 million voters who didn’t come out at all. Marginalized constituents, youth, the poor. That’s who the Democrats ought to be talking to. That’s who’s being left out here. The argument that we’re spoiling the election is extremely disingenuous as well as anti-democratic.
TD: It’s also one that could be eliminated by rank-choice voting.
JS: Yes, it could. But what do the Democrats do? They fight-rank choice voting tooth and nail.
TD: Do you agree with the assessment that Trump represents a unique threat this time around? Does the lesser-of-two-evils argument carry more power than usual in 2024?
JS: I think the Democrats also pose very serious threats to democracy, including throwing competition off the ballot. That’s pretty authoritarian right there. They have their own way of undermining the integrity of our elections. They hijack their own primaries. They don’t even make a pretense. Democrats are leading the charge in the attack on free speech, freedom of the press, the right to protest. Democratic administrations accuse environmental protesters of terrorism and threaten them with decades in jail. The Republicans don’t have a stranglehold on threats to our democracy. The Democrats are also leading us into very dangerous wars that could turn nuclear quickly. I don’t think that’s less of a threat to the survival of our democracy.
TD: We’ll get to those wars in a minute. How do you assess the difference between the major parties on, say, climate and energy?
JS: If you look behind the numbers, the high-ground claimed by the Democrats is dubious. Biden is proceeding full speed ahead with 22 Liquified Natural Gas export facilities. Just one of them, in Louisiana, represents something like 20 times more CO2 than the Willow oil project in the Alaskan Arctic. The amount of carbon associated with these plants is off the charts. But those numbers are conveniently taken off the books so they don’t count in our country’s carbon footprint. If you include them, we have made zero progress since 2005. Nature doesn’t care about renewable energy if carbon is still being produced. That’s why we urgently need a Global Green New Deal.
TD: You’ve talked about how a Global Green New Deal was the centerpiece of your trip to Moscow in December of 2015. Because that event still gets invoked in a superficial way, I’m curious about the backstory and politics of that trip, and especially the Russia Today dinner that your critics love to trot out as some kind of “gotcha” moment.
The whole premise of the “Putin puppet” smear was always ludicrous, but they’re still using it, even after the Senate Intelligence Committee laid it to rest.
JS: The visit to Moscow was part of a longer trip that included the Climate Summit in Paris, where I met with Jeremy Corbyn, China’s deputy lead negotiator on climate, and grassroots activists from around the world. Putin had just begun bombing Syria at the time, and my message to him was that they were following the disastrous U.S. approach to the Middle East. The day of the dinner, I delivered a speech at a conference in Moscow about the need for U.S.-Russia collaboration on climate change, ending the scourge of nuclear weapons and ending the war in the Middle East. I was putting out a peace proposal.
TD: Sounds like standard two-track peace diplomacy.
JS: Yes. My interest in this [type of diplomacy] began when I was a pre-med student in Boston. My adviser brought me to a meeting of International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War and I was just fascinated by it. I met visiting Russian scientists and I thought it was amazing and powerful and wonderful. Ordinary people, using their expertise, working to overcome the danger and the threat of nuclear war. A little later, Physicians for Social Responsibility was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their work around nuclear arms treaties. That model was very much on my mind when I decided to go to Russia. Contact between everyday people can help push the envelope.
TD: Together with the doctor and physicist groups, Mr. Rogers also went to Moscow during the Cold War. But you were branded a little differently.
The accusation that I was a “Putin puppet” ramified all the way up to a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation. It went on for years, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. What the Committee came up with was a big “Thank you so much for your full cooperation.” They concluded there was nothing untoward or inappropriate whatsoever. The whole thing was completely above board and transparent from the get-go. We announced what we would be doing, how we were paying for it, who we planned to meet with. Our objectives were to advocate for a nuclear-weapons ban and a Global Green New Deal. The whole premise of the “Putin puppet” smear was always ludicrous, but they’re still using it, even after the Senate Intelligence Committee laid it to rest.
TD: Before we leave the subject, what was the chit chat like at the table? In pictures, everyone looks a little stiff and awkward.
It was awkward because the only English speaker within earshot of me was Willy Wimmer, a Defense Ministry official in the German government at the time of German reunification, who later became vice president of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. Putin walked in with these three strapping muscular guys and sat down for maybe 10 or 15 minutes. There was zero contact. There were some really interesting people in the room, including Gorbachev, entirely on the peace side of the equation. When I saw Michael Flynn, who wasn’t yet associated with the Trump campaign, I wondered, “What’s this weird military guy doing here?” I gave him my elevator speech about peace and the climate, and he did not relate in the least. That conversation was over in 60 seconds. It wasn’t my ideal meal because I’m a vegetarian and don’t drink, so I just picked around the margins. But the entertainment was excellent. The Russian military chorus was amazing.
TD: The Russian military chorus seems a good segue to the situation in Ukraine, which at the time of the dinner was still simmering. Going back further, the conflict arguably tracks to the first round of NATO expansion in 1998, around the time the Green Party began getting organized in the U.S.
JS: Let’s go back farther. In 1991, The New York Times published leaks from the Pentagon, possibly intentional, that amounted to the first declaration of what’s now known as “full-spectrum dominance” — the idea that Washington will not allow any power to rise, even reasonably, to command the resources of any region, let alone become a global competitor. At that point, it was clear that we were going to ensure that Russia did not reestablish itself as a regional power. The rest is the logical derivative of that. The current conflict in Ukraine is very much the outflow of the position we adopted towards Russia at that time.
TD: How should the U.S. be pushing toward a diplomatic solution to the current war, and more generally de-escalating tensions with Russia so we can get arms control back on track?
JS: There is a pretty good prototype in the Minsk Accords, with slight variations, that Russia agreed to. Leading up to war, Russia was not asking to annex, or even supporting, the eastern provinces that wanted to break away from Ukraine. Russia was resisting that. It’s just false to say that Russia had all these designs. The agreement Russia proposed was basically neutrality for Ukraine along an Austria model. It should have been a no-brainer. Russia again offered that agreement before it invaded, which was criminal and has been a humanitarian disaster. But we could have averted it. We could have prevented this whole war.
More recently, there were widely reported negotiations [in Istanbul], confirmed by a high-ranking official in the Zelensky administration, by Gerhard Schroeder from Germany, and by Naftali Bennett of Israel. They have all said that Russia had basically signed on to this agreement that included no NATO admission for Ukraine and a future negotiation on Crimea. There was a really great deal that could have put an end to all of this. Instead, we have basically condemned an entire generation of Ukrainians to death and disability. It’s shameful that we have been purposefully thwarting a negotiation process. We have to get out of the way. It’s not just in Ukraine. According to the Congressional Research Service, we have intervened militarily 250 times in the past 30 years. This is what we do. This is who we are. We are acting like a unipolar power in a multipolar world and it is impoverishing us as a nation. It is also endangering all of us with the growing potential for nuclear confrontation on multiple fronts.
TD: One of these fronts is the Middle East, where as you’ve noted, last month we sent an Ohio class nuclear submarine. What would a sound U.S. policy be vis a vis Israel and the occupied territories?
JS: We need to use our influence to require everybody inside of Palestine as well as Israel to abide by international law. It’s not like we have to invent the solution. Barring the law of nations, what do we have?
TD: Have you noticed younger volunteers approaching the party at the state level because of Washington’s ironclad support for Israel and opposition to global calls for a ceasefire?
JS: Oh, absolutely. We are not in touch with what’s going on inside the books of the state Green parties — we’re required to be separate by law — but our campaign is the ultimate litmus test of that. It’s huge.
TD: Let’s talk about Green party activists at the state and local level. I was struck by an interview you did with Pacifica’s Ann Garrison, in which you discussed your sense of obligation to the decades of work by local Green party volunteers to gain and maintain ballot access in dozens of states. How is your campaign related to the Green presidential campaigns going back to the first in 1996?
JS: If you sit an election out, people will turn over, and you also won’t have the option of automatically qualifying if you reach the threshold in that state. You have to use [ballot lines] or you lose them.
TD: Can you talk a little about the work that goes into gaining ballot access, and the obstacles that exist to deter third parties, many dating to the original Red Scare under Woodrow Wilson?
JS: There are 50 different sets of rules in 50 states and it’s a moving minefield. We’re not meant to understand ballot access. You can spend huge amounts of money, and then make some simple little error, or not even make an error, and be tripped up by the design of the system. The reason Green candidates have to go to court so often is because they’ll try to catch us on technicalities and get us thrown off. Sometimes they succeed, because the courts are political. There is all kinds of administrative red tape, burdens and rules attached to the process to keep you off, arbitrary means of silencing democratic competition.
TD: And in many cases the whole process has to be relearned and repeated every four years…
JS: Unless you have achieved the percent of the vote required by the state for appearing on the [next] ballot, yes. It may be as low as 1%, or even half a percent, but it can also be substantially more. Offhand, I’d say the average is three to 5%.
If you haven’t reached the threshold, you have to repeat the petition process. But you have to begin by collecting way more than the requirement. If people use a messy signature, or they leave out their middle initial, they will often use this as a reason to strike that signature. And the numbers change. In New York, Cuomo was pissed and threatened when the Greens did well in the gubernatorial race. So unbeknownst to the public, he snuck an increased requirement in some budget bill totally unrelated to ballots and elections. New York Democrats increased the requirement from 30,000 signatures to 45,000 in six weeks. This is really hard for volunteers.
TD: And unlike astro-turf parties like, say, No Labels, the Greens rely on volunteers…
JS: You need very deep pockets if you’re going to pay petitioners. The Green Party relies on volunteers who know the rules and the requirements for their state. They’re usually very good at watchdogging the requirements, and they know the [neighborhoods] with high validation rates and cultures of demanding democracy, of refusing to be thrown off the ballot. Still, this is probably the single most difficult hurdle in front of us. We do not currently have ballot access in New York, due to the outcome of the last election.
TD: How many ballot lines met previous state thresholds?
JS: We’re building up to 20 carryover states — no small feat. We have 80% of signatures for the remaining states. It’s highly likely that we are going to be on the ballot in just about every state.
TD: Can you talk about the typical Green party canvasser and organizer? Would you described them as hard core lifelong democracy activists, or issue advocates who’ve been mugged by the Democratic party, or —
JS: They tend to be grounded in social movements and community fights. Rent control, stopping evictions or a pipeline, protecting a water supply. Greens believe in political struggle, and you don’t need a party to fight between elections. Most of those of us who’ve moved into the political fight — and I count myself as one of those — spent lives fighting for substantive change. Health care as a human right. Closing down coal plants. Promoting renewable energy and clean air. We tend to be very pragmatic and practical. We know how you stop people with petitions in a nice and friendly way as they’re coming out of the store. What is your stop line? How do you start up a conversation?
People who focus on issues [eventually] realize that you can only go so far as an advocate. Political allies have lots of ways of leading you around by the nose and then cutting you off. When the bill is about to be voted on, a clause is changed that throws away five years of hard work. At the end of the day, it becomes a political fight. No matter how much you want to avoid it, you have to challenge political power. I joined the Green Party because we were being betrayed right and left by 🐍 Democrats who pretended to be our 😇 friends (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-050422155724.png).
TD: Is there a betrayal that sticks out from your years as an activist in your home state of Massachusetts?
JS: We got money out of politics in Massachusetts. We passed Clean Elections, which required public funding of elections, and it was betrayed by Democrats on a voice vote. They repealed it after it passed a voter referendum two-to-one. That was the last straw for me. I decided this has to be a political battle. I was recruited to run for office having no idea what I was getting into. That’s true for lots of greens.
In my first campaign, for governor of Massachusetts in 2002, we fought our way into a televised debate where I put forward health care as a human right, free public higher education, demilitarization, green jobs, et cetera. It went over like a lead balloon inside the debate studio. But when I walked out of the studio, I was mobbed by the press. An instant online viewer poll showed I won the night. That was the last time I was allowed into a televised debate.
TD: Let’s talk about something in the Green platform that would be very difficult to address in a televised debate, even if you were given the opportunity. This is Section 5a of the Economic Justice and Sustainability section, which recognizes there is “a fundamental conflict between economic growth and environmental protection.” This is a significant break not only with bipartisan consensus, but with most of the U.S. left, which shares a paradigm focused on ever-increasing production and consumption as measured by gross domestic product, despite evidence that growth is an ecological poison pill that can never be “greened.” How do you even begin to have this conversation with normal people worried about making rent and putting food on the table?
JS: This is a very challenging conversation. The limits of growth need to be addressed. It is not a case that we have to shut down growth immediately. But I would say that people get very attached to material comforts as a way to make up for communities and relationships. It’s why fixing our democracy and fixing [the planet] have to go forward together. We’re going to learn a lot in the next couple of years as the climate really hits the fan with drought, food supply, and especially, sea level rise. The Thwaites Glacier is losing its shelf, which acts as a break on two feet worth of sea level rise. It’s important that we be honest about what’s happening, so that we can make informed decisions as a society.
The American people are asking for someone who’s not a creature of Wall Street and in the war machine. If you’re looking for that, we’re likely to be the only option.
Most people don’t even know that we are at the precipice of some very staggering impacts. The Colorado River is about to shut down — whether it’s a year or five years — and that river supplies the water for California agriculture, which supplies half the fruits and vegetables for the country. And let’s be clear, the Democrats are creating a boondoggle for green industries that is not going to help the climate problem. You can say, well, it lays the groundwork for being able to pull back on fossil fuels, and that’s true. But we need to come clean and have an honest conversation about what’s actually going on right now. The Inflation Reduction Act is a fossil fuels first act. It’s a nuclear power act. That’s where we have to begin. And from there, things become possible. People do not trust the climate movement. They can smell a rat. And I don’t mean the grassroots climate movement, the frontline communities. I mean Bill Gates, the World Economic Forum, the high rolling, politically correct types with Teslas and private jets.
TD: A lot of people focus on the Green party once every four years, only to excoriate it. But the party is active in local elections and the work is year-round. What goes on at the local and state levels when most people aren’t paying attention?
JS: We’ve run thousands of candidates at the local level. I think we’ve elected 128 officials. There’s a fairly high rate of success for local Green candidates. They don’t get covered much, but they’re there. Mayors. State legislators. In Massachusetts, we have Greens chairing their municipal select boards, their library boards. We just elected an Afro-Latinx immigrant to the school committee in Holyoke, Massachusetts, which is a very poor community. We have local officials working on land-use planning, fighting for rent control — the whole spectrum of grassroots democracy at the community level. We work to expand these efforts [while] constantly fighting on a tilted playing field. We face smear campaigns and get locked out of the press. We are the guys that their COINTELPRO type programs have not been able to eliminate. Most independent third parties in this country don’t last 10 years. The Peace and Freedom Party is probably one of the most long-lasting, they were established sometime in the ’60s —
TD: Eldridge Cleaver headed their first ticket in ’68, I think.
JS: Right — and they grew from there into a national presence. At one point, they had access to ballots in 15 or 20 states. Now they live in one state: California. They’ve been beaten back. Around the same time the Greens were established, the brilliant labor activist Tony Mazaki, who was also an environmental health and occupational justice guy, established the Labor Party. They had money and an institutional base, but they folded because they could never get past the “spoiler” issue. So, they died. We’re all vilified for being spoilers. Even though the actual spoilers are the parties themselves who fail to really compete and fight for their base, which is why their base is walking away. That’s the problem, not progressives running for office. But that’s the way the public mythology goes. So, we’re vilified constantly in the press or locked out.
TD: What’s changed between the first Green ticket in 1996 and 2024?
JS: What’s different is we’ve got a lot more unhappy campers. People are done being thrown under the bus. Half of renters are paying 30% or more for housing. In some places like New York City, the average rent is 68% of the average income. People are swamped in debt. We are in a political rebellion, and Greens are perfectly positioned right now to support this rebellion. I have found very few people, no matter where they are on the political spectrum, who have not had a complete loss of faith in our political institutions, in the parties of war and Wall Street. We’re in an incredible learning moment right now. For us to proceed with a really honest conversation has enormous potential to help us come together.
TD: Last question. Do you have capsule opinions on your fellow “spoilers” in 2024?
JS: I will just say that I greatly sympathize with the plight of people fighting within the Democratic Party, but it’s hard to have a revolution inside of a counter revolutionary party. For those trying to do this outside of the Democratic Party, it’s difficult to get on ballots, even if you have money. As for the Libertarian Party and No Labels, they take corporate money and may be able to buy their way onto ballots, but that’s not who the American people are asking for.
The American people are asking for someone who’s not a creature of Wall Street and in the war machine. If you’re looking for that, we’re likely to be the only option. What compelled me to run was not only to ensure our ballot access would not go to waste, but also because it was highly likely the Green candidate would be the only pro-worker, anti-war, climate-action option. Either we were going to provide that, or it wasn’t going to be there. It was just unconscionable to me, to us, not to [provide] that at a time when the ship is going down. I know there are a lot of people who don’t understand why I’m running. But if you understand the life and death importance of fighting back against the existential crises we (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202747-1413866.gif) face, you know we can’t put this on the shelf. We have to do it now. That’s why I’m running. (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-110422180554-644315.gif) (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-110422180553-643238.gif)
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-way-things-are-going-biden-is-going-to-lose-on-his-own-an-interview-with-jill-stein/
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The Class Struggle
Monday, August 21, 2023
Abortion as an election winner
“Abortion Wins Elections: The fight to make reproductive rights the centerpiece of the Democratic Party’s 2024 agenda”, “The Body Politic”, Mar. 27, 2023, Rebecca Traister, (writer-at-large for New York Magazine and The Cut), The Cut,
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https://ongoingclassstruggle.blogspot.com/2023/08/abortion-as-election-winner.html
Selected COMMENTS:
AGelbert
"Abortion Wins Elections." 😕
👉 I totally, but respectfully, disagree.
📢 Advocating for the DECRIMINALIZATION of Abortion Wins Elections.
🤠There, fixed that fer ya.
🤔 Before you pro-abortion readers out there get 😠🗽 triggered, please consider your PRESENT view of 🥵 traumatic experiences on the human condition.
😠 WHAT does my view of traumatic experiences on the human condition have to do with being PRO-ABORTION because it is a RIGHT❓, you might ask.
Yes, it is true that, as a rule, abortion is technically not considered by most people as a traumatic experience, such as obviously traumatic experiences like being the victim of physical abuse OR self mutilation due to despair, depression and/or mental disease.
While it is a criminal act in the U.S. legal code to physically abuse another person, no one gets prosecuted for self multilation. It is LEGAL to self mutilate. Yeah, loved ones and/or a doctor might scold you for cutting yourself (or worse: amputating an "offensive" part of your body), but there is no law against it, as long as you are not attempting suicide. Even then, people who made unsuccessful suicide attempts are never prosecuted, but sent to a shrink. And certainly no one in their right mind would call self mutilation a "right" (i.e. 'My body, my RIGHT to cut myself as much as I want as long as it don't kill me, eh? I'm a Masochist. What's yer problem with that? I have a RIGHT to be a Masochist!' 👀🤦♂️).
NO, I am NOT making a 'false equivalence' (i.e. abortion 'apples' versus self mutilation 'peaches'). As I said before, while it is true that abortion is technically not considered by most people as a traumatic experience, it certainly cannot be considered a "self esteem enhancing experience", which is normally the effect of exercising a legal right. The fact is that ANY NON-CHRISTIAN psychiatrist or psychologist will explain to objective listeners WHY abortion is, FAR more often than not, a traumatic experience.
I get it. You are using buzzwords and slogans to win elections. Be careful of what precedent you are setting by broadening the definition of a "Human Right" to something you will be VERY uncomfortable with, to put it mildly.
My advice to all you pro-abortion folks out there is to modify your slogans so you can get more right wingers to abandon the 👿 pseudo-Christian fascist crazies destroying this country:
(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-230622123301.gif) 🔊 DECRIMINALIZE Abortion NOW! 🗽 (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-050422144605.png)
🔊 (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040422164718-5381960.png)CRIMINALIZE Money as "Speech" NOW! 🗽
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ozarkmichael > AGelbert
The smart thing to do would be to win over the moderate voters by proposing moderate gains for abortion rights. Going too far by demanding an absolute is the mistake that those of us against abortion have made in the last year.
AGelbert > ozarkmichael
I will never agree that killing a fetus is a "right". If that makes me unsmart (i.e. stupid), then so be it. I must do the Will of God, not the will of anyone that opposes the Will of God. (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-011022141610.png)
I agree with Jim Wallis. Do you?
September 10 2020
A MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR WHITE CHRISTIANITY By JIM WALLIS
SNIPPETS:
It might seem like a bold idea that the word “Christian” could become more important than the word “white” when the opposite has been true for a long time. Especially since the rise of the Religious Right, white evangelicalism in particular has been successfully tied to right-wing politics indifferent or actively hostile to racial equity, which is a fundamentally religious issue. The Religious Right, in fact, was poisoned from its beginnings with white race, white identity, and white power being prominent among its organizing purposes.
As an evangelical Christian, I believe that issues such as abortion and religious liberty are important — but I’ve also lived the history and seen how those issues have been skewed and politicized by the Religious Right to paper over clear biblical imperatives surrounding poverty and race.
Until white Christians understand that loving their neighbors as themselves means fighting unrelentingly for justice for Black and brown people and dismantling the oppressive structures of white supremacy, white American Christian claims to understand the heart of the gospel ring exceedingly hollow.
FULL ARTICLE: 👍
https://sojo.net/articles/moment-truth-white-christianity
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dreamjoehill2
I stopped reading the 1st article at "When you’re choosing Michigan’s next attorney general, ask yourself this: Who can you trust most not to show you their **** in a professional setting? Is it the candidate who doesn’t have a ****?"
This is fault out anti-male bigotry and demonization of male sexuality.
"Spending time with Michigan’s newly elected governing majority is a little like landing on a planet where no white men are in charge. "
This is bigotry as well.
This misandry is the reason I refuse to lift a finger to support abortion rights. I will do nothing to aid these man hating bigots.
AGelbert > dreamjoehill2
Friend, please keep in mind that the worst bigots in US politics are men.
My point is that, like it or not, men have to get it through their heads that women are the majority of the voting public in this country and their views MUST be respected if we are to function (for a change since the Founding Fathers' Fix was IN at the beginning) as a democracy.
That said, women are every bit as corruptible as men. SO, I would hope that these women advocates for the decriminalization of abortion would use this opportunity to rally their base against the "Money is Speech" Fascist Enabling Cornerstone destroying this country:
I recommend these two slogans:
🔊 DECRIMINALIZE Abortion NOW! 🗽
🔊 CRIMINALIZE Money as "Speech" NOW! 🗽
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dreamjoehill2 > AGelbert
"Friend, please keep in mind that the worst bigots in US politics are men."
I don't think so.
Sarah Palin, Loren Boebart, Margarie Taylor Greene, Anne Coulter, Moms For liberty. Overseas, two of Europe's largest far right parties are led by woman in Italy and France.
Money as speech is one of the biggest cons ever pulled on USAns.
AGelbert > dreamjoehill2
"Money as speech is one of the biggest cons ever pulled on USAns."
📢 Exactly right! It was overwhelmingly evil MEN who pulled that fascism enabling injustice, was it not❓
THEN: Money is "Speech" Fascism Enabling R.A.T.S:
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NOW: Fascism Enabling Evil Bastards Criminalizing Abortion:
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I agree with Jim Wallis. Do you?
September 10 2020
A MOMENT OF TRUTH FOR WHITE CHRISTIANITY By JIM WALLIS
SNIPPET:
As an evangelical Christian, I believe that issues such as abortion and religious liberty are important — but I’ve also lived the history and seen how those issues have been skewed and politicized by the Religious Right to paper over clear biblical imperatives surrounding poverty and race.
Until white Christians understand that loving their neighbors as themselves means fighting unrelentingly for justice for Black and brown people and dismantling the oppressive structures of white supremacy, white American Christian claims to understand the heart of the gospel ring exceedingly hollow.
FULL ARTICLE: 👍
https://sojo.net/articles/moment-truth-white-christianity
dreamjoehill2 > AGelbert
Good quote, but what's it got to do with the fact that feminism is man hating movement that demonizes men and their sexuality?
AGelbert > dreamjoehill2
Dreamjoehill2: "... what's it got to do with the fact that feminism is man hating movement that demonizes men and their sexuality?"
Well, quite a bit, actually. Feminists lack objectivity, to put it mildly. I hear ya on that. However, 100% of the Long Train of Abuses We-The-People (men and women together) have been tyrannically subjected to that triggered the 1776 American Revolution OF, BY and FOR Landed White Men (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-120822162250.png) with clever "inclusive 😇" 😈 rhetoric about all men (i.e. all humans) being Created "equal", before, AND AFTER (for 200 plus years and counting 😡) the founding of the USA are BECAUSE OF WEALTHY WHITE PRIVILEGED MEN.
Sure, feminists go out of their way to emasculate men any way they can. SO? I've been subject to that demonization. It's no fun. BUT, I have never had any Legal Right taken from me by a feminist.
My RIGHT to Representative Government was STOLEN from me by bought and paid for 😈 MEN in Congress who, around 1913, corked the amount of Reps in the House so Greedball Corporations (almost exclusively run, to this day, by MEN) could CONTINUE TO EXPLOIT We-The-People "for the 😇 good of the 💵🎩😈 country".
The 👹👿 Supreme Court of THAT TIME, the one that Justice Oliver Wendell Homes 🗽 was a member of, had no women on it.
Holmes was known as The Great Dissenter because he strongly objected to all the "business 💰🐘😈 friendly" cruel abuses that Court defended with every "Decision" defending child 😞 labor, lack of a safe work environment, firing people (and children!) injured on the job WITHOUT any compensation, high accident rates due to 12 hour work days AND employee (INCLUDING CHILDREN!) deaths from accidents higher in the USA at that time than in ANY other industrialized country!
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It wasn't until FDR came along that Justice Holmes got some traction on addressing the inexcusable gratuitous cruelty for PROFIT said Supreme Court BASTARDS defended.
The Feminist reaction to all the CRAP those empathy deficit disordered GREEDBALLS (Rich Men and some Rich Women, by the way, though Feminists don't want to talk about that 😉) in Government engineered to PERMANENTLY fleece BOTH men and women good and proper on behalf of "St" John (Capitalism is 🦍💰 IT) 💵 Adams is a logical and reasonable reaction to centuries of being treated like golden geese. I cannot get all upset about Feminists wanting to tell all men to get lost simply because, as the Bible says, MEN are NOT to EVER abuse women! And YEAH, RICH WHITE MEN are MOSTLY the ones that TARGET ANYONE (of ANY GENDER who is not wealthy} for abusive exploitation.
"It ain't poisonal, jes Capitalist bidness" IS NOT AN EXCUSE. (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-090422150144.png)
Now let us take this discussion of who's conduct is acceptable and who's conduct is not to this forum.
As you are probably aware, NB and I are at odds about the Abortion issue. Some might even say that she is a "Feminist". I'm a male of this sad species and a Christian.
SO, many Christians might say I have to "battle" NB's worldview. I disagree with ANY Christian that says that. My job as a Christian is to BATTLE EVIL, not humans.
I will add that I would not be concerned for my physical welfare or my Legal Rights if NB was in charge, along with all the Feminsists you are so bothered by, of the United States Government, including the Supreme Court! 🌞😁
WHY? Because, unlike people who worship at the altar of power and riches, whether they claim to be "Christian" or not. NB has a HEART FOR JUSTICE. She, IMHO, HUNGERS AND THIRSTS FOR JUSTICE!
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled. Matthew 5:6 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew%205&version=KJV) Even though she is certainly not a Christian, she DOES walk the "Do unto others as you would have the do unto you." COMMAND that Christ gave all of us.
In this way, she is more Christian than most people I have known who claim the label.
And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit? ~ James 2:16 (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=James%202&version=KJV)
Dreamjoehill2: "...feminism is a man hating movement that demonizes men and their sexuality." (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-070223145913.png)
Feminism is a man hating movement that rightfully demonizes EVIL men and their perverse lust orientated sexuality.
There, fixed that for ya. 🤠
I am of the studied opinion that Feminism is the logical and reasonable result of women of good will being exploited and physically abused for generations BY 🦍 UNGODLY MEN. 😡
God ☝🏻 Bless the 🕊️ Feminists! May they prevail in removing from power Evil (= 👿 Social Darwinist) Rich Men AND Evil (= 👿 Social Darwinist) Rich Women along the way. Feminists CARE about other people. Evil Rich people, mostly, but not exclusively, MEN, DON'T.
The trouble with the U.S. being ruled by Social Darwinists is that they don’t care about other people. They are actually incapable of imagining the lives of others, especially the fact that these others care about each other, and what happens to them.
It REALLY IS the Social Darwinism! (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/who-can-you-trust/corruption-in-government/msg1119/#msg1119)
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CLASS STRUGGLE
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
The Ohio Vote on Issue 1, August 8, 2023
1). “You did it, Ohio!: Republican efforts to raise ballot measure standards FAILS”, Aug 8, 2023, Jessica Valenti, Abortion Every Day, at https://jessica.substack.com/p/you-did-it-ohio
2). “Abortion Rights Get Lift in Ohio as G.O.P. Bid Fails.”, Aug. 9, 2023, Michael Wines, 1,203 words, New York Times.
SNIPPET:
The contest was seen as a test of efforts by Republicans nationwide to curb voters' use of ballot initiatives.
Ohio voters rejected a bid on Tuesday to make it harder to amend the State Constitution, according to The Associated Press, a significant victory for abortion-rights supporters trying to stop the Republican-controlled State Legislature from severely restricting the procedure.
The abortion question turned what would normally be a sleepy summer election in an off year into a highly visible dogfight that took on national importance and drew an unprecedented number of Ohio voters for an August election.
Late results showed the measure losing by 13 percentage points, 56.5 percent to 43.5 percent. The roughly 2.8 million votes cast dwarfed the 1.66 million ballots counted in the state's 2022 primary elections, in which races for governor, the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House were up for grabs.
The contest was widely seen as a test of Republicans' efforts nationwide to curb the use of ballot initiatives, and a potential barometer of the political climate going into the 2024 elections.
Organizations that opposed the proposal called the vote a decisive rebuff of the State Legislature, which had ordered the referendum in an attempt to derail a November vote on a constitutional amendment that would guarantee abortion rights.
''It was about a direct connection with the abortion issue for many voters,'' said Kelly Hall, the executive director of the Fairness Project, one of the leaders of the Ohio campaign against the proposal. ''But there were many others who saw it as a power grab by some legislators.
''The resounding rejection of their attempt means that voters know what's up when they're being asked to vote their rights away.''
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https://ongoingclassstruggle.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-ohio-vote-on-issue-1-august-8-2023.html
AGelbert COMMENT:
A long time ago I took a college course in labor management relations (~1976). One the interesting things I learned was that the Supreme Court has a legal thing called "Preemption".
The preemption doctrine refers to the idea that a higher authority of law will displace the law of a lower authority of law when the two authorities come into conflict.
The 😈 fun starts when the descriptive adjective, "Federal" is tacked on (I am guilty of adding irreverent 😁 emojies):
Federal Preemption
When state law and federal law 😉 conflict, federal law displaces, or preempts, state law, due to the 💵🎩 Supremacy Clause of the 🍌 Constitution.
law.cornell.edu/wex/preemption
🤔 What does all the above have to do with the price of abortion peaches in Denmark or any place else, you might ask 🤷♂️?
🧐 Well, though the issue of abortion is actually a side issue, not a central issue here, the current fight to tell the Supreme Court, now ruled by "Christian" (see Orwell) Fascists, what they can do with their right wing fascist legerdemain IS CENTRAL to this discussion.
You see, gobbledegook legerdemain language lovers have always cursed the legal "profession", These men (and now women) of "Letters" make it their "business" to serve TPTB by narrowing, or broadening, the definition of a word or phrase used in law to make sure TPTB always get the upper (i.e. 😈 selectively enforced) hand.
It has been the ethically bankrupt norm in Law and political "professions" (i.e. 😒 Sophist = A sophist is someone who makes good points about an issue — until you realize those points aren't entirely true, like a political candidate who twists an opponent's words or gives misleading facts during a speech.) even before Roman Law was a thing. 🤦♂️
So, it is not surprizing that this "😇 skill 😈" was thoroughly entrenched in the worldview of those who wrote the Constitution of the USA.(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-240422194904-9142493.jpeg)
Which brings us to the "Originalists" on the Supremely Fascist Court who have used this "😇 skill 😈" to overturn Roe v. Wade.
Of course, as I explained above, these "Originalists" ARE SOPHISTS. That is, they never gave a tinker's damn about ethics, truth, morallity and so on. Their MO is SERVE TPTB, PERIOD. They use all the huge amount of doubletalk word games they are well practiced in to deny that, but anyone with a lick of sense can see what serial liars these reprobates are.
As a Christian, I have stated here more than once that the Supreme Court has NO RIGHT to criminalize abortion. I don't see it as a "my body, my right" thing. I see it as an example of mind boggling hypocrisy in the light of such "legal precedents" as "qualified immunity" for cops that break every law in the book. Picking on pregnant women is UNJUST AND IMMORAL, PERIOD. Rather than punishing women for seeking an abortion, an ethics based Supreme Court (one this country has NEVER HAD!) would Rule that WIC, SNAP, COLA and Poverty level amount formulas are 25% OR LESS of what they MUST BE to reflect economic REALITY in the USA.
(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-080822134121-17171971.gif) WHERE is the QUALIFIED IMMUNITY for a pregant mother who feels forced to abort her child because of economic hardship? GO TO HELL, you BASTARDS on the Supreme Court! HYPOCRITES!. LIARS! Prison is too good for you SCUM. Pregnant women who abort are VICTIMS of the unjust, abusive system YOU support for the Social Darwinist Rich Hellspawn BASTARDS that bought you SNAKES! 😡
🗽 Rant over.
📢 The Lord's eyes are on the rghteous and His ears are open to their cry. The Lord's face is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the Earth.
It is my studied opinon that, even though the Supreme Fascists think they have pulled a fast one (i.e. they cynically expect the States to nullify their ruling on Abortion while leaving the other outrages against democracy untouched) on we-the-people (SEE: Old Totalitarian Government Techinque of "two steps forward, one step back" = 😈 FORWARD) by getting Christians and non-Christians to argue and fight each other in the ballot box INSTEAD of Christians and non-Christians joining together to force Congress and/or said Fascist Corrupted Court to correct the gutting of Voting Rights Laws and totally fascist "money is speech" decisions, this abortion issue was the straw that told the we-the-people "camel" that our democracy "Back" IS BROKEN and we need to fix it PRONTO.
I may be being overly optimistic, but I do believe that the "💣 States Rights" baloney that caused the Civil War way back then, will now 💥 explode 👍 in the Fascist Faces of the "🐍 Originalist" water carriers for 💵🎩🍌 TPTB. Women CAN VOTE. Women, Republican or Democrat or Independent WILL NOT stand for the criminalization of abortion. They have now become thoroughly incensed with the Supreme Court. Thus, the voting rights and campaign finance injustice this Court has legislated from the bench will now be front and center to every woman (and man) that is fighting the criminalization of abortion.
The Supreme Court, AND Congress, by the way, now finds themselves between a Federal Preemption ROCK and a HARD PLACE. Originalists ALWAYS talk out of both sides of their mouth on Federal Preemption. They defend Federal Preemption whenever they want to "pre-empt" (i.e. knock down) Just we-the-people Laws passed by States. BUT, now the Supreme Fascists are going to play dead while States all make abortion as legal as it was before by playing the SOPHIST game of saying "States Rights" is "good and proper". Sophists ALWAYS want to have it both ways. The American public has been quite deliberately thoroughly dumbed down for at least a century, but I don't think this current Orwellian mindfork will fly. It is time to bring democracy to the USA. This requires a total nullification of any and all Laws that limit voter participation, a Senate that is proportional to population size AND a House of Representatives that is NOT limited in size, but allows for one Rep PER 30,000 to 60,000 population. With modern tech, this huge, truly representative Congress could meet via computer, as the Pentagon has done for decades now. There is NO NEED for them to travel to Washington D.C. Secure communications are old hat. So many Reps and Senators would be harder to buy. Unjust Laws favoring the Rich Parasites would be legislated out of existence. It would not be utopia, but it, unlike the dystopia we labor under now, would work for MOST of the people.
Finally let me advise my socialist comrades in arms to try to prioritize the issues of these sad times by the number of people impacted by them. Getting on your high horse about the rights of your body must be tempered by comparing that issue with the massive abuse of the rights of every voting age person in the USA by the Fascist Supreme Court. IF we get a DEMOCRACY, the abortion issue would disappear, right along with "qualified immunity", racist voting laws, gerrymandering, deliberate hurdles in election regulations to keep independents off the ballot, corporation rights they have no business having, hydrocarbon fuel producing corporate "subsidies", tax breaks for the rich and the shaft for everyone else, and many other examples of disguised tyranny that have to be dealt with within a decade or less or we are 🎩🦍 TOAST.
THIS 😖 is our REALITY NOW:
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THAT IS NOT ACCEPTABLE! Do your part to fix ALL OF IT, not just the parts you think impact you. Please put the highest priority (i.e. 🗽 TRUE Voting Rights Representation in Congress and the Senate) on the top of your list.
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The Class Struggle
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
🐘 States Must Stop Criminalizing Medicine, AMA Delegates Say ~~ — "This is unacceptable...and it's time for us to push back" ~~ Joyce Frieden (https://ongoingclassstruggle.blogspot.com/2023/06/states-must-stop-criminalizing-medicine.html)
AGelbert COMMENT: There is too much Right Wing Pseudo-Christian GREED out there.
Selected Comments by MDs on the above article:
David_L_Pogge
If off label prescription becomes a criminal activity then the practice of psychiatry will come to a halt.
Keith_J_Kassabian
Finally, some official push back against all the crap physicians have had to endure for decades. I just hope it is more than talk.
Teri_EMT_RN_CCM
Last I knew, practicing medicine without a license was illegal. And that is what these legislators are doing......
DB_MD
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"A doctor who can't get in trouble for malpractice because no patient has been harmed can end up in federal prison for 20-plus years, because they prescribed off-guidelines," said Stuart Gitlow, MD, MPH, MBA, of New York City, a delegate for the American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM). "This is unacceptable. It's been unacceptable for more than 2 decades now. And it's time for us to push back."
This is horrofying! AMA must send a no-nonsense opinion; please prove you really support physicians, who are the perfect foil for all resentments and vitriol from all sides. To us doctors, it may help if we stop trooping out in residents' white jackets as televised backdrop for political messages.
Am2PmRN
The AMA also needs to speak up again (but more loudly this time), regarding how pain patients are treated and why! It's not just the DEA now. Of course they continue to cut production quota's but now, despite the shortage of opioids, plus they just pulled one of the largest drug distributor's DEA registration! Plus, there are a few others filing bankruptsy and another one who has stopped producing 2 of the most prescribed generic opioids and this is all due to misinformation that has been pushed and making people believe that opioids are causing all of the addiction and OD's! All manufacturers, distributors and wholesalers are afraid of lawsuits from the states so they are trying to avoid opioids. It's hard enough to find a doctor that will treat pain (plus insurance companies have policies limiting amounts prescribed and states have limits), but NOW, it is becoming very difficult to even find a pharmacy that will fill opioids, even if they do have them in stock or can get enough supply (they are also at risk of red flags that will cause their order to be cancelled so they receive NO opioids to dispense)! This is due to the lawsuit settlement that Walgreens, Walmart and CVS agreed to (hidden far down in the agreement), which says they will significantly reduce the amount of opioids they dispense. So Walgreens (and I've heard CVS is also doing this), is sending long, narrative questionnaires to all prescribers of opioids that make it clear to anyone with common sense, they are refusing to fill ANY medications from those doctors who don't pass their new prescribing requirements (no, they aren't written anywhere but if you've seen the questions, then you understand).So instead of these pharmacies looking at individual patients, they aren't taking any chances and are just refusing to fill all Rx's by doctors who prescribe "too many" opioids, "high dosages", and a long list of other criteria that only Walgreens knows about (and possibly CVS). These are NOT pill mill doctors either!!! Maybe the AMA isn't aware of how difficult it is for patients to fill their pain meds? It's going to take an act of Congress to fix all of these problems because there are just too many, but they don't know the truth so believe the propaganda! There is so much more that most people don't know about and I sure wish they did! Pain patients are treated worse than those addicted to street drugs and even worse than prisoners who must have their pain treated according to the 8th amendment (the ACLU fought for them).It is not okay to allow patients with intractable pain to just suffer, which is forcing many to the streets for their pain relief or to suicide!!
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June 9, 2023
AGelbert NOTE:
(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202719-14071062.gif) Trump was FINALLY indicted, as everybody that doesn't live under a rock now knows. I am not holding my breath waiting for justice to be done and that hate filled ANTI-Christian psycopath be (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-080822141004-17211668.gif) imprisoned for several years. There is far too much corruptiton in our government and the courts at present. AND, things are getting worse, not better. God help us because TPTB are sworn enemies of the righteous and fast friends with the (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-120422122619-6812456.gif) hellspawn that are (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622210450-1415528.gif) destroying our society.
Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them. ~ Proverbs 22:5
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CleanTechnica
March 1, 2023 By Carolyn Fortuna
(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-240718213433-14592370.png&hash=303e851c5feb196224d3a901ee609fed6437375d) Rethinking Capitalism (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Frenewablerevolution.createaforum.com%2Fgallery%2Frenewablerevolution%2F1%2F3-250718202127.gif&hash=acc63221521ebaf3f238088fd92d1ae3a08b6e48) — What Can It Mean For Cleantech? (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040422164519-508103.gif)
What changes need to take place so that cleantech can obtain the respect, stability, and funding it needs to transform our entire energy economy?
Full article: (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622153115-13851380.png)
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/03/01/rethinking-capitalism-what-can-it-mean-for-cleantech/
AGelbert COMMENT: The "isms" are not the PROBLEM. The PROBLEM is the SOCIAL DARWINIST IDEOLOGY they (e.g. Capitalism, Fascism, Communism) are based on.
Social Darwinists, thanks to Darwin's racist pseudo-science, believe that ethics based principles are 'limitations pretending to be virtues'. To them, ethics are 'feel good illusions' that humans invented to pretend our species has empathy. To Social Darwinists, empathy is irrefutable evidence of inexcusable weakness. To them, all who are guided by ethics are deluded fools that should be eliminated from the human 'apex predator' gene pool for the "good" of our species.
Enthusiastic converts to Social Darwinism have, to this day, used the language of evolution to frame an understanding of the growing gulf between the rich and the poor, as well as the many differences between cultures all over the world. The explanation they arrived at, and continue to use to justify biosphere trashing profit over people and planet, regardless of any alligator tear filled mendacious claims to the contrary, is that businessmen and others who are economically and socially successful are so because they are biologically and socially “naturally” 🙄🤔 the fittest.
Conversely, they reason that the poor are “naturally” weak and unfit and it would be an error to allow the weak of the species to continue to breed.
The ideology of the Social Darwinist is indistinguishable from the despicable ideology of NAZI Germany, clearly exemplified in their brutally enforced morally bankrupt concentration camp law: “Eat your own bread, and if you can, that of your neighbor.”
This heinous "Apex Predators have a DARWINIAN RESPONSIBILITY to BE as PREDATORILY EVOLVED (SEE: Steal everything that is not nailed down.) as possible" ATHEIST WORLDVIEW is the socially destructive tsunami now engulfing human society. What all the entrenched insiders among the parasitic, predatory (i.e. Social Darwinist) elites and institutions don't dare admit publicly, though they celebrate that privately, is that to protect themselves from consequence, making the rest of us sacrifice everything else is what they-the-Apex-Predators have a DARWINIAN DUTY to DO. After all, Homo sapiens is "just the result of random undirected processes", so the more you can "enlightened self interest" DO to get MORE POWER by causing, directly or indirectly, the death of human competitors for the species gene pool high ground, "the better".
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This is how America works now: in-your-face corruption is not just 💵🎩🍌 accepted, it's 😈🍾 glorified. (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-080422121331.gif)
Let's score America's wealth and power elites, regardless of party or political persuasion:
Integrity: zero.
Austerity: zero.
Restraint: zero.
Humility: zero.
Responsibility: zero.
Accountability: zero.
Sacrifice for the common good: zero.
Thrift: zero.
ALL the above scores are perfectly descriptive of the Social Darwinist modus operandi/vivendi.
Frugality and prudence, once accepted by all human cultures as sine qua non, has given way to massive excess by TPTB (and too many of the, brainwashed by the "education system", non-rich populace) and a level of 🐗👿🐊🦍🐉 craziness in culture ethical humans never imagined they would (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-050422182057.gif) experience.
(https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-080422121435.png) 📢 It REALLY IS the Social Darwinism, stupid! (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-110422205132-6472099.gif)
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"Perhaps Carter could have staved this off had he been more politically cunning, but I doubt it. After 45 years playing defense, (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622210450-1415528.gif) corporate America was eager to (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202719-1406786.gif) grab back the reins of power. Despite his best efforts, Carter paved the way for (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202719-14071062.gif) Ronald Reagan —
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and America’s return to the corporate capitalism that had dominated the nation before the 🥵 Great Depression and Franklin D. Roosevelt 🗽." -- February 20, 2023 Robert Reich
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Here is the "voting" and 🐘😈 Representation PROBLEM with our so-called "Democracy": (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-080422121435.png)
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Land doesn't vote. People do (https://www.core77.com/posts/90771/A-Great-Example-of-Better-Data-Visualization-This-Voting-Map-GIF)
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CleanTechnica
February 4, 2023 By Steve Hanley
Democrats Sell Their Souls To The 🦕 Methane 👿 Mob
The 🦕 methane 👿 industry has created a new political action campaign that targets Democratic voters in blue states.
SNIPPET:
🦕 Natural 😈 Allies doesn’t need to target reactionaries. Twenty states with 🐘 GOP controlled legislatures have already passed “😈 preemption laws” that prohibit cities from banning gas. And this week, Florida’s arch 🐘😈 conservative governor, who is vying for the title of “most despicable human being,” suggested his state should exempt gas stoves from the state sales tax to encourage more people to buy one. (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-050422145533-5671050.gif)
Full article: (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040422164647-5372345.gif)
https://cleantechnica.com/2023/02/04/democrats-sell-their-souls-to-the-methane-mob/
AGelbert:
Thank you Steve Hanley for this article. It is high time people faced the hard truth that our government has been thoroughly corrupted by the Hydrocarbon Hellspawn and their Banker partners in profit over people and planet. I will add some graphics to illustrate how this insanity came about. 👉 Pictures can, as shown below, often reveal a lot more 😱 than a "thousand words".
The last 75 years, and the next 25 years or so, of American Government History for reality based people:
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If you hold ANY stock in a bank that finances hydrocarbon fuels infrastructure or ANY stock in a corporation that profits from upstream or downstream exploration, exploitation of and/or refining of hydrocarbons, you will be very sorry, very, very soon, that you did. For the sake of everything and everyone you hold dear, SELL NOW!
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AGelbert:
The trend, not only is not our friend, but is most definitively our DOOM.
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AGelbert:
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Robert-SF
"The Republicans really have been getting away for with preposterously pretending to be some kind of “populist” working people’s party."
Well, they get away with it because they are allowed to get away with it. And at least the Republicans pretend to like the "poorly educated." The Democrats couldn't make their contempt for them more obvious.
Calgacus > Robert-SF
"The Democrats couldn't make their contempt for them more obvious."
Yup, the mainstream Dems, many lefties quite literally do not know how to talk to ordinary people without insulting them. One illustration is that there is a fairly good, well-meaning site doing Gods work - that tries to edumucate pipples to NOT do this.
But I pointed out how they were unintentionally doing what they thought they were avoiding - by calling others beliefs "beliefs" and their own beliefs "facts" or "truth". They were trying, but they couldn't get rid of their superciliousness. Super-silly. I'm often supercilious too, but by intent. :-)
They never posted my comment. :-(
Agelbert > Calgacus
🤔 I understand you are talking about religion. It is mission impossible to tell anyone, from any monotheistic religion, that their religious beliefs "are no more truthful" than the different religious beliefs of others.
Yeah, I get that that is what you believe, as most here at Class Struggle, but good luck convincing those at that web site that you are right and they are "superciliousness" and "Super-silly".
Religious folks have a very poor sense of humor. Your attempt to make them reason out of their errors with a lighthearted comment was probably perceived as mockery. Religious folks don't handle mockery with aplomb, to put it mildly.
As a Christian, I am grateful for your comment about the good work they are doing. It is good to see evidence that some religious folks out there urge others to practice the Benevolent Compassion that only Anti-Christians posing as Christians (i.e. MOST "😈 Church" attending American Christo-fascist, Capitalism Worshipping Greedballs) feel "justified" in going full Orwell on.
As to TRUTH, perhaps it was Pontius Pilate that started the "What is Truth" (https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John+18%3A38&version=) 👉 "It's all relative" 🙄 ball rolling, but it didn't really take among the "educated" until about 150 years ago.
IMHO, not popular among my fellow Progressives (to put it mlldly), TRUTH is not now, or ever will be, "relative". There is only ONE Truth. Yeah, I firmly believe Jesus Christ was not engaging in semantic hyperbole when He said He is the Truth, or when He said,"Before Abraham was, I AM".
That said, the (certainly NOT "relative") subcategories of Truth that do not involve religion or a Deity, such as physical constants, atomic weights of elements, the refraction index of water at a given temperature and atmospheric pressure, the speed of light in a vacuum, prima facie evidence of a crime, scientific measurements, etc. are based on the FACT that there is ONE TRUTH, not some "situational ethics" sliding scale of "truth".
The moment you put Truth on a sliding scale, you left Truth AND ETHICS behind. For human societies to go the "it's all relative", "I'm okay, you're okay" route, as ours is obviously DOING, is certainly not "superciliousness" and "Super-silly". But, that morally bankrupt route IS irrefutably regressive, though Progressives will argue till the cows come home that "doin' yer own Libertine thing is Progressive". NO WAY!
Just as science CANNOT function with relative "truths" about what something is made of, our society is not viable with no IMMUTABLE ETHICAL STANDARD. In fact, though Progressives get hives every time it is brought up, the progress of SCIENCE BY the formulation of the Scientific Method came DIRECTLY from the monotheistic religious belief that there is ONE GOD and ONE TRUTH, NOT from the "Enlightenment", so often erroneously given FULL credit for human advances in scientific knowledge.
All this goes back to the EMBRACE of Social Darwinism by the most educated and influential segments of our morally bankrupt civilization. Thus, as long as TPTB, and too many out there believe, as they do, that "might equals right", then the belief that "we are a viable species" is a Sick Joke. (https://soberthinking.createaforum.com/gallery/soberthinking/1-040622202720-1408267.gif)
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https://ongoingclassstruggle.blogspot.com/2022/11/yes-republicans-working-class-pretense.html