Too many Trump crimes to remember? We haven't forgotten.

 The NY Daily News & JIMMY BRESLIN could not have written more about this SNAKE OIL SALESMAN for anyone who attempted to inform themselves. NEW YORKERS knew what scum he was.....too many embraced lies that worked to destroy the nation, enrich the dysfunctional family, and created an $8 TRILLION DEFICIT. This defines American ignorance.

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Poll: Americans have no Idea what Biden Means when he says he is a Zionist, or What Israel’s Ideology is Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Shibley Telhami and Michael Hammer have a new commentary out based on their polling at the University of Maryland’s Critical Issues Poll during the past year. One of the three issues they address is Israel/ Palestine. They found that 62% of Americans have no idea what Zionism is. Zionism is, […]

We can end Mass Atrocities in Gaza and Beyond Shimri Zameret  ( Waging Nonviolence ) – In the past few weeks, the number of innocent Palestinian civilians killed in attacks by the Israeli government has reached unprecedented levels. Both a majority of people around the world and a majority of governments oppose the mass atrocities against civilians in Gaza. Why is this common-sense view […]

CNN Admits its Policy of Submitting to Israeli Censorship ‘Has Been in Place for Years’ By Julia Conley | – ( Commondreams.org ) – CNN has long been criticized by media analysts and journalists for its deference to the Israeli government and the Israel Defense Forces in its coverage of the occupied Palestinian territories, and the cable network admitted Thursday that it follows a protocol that could give Israeli censors […]

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Trump Supporter's UNREAL Rant About The Founding Fathers & Slavery etc.

 

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A Trump supporter rants about voting, slavery and freedom. Michael Shure reports for The Young Turks from the scene of a Trump rally in South Carolina.

The Most Dangerous Thing In America According To Trump Supporters

You want to know what keeps Trumpers up late at night? Micheal Shure interviews Trump supporters outside a rally in Rapid City, SD.

The Craziest MAGA Theories

Trump supporters sharing their craziest MAGA theories.

US: PROUDLY EMBRACING IGNORANCE!

 

America, which once had a system of public education that educated effectively and was the envy of the world, is now busily underfunding and under resourcing its public schools, disparaging and disrespecting its teachers and, most incredibly of all, PROUDLY EMBRACING IGNORANCE. This can’t end well.

And, Arne "I play basketball!" Duncan before her. [BETSY DEVOS]

The post-WWII corporate 'elites' hired Edward Bernays to help them inculcate consumerism in the citizens of this nation. Bernays' primary tool, propaganda, has been used against us for decades now. I may be telling you something you already know, if so, I apologize.

Willful ignorance is a huge psychic wound for our species, and a deliberate one. We are witnessing the predictable outcome of decades of propaganda coupled with a co-opted system of public education designed to spit out factory fodder and service industry drones--with stunted critical thinking skills and a deep aversion to all things academic.

Then we have Dunning Kruger Syndrome sufferers, and cognitive dissonance (something with which we all contend, rendering any denial a classic example). If you are tempted to call these coping strategies 'intellectual laziness,' consider that both are further evidence of just how fucked up is our system of public education (and our poisonous pedagogy, but that's another rant).

Plus, I'm struggling to avoid the insidious blame and shame game, which is a sublime waste of time and energy--and, by the way, an example of the derisive and divisive propaganda inculcated by the corporate fascists.

For whatever reason, most of us seem oblivious to what's happening around us, and that has to change.

We ALL have got to respond to this wound. We ALL must reclaim our critical thinking skills.

If we are to leave our children and our children's children a habitable planet, it is critical for all of us to understand viscerally that a handful of obscenely wealthy corporate fascists--the handful of old white men who own and control most of this planet's resources --are responsible for the wanton destruction of our ecosystem and our democracy. Their behavior, by definition, is psychopathy--a psychopathy that promises our species' extinction event.

We are Earthlings, all of us, to a one. And, putting aside our educational backgrounds, we all have critical thinking skills. In these exponential times, ALL of us are challenged by global events--especially, the global pandemic and the climate crisis--to hone our critical thinking skills and do the reading and research necessary to undertake the initiatives that might mitigate the existential threat we've brought upon ourselves.

If we hope to insure that our children and our children's children will live in a habitable ecosystem, our entire economy will have to change. Our economic behaviors have to change. And, our politics have to be purged of all the neoliberal corporate sycophants infesting both parties who justify and bend over for the corporate fascists.

#OurRevolution

So many in the rarified atmosphere of the plutocracy of the 1 percent have no empathy with the struggles and suffering of their employees whatsoever; in fact are hoping to crush the American middle class under their iron heel.

Sadly, the American plutocracy of the 1 percent, devoid of any patriotism for America or any real love for their fellow human beings, with an unslakable thirst for even more wealth and hunger for the very real power that great wealth brings with it, want to destroy the incomes, wealth, and political power that average working Americans gained during the “Golden Age of the American Middle Class: 1945 to 1973.”

The predatory, kleptocratic plutocracy of the 1 percent has a well thought out plan to further enrich itself and firmly entrench itself in power, all at the direct expense of the average working people of America and by undermining American representative democracy. This reactionary plan has been in slow, steady execution since the 1970s. Instead of attacking the American middle class and representative democracy in a lightening frontal assault, these reactionaries have been chipping away at middle class, "small-d" democratic America in small, but steady steps for over 40 years. Their plan is already far along and bearing fruit for them. Their intention is nothing less than to replace prosperous, middle class America with a Third World style oligarchy, America as it fits in the plutocratic envisioned "New World Order.”

As the "New World Order" quietly, insidiously spreads itself across the American economy, good paying, career track jobs with good benefits are becoming increasingly hard to find, and the wages and salaries of the bottom 50 percent of workers are, according to economist Thomas Piketty and associates, "collapsing.” Twenty-seven year olds are more likely to earn less than $15,000 a year.

The emerging "New World Order" will become a supranational, multinational corporation dominated, worldwide fascist order, a worldwide "neofeudalism,” in which the plutocrats and the corporate executives constitute the very tiny new feudal "aristocracy,” modern day feudal lords. The large, prosperous and powerful middle class America that developed after WWII will evaporate and disappear, being replaced with a small, greedy, servile “retainer class" of people who provide goods and services to the new aristocracy and to each other. And below that will be a huge class of unemployed, underemployed, and sporadically employed people, a huge "reserve army of impoverished labor,” modern day feudal serfs, employed and let go as the aristocracy and retainer class need workers.

We can already see it taking shape. Decent, good paying, full time jobs with good benefits are becoming increasingly rare, as a new economy of poorly paid part time jobs, and temporary "gigs" is taking the place of the old American middle class world of remunerative full time employment. People are desperately clamoring to get themselves, and especially their children, into the elite universities, graduate schools, professions, and firms that will populate the new retainer class.

In effect, there is a perverse game of "musical chairs" being played at the moment, in which currently middle class people march around the shrinking number of slots, "chairs,” in the emerging retainer class, and battle each other to claim a seat when the music stops. All are desperate to avoid slipping down into the emerging neofeudal "serfdom.”

Unfortunately, this is a "game" that most currently middle class people will lose.

 BOTH are entitled to receive a compensation that allows them to live with financial security and dignity.

Sadly, it seems that the whole idea of employment compensation being oriented toward allowing the individual worker in question to be able to meet the financial burdens of life fully and with dignity and confident security from ONE JOB is being systematically destroyed in America today.

Instead, what we have is the employer class, the predatory, kleptocratic plutocracy of the 1 percent, the emerging American oligarchy being able to keep heavy, downward pressure on the wages and salaries of most of the middle and working classes by encouraging jealousy and hostility by the various sections of the average working people of America AGAINST EACH OTHER! Average working people are being encouraged to look at people who earn less than they do as somehow being UNDESERVING of making a decent, comfortable living from their employment. And to make it even worse, many people are often working one, two, or even three additional part time jobs trying desperately to cobble together adequate earnings just to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table, much less to enjoy a comfortable, traditional middle class American lifestyle.

Meanwhile, as this slow, steady, sickly self-destructive attitude is fostered and encouraged among the middle and working classes, the whole structure of American society is changing from the closest approximation of the classic “Aristotelian Diamond” in history, with its small classes of very rich and very poor people at the top and bottom, respectively, and with the great mass of the people in between making up the comfortable, prosperous middle class to an all too familiar traditional Third World social pyramid, with a tiny, fabulously wealthy elite at the apex, a small greedy, servile “retainer class” providing goods and services to the wealthy elite and to each other immediately below, and, at the bottom, the great mass of the people: unemployed, underemployed, or only sporadically employed, desperately impoverished and deeply in debt — a 21st century “lumpen proletariat,” as the great analyst of capitalism, Karl Marx, would call them.

Ironically, the plutocracy of the 1 percent, feeling strong, confident, and secure in their place at the apex and in their wealth and privileges ever since the collapse of the Bolshevik dictatorship in Russia in 1991, and the rise of a vicious, dog-eat-dog neoliberalism in America and the West under their sponsorship and control, seems almost determined to bring about the very revolutionary socioeconomic and political situation that Karl Marx outlined in The Communist Manifesto. The plutocrats laugh, snicker, and toast each other that they managed to drive a wooden stake through the heart of Karl Marx and his followers’ Marxism. Meanwhile, the poverty, desperation, anger and rage of the average working people grows and festers towards revolution.

And from his grave in London’s Highgate Cemetery is heard the guffawing of Karl Marx having the last laugh.

The Iron Snowflake

“Sinclair spokesman Michael Padovano said Sinclair hopes to add context and other viewpoints and still air the controversial segment on the next week’s edition of “America This Week.”

https://www.snopes.com/ap/2020/07/25/sinclair-pulls-show-where-plandemic-conspiracy-theory-is-aired/

Article: https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/24/media/sinclair-fauci-conspiracy-bolling/index.html

Sinclair Pulls Show Where ‘Plandemic’ Conspiracy Theory Is Aired

The Sinclair Broadcast Group said it is pulling from the air an edition of its “America This Week” program that discusses a conspiracy theory involving Dr. Anthony Fauci and the coronavirus.

NEW YORK (AP) — The Sinclair Broadcast Group said Saturday it is pulling from the air an edition of its “America This Week” program that discusses a conspiracy theory involving Dr. Anthony Fauci and the coronavirus.

Sinclair spokesman Michael Padovano said Sinclair hopes to add context and other viewpoints and still air the controversial segment on the next week’s edition of “America This Week.”

Meanwhile, Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert, talked in detail in a new podcast about the “serious threats” and hate mail directed his way.

“America This Week” is hosted by Eric Bolling, a former Fox News Channel personality, and sent to stations Sinclair owns in 81 markets. The show it initially distributed for this weekend’s show featured an interview with Judy Mikovits, maker of the widely discredited “Plandemic” video, and her lawyer, Larry Klayman.

Mikovits, an anti-vaccine activist, said she believed that Fauci manufactured the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 and shipped it to China. There has been no evidence that the virus was produced in a lab, much less any of Fauci’s involvement.

Bolling did not push back on the claim, or show any evidence of checking its veracity. He followed up with a segment interviewing radiologist Dr. Nicole Saphier, a Fox News contributor, who said she thought Fauci “in no way, shape or form has been involved in the manufacture of this virus.”

During the segment, first revealed by Media Matters for America, a chyron on the bottom of the screen read “Did Dr. Fauci create coronavirus?”

Bolling told CNN Business that he wasn’t even aware of the “Plandemic” video before his bookers arranged for Mikovits’ appearance. He told CNN that “frankly, I was shocked when she made the accusation.” He said he brought Saphier on to challenge what he called a “hefty” charge.

The 26-minute “Plandemic” video emerged this spring and promoted a series of questionable, false and potentially dangerous theories. Online platforms Facebook, YouTube and Twitter took actions to slow its distribution.

Kelly McBride, a senior vice president and ethics expert for the Poynter Institute, a journalism think tank, said Saturday that such controversial theories should only be presented if accompanied by thorough reporting on their accuracy.

“One has the responsibility to vet the information that they’re putting in front of an audience,” McBride said. “There’s no way to put information out like that responsibly because it’s so far-fetched.”

Before pulling the episode, Sinclair had tweeted that it did not endorse Mikovits’ theory. But the company said, “We’re a supporter of free speech and a marketplace of ideas and viewpoints, even if incredibly controversial.”

A hero to some for his blunt talk about COVID-19, Fauci has been the target of criticism by President Donald Trump and his supporters. It was revealed this spring that he was given security after receiving threats, and he talked about it in some detail on “The Axe Files” podcast with former Obama aide David Axelrod this past week.

Fauci said he’s seen a side of society that is disturbing, with a far greater level of anger than he heard in the 1980s when he was working to combat HIV.

Fauci says he is receiving “not only hate mail, but actual serious threats against me.”

“I mean against my family, my daughters, my wife,” he said. “There are people who get really angry at thinking that I’m interfering with their life because I’m pushing a public health agenda.”

When it comes to hate mail and serious threats against him and his family, Fauci said, “I don’t really see how society does that.”

“I could understand, very well, that you have to be careful because of the negative consequences of things like shutting down,” he said. “That’s understandable, which is the reason we’re all trying to open up America again in a way that is safe, that we can do it in a measured fashion. But the hostility against public health issues is difficult to not only understand, but difficult to even process.”

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Local TV stations across the country set to air discredited 'Plandemic' researcher's conspiracy theory about Fauci

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