Monday, April 17, 2023

MERCER ANALYSIS

 

A POSTER'S COMMENT AFTER READING ABOUT MERCERS:

 I found the entire article very disturbing, something is wrong with our laws if this kind of Anti-American shit is allowed to continue: In 2015, Steve Bannon described to Forbes how the GAI operated, employing a data scientist to trawl the dark web (in the article he boasts of having access to $1.3bn worth of supercomputers) to dig up the kind of source material Google can’t find. One result has been a New York Times bestseller, Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, written by GAI’s president, Peter Schweizer and later turned into a film produced by Rebekah Mercer and Steve Bannon.
This, Bannon explained, is how you “weaponise” the narrative you want. With hard researched facts. With those, you can launch it straight on to the front page of the New York Times, as the story of Hillary Clinton’s cash did. Like Hillary’s emails it turned the news agenda, and, most crucially, it diverted the attention of the news cycle. Another classic psyops approach. “Strategic drowning” of other messages.
This is a strategic, long-term and really quite brilliant play. In the 1990s, Bannon explained, conservative media couldn’t take Bill Clinton down because “they wound up talking to themselves in an echo chamber”.




WEEKEND EDITION: The Impeachable Clarence Thomas and Abortion Rights Under Threat




The Week in Review

 

April 16, 2023

Abortion Rights Supporters Protest at US Supreme Court, Nationwide

From Florida and Texas to California and Illinois, demonstrators marched with chants like, "Red state, blue state, you can't hide, the war on abortion is nationwide," and "Fascist judges make me ill, hands off the abortion pill."

 

April 15, 2023

'He Needs to Be Investigated': Abortion Case Judge Potentially Hid Law Review Article From Senate

"A functioning Senate Judiciary Committee could investigate this," said one critic of Judge Matthew J. Kacsmaryk.

 

April 13, 2023

In Dead of Night, Ron DeSantis Signs Near-Total Abortion Ban Into Law

"Women have been stripped of their rights and access to lifesaving healthcare," warned one Democratic lawmaker. "Women will undoubtedly die. This is not freedom."

 

April 13, 2023

'He Must Be Impeached': Clarence Thomas Made Undisclosed Property Deal With Billionaire Megadonor

"Harlan Crow is not, as Thomas claims, his 'dearest friend' so much as his corrupt benefactor," said one critic. "Thomas is unfit to serve on any court, let alone our nation's highest court."

 

April 13, 2023

World's 60 Largest Banks Have Dumped $5.5 Trillion Into Fossil Fuels Since Paris Accord

"Fossil fuel companies are the ones dousing the planet in oil, gas, and coal, but big banks hold the matches," said one advocate. "Without financing, fossil fuels won't burn."

 

April 12, 2023

Federal Judge Throws 'Science Under the Bus' With Decision Against EPA Clean Water Rule

"This ruling readily bows to the forces in this country that have been trying for years to gut the Clean Water Act."

 

April 12, 2023

'It's About Hurting the Poor': GOP Ramps Up Cruel Push for Work Requirements

"The legislators that want new work requirements for food stamps and Medicaid are the same ones working to eliminate the estate tax so that billionaire heirs never have to work a day in their lives."

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Opinion

 

Ron DeSantis: Yet Another Cog in Guantanamo's Torture Machine

The Florida governor and White House hopeful reminds us of how the prisoners at the offshore prison became defenseless victims of state vengeance run amok and how the perpetrators of torture and abuse—and their masters—have eluded any form of accountability.

Roy Eidelson

 

Teach History. Democracy Requires It.

Learning history is partly about understanding injustices past and present. But it’s also about understanding how people came together to fight back.

Lewis M. Steel

 

The United States Now Has a Fascist Political Party

It goes go by the name: Republican Party.

Robert Reich

 

A Change in Values to Reverse a Nation in Perilous Decline

We need a value to replace greed as our highest goal. Compassion? Justice? Love of truth? We do not know how to name it precisely, but that does not mean we cannot strive for something that can guide us, other than concerns with money.

Huck Gutman

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Morning Digest: California voters could make major changes to recall elections this fall

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