But Russia
The ACLU on the bipartisan Senate attempt - in the midst of the shutdown! - to pass as its first bill a new law to punish the free speech rights of American citizens in defense of Israel https://t.co/AZOfTIg9vF pic.twitter.com/BDJ6Q427Z3
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) January 5, 2019
In the newly controlled Democratic House, H.R.1 – meant to signal the new majority’s priorities – is an anti-corruption bill that combines election and campaign finance reform, strengthening of voting rights, and matching public funds for small-dollar candidates. In the new 2017 Senate, the GOP-controlled S.1 was a bill, called the “Tax Cuts and Jobs Act,” that, among other provisions, cut various forms of corporate taxes.But in the 2019 GOP-controlled Senate, the first bill to be considered – S.1 – is not designed to protect American workers, bolster U.S. companies, or address the various debates over border security and immigration. It’s not a bill to open the government. Instead, according to multiple sources involved in the legislative process, S.1 will be a compendium containing a handful of foreign-policy related measures, a main one of which is a provision, with Florida’s GOP Sen. Marco Rubio as a lead sponsor, to defend the Israeli government. The bill is a top legislative priority for AIPAC.
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Heard Nader say recently...
AIPAC and the NRA were the most effective lobbies in congress. Sure seems that way.
Although Saudi Arabia is giving 'em a run and has been for quite awhile
https://www.thenation.com/article/saudi-lobbying-complex-adds-new-member...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Atlantic Council = NATO
It's not unusual for NATO countries to contribute to the Atlantic Council, but what are the Saudis doing there?
isn't Kissinger on the board?
...and he cut the deal with the Saudis for the petrodollar.
https://www.technocracy.news/facebook-partners-with-globalist-atlantic-c...
Oh I see he is merely a member.
Kissinger is also a Bilderburg Group Member, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a ‘participator’ in the Trilateral Commission.
In 2013, the Atlantic Council awarded Hillary the “Distinguished International Leadership” title which was presented by Kissinger, and in which she vehemently pushed for the TPP Agreement
Henry Kissinger Quotes:
“It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.”
“The issues are too important to be left to the voters.”
“The illegal we do immediately, the unconstitutional take a little bit longer.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Council
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Bribing
"It's not unusual for NATO countries to contribute to the Atlantic Council, but what are the Saudis doing there?"
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Bernie doesn't think it's a good plan either
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
I figured Bernie would be all in favor
He voted to smack the hornets' nest with a stick when he voted to move the embassy to Jerusalem.
Notice he didn't say it was unconstitutional. He just said get the govt back open, so reject it. Betcha if it does get shot down (6 Dems are co-authors so probably not), I'll bet he votes in favor, the next time it comes back around.
Priorities .. right
Yes does that mean he's fine with it passing once the government is open? And it's $38 billion for 10 years. Still.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Perhaps indicitive of nothing
...it's interesting to note that the highest numbers of Americans ever say they would like to leave the US and move to a better country. This, according to new Gallup Poll results reported two days ago. These Americans do not believe they have a favorable future in America. And, they're right. Important civil rights may be revoked if this election is not turned completely upside down by an independent presidential candidate.
Some see this trend as a reaction to Trump's governing style, but I'm not so sure they are looking for a permanent solution to a temporary problem. I'm more inclined to see this trend as a manifestation of what happens when people suddenly wake up and realize how dangerous the political risks are for individual Americans. Over the years, all things 'Left' have been systematically crushed by government, including unions, the labor movement, and national health, education, and welfare.
The neocons and neoliberals are reacting by laying the groundwork to criminalize citizen dissent and peaceful protest. Unfortunately, their unconstitutional government overreach is stimulating the political rise of authentic Leftist ideas in America. They are helping to spread the word. These DC Bubble-dwellers are in a frenzy of activity — right now — to push more propaganda and enact new laws to crush Left ideas designed to benefit society and empower the People. The race is on to smear and sabotage the Left and stop the spread of their principles before they grow stronger and take bloom in People's hearts. Washington's corporate tools are well aware of what is taking place and what is really at stake. Total oppression in the US has not yet been normalized, and heavy-handed military police action against the People and their policy ideas during an election could backfire. The corporate-owned media is losing credibility by the day. This window will still be open for a little bit longer.
The increasing political polarization in the U.S. may also be acting as a motivator. The explosive growth of the US police state is a clear warning sign that repressive policies are in the works for dissenters. Women seem intuitively aware of what's coming; they've taken prominent roles and are speaking out.
The upcoming 2020 election shows every sign of being the strangest and most contrarian election ever. The huge majority of voting-eligible-but-disenfranchised Americans could coalesce out of the nation's shadows and rise up like Godzilla.**
Mobilizing them may not even be necessary, although we do need to continue the important work of reaching out to others and helping them wake up if they have the potential and interest. All the heavy-lifting is being done inadvertently by the Neoliberal corporatists, the IA subversives, the Democratic hoaxers, and both Party's utterly corrupt establishment elites. Their continued deafness to the mood of the American body politic is actually inspiring a powerful awakening of True-Left principles that return control of the government to the People. The Left coalition — which is the silent alliance of America's intended loyal opposition — has grown exponentially since Occupy and the Bernie Sanders experience. The next step is the platform. However, even that is writing itself and incorporating the People's neglected and long-overdue agendas. For the first time in over half a century, an estimated sixty-five percent of voting-eligible Americans may finally feel like they will be represented at the national level by electing an Independent President.
Now that's what I'd call a "sleeping dragon." Wake up!
Overthrowing Hillary and tumbling both Parties in 2016 gave us the opportunity to run the ball halfway down the playing field. Now let's finish what we started and carry the ball to the Victory zone by electing an Independent President to represent the American people. Let's get it done.
[Edit = added link]
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
It's not Trump who has made me want to leave
It's the crap that congress is doing and wants to do that is. And it didn't start when Trump became president, but when Obama was.
This will definitely happen if the yellow vest movement hits here. Most of the laws have already been written starting with the patriot act and then Obama's NDAA. DiFi has done her part too in making some protesting against animal rights abuses illegal and subjected to felony charges. People who protested DAPL are facing long prison terms if they are found guilty of some acts. But of course not the private mercenaries who assaulted them.
Economic and the police state is why I want to expatriate. I picked New Zealand because Janis said that she has an extra room for me and the dawgs. Isn't this right Janis?
Great comment, Pluto.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Thanks for the feedback
I'm grooming this comment for an article. I've wanted to leave the country since I was about 13, so the topic is of particular interest to me. I want to go to New Zealand, too.
I operate from the premise that there has never been a Left Party in the US. There have been a couple of left movements, surrounding labor. Labr laws in the US are a bad joke, so they were not very effective. But, I've found an organized Left in almost all other countries. Left principles are embedded in the nature of humans. It evolved as a survival mechanism. It's absense is very creepy.
I don't think people, even here, know what a Left ideology means and how it wraps around all issues as an interactive element. People think anti-war is Left or Pro environment is Left. Those are just positions that can be taken by anyone. Progressiveness is not the Left. It's a stand-in for groups that are adapting to evolutionary changes. Activism is not a Left thing and neither is protest. Left is not a doctrine or formula like socialism, either. Left is much bigger. Staying Left is actually the basic human instinct that made human evolution possible.
Not to be preachy about it, but I think Americans will have a hard time recognizing the Left it if they think it's about certain policies. No wonder it is so easy to suck them back into the corporate parties. Parties and platforms are fine for coordinating political positions across time and space. They were practical before about 1890. But they have drifted too far from human instincts. That's why people need to look up the day's talking points.
I'm convinced that a non-party affiliated President is the only way to change things fast enough to rescue us. It's the corporate-owned Parties that are making Presidents corrupt and their judgement so poor. I hope I'm not the only one who got this message. Obviously, the 2020 election is going to be another pissed-off one. I hope there is a wise, Party-Independent candidate for them to vote FOR. That's the only rapid and legal game-changer available, I believe.
Either way, I'll be done with politics by then.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
Foreign meddling
Israel and KSA are exempt.
Why? Because they legally bribe our politicians.
We have a winner!
This vote shows that the United States is a wholly owned subsidiary of Israel. We now have 26 states that are requiring what is the equivalent of a loyalty oath to foreign nation with the laws they have passed regarding Israel.
And WHY is this not a violation of our first amendment rights?
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Why aren't these bills
and promoters considered treason against the US?
dfarrah
Easy answer
Why aren't these measures considered treason? Simple. The people who determine treason have their pockets stuffed with Israeli (and Saudi)
bribescash.We have the best government money - as long as it's not Russian money - can buy.
But haven't you heard?
The GOP received a lot of money from Russia that was laundered through the NRA. I wish I was joking, but sadly I'm not. The kos kids are sure of that because the Russian lobbyist worked with people from the NRA to funnel money to some republicans and that's why they won't go after Trump.
This Russian nonsense has infiltrated every level of politics according to some of them.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
My new occupation
Well, no. Actually, I hadn't heard this (/s), but I'm getting to where I believe almost any harebrained idea is possible. In fact........
While I have hardly been back there since the Ides of March purge, I am sorely tempted to log in (if they haven't thrown me out) and start posting the most inane, totally impossible Russia-did-it piffle I can conjure up.
I've always secretly admired the writers of the various (and vanishing) supermarket tabloid rags such as the Weekly World News (sadly now online only). I think I read once that most of those writers lived around one town in Florida and were mostly UK expatriates. If memory serves, it was the same town in which most American carnival workers reside. Seems fitting.
In any event, I thought lounging around in Florida bars sipping Scotch all day, dreaming up foolishness to foist on slow-witted Americans - and getting paid for it - was somehow an ideal occupation. In the spirit of that, I'd love to lead the KOS-crowd around by a imaginary leash and watch them chase their tails. I mean, you could publish literally anything that accuses the Russians of any fault - that actually lies at the feet of the Democrats, or at least the globalist neo-liberals - and they will buy it, hook, line, and sinker. And consider this: you can't get in trouble for any of it! None. What are they going to do? Throw you out for publishing lies about Russia? Hell, no, they won't do that. They'll be lining up to back you! Front page! RUSSIAN MOLES INFILTRATE SHREDDED WHEAT FACTORY! RUSSIAN INFLUENCE CAUSES HIGH SCHOOL PROM QUEEN TO TURN TO PROSTITUTION! RUSSIA SUPPLIES FAULTY WATER PIPES TO ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS!
What fun!
Post stuff that isn't too far fetched, but definitely false
Keep a lot of truth according to the kos kids in it and see if they buy it. Then start posting stuff that tells more of the truth and see where that leads.
The fake news censors New
Knowledge is reading stuff posted there and deciding if it's true or false. It caught some whoppers and gave the site a bad rating so kos now has disclaimers in diaries letting them know that they have been written by the community and it wasn't checked for falsehoods.
You might try reading the site for a week just to get the gist of how far insane it has gone.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Nauzene needed?
Frankly, from the dispatches posted here on C99 from the brave souls who venture there, it sounds as though I need to make a trip to the local pharmacy and stock up on some anti-nausea medication before I head there. Seriously, I wonder whether I could stomach it...
Still, the lure of mischief definitely beckons.
Further, I had no idea they were bringing in the New Knowledge pinkertons to act as bouncers.
Well lookie here
Here's a great site that will get you up to date on what the kids think that the great Vlad has done after he got Trump elected.
Putin's Payout: 10 Ways Trump has supported Putin's Foreign Policies
You will have to follow some of the links in it to get more of the gist in what the Great Vlad has accomplished.
Here's one thing that Trump has supposedly done to help Vlad sleep better at night:
Um, no. This has not happened. In fact Trump has continued sending troops and military equipment into country close to Russia's borders and has just sent more Naval ships to the Black Sea and is contemplating playing around in the Azea sea and more importantly the Kersh Straights. Why? Ukraine's president asked them to because he want a conflict with Russia.
In case you're interested here's what the democrats are gearing up to do in regards to investigating Trump while ignoring the needs of the nation.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
That's the question isn't it?
Of course it's a violation of our first amendment right, but when Israel says "jump" they do. That Bibi was allowed to tell the house to try to derail the Iran deal showed just how captured they are by Israel.
Here's a blast from the past.
US Sought Syria Regime Change For Israel’s Sake
It sure didn't take long for American troops to enter the fray. Again I ask why the hell can't Israeli troops do the fighting when it wants regime change instead of our troops doing it? Putting ones life on the line for your country is one thing, but doing it for another country is another. The Saudis were also going to be the beneficiaries of Assad being gone, and they don't have to use their troops either. Do their people's lives mean more than ours?
Then there's that $3.8 billion Israel gets every year while its people have great health care and the other things that our generation doesn't want us to have.
I can't wait for Trumps supporters to see how he puts America first.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
I thought it was $38 Billion per year
Is it "only" $3.8?
Should be a big, fat $0.00!
"Capitol Hill: Another Israeli Occupied Territory"
Saw that on a bumper sticker website once. I am tempted to buy one. Texas has the law. In order to receive assistance after Harvey, you had to vow allegiance to Israel with your signature. It was on the assistance application forms. I wonder if it's on SNAP applications. So disgusting!
There appears to be some hope
because of the ACLU and some judges:
https://www.aclu.org/news/federal-court-blocks-arizona-law-aimed-anti-is...
dfarrah
The first Ammendment is a Russsian plot
Following the 4th, which was declared void if the arresting officer said he "was looking for drugs" in the mid 1990s.
On to Biden since 1973
The 5th and 8th Amendments too
Everything amendment but the 2nd is a Russian plot it seems
That's funny if you consider the number of NRA members that own
AK-47's and similar Russian arms.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Except that . . .
. . . Team D professes to hate guns, now loves and trusts spooks, and wants war with Russia (and wants it to continue in Syria). They hate Russia and believe Vlad got Trump elected via Facebook.
Team R professes to love the NRA, guns, and the flag. However, they don't buy the bullshit narrative that Vlad got Trump elected via Facebook.
I doubt very many people who blame Russia for Trump own any guns, let alone Russian ones. I could be wrong, though.
I didn't think of it like that.
You have a point.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
So outrageous.
And people only want to talk about Russia and impeachment.
What a joke.
dfarrah
The US is fucked
Vlad is in complete control. Resistance is futile.
Don't believe me? Watch what happens in the next year.
Like the bloody and cruel US Empire
...wasn't the author of its own doom. Like it's not flailing around on the world stage wetting it's pants. Like the world isn't backing away and dedollarizing and making other plans as fast as they can — we have to hire a Russian boogeyman to make all of this possible?
Really? Our despicable oligarchs have been working on this clusterfuck for over a century. We can dissolve into a Failed State all by ourselves. We don't need any help from Russia, believe me.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
Vlad's not in control,
Bibi is.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
And some of the
oil arabs, too.
How ironic the whole situation is.
The political power that these political enemies have in the US is unbelievable.
dfarrah
We need the names n/t
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
In a time when AIPAC is actively lobbying to
destroy our Constitutional right to free speech and opinion, most people are worried about the influence of Russia on our social media sites.
Israel is far more dangerous to our Democracy and country than Russia could ever hope to be.
"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin
And our right of
assembly, too.
dfarrah
I applaud this anti-BDS bullshit
I predict that it will back the right-wingers into an indefensible position, even with some members of their base. It's a bridge too far.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
Get out your pens folks and write letters about this
Anti BDS crap to your local papers... especially if you live in one of the 26 states that have passed these laws.
I sent mine in today.
"Without the right to offend, freedom of speech does not exist." Taslima Nasrin
Schumer's Disguting speach to AIPAC
Schumer Denounced for 'Absolutely Disgusting' AIPAC Speech
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.
Notice how Schumer
says "we?"
That says it all right there.
dfarrah
Good catch about the "WE"
Then there's that part about there not being any peace because "they" don't believe in the Torah. This is like saying that there is no peace in the Middle East because Muslims don't believe in the Bible. Of course it has nothing to do with oppression and stealing land from the Palestinians or refusing to allow food and medicine in. Nah!
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Voting is like driving with a toy steering wheel.