The Evening Blues - 4-16-19
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 04/16/2019 - 2:56pm
Diaries
Closing the Barn Door.....
Submitted by snoopydawg on Tue, 04/16/2019 - 2:01pmEU passes law on protecting whistleblowers (and facilitators) … days after Assange’s arrest
Don’t say bureaucrats in Brussels don’t appreciate irony. Following the arrest in London of Julian Assange, the co-founder of whistleblowing site WikiLeaks, MEPs overwhelmingly voted for a law on protecting whistleblowers.
The New Contras
Submitted by gjohnsit on Tue, 04/16/2019 - 1:28pmI like to read Bloomberg. It offers such interesting opinions for why we can't possibly tax the rich or regulate corporations, while lamenting the mysterious and unsolvable tragedy of wealth inequality.
However, Bloomberg also publishes enlightening articles such as this one.
Wikileaks/Manning revelations treated with Respect by MSM in 2010
Submitted by Linda Wood on Tue, 04/16/2019 - 11:50amExamples of mainstream media coverage of Wikileaks and Manning releases of information are seen here in CNN and ABCNews 2010 reports on U.S. private contractors paying the Taliban for safe passage on supply roads.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/07/27/afghanistan.wikileaks.corrup...
Tuesday Open Thread ~ 18 APR 19
Submitted by QMS on Tue, 04/16/2019 - 4:06am
"There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies."
Fox News Crowd CHEERING LOUDLY at Bernie's Town Hall, For Gov't-Run Healthcare, Taxing the Rich, Protecting SS, etc.
Submitted by Mark from Queens on Mon, 04/15/2019 - 8:11pmI ain't got much to say here. Just perusing Twitter and #BernieTownHall is trending, though obviously being overshadowed by the Notre Dame fire.
And while I don't believe much in electoral politics the message here, the evidence that the divide and conquer bullshit isn't as effective as we've been led to believe, the fact that when asked people on the Right do want many of the same things we want - are all something to behold.
U.S. asks Syrian Kurds to cut their own throats
Submitted by gjohnsit on Mon, 04/15/2019 - 4:53pmWashington doesn't ask the Syrian Kurds for much. Not really. We only want them to passively step aside for their enemies to rape and pillage.
The Six Degrees of Paul Manafort
Submitted by Bob In Portland on Mon, 04/15/2019 - 3:59pmUnder the general rubric of conspiracy theory is the subset called "coincidence theory", which dismisses connections between people as mere happenstance in order to dismiss any thought of networks that exist beyond public scrutiny. But these networks do exist. Sometimes history takes decades to find them, but they exist. Let's take a peek at networks in Paul Manafort's life.
Electoralism is not Democracy
Submitted by arendt on Mon, 04/15/2019 - 3:53pmDemocracy does not mean merely that we hold elections. Communists had elections. Election campaigns are not the sum total of democracy. Democracy means the elected government obeys the expressed preferences of the electorate. We don't have that anymore. See [EVIDENCE OF DEMOCRACY FAILURE] below.
The ability of the citizens of the US to affect political change by electoral means ended with the 1980 election, when the CIA intervened in the electoral process (The October Surprise).
The Evening Blues - 4-15-19
Submitted by joe shikspack on Mon, 04/15/2019 - 3:09pm
