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What we can expect from the mass media: two lessons

I think that what we'll be seeing over the next twenty months will be epitomized by a piece in Vanity Fair, "“It’s Going to Be a Guerrilla War”: The Sanders Left Opens Fire on Biden." This is a bit of punditry such as what we're going to see repeated endlessly through October of next year.

Anti-Capitalist MeetUp: Environmental Communication must transcend RWNJs' anti-modern discourse

If the limits of one’s language are the limits of one’s world, we can see the divisions that are signified by the current nonsense in US politics against the Green New Deal (GND). Recalling the media framing that came with changing global warming to climate change, we need to refine our understanding of environmental messaging. It’s more than about cow farts or plastic straws, and always about the modern against the anti-modern.

This time it’s about the Green New Deal (GND), not simply as legislation but now as political meme. The “common clay” of Blazing Saddles did signify the same racial, class, and gender divisions that will be contested in 2020’s US elections, and the GND will be a battleground if used not as a weapon but as long-term messaging.

Howie Hawkins for President; updated: Coup afoot in VZ

breaking at RT.com:
'WATCH tear gas fired on highway near Caracas air base where Guaido appeared in video with soldiers' goddam the troika of tyrrany.


This is longish, but given it’s mainly policy positions, it’s fairly easy to scan, stop on topics you’d choose for closer reading.  Howie’s website is here.  He’s an actual anti-imperialist socialist candidate, and I like his socialist policies a lot:

Key Economic Sectors to Socialize:

Dump Pence...for Nikki Haley??

The suggestion showed up on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u9Imr1kApk

Are you freaking kidding me? If the good folks in South Carolina wanted to elect a shallow bimbo to their governor's mansion, that is their affair, but their having done so hardly constitutes a reason for me to vote in the same way in a national election.

The Weekly Watch

To Be(d) or Not to Be(d)

That is a Question

Garden beds, bedfellows, and bedlam are today's topics. We've been planting this week. We use garden beds. There's no right or wrong we just find it makes the garden easier to manage and maintain. As I thought about beds I wandered into thinking about who are the US bedfellows compared to those we call our enemy. To paraphrase Pogo, "We have met the evil empire and it is U.S.". We do spread bedlam far and wide.

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