The Weekly Watch
Walt Whitman
COURAGE yet, my brother or my sister!
Keep on—Liberty is to be subserv'd whatever occurs;
That is nothing that is quell'd by one or two failures, or any number of failures,
Or by the indifference or ingratitude of the people, or by any unfaithfulness,
Or the show of the tushes of power, soldiers, cannon, penal statutes.
What we believe in waits latent forever through all the continents,
Invites no one, promises nothing, sits in calmness and light, is
positive and composed, knows no discouragement,
Waiting patiently, waiting its time.
(Not songs of loyalty alone are these,
But songs of insurrection also,
For I am the sworn poet of every dauntless rebel the world over,
And he going with me leaves peace and routine behind him,
And stakes his life to be lost at any moment.)......
So the US government is obviously, blatantly, and honestly despicable. It has been for a while, but it is so in your face it is undeniable. The rapid fire corporate coup...shock and awe. So many attacks, so fast. Keep 'em chasin' their tail. T-rump's piling up a heapin' helpin' of insane policies and people.
In the face of the insanity all the planned and spontaneous protests have been encouraging. A storm scared us away, but a friend went to the Mentone, AL march in my neighborhood. Mentone is a small town of about 400. Here's her comment and a couple of pictures:
We had a great turnout for the Women's March. Over 70 folks participated in the threatening weather. Luckily, the rain stopped just before we started the march. It was a very inspiring event, with some passionate, funny, informed and poignant speeches and a wide diversity of reasons for marching. I've attached a couple of photos.
I think it is great that...
From Washington,DC, To London, England and Nairobi Kenya, hundreds of thousands of women and their supporters took to the streets. (3 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjuSYv9Qhm4
Women-led marches took place in over 600 locations spread across seven continents—including Antarctica. In addition to Washington, massive protests took place in Boston; Chicago; Denver; Los Angeles; Madison, Wisconsin; New York; Oakland; Portland, Oregon; St. Paul; San Francisco and Seattle. According to one count, as many as 4.6 million people took part in the global day of action. (5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74B_WBo3RFI
Over 100,000 people gathered in San Francisco for a massive women-led march against Donald Trump. Speakers and performers included folk legend Joan Baez and Malkia Cyil of the Center for Media Justice. Democracy Now! correspondent Juan Carlos Dávila filed this report. (7.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGkSfF54FMQ
Jimmy Dore wades into the crowd in LA talking with participants (7 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSAveoOJ7-U
“I can't keep quiet” the song some are calling the DC march anthem (3 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLvIw8J8sWE
We can be our own worse enemy. I think we better support any and all who stand up. I know I can be a Pollyanna, but I think we should applaud those willing to protest...
I find I agree with skod's OT comment (snark) about the march:
http://caucus99percent.com/comment/235785#comment-235785
I'm currently suffering from post-march depression. Attended here in Denver with my wife, and felt very uplifted and empowered. Met *many* people, made some good connections, had a lot of great conversation, and got quite jazzed with what we saw. Thought it might lead to something.
I now see that I must have been mistaken: it has now been leftsplained to me that it was all just a tantrum of unhappy corporate democrats, and was therefore too impure to lead to anything lasting since it wasn't sufficiently explicitly anti-establishment. Could have knocked me over with a feather. I thought that it was plenty anti-establishment, myself, but whadda I know? I would have thought that a few million people in the street was a good thing. How could I have been so upgefuckt?
I have seen the error of my ways. I'll go back to quietly waiting on the sidelines, and keep my ear to the ground for Someone Important to start a movement sufficiently pure to be deemed worthy. Meanwhile, I will also attempt to understand exactly why it is that so many folks on the left seem to be so determined to let the perfect be the enemy of the good....
There may some valid criticism, Jimmy Dore saw some problems with the DC March (12 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co-b07OnGMI
I have been at many, many protest marches in my life, going back to the big anti-Vietnam demonstrations of the late ’60s and ’70s, and I have never experienced anything like what happened this weekend http://billmoyers.com/story/great-joyful-march-not-enough/
Oakland dockworkers work stoppage on inauguration day
http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/19835/want_to_stop_trump_take_a_pa...
Compare and contrast the inauguration with the march
https://washingtonspectator.org/trump-womens-march-bennetts/
Amid the ongoing unrest in the US, Republican lawmakers in 10 states have suggested bills to impose stronger punishments for illegal protests. (2.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMMksA_LiXg
“Resist” banner unfurled near the White House by Greenpeace in solidarity with Native American tribes and activists the day after President Trump signed executive actions advancing the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines, says Greenpeace media officer Cassady Craighill (6.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw7obimlZ3s
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/01/25/breaking-greenpeace-acti...
Last week bygorry suggested I start the weekly with a focus on our planet. There's no doubt in my mind that our rapidly changing climate is the existential threat to our existence. But maybe the best way to talk about the climate is to talk protest. Looks like a war with fossil fuel to me. That's the only way it will stay in the ground...
There's a march for the People’s Climate Movement this April 29th in D.C. and across the country https://peoplesclimate.org/
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2017/01/26/major-climate-march-comm...
We're past the tipping point suggests Professor Peter Wadhams, professor of Ocean Physics and Head of the Polar Ocean Physics Group in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge. (2.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4zaGACYRb4
Expect the unexpected as climate change accelerates (7.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnsg4MEnXuM
Greenland scientist explains the dilemma, glaciers are moving faster than the policies(3.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGgU3WrtE9I
It took nearly 10,000 years for the Earth to totally emerge from the last ice age and warm to today’s balmy climate, one-third to one-half of the warming—about 15 degrees Fahrenheit—occurred in about 10 years, at least in Greenland. It is likely we are in another rapid warming period
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Paleoclimatology_Evidence/pale...
Before the 1993 report of the analysis of Greenland ice cores, nobody confidently believed that the climate could change massively within a decade or two; after the report, nobody felt sure that it could not. http://history.aip.org/history/climate/rapid.htm
So the climate is critical, and yet we shall build more pipelines. Talk about priorities...
President Donald Trump has signed two executive actions to advance construction of the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, two projects blocked by Obama. (4 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWrk6i9-_pE
Jordan at TYT talks with Anthony Rogers-Wright, an environmental activist and former adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders during his presidential campaign, about President Trump's presidential memorandums and executive orders on DAPL and Keystone XL Pipeline. (10 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6Qqm1esOz4
Real News speaks to indigenous leaders and environmentalists who gathered in Washington, DC to oppose Trump's decision to revive two massive pipelines (4 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwt5nIxKxDs
Want to hear from a local about DAPL? He just wants the problem to go away. Joel Heitkamp, host of ND “News & Views,” discusses Trump’s intention to move ahead with the Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines, and the reaction of activists determined to prevent the pipelines’ completion. (5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOtTypjcHWE
Alex Mihailovich breaks down the DAPL situation, and we’ll also hear from Chase Iron Eyes, attorney for the Standing Rock Sioux (4.5 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KzxA1Nc_Ek
Nomiki Konst from TYT spoke with Chase Iron Eyes, former U.S. Senate candidate from North Dakota and active leader in the fight for clean water at Standing Rock. (13 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uEt8O953_k
Amy talks with actor and activist Shailene Woodley, who participated in a protest Monday against the Sundance festival’s sponsor Chase Bank over its support for the DAPL (17 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQbskYdoars
Shailene Woodley talks about Malia Obama's part in a protest against Chase Bank over its support for the Dakota Access pipeline. (2 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H50SCZLILYw
Democracy now speaks with Winona LaDuke, Native American activist and executive director of the group Honor the Earth and with Josh Fox, director of "Gasland" (7 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te0B52WV3lM
Bernie explains the danger of limited corporate media.
http://inthesetimes.com/features/bernie-sanders-corporate-media-threaten...
Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald discuss Trump's relationship with the media (11 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpR3F30Y2zE
The entire podcast and transcript is here: https://theintercept.com/2017/01/25/intercepted-podcast-the-clock-strike...
Mike Papantonio and Richard Eskow discuss T-rumps Ministry of Truth (7 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-tYW6E2N_U
Silence all science! Can T-rump do it?
http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/01/24/trump-issues-media-blackout-...
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/27/a-coalition-of-scientists-keeps-watc...
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/26/government-scientists-at-u-s-climate...
Trump’s adviser, Kellyanne Conway, defended Spicer’s demonstrably false statement by saying he "gave alternative facts." We speak to filmmaker Brian Knappenberger, director of "Nobody Speak: Trials of the Free Press," and Mark Hertsgaard, investigative editor at The Nation magazine. (10 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SMTvKf_c_A
So far we've got T-rumps corporate oligarchy from Exxon to Government Sachs, climate change denial, pipeline deals effecting T-rumps (and his cabinet's) bottom line. Time to add in some torture, more deportations, and the wall...a really big wall....a great wall...
But first we've got to focus on the size of T-rump's...crowd? You've got to be kidding. According to crowd scientists at Manchester Metropolitan University in Britain, the crowd in DC for the Women's March was roughly three times the size of the audience at President Trump’s inauguration a day earlier.
Democracy Now! excerpt from Trump’s speech and feature highlights of responses from Ralph Nader; Naomi Klein; professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor; investigative reporter Allan Nairn, and Black Lives Matter co-founder Alicia Garza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrlpRC1Vk4Q
Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept talks in depth about Trump’s team, from unofficial adviser Erik Prince to Defense Secretary James "Mad Dog" Mattis to education secretary nominee Betsy DeVos. (32 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j7PUEVvo0A
Bring on the torture
https://theintercept.com/2017/01/27/the-president-of-the-united-states-e...
During his first televised interview as president, Donald Trump openly embraced torture and waterboarding. We speak to Vincent Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights and Faiza Patel of the Brennan Center. (10 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2qP_kLSRoA
The US Empire has interfered in Russia’s political evolution, Abby Martin interviews Mark Ames, an American journalist (28 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7HwvFyMg7A
Chris Hedges and Allan Nairn discuss how will Trump steer the empire (29 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYfL7P6Xfg8
The Death of Liberals
https://zeroanthropology.net/2017/01/18/the-dying-days-of-liberalism/
Jimmy Dore and Thomas Frank author of “Listen Liberal” in a 4 part series. I like them both and found every clip worth the listen. Pick one and give it a try.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9u2aR19P3g (24 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TnS_P4JGDc (28 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9sGI5kiRbE (23 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JONbGkQaq8Q (8 min)
DNC betrays the people – and a banner is hung to let them know. Jimmy Dore comments.(8 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd6PqvAQAfE
Do you have hope for the democrap party? I must admit I've lost mine, but maybe there's a chance...At least there's an effort to take over the party https://justicedemocrats.com/
Here's the TYT announcement with a follow up after a couple of days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOTsK_WGNAc (15 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0VRnEVz18c (5 min)
Saikat Chakrabarti worked as Director of Organizing Technology for the Bernie Sanders campaign, will be the Executive Director of Justice Democrats. (22 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5guXxPsdoYM
I hope they will coordinate with https://brandnewcongress.org/
Democratic socialist party numbers swell
http://inthesetimes.com/article/19795/socialisms-trump-bump-democratic-s...
Let's finish up with news from spaaaace...
This year’s Chinese New Year starts this weekend and rings in the Year of the Rooster. Around the world, the rush home has begun in what some call the world’s largest annual human migration.
http://earthsky.org/human-world/chinese-new-year-lunar-new-year
The closest approach to Jupiter was December 11, 2016, when the spacecraft’s JunoCam imager collected the data to make the image which was released this week (January 25, 2017).
http://earthsky.org/space/stunning-view-of-jupiter-and-little-red-spot
Tonight – January 29, 2017 – look westward after sunset to view the two brightest luminaries of nighttime, the moon and Venus. Be sure to catch the moon as soon as darkness falls. The slender waxing crescent moon will sit rather low in the sky, and will follow the sun beneath the horizon by early evening. http://earthsky.org/tonight/moon-below-venus-on-january-29
Please interject a little international news if you know anything interesting. Foreign information was weak in this edition. It's an open thread so I hope you'll chime in with whatever is on your mind...
Comments
Sorry this was late this AM
The scheduler and I had difficulties, and it published later than I thought. I hope you find something interesting or useful in the weekly. I didn't get much international news this week in part because other countries are covering T-rump 24/7 just like in the US. He has a talent keeping the news focused on him....frighteningly effective.
Thanks to JtC for all his help and work on c99, and I hope those of you who are able will kick into the kitty!
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Good morning...
Come check out c99's new facebook page.
https://www.facebook.com/caucus99percent/
If you have an account, please help us to get the word out about c99 by liking, following and sharing the articles we post on the page.
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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
Good morning dk
I'm faceless, but I'm one of the few people I know who isn't on the "book". I think a facebook page is a good way to grow our community. Thanks to those who made it happen.
I wonder about a c99 youtube channel too. If any one has skills in that regard, I'm willing to help.
Happy Chinese new year to you and the rest of you c99ers. Time to crow....it is the year of the rooster.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Johnny would be the one to talk to about that.
Creating this stuff is easy. Promoting and growing it so someone actually sees it is another. Does anyone here know Twitter? I have a Twitter account and quite a following - not that you can tell it by the number of likes and/or retweets I get. I also don't understand what it would take to open an account in c99's name. I routinely post our essays to twitter, but they all come out on my account.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
I'm a know nothing
about twitter too....sorry. I don't even have a cell phone, but I can scoot around on my desktop as well as most.
I would never try to do anything in the name of c99 without discussing it with JtC, but at the same time I don't want to add to his already full plate. Just offering my help if a youtube channel is something JtC and the community wanted.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
A Johns Hopkins professor has diagnosed Trump
with "malignant narcissism" which he terms a dangerous form of mental illness.
With the diagnosis of a person he has not personally examined, he is violating the informal APA's ban on such public utterances - The Goldwater Rule.
I got the impression from the article that this professor thinks the danger to the nation is significant enough for him to go public.
(no links - cannot do with my hand-me-down laptop & lack of computer skills)
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Hey duckpin
I knew he was a nut. Here's the US News which I think broke the story you mentioned:
http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-01-27/does-donald-tr...
Surprise...surprise.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
@Lookout Thank you very much. I
Thank you very much. I thought the article was at least semi-reliable and wanted to call attention to it.
Thanks for the help.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Interesting Times just turned toxic.
Scattershot about what to fight against. Feeling very weary, need to get myself together.
Hey! my dear friends or soon-to-be's, JtC could use the donations to keep this site functioning for those of us who can still see the life preserver or flotsam in the water.
Hey RL
It is better to flow with nature than to stand against it. Winter winds will prune the forests. Fight for your beliefs, not against theirs.
Be well and of good cheer. Hope all is fine in your forest.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Bill Moyers describes T-rump's first week as ....
a demolition derby.
http://billmoyers.com/story/donald-trumps-demolition-derby/
Naomi Klein says "Let us be clear: This is not a peaceful transition of power. It’s a corporate takeover."
http://billmoyers.com/story/trumps-crony-cabinet-may-look-strong-scared/
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
I am still totally pissed off that
they stole my candidate and my vote. I am more anti-Dem today than I was before Trump won. Not only did they lose to the dumbest man on the planet, they learned not a fucking thing from it. They can put their rotating villains where the sun doesn't shine.
"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."--Napoleon
We must be ready to resist
everything. It's already happening - Herr Drumpf is exerting his will and the will of the people must be stronger. The exams are here; will we pass them?
Have a beautiful day, folks!
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
Hi RA
There sure is much to protest. Will we unite and fight?
I've been reading some conflicting news, but it seems the State Department’s senior management core resigned abruptly on Wednesday in a move that could jam the department’s cogs in the early days of the Trump administration.
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2017/0126/Top-officials-at-US-State-Departm...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
My worry about this move, Lookout
is that it then gives the license to out in place those that can do damage and harm faster. Perhaps the opposite is true.
"The “jumpers” reminded us that one day we will all face only one choice and that is how we will die, not how we will live." Chris Hedges on 9/11
I know it
The few people with sense are bailing leaving us in the hands of ????
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
@Lookout
Wasn't the State Dept well-stocked with Clinton/TPTB-employed appointees/supporters? Maybe they're all fleeing to Syria for AQ and other US-supported terrorists to shield them from trial in America under Trump?
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
But, what about the good that Trump has done?
What about the neocons not liking him? What about the Deep State out to get him? What about Trump telling the corporations to keeps job at home? What about stopping WWIII? What about stopping the TPP? Doesn't he represent some good, some hope? What about how bad Clinton would have been? What about what Obama did?
That appears to be most of the argument from many regarding the vitriol some are directing at Trump.
I'm hoping to see some positives
...but he seems to be towing the Deep State line. Getting rid of the TPP was good, but he's talking replacement. I'm unsure about WWIII. Will T-rump and Putin make nice?
Yes, Obummer was a bummer, and the $hill would have been worse. Yet T-rump is proving to be focused on the stupidest things...a wall which will not prevent a green card overstay problem, pipelines for a passe' product - oil, immigration based on religion.....
As I started the essay...T-rump is so in your face horrid..it is a little overwhelming.
Somehow I think you may be commenting tongue in cheek?
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Yes, firmly in cheek.
yeah, AL, what if you were not snarking?
I would despair to the point that my trauma would shut me up for ever. You were not snarking? I wouldn't survive it. Really.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Then I'd be a little confused as to what Trump and his regime
are all about.
@Big Al
The good thing about Trump is that so many people are rousing to fight at least the worst of his illegal and undemocratic orders. Clinton would have been getting away with all of this sort of thing.
Psychopathy is not a political position, whether labeled 'conservatism', 'centrism' or 'left'.
A tin labeled 'coffee' may be a can of worms or pathology identified by a lack of empathy/willingness to harm others to achieve personal desires.
Thanks for highlighting the existential threat to the biosphere.
There's a lot of news here that is easy to miss - I know I did - and you've provided links.
There's also the threat to a civil society posed by the dual unequals: income and wealth. Bushama made both worse for 16 years and Trump is taking no steps to halt this social killer. His attack on public education in the person of DeVos is an attack on a pretty good American idea - universal free public education - and follow-through. The preliminary data on gains in income show the top 10% getting by far the most of it and the 1% getting more %-wise than the combined top 10%.
We will continue to see living standards decline in the USA until we eliminate this disparity. Both parties are to blame and both parties need to suffer for it.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
Seems capitalism...
is the enemy of the people and the planet. The 1% thinks natural resources and their personal wealth are limitless.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Global monopoly capitalism is ruining earth as a place
for almost all animals, plants, and fungi. We are in the midst of earth's sixth mass extinction event and nothing very helpful is being done and it seems people and the media go out of their way to avoid the looming threat. Scientists have already provided context so journalists have no excuse not to inform people. Actually, I think they would but the property owning class, including those to whom the mass media is property and a profit center, would rather the earth be left barren and devoid of most life than to suggest that international capital, and the military, intelligence, and diplomatic resources it commands, is to blame.
We are being murdered by a system that can only exist if it continues to grow and that growth, at the expense of a sustainability culture, is a killer.
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
“I believe in many ways we are our brother’s keepers.”
Wow that was fast. Make way for the keepers. I guess a lot of people want them, don't know: Community Foundation Sonoma County connects donors, local charities
Glub glub drains the tub. But programs! Hallelujah.
Thousands or even millions? Gee thanks. Not for housing or a fair minimum wage, but go on. Praise the dollar and pass the plate, or whatever. While Huffman marches around smirking in his purple tie.
Anyone wanna bet fifty cents the Ds go with toll road solution for Hwy 37? Sorry poors.
United Bridge Partners floats plan to lift ‘huge problem’ of Hwy. 37 traffic via tolls
tell mother nature
Flooded Highway 37 in Novato could be closed all week
Never ever disrupt commerce. "That's the system." All others go around.
and meanwhile undermine solutions of the people
Like the LA dems removing tiny houses for the poor because it wasn't their idea of a solution.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-tiny-houses-seized-20160224-...
I just recently learned of this story from last year.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Warren for Carson at HUD
I wonder if she'll vote also for their Utah Solution on the homeless when it inevitably comes up? What will Clintons and Soros tell her? Hm?
sounds kinda like this other guy
I wonder who Carson will consider counting from now on. Maybe transients will be considered criminals for Rudy's Detention Centers.
Utah is a four letter word!
"The justness of individual land right is not justifiable to those to whom the land by right of first claim collectively belonged"
They don't call it 'Turd Way' cos it smells/sounds good.
That smell stinks to high heaven. tRump/Pence will stir it up like crazy. PPP---UUU!! Rec'd!!
Inner and Outer Space: the Final Frontiers.
It's been festering for awhile
They scratched through the crust and are giving everyone a good whiff of what we've become.
Thanks for dropping by.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Excellent round-up,
much better to watch the vids in this post than the Sunday morning bullshit on corporate TV. I highly recommend Chris Hedges' interview with Alan Nairn and Jimmy D's four-part discussion with Thomas Frank. I think Listen Liberal ! is a must read and I've seen many videos with Frank from the original book tour. What's different about his discussion with Dore is the humor, which is absent from the more academic presentations. Thanks Lookout, for this series.
We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.
Thanks Azazello
That's what motivated this series. I used to watch the talking heads on Sunday. Got to where I couldn't stand what they've become, and started trying to find rational news. So I started trying to collect and share. Those pieces you mention were really good.
Joe amazes me with this daily series. This one essay takes me a week. He does more in one day.
All the best...
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Oh, the irony ...
Dual national German politician impacted by Trump immigration order
If it weren't so sad, it would make me laugh out loud. ok, I am laughing out loud.
Angela Merkel has already said through her spokesman that Trumps decision was wrong.
Merkel critical of US immigration ban, spokesman tells Spiegel
German Sec. of State voiced similar criticism. Lovely.
Thanks for your so useful collection and video links. All bookmarked to read and watch one after the other.
https://www.euronews.com/live
Sure doesn't look good for US relationships
I bet he will raise awareness of the US empire around the world.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
"Unprecedented and bizarre" Just the words all want to hear
from the Defense Department. I guess everyone saw the "Great military rebuilding" ordered up for the media last week. Trump Signs Order Promising a ‘Great Rebuilding’ of the Military
But wait! There's more! /ron popeil
DONALD J TRUMP
unpresident bizarre
oh boy
so much to look forward to...thanks for the heads up.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
Thanks lookout, for the open thread and for Walt Whitman.
Thanks also for the interview with Chase Iron Eyes.
From the oldest Chinese town, celebrating the new year. A sad reflection of the current time, but good to acknowledge.
The Chinese new year in India
Interesting article. Thanks, janis.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”