“In the meantime, the Daily Kos can fucking blow me.”
From Caitlin Johnstone
So It Turns Out Black Activists Were Tricked By Putin Into Thinking There’s A Problem. *Cough*
The Daily Kos, which these days seems to spend most of its energy stumping for the new cold war and promoting blog pieces with titles like “Putin crony Jill Stein”, has got some fantastic news for black activists all over America. You know how you guys have been laboring under the impression that you live in a country built upon slavery and kleptocratic Jim Crow laws, resulting in institutional racism and oppressive generational poverty which plague you to this day?
Well, it turns out you imagined the whole thing: you were actually tricked into thinking those thoughts by Vladimir Putin in order to influence the 2016 election. Turns out your activism hasn’t been needed after all! Yay!
Don’t worry though: the Daily Kos hastens to inform us that it wasn’t your fault. You organized events protesting police brutality and systemic racism on behalf of the Kremlin “unknowingly”.
*
These manipulations wouldn’t be used if they weren’t expected to work. It’s up to us to keep pointing them out as they come up, but as we discussed last time, eventually we’re going to have to evolve to a point where we become immune to oligarchic propaganda. In the meantime, the Daily Kos can fucking blow me.
https://medium.com/@caityjohnstone/so-it-turns-out-black-activists-were-...
There is a Tweet in this article. A Tweet from Daily Kos:
Daily Kos
Daily Kos
@dailykosBlack activists unknowingly organized events for Russia, helping effort to create divisions in U.S.
https://twitter.com/dailykos/status/921370504677806080
Black activists unknowingly organized events for Russia, helping effort to create divisions in U.S. https://t.co/PHUpsyC29K
— Daily Kos (@dailykos) October 20, 2017
The above is the link to the Tweet on Twitter. It will make make your day! A sample response is below:
roderick burrell
@roderickburrell
·
11h
Replying to @dailykos
This is condescending and idiotic. People didn't vote for HRC, because she is a lying corrupt corporate warmonger not Russia
You just have to read the article and the original Tweer to get the full effect. It’s worth it.
Comments
Alternet and Slate went down the
old poop chute along with Salon about a year and a half ago. When they decided to back the Money Grubbing Warmongers Party.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
@MrWebster
(Since you and others here know more than I do in this area, much of this is intended more to cover some of the facts for any drive-by readers who might not be aware of the background - or to piss off any propagandists checking in - even though this thread will undoubtedly have fallen out of sight and mind by the time I've posted it... could barely even type much of yesterday, lol.)
Well, they've been accusing everyone not toeing their extremely crooked Party lines and/or not supporting Hillary in all of her myriad aspics of being all things to all people while they're actually there to be conned/milked, (assuming, jelly-like, varying forms depending upon whether votes [public - sour grape-shape] or money [private - fatty pork-malleable ooze] are being demanded,) of being 'Putin-puppets'. (Or possibly, based in claims regarding Facebook ads, Putin-puppies)
This is evidently either because wealthy psychopaths cannot imagine normal humans, never mind the Non-Billionaire Poors, as being real, or of having brain processes capable of accumulating information and reaching decisions based on a reasoned analysis of known facts and probabilities, and therefore must be controlled and run entirely by one of Those Who Matter,
(since the Clinton and related corporate factions thinks about everything in relation to Big Money, and that therefore money is not only the only speech that matters but the only thought that matters, as well,)
or because she, her billionaire and corporate interest paymasters and PR people are stuck somewhere in the past century, partly in their kindergarten name-calling years, partly wishing for the lucrative days of the Cold War and to revel in the McCarthism of their relative youth and keep rotating the same old strategies that worked before, even if these were only working up until before they were abandoned as the vicious, if ludicrous, lunacy they were and are, and believe that they'll work again, if they only repeat them enough. And the Big Lie does unfortunately work, on the already and heavily propagandized, as people tend to 'check themselves' against what are perceived as societal 'norms'...
Actually, I believe it to encompass both, psychopaths being like that, although we also know that this Russian!!! nonsense was using a strategy developed by the Clinton campaign team*, to also act as an excuse - such strategies often being multi-purpose - for attacking yet another country and killing their people to destroy/steal their stuff, for fun and profit, at American taxpayer and reputation expense, as usual. Not to mention the lives of some of those Disposables, often in the military in the first place because higher education is made otherwise unaffordable and there are few and shrinking numbers of living-wage jobs in America, thanks to Corporate Party policies.
Therefore we also know that they're lying both in the interest of yet another planned military mugging and really big home invasion for squatting in the whole country while killing/dispossessing the residents and milking its resources and in denying the myriad solid reasons for the American people to speak out not only against them and their various and myriad crimes at home as well as abroad, but the societal results of such crimes.
As with the Dept. of Justice abetting routine citizen murder-by-police by allowing cops to get away with citizen murder - police possibly only individually even keeping track of the appalling numbers of these murders in notches perhaps carved onto their own bedposts - while permitting such as Israel anti-terrorist tactics to be taught domestic police, to use against the American public.
The only war zone in America consists of a corporate/billionaire war on the American people, enacted through their own public service at all levels.
When even the lives of their country's own non-super-wealthy citizens are so cheap in further enriching and empowering the relative few Psychopaths and Parasites That be, how are the people to be conned into believing that their village is being destroyed and their possessions and rights stolen to 'keep them safe' without 'total information control' being exerted over them?
How sick does anyone have to be to think that people shouldn't demand that the routine police murder of unarmed citizens stops, with murderers and those enabling/encouraging them held accountable? Never mind to try to propagandize next-in-line-others into accepting this murderous and self-serving pathology of the relative few claiming open season on Non-Billionaire Americans they're further impoverishing, poisoning and dispossessing as rapidly as they can, in the process of looting the entire Earth?
Or to claim that it would be 'an act of war' for another country's government (a fossil-fuel dependent economy run by an initially American-electoral-interference-converted crony-capitalist government still being described as 'scary Commie!!!' because they have universal health-care and pensions that TPTB don't want Americans thinking about? or because they're using a play-book for a strategy that's a half-century old and out-of-date?) to run public service ads encouraging the people to be aware that their police have a habit of murdering those among them perceived as being vulnerable because their government - at best - allows this to be covered over to continue and spread?
In America, when claims are made of a foreign government or police killing their own people, the US PTB likes to go there (at great MIC profit drained from the American public) to bomb the people, to kill the citizens there first and take their country's resources; they don't stop at taking out FB ads or opening Twitter accounts... different strokes, I suppose? **
One problem for the propagandists, beyond the obvious, is that virtually everybody else they're accusing of being the mindless puppets of someone other than themselves all knows personally that they themselves aren't and that therefore false accusations are being flung about. Causing said propagandists/Psychopaths That Be to go to great lengths to enforce censorship on truthtellers verifying their criminality at home and abroad. ***
Another problem is that they are again projecting what they do onto others they wish to attack in deflecting attention from themselves - while thereby drawing ridicule as well as even more negative attention to themselves, making the problems with the stolen and psychopathic-lunatic-run US government even more clear.
The insulting claim that the Poors are mindless puppets of the more wealthy and powerful and incapable of thinking for themselves, of recognizing the difference between right and wrong, or of objecting strongly to injustice which people independently recognize and abhor as being wrong or of actually caring about other people is so obviously encompassing their own issues that their sickness and human incapacities becomes even more evident than they were.
Their various behaviours and attacks upon others are more revealing of themselves than they're capable of realizing... ****
*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVmhj5zY3x4
**
Going back a bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpleyI8bwnM
***
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tD39FslP6BY
****
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo1nLiiDRVA
The lives of the relative (non-billionaire) Poors are held as cheap by The Psychopaths and Parasites That Be; stopping the drain creating the Poors now - and increasingly - forming much of the population of The World's Wealthiest County Ever by further enriching and empowering those already having the most, generally via theft from the people and planet, would be 'too expensive' according to those PPTB, having that predominately stolen most and wanting it all.
The PPTB are destroying not only societies, civilization/democracy and economies but the planetary life-support system out of pathological greed and control-freakery.
Even just in monetary terms - the control of the PPTB is globally unaffordable for us all.
And they're killing us all. At best, incrementally.
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.
An odd misstep by Markos.
The game plan is that only evil Berniebros and Trumpistas ever criticize anyone Black. Well, where anyone can hear them, anyway.
"More for Gore or the son of a drug lord--None of the above, fuck it, cut the cord."
--Zack de la Rocha
"I tell you I'll have nothing to do with the place...The roof of that hall is made of bones."
-- Fiver
It struck me as strange too. But I just
figured that someone(s) snapped and got carried away. Spreading hate does that sometimes.
I wonder if LMM will do one of his ‘retractions’ if this gets crazy?
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
KOS just sent me a plea for
KOS just sent me a plea for donations. It seems their fund raising goals are lagging behind too.
Along with SB Nation
all his other outlets easily pay for Deadly Kos.
the little things you can do are more valuable than the giant things you can't! - @thanatokephaloides. On Twitter @wink1radio. (-2.1) All about building progressive media.
@Wink
It's not covered in the CIA Black Budget or the Clinton's? Markos is missing a trick or two...
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.
This Umair Haque OP, linked to Caitlin's is worth a read
I think this article goes well with your comment
Tomorrow Belongs to the Corporatocracy
The global elite have decided to take their masks off and go all in. The author covers all the issues that have popped up since Trump became president. This isn't only happening here at home, but in many other countries.
Many countries have started adopting austerity measures and becoming as much as a police state as we are.
Greece was the ultimate austerity laboratory when boom, people were unable to access their money in banks. Other countries are playing around with going cashless and there is talk about installing palm scanners at train stations for people to pay for their tickets without having to use credit cards or use their smartphone apps.
Plus there's the continuous state of emergency because of the terrorists boogeyman, the rolling back of rights and labeling protests movements as extremists.
I'm hoping someone will like to do an essay on this article. It covers important things that are happening globally, not just here in der homeland.
Germany has endured the most murderous terror attacks since the
heyday of the Red Army Faction / Baader-Meinhof gang.
Yet according to the political establishment, the presence in Germany of hundreds of thousands of persons from the Middle East whose identity cannot be verified — mostly young men — is Not A Problem.
No, the script the politicians and media are reading from insists that the biggest problem Germany faces is the presence of a few dozen newly elected right-wing populists in parliament.
“AfD bad” is the German equivalent of “Trump bad,” complete with rumors of Russian backing à la Russiagate puppies and Pokemon Go.
It’s obvious that the AfD only made gains as a protest vote — “It’s the immigration, stupid.”
Voters have explained this until they’re blue in the face.
Yet — except for a few isolated figures like the Green mayor of Tübingen Boris Palmer or Left party leader Sahra Wagenknecht — the entrenched political establishment refuses to hear it.
Instead, spearheaded by Social Democrat interior minister Heiko Maas, the establishment has decided to go with a pervasive public-private Internet censorship project, claiming the aim is to curb “fake news” and “hate speech.”
Wait, "public-private internet censorship"?
Do tell! Please?
Apparently, Canada is experiencing the same thing, I think. It, supposedly, has to do with negotiations, but involves interruption. Ask Ellen North.
D a r k w e b, here I come, I guess.
Though Gatestone Institute is an anti-Muslim, pro-Israel venture
even neocons can get some things right sometimes. This article of theirs describes pretty fairly what’s wrong with the new law:
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11205/germany-official-censorship
The paradox of this particular essay is that, while the German government is selling the law as a weapon against right-wing populism, this Gatestone writer claims it’s being used to shut down anti-Muslim, pro-Israel speech while continuing to give radical Islam a pass.
For a rough idea of the folks and forces behind the Gatestone Institute:
https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Gatestone_Institute
Thanks for using SourceWatch
I don't see many people making use of this resource. I have to admit that I have not actively tracked it since 911. Any resource that is old enough to have a good track record should be cherished, used, and supported - as long as they haven't been hijacked/turned.
Are you able to comment on SW's quality, its independence, its board/officers?
@lotlizard
That's particularly interesting since voicing/printing facts cannot be considered libel/slander or defamation.
Went to get definitions (all emphasis mine) and right there on the search page:
Have the neos there altered the definitions to suit themselves, or are they simply lying in self-serving law again?
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.
@Deja
OpenMedia petition explains:
(Bolding mine)
That website blocking, like other censorship, will, of course be aimed at people like us and sites like this, at WikiLeaks, the Intercept and the like - and make the internet irrelevant, something existing only for for entertainment and the dissemination of official propaganda; pretty much leaves Youtube and Solitaire for people like myself, which is hardly worth the cost.
Well prior to this, (obviously, lol,) Koch-sucking Harper (whose top-down administration thought that Canadians had 'too many rights', impeding regression) had had a chat with Google, explaining that there were some mysterious things that Canadians ought not to see on the internet. Rather like China.
And prior to that, I'd noticed that far more information relating to industrial pollution/toxins and their effects - including once freely available studies and sites - vanished under Obama...
The lousy reception with frequent service interruptions appears to be related to the impoverished inner-city area to which we've moved; an internally nicely set-up house (looks like hell outside, probably as protective coloration) in which the owner - a nurse working in a local hospital - lived prior to moving out of the city, where we can have pets and smoke and which is much cheaper than the mortgage payment of the old house, but where I suspect the low-income internet customers aren't deemed to merit the expenditure required for decent wireless. We had the same provider and no such issues in suburbia... but I doubt that standards would be so low without such as NAFTA and 'harmonization' with the crappy 'protections' the American people had even previous to the 'trade deal' corporate give-aways.
Not using Bell, of course - and I have warned people previously against using them, knowing their reputation in the US.
And if they're doing that here, they'll be trying it there. I rather doubt that that's one of their own ideas, as I can't see how that would increase their profits; more likely to lose them a lot of business (I'd hope). I personally think it likely that it's been suggested that they demand this censorship through NAFTA, to establish a precedent and 'normalize' censorship.
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.
This should be a PSA!
Frightening! And it sux!
What a relief to read that article! Huge thanks!
It pulls all the pieces together and now they make sense.
... Back in the U.S., back in the U.S., back in the USSR as Paul McCartney wrote in 1968!
More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_in_the_U.S.S.R.
Dmitri Orlov has been commenting on the similarities...
for quite some time. His take is that, when the US crashes, its going to be a lot worse than when the USSR crashes - because Americans don't know how to do simple, life-sustaining tasks anymore. We have become totally dependent on big box stores, pre-prepared food, and automobiles.
When that shit isn't available or it becomes unaffordable, the bottom 80% of the population is staring at disaster.
Here's a link to a recent post on Orlov's blog. How many people have already done the things he suggests?
@arendt
That's brilliant and would work for people who have more than enough money to scrape by on.
But isn't it now around 60% of the US population who now couldn't come up with $500 for an emergency and can't save money to potentially save their lives because they have barely enough - or not enough - to keep a crappy roof over their heads and eat. And aren't these numbers growing, with much worse anticipated as coming?
This was last year, so I expect it's higher now.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/maggiemcgrath/2016/01/06/63-of-americans-do...
That's from a Bankrate.com survey.
I suspect that this likely involves people able to afford Internet/cell-phones/financial services and probably not those who can't? So there's probably another... possibly 20-30%??? of the population such surveys are missing. Just guessing, of course, but we've likely all seen it pointed out in studies that the bottom 20% of the American population actually stands at an economic negative.
A side-graph here, under 'Statistics', indicates that the bottom 40% of Americans stands at negative 1%, due to debt:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_inequality_in_the_United_States
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.
Huge thanks -- very aligned with my views
and the suggestions are absolutely sound. In the 1930s many could still 'go back to the farm'; now try to find a bit of clean soil in most any neighborhood, or any non-power tools and expertise with them.
The "Dem" in "Dem Party"
doesn't mean Democratic anymore It means Dementia. The Dementia Party. Didn't watch the video but Hillary apparently claimed on Aussie TV that Putin's election meddling was worse than 9/11. Not watched because if she did say that .... that's brain-exploding.
Orwell: Where's the omelette?
It started out with the Clinton Creature
flapping her jaws but by the time it hit Huffington Pustule, it was the former CIA Director...
Doesn’t matter. They’re all liars. Some crazier than others.
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
@jim p
You've nailed it! Who was that who recently posted quotes here about a Washington drug store exclusively for (Congress? Senate? both?) that did a brisk business in such as diabetes and dementia drugs, making those running the pharmacy wonder about involved decision-makers?
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.
Pages