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Is This the Moment to Build a Movement?

I think it is time...past time...to unite the fight to end poverty in the world's wealthiest country, address the systemic racism reflected in our immoral prison system and police shootings, stop environmental degradation, and fund these cultural transitions (and restore a sense of humanity) by ending war. These four issues - poverty, racism, ecological destruction, and endless war – are intrinsically bound together. The Poor People's Campaign began forty days of action last Monday. Each week represents a different theme, and there are concurrent actions in thirty capitols.

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WEEKLY THEMES
Each site has it's own unique schedule here's the WASHINGTON DC CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Week 1 (May 13-19)
Somebody’s Hurting Our People: Children, Women and People with Disabilities Living in Poverty

Sunday, May 13th
6pm – Mass Meeting, National City Christian Church, 5 Thomas Cir NW
Monday, May 14th
10am – Nonviolent Direct Action Training, St Marks Episcopal Church, 301 A St SE
2pm – Rally, US Capitol Lawn – corner of Constitution Ave NW and First St NE
Tuesday, May 15th
7:30pm – Teach-In Tuesdays, The Festival Center, 1640 Columbia Rd NW
Thursday, May 17th
7:30pm – Justice Arts Movement: Theomusicology and Poetry Night, AFL CIO, 815 16th street NW, 20005
(each week has similar activities)
 
Week 2 (May 20-26)
Linking Systemic Racism and Poverty: Voting Rights, Immigration, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and the Mistreatment of Indigenous Communities


Week 3 (May 27-June 2)
The War Economy: Militarism and the Proliferation of Gun Violence

Week 4 (June 3-9)
The Right to Health and a Healthy Planet: Ecological Devastation and Health Care


Week 5 (June 10-16)
Everybody’s Got the Right To Live: Education, Living Wages, Jobs, Income, Housing


Week 6 (June 17-23)
A New and Unsettling Force: Confronting the Distorted Moral Narrative


Saturday, June 23, 10:00 a.m. EDT
Global Day of Solidarity and Sending Forth Call to Action Mass Rally in Washington DC

Check out the locations and schedules - https://www.poorpeoplescampaign.org/events/

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I went to the Montgomery, Alabama rally. It was extremely well designed and executed with lawyers, legal observers, medics, and organizers wearing identifying badges. The rally started at the stroke of 2 pm as scheduled. The theme this week - impoverished children, women, and people with disabilities are hurting.

You have to understand the setting to get a real feel. The Capitol building, made of the same marble as the Washington Monument (from Sylacauga), sits at the end of Dexter Avenue.
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On the top step is this plaque
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Dr. King's Church is a block down the hill.
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And as we look down the avenue you can barely see the fountain where Zelda is rumored to have skinny dipped. That fountain sits in the center of the old slave market. This is route which the march from Selma to Montgomery concluded, ending with a rally on the Alabama Capitol Building steps. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was the premier speaker. A delegation of leaders was then sent away as they tried to present Governor George Wallace with a petition.

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from wiki:

On the morning of March 24, the march crossed into Montgomery County and the highway widened again to four lanes. All day as the march approached the city, additional marchers were ferried by bus and car to join the line. By evening, several thousand marchers had reached the final campsite at the City of St. Jude, a complex on the outskirts of Montgomery.
That night on a makeshift stage, a "Stars for Freedom" rally was held, with singers Harry Belafonte, Tony Bennett, Frankie Laine, Peter, Paul and Mary, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joan Baez, Nina Simone and The Chad Mitchell Trio all performing. Thousands more people continued to join the march.
On Thursday, March 25, 25,000 people marched from St. Jude to the steps of the State Capitol Building where King delivered the speech How Long, Not Long. He said:
"The end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience. ... I know you are asking today, How long will it take? I come to say to you this afternoon however difficult the moment, however frustrating the hour, it will not be long."

(Less than five months later President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.)

So given the setting back to the story...

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The rally started with a call and response song “Somebody's Hurting” led by Rev. Dollie from Cordova, AL . She had a great powerful voice in this the first of many pieces she would later lead during the march.
Somebody's hurting our people, and it's gone on...
response – far too long,
and we won't
response - be silent anymore.

Several people spoke. The three co-chairs introduced themselves and made comments. A struggling Mom spoke of her challenges. A woman blinded as an adult spoke of her difficulties. She had once worked with Fannie Lou Hamer

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They passed out a recitation with responses about rates of children's hunger, the rising incarceration of women and loss of disability benefits. The small crowd of maybe a hundred participated in the recitation and songs. People seemed interested and engaged. It was pretty hot, about 93 degrees, and one woman fell out...heat or sunstroke I guess. There was a medic on hand, and she had the EMT there as the march began.

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After a last song the march began led by those called moral witnesses. Down the stairs, across the crosswalk, down the sidewalk, they stopped in the crosswalk leading to Dr King's old church.

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Police were both ahead and behind the marchers stopped in the crosswalk blocking the street. They sang some good songs like We Shall Not Be Moved The police just observed. Then one of the leaders hollered Forward...with the response...not one step back... marching on down the street with the police conducting a rolling road block.

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They march past the Education Association and stop at the next crosswalk to the Supreme Court Building (where Roy Moore once illegally installed a statue of the ten commandments)

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Where there's more songs... Ain't gonna let nobody turn me around and Eyes on the Prize and onward down Dexter Avenue. Forward, not one step back. And the dance with the police conducting the rolling roadblocks and the marchers singing continued until they finally reach the fountain. This location has symbolism too.

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At the fountain some of the marchers staged a sit in.

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The police had accommodated the march, but they called for dispersal of the sit in and arrested several people. Fortunately there was no violence.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDRlVxHJe5A] (1 min video)
https://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/2018/05/poor_peoples_campaign_march_pe...

There has been minimal coverage of the Montgomery march. In fact there has been very little press on the campaign nationally...

Here's a supporters piece...
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/05/19/more-thoughts-poor-peoples...

Meteor Man posted this interesting article in his essay this week.

Nashville's gathering sounds similar to the one in Montgomery, but no arrests occurred there. Interesting that their paper covered the story, Alabama's coverage was essentially a backpage paragraph
https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/religion/2018/05/14/poor-peoples-c...

Eddie Conway speaks with people at the Annapolis gathering (video or text)
https://therealnews.com/stories/43-million-live-in-poverty-poor-peoples-...
Maryland's capitol has an interesting history too....

http://history.house.gov/HistoricalHighlight/Detail/36498
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Built in 1772, this is the oldest state house in continuous legislative use in our nation.
This is the room, the Old Senate Chamber of the Maryland State House where George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Monroe and other prominent founding fathers congregated on that singularly unique day when Washington resigned his commission to the Continental Congress in Annapolis, Maryland in 1783. When he left Annapolis, Washington believed that his service to his country was over, and that he would finally be able to return home. Of course, he was soon pressed back into service, first to lead the constitutional convention in 1786, and then to lead the new country.
http://www.eversco.com/going-home-to-mount-vernon-george-washington-1783/

Democracy Now! interviewed Drs Barber and Theoharis who created the revival of the Poor People's Campaign (PPC). They were in DC.
Dr. Barber describes the PPC (video or text)
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/14/its_time_for_moral_confrontation_new

They both discuss Israel's oppression of the Palestinians. (video or text)
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/5/14/rev_barber_israel_dropping_tear_gas

Which leads us to the weeks news...

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The murder of Palestinian protesters by Israel is seen but not really discussed by the MSM
Janis B posted a rational discussion of the Palestinians predicament...
George Galloway Interviews Dr. Ramzy Baroud (25 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0w7kTLZ1vE

Norman Finkelstein has been trying to explain the dire situation of the Palestinians for quite a while. Here he is in a three part interview (video or text)
https://therealnews.com/series/israels-violence-on-gazans
He ws also featured in the last half of Jeremy Scahill's show (audio or text)
https://theintercept.com/2018/05/16/war-crimes-and-collective-punishment...

Aaron Mate interviews Max Blumenthal and Dan Cohen about their documentary film "Killing Gaza" (23 min) https://therealnews.com/stories/killing-gaza-a-new-documentary-on-palest...
The film is available here -
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/killinggaza/255266362

Max and Dan again with Chris Hedges (25 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjy2ldR5Kv4
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/killing-gaza/

Jimmy, Ron and Steph look at the situation in Gaza and the way media is covering the story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nfx-nEQ6bbo (8 min on a story in the Onion)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WpTQJ2sp-Q (6 min on the Hamas excuse)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJQu7uUmO-U (16 min on Thomas Friedman's spin)

One minute cartoon from Jared boy peacemaker....
https://www.truthdig.com/cartoons/jared-boy-peacemaker-video/

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Iran is off the dollar and on the Euro...that was Saddam's approach too. Jimmy and the crew explain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V3HvY5Ev1Io (8 min)

Mimi translated some articles for us this week that explain how dumping the Iranian deal is driving Germany and Europe in general toward Russia.
https://caucus99percent.com/content/germany-love-or-hate-putin-luck-trum...
https://caucus99percent.com/content/more-supporters-russia-germany-america
The withdrawal from the Iranian nuclear deal is putting our European ties at risk.

We're still working to insure peace doesn't break out in Korea. Col. Larry Wilkerson explains that Trump’s threats, Bolton’s inexperience, combined with the military exercises in the region is putting the North Korean peace talks at risk. (13 min)
https://therealnews.com/stories/us-north-korea-peace-talks-trump-threate...

It appears we have canceled the worst of the scheduled war games
https://warnewsupdates.blogspot.com/2018/05/us-cancels-b-52-bomber-exerc...

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Ray McGovern explains why he objects to Gina Haspel's appointment as CIA Director.
https://therealnews.com/series/ray-mcgovern-on-gina-haspel (2 parts video or text)

Interesting 26 min interview with Ray McGovern, ex-CIA on Telesur
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5M0uuGeAX20

Great discussion with Abby Martin, Jill Stein, and Glenn Greenwald. There's a 12 min intro, then Abby is interviewed. Jill comes on at about 40 min. Glenn's interview begins about 1.25 hours into the event. All three are good. In the second hour Abby and Jill discuss the role we can play in media, the movement, and with our personal actions. (hat tip mimi)
https://therealnews.com/stories/actvism-exclusive-glenn-greenwald-jill-s...
Here are links to separate interviews if that is easier...
Abby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwpGa5fgNB8 (28 min)
Jill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN8iH0oPsDw (36 min)
Glenn https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKRGsPCUTqs (37 min)

There was also a 45 min press conference with Abby, Jill, and Zain Raza, the founder and senior editor of acTVism Munich https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aViDxDiKA-Q

I found this young Munich based media start up, acTVism, quite interesting. Media is key for movements to build support. Remember the way the MSM covered Occupy? Oh yeah they didn't cover Occupy. How about Standing Rock...not so good there either. Same pattern with the PPC. We are left with digital social media and citizen journalists to do the job.

Robert Scheer talks with Adam Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at UCLA’s School of Law about his book "We the Corporations". (audio or text)
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/we-the-corporations/

Good journalist don't fare well in Mexico...
Mexican journalists are under siege...and the US is complicit. (text only)
https://therealnews.com/columns/democracy-in-crisis-the-future-of-journa...

In 2018 the 4th journalist of the year was murdered in Mexico
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/may/15/mexico-journalist-killed-j...

Perhaps good journalist don't fare well anywhere. They are sure going after Julian
The US indites and convicts truth telling journalists. (hat tip sd)
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2018/05/16/assa-m16.html
https://therealnews.com/stories/julian-assanges-asylum-in-ecuadors-embas...

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So we began the discussion today about movements. I'm proud of the movement being conducted by teachers.
http://educationopportunitynetwork.org/nc-teachers-rally-to-make-lawmake...
All teachers understand the need to invest in the future...our young people.
https://www.thenation.com/article/teachers-are-leading-the-revolt-agains...

South Carolina teachers marched this weekend joining the outcry to support public education. http://www.thestate.com/latest-news/article210767559.html

There is a long way to go. Education is unequal in many ways and at many levels
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/inside-school-research/2018/05/failing_br...

Between the teacher's efforts and the PPC will there be a new movement? Media is critical. The Poor People's Campaign is being treated much like the Occupy Movement... obscure, distract, don't report. If and when we become a force to challenge the system, there will be more aggressive policing and articles smearing the campaign will be common, and perhaps even agent provocateurs inserted to discredit the effort.

The struggle has been constant...by its very nature. All too often the focus becomes about what we are against. Like Janus we also must be looking toward what we want to become. We must think and dream about the society we want to create. If you enjoyed Jimmy's interviews with Peter Joseph last week, you might enjoy revisiting this interview with Abby Martin (45 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HwFOo5rbZA

Here's wishing you a satisfying future full of hopes and dreams as the empire collapses around us. I look forward to your comments and stories. I once visited a Roman villa in Britain It was built at the end of their empire in the backwaters of the Roman empire. Of late, that is how I've been seeing our little homestead...not as a villa, but as a refuge for the end of empire. Take care friends. Keep speaking truth to power.

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https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2018/05/19/the-friendly-mask-of-the-orwelli...

Caitlin suggest Gina is the appropriate face for the CIA...

I liked her conclusion...

...Everyone could also agree to create a new system which benefits all of humanity instead of a few sociopathic plutocrats. The only thing keeping money and government moving in a way that benefits our current rulers is the fact that those rulers have been successful in controlling the narrative.
...We the people will be able to create our own narratives and write our own rules about how things like money and government ought to operate, and there is no way that will work out to the benefit of the ruling manipulators and deceivers. So they fight with increasing aggression to lull us back to sleep, often overextending themselves and behaving in a way that gives the public a glimpse behind the mask of this entire corrupt power structure. Someday soon that mask will slip right off and come crashing to the floor. That crash will wake the baby, and that baby will not go back to sleep.

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

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@Lookout https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2018/05/19/how-democracy-ended.html

Hillary Clinton received by far the biggest support from billionaires, of all of the candidates; Sanders received by far the least; and this is why the Democratic Party, which Clinton and Barack Obama (two thoroughly billionaire-controlled politicians) effectively controlled, handed its nomination to Clinton. On 7 June 2016, the great investigative journalist Greg Palast headlined and documented "How California is being stolen from Sanders right now”, and four days later a retired statistician’s review of other statisticians’ statistical analysis of data from all of the primaries and caucuses, reaffirmed their findings, that the Democratic nomination had been stolen by the Democratic National Committee, and he concluded that “the whole process has been rigged against Bernie at every level and that is devastating even though I don't agree [politically] with him.” A more detailed study was published on 1 August 2016, titled "Democracy Lost: A Report on the Fatally Flawed 2016 Democratic Primaries”. Basically, what had happened is that the most-preferred of all the candidates got deep-sixed by Democratic Party billionaires, who ultimately control the DNC, just as Republican billionaires control the RNC. The US Government is squabbles between billionaires, and that’s all. That’s what’s left of American ‘democracy’, now.

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I never knew that the term "Never Again" only pertained to
those born Jewish

"Antisemite used to be someone who didn't like Jews
now it's someone who Jews don't like"

Heard from Margaret Kimberley

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@ggersh

Enjoyed the back story on France. The Kevin Ship link at the bottom is really interesting. I watched it recently.

The VIPS are heroes. https://www.mintpressnews.com/author/veteran-intelligence-professionals-...

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@Lookout

You're dead on, as usual - heroes indeed!

Hope you don't mind if I add one of the other articles there to which I went after reading yours?

https://www.mintpressnews.com/intelligence-veterans-warn-risk-u-s-iran-c...

February 26th, 2018
Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)

MEMORANDUM FOR: The President

FROM: Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)

SUBJECT: War With Iran
INTRODUCTION

In our December 21st Memorandum to you, we cautioned that the claim that Iran is currently the world’s top sponsor of terrorism is unsupported by hard evidence. Meanwhile, other false accusations against Iran have intensified. Thus, we feel obliged to alert you to the virtually inevitable consequences of war with Iran, just as we warned President George W. Bush six weeks before the U.S. attack on Iraq 15 years ago.

In our first Memorandum in this genre we told then-President Bush that we saw “no compelling reason” to attack Iraq, and warned “the unintended consequences are likely to be catastrophic.” The consequences will be far worse, should the U.S. become drawn into war with Iran. We fear that you are not getting the straight story on this from your intelligence and national security officials.

After choosing “War With Iran” for the subject line of this Memo, we were reminded that we had used it before, namely, for a Memorandum to President Obama on August 3, 2010 in similar circumstances. You may wish to ask your staff to give you that one to read and ponder. It included a startling quote from then-Chairman of President Bush Jr.’s Intelligence Advisory Board (and former national security adviser to Bush Sr.) Gen. Brent Scowcroft, who told the Financial Times on October 14, 2004 that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had George W. Bush “mesmerized;” that “Sharon just has him wrapped around his little finger.” We wanted to remind you of that history, as you prepare to host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week.

Rhetoric vs. Reality ...

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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.

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@Ellen North

So glad you found the info/link useful. That is why we do this isn't it?

Good to "see" you as always.

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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.

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@Lookout

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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.

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@Wink

Give us a glimpse at the underbelly of our nation.

If people have missed "A good American" on Netflix (and you have access) I encourage you to learn about Bill Binney and his path. Ray McGovern, Tom Drake, Jack K., Kevin Ship and so many others are the true patriots!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_whistleblowers

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“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”

@Lookout

it's also important to fight the Neo distortion of language, of universally defined words and terminology twisted into Opposite Day meanings.

This Tower of Babel co-option of identifying labels (such as 'Liberal' and 'Progressive' pasted onto neoCons/neolibs, initially fooling some into misplaced support while also giving the real ones a bad name and thereby removing their identifier,) and Opposite Day use of terms such as 'reform' (in that case, giving a falsely positive impression of abuses and, over time, a negative one of any potential improvements) and other confusion strategies are an important part of Perception Management, also, as we know, playing a major role in division tactics.

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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.

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@Ellen North

Race, republican, war...divide and conquer.

I guess that's why the Q anon posts cause my alarms to ring.
I didn't feature but watched this - gives me understanding of the trumpeteers and their narrative (50 min)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAmGK4zwbqA

plays on the us vs them.

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these words, of course,
@Ellen North
mean just the opposite to Repubs and their owners, the Oligarchy.
I cringe every time I hear them say "reform." A not so subtle hint to grab ankles.

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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

we need a better response than cringing - and it's damned hard to come up with any when all of the checks and balances have been incrementally infiltrated and corrupted...

On the plus side, now, we begin to 'know thine enemy' better, enough to realize that they are within a ruthless group mentally crippled in essential human areas and in ways readily identifiable by displays of the notable lack of both empathy and ethics defining the incapacitating condition, as well as by brain activity scans, and are therefore not, by nature of this, ethically or otherwise fit to hold any public office or position where they can use power to abuse others. We are, of course, fighting a destructive and invasive pathology in human form, not just political and other labels they may gather under.

But once it's reached a point where facts proving criminality in electoral candidates are to be withheld, by self-interests within government/agencies, from the public under an ???accepted??? publicly made excuse that this 'might affect the election' - since sane people might prefer not to elect pre-selected psychopathic criminals to public office - and propaganda and censorship are being unleashed upon the public to manipulate them into consenting to whatever is done to them, it makes things... difficult.

Psychopaths are now better able than ever before to pathologize societies, this, as we know, due in great part to media and other monopolies and technology used against the general public and as the US industrialists who essentially invented fascism by funding Hitler for a global corporate/military takeover-by-proxy which failed, learnt from their mistakes, as did others carrying on the fascist global agenda in multiple groups and areas.

They essentially invented (seemingly pointless) terrorism by creating secret terrorist groups controlled only by spy groups (such as the CIA and MI6) attacking powerless civilians in NATO and other countries - under the excuse of maintaining defenses against a Soviet invasion which never came, (since it was predominately Russia's survival and win over their Nazi-proxy invasion which enabled humanity to win that time, The Powers That (shouldn't) Be have a long-running grudge against the people of that country) presumably keeping in shape by randomly attacking and killing citizens? - to terrify and 'right-wing' them into accepting abuses and the loss of basic rights in exchange for promised 'security' through Project Gladios*, using this also to weaken independent countries and as an excuse to set up US military bases everywhere, in preparation for the long-planned fascist global take-over.

And they've spent the intervening decades weakening, infiltrating and taking over governments/policy around the world, by hook, crook and invasion, draining power and wealth from the world toward a global totalitarian nightmare now approaching completion, unless either a probably more merciful extinction of planetary life or the people of the world rising up for life and democracy occurs first.

Look at what's happening now.

Below, there are 7 demands listed out of the 12; I wonder what the others are?

Note that the threatening of any individual Iranians who can potentially be labelled 'operatives' (like civilians killed by drones being counted as terrorists?) and any Iranians claimed to be '...Hezbollah proxies operating around the world...' by a group which routinely wars against civilians around the world seems to have not been commented on within the article...

https://www.rt.com/usa/427312-us-iran-financial-pressure/

‘Strongest sanctions in history’: Pompeo issues 12 demands to Iran, vows ‘unprecedented pressure’
Published time: 21 May, 2018 13:13
Edited time: 21 May, 2018 15:14

Tehran will struggle to “keep its economy alive” if it does not comply with a list of 12 US demands, including Iranian withdrawal from Syria, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed on Monday.

Speaking at the Heritage Foundation, a right-wing Washington think tank, Pompeo laid out a list of 12 “basic requirements” for Iran. The demands call on Iran to withdraw from Syria, "release all US citizens," end support for Houthi rebels in Yemen, stop “enrichment" of uranium, and promise never to process plutonium. Iran must also allow "unqualified access to all nuclear sites throughout the country," Pompeo said.

He promised that the US would impose the "strongest sanctions in history" if Iran failed to comply with these demands.

Joyce Karam

@Joyce_Karam
Replying to @Joyce_Karam

Demands from #Iran , Pompeo:
•Close heavy water reactors
•Allow IAEA inspectors everywhere
•End ballistic missile
•Release US citizens
•End support to Hezbollah, Hamas, IJ, Houthis, Taliban
•Iran must withdraw from Syria
•Iran must support Iraq Gov, disarm Shia militias
8:17 AM - May 21, 2018
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....The secretary of state also pledged that the US "will track down Iranian operatives and their Hezbollah proxies operating around the world, and we will crush them. Iran will never again have carte blanche to dominate the Middle East."

Speaking directly to the Iranian people, Pompeo claimed that “President [Hassan] Rouhani and Foreign Minister [Javad] Zarif… are your elected leaders. Are they not the most responsible for your economic struggles?" He added: “The United States believes you deserve better.”

Pompeo also said he's sure that over time, Washington's allies will warm to the Trump administration's now unpopular stance on Iran.

Washington’s strategy is to weaken Iran economically, rather than engage in an actual war, Dr. Said Sadik, Professor of political sociology at the American university of Cairo, told RT in response to Pompeo’s address. “What the [US] is doing now is increase sanctions trying to undermine the power of Iran regionally, economically with the hope that that would lead to unrest and disturbances in Iran, that it would make the Iranian government stop trying to help its allies or extend its influence in the area. This is basically what they want.”

Sadik added: “I don’t think they want a war because war is very expensive and dangerous in this strategic area…What they want is to weaken Iran financially, economically, with the hope that the Iranian government will not be that powerful in the area as it is now.”

The speech comes after Trump announced earlier this month that he was pulling out of the 2015 nuclear deal. Europeans allies had pleaded with Trump not to withdraw from the historic accord, which put tight restrictions on Iran's nuclear program in exchange for sanctions relief. Iranian president Hassan Rouhani described the US pull-out from the deal as a "historic experience for Iran," adding that "by exiting the deal, America has officially undermined its commitment to an international treaty."

Iran says it expects the EU to continue to honor the agreement, despite Washington’s withdrawal from the accord. Inspections by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have repeatedly confirmed that Iran is in full compliance with its obligations under the deal.

Somebody has to say and stand by this now - hell, everybody does! And make it clear that it's not the US but The Psychopaths That Be who are responsible for all of this!

https://www.rt.com/news/427351-rouhani-responds-us-demands-iran/

‘US can’t decide for the world:’ Rouhani rejects Pompeo’s Iran demands
Published time: 21 May, 2018 17:45

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has rejected demands made of Tehran by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, vowing to continue “our path,” insisting that the era when the US could “decide for the world” is over.

The US government has regressed 15 years, back to “Bush Jr.’s era” and is once again trying to dictate its will on the entire world, Rouhani said as he rejected Washington's Monday ultimatum.

“Who are you to decide for Iran and the world? The world today does not accept America to decide for the world, as countries are independent ... that era is over ... We will continue our path with the support of our nation,” Rouhani said, as quoted by ILNA news agency.

The definition of a psychopath in unkillable form, from below, although the 'can't' and 'won't' might need reversal for those in human form:

'...The tech can't be reasoned with and won’t feel pity, remorse or fear. ...'

Mechanical psychopaths now to be fully unleashed upon the world, because humans can't kill humans fast enough to suit The Psychopaths That (shouldn't) Be, who see these independent killer machines as their ideal.

https://www.rt.com/news/427313-india-develops-lethal-robots/?ref=hvper.com/

India eyes developing autonomous killer robots for military
Published time: 21 May, 2018 13:16

India is assessing whether it needs to develop AI-based weapon systems for the military, capable of identifying and attacking targets without human input. The tech can't be reasoned with and won’t feel pity, remorse or fear.

The 17-member AI task force, which includes officials from the Indian military, defense ministry, arms contractors and research organizations, was formed in February. New Delhi sees AI technologies as potentially reshaping national security and defense and wants to keep up with leaders in the field.

Among the goals which the group works on is “developing intelligent, autonomous robotic systems,” Ajay Kumar, the secretary of the Defense Production Department in the Indian Defense Ministry, told The Times of India.

“The world is moving towards AI-driven warfare. India is also taking necessary steps to prepare our armed forces because AI has the potential to have a transformative impact on national security. The government has set up the AI task force to prepare the roadmap for it,” he said.

The government is expected to start placing initial tenders for AI capabilities with defense application within two years, Kumar added.

AI technologies, or more precisely algorithms using machine learning for better performance, have seen rapid development in the past few years. If adopted by the military, they can be used for automatic target acquisition, automated analysis of intelligence data, improvement of logistics and other tasks.

The same technologies may potentially become superior to humans in some combat roles, beating the organic operators of remotely-controlled weapons in their reaction times and accuracy. But developing fully autonomous weapon systems poses yet-to-be answered questions about moral and legal ramifications of entrusting life-and-death decisions to computer algorithms.

We have to get psychopaths out of politics/policy/agencies now. If you think human US/Israeli cops kill a lot of civilians now, don't wait until these replace also civil forces so that no public money has to be 'wasted' on paying The Poors for such jobs at all.

https://www.rt.com/news/427360-russia-downs-drone-syria-airbase/

Russian air defenses down drone in Syria’s Khmeimim in suspected air attack
Published time: 21 May, 2018 20:16
Edited time: 21 May, 2018 20:17
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Repeating these quotes following, regarding Gladios. Never to forgive, never to forget - and no longer to freaking accept.

* https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Operation_Gladio

Operation Gladio
Operation Gladio is a NATO-backed paramilitary network established after WW2, originally inspired by fear of the USSR. It was also called the "Stay behind network", since if the Red Army invaded Europe, its members would 'stay behind' enemy lines and disrupt Soviet control. Officially non-existant, secrecy was such that these networks were hard for NATO/MI6/Deep state officials to control. Gladio was responsible for bombings, kidnappings and assassinations to such an extent that the network was publicly exposed in Italy in the 1980s and was the subject of a BBC documentary by Alan Francovich some years later.[1] The project was adapted in the mid 1990s as "Gladio B", using "Moslem terrorists" as a substitute enemy image for communists.

Official narrative

What has come to be called Operation Gladio was never intended to be publicly acknowledged. It was a multi-national military plan to arm and train clandestine groups in many (perhaps all) of its member countries and elsewhere in Europe. The official narrative on these networks is confused, contradictory and definitely incomplete, with many basic questions unanswered. The stated reasons for establishing undercover armed groups has tended to focus on use of the secret armies as a fifth column to provide armed resistance in the case of a Soviet invasion.
Problems

The power hierarchy of Gladio remains unclear to this day, and is unknown to elected national leaders. When the European Union learned of the existence of Gladio, it passed a resolution mandating national investigations to reveal what was going on, but as of 2016, only 5 countries have done so (including Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Switzerland). A large question mark therefore remains over the role that Operation Gladio has played, and continues to play in influencing events. It seems very likely that the deep state controls these forces whether through the national intelligence services or in more informal fashion. The connection, in particular, with false flag terrorist attacks is particularly concerning.
Operation Gladio B

Full article: Rated 5/5 Operation Gladio B

Sibel Edmonds has exposed an international development of the original Gladio program referred to as "Operation Gladio B", which can be understood as a response in the min 1990s to the subsidence of the Soviet threat after the end of the cold war. As a way of kickstarting the "war on terror", instead of nationalist extremists in European countries, radical Muslims are armed, trained and assisted to carry out terrorist attacks while law enforcement is prevented from intervening.
Introduction

Dr. Daniele Ganser Interview: Nato's Secret Armies - Operation Gladio

Operation Gladio first came to light in Italy in 1990, after over 40 years of clandestine operations. Members of the project revealed that similar projects existed in most if not all countries of Western Europe.[2] These stay-behind networks were, in essence, super secret armies in at least 14 European countries, which were kept secret from the official governmental structures of the host countries – being controlled by other forces such as the CIA and MI6. They remained mostly dormant but were also involved in anti-communist activities including anti-democratic agitation and false flag "terrorism".

The name Gladio, (or ‘Sword’ in Italian) was technically the name given to their operations in Italy, but has since come by extension to stand for the phenomenon as a whole. Evidence of such arrangements, which had been kept secret from both public and politicians democratically elected governments in the host countries for a quarter of a century was revealed through a series of scandalous revelations in Italy and other NATO countries during the 90s, and meticulously documented by Swiss historian Daniele Ganser in his 2004 book NATO’s Secret Armies,[3] arguably the most shocking book ever to be ignored by the corporate media. The evidence contained in Ganser’s book, of terrorism directed against the people by secret armies funded and organised by NATO and answerable to deep state elements within NATO, MI6 and the CIA rather than the respective governments is so shocking that the initial reaction of most people would be to reject it. And yet the claims have been substantiated by juridical inquiries in Italy, Switzerland and Belgium and have been debated (and condemned) in the European Parliament. ...

... The Strategy of Tension

Full article: Strategy of Tension

During his trial, Vincenzo Vinciguerra revealed that, in addition to discrediting left wing political groups, there had been a second aim behind the bombings - to inculcate a climate of fear among the general populace. This was known as the 'strategy of tension' which was intended to generate a pervasive sense of fear which would encourage the population to appeal to the state for protection. As Vincenzo Vinciguerra summarized during his trial:

‘You had to attack civilians, the people, women, children, innocent people, unknown people far removed from any political game. The reason was quite simple. They were supposed to force these people, the Italian public to turn to the State to ask for greater security.’

In Francovich's documentary on Gladio, he described the aim as to ‘destabilise in order to stabilise’… ‘To create tension within the country to promote conservative, reactionary social and political tendencies.’ ...

Bush, projecting while speaking for himself and his ilk, was sorta right; they - the US and other Powers That (shouldn't) Be around the world really do hate humanity, with our despised and and exploitable empathy and ethics, for still having our freedoms...

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@Ellen North

submit to our exploitation or we will kill you. It is what made amerika grate.

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@Ellen North the body politic is terminal. Perhaps a radical encephaloectomy will reduce symptoms?

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@Ellen North what is opposite day? Assume a show of some sort.

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but it seems that it's a thing, and even more appropriate that I'd thought. (Thanks for triggering me to look this up for an example!)

http://geekdays.com/01/25/opposite-day/

Opposite Day

Post in 01-January

Don’t celebrate this holiday today. Opposite Day is never celebrated on days other than this.

Opposite Day, also known as Opposites Day, is a word game where speech is modified so that meaning is inverted. Once Opposite Day is declared, statements mean the opposite of what they usually mean.

Usually, a person would say, “After this phrase is over, it will be officially opposite day,” and then Opposite Day will be officially started. Opposite Day can also be declared retroactively to indicate that the opposite meaning of what was said should be inferred. Opposite day games are usually played by schoolchildren.

In the sense that opposite day “excuses” untrue statements, it is similar to the notion that crossed fingers automatically nullify promises. Play has been compared to a children’s “philosophy course”, and the game has been used as an educational aid and suggested as preparation for “standardized testing”.
Opposite Day in popular culture

In Bill Watterson’s comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, Opposite Day was the gag of one Sunday strip.
An episode of SpongeBob SquarePants, called “Opposite Day”, featured Squidward’s attempted use of Opposite Day to make sure he gets SpongeBob out of the way
A Whitest Kids U’ Know sketch called “Opposite Day Lawyer” features the lawyer of a hopelessly guilty murder suspect declaring Opposite Day just before the jury goes to deliberate.
In the 2007 American Dad! episode I Can’t Stan You, Steve’s letter to Roger references Opposite Day when Steve tricks Roger leaving him stranded in Mexico.
Homer makes a reference to Opposite Day in the episode The Wife Aquatic of The Simpsons.
In an episode of The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy titled “Opposite Day”, Billy and Mandy trick Grim into doing all their chores declaring that it’s opposite day, in the end Mandy reveals that she used the Opposite Day.
In an episode of “Robot Chicken” titled “Dear Consumer” (2009), a character asks if it’s Christmas Day or Opposite Day, and then cuts to a calendar with Monday, December 21 circled as Opposite Day, and Friday, December 25 circled as Christmas Day.
In an episode of “Jake and Amir” titled Ground Rule, Jake uses Opposite Day to make Amir do Jake’s bidding.

[Wikipedia Entry]

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@Ellen North A game to prepare children for standardized testing... now it makes sense.

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...and have been for a very long time. Daily Kos is a funded controlled-opposition site and likely has been since 2006. (David Brooks runs direct opposition sites.) VIPS is a target for controlled opposition programs. Scientists of that caliber often are, especially physicists. You see it most publicly in climate science, natural healthcare and pharmaceuticals, the fossil fuels industry, and in questionable science and corporate exploits that are regulated by the EPA and the FDA. Net Neutrality was felled by controlled opposition, and the essential core of the War on Terror is actually "controlled opposition" to Human Rights — largely due to resource scarcity and the rampant greed of the Ruling Class.

We discuss ordinary, mutating propaganda here every day, and fight it as best we can. But it's not surprising to find "opposition research" at the foundation of the monstrous evil that is attacking US democracy, for it is the "One Ring that Controls them All." That's hard to miss when we look at the array of international spooks, Presidential level operatives, Party elites, CFR "family members," think tank consultants, and useful idiots from the Five Eyes and the Pentagon who are financially connected to the Steele Dossier, alone.

That's the Big Game we are not addressing, but it is already active and mighty on the battlefield of populist politics that are spontaneous gleams in our eyes, at this point. There is too much money pumped into them. All the money in the world. When the world stops supporting the US Dollar — only then will we be good to go.

We should be lobbying interested nations the UN, not each other.

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@Pluto's Republic lobby the UN, ha! Like writing your congress critter. FATGIWD (for all the good it will do). Wink

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@QMS

She is a sovereign entity unto herself.

We will be heroic, as well, when we are fighting on the correct battlefield. VIPS lobbies on the battlefield at the UN, which has been showing more spine in recognizing false flag attacks, as a result.

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@Pluto's Republic per wikipedia:

Her reports and interviews are regularly described as pro-Assad propaganda[4][7][8][9] by the mainstream western media, and several outlets have focused on demonstrating how her work is propaganda,[10][11][12] misinformation,[13][14] conspiracy, or inaccurate.[4][15] or lies.[16][17]

Good for her! Speaking truth to power is not without it's blow back. Is this lobbying the UN? If the UN can not see the truth, then they are aiding misinformation. The UN is a very large obstacle to world peace. Just as US congress is a huge blockade against reducing military spending, except on a more global scale. I don't see it.

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@QMS

...for a forum.

The people can apply their own sanctions.

That's the Big Game we are not addressing, but it is already active and mighty on the battlefield of populist politics that are spontaneous gleams in our eyes, at this point. There is too much money pumped into them. All the money in the world. When the world stops supporting the US Dollar — only then will we be good to go.

We should be lobbying interested nations the UN, not each other.

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@QMS

and the American public petitioning en masse might make a difference, before it's too late.

They have been allowing the US PTB to override basic human decency and themselves by accepting the UN veto (and military/economic threats) used by TPTB toward achieving a far worse global micromanagement of the rest of the world - when we should all be (pacifically) fighting for life and democracy.

Various UN representatives are becoming more obviously disgusted with and horrified by the sadistically destructive tyranny being imposed in and on various peoples/countries in defiance of international law and against the prospects of the survival of humanity as well as the very concepts of civilization, and this natural revulsion and rejection needs to be encouraged.

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@Ellen North encourage the UN players to resist the FUKUS empire agenda.

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The ABC's (3 letter agencies..ie FBI,CIA,NSA....) are running the show, and evidently tell politicians how it is and will be. We will see what we see, but it probably will be very little of the big scheme. Someone earlier this week said bring on our collapse and isolation from the rest of the world. Even with that it may be too little too late. We just have to live lives true to our values. Easy said...

Glad to "see" you.

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@Lookout

I don't tell you often enough how much I am inspired by your work here.

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@Pluto's Republic

I appreciate your insights. I've learned much from you.

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but the accuracy is appreciated and desperately needs to be more widely recognized.

Thank FSM for you and others speaking out! We need more of you...

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@Lookout fill in the blanks

malignant warmongering psyop factory

russian disinmformation = the american empire's attempt to shift focus away from homeland deciept

force us all back into our assigned brain boxes

write our own rules about how things like money and government ought to operate

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Where have all the flowers gone?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI3QVsW30j0

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Haven't had a lot of time at all lately, slightly overwhelmed here.

I'd really like to see this effort take off. Hope it has the muster to attract bi- and non-partisan folks that it should. I like Barber and have been coming around to him. Coming around, I say, because I previously saw him as a sort of Dem partisan.

Heard a speech or interview recently and he was making reference to an "all Republican legislature" and I was disappointed to hear that. There's plenty enough for him to be critical of on the Dems, which would increase his chances in attracting a broader, stronger coalition. It has to be about the duopoly and the intransigence of Money In Politics/lobbying/beholden to donors being the root of all the problems he wishes to tackle.

Lastly, while I deeply admire a continuation of the movement MLK had been planning 50 years ago, I wonder if calling it the same exact name, "Poor People's Campaign," is best suited to today. As we know since then there's been a coordinated and concerted effort to denigrate poor people by RW propaganda (Lee Atwater, etc). The term "poor people" is almost never used anymore. Which makes me think of the brilliant George Carlin skit about how he doesn't like euphemisms. He contends that people like to (or have been conditioned by marketing campaigns to) use mealy-mouthed terms instead of crisp, clear language. It is good clear language to use poor people to describe the situation today. Only problem is the American Dream propaganda has us all thinking like Steinbeck said, about being temporarily embarrassed millionaires - just a lottery ticket or ponzi scheme, or if that doesn't work, pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps to attain that purposefully elusive myth, while spurning the idea of socialism. The Occupy message of "We Are the 99%" still resonates best I think.

I like the term I heard young black activists using when seeking to clear the air about Black Lives Matter not simply being the New Civil Rights Movement. I heard a few say it was the Oppressed People's Movement. In recognition that it was just as much about LGBT brothers and sisters, as it was Palestinian struggle, the prison industrial complex and the economically disenfranchised being hunted by the police state and picked clean by the capitalist vultures who write the laws keeping people poor.

Concerns aside I welcome any and all movements seeking to call attention to the multi-pronged assault on the 99%. But it must be clear it is non-partisan. And to really work, it has to expose that the current system is run by a small cabal of very rich people which control everything we see, hear, read, eat and buy - but especially our government. And that nothing less than a serious commitment to a full revolution of values, non-cooperation, subversion, boycotts, while also establishing alternative economic systems of worker cooperatives, media communication and smaller self-governing systems outside of the purview of Big Money interests, will bring about the wholesale change needed.

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THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"

- Kurt Vonnegut

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@Mark from Queens

To address all these issues we must recognize the failure of the capitalist system ...and the political system which is owned and controlled by the elites. The answer can't be to use the existing corrupted system but to break free entirely. I like Caity's thought that we prop up this whole insane culture because we believe...

Power only exists where it exists because of the stories that humans agree to tell one another. The idea that government operates a certain way, that money operates a certain way, these things are purely conceptual constructs that are only as true as people pretend they are. Everyone could agree tomorrow that Donald Glover is the undisputed King of America and the new official US currency is old America Online trial CDs if they wanted to, and since that was the new dominant narrative it would be the reality. Everyone could also agree to create a new system which benefits all of humanity instead of a few sociopathic plutocrats.

We do what we can do. I'm a retired teacher. It is in my nature to teach. The PPC may be the movement de jur but it is something I can do. It isn't perfect, but it is calling out the issues.

As always I appreciate your insightful comments. Hope all is well with you and your family!

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but it's ten times
@Lookout
better than what other progressive groups are doing,
which is pretty much nothing. What "Resistance?"
While "they" talk the talk Rev. Barber walks the walk.

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@Lookout  
if people are to be healed, spiritually, socially, and economically, they need to recognize the falsity of the narrative that the U.S. ever legitimately annexed Hawaii, and resume living a narrative that is truer to their roots.

http://hawaii-nation.org/

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@lotlizard

....if we would listen and learn. Standing Rock was the teachable moment...but once again we missed the opportunity to see the corporate mercenaries and water protectors for what they are...despite being sprayed in the face with the obvious.

Are you in Hawaii? I never been there, but my mom was in Pearl Harbor when it was bombed...

I've still got the rocking chair in this picture. I'm not sure who my mom's childhood friend was....
Hawaii (5).jpg

Always good to "see" you.

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@Mark from Queens Yeah you right!

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PPC is something to keep an eye on.

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NRA playbook.

Thanks to the Wedding yesterday, they didn't even have to engage in the traditional period of silence before coming out with their attacks on Video Games, Drugs, and Women who won't sleep with white male terrorists.

It's the same fucking story, every fucking time. The beats are rehearsed down to a frightening degree. I honestly would like to take a look at the Video Editor's computer for the news stations, because you KNOW they have graphics cued up and ready for the next shooting.

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@detroitmechworks
1.2 min
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PStpvviPgxk

Journalist = teleprompter reader....or so it seems to me.

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with Jill and Abby right now. Very good, thanks for posting it.

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We wanted decent healthcare, a living wage and free college.
The Democrats gave us Biden and war instead.

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@Azazello

really came from mimi's rec on the big three confab, but that last piece with Abby and Jill and the acTVism guy is a great conversation/conference about media today, etc.

Always good to see you!

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I believe the PPC is a big part of upcoming events, very likely a yuuuge reason for upcoming events, be they a revolution of some sort or something smaller. But there's no question the PPC will play a big role this Spring, a Joe Biden bfd! Rock on!

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@Wink

The Q anon crowd is suggesting 6/11 will be a big reveal? Of course they also called for a May date that has come and gone.

I think street actions are driving change more than the CT's but ...I'm open minded and will wait and see. I'm keeping on keeping on...cause ain't nobody gonna turn me around!

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@Lookout

what happens when internet neutrality protections are gone. And we may never know if/when anything of spectacular importance was to come out, if internet access to it is blocked. Will internet become obsolete in the end?

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@Ellen North

likely destruction of net neutrality in the house...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/16/technology/net-neutrality-senate.html

We'll see what we see. I think the issue on 6/11 lies with the recent leaks regarding the soon to be released Department of Justice Inspector General's report.
https://caucus99percent.com/content/bombshell-looming-re-inspector-gener...

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@Lookout open the mind

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Still, you'd think that Republican voters would be upset at having their freedom restricted on a more expensive and limited-to-Party-lines internet, even if guns are not involved.

I have a nasty feeling that, no matter what is released, Hillary will merely be found incompetent to hold public office, something that will be OK in Her case, anyway, because she's the only once suitable to break the Presidential glass ceiling with that exceptionally hard, scheming heart chipped out of the same flint as Cheney's.

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...are tied to the foundation for a true reveal...IMO.

Have a good day!

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