@Snode

we won't see much change. Wars will rage, immigrants deported, coups conducted around the world. The coin has 2 sides, but it is the same coin.

I like this Bucky quote...
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

Thanks for the song...we gotta change wrong to right.

and Israel have been working together with the US government/Wall St. for a long time. When I was younger life went on it's boring predictable way. Now you can only count on unpredictability from our seats in the nosebleed section. Not Trump, but the last 35-40 years. Bush2 and Obama were the epitome of NOT acting in a predictable manner, of flipping heads 41 time in a row, of your bread and jam always falling jam side down. It has to be by design.

The neolibs are salivating for a blue wave. If it comes, and I have doubts, it will be telling to see how they act. The r's have wielded power with the thinnest majorities, and Trump and the party have steamrolled through every corner of the government. If the democrats fail to do half of that at least it will put their "agenda" out in the open.

Right now I feel like I'm reliving my thirtyteens all over.
EDited cause I can't spell.

@gulfgal98

I was wowed. I learned a trick about facebook vids. use the option at the bottom
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PS you might want to read the comments in the PPC essay thread.

Rev. Dr. Barber is awesome! His speech had me jumping up off my chair, yelling "stand!" He is a man filled with a great passion to try to right all the wrongs in this country, very much in the same vein as Dr. King. I see him as trying to continue Dr. King's work.

I first learned about Rev. Dr. Barber when he took a massive public stand against the anti-gay marriage bill in NC. He made a video in which he talked specifically to black people about how discriminating against gays is no different than discriminating against blacks. At that time, many black churches were actually for the anti gay marriage bill, so Rev. Dr. Barber's stand was in the face of most black religious institutions in NC. Discrimination is discrimination! Then he began the Moral Monday movement which I believe has formed the precursor to the Poor People's campaign.

I highly recommend to everyone to watch his speech beginning around the 1 hour 22 minute mark or shortly thereafter, in the linked video. Unfortunately there is no embed code for this video, but here is the link again. https://www.facebook.com/anewppc/videos/1735225803240254/

@detroitmechworks

The capitalist system forgot to include people in its formulas and algorithms.

is that Slavery never ended.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNIAJVL--UM]

@gulfgal98

it is just too fishy with an obvious cover up and judicial rigging...and NO media coverage.

Thanks for keeping us informed. You and AE have been my main educators about this all.

I think Luke has done some excellent reporting on the Awan spy scandal, but I disagree with him on one thing. He seems to think the main reason for the Democratic stonewall on the Awans has to do with elections. That many be a factor, but I seriously doubt that it is the main reason.

Until recently no one in Congress on either side of the aisle seemed to care about the Awans exfiltrating terabits of data from the House to who knows where. This scandal did not break yesterday. We have known about it for over a year. It was not until Imran Awan and Hina Alvi were indicted for bank fraud (a minor charge compared to spying), that anyone was even aware of this scandal.

I believe that there is far more to this than just a bunch of Pakistanis stealing data from House members, including those serving on Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs Committees. First, not one member who employed the Awans had a background check done.

This is absolutely appalling because I personally have been there in a far lesser situation with my own employment in local government. All new employees were required to undergo a background check. I retired with a spotless record of 31 years. Eighteen months later, my former department called and asked if I would be interested in coming back part time on a temporary basis. Here is the kicker. I had to undergo a new background check to come back to the same office I had worked in for over 31 years. There were no exceptions on background checks.

However, in regard to Imran Awan and the rest of his spy cohorts, none were ever required to undergo a background check. Imran Awan was granted the highest employee security clearance in order to work for members of those two very sensitive committees. It is unfathomable that no one at any level required Imran Awan to undergo a background check.

Second, Hina Alvi was allowed to leave the US with more cash on her person than is legally permitted. She was stopped at the airport and found to be carrying said cash, but was allowed to leave along with the cash she had.

In March 2017, FBI agents were tailing House of Representatives IT aides suspected of hacking Congress, and apprehended one at the airport trying to make a hasty exit to Pakistan. She refused to speak with them, and a search revealed that she was carrying an apparently illegal amount of cash.

The FBI allowed Hina Alvi, wife of Imran Awan, to board the plane anyway — then filed paperwork saying agents believed she had no intention of returning to the U.S.

Third, when Imran Awan was arrested for bank fraud, Chris Gowan, Bill Clinton's personal attorney and a former Hillary Clinton advisor immediately became Awan's attorney. Since then, Imran Awan's trial on said bank fraud charges has be postponed several times. The bank fraud case is not a complex one.

What this points to for me is that the Awans are being protected by people very high up and powerful, beyond just the Democratic party. For this reason, I believe that there is far more to this story than what we see on the surface. IMHO, the Awans were not just working against the US government, but were working with persons and agencies of the US government.

@Linda Wood

I'll look forward to reading more.
Caught a good piece on the MIC today...Lee Camp and David DeGraw: https://daviddegraw.org/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KfJO8Irjyo 1st 15 min

thank you for this great essay. I am arriving late with great excitement but little time to respond or to access all your links. I hope to look at all of them very soon.

In answer to your exchange with gulfgal98, I especially wanted to praise her statement:

I began to realize that the people pulling the strings are globalists who care very little about country other than as a means to achieve their global objectives.

This is the conspiracy theory that I think is most substantial, that the military industrial complex and its clientele are multinational corporations that couldn't care less about the American people or the Uzbekistan people or anyone else.

I come from the perspective of having read Antony Sutton, who documented U.S. corporations developing Soviet military industrial resources from the revolutionary period onward, and Charles Higham, who documented those same exact companies arming Hitler for the duration of WWII.

So I would say, one of the most exciting, spine-tingling moments in my theorizing life came when I read some of the research of Bill Simpich, who documented the CIA files on Lee Harvey Oswald, especially his activities in the Soviet Union. In these files Simpich noticed the CIA also had files on another American defector who worked for a U.S. military contractor and who defected at almost the exact same time as Oswald, like weeks apart, and returned to the United States also just weeks apart. They looked quite a lot alike, Oswald and this guy Webster. And they were about the same age, height, and weight. And in their files the age, height, and weight notes sometimes interchanged.

The researcher, Simpich, doesn't quite know what to make of this. So he guesses it had to do with the CIA's James Angleton's method of finding moles. But if you've read Antony Sutton, you know exactly what to make of this. Sutton's work is about how U.S. corporations extended military industrial technology to the Soviet Union through deceptive and illegal means, and this action on the part of the CIA exemplifies that activity.

So, in making this too brief to work it out, I will just say, that the Awans being allowed to come and go and spill beans all over the place is standard operating procedure if you're working for the military industrial operational front, the CIA, in order to extend military secrets to the enemies of the United States. It's what they do.

https://www.maryferrell.org/pages/State_Secret_Chapter1.html