The Evening Blues - 8-16-23
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This evening's music features Sonny Boy Williamson II. Enjoy!
Sonny Boy Williamson - Red Hot Kisses
“Evil always wins through the strength of its splendid dupes; and there has in all ages been a disastrous alliance between abnormal innocence and abnormal sin.”
-- G.K. Chesterton
News and Opinion
Chris Hedges: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – The Israel Lobby’s Useful Idiot
The long nightmare of oppression of Palestinians is not a tangential issue. It is a black and white issue of a settler-colonial state imposing a military occupation, horrific violence and apartheid, backed by billions of U.S. dollars, on the indigenous population of Palestine. It is the all powerful against the all powerless. ...
[Give the article a click and read for an excellent description of the conditions in apartheid Palestine imposed by the Israeli occupiers. - js ]
There is a heavy political price to pay for defying Israel, whose overt interference in our political process makes the most tepid protests about Israeli policy a political death wish. The Palestinians are poor, forgotten and alone. And this is why the defiance of Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians is the central issue facing any politician who claims to speak on behalf of the vulnerable and the marginalized. To stand up to Israel has a political cost few, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., are willing to pay. But if you do stand up, it singles you out as someone who puts principles before expediency, who is willing to fight for the wretched of the earth and, if necessary, sacrifice your political future to retain your integrity. Kennedy fails this crucial test of political and moral courage.
Kennedy, instead, regurgitates every lie, every racist trope, every distortion of history and every demeaning comment about the backwardness of the Palestinian people peddled by the most retrograde and far-right elements of Israeli society. He peddles the myth of what Pappe calls “Fantasy Israel.” This alone discredits him as a progressive candidate. It calls into question his judgment and sincerity. It makes him another Democratic Party hack who dances to the macabre tune the Israeli government plays. Kennedy has vowed to make “the moral case for Israel,” which is the equivalent of making the moral case for apartheid South Africa. He repeats, almost verbatim, talking points from the Israeli propaganda playbook put together by the Republican pollster and political strategist, Frank Luntz. The 112-page study, marked “not for distribution or publication,” which was leaked to Newsweek, was commissioned by The Israel Project. It was written in the aftermath of Operation Cast Lead in December 2008 and January 2009 — when 1,387 Palestinians and nine Israelis were killed.
The strategy document is the blueprint for how Israeli politicians and lobbyists sell Israel. It exposes the wide gap between what Israeli politicians say and what they know to be the truth. It is tailored to tell the outside world, especially Americans, what they want to hear. The report is required reading for anyone attempting to deal with the Israeli propaganda machine. The document, for example, suggests telling the outside world that Israel “has a right to defensible borders,” but advises Israelis to refuse to define what the borders should be. It advises Israeli politicians to justify the refusal by Israel to allow 750,000 Palestinians and their descendants, who were expelled from their country during the 1948 war, to return home, although the right of return is guaranteed under international law, by referring to this right as a “demand.” It also recommends arguing that Palestinians are seeking mass migrations to seize land inside Israel. It suggests mentioning the hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees from Iraq, Syria and Egypt, who fled anti-Semitism and violence in the Arab world after the creation of the Jewish state. The document recommends saying these refugees also “left property behind,” in essence justifying the Israeli pogrom by the pogrom Arab states carried out after 1948. It recommends blaming the poverty among Palestinians on “Arab nations” that have not provided “a better life for Palestinians.”
What is most cynical about the report is the tactic of expressing a faux sympathy for the Palestinians, who are blamed for their own oppression. “Show Empathy for BOTH sides!” the document reads. “The goal of pro-Israel communications is not simply to make people who already love Israel feel good about that decision. The goal is to win new hearts and minds for Israel without losing the support Israel already has.” It says that this tactic will “disarm” audiences.
I doubt Kennedy has read or heard of Luntz’s report. But he has been spoon-fed its talking points and naively spits them back. Israel only wants peace. Israel does not engage in torture. Israel is not an apartheid state. Israel gives Israeli Arabs political and civic rights they do not have in other parts of the Middle East. Palestinians are not deliberately targeted by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF). Israel respects civil liberties and gender and marriage rights. Israel has “the best judiciary in the world.” ...
[See article for extensive documented refutation of Kennedy's idiotic spew about Israel. - js]
Those who support these discriminatory laws and embrace Israeli apartheid are blinded by willful ignorance, racism or cynicism. Their goal is to dehumanize Palestinians, champion an intolerant Jewish chauvinism and entice the naïve and the gullible into justifying the unjustifiable. Kennedy, bereft of a moral compass and a belief system rooted in verifiable fact, has not only failed the Palestinians, he has failed us.
Veteran CIA Analyst on Russia Ray McGovern Has Never Been More Scared of Nuclear Catastrophe
Western press fetishizes Ukrainian amputees as limb loss epidemic grows
After 18 months of devastating proxy warfare, the scale of the depletion of the Ukrainian military is so extensive that even mainstream sources have been forced to concede the cruel reality. On August 1, The Wall Street Journal reported that “between 20,000 and 50,000 Ukrainians” have “lost one or more limbs since the start of the war.” What’s more, the outlet notes, “the actual figure could be higher” because “it takes time to register patients after they undergo the procedure.”
By comparison, around 67,000 Germans and 41,000 Britons underwent amputations during the entire four-year span of the First World War. The publication quotes the head of a group of former military surgeons who train Ukrainian military medics who maintained that “Western military surgeons haven’t seen injuries on this scale since World War II.”
While the implications of the Journal’s report have largely been studiously ignored by Western media, at least one mainstream journalist has displayed a keen interest in Kiev’s amputees. The New York Times’ columnist and ardent liberal interventionist Nicholas Kristof practically fetishized the mass disfigurement of Ukrainian combat veterans in the name of Washington’s war du jour.
In a July 8 op-ed titled “They’re Ready to Fight Again, on Artificial Legs,” Kristof insisted that rather than resenting being used as cannon fodder, Ukraine’s newly-disabled veterans “carry their stumps with pride.” Citing one soldier who expressed hopes of returning to the frontline despite missing three limbs, Kristof framed such “grit and resilience” as a sure sign Kiev is winning the proxy conflict, and will inevitably emerge victorious over Russia.
The gut-wrenching homage to crippled and mangled Ukrainian soldiers even spun amputation as a means of getting laid, quoting the wife of one amputee as saying, “he’s very sexy without a leg.”
Biden Pledges PENNIES To Maui Fire Victims While Demanding BILLIONS MORE For Ukraine: Rising
NATO Plan B after Failed Ukr Offensive; Moscow Kiev Say No; Missiles Kupiansk Offensive Hammer Ukr
European Gas Price Spike Highlights Painful Exposure To Global Markets
Earlier this month, the price of natural gas in Europe spiked by as much as 40% on the news that gas platform workers in Australia may launch industrial action. The strike could affect a tenth of global LNG, media reported last week, which would send prices higher. Indeed, the very threat of a strike sent prices higher, and once again highlighted Europe’s difficult energy security position.
Last year, the EU celebrated the success of its efforts to reduce its dependence on pipeline Russian gas. Indeed, that dependence was greatly reduced, not without the help of Gazprom itself, which significantly reduced the flow of gas to Europe, prompting buyers there to look for alternatives.
The celebrations did not take very long to turn into complaints. Accustomed to cheap pipeline gas, European buyers were finding out that the LNG spot market had very different rules, which ultimately resulted in higher—much higher—prices when a new buyer as big as the EU appeared on the stage.
By the end of the year, politicians in Europe were complaining about having to pay through the nose for natural gas on that spot market, and some were already closing long-term deals with Qatar and the United States. Even Germany, a staunch opponent of continued reliance on gas, gave up and signed long-term deals and decided to build a permanent LNG import terminal.
What this did was cement the continent’s now almost complete dependence on LNG. Bar some pipeline imports from Norway and Azerbaijan, most of the European Union’s gas in the years to come will be sourced from the international LNG market. And this means higher prices for longer. And even higher prices and the constant threat of a price shock in case of supply disruption, as evidenced by the Australian strikes news. ...
Last year, LNG made up 34% of the European Union’s gas imports in 2022, the FT reports. This year, this is expected to rise to 40%. That would be virtually the same market share Russian pipeline gas had in the European Union prior to the February 2022 invasion of Ukraine That means that the EU, for all its self-congratulations on achieving energy independence, has simply replaced one form of dependency for another. This new form goes hand in hand with austerity and loss of competitiveness for some of the most important industries on the continent.
China Warns It Will Take ‘Strong Measures’ as Taiwan VP Arrives in US
China on Sunday vowed it would take “strong measures” as Taiwanese Vice President Lai Ching-te stopped in the US on his way to Paraguay, one of the few nations that has diplomatic relations with Taipei.
“The US and the Taiwan authorities arranged for Lai to engage in political activities in the US in the name of having a ‘stopover.’ This seriously violates the one-China principle, gravely undermines China’s sovereignty and territorial integrity,” the Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
North Korea claims US soldier crossed over as he was ‘disillusioned by society’
North Korea asserted Wednesday that a US soldier who bolted into the North across the heavily armed Korean border last month did so after being disillusioned at the inequality of American society.
It is North Korea’s first official confirmation of the detention of Private 2nd class Travis King, who entered the North while on a tour of a Korean border village on 18 July. He became the first American detained in the country in nearly five years.
The North Korean official news agency, KCNA, said King told investigators he had decided to enter North Korea because he “harbored ill feeling against inhuman mistreatment and racial discrimination within the US army”.
It said King also expressed his willingness to seek refuge in North Korea or a third country, saying he “was disillusioned at the unequal American society”.
The Pentagon on Tuesday said it could not verify alleged comments made by King that North Korean state media reported, but that Washington remained focused on his safe return. “We remain focused on his safe return. The department’s priority is to bring Private King home, and that we are working through all available channels to achieve that outcome,” a Pentagon spokesperson said.
US Jews urged to condemn Israeli occupation amid Netanyahu censure
Hundreds of Israeli and American public figures have called on US Jewish groups to speak out against the occupation of the Palestinian territories as “the elephant in the room” of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s deeply divisive judicial reforms. The statement has drawn international attention because of the prominent Israelis who have signed its forthright declaration that “Palestinians live under a regime of apartheid”, including the renowned Israeli historian Benny Morris, and the former speaker of the Israeli parliament, Avraham Burg.
The open letter, which has gathered more than 1,500 signatories since it was released a week ago, comes amid months of mass demonstrations in Israel against Netanyahu’s legislation to weaken the power of the judiciary, widely seen as a battle for the country’s soul. Israeli protesters have drawn support from several major Jewish groups in the US, which have criticised the legal changes as designed to help Netanyahu evade prosecution for corruption – and for rightwing members of his government to weaken individual rights, particularly for women, Arabs, and secular or religiously liberal Jews.
But the statement said Jewish American leaders have failed to speak out on “the ultimate purpose” of the judicial overhaul to “annex more land, and ethnically cleanse all territories under Israeli rule of their Palestinian population”.
“American Jews have long been at the forefront of social justice causes, from racial equality to abortion rights, but have paid insufficient attention to the elephant in the room: Israel’s longstanding occupation that … has yielded a regime of apartheid,” the statement says.
The open letter urges “leaders of North American Jewry” to support the Israeli protest movement while embracing equality for Palestinians who “lack almost all basic rights, including the right to vote and protest”.
Sky-High US Housing Costs Fuel Record Surge in Homelessness
Persistently high housing costs and the end of pandemic-era relief programs have fueled a sharp increase in homelessness in the U.S. this year, according to an analysis published Monday by The Wall Street Journal.
The Journal reported that homelessness nationwide—from Denver to New Orleans to New York City—is up 11% so far this year compared to 2022, when more than 582,000 people experienced homelessness.
If this year's increase holds, the Journal noted, it would mark the largest jump since 2007, the year the U.S. government began tracking comparable data.
"We and others have repeatedly predicted this increase in homelessness," Diane Yentel, president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition (NLIHC), wrote in response to the new figures. "When rents skyrocket amidst a severe shortage of affordable housing and a shredded safety net, more people become homeless. It really is that simple—and preventable."
Kansas to Probe Police Raid on Local Newspaper; Co-Publisher Dies from Stress Day After Raid
The problem with facial recognition in policing
Porcha Woodruff was eight months pregnant when police in Detroit, Michigan came to arrest her on charges of carjacking and robbery. She was getting her two children ready for school when six police officers knocked on her door and presented her with an arrest warrant. She thought it was a prank. “Are you kidding, carjacking? Do you see that I am eight months pregnant?” the lawsuit Woodruff filed against Detroit police reads. She sent her children upstairs to tell her fiance that “Mommy’s going to jail”.
She was detained and questioned for 11 hours and released on a $100,000 bond. She immediately went to the hospital, where she was treated for dehydration.
Woodruff later found out that she was the latest victim of false identification by facial recognition. After her image was incorrectly matched to video footage of a woman at the gas station where the carjacking took place, her picture was shown to the victim in a photo lineup. According to the lawsuit, the victim allegedly chose Woodruff’s picture as the woman who was associated with the perpetrator of the robbery. Nowhere in the investigator’s report did it say the woman in the video footage was pregnant.
A month later the charges were dismissed due to insufficient evidence.
Woodruff’s is the third known case of an arrest made due to false facial recognition by the Detroit police department – and the sixth case in the US. All six people who were falsely arrested are Black. For years, privacy experts and advocates have raised the alarm about the inability of technology to properly identify people of colour and have warned of the privacy violations and dangers of a system that purports to identify anyone by their image or face. Still, law enforcement and government agencies across the US and around the world continue to contract with various facial recognition firms from Amazon’s Rekognition to Clearview AI.
Outrage as Arkansas tells high schools to drop AP African American course
Advocacy groups are outraged after the Arkansas department of education warned state high schools not to offer an advanced placement course on African American history.
The admonition from Arkansas education officials is the latest example of conservative lawmakers limiting education on racial history, sexual orientation and other topics they label as “indoctrination”.
Pressure Grows on Clarence Thomas to Resign as ProPublica Finds More Undisclosed Lavish Trips, Gifts
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JAW DROPPING: Media’s Pathetic Attempts To Protect Biden From Hunter Crime Allegations!
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As Biden Hails Inflation Reduction Act, Climate Groups Say He Must Stop Boosting Fossil Fuels
Climate campaigners on Tuesday responded to U.S. President Joe Biden's speech touting the clean energy provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act on the eve of its first anniversary by condemning his administration's fossil fuel expansion and calling on him to declare a climate emergency.
Biden has repeatedly hailed the $368 billion in clean energy investments in the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) while claiming last week that he has "practically" declared a climate emergency. On Tuesday, the president delivered his remarks at Ingeteam, a company that makes wind turbine systems and says it plans to manufacture electric vehicle charging stations and hire 100 workers.
"This is happening across the state," Biden asserted. "It is a direct result of the clean energy investments I signed into law a year ago. Folks, as I've said for a long time, when I think climate, I think jobs."
Progressive critics pushed back against the president's claims.
"President Biden can talk until he's blue in the face about investments in clean energy, but as long as he continues to approve massive new fossil fuel projects throughout the country, we keep moving backward on the path to a livable climate future," Food & Water Watch executive director Wenonah Hauter said in a statement. "No amount of investment in wind turbines, solar panels, or faulty carbon capture schemes will protect our environment or stabilize our climate if we simultaneously extract and burn more and more oil and gas."
"The Alaska Willow drilling project, the Mountain Valley Pipeline, a plethora of new LNG export terminals—these are among the features of Biden's energy legacy that will doom us to climate catastrophe if he doesn't change course now," Hauter continued. "Meanwhile, President Biden's massive investments in unproven, impossibly expensive carbon capture schemes serve only to allow the fossil fuel industry to keep doing what it does best—drill, frack, pump, and pollute—under the premise that a mysterious, magical technology will somehow clean it all up."
"These faulty initiatives are sucking away precious time and money that could otherwise be spent on legitimate clean energy projects like wind, solar, and building efficiency," she added.
“Watershed Moment”: Montana Rules Youth Have Constitutional Right to Healthy Climate
Long delays at Panama Canal after drought hits global shipping route
Commercial ships are facing long queues and delays to travel through the Panama Canal as a lengthy drought in the Central American country has led to a cut in the number of vessels able to pass through one of the world’s most important trading routes.
In a fresh demonstration of the impact of the climate crisis on global business and trade, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP), which manages the waterway, introduced restrictions on the number of transiting vessels as a result of the drought.
An extended dry season has reduced the availability of water, required to allow vessels to pass through the canal’s locks, which has triggered a logjam of ships awaiting their turn.
The canal is favoured by many shippers as it usually reduces cost and transit times, especially for large retailers and energy companies that trade between China and the rest of Asia, and the US.
The ACP has said it faces “unprecedented challenges”, adding that the severity of the drought had “no historical precedence”, even compared with the last drought in 2019-20.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Seymour Hersh: Harold Pinter Had It Right
Argentina Just Took a Step Closer to Dollarising Its Economy, And Away from the BRICS
The Taliban’s Opium Eradication
‘Written out of the history books’: the British spy who planned Iranian coup
How Will Trump's Fourth Indictment - And RFK Jr. - Influence The Election Season?
Driving out the rainforest invaders: crackdown on illegal mining brings hope after Bolsonaro era
‘National disgrace’: protest after tree estimated to be hundreds of years old cut down in Tasmania
The “It Can’t Be Done Because It’s Never Been Done” Problem
Niger junta-ECOWAS standoff: 'Resistance against intervention within ECOWAS & int'l partners'
Here’s Why Everyone Is DONE With AOC
‘Mission Accomplished’?! Rail Giant Norfolk Southern ENDING Aid To Sick East Palestine, OH Residents
A Little Night Music
Sonny Boy Williamson - Bring It On Home
Sonny Boy Williamson, Jimmy Page & Brian Auger - Walking
Sonny Boy Williamson - Don't Start Me Talkin'
Sonny Boy Williamson II - Take Your Hands Out Of My Pockets
Sonny Boy Williamson II - Little Village
Sonny Boy Williamson (Willie Dixon & Hubert Sumlin) - Gettin’ Out Of Town
Sonny Boy Williamson II - Eyesight to the Blind
Sonny Boy Williamson, Jimmy Page & Brian Auger - I See A Man Downstairs (One Way Out)
Sonny Boy Williamson - Checkin' Up On My Baby
Comments
Not sure where I saw this item
In regards to Ukie amputations (a terrible price of war)
medics are shown swarming battlefields after the shooting
has stopped, collecting organs of the dead in Igloo coolers
to sell on the black market. Apparently the wait times for
replacement organs has dropped significantly. Body parts
by NATO and exlensky, coming to a surgery center nearby.
This is some sick sh*t.
Thanks for the blues and news joe.
evening qms...
i guess it's recycling ukronazi style. pretty sad.
Possibly you got it from me.
Yesterday, I buried this in a longer comment:
I got it from a Russian-American war observer. My source discussed confirming the recent steep drop in wait times for organ transplants with a large hospital complex in Chicago. I was paraphrasing the comment and embellished in a stream-of-consciousness from inside the fog of war we all share, so I did not source it. Also, this information was an aside to the topic of the conversation. My impression was that organ harvesting has been a known-known in Ukraine, which is aligned with the Nazi sphere of influence in the region and at NATO. Israel is one of the beneficiaries of increased organ "donations." Or, should I say "sales?" No judgement intended.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
The Russian press secretary also said that about organs
in an article posted on Tass and RT. I have no idea how to spell her name but it starts with a Z. She’s known about it since even before the war started, but it’s gotten much worse since then. She said that sometimes the people aren’t even dead yet when it happens. This is what Americans are supporting.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
heh...
Maria Zakharova
Yeah that’s her
Good thing I didn’t try spelling it cuz I had a few W's in her name.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Transplant recipients may be receiving more than just tissue
Do organs have a mind of their own?
There are anecdotal accounts of how transplant recipients, particularly heart recipients, often report noticing marked changes in their own personalities and preferences.post transplant. While some can be brushed off at simple musings over having another person’s tissue merged with one’s own, other accounts are far more puzzling and suggest that the union of organ tissue can include “memories” of the deceased donor, including traumatic deaths or specific dietary preferences.
The implications are both wondrous and troubling.
“What the herd hates most is the one who thinks differently; it is not so much the opinion itself, but the audacity of wanting to think for themselves, something that they do not know how to do.”
-Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
On the Afghanistan poppy field article
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The crackdown won’t just affect people who use heroin, but also those who are prescribed opioids for pain. My doctor has already warned me that his patients are finding it difficult to get their opioid prescriptions filled. Before we invaded Afghanistan they had been eradicating the poppy fields to almost nil and after we went in they started up again. I’ve posted the picture of the troops guarding the fields numerous times over the 20 years we were in the country. The CIA got quite a bit of the product to fill their black budget coffers.
This is no longer true. It was true back when Purdue and the Sackler family were making boatloads of money while the FDA and many in government looked the other way.
But now the FDA has been cracking down and making sure that not only doctors aren’t over prescribing, but pharmacies have set a daily limit for how much a person can take per day. The FDA keeps a paper trail that shows how much each person takes, how many pharmacies they use and a few other things. My doctor showed it to me at my last visit and I’m the perfect patient. I never ask for refills early or to have a higher dose and I only use 1 pharmacy. You toe the line or you get kicked out and good luck finding another clinic that will take you.
But weird how the government and FDA didn’t go after Purdue and others while the deaths were piling up huh? Nope it came down to when the lawsuits started flying. But when it did interfere it was the people on prescription pain drugs that paid the price.
States are getting the money from the lawsuits, but I don’t think that the people who took it or their families are getting a penny. I was on it years ago and I haven’t heard anything about me getting money because I had been. States will use some of it for its addiction centers, but how much of it will they roll over into their budgets?
It’s a great article that’s worth reading in full.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
evening snoopy...
my best guess is that opium production will only suffer a temporary glitch as afghanistan goes offline. there are many other places on earth that opium poppies grow well and abundantly - i'm sure that demand will drive production.
my guess is that most of it will wind up in the states' general funds.
KJP is the Prez?
Endless love, nope endless war
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
Of course she isn’t the pres
but it’s a big clue that shows that the kupee is one of the people who are writing Biden’s tweets. Every time I see someone drooling over what Biden tweets I just want to call 1-800-Bitch-Slap cuz they think that Biden actually wrote it and then hangs breathlessly on the replies.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
evening ggersh...
heh, given vicky nuland's record of promoting failed u.s. policy, i am shocked that she hasn't been promoted to secretary of state yet.
The ninth recycling plant fire this month
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Yeah there’s nothing hinky about that. Add in the over 100 food plants that have burned in just this country alone and others across the pond and you gotch yourself one honking conspiracy theory that just maybe there is a lot more than meets the eye.
Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.
Wow, what a quote.
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These days, I'd call that alliance a "psychopocracy."
As Obama would say, "We built that."
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
'and some folks died'
proud to be the killer in charge
still at large
evening pluto...
that chesterton fellow had a way with words.
heh, i am satisfied with "kakistocracy" as a general term for what exists here.
What is that, again?
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
uh...
kakistocracy = government by the worst men in the state. sometimes worst is described as "most unsuitable" or "most incompetent."
assuming that's what you were asking about.
Good evening Joe, thanks for the Evening Blues.
It seems that the White House tried to score some cheap brownie points by going after the Kansas cops for the raid on the Newspaper there. Per the Guardian
I hope word of that core value trickles down to Julian Assange, he might enjoy the irony.
be ell and have a good one
That, in its essence, is fascism--ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt --
evening el...
yeah, it would be nice if biden would recognize a core constitutional value if jumped up and bit him on the ass. sadly, that's not likely.
have a great evening!