The Evening Blues - 5-26-22
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This evening's music features r&b singer Aretha Franklin. Enjoy!
Aretha Franklin - Respect
“By simply not mentioning certain subjects, by lowering ... an iron curtain between the masses and such facts or arguments as the local political bosses regard as undesirable, Totalitarian Propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have done by the most eloquent denunciations, the most compelling of logical rebuttals.”
-- Aldous Huxley
News and Opinion
Youtube discovers the memory hole.
Nuland-Pyatt Tape Removed From YouTube After 8 Years
The smoking gun proving U.S. involvement in the 2014 coup in Kiev has been removed from YouTube after eight years.
It was the most watched version of the intercepted and leaked conversation between then Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland and Geoffrey Pyatt, the then U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, in which the two discuss who will make up the new government weeks before democratically-elected Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych was overthrown in a violent coup on Feb. 21, 2014.
The two talk about “midwifing” the unconstitutional change of government and “gluing it together” and of the role then Vice President Joe Biden should play and what meetings to set up with Ukrainian politicians.
The U.S. State Department never denied the authenticity of the video, and even issued an apology to the European Union after Nuland is heard on the tape saying, “Fuck the E.U.” Mainstream media at the time focused almost exclusively on that off-color remark, ignoring the greater significance of U.S. interference in Ukraine’s internal affairs. ...
The video was posted on April 29, 2014 and had 181,533 views before it was taken down, the most viewed version of the conversation on YouTube. Eight years worth of comments on the video have also been removed.
The removal of a video that had existed online for eight years raises major questions as it comes during the war in Ukraine. Corporate media has studiously avoided mentioning the causes of the current conflict, including NATO eastward expansion, the rejected Moscow treaty proposals in December, the civil war in Donbass and the 2014 coup in Kiev that led to the Donbass uprising and violent repression by the coup government.
[Consortium News has republished the transcript at the link as a preservation effort. -js]
YouTube Exec Claims YouTube Doesn’t Censor!
Patrick Cockburn Warns the West’s “Triumphalism” in Ukraine Could Prolong Conflict Indefinitely
Nato 'doing literally nothing' to stop Russia, says Ukraine
Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, accused Nato of “doing literally nothing” in the face of Russia’s invasion of his country.
Kuleba praised the EU for its “revolutionary” decisions to back Kyiv but said the Nato military alliance had been “completely sidelined”.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Kuleba said:
"Nato as an alliance, as an institution, is completely sidelined and doing literally nothing. I’m sorry to say it."
Intel-gate exposed, Nina's disinfo board 'paused' w/ Ray McGovern
'They were shooting directly at the journalists': New evidence suggests Shireen Abu Akleh was killed in targeted attack by Israeli forces
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said on May 19 that it had not yet decided whether to pursue a criminal investigation into Abu Akleh's death. On Monday, the Israeli military's top lawyer, Major General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, said in a speech that under the military's policy, a criminal investigation is not automatically launched if a person is killed in the "midst of an active combat zone," unless there is credible and immediate suspicion of a criminal offense. United States lawmakers, the United Nations and the international community have all called for an independent probe.
But an investigation by CNN offers new evidence — including two videos of the scene of the shooting — that there was no active combat, nor any Palestinian militants, near Abu Akleh in the moments leading up to her death. Videos obtained by CNN, corroborated by testimony from eight eyewitnesses, an audio forensic analyst and an explosive weapons expert, suggest that Abu Akleh was shot dead in a targeted attack by Israeli forces.
The footage shows a calm scene before the reporters came under fire in the outskirts of Jenin refugee camp, near the main Awdeh roundabout. Shatha Hanaysha, four other journalists and three local residents said that it had been a normal morning in Jenin, home to about 345,000 people — 11,400 of whom live in the camp. Many were on their way to work or school, and the street was relatively quiet.
There was a frisson of excitement as the veteran journalist, a household name across the Arab world for her coverage of Israel and the Palestinian territories, arrived to report on the raid. About a dozen or so men, some dressed in sweats and flip-flops, had gathered to watch Abu Akleh and her colleagues at work. They were milling around chatting, some smoking cigarettes, others filming the scene on their phones.
In one 16-minute cellphone video shared with CNN, the man filming walks toward the spot where the journalists had gathered, zooming in on the Israeli armored vehicles parked in the distance, and says: "Look at the snipers." ... Salim Awad, the 27-year-old Jenin camp resident who filmed the 16-minute video, told CNN that there were no armed Palestinians or any clashes in the area, and he hadn't expected there to be gunfire, given the presence of journalists nearby.
But the situation changed rapidly. Awad said shooting broke out about seven minutes after he arrived at the scene. His video captures the moment that shots were fired at the four journalists — Abu Akleh, Hanaysha, another Palestinian journalist, Mujahid al-Saadi, and Al Jazeera producer Ali al-Samoudi, who was injured in the gunfire — as they walked toward the Israeli vehicles. In the footage, Abu Akleh can be seen turning away from the barrage. The footage shows a direct line of sight towards the Israeli convoy.
"We saw around four or five military vehicles on that street with rifles sticking out of them and one of them shot Shireen. We were standing right there, we saw it. When we tried to approach her, they shot at us. I tried to cross the street to help, but I couldn't," Awad said, adding that he saw that a bullet struck Abu Akleh in the gap between her helmet and protective vest, just by her ear.
[Much more detail at the link. -js]
Israel Tells U.S. It Killed Iranian Officer, Official Says
At the funeral in Tehran for a colonel in Iran’s Revolutionary Guards Corps, thousands of mourners packed the streets around the cemetery chanting “Death to Israel” and calling for revenge for his killing. The commanders of the Guards and the Quds Force — the powerful unit within the Guards responsible for operations outside Iran’s borders — were both in attendance, hinting at the colonel’s importance.
Col. Sayad Khodayee, 50, was fatally shot outside his home on a quiet residential street in Tehran on Sunday when two gunmen on motorcycles approached his car and fired five bullets into it, according to state media. Iran has blamed Israel for the killing, which bore the hallmarks of other Israeli targeted killings of Iranians in a shadow war that has been playing out for years on land, sea, air and in cyberspace. ...
A spokeswoman for the Israeli prime minister declined to comment on the killing. But according to an intelligence official briefed on the communications, Israel has informed American officials that it was behind the killing. ...
The Israelis told the Americans the killing was meant as a warning to Iran to halt the operations of a covert group within the Quds Force known as Unit 840, according to the intelligence official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified information. Unit 840 is tasked with abductions and assassinations of foreigners around the world, including Israeli civilians and officials, according to Israeli government, military and intelligence officials.
Israeli officials said Colonel Khodayee was the deputy commander of Unit 840, and was involved in planning cross-border plots against foreigners, including Israelis. ...
Iranian officials have not commented on Israeli accusations that Colonel Khodayee was involved in transborder terrorism plots. But some Iranian analysts said that the accusations were aimed at preventing the United States from agreeing to remove the Guards’ designation as a terrorist organization, and thereby block an agreement on the restoration of the nuclear agreement.
Bush is Biden is Bush
George W. Bush returned to the news last week. The man who once said, “Our enemies… never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we,” coughed up a gem of accidental truth about Ukraine. In the midst of blasting Vladimir Putin for suppressing dissent, he said:
The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, and the decision of one man to launch a wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq. I mean, of Ukraine.
Iraq too. Anyway. (laughs)
Although Bush in recent years has been regularly tongue-bathed by blue-party acolytes for speaking against Trump, with Katie Hill once going so far as to admit to tears as she pondered “how much better we’d all feel if Bush were president today,” press priests from CNN to NBC to The Guardian last week tossed him back overboard over his Ukraine miss. Stephen Colbert even “waxed nostalgic,” remembering the time before his current apple-polishing period, when he was an actual satirist under Bush: “I made so much fun of him, and he gave me so many reasons to do that.”
Propaganda demands Bush take a dive now. Not only did his recent honesty malfunction complicate messaging about the unique iniquity of Russian aggression, he’s a living reminder of the uncomfortable truth that he and Joe Biden have essentially merged to become the same president.
Biden is just a less likable, more deranged version of Dubya, a political potted plant behind which authoritarians rule by witch hunt and moral mania, with Joe floating on a somehow even fatter cloud of media protection than Bush enjoyed after 9/11. Today’s Biden is Bush, a helpless, terrified passenger dragged on a political journey beyond his comprehension, signing his name whenever told to appalling policies, like a child emperor or King George in the porphyria years.
Are Worldwide BREAD RIOTS Already Here?
JPMorgan Whistleblower Names Former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair in Court Documents as Receiving “Emergency” Payments from Bank
An attorney turned whistleblower who worked in compliance at JPMorgan Chase, Shaquala Williams, has named former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair as one of the parties receiving improperly processed “emergency payments” from the bank.
Williams is suing the bank for retaliating against her protected whistleblowing activities by terminating her employment after she raised concerns about these payments to Blair and other serious compliance issues. (The case is Shaquala Williams v JPMorgan Chase, Case Number 1:21-cv-09326, which was filed last November in the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York.)
The new revelation naming Tony Blair was contained in a transcript of Williams’ deposition that was filed with the court last week. Prior to that, Blair had been referred to simply as “a high risk JPMorgan third-party intermediary for Jamie Dimon…” in the Williams’ complaint.
The fact that Williams had raised concerns about these “emergency” payments to Blair before she was fired was confirmed by another deposition transcript filed with the court on May 20 from a compliance colleague.
Williams is a financial crimes compliance professional with more than a decade of experience at multiple global banks. Part of Williams’ role at JPMorgan Chase was to make sure that the bank was in compliance with a non-prosecution agreement the bank had signed with the Justice Department in 2016.
Amazon shareholders reject 15 motions on worker rights and environment
Amazon shareholders have rejected 15 resolutions brought forward by investors in a push to influence the company’s environmental impact and treatment of workers.
Shareholders voted on Wednesday against all the resolutions, most of which focused on worker rights and other social issues. The resolutions included calls for the company to report on worker health and safety and the treatment of its warehouse workers, and a review of Amazon’s use of plastic and changes to the company’s process for board nominations.
Amazon’s board had recommended that its shareholders vote against all resolutions, arguing in its proxy statement that it has already acted to address the underlying concerns of many of the proposals. Historically shareholders have voted with the board’s recommendations. Jeff Bezos, the company’s executive chairman, controls 12.7% of the overall vote.
While the resolutions are non-binding, companies often take some form of action if they receive the backing of 30% to 40% of votes. While the activist resolutions were shut down, investors approved executive compensation, board members and a stock split.
Progressives in Congress Push Google to Stop Collecting Abortion Patients' Location Data
"Google cannot allow its online advertising-focused digital infrastructure to be weaponized against women."
That's according to Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), and 40 other progressives in Congress who sent a letter Tuesday to Google CEO Sundar Pichai urging reforms to data collection and retention practices given the anticipated reversal of Roe v. Wade.
While privacy advocates within and beyond Congress have long raised alarm about location data from devices such as cellphones, such concerns have risen in recent weeks since the leak of a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion signaling the end of Roe, which affirmed the right to abortion.
If the court's decision to overturn Roe is finalized in the weeks ahead, abortion could swiftly become illegal in over half of U.S. states, according to the pro-choice Guttmacher Institute. It is with that knowledge that more than three dozen federal lawmakers are urging changes at Google.
"We believe that abortion is healthcare," states the letter. "We will fight tooth and nail to ensure that it remains recognized as a fundamental right, and that all people in the United States have control over their own bodies."
"That said, we are concerned that, in a world in which abortion could be made illegal, Google's current practice of collecting and retaining extensive records of cellphone location data will allow it to become a tool for far-right extremists looking to crack down on people seeking reproductive healthcare," it continues. "That's because Google stores historical location information about hundreds of millions of smartphone users, which it routinely shares with government agencies."
As the letter details:
While Google collects and retains customer location data for various business purposes, including to target online ads, Google is not the only entity to make use of this data. Law enforcement officials routinely obtain court orders forcing Google to turn over its customers' location information. This includes dragnet "geofence" orders demanding data about everyone who was near a particular location at a given time. In fact, according to data published by Google, one-quarter of the law enforcement orders that your company receives each year are for these dragnet geofence orders; Google received 11,554 geofence warrants in 2020.
Reporting on the lawmakers' demand, Insider noted that "in March, a federal district judge ruled that Virginia police, in serving Google with a geofence warrant to get location data, violated the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches." ...
Highlighting the differences between what data is generally collected from Google's Android devices versus Apple iPhones with Google applications, the letter asserts that "Apple has shown that it is not necessary for smartphone companies to retain invasive tracking databases of their customers' locations."
"While Google deserves credit for being one of the first companies in America to insist on a warrant before disclosing location data to law enforcement, that is not enough," the letter adds. "If abortion is made illegal by the far-right Supreme Court and Republican lawmakers, it is inevitable that right-wing prosecutors will obtain legal warrants to hunt down, prosecute, and jail women for obtaining critical reproductive healthcare."
According to the lawmakers, "The only way to protect your customers' location data from such outrageous government surveillance is to not keep it in the first place."
Has America Tried Bombing Its Mass Shooting Problem?
There’s probably a correlation between the fact that the US is the only nation with a mass shooting epidemic and the fact that Americans are the most aggressively propagandized population on earth.
If you took any armed population and psychologically pummelled them from birth with narratives about how mass military slaughter is fine while turning them into underpaid, alienated gear-turners and giving them an artificial culture mass-produced in Los Angeles, you’d probably see some mass shootings.
There’s only so far you can warp the human psyche before it snaps. Bash hundreds of millions of people in the brain their entire lives with indoctrination programs telling them madness is sanity and sanity is madness, and eventually a few of them are going to wind up mass murderers.
Has America tried bombing the mass shootings?
— Caitlin Johnstone (@caitoz) May 24, 2022
It’s surely not a coincidence that the nation which serves as the hub of a globe-spanning empire that’s held together by mass murder and war propaganda and mass-scale psychological manipulation is the only nation with a mass shooting epidemic. But this will never be studied.
It will never be studied because empire is invisible to mainstream science and social psychology, in the same way it’s invisible to mainstream media, mainstream politics, and mainstream academia. The empire is not even acknowledged to exist within the spheres of mainstream thought, and this is a deliberately engineered reality. The spheres of mainstream thought which prevent people from understanding that we are dominated by an unacknowledged empire which stretches across nations and influences our lives more than virtually anything else our attention is diverted to are actively influenced by that very empire.
We are all marinating in the US-centralized empire: its influence, its propaganda, its artificially manufactured culture, its ways of thinking. We’re so immersed in it we can’t see it. It’s like water for fish to us. So we won’t see any research into its influence on the collective psyche.
Krystal Ball: Dems Systematically DESTROY Their Own Future
'This Fight Isn't Over,' Says Cisneros as Cuellar Declares Victory in Razor-Close Primary
Clinging to a lead of fewer than 180 votes, nine-term Rep. Henry Cuellar declared victory early Wednesday in the closely watched Democratic primary runoff for Texas' 28th Congressional District as Jessica Cisneros, his progressive challenger, said the contest remained too close to officially call.
Cuellar, an anti-abortion Democrat with ties to the fossil fuel industry, currently leads Cisneros by a reported margin of 22,694 votes to 22,517, less than a percentage point.
"The votes are in, the margin will hold. We have won by 177 votes," the incumbent's campaign tweeted, an assessment that leading election analyst Dave Wasserman tentatively echoed.
But Cisneros, a human rights attorney backed by prominent progressive lawmakers and advocacy groups, wrote in the early hours of Wednesday morning that "this election is still too close to call, and we are still waiting for every ballot and eligible vote to be counted."
"Thank you to every single voter that came out to support our campaign," wrote Cisneros. "This fight isn't over."
Despite his right-wing policy positions and voting record on climate, abortion, immigration, and gun control—he has received an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association—Cuellar enjoyed the unwavering support of Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-S.C.), the top three Democrats in the U.S. House.
Pelosi, who helped push Cuellar over the finish line in his first contest against Cisneros two years ago, recorded a robocall for the 2022 primary describing the Texas incumbent as "a fighter for hard-working families"—even as he opposes House Democrats' flagship labor rights bill and a $15 federal minimum wage.
Cuellar specifically expressed gratitude to Clyburn, who campaigned for the right-wing Democrat in the final stretch of the runoff race, which saw billionaire-funded super PACs such as AIPAC's United Democracy Project spend heavily against Cisneros. Cuellar's fossil fuel industry allies also pumped money into the race.
Ballot Access Scandal UPENDS Michigan GOP Gov Race
World’s largest vats for growing ‘no-kill’ meat to be built in US
The building of the world’s largest bioreactors to produce cultivated meat has been announced, with the potential to supply tens of thousands of shops and restaurants. Experts said the move could be a “gamechanger” for the nascent industry.
The US company Good Meat said the bioreactors would grow more than 13,000 tonnes of chicken and beef a year. It will use cells taken from cell banks or eggs, so the meat will not require the slaughter of any livestock.
There are about 170 companies around the world working on cultured meat, but Good Meat is the only company to have gained regulatory approval to sell its product to the public. It began serving cultivated chicken in Singapore in December 2020.
Cattle, chicken and other livestock have a huge environmental impact due to methane emissions, the destruction of forests and water use. The consumption of conventional meat in rich nations must fall dramatically to beat the climate crisis, scientists say. Proponents of cultivated meat say it can provide the same taste and feel as conventional meat but with a far smaller environmental impact.
The creation of Good Meat’s 10 new bioreactors is under way, the company says, each of which has a capacity of 250,000 litres and will stand four storeys tall, far bigger than any constructed to date. The US site for the facility is due to be finalised within three months and operational in late 2024, reaching 11,800 tonnes a year by 2026 and 13,700 tonnes by 2030.
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some which defied fair-use abstraction.
Has America Tried Bombing Its Mass Shooting Problem? Notes From The Edge Of The Narrative Matrix
We Are Going To Go Thru Hell, So What Now?
Ukraine Propaganda - BBC Tries To Sell Telegram Rumors That Make No Sense
Italy & Germany Buy Gas In Rubles Not Dollars For First Time!
Zelensky Speaks At DAVOS, Demands Putin Negotiate FACE-TO-FACE
Orban plays chess. Elensky regime; no retreat, calls west 'dumb f****.' Upside down flag.
A Little Night Music
Aretha Franklin - Baby, I Love You
Aretha Franklin - Don't Play That Song (You Lied)
Aretha Franklin - I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)
Aretha Franklin - Spanish Harlem
Aretha Franklin - Rocksteady
Aretha Franklin - Dr. Feelgood
Aretha Franklin - Think
Aretha Franklin - Chain of Fools
Aretha Franklin - A Change Is Gonna Come
Comments
Thanks for Aretha joe
she is always a bright spot, no matter the news ..
does anyone believe fake meat is going to save the climate?
or fake news or fake wars
where is that fake ministry of truth?
question everything
evening qms...
yep, that aretha was a ray of sunshine in a difficult world and is still.
fake meat, soylent green, who knows what they'll come up with next? they'll try everything that they can think of to profit from the problem that they caused.
Ian Welsh link goes to another essay
Here’s the one you meant.
https://www.ianwelsh.net/we-are-going-to-go-thru-hell-so-what-now/
Kissinger must be trying to save his soul cuz he knows that the grim reaper will be visiting soon.
Blinken and Austin have deciphered Biden’s military ramblings over Taiwan. Both said that America still admits that there is a one China policy and it has no military plans in case China invades. Has any president been corrected as many times as Biden has?
Beyond words and stupidity.
US military-led insect project feared to be weaponized and risks global food security, especially in ‘rival countries’ near its bio-labs
Russia is not going to let this slide.
US infiltrated post-Soviet states with biolabs
INCYMI probably one reason why the Hunter laptop was covered up before the election.
US Democrats use Ukraine biolab profits for campaign funding
Too bad that we own any court that could handle this.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
evening snoopy...
thanks for the heads up, i fixed the link.
i don't think that there's anything that kissinger can do to redeem his past now, his reputation as a war criminal is sealed.
heh, no president in recent memory seems to have such a resistance to staying on message as biden. trump was corrected, but he was able to get with the program afterwards.
"insect allies," eh? it'll be interesting to see the evidence that russia brings to the table. if they can take down gates, soros, the clintons and some other democrat ne'er do wells, that would be a great gift to the united states and the world.
Standing with you on that last paragraph!
After all, plants grow in soil, and that is filthy dirty,
and one must always be very clean
with more thanks to SNDG
@snoopydawg Kissinger has no soul to
Kissinger has no soul to save. He's the devil incarnate. Creepy dude who should be gone daddy gone. Why in the hell do we still have to deal with these well known old war criminals who seem to just keep on having power and mouthing off. Dag get lost the lot of you including Killery. Guess I'll file this under things no one can do anything to end. Nothing anyone can do to stop the killing, or change the absolutely phony politics we are forced to live under. Even the so called 'progressives' we elect are not willing to speak out and put their money where their lying mouths are. Depressing. Why in the hell is Trump not in jail? Guess he is a colleague in crime with the rest of he rat bastards we 'elect'. What a sick joke our government on every level.
Heh this is funny
Boy it’d sure be hard to determine which of these 2 old codgers did more damage to the world. Soros has funded lots of regime changes, but Kissinger has been involved with them. My suggestion is both of them shuffle off this mortal coil and then they can duke it out in hell to see who’s worse.
The sooner the better! Shuttle arriving soon for both of them I hope. Good gravy Hell must be getting crowded with all the heinous warmongers arriving there on the #9 train going south. McCain, Bush, Powell, Albright…the Devil is having a grand time roasting marshmallows.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Now, that is funny snoopy ...
Who would have thought that sugar, water, and gelatine could be so formidable.
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Unbelievable if it’s true that cops waited outside the school instead of immediately going in and trying to stop the carnage.
Biden just told states to use any unspent Covid money on the cops and his George Floyd act did absolutely nothing to help the community. But then did anyone expect anything different from the crime bill Biden? Take away quantified immunity from cops and see the number of assaults and killings go down.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
Goes back to Columbine
The police at Columbine did not enter the school until the shooting stopped. As the two teenagers committed suicide. At the time, big uproar why the cops did not enter the school. I spoke to a SWAT trainer I knew at the time. He said this is the priority cops follow (which he agreed to).
1. Go home safely yourself.
2. Good guys/innocents go home ok.
3. Bad guys okay.
Police at Columbine, put their safety and lives ahead of the students. After Columbine, FBI studied situation and said the policy should be to not wait but to storm and engage the shooters immediately.
Same but better actions by cops at Florida's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. I believe the armed school cop waited outside. (Trump really ripped on the guy.) But when city cops came they immediately ran into the school.
Obviously the cops at Uvalde were trained to put their lives ahead of everybody else, including children. That is unfortunately cop culture. And the public accepts it. All a cop has to do in a shooting is to say he feared for his life, and that gives him a license to kill anybody including innocent people. So if they they go to court over a killing, they will typically be acquitted.
I can’t begin to imagine the horror the parents went thru
knowing that their kids were in danger and not being allowed in and then finding out that their kid was dead. Cops tackled one or more of the parents there and tazed another. I tried to think what I’d do if Sam had been killed at her doggie school…just heartbreaking.
Link
Jurors don’t hold cops accountable for some reason and in my local comments most people seem to worship cops just as much as they do the military. The police associations give billions to democrats over republicans, but neither party gives a damn what happens to us lower class peons. Until a few rich people are targeted by cops nothing will change.
Some type of police reform was passed in the house, but Biden who told us that we had to elect him because he knew how to work with his friends across the isle couldn’t get them to sign on to the bill. In fact the only bill republicans helped democrats get passed was the $40 billion for Ukraine.
I wasn’t aware that happened at Columbine too. I did know one cop refused to go in at the Florida school. If you read the thread you will see conflicting stories about when the first cop met up with the shooter. Gawd I hate being cynical, but conspiracy theories abound in my brain over mass killings.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
yep...
i've been largely avoiding reading in much detail about the shootings. i know that it will just piss me off because nothing will be done about it and the same pattern will repeat again soon.
Jimmy and Chris have a great discussion on the
end of the empire.....all pol's work for the man not the people
we're fucked!
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
evening ggersh...
this one? yep, it's good:
Empire ending?
Hope it gets a move on as it's killing the world and the planet. Fall baby Fall and be quick about it.
just wish it
evening shaz...
sadly, i don't see the empire going down without taking much of the planet with it. the idiot ruling class that we can't seem to rid ourselves of will not loose their grip on power for fear of getting their just desserts.
i wish them away - to a banishment beyond the point where they can trouble us any further - and i wish it were so easy.
Yes that's the one alright!
And here is more Hedges w/Jimmy on how Kissinger is
now further left then Bernie and the Squad.
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNcTZR8P8EY]
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
Really good article by Pepe
NATO vs Russia: what happens next
Yup that’s going to change the war and Russia will exit Ukraine with their tails between their legs. Congress is giving Ukraine $9 billion to pay for their military and government and pensions and just maybe some of it will make its way into the people’s pockets, but don’t hold your breath.
Also rumors are that NATO is going to go into the Black Sea to escort wheat out of Ukraine that Russia isn’t blocking, but Ukraine is. Anyone brain dead enough to think that will do anything except bring us to the brink of annihilation needs to be removed from power.
Biden’s going to try sanctioning any country that is buying Russian gas. I’m looking forward to paying $10 aren’t you? Gas went up $.10 in one day today. It’s now $4.70. Diesel is $5.60. FJB and his goons that brought this to us! Sideways.
Scientists are concerned that conspiracy theories may die out if they keep coming true at the current alarming rate.
heh...
looks like ukraine is getting some lovely parting gifts, though not as many as they would hope. but not to worry about the defense firms - they're doing great.
midgrade gas is already over $5 a gallon here and diesel is around $6 give or take a nickel. i would not be surprised to see $10 a gallon. the forces that profit from it are just that rapacious and shameless and the people whose "electability" ride on it make themselves just that impotent so they can bask in the grift.
Good evening Joe, thanks for the Evening Blues.
We keep hearing about how corrupt Ukraine is, and, of course, there is some annual index ranking all countries by the amount or extent of their corruptness or corruption,, but consider this definition of corrupt:
In all likelihood, by that definition, most countries are likely to be about equally corrupt, because the key is willingness and our perception of corruption is more oriented toward the opportunity to act upon that willingness. If we were to measure corruption based on the total monies involved in corrupt behaviors and activities, the world's worst and most corrupt is surely the US, no other nation can come at all close. (Remember, fraud, our national sport, is also a crime)
be well 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...
it would be interesting if there were some sort of reasoned measurement system for a country's fidelity to its constitution (or body of law for countries without a written constitution). i would guess that the u.s.' fidelity to its damned piece of paper would suffer in relation to others.
Article 6, paragraph 2, knocks the US clean out of the water;
"... all treaties made or which shall be made ...". And then, of course, the first and fourth and maybe fifth amendments too.
be well and have a good one
edit corrected ut to out
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 --